In a moment of bag of horse manure stupid, 97 year old Lila Cockrell, former mayor of San Antonio, was turned away by officials from the polls for the mayoral runoff last Thursday because she didn’t have the proper ID.  Texas has one of the most idiotic voter ID suppression laws in the country.  For example, you can vote with your gun license, but can’t vote with your University of Texas ID.  The law is an incredible burden for the elderly and economically disadvantaged, as Republicans have made voter fraud suppression a key plank in their platform power grab.  Shockingly, the courts have often gone along (or delayed decision until it’s too late) over voter suppression and radical gerrymandering.

To make this story even more enraging, Bexar County voting official Jacque Callanen said (in his most Nazi-like apologist voice), “It was uncomfortable for the election officials to tell her, ‘No.’ Obviously, they knew who she was,” Callanen said. “But the law is the law. The election officials did what they’re supposed to do.”  Hey, Jacque – when the law turns away a qualified voter who everyone in the place knows is qualified over “the law”, the goddam law is wrong and needs to be struck down.  If Ray Charles were alive today, even he could see that, dumbass.