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What should the democrats do? Toss us to the side and get the next him Crow era started?
'18 Midterms: Dems win House by largest midterm raw vote margin ever
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What should the democrats do? Toss us to the side and get the next him Crow era started?
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How did you come to that conclusion by what I posted?
Dems should focus on where the votes are. Black and minority voters, young white voters, and independents.
I still can't get over the fact that Sinema's anti war past is being used against her as she has basically become very right wing. This country has interesting ways in showing how trash it is.
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That logic still dates back to a time when there was a such thing as Fiscal Republicans and Moderate Republicans. Once Republicans targeted southern whites on a identity politic of race and religion the line began to vanish.
Religion by its definition is an allegiance to a power no matter what destruction it causes in hopes to leads to a better whatever. Republicans have weaponized that faith into a voting block that at worst will stay home. But they almost certainly won't vote for a Democrat.
Why can’t tribes just go right ahead and name and number their roads and highways? mused OJ Semans and Bret Healy, a consultant with Four Directions. What’s to stop them? They are sovereign nations, so there is no reason they can’t use North Dakota’s orderly road-naming conventions, already employed in various forms by cities and counties throughout the state.
The lack of named numbered streets was not a force of nature after all, Semans and Healy realized, but a simple administrative function that needed fixing.
“North Dakota allows the equivalent of same-day registration, so the state’s five tribes can put officials throughout each reservation during the several-week early-voting period, which is already underway, and on Election Day,” says Healy. The tribal officials can provide verification letters with tribally issued residential addresses to Native voters who have lived on the reservation for at least 30 days, he says. The voters can then use the verification letter to vote. “This means the perhaps 20,000 Native Americans of voting age on reservations will be assured they can vote in the November election.”
On October 8, Semans and his wife, Barb, co-directors of Four Directions, announced the new effort to Al Jaeger, the secretary of state and head elections official. They asked for his public support for what they called a “simple, elegant solution” to the problem.
“The state is using its ID law to keep us from voting,” says Semans. “But instead of fighting the law, we are solving the problem it caused.”
Neither Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s election director nor the press office of Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who is running against current Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in November’s election, responded by press time with a comment on the tribal effort or the potential effect on the election of adding so many typically Democratic voters.
Heitkamp applauds the idea of improved Native American voting access, for which she has long advocated. Last week, she helped introduce a bill to enhance Native voting rights that would establish equal treatment for tribal IDs, among other efforts. Said Heitkamp, “Given the number of Native Americans who have served, fought, and died for this country, it is appalling that some people would still try and erect barriers to suppress their ability to vote.”
20,000 Native Voters for North Dakota?
The lack of named numbered streets was not a force of nature after all, Semans and Healy realized, but a simple administrative function that needed fixing.
“North Dakota allows the equivalent of same-day registration, so the state’s five tribes can put officials throughout each reservation during the several-week early-voting period, which is already underway, and on Election Day,” says Healy. The tribal officials can provide verification letters with tribally issued residential addresses to Native voters who have lived on the reservation for at least 30 days, he says. The voters can then use the verification letter to vote. “This means the perhaps 20,000 Native Americans of voting age on reservations will be assured they can vote in the November election.”
On October 8, Semans and his wife, Barb, co-directors of Four Directions, announced the new effort to Al Jaeger, the secretary of state and head elections official. They asked for his public support for what they called a “simple, elegant solution” to the problem.
“The state is using its ID law to keep us from voting,” says Semans. “But instead of fighting the law, we are solving the problem it caused.”
Neither Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s election director nor the press office of Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who is running against current Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in November’s election, responded by press time with a comment on the tribal effort or the potential effect on the election of adding so many typically Democratic voters.
Heitkamp applauds the idea of improved Native American voting access, for which she has long advocated. Last week, she helped introduce a bill to enhance Native voting rights that would establish equal treatment for tribal IDs, among other efforts. Said Heitkamp, “Given the number of Native Americans who have served, fought, and died for this country, it is appalling that some people would still try and erect barriers to suppress their ability to vote.”
20,000 Native Voters for North Dakota?
The court didn’t stop there. At length, it pointed out that “misuse of official position for personal or political advantage” is against Utah state law; it described certain opposing candidates as “conspiring” with county officials in this effort. The process was “so profoundly egregious,” said the court, that “no explanation other than a wrongful use of public office for partisan ends—to keep Grayeyes off the November ballot—is possible.” A call for prosecution of the miscreants was made in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
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