Senator Scott
Brown demanded Friday that his Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, reimburse taxpayers for the $276,000 that the state spent to mail thousands of voter registration forms to welfare recipients.
…“It’s been disturbing for a lot of people to learn that the state’s welfare department undertook an unprecedented voter registration drive at the behest of Elizabeth Warren’s daughter and the organization she represents,” he said. “It is clear that this was done to aid Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign. Professor Warren has more than $13 million dollars in her campaign account, and if she wants to mail every welfare recipient a voter registration form, she should do so at her own expense, not taxpayers’. She should immediately reimburse the state for the cost of this mailing and stop playing politics with the taxpayers’ money.”
I’m just really dumbfounded. It’s so crazy, so silly, so hysterical, so whiny and pathetic. It’s the law, dude.
We live in a democracy, where people vote for their representatives. The right to vote is sacrosanct. The expansion of that franchise as widely as possible is the hallmark of a great democracy, one that trusts its people to make wise choices in self-government. As the Congress wrote in the 1993 National Voting Registration Act:
The Congress finds that—
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;
(2) it is the duty of the Federal, State, and local governments to promote the exercise of that right; and
(3) discriminatory and unfair registration laws and procedures can have a direct and damaging effect on voter participation in elections for Federal office and disproportionately harm voter participation by various groups, including racial minorities.
… even if they vote for the “wrong” people.
If there’s any justice, this is going to come down on Brown like a ton of bricks. It’s not dignified; it’s not adult … and it’s not American, in the sense in which you trust the electorate for better or worse.
Numerous states have been pestered about this issue, can Charley or anyone else show me where another state did a bulk mail drop like Massachusetts did? Just asking for one other state.
Clearly the daugher and her mom coordinated effort and she should pay for the costs. Hey, I just paid the property tax bill, I didn’t see a voter registration form provided.
As Scott said before, it’s not him against The Machine, it’s us against The Machine!!!!!
The law is the law. Scott Brown surely knows the law. You (and Scott Brown) are whining because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts obeyed the law.
Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that you so loudly advocate breaking the law, it sort of fits in with the rest of the abhorrent attitudes you flood us with.
… for military serving overseas, who also can be demographically shown to favor one particular party over another. We do this because not doing it violates a sense of fairness. Same thing.
is more accurate.
How can anyone validly complain about getting more people to vote?
Brown is really stepping on it this time. Republicans have long had a tacit strategy of doing everything they can to suppress voters from communities that are less likely to support them. Brown is making the mistake of admitting the strategy is real.
Don’t forget that Scott Brown’s campaign slogan is “He’s for Us [not for them]”.
credibly deny they are in favor of voter suppression when they even complain about voter outreach?
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It’s worth it to throw in this quote from Paul Weyrich, the founder of the Heritage Foundation:
I’m dumbfounded that Americans are trying to argue that trying to make sure that every person is registered to vote is somehow anti-American and/or illegal.