Topic: Voting rights

Had enough? Don’t fail to VOTE!

By Turner McCullough Jr. | November 3, 2008 |

• When tax cuts are labeled as tax increases.
• When natural born citizenship is labeled as non-citizenship.
• When believing that basic health care is not privilege but a human right is called elitist socialism.
• When respecting the human value of our precious military forces is labeled as being anti-military.
• When recognizing that our national prestige has been run into the toilet is labeled as naivete and weakness.
• When global warming and melting Arctic icecaps is labeled as fantasy.
• When declaring having rejected a federally funded construction project. but not declaring that the federal funds for that project were received is hailed as a model of leadership and fiscal responsibility.

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Get it done; register to vote…it’s not just a right, it’s a privilege

By Terry McMoore | September 30, 2008 |

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The last day to register to vote in Montgomery County is October 6.Early voting begins October 15.

The right to vote and exercising your right to vote is the most valuable constitutional right we have. It is both a right and a privilege.

If you don’t vote, you deserve the government you get. It doesn’t matter which side of the political fence you’re on, because all Americans have the same issues and concerns for their families and their country.

The economy, the war, taxes, education, health care, social security, women rights and, especially in our community, veteran’s rights are at the top of the list in every household.

Many people over the centuries have fought, marched and even died so we could have the right to vote, yet many still don’t vote. In the August primary election in Montgomery County, fewer than 12 percent of voters participated. With this kind of turn out how do we expect to ever hold our elected officials accountable to the public? «Read the rest of this article»

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Caging: Did It, Could It Happen In Tennessee?

By Turner McCullough Jr. | June 11, 2007 |

Republican election trickery exposed as Rove Protege Resigns

Arkansas US Attorney Tim Griffin, the controversial US Attorney in Arkansas, has resigned his position. Griffin is a protege of Karl Rove and former research director of the Republic National Committee.

The BBC reported in 2004 that Griffin led a “caging” scheme to suppress the votes of African American servicemembers in Florida. As a result, 1,886 U. S. servicemembers were denied their right to vote because they lived in predominantly black and traditionally Democratic  areas of Jacksonville, FL. These servicemembers were stationed overseas at the time. This tactic was a deliberate assault upon our military forces engaged in defending our freedom and liberties.

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Voting Rights Act protects all Americans

By Terry McMoore | July 26, 2006 |

No matter who you are, as an adult, you have a right to vote.

There has been a lot of talk about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 being due to expire in 2007 and how it would revoke African Americans’ right to vote. Well, this story, urban legend or whatever else you may want to call it, is not true. Not entirely true anyway. There are some sections of this act that were due to expire in 2007 that have been addressed by the U.S. Congress since 2005 in a proactive move to ensure the renewal of those sections of this act.

However, while many believe that this just affects the rights of African-Americans, nothing could be further from the truth. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 actually protects all of us from being subjected to unnecessary measures that could restrict or prevent our ability to vote as a whole. «Read the rest of this article»

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