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Those darn pesky constitutions

Frank White
Frank White
There remains a voice of reason amidst the Tennessee government rush to insanity. The state attorney general remains level headed enough to realize that we have Tennessee and U.S. constitutions.

That alone is reason enough to push back the tea-drinkers’ effort to change the method of selecting the attorney general. But, the other side of this is his levelheaded thinking will cause them to push more passionately to change the process.

Too busy drinking tea and changing the political landscape, the political forces of power don’t have time or inclination to read those stuffy old documents. Otherwise, they would have realized early on that their photo identification requirement for voters would run afoul of the constitutional right to vote.

The state attorney general said a few weeks ago that the proposed requirement for photo identification to vote “unduly burdens the right to vote” and would constitute a poll tax.

The only way around that, according to the attorney general, would be to supply voters with free photo ID cards. Actually, the champions of less government and cutting spending have a plan for that. They have proposed a separate measure to provide free photo IDs to those who don’t have them or can’t afford them. The free identifications would cost the state an estimated $200,000. How is that for limiting government and cutting spending? I can envision the bureaucracy now that would be required to create photo identifications and determine who would be eligible to receive them. But then, that would assist the governor’s promise to create jobs.

Frank White
Frank Whitehttp://www.mediaworksdesign.com/
Frank White is a native of east Tennessee and reveres the hills and nature of the Cumberland Plateau and east Tennessee. He enjoys backpacking, canoeing and flyfishing. He and his wife, Natalie, have been Clarksville residents since 1979. Frank is the owner of MediaWorks, a design and printing company in Clarksville, TN. He earned a BS in mass communications and political science from Middle Tennessee State University and a master of arts in journalism from the Indiana University School of Journalism at Bloomington. He is a distinguished military graduate from ROTC at Indiana University and is retired from the U.S. Army Reserve having also served in the Tennessee Army National Guard. He served with the U.S. Army VII Corps in Operation Desert Storm. Frank is a passionate follower of Christ and seeks to mentor others in exploring the endless depths of grace.
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