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Texas Republicans Adopt Extremely Controversial Platform

posted by NCommander on Monday June 09 2014, @10:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the unbelievable dept.

Subsentient writes:

Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.

BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:22PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:22PM (#53803)

    "The illegals can't vote"

    Must depend on state and voting laws. Around here its no problem, they all vote.

    Its kind of a catch-22, if federal policy is to not enforce existing immigration laws against illegal hispanics, and if they only reason they can't vote is violation of immigration laws, then not seeing a problem here. Enforcing the voting laws would mean enforcing the immigration laws which we aren't going to do, so...

    If the purpose of voting is to tranquilize the population by making them think they have a choice between two almost identical hand picked candidates that only differ on irrelevant PR campaigns, then whats wrong with the illegal population being tranquilized like the legals?

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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:49PM

    by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:49PM (#53877) Homepage Journal

    Around here its no problem, they all vote.

    It's a common right-wing talking point, but all evidence indicates it's extremely minuscule.

    The overwhelming majority of voter fraud is from US citizens, most often felons, or people registering and voting twice in different districts. Illegals are at the very end of the list, in incredibly insignificant numbers:

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/we-don-t-have-any-problem-illegal-immigrants-voting-us-dem-congressmen-say [cnsnews.com]

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