Comments on: A Few Halting Steps Toward the Middle http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=759 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:20:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sosad http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=759#comment-66636 Sosad Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:29:14 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=759#comment-66636 “Without the Hispanics, Clinton does not win,” Adolfo Carrión, It seem that we have worked so long and hard to matter in this country just to be set back another two hundred years by the Hispanic vote. I don't believe the hispanics in america fully understand what they have done. Even Though we stood with them and marched with them when the U.S. said get out. We made picket signs that said" hell no we wont go" because we know what it is to be left behind and treated like second class citizens. They had a chance to stand and make history but chose to block the greatest progress the U.S. has ever been on the verg of making. History will allways blame the Hispanic vote for stalling America. We still love you but we hurt because of you. Will it be your fault when the supper delegates are not given to Obama? Maybe not but you sure made it easier for that to happen. That's one small step for a man; one giant leap backwards for mankind. My soul cries out in agony. I hope you will not continue in this direction. “Without the Hispanics, Clinton does not win,” Adolfo Carrión,
It seem that we have worked so long and hard to matter in this country just to be set back another two hundred years by the Hispanic vote. I don’t believe the hispanics in america fully understand what they have done. Even Though we stood with them and marched with them when the U.S. said get out. We made picket signs that said” hell no we wont go” because we know what it is to be left behind and treated like second class citizens. They had a chance to stand and make history but chose to block the greatest progress the U.S. has ever been on the verg of making. History will allways blame the Hispanic vote for stalling America. We still love you but we hurt because of you. Will it be your fault when the supper delegates are not given to Obama? Maybe not but you sure made it easier for that to happen. That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap backwards for mankind. My soul cries out in agony. I hope you will not continue in this direction.

]]> By: Sonia Santana http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=759#comment-64849 Sonia Santana Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:47:28 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=759#comment-64849 "The way these things play out, the exception could simply be stripped once the bill hits the Senate floor." I would be worried about trusting them to leave the signature affidavit bypass in the new compromise system too. You'd almost have to have that in writing as a committment from the Governor and the majority controlled Republican Senate. But if they're serious about protecting all eligible voters in Texas, then they're going to have to spend the money to do a massive education campaign for voters explaining the bypass. While at the same time implementing the free photo ID outreach across the state. We hear the GA outreach program is costing them several millions of dollars a year to run. “The way these things play out, the exception could simply be stripped once the bill hits the Senate floor.”

I would be worried about trusting them to leave the signature affidavit bypass in the new compromise system too. You’d almost have to have that in writing as a committment from the Governor and the majority controlled Republican Senate.

But if they’re serious about protecting all eligible voters in Texas, then they’re going to have to spend the money to do a massive education campaign for voters explaining the bypass. While at the same time implementing the free photo ID outreach across the state. We hear the GA outreach program is costing them several millions of dollars a year to run.

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