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SB14 Q&A What is SB14? SB14 is a often called the Texas Voter ID law, passed by the Legislature and signed into law on May 27, 2011 by Texas Governor Rick Perry Why is SB14 in court? SB14 is in court because it is currently covered under the Voter Rights Act of 1965 as amended in 2006. It was amended to cover non English speaking populations but provided English only voting materials at the polls, which brought TX into its jurisdiction. Section 5 states that any change in voter law in a state that has a history of discrimination has to be pre cleared by the Department of Justice or a 3 Judge Panel in DC. It was rejected for preclearance and the trial date expedited so SB14 could be in place for the November election if upheld   What does SB14 do? It requires photo ID at the polls, yet the kinds of ID are specified below: Specifically, prospective voters will need to provide (1) one piece of “primary identification,” (2) two pieces of “secondary identifi...

       In New Mexico there’s a flurry going on about marriage equality and whether or not the issuing of marriage licenses is legal or not. New Mexico has a gender neutral marriage law so it’s anyone’s guess. Prior to this, I did a video that talked about the NM Supreme Court being asked to intervene to interpret the law and grant marriage equality In that state. Meanwhile, a woman dying of a terminal illness wants to marry her partner. The Governor of that state has also called for a vote to send a ban on marriage equality to the people saying it is better decided by the people of the state…to me that sounds like the slavery dodge when voters said: we’ll be slave state or we’ll be free…if anyone doesn’t know what Bleeding Kansas is, it’s simply when Missouri said we’ll kill all the abolitionists and hopefully that’ll be a slave state too. It backfired as voters called it a free state and all those lives were lost. So, while it’s a different situation an...

What I responded to Support Voter ID in TEXAS! October 19 To Terry Purdue, See ya latter! Anyone promoting Obama is not allowed on any page of mine! Frankly, I'm tired of listening to your BS! Like · · Share 17 people like this. Scott Seeton Amen! October 19 at 4:30pm · Like · 3 Beth Downey Talk about BS? Romney is up to his eyeballs in it. So delete me I dont really care. October 21 at 11:36am · Unlike · 2 Beth Downey Vote ID is to suppress the poor from voting because they all fall in to the 47% he talks about. October 21 at 11:37am · Unlike · 2 Beth Downey Read this: http://www.ohio.com/editorial/editorials/obama-for-president-1.343675 Obama for president www.ohio.com Four years ago, Barack Obama succeeded where Democrats long have struggled. On E...See More October 21 at 11:39am · Like Beth Downey I watched a heated discussion between two woman here on FB lastnight, one I'll call L and the other C, now L t...

So the election is over and we hope we can get back to business right? Well, after some gloating we did in 2012 and the shellacking we took in 2010 along with the devastation in 2004 that was a mixed blessing I wanted to look back at this Presidential campaign and just laught it up that I ever thought about three of the scariest words in the English Language: President Mitt Romney So, let me start at 2004. I read an article that said that 2004 was a mixed blessing because people got tired of the Republeconomics and voted for a Democratic House in 2006, had Kerry won in 2004 they argued the Republicans would’ve been a stick in the mud and caused obstruction that we are so used to seeing now. That would’ve kerplunked any idea of bipartisanship and President Kerry would’ve taken the heat for it as Bill Clinton did when he ran things. The same way Obama does but now due to the volume of the obstruction and the instantaneousness of the news, we can see the truth and ch...

To The NALTs: Start Confronting Your Leaders and Stop Confronting Me Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbA0Iikd3mc I was on a video that called out Dan Savage for his so called bullying of the Christian students who voluntarily showed up to a lecture where they knew the possibility of being offended was great, and they decided to make a point still by walking out assuming that people would notice. When Dan called that pansy assed, I agreed and wouldn’t even have taken it back why? Because when we call out pansy ass behavior, we’re being intolerant, but when they call us pansy assed it’s a joke and everyone should laugh it up. Not impressed So in that, we have a lot of people who say Dan, not all Christians are the hateful, homobashing, want us all dead and thrown behind electric fences, stop us from adopting, getting married then bash us for not wanting to adopt and then get married, then stop us also from any kind of recognition and being any kinds of persons un...

Companion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImrPt6_0qs So, Congress is now going to be campaigning, and transportation bills haven’t been passed at all which saw fares around the country go up, drought in the Midwest and West Coast have been getting worse and the House and Senate haven’t been able to get anything done about it. I say the obstructionist Republicans in the House want to use that as a wedge issue against Obama. Never mind they didn’t call the American Jobs Act and the only jobs bills they’ve passed dealt with tax cuts to employers and something about Indian and Chinese labor and that they would want to drill on American soil and deplete our resources just to make a quick buck. But the fact is this: The Obstructionists will end up using all that obstruction for their campaigns and making it seem as if President Obama is a bad leader. Forgetting that Boehner walked out of talks with President Obama and Reid and called the payroll tax cut a “Chicken...