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In the NY Times there is a full page ad about the wave of voter registration laws trying to be put in place -
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/calltoarms
About time...
fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)I am one of you and I am worried like you about our nation: the large number of unemployed, American competitiveness, the need and cost of health care, the improvement necessary to education in our nation and the impact of all our basic needs on a rising deficit. But there is a special fear. More than anything else, I am terrified by the threat that now exists to the most basic element of our democracy.
There is no right more fundamental to our republic than the right to vote. And yet there is a countrywide effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting. Many supporters of that suppression effort have admitted or implied that its purpose is to win an election by preventing voters thought to be of a different political persuasion from voting at all. If the election were to be decided because of that effort, then a poison will have been injected in the blood of our democracy. And that represents as great a danger to our democracy as has ever existed from within our borders. If that effort succeeds, we will have become a false democracy.
Im 80 years old and retired from the work that made me rich. Among the many things that contributed to my wealth is the political society in which it was earned. The voter suppression effort is a direct assault on that society and on the democracy which it created. We who have the blessing of our millions need to know that protecting our assets demands preserving the democracy that made them possible.
I have pledged $1 million to prevent an outcome which would elect any candidate on the basis of having excluded, in order to win, a segment of our population from voting. The money and whatever is contributed by all of you will be channeled to nonpartisan organizations established specifically to combat voter suppression now and in the future.
Our democracy needs us to defeat the lethal assault being made on it. Everyone must have the right to vote. It is wise and necessary that you join in that effort.
WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS
PoliticalBiker
(328 posts)More monied interests need to have this view
what's happening now with these totalitarian actions would roll back rights in this country nearly a century.
what's worse is it is fostering that ideal that with the right backing - not necessarily the people - you can do anything you want.
that kind of terrorism we can do without
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Hmmm, what was that?
Oh, you changed the link...
Let me see.
sorry about that
I highlighted the link but didn't copy
ended up pasting a link from work... oops!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Bozita
(26,955 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)He makes Mitt look impoverished. And he didn't exactly make his money. He was born into a fabulously wealthy family. His great grandfather founded this company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dreyfus_Group
Btw, his daughter is Julia Louis-Dreyfus.