PA GOP Using Federal Funds Appropriated for Voter Aid to Pay Romney Fundraiser’s Lobbying Firm

[Omaha Steve]

http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/07/10/pa-gop-using-federal-funds-appropriated-for-voter-aid-to-pay-romney-fundraisers-lobbying-firm/

Has the Pennsylvania GOP learned nothing from it’s Mike Turzai moment/low point? Must they have the Governor’s approval rating dip into the single digits before changing course? Has the backlash against the state’s oppressive Voter ID law that will likely prevent 758,939 registered voters from partaking in the November election not sufficiently stirred their interest in change? Apparently not, because Governor Corbett has chosen to have a Mitt Romney fundraiser create TV ads about the voter ID law, according to the Philadelphia City Paper:

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration has signed a $249,660 contract with a company run by Mitt Romney fundraiser, former state GOP party executive director, pharmaceutical lobbyist, and school voucher advocate Chris Bravacos to direct a media campaign promoting the state’s Voter ID law. Yes, that very same law, requiring that voters present identification at the polls, which critics contend will suppress Democratic-leaning non-white, poor, elderly and youth voters and which House Majority Leader Mike Turzai recently boasted is “gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”

One sample PSA on the Bravo Group’s Vimeo page portrays voter ID as just the latest installment in a bright history of American voting rights, and features anodyne black and white photos―including one of suffragettes. Another spot portrays a lot of shiny-toothed middle class models holding ID cards. [note: Bravo removed the two videos this morning but Occupy Harrisburg has reposted them here and here.]

The tagline? “Your right to vote: it’s one thing you never want to miss out on.”

FULL story at link.

[siligut]

1. Clusterfuck of business

It goes full circle, make it hard for Democrats to vote by requiring IDs, then pay Republicans to sell the need for the IDs.