Metcalfe says 'lazy' people (the 47%) don't deserve to vote
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Metcalfe says 'lazy' people don't deserve to vote
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is nothing if not blunt. The Butler County Republican positions himself at the center of almost every controversial issue in the Capitol, be it immigration, gun control or voter ID.
Now he's dived into the middle of the hot "47 percent" debate by suggesting, on a Pittsburgh radio broadcast, that Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, will only disenfranchise the "lazy."
Metcalfe on Wednesday told KDKA Radio that the law, which is still being fought in the courts, may exclude those on the "public dole," like the people GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney referred to in the leaked video taken at a private fundraising event - who are too lazy to go get a proper ID.
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When asked about the tens of thousands, if not more Pennsylvanians who may not be able to vote on Nov. 6, Metcalfe cited Romneys mention of the 47% of the country who will never take personal responsibility and care for their lives as evidence that some citizens do not deserve to vote.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Metcalfe-says-lazy-people-dont-deserve-to-vote.html
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)elected him.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)and believes in small government, low taxes and balanced budgets.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)If you don't pay taxes, have a job, own a home, you should not be able to vote. A few men also said women, simply by gender, shouldn't be able to vote.
Imagine what their world would look like?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Universal suffrage is, historically speaking, a fairly recent development.
Neo-fuedalism is the clear goal of the rich white men club, AKA GOP.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Back then, only land-owning white men could vote.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Go burn in hell.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)the prospect of his re-election is causing nutcase vapors