Registration of low-income voters to be punished

[eridani]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=55222

News Conference on House Leadership Plan to Restrict Low-Income Voter Participation as Condition of New Affordable Housing Grant Program

<snip>

A coalition of national organizations concerned with housing, community development, people who are elderly or disabled, child welfare, civil rights, voter participation, and rights of non-profits will hold a news conference to voice opposition to provisions in a compromise on H.R. 1461, the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005, reached by the House Leadership. These provisions will disqualify a non-profit organization from receiving grants from the Affordable Housing Fund (AHF), created by the legislation to develop new affordable housing for low income people, if the organization has engaged in any voter registration and other non-partisan voter participation work in the 12 months prior to application. Any non-profit organization that does receive a grant to develop affordable housing is also prohibited from engaging in these activities, even using private funds. These restrictions are not imposed on for-profit companies. The legislation is slated to go to the House floor next week.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. why does this not shock me?

[aquart]

2. The names of the sponsors?

[Maraya1969]

5. That is my question exact elly

[lostnfound]

15. Here.

http://capwiz.com/sjhs/issues/bills/?bill=7805906
Alabama
Robert Aderholt (R 4th) 06/21/2005
Connecticut
Robert Simmons (R 2nd) 07/14/2005
Christopher Shays (R 4th) 04/05/2005
Florida
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R 18th) 05/12/2005
Tom Feeney (R 24th) 04/28/2005
Kansas
Jim Ryun (R 2nd) 04/05/2005
Kentucky
Geoff Davis (R 4th) 04/05/2005
Louisiana
Richard Baker (R 6th) --- (First sponsor)
Michigan
Thaddeus McCotter (R 11th) 06/21/2005
Missouri
Roy Blunt (R 7th) 05/12/2005
North Carolina
Walter Jones (R 3rd) 04/05/2005
Patrick McHenry (R 10th) 05/12/2005
New Jersey
Scott Garrett (R 5th) 04/28/2005
Ohio
Michael Oxley (R 4th) 04/05/2005
Paul Gillmor (R 5th) 04/28/2005
Pennsylvania
Mike Fitzpatrick (R 8th) 04/05/2005
South Carolina
J. Gresham Barrett (R 3rd) 04/28/2005
Texas
Jeb Hensarling (R 5th) 04/05/2005
Virginia
Frank Wolf (R 10th) 04/28/2005
Wisconsin
Paul Ryan (R 1st) 05/17/2005

[LaPera]

3. They shouldn't be allowed to vote!

They will just be on the "rolls"....

:bounce:

Hate!

CONQUER!

[bluestateguy]

4. These people really want to bring back property qualifications for voting

They don't often come out and directly say it, but if you listen to enough right wing radio it comes out sometimes.

[Maraya1969]

7. What does property qualifications for voting mean?

I found this link but it does not include anything about voter registration.

http://capwiz.com/sjhs/issues/bills/?bill=7805906

EDIT: Forgot the link!

[Ferret Annica]

10. White male property ownership and voting

When the Constitution was written, only white male property owners (about 10 to 16 percent of the nation's population) had the vote. Over the past two centuries, though, the term "government by the people" has become a reality.

During the early 1800s, states gradually dropped property requirements for voting. Later, groups that had been excluded previously gained the right to vote. Other reforms made the process fairer and easier.

In 1810 the last religious prerequisite for voting is eliminated and in 1850 property ownership and tax requirements were finally eliminated.

[wildeyed]

16. It is true.

They are trying to do it in my community. A wing nut local politician recently challenged the voter registrations of 400 homeless voters on, get this, the premise that they didn't put there home address on the registration. :crazy:

[Fridays Child]

6. Let's try and get this to the Greatest page.

It needs to be known.

[GetTheRightVote]

8. We are really reaching some new all time lows these days

The Republican party acts again, they are just a bunch of criminals.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Maraya1969]

9. Wait I tried to skim through the text and I don't find anything about

voter registration. I think we need to validate this first.

[eridani]

12. It is one of the amendments being considered--

--hopefully, if we work fast, it won't ever get into the bill.

[shenmue]

11. Disgusting

I can't believe they're doing this. Well, considering the nature of the right wing in Congress, I actually can. But it still turns my stomach.

[Tesla]

13. who do we write???

this is a sin!!!

[eridani]

14. Your congresscritters

In the House, to start with. Just ask them to make sure such language stays out of the bill.

[wildeyed]

17. They are trying to shave off a few more eligible voters.

A few here, a few there until enough people have been disenfranchised that they "win". Or at least have enough votes that they can steal comfortably.

The more stringent voter ID laws they are trying to push through are part of this, too. Again, shave a few eligible voters off the rolls, here, a few there........ The last elections have been close. It doesn't take much to tip the balance.

What I know is that there a lot of non-voting dems out there. And if I and other grassroots activists get out there and help educate these voters and get them to the polls, we can get this country back on track and give a voice to the people who most need it. The pugs know this too. And they are scared. They saw the enthusiasm in the grassroots last election cycle, and we will only get more organized and experienced with time. So they want to make it harder to register voters, and then harder for those people to vote.

Please contact your reps about this! I would be most appreciative. I want to turn the voters out, but they will make it harder for me if they can. :(

[progressoid]

18. What the....? Ludicrous

Unfortunately, my rep will think this is a good thing.

[indigo32]

19. I have let my Puke rep know what I think of this

:grr:

[nashville_brook]

20. we have to get this as much attention as possible -- it's a "no-brainer"

as they say. should be an easy target for a good public shaming.

rec'd kick'd fwd'd
:)

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. Scum. Anti-patriotic scum.

Next thing they'll require Boy Scouts to leaflet in poor neighborhoods with flyers saying "Don't vote." (I'm remembering my days in Boy Scouts when we went around town the weekend before election day hanging signs of doorknobs to get out the vote.)