Friday, January 3, 2014

This week in Being A Republican

-A conservative candidate running against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the Republican primary argued that his decision to fight his domestic violence conviction in court showed his integrity.

-Thanks to the state's proof-of-citizenship law for new voters, Kansas currently has a backlog of 19,000 people who signed up to vote last year but have had their registrations frozen because they did not provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. Last year, Kobach began making preparations for the state to have a two-tier voting system, where voters who did not provide proof-of-citizenship would only be allowed to vote in federal elections.


According to The Kansas City Star, Kobach now wants to check the list of 19,000 frozen voters against records kept at the state health department. The process would determine which people on the list have Kansas birth certificates, one of several documents accepted as proof-of-citizenship. Kobach's office would be notified when matches are found.

“This, in my view, is good government,” Kobach told the Star.


“It’s an extra service but it’s not something that would amount to a violation of equal protection of law,” he said.

-An ugly side note to the scandal involving former Utah Attorney General John Swallow: emails sent among Swallow campaign staffers in 2012 referred to a transgender delegate to the state's Republican Convention as "that thing."

The emails were made public in court documents unsealed on Thursday, and were part of an affidavit tied to the investigation of Swallow, fellow former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, and others. The documents were first reported on by The Salt Lake Tribune.

-Lauren Rankin: "more abortion restrictions were enacted from 2011-2013 than in the entire preceding decade."

-Longtime conservative radio host Bob Grant, whose combative style became the template for broadcasters such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, has died at age 84.
And, in a May 1993 broadcast, he lambasted Martin Luther King Jr. as "that slimeball" and "this bum, this womanizer, this liar, this fake, this phony."

-When it came time for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to be sworn in for his second term yesterday, nobody could find a bible. Therefore Mangano took his oath on an iPad with a bible app on the screen. Sample comments from Teabagistan: "New York is so far left they have probably banned or burned all the Bibles." "These people don't want or need Bibles. They are lost souls and keep voting in losers and radicals." "Can't use a real bible. It burns their hands." "Obama's trying to get it changed to have them swear on a copy of The Communist Manifesto."  Mangano is a Republican.

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