Thursday, September 11, 2008

More Republican dumbassery

Check this out:

Michigan Messenger


"The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

"We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week."

You dishonorable jerks! You meretricious, scandalous, vile ugly-mongers! Will you sift through a let your registered Republicans with foreclosed homes vote?

There is the point that just because someone is in foreclosure, it doesn't mean that the property in that process is no longer the person's legal residence. Sometimes if a bank or mortgage company can't sell the property they let the residents stay. Sometimes a person in foreclosure proceedings has worked out an agreement with their lender. It can take a month, sometimes more, for a sheriff's sale to proceed.

Part of the problem is that many of those who are being targeted by this caging won't understand what they need to do to prove that the foreclosed property is still their legal residence.


I really don't think we need another Republican in office. Anywhere. Not local. Not county. Not state. Not national. No Way.

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