New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, with Jesse Jackson looking on, laughs during a meeting of the New Orleans City council at New Orleans International Airport in this Tuesday, Sept 27, 2005 file photo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Posted on 03/30/2006 6:07:19 PM PST by Libloather
Senate panel defeats voter bill supported by Jesse Jackson
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, with Jesse Jackson looking on, laughs during a meeting of the New Orleans City council at New Orleans International Airport in this Tuesday, Sept 27, 2005 file photo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
BATON ROUGE, La. A state senate committee has rejected a bill that would have made it easier for displaced New Orleans residents to vote in the city's mayoral election next month. The bill had been pushed by Jesse Jackson and civil rights groups.
It would have created satellite voting centers in other states so people living elsewhere could vote without going back to Louisiana for the April election. Opponents questioned whether other states would give the state full cooperation.
State officials have taken some steps to help displaced residents vote, including easing restrictions on mail voting and setting up voting offices around the state.
Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, center, flanked by Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and Rev. Al Sharpton,, gestures during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2006. Morial joined a national coalition calling for the Justice Department and the State of Louisiana to protect the rights of over 150,000 New Orleans' black voters and to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by providing satellite voting outside of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
The Rainbow Putsch Chocolata Coalition is melting? oooo..
YOu know when those hustlers are in town, there is a scam to fleece the government out of some money about to be unleashed.
As many times as they want as well as voting wherever they now recieve their welfare checks.
Maybe they should have tried to make voting a pre-condition for continuing FEMA subsidization of their rent?
The actual fact is that most of those displaced residents have no intention of returning to New Orleans.
It's just stupid to give them voting rights there.
Pimp Daddy JJ looks real happy in both pics......wassa matter, Rev?
If they have not made any effort to return by now, they are no longer residents of New Orleans. If they have made an effort but been unable to return, they deserve absentee status.
What New Orleans does not need is the votes of those sitting back waiting for their entitlement housing to be dried out by someone else diluting the votes of those who are there working to put their lives and community back together.
they did not vote.
They were given a sum by the precinct captain who punched the card in their name. You can roll ups ome impressive margins that way and the precinct cpatin kept his no show job.
Now- No house, no voter no punchcard. How is a dembot supposed to cheat? It's Bush's fault we are denying a corrupt precinct captain a means to make a living....
I was invited to register and vote - and I'm a resident of Denton County, Texas, 560 miles from the aptly-named "Big Easy."
Oh, my goodness. If you don't start your own thread on the corruption, I will...
Has anyone ever verified that the Reverend JJ actually has credentials? Al?
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