Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bizarre quote from Rep. John Lewis

Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Erick Erickson at Peach Pundit (who, on Friday, celebrates his fifth consecutive week of not calling anyone a goat-fucking child molester) has called-out Rep. John Lewis for a bizarre quotation appearing in an AJC story about the U.S. Department of Justice's rejection of a Georgia voter law.

Lewis describes the rejected election law as:

“an attempt to take us back to another dark period in our history when people were denied access to the ballot box simply because of their race or nationality.”

A slight problem, Rep. Lewis.

We're supposed to discriminate by nationality at the ballot box.

We don't vote in foreign elections and foreigners don't vote in ours. The problem with the state law isn't that Lithuanians should be allowed to vote in Georgia. The problem, according to the DOJ, is that Georgia's citizenship filter is inaccurate and unreliable.

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I believe the phrase he was looking for was national origin.

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Posted by rptrcub on June 2, 2009 at 1:42 PM

That can't be right.

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Posted by Dash Riptide on June 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM
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