Today is Saturday, August 11, 2012. It is a picture perfect day.
Pete's stats for today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on exercise ball and 50 minutes of walking = 2.7 miles for an August total of 27 miles. My weight was 162 pounds.
The Secretary of State in Iowa is Matt Schultz. He is a Tea Party ultra-right- wing conservative Republican. He is bound and determined to prove there is voter fraud in Iowa because he wants the state to adopt a VOTER ID law. In the paper this morning Schultz said he has identified 2,000 voter fraud violations in Iowa. So he has appointed a Special Agent from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation to investigate these 2,000 cases. And to top it off Schultz is going to pay him $280,000 of Iowa taxpayers money over the next two years.
What is so stupid about this action of Schultz is that every county auditor is Iowa said we have never had a problem with voter fraud in our county. So why is he pushing this? The answer is simple. These 2,000 cases are most likely African-Americans and Hispanics and they voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008. So go figure - the same old crap is going on in about 30 other states where the Republicans control the governors chair and the legislature. It is an effort to make sure fewer people get to vote for Obama in 2012 - it is called voter suppression. I have lost all respect for the Republican Party.
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