  Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 155 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.173.240 |
Luther 'Badman' Keith today rightly scolds last Tuesday's registered voters who abdicated . . . . . . and notes the "unflattering irony" that nearly 200 Detroiters this past weekend joined "a massive [Atlanta] demonstration in support for extension of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. " http://www.detnews.com/2005/me tro/0508/08/B06-272597.htm (Message edited by RealityCheck on August 08, 2005) | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 2805 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.173.162 |
Bring the voting rights act to life. Lot's of black leaders and their freedom fighters work so hard to minorities to vote without any run-a-round. | ||
Ltorivia485 Member Username: Ltorivia485 Post Number: 1538 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 24.221.73.69 |
Hahahaha...yes the OLD FOLKS vote, but the young people? They can give a CARE LESS!!!! The old folks don't speak for the young people. | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1124 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 69.212.227.54 |
Ltorivia, in a sense the OLD FOLKS do speak for the young folks. The old folks determined who the young folks will be voting for in November. And if the young folks don't take themselves to the polls in November, the old folks will be deciding for the young folks who their next mayor will be. | ||
Andy Member Username: Andy Post Number: 436 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 69.221.68.196 |
Wow. | ||
Track75 Member Username: Track75 Post Number: 1925 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 12.75.18.72 |
Wow, indeed. If you adjust the 2000 census figures to reflect SEMCOG's estimated 5.5% population decline, you have 620,000 Detroiters 18 and over. Not bad, a 103% voter registration rate. | ||
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 158 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.173.240 |
Can you imagine Richard J. Daley (6-term Chicago mayor, 1955-76) grinning appreciatively at that from his spot at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery there? Vote early and often, indeed . . . and from the grave. Or could, gasp, a Detroit News columnist have gotten that 'fact' wrong? (Message edited by RealityCheck on August 08, 2005) | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 1503 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.228 |
Those are not bad numbers by most primary election standards and certainly by school board election standard. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 8351 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236 |
What is pathetic is all the bitching and complaining about the state take over of DPS. Where were all these concerned parents who made an uproar over the take over? How about all those that criticized Archer, Hendrix, and Kilpatrick's role? Where these people even registered? Did they vote in the past even? I actually did some last minute researching the night before I voted and selected what I believed to be the best canidates. Go Figure...as I don't even have kids in the DPS! | ||
Morena Member Username: Morena Post Number: 282 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.42.173.147 |
Jackie Currie's voter registration numbers are garbage and everyone knows it - 600,000 registered voters my ass. And she uses our tax dollars to buy huge billboards with her face plastered on them encouraging voters to vote big - while she's also campaigning for her own re-election. | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1126 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 69.212.210.214 |
Well, I heard the "professional voters" sat the primary out. I hope their sitting out didn't cause their candidates not to place for the general election. I wonder if their candidate thinks their strategy was that of a professional voter or that of an idiot? |
