Comments | ontd_political: Todd Akin Suggests the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be overturned

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Todd Akin Suggests the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be overturned

Aug 17, 2012 21:48

Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to “look at or overturn” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting procedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said ( Read more... )

missouri, civil rights, states rights

Comments 27

layweed August 18 2012, 03:06:24 UTC

This guy's really on a roll, isn't he?

girl_fusion August 18 2012, 03:34:46 UTC

Troll?? ...It's the only thing I can come up with, for real.

lovedforaday August 18 2012, 03:41:52 UTC

He's very much serious.

thelilyqueen August 18 2012, 13:23:30 UTC

Don't I wish.

And, he's not even trying to dress it up in that 'oh-I'm-so-colorblind' argument that such protections just aren't needed anymore.

tiddlywinks103 August 18 2012, 03:38:28 UTC

Akin said that states - not the federal government - should set voting rules. According to Akin, elections “have historically always been a state thing” and that’s a “good principle.”

Yeah, for White, male landowners with clout. STFU, I hate you.

lovedforaday August 18 2012, 03:56:22 UTC

I love how Todd is pro states' rights about things like voting rights and school lunches, yet he is for federal laws banning gay marriage and birth control. Gotta love these Christian Dominionists.

shhh_its_s3cr3t August 18 2012, 03:59:31 UTC

Whoa...... Just .... FUCK THIS GUY..... :(