Thread: CA Superdelegate wants 20 Million for his vote

Originally Posted by AE

This was on the MSM, saw it on Fox first. This guy had no problem making the statements he did on national TV.

I believe that the way he stated it all, was the the money would be for a program to be sure all Mexican-Americans were given the chance to register and programs to promote them registering. He stated that they are the most underepresented, and untapped group of voters in this country and could sway the election for the Democrats if they were registered and actually voted (with his pressumption that they would vote Dem).

My first thought was he is a big OBLer and knows that the Democrats in presidency are the key the OBL needs to get their coveted amnesty, this seemed to me was his goal.

Voter registration drives are run by volunteers, no one is paid to register voters. His asking for the money is highly suspect. Spanish language TV programs already advertise voter registration heavily. There would be NO need to pay anyone that kind of money, unless it's to "influence" people.

Citizens who were former immigrants take voting much more seriously than native born Americans as we had to EARN the right to vote and were not born with that right, so I don't buy his story.

I believe that too, that is what he said though. Maybe he thinks he can buy some votes towards the Democratic party, in order to get the presidency and amnesty?.......

As for taking voting seriously, yes, many Americans, especially the 20 something crowd, do not take it seriously. I have been on my daughters case about it since she was 18, I handed her a voter registration card and said this was my 18th B-day present to her, her right as an adult in America to vote !

I think sometimes, I even see older adults not taking their obligation/right to vote seriously enough, and it really bothers me, yet I think, oh so many people complain endlessly about the politicians in office.

Miguelina, I was brought up in a family of 6, and my parents were adament to tell us that we had two obligations in our lives as American, one to obey the laws (even if we did not always agree that law worked the way it was meant to), the other was to vote.

I knew a woman, immgrant from Romania, who was so excited to get to vote for the first time, she was in tears (she grew up in a communist country), this was very touching to me.

Any update on this?