By FITSNews || South Carolina Republican activists are displeased with a new “voter ID” compromise, lamenting concessions made to Democrats by their so-called “majority party.”
“Folks, I think we got rolled again,” prominent SCGOP activist Lannieu Seigling said in an email blast to his list of Republican supporters. “The Dems got everything they wanted and we got (voter) ID after the next election, if it gets funding.”
Indeed, a Democratic filibuster of the GOP-backed bill succeeded in delaying the controversial measure’s implementation until 2012, while obligating the state to pick up the tab for determining which registered voters do not currently have photo ID’s – and providing ID’s to those who do not have them.
Can anybody say “Ka-CHING!”
Seigling lamented the fact that Republicans – who own a sizable majority in the Senate – were forced to concede so much ground to the minority party.
“Twenty-seven to nineteen and we had to compromise?” Seigling asks.
Well, that’s just what happens when four “Republicans” (Jake Knotts, Hugh Leatherman, Billy O’Dell and Luke Rankin) vote in lockstep with the Democrats.
Personally, we could care less about voter ID.
Seriously. We’re not Republicans, and whether or not Republicans succeed or fail at the polls is of utterly no consequence to us.
We do enjoy rousing the GOP base (and watching the Pavlovian response) though.
By Dusty January 29, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I think I might vote Democrat and hope to clear out the dead wood Republicans and start anew.
By Liberty For Me January 29, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I think the I.D. compromise should have been an I.Q. test.Of course the polls would resemble a ghost town
By Anonymous January 31, 2010 at 8:52 am
The state has to pay for the IDs, otherwise it is a “poll tax” and thus illegal.
Small price to pay for honest elections.