{"id":5119,"date":"2007-10-01T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2007-10-02T03:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T10:30:51","slug":"one-person-one-vote-not-in-the-texas-legislature-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"One Person, One Vote? Not in the Texas Legislature Apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good god. Hypocrisy in Texas? In the State Legislature? Whoddathunkit?!<\/p>\n<p>Behold Republican TX State Rep. Debbie Riddle, who &#8212; despite any substantive evidence to demonstrate that citizens are voting more than once in her state &#8212; is the author of a disenfranchising Photo ID law that would do little more than keep lawfully registered voters (mostly Democratic-leaning voters) from being able to cast their votes. <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to her own vote, however, and those of her colleagues in the state legislature, the rules are apparently quite different. Incredible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eG6X-xtVask&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eG6X-xtVask&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of those who sent the link to this video to us.<\/p>\n<p>And to Ms. Riddle, who has all kinds of excuses as to why her colleagues don&#8217;t have time to vote &#8212; excuses which apparently do not also apply to actual working citizens on Election Day, which also happens to be a work day &#8212; please kindly go Cheney yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good god. Hypocrisy in Texas? In the State Legislature? Whoddathunkit?! Behold Republican TX State Rep. Debbie Riddle, who &#8212; despite any substantive evidence to demonstrate that citizens are voting more than once in her state &#8212; is the author of a disenfranchising Photo ID law that would do little more than keep lawfully registered voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,156],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-voter-id"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}