Harrisburg, PA- This week, Governor Shapiro announced that, effective immediately, every Pennsylvania resident who updates, renews, or applies for a driver’s license or photo ID card with the state’s Department of Transportation will automatically be led through the voter registration process.
He is as bad as Wolfe was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Pennsylvania is a mess between all the progressive faction and despicable stalk of celery and pandering Lee. We are without representation
Typical reaction from those with the most to lose. The Rethuglicans don't want anything that would increase the number of voters because this will lead to more voters likely to support democratic views and not the power hungry views that the Rethuglicans promote.
In my experience, the idea that "the general public" needs to know the intimate details of exactly how the mechanisms of American Government function and interact...
...gains currency, when the public statements and behavior of elected officials --and, thus, "of the institutions that those officials were hired, to guide"-- has undermined public confidence in Government institutions to the point at which there isn't a minimum-wage employee who stands behind the counter of any fast-food emporium in any, given District, who doesn't think that he, she, or they, themselves, have more regard for the Law and for the dignity and the AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY that are settled upon public offices and -institutions, than any person has, who actually holds such an Office or guides such an institution.
When a Legislator will suggest that (or, possibly more-accurately, "when a Legislator will 'act as if'") a "spending-plan" that is divorced from any recognition or acknowledgement of --or any linkage to-- the sources and amounts of such money as is expected to be available to be spent [i.e., "a 'revenue package'"]...
...constitutes a "BUDGET" (rather than, for example, constituting "an utter failure to abide by the plain language of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"),...
...the potential for upheaval and tumult come into focus.
The metaphor of the "sinkhole" might be useful, here:
1) Although the kinds of sinkholes that open up, suddenly and without warning, to swallow houses, cars, and roadways, in an instant...
...appear to have "come out of nowhere",...
...the transformation of tens (or hundreds or thousands) of cubic feet of that which had, previously, been "solid ground" into that which had become the "emptiness (possibly, still topped by a thin 'crust' that might provide the 'appearance --rather than the actuality-- of normality')" of "a void"...
...was a process that had been under way --a process that had been permitted to progress, unchecked-- for a long, long time.
2) When a call is made, to "311", that says that there is a "pot-hole", in the middle of a street, but that the ground, under the road-surface appears to have been completely washed away, under the road-surface, and that the asphalt is sagging, well beyond the edges of the relatively-small hole that has actually breached that asphalt,...
...the situation is dangerous.
3) Yes, it might be possible, for a private Citizen to race to Home Depot or Lowe's, and:
a) buy a bunch of bags of concrete-mix;
b) add water; and
c) pour as much concrete into that pot-hole as the hole will accept, in an effort to "put a Band-Aid on a serious wound";...
...and, in some kinds of urgent, desperate situations, the ONLY possible solution is, for a civic-minded "volunteer" to unreservedly and whole-heartedly pour that Citizen's own resources into stretching that Band-Aid across that wound, and pressing down, on that Band-Aid, with all of that Citizen's strength,...
...in the hope of forestalling disaster long enough, to permit competent, "serious help" to arrive.
But, what if traffic cannot be diverted away from the area, while the concrete "sets"?
What if night falls, and there is no light, and the speed-limit is great enough, that the Citizen-volunteer might be run-over, rather than obeyed, as he stands there, in the darkness, waving his arms and shouting, as the headlights of an approaching car (or tractor-trailer truck) draw near?
In my opinion, "Motor-Voter" is not the problem; in my opinion, the problem is, that a Governor is accused of intentionally handing control of the Government apparatus of the Commonwealth to "criminal elements" and "[external/foreign] provocateurs",...
...by people who seem to present themselves as duly-elected Legislators who have the authority and means, not only to audit the safety, effectiveness, and completeness of the Executive Branch's efforts to safeguard both the integrity of the Commonwealth and the security of her People WHILE extending the voter franchise to ALL WHO ARE ELIGIBLE...
...but, to conduct that audit IN A "CLOSED-DOOR, RESTRICTED-ACCESS PROCEDURE" whose objective is GOVERNANCE, rather than <some lesser (and less-worthy) aim>;...
...and, to issue a statement, upon completion of that audit, regarding the nature, causes, and results of that audit.
Thomas Jefferson is said to have made some remark to the effect that "[it might be deemed right and just, that the roots of the Tree of Liberty be nourished, from time to time, by Rebellion]."
But, Larry Powers says that Pennsylvania has already launched at least one Whiskey Rebellion; and I, personally, have no interest in seeing a Fentanyl-, Heroin-, OxyContin-, Datura-, "Magic-Mushroom"-, or "Weed Isn't Even A Drug, 'Cause It's All-Natural" rebellion launched, either.
Without the Constitution, what kind of life will there be, in a Pennsylvania in which few places remain, where a modern-day Daniel Boone can live far-enough away from his next-door neighbor, as to be unable to see (or smell) the smoke rising from that next-door neighbor's chimney?
Life in a Pirate's Cove is not portrayed flatteringly, in the movies; and it is not as if there are no hills, valleys, rivers, woodlands, farmlands, or cities, in ANY of the lands from which the "migrants" who are flooding into the USA set out, on foot, to seek "a better life", here, than would be imaginable, for them to achieve, "back home".
Really? Now? NOW, after all these years of mail-in ballot fraud, voting machines changing votes, and leftist-democrat-controlled judges trashing redistricting, the establishment republicans have done absolutely nothing. NOW, you're complaining. Thanks.
He is as bad as Wolfe was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Pennsylvania is a mess between all the progressive faction and despicable stalk of celery and pandering Lee. We are without representation
Typical reaction from those with the most to lose. The Rethuglicans don't want anything that would increase the number of voters because this will lead to more voters likely to support democratic views and not the power hungry views that the Rethuglicans promote.
In my experience, the idea that "the general public" needs to know the intimate details of exactly how the mechanisms of American Government function and interact...
...gains currency, when the public statements and behavior of elected officials --and, thus, "of the institutions that those officials were hired, to guide"-- has undermined public confidence in Government institutions to the point at which there isn't a minimum-wage employee who stands behind the counter of any fast-food emporium in any, given District, who doesn't think that he, she, or they, themselves, have more regard for the Law and for the dignity and the AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY that are settled upon public offices and -institutions, than any person has, who actually holds such an Office or guides such an institution.
When a Legislator will suggest that (or, possibly more-accurately, "when a Legislator will 'act as if'") a "spending-plan" that is divorced from any recognition or acknowledgement of --or any linkage to-- the sources and amounts of such money as is expected to be available to be spent [i.e., "a 'revenue package'"]...
...constitutes a "BUDGET" (rather than, for example, constituting "an utter failure to abide by the plain language of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"),...
...the potential for upheaval and tumult come into focus.
The metaphor of the "sinkhole" might be useful, here:
1) Although the kinds of sinkholes that open up, suddenly and without warning, to swallow houses, cars, and roadways, in an instant...
...appear to have "come out of nowhere",...
...the transformation of tens (or hundreds or thousands) of cubic feet of that which had, previously, been "solid ground" into that which had become the "emptiness (possibly, still topped by a thin 'crust' that might provide the 'appearance --rather than the actuality-- of normality')" of "a void"...
...was a process that had been under way --a process that had been permitted to progress, unchecked-- for a long, long time.
2) When a call is made, to "311", that says that there is a "pot-hole", in the middle of a street, but that the ground, under the road-surface appears to have been completely washed away, under the road-surface, and that the asphalt is sagging, well beyond the edges of the relatively-small hole that has actually breached that asphalt,...
...the situation is dangerous.
3) Yes, it might be possible, for a private Citizen to race to Home Depot or Lowe's, and:
a) buy a bunch of bags of concrete-mix;
b) add water; and
c) pour as much concrete into that pot-hole as the hole will accept, in an effort to "put a Band-Aid on a serious wound";...
...and, in some kinds of urgent, desperate situations, the ONLY possible solution is, for a civic-minded "volunteer" to unreservedly and whole-heartedly pour that Citizen's own resources into stretching that Band-Aid across that wound, and pressing down, on that Band-Aid, with all of that Citizen's strength,...
...in the hope of forestalling disaster long enough, to permit competent, "serious help" to arrive.
But, what if traffic cannot be diverted away from the area, while the concrete "sets"?
What if night falls, and there is no light, and the speed-limit is great enough, that the Citizen-volunteer might be run-over, rather than obeyed, as he stands there, in the darkness, waving his arms and shouting, as the headlights of an approaching car (or tractor-trailer truck) draw near?
In my opinion, "Motor-Voter" is not the problem; in my opinion, the problem is, that a Governor is accused of intentionally handing control of the Government apparatus of the Commonwealth to "criminal elements" and "[external/foreign] provocateurs",...
...by people who seem to present themselves as duly-elected Legislators who have the authority and means, not only to audit the safety, effectiveness, and completeness of the Executive Branch's efforts to safeguard both the integrity of the Commonwealth and the security of her People WHILE extending the voter franchise to ALL WHO ARE ELIGIBLE...
...but, to conduct that audit IN A "CLOSED-DOOR, RESTRICTED-ACCESS PROCEDURE" whose objective is GOVERNANCE, rather than <some lesser (and less-worthy) aim>;...
...and, to issue a statement, upon completion of that audit, regarding the nature, causes, and results of that audit.
Thomas Jefferson is said to have made some remark to the effect that "[it might be deemed right and just, that the roots of the Tree of Liberty be nourished, from time to time, by Rebellion]."
But, Larry Powers says that Pennsylvania has already launched at least one Whiskey Rebellion; and I, personally, have no interest in seeing a Fentanyl-, Heroin-, OxyContin-, Datura-, "Magic-Mushroom"-, or "Weed Isn't Even A Drug, 'Cause It's All-Natural" rebellion launched, either.
Without the Constitution, what kind of life will there be, in a Pennsylvania in which few places remain, where a modern-day Daniel Boone can live far-enough away from his next-door neighbor, as to be unable to see (or smell) the smoke rising from that next-door neighbor's chimney?
Life in a Pirate's Cove is not portrayed flatteringly, in the movies; and it is not as if there are no hills, valleys, rivers, woodlands, farmlands, or cities, in ANY of the lands from which the "migrants" who are flooding into the USA set out, on foot, to seek "a better life", here, than would be imaginable, for them to achieve, "back home".
Why are Rebublicans so afraid of voting?
1st it was mail in and now this. "Freedom" means all votes count. Why not make it easier to register to vote?
Really? Now? NOW, after all these years of mail-in ballot fraud, voting machines changing votes, and leftist-democrat-controlled judges trashing redistricting, the establishment republicans have done absolutely nothing. NOW, you're complaining. Thanks.