PEAK UPDATE: Open Government Institute Executive Director Jessica Peck has sent a letter to Senator Bacon calling on him to apologize for calling "a fair number" of Coloradans racist.
"Your inflammatory remarks are a challenge to the respectful discussion that organizations like ours, joining others across the ideological spectrum, are hoping to foster around this important issue,” pens Peck.
Full letter embedded after the jump.
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The Senate Democrats heard compelling testimony yesterday in defense of requiring photo ID to vote. After hours of testimony, committee members had their chance to explain or defend their upcoming vote on the proposed ballot measure.
Speaking from his Ivory Tower in Fort Collins, Senator Bob Bacon chastised the audience for the "great deal of hyperbole, perhaps on both sides." He also explained that voters should never be asked about constitutional rights because of his fear of the masses.
Instead of leaving it there, Bacon went on to offend the majority of Coloradans saying, "If voters were asked whether they might be able to exclude Muslims from the voting rolls because of a perception that they may be terrorists, I think you would find a fair number of voters who would vote yes." In one fell swoop, Bacon shows his ignorance and believes Coloradans simply don't want Muslims voting.
This shocking statement fell on deaf ears among the reporters. Though some tweeted the statement, the impact of what he said seemed to be lost.
Now we know what Bob Bacon thinks of Coloradans.
Fact, there will be massive allegations of voter fraud and there will be voter fraud. http://www.hanlonsrazor.org/20… Don’t be distracted by a liberal playing the race card. View that as a declaration that what the wall street group is missing is the fear factor (rules for radicals). This promises to be a long, hot summer that will create strange bedfellows. High unemployment, depleted bank accounts and over-reaction are the three matches in the box. Does anyone else smell gas? If you live in the big city, keep your car radios tuned to news stations and you won’t end up at Florence and Normandy wondering how you got there. And baby that ain’t racist, that’s prudent.
Democrats not only want to keep all minorities separated, they also want to make sure they are able to vote, legally or not. They absolutely do not want voter ID passed. We have to have ID for almost everything we do except voting, why not for that? Oh, yes, so many of the poor people can not get ID’s because they don’t have the means to do it. Does that mean they don’t have the legal papers or maybe no way to get the State issued ID? They really are not hard to get and very cheap (Free even ?), they just have to get off their lazy a**es and go get one. If they can’t be bothered to do that they should not be voting. (If they can get to the polls why can’t they find the place to get their ID?)
Democrats have a real interest in keeping the American people divided by class, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and any other way possible. It is their best hope to keep their power.
He is obviously out of touch with the real world and we already have enough of that kind of garbage screwing up the States finances and hatefulness towards businesses and industry.
Heck, it might even be nice to have a Constitutionally FRIENDLY senator in the State senate.
The democrats are well known for their racist roots as well as the continuation of democrat driven government policies that keep all minorities separated into their own little niches and told they cannot succeed in America without democrat help.
80 years ago, in the inner cities and ‘ghettos’ the descendants of slaves had solid family values and intact families.
Few of the inner city areas vote for anything but a democrat.
Look at any area that has consistently elected democrats and you will find intense poverty, crime, double or triple homicide rates as well as rapes and lesser crimes.
The percentage of homes in those areas with intact families with both a Mother and Father is slim to none.
So… in HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS and ACQUAINTANCES he is probably right, a very high percentage are racists.
Republicans love saying this stuff, but let’s see what we can find out in the real world…
This tragic murder has been far too politicized by the right’s insistence that “there’s no racism.” It was something magically solved in 1964 and hasn’t been around ever since, right? (I’m officially repudiating my earlier stance that the left is equally responsible for this sad state of affairs.)
YOU are off topic.
It has been over reported and the ‘evidence has been “corrected” to show the world what it should have been instead of what actually happened.
Again, WIDELY REPORTED that videos and audio tapes were ‘enhanced’ and the enhancements were proven to be alterations to present the racist agendas of the news media, the race baiters and everybody that wants civil unrest and, hopefully in their minds, a few riots across the nation.
Now little boy, go have mommy change your diapers and disappear back into your cellar.
does Kefalas agree?