To: Brumar89 who wrote (93294 ) 4/10/2007 2:09:01 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to of 173976 The ACLU is certainly a liberal group and it defends NAMBLA and child porn. The ACLU association with pedophiles is well-known. Here are a few links establishing this. More are easy to find.blogcritics.org wired.com theottoshow.blog-city.com rightvoices.com Re. criminals in general:The Dems may not like to shout about this, but studies indicate that 90-some percent of people who have served time for felonies will, after prison, vote Democratic. www.tompaine.com/articles/an_election_spoiled_rotten.php .... Yvonne Kennedy would like Derrick Gayle's vote. A six-term Democratic state representative in Alabama, Kennedy has introduced legislation to give former felons their right to vote back. The bill has twice been defeated, but Kennedy said she is undeterred. "More and more, I feel optimistic about it," she says. Kennedy is one of a growing number of legislators who have filed bills that would make it legal for felons to vote once they have served their time. In Georgia, State Representative Bob Holmes, a Democrat, has repeatedly sponsored bills to restore the voting rights of felons and plans to do so again this year. In Florida, black legislators have introduced bills that would restore the right to vote to former felons. The Pennsylvania state legislature is holding hearings on the issue, as well. There is also action at the federal level. On October 21, 1999, the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the "Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 1999." The bill, introduced by Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, and thirty co-sponsors, would allow non-incarcerated felons and ex-felons to vote in federal elections, even if state law precludes them from voting in state elections. .... www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Barred_Life.html Their survey data suggest that Democratic candidates would have received about seven out of every ten votes cast by this disenfranchised population in 14 of the last 15 Senate election years. .... According to Uggen and Manza, the outcome of the most contested presidential race in history, the 2000 Bush vs. Gore election, would almost certainly have been reversed had voting rights been extended to any category of disenfranchised felons. Had only ex-felons been enfranchised in Florida and participated at the estimated rate of Florida turnout (27.2 percent) and with the Democratic preference (68.9 percent), they would have yielded an additional 60,000 net votes for Gore. This would have been more than enough to overwhelm Bush’s narrow victory margin. ..... www.asanet.org/cs/felon_vote