Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Graham of Charlotte has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate North Carolina's new voter law.“It’s a clear attempt at voter suppression, and it will disproportionately impact students, minorities, the poor and senior citizens,” Graham wrote Holder. “I urge you to come to North Carolina now and stop this law from taking our state backward. We should be approving laws that encourage every American to vote – not make it more difficult.”
The law, signed this summer by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, requires voters to show a photo ID starting in 2016. It also ends straight-ticket voting and same-day registration and compresses the period for early voting.
The Justice Department went to court in August to block a new voter ID bill in Texas.
Graham's letter comes a day before she's scheduled to talk about the law at the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro and at a panel at Johnson C. Smith University. Graham is among several candidates interested in running for the 12th Congressional District seat that would become vacant if Rep. Mel Watt is confirmed as head of the Housing Finance Agency. The district runs from Charlotte to Greensboro.
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As a political party, when all you have left is to try to eliminate a vast number of voters to serve your purposes I think you have bigger problems that may need to be looked into.
NC GOPer voting and abortion bills need to be struck down by Federal courts. Legislature and Governor have trashed a once great state.
Guy wants to run in the most gerrymandered congressional district in the country and is concerned about voting rights?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Couldn't help but notice the same thing, 12:53. HaHaHaHaHa indeed!
Comical response to something every American should already have as its required to do almost anything you do in daily life. I've yet to come across anyone in my 40 yrs who doesn't one. Oddly enough, one is also required to get into Washington to see these "concerned" politicians
anom 12:53 and 1:09. You do realize that you have to run in the district that you live in, correct? So there isn't a choice for which district to run in. You also realize that the Republicans are the one who did the redistricting after the last census.
Before you start, I am not saying the Democrats didn't do the same thing when they were the majority.
So Malcolm....
At what point in time can we expect Democrats to be able to read, think for themselves and find their way to a DMV to get an ID?
Also, if a Republican President is elected in 2016 and decides to do the opposite of this administration, by issuing edicts from the White House instead of through Congress, will you support him/her in what they do? No difference, right?
Democrats have become The New Hypocrite Party.
It is against Federal law for states to allow weed sales, yet the same Holder Graham wants to "uphold the law" will not prosecute drug laws.
Same for DOMA. They refuse to uphold the law.
You do NOT have to live in the district you run for, ONLY the state.
Read the constitution.
You realize how stupid your comment is now?
1:19
You are wrong. For several years Sue Myrick lived in the 12th district while representing the 9th.
I am a Republican who happens to be disabled. The early voting laws have given me access to the system that had been difficult in the past. I am not happy about the shortened early voting season.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/citizen-warrior/2013/aug/20/madison-holders-department-justice-racist-lawless/
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/eric-holders-reign-of-racial-terror/
Wasn't racist thug Graham the one who passed the Xtreme racist law to keep 21 yr old UNC coed blonde Eve Carson's killer thugs and Charlotte city white cop thug killers from the death penalty among many others before Gov McCrory eliminated it? Go Fig.
Extreme racist AG Holder can stay the hell out of NC who has defended the new Black Panthers 2008 Philly voter intimidation as "my people" to his Fast and Furious, IRS and AP corruption and many other scams?
Obama is the king of racism and calls all the shots while leading al-Quida in the WH.
Time to get this scumbag criminal socialist 3rd world racist TRASH stench out of sacred capitalist DC permanently in 2014 and 2016 with Photo ID and end millions of cheating liberal voters rigging elections.
WAKE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
You cannot check IDs, so how do you all know there was no multiple voting.
With IDs the number of blacks counted as voting will go down, but only because they will be limited to one vote per election.
Here how it is done:
Register as many as possible, as you register them learn which will not vote, then go vote for them. Vote as different people in multiple early voting spots so you are not "recognized".
So North Caroline is the 34th State to implement some kind of Voter ID law. We are little late to the game but certainly not before it was needed. By the way NY, CT, MA, PA and most of the NE corridor states have more restrictive voter laws than North Carolina even after our new laws are put into place. And you say to that?
Hey Graham, call 1-800-WAAAAA!!
Why is it only liberals who want to circumvent the integrity of the vote? You can call it what you want, it is upholding the vote as sacred!
Graham, look to Melowese Richardson for consolation......
There is NO attempt at voter suppression going on. Everyone can a easily acquire the proper ID and its the same as needed to cash a check or buy a bottle of beer. Plus, the law applies to everyone equally.
Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Graham of Charlotte is conducting a slanderous, smear campaign aimed at Republicans and European Americans in general. Intelligent people know his false accusations are baseless but others do not. Perhaps Graham desires to stir up racial hatred like that which has caused an old man in Florida to be shot in the head or a baseball player in Oklahoma to be shot in the back.
There is likely thousands of fraudulent votes cast in nursing homes and with the elderly who have memory problems. All one needs to do is get a absentee ballot and fill it out for them and get a signature. Its happened in many places across the country. Fraud is rampant but unspoken and uninvestigated.
Remember the whole Nick Mackey debacle. As I recall one of the TV stations had footage of him getting signatures at a nursing home. Residents later were unable to recall who he was or what he wanted. I wonder which side Graham was on during that whole fiasco.
Did Foxxy ask Holder to block the AA/usairways merger, too? I wouldn't put it past him, since he made such a mess of CLT so he could ride his streetcar to Washington. I feel confident Ole Foxxy is behind the FAA slow playing their ruling on the airport authority. Maybe Malcom thinks he will be the next cabinet secretary Obama names. He'd be more qualified for most anything than was/is the sly one.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/16/miller-obama-uses-naval-yard-shooting-inflame-fear/
Charlotte is in danger of being ruined by racism, and I blame the Observer for fueling the flames. Consciously or sub consciously, the paper's straight news coverage has been extremely biased for the past year.--in the wording of the headlines, the amount of coverage given to one side of the issues, the placement of the stories, the length of time certain stories remain up on the website. The editorial stands it takes are the Ovserver's right, but not biased news coverage. Perhaps the Observer doesn't realize this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/us/suspect-in-shooting-had-interest-in-thai-culture-and-problems-with-the-law.html?hp
More routine mass murder "workplace violence" on American soil at a military base?
They are really playing this 2nd attack down in the liberal media.
How are these liberal mass killers getting entrance access with large assault weapons without inside help?
Fast and Furious AG Holder giving orders in what is clearly al-Quida muslim style terrorism military base attacks like in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Is a secret al-Quida being run from a central command control center at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/16/obama-was-warned-of-earlier-chemical-attacks-in-sy/
Thank you Washington Times.
Is it not very odd Obama was fully warned of WMD attacks in Syria but said nothing until after they occurred?
Wasnt he really orchestrating these attacks with his al-Quida rebels to blame Assad?
Who do you believe? Obama the known radical Rev "g-ddam America" Wright liar or truthful Assad and Putin who both hate sunni musim al-Quida terrorists?
Obama says he never heard a single anti-America word out of Rev Wright in 20 years of going every Sunday?
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/billlookup/billlookup.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S461
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eve_Carson
Malcom Graham sponsored the bogus racist "racial justice act" bill that spared the lives of 21 year old UNC student body president Eve Carson's murderer thugs. She was kidnapped in Chapel Hill at 5am on March 5th 2008 sexually assaulted (left out of the trial), robbed of her bank account, later shot her 4 times with a 22 hand gun and then a 12 gauge sawed off shotgun at close range blowing her skull into fragments.
Both thugs were caught charged and convicted pleading not guilty but appealed to the Supreme Court using tax dollars and denied.
Thanks to Malcom Graham NC taxpayers will pay jail expenses estimated at 150,000 per year each for these bacteria germs.
Hon Gov Pat McCrory repealed the racist law June 19 2013 and was met with violent liberal community organizer protesters using the same ole cliche lies and BS as usual.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/21/1217825/-NC-Gov-McRory-Repeals-Racial-Justice-Act-Restores-Legal-Lynching-on-Juneteenth-Liberation-Holiday
NEVER TRUST MALCOM GRAHAM or ERIC HOLDER !!!
ALL LEGALLY REGISTERED VOTERS INCLUDING REPUBLICANS, democrat, INDEPENDENTS, ETC MUST PRESENT PHOTO ID TO VOTE. REAL SIMPLE.
THE LAWS ARE 100% EQUALLY APPLIED TO ALL VOTERS.
SO WHAT IS THE CORRUPT LIBERAL WHINER CRYBABY SPOILED ROTTEN BRAT PROBLEM?
CANT LIE AND CHEAT?
*** NC REPUBLICAN PARTY
RALEIGH NC ***
HONORABLE PAT MCCRORY GOVERNOR
MCCRORY FOR US PRESIDENT 2016 !!!
I am so ashamed of those protesting this law. There is nothing wrong with asking for an ID.
Imagine how much better our country, politicians, and it seems people in general would be if half of you left the political sphere all together and retched yourselves of gruesome, vile, and disgusting thoughts. Most of your comments are appalling that you think this way of your fellow country men and women. And we wonder why our economy is poor - because people waste their time with vitriolic comments. Go stand in line at the polls instead and BRING YOUR DAMN ID CARDS TO VOTE OR GO GET ONE!
After Graham is pulling this BS PR stunt with Holder the GOP controlled NC Legislature should re-draw his District 40 and get him out of office.
40—Mecklenburg
Malcolm Graham
D-Mecklenburg
51.8% black, 32.4% white
Democratic Senator Malcolm Graham's seat loses GOP-friendly areas in northern Mecklenburg County and goes from around 35% black to a black majority district.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/jonathan-ferrell-shot_n_3937175.html
Charlotte Mecklenburg police chief Rodney Monroe should be FIRED immediately.
Wh is the NAACP and others not calling for rogue chief Monroe to be terminated over this matter?
Monroe is this rogue police chief being protected ?
Is Monroe not the ultimate responsible person for this shooting?
FIRE MONROE !!!!!!!
HE IS A ROGUE POLICE CHIEF !!!!!
MONROE TRAINS HIS OFFICERS TO KILL INNOCENT SUSPECTS !!!!
MONROE TRAINS HIS OFFICERS TO SHOOT 12 TIMES !!!!
TERMINATE RODNEY MONROE !!!!
IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!
CHIEF LEE IN SANFORD WAS FIRED WAS HE NOT ??????
CHIEF MONROE NEEDS TO BE FIRED EVEN IF HE CHARGED HIS OWN OFFICER PREMATURELY BEFORE THE DRUG REPORT CAME BACK ON THE VICTIM !!!!
MONROE EVEN CHARGED HIS OFFICER IN A PREMATURE RUSH TO JUDGMENT !!!
HIRE A NEW ROGUE CM POLICE CHIEF WHO HAS A REAL COLLEGE DEGREE NOT ONE THATS MANUFACTURED !!!!
The way that car is tore up he had to be high on crack doing 100 mph in a residential 25 mph zone.
So Rodney tells his officers to shoot to kill? That is believable.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/17/4320888/frightened-woman-heard-on-911.html
Pathetic reporting that reeks of bias and incompetence whoever this idiot is. There is clearly much more to this. Looks like he was on something or running from a bad drug deal or somebody was trying to kill him after banging and then trying to get inside a home at 3AM and then later even charge the police. Bad move. Nobody is that stupid unless you have a death wish. "Unarmed"? Ignorant terminology. Cops are always armed.
Those 4 dead Charlotte cops were "unarmed" too after their guns were taken.
Any dope or evidence found in the totalled car? Why was he in that neighborhood? Did he live there? Where had he been all night?
The cops gun could have had a hair trigger and fired multiple times due to malfunction. Obviously it would take time to check this out not to mention a toxicology report.
Very premature charges to say the least especially of a skilled trained police officer who was confronted with extreme danger and the taser did not slow him down.
Rush to judgment always erroneous.
3 AM? ... This is extremely poor biased reporting and extremely premature rogue investigation and charges without all the facts to appease? Asinine.
POOR WORK BY DETECTIVES and DA.
Good investigations take weeks months or even years. This entire affair gets a F- ..
This possibly the worst EVER investigation and reporting with unwarranted charges without the full facts.
reports said the cmpd officer was also assaulted by the assailant.
as far as graham goes there is no way he is not using good ole boy holder to continue the massive lib voter fraud in america.
obama uses code word to corrupt the irs and other agencies with vote fraud and is behind it all.
graham a phony cheat and knows what he is doing.
PHOTO ID eliminates all corruption. libs are all cheats and crooks but keeps honest people honest too.
you need a photo id to get into sams club
impeach the wh privlege character
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/17/report-irs-staff-acutely-aware-tea-party-antipathy/
Yeah guy, I takes a lot to stand up for something when it benifits only you. Civil Rights? Graham has 50% rating from the ACLU - http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/40880/malcolm-graham#.UjnDSD-ndNI
and didn't show up for the final votes about redistricting or death penalty discrimination - http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/40880/malcolm-graham#.UjnDSD-ndNI
Progressives want leaders. This is why people hate politicians.
Hey Senator, Stand up when it's not a photo op!
CRAFTY CUNNING MALCOM GRAHAM WANTS TO GUMMINT TO LET HIM CHEAT ...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/navy-yard-shooting-recap/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Who rehtorically caused the deaths of 12 UNARMED workers at the DC Naval facility and the 13 deaths at Ft Hood Army base plus the other liberal mass killings at Tuscon, Newtown, and Boston? Angry libs Obama, Holder and Co are behind it all. All angry liberal pervs are mentally deranged if thats their excuse. Some call it evil.
BEWARE OF THE ANGRY LIBERAL.
tell obama his liberals, illegals and muslims should be banned from owning guns .. sane citizens can agree on that one ..
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/19/napolitano-calling-red-a-green-light-to-spy-and-li/
even angry feminazi libs hate peeping barack and why did he not stop his mental mass killer bro in the naval attack? his many sons have been on a rampage too. his spy agency didnt catch that one either. marines and air force next? dont depend on obama spies and a 80 billion annual budget to busy spying on 300 million american citzens bedrooms and bathrooms.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/20/obama-struggles-debt-talk-ford-plant-if-we-dont-ra/
DUMB as hell is putting it mildly. Clearly Obama is a product of Affirmative Action and has absolutely no clue what he is talking about without a teleprompter.
Any wonder this knucklehead has run up 8 trillion over and above in 4 years? Totally unqualified to be president.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/21/4331964/naacp-wants-stronger-charge-against.html#.Uj56A2TF3zc
Racist NAACP lynch mob ALERT !!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/20/new-york-times-corrects-ar-15-navy-yard-story-stil/
The NY Times knew exactly what they were doing calling the mass murderer muslim style terrorist who killed 12 in the Naval facility an AR-14 when it was only a "shotgun".
No NAACP in DC protesting? They certainly are selective arent they?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html?hp
Good ole murdering muslims killing at least 50 more Xians at a Xian church in Pakistan.
Has WH muslim Obama AQ leader made a statement about his native Kenya attacks yet wirh 60 dead in a mall?
Wasn't that really a muslim attack on Xians in the DC naval yard that murdered 12 last week?
Beware of the enemy within.
SC REPUBLICANS FOR IMPEACHMENT
http://www.redstate.com/ericolsen/2011/09/16/tavis-smiley-racist-selfish-dense/
Why does Tavis Smiley suddenly single out the fully justified Charlotte police self defense shooting of a drugged crazed drunk driver home invasion intruder trying to break down a home alone females front door at 2:30 am after totaling his car on a 15 mph narrow residential road?
Smiley refuses to say how the violently belligerent highly intoxicated person only stopped breaking the door down when he heard police being summoned and a security alarm and later blitzed them assaulting the officer and had to be put down with necessary multiple shots obviously due to the excessive intoxicants in his system.
Tavis Smiley needs to shut up and get the real facts. The officer was pre-maturely charged only due to the Trayvon factor and hopefully the NC AG will see this and charge the Meck DA for false arrest to appease only.
ORANGE COUNTY CA GOP
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/22/miller-obama-blames-nra-gun-violence/
Muslim Obama laughably blames NRA for the terrorist muslim massacre of 12 innocent UNARMED individuals at the Naval Yard in DC?
OBAMA IS THE ONE TO BLAME ONLY !!!
Was this one of Obama's AQ "mentally deranged" terrorists in DC ?
What about in Kenya with 69 dead now by AQ?
What about 100 Xians shot dead in Pakistan?
What are millions of Xians murdered by muslims since 2008 and no mention by the AQ leader in the WH ?
Obama declared AQ dead and bloated over one year ago did he not?
Appears plenty of "workplace violence" by mostly Xians under Obama isnt there?
We know the AQ rebels in Syria are getting funding and arms from the WH.
How many trillions of red ink support has Obama been giving AQ?
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/22/4335299/recommendations-on-cmpd-citizens.html
Is Barney Fife running the Mayberry police department and DA ? Geeze.
The skilled police officer was only doing his job he was trained to do by CMPD and chief Rodney Monroe to protect the taxpaying good citizens of the community from harm.
Mission accomplished.
Is Monroe now trying to back off his own officer? What kind of DA charges a non-rogue trained police office prematurely in 19 hrs doing his job he was trained to do defending the citizens in good faith with only seconds to react?
Clearly recent events caused charges to be prematurely filed to appease certain groups that could endanger future protection of the community from potential crimes such as this.
For anyone with half a brain the 911 call speaks for itself. The # of shots fired was irrelevant.
Typical biased skewed non-factual incompetent yellow journalism article by a liberal media outlet to be expected.
The perp was not as innocent as he is being made out to be. The 911 call clearly proves that.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/world/africa/kenya-mall-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Nairobi Kenya pagan muslim terrorists over thanks to good police work. Only 2 terrorists killed? 3 terrorists were Americans? Does Obama know them?
Will the Kenyan police be charged?
How many shots were fired?
Why hasnt the police who killed the DC Navy muslim perp who murdered 12 been charged yet? Its been a week.
Cops are charged in CharMeck within 24 hrs and guilty until proven innocent. Fast work. And where is the DC NAACP? How many shots were fired?
Many unanswered questions.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/22/20632904-most-of-the-hostages-rescued-from-kenyan-mall-siege-as-fbi-begins-investigating-claims-of-americans-involvement?lite
FIVE American muslim AQ terrorists involved in Kenyan terrorist murders in Nairobi Kenya upscale mall.
Has muslim AQ leader Obama been questioned by the FBI or is this terrorist above the law?
Clearly with all the muslim mass killing all over the planet by Obama al-Quida operatives being directed from the Oval Office with a treasonist traitor trying to take 4th amendment firearms from law abiding citizens, there is a problem in DC espec after the muslim lass killing in the Naval yard.
al-Quida leader Obama lied about all this with the Benghazi setup killings and used some fake youtube film with Clinton and Rice and Holder.
al-Quida Obama is using America as a hotbed training ground for his terrorists and sending billions to the Syrian rebel al-Quida who used chemical weapons sarin gas on civilians and tried to blame Assad.
Assad and Putin know Obama is a criminal terrrorist al-Quida leader and training his muslims in places like Minnesota and Detroit where large muslim populations are.
Kenya is Obama's birthplace and as a radical muslim socialist is destroying the Xian westernism there.
East African nation Kenya has 50 million population and is 85% a Xian nation and muslim pagans are only about 5% with the rest other pagan religions.
Next door Somalia is 100% killer muslim terrorist al-Quida hijackers of many cargo ships in the Strait of Malacca Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
Insiders confirm Obama's father Barack Husein Obama Sr was an al-Quida operative whose group has killed 10s of 1000s of Xians covered up by the media.
Being socialist Marxists the attack on the upscale mall coming on the heels of the deadly DC Naval attack and Syrian rebel al-Quida gassing civilians lying and blaming Assad, is all inter-connected.
al-Quida is training muslim terrorists in America courtesy of you know who in the WH.
Wake Up America ... When will al-Quida Obama plan large scale attacks on shopping malls or other events in America?
Contrary to Obama hideous devious lies his al-Quida is alive and kicking and growing in America with American and muslim names.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/23/4336918/task-force-issues-12-recommendations.html
THE EXTORTION NEVER ENDS FOR THE FREELOADING WHINY BUMS AND LIARS
B.O.A.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/opinion/bergen-al-shabaab-american-ties/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
is obama really behind all these al-quida attacks?
should congress investigate obama and his kenyan muslim father and the al-quida terrorist connections?
benghazi was a clear sign. was tucson, aurora, newtown, boston, washington navy an obama al-quida terrorism?
why has obama immediately come out to steal 4th amendment firearms rights afterwards?
why does obama want americas guns?
didnt the bolsheviks, lenin, stalin, hitler, mao, pol pot, ho chi ming, castro, chavez, and other tyrants immediately seize all guns from the people when they assumed power?
hitler and castro gave 2 weeks to turn in all guns or if found with a firearm you were shot dead on the spot.
clearly the conservatives in congress and the nra are fully aware who obama is and what he is up to.
do not trust the obama-iran connection either. this is highly suspect as obama has done nothing to stop their nuke program.
never trust pagan muslim terrorists.
islam is a pagan terrorist pack of lies.
Iranian author Salman Rushdie who converted to Christianity and fled to England used the Quran in his 1978 book Satanic Verses and is still a target from Islamic fantatics seeking to kill him after 35 years.
Obama has never officially rejected Islam. Sharia Law that calls for death to any who tries to convert to another religion.
Obama murdered his gay lover choir leader in Trinity Church in 2008 according to the mother.
http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/05/26/mom-of-murdered-obama-gay-lover-speaks-up/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/trinity-church-members-reveal-obama-shocker/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/15/this-is-how-obama-founding-father-rev-wright-trinity-united-black-liberation-theology-shaped-the-presidents-worldview/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/06/obama-meets-with-gay-rights-activists-in-russia/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/claim-obama-hid-gay-life-to-become-president/
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