Trump crony wants to keep women from voting...

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Figures.

Trump Ally: No Voting Rights For Women Using Free Birth Control & Welfare Recipients

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 8/30/2016 12:13 pm

Wayne Allyn Root, a Donald Trump admirer who often claims to be in frequent contact with the GOP candidate has led campaign rallies for him in Nevada, said yesterday that people who receive federal benefits such as Medicaid, welfare and food stamps should lose their right to vote, as should women who use “free contraception” under the Affordable Care Act.

Root’s plan would cut a large swath of Americans from the voter rolls: Roughly one in five Americans benefit from means-tested benefit programs, while 67 percent of women with private health insurance use copay-free contraception through the Affordable Care Act (which, by the way, is paid for by insurance companies, not by the federal government).

Root told Virginia radio host Rob Schilling yesterday that much of the energy behind Trump’s campaign, as he discusses in his new book “Angry White Male,” is that the country is “evenly divided between the makers and the takers,” so “the middle class is basically paying, paying, paying and the poor get everything free, and it’s a disaster.”

Root said that he had recently seen a map on the internet showing that if only “taxpayers” had been allowed to vote, the 2012 election would have been “a Republican sweep.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-ally-no-voting-rights-women-using-free-birth-control-welfare-recipients

[Thinkingabout]

1. Wayne Allyn Root, hum, big libertarian poster, maybe we need to revoke the voting

privileges for a better USA. Why do these people say such stupid things.

[niyad]

2. because they are stupid, hate-filled, angry, ignorant assholes.

[milestogo]

3. Maybe Angry White Males should lose their right to vote...

makes about as much sense.

[gratuitous]

4. Sorry, Wayne Allyn Root

The Republicans have done their level best to make sure that only the right people get to cast a ballot, but that fucking Constitution keeps thwarting them. If Republicans devoted just a tenth of the effort and imagination they've expended on screwing over voters to actual governance, the country would be in far better shape.

As it is, we have to keep battling the Nitwit Brigade over issues decided 50 years ago and more.

[PatSeg]

5. And they are doing it again this election

Purging voters who are likely to vote Democratic because they have the same name as someone in another state. They aren't being thwarted enough unfortunately.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. Too crazy to happen

Should people should lose their voting rights for using coupons... especially the ones for free products? Makes as much sense as revoking voting rights for "free" birth control.

[angstlessk]

7. When did Libertarians become extreme reight wing republicans?

I recall a philosophy that 'if it does not infringe on another's rights, and does no harm....leave me alone'...Now they have become extremest reight wingers!