let me go to you. do you argue that the current ways to determine whether a voter is that voter when they show up is adequate? yes. absolutely, chris. the help america vote act requires every voter to show id when they register. it s just a question of the type of id. we re seeing across the nation states enacting laws more strict than the next so it s only a particular form of id. in texas it could be up to 200 miles to a motor vehicle location to get that id. you may have to pay $22 for a birth certificate or hundreds of dollars for a marriage the certificate. it s like a poll tax. it s exactly like a poll tax. greg abbott rejected the arguments. voter ids are require the of every texan regardless of race.
birth certificate or hundreds of dollars for a marriage the certificate. it s like a poll tax. it s exactly like a poll tax. greg abbott rejected the arguments. voter ids are require the of every texan regardless of race. is that true? that it s regardless of race and it s free to get a voter id card? it has an enormous racial impact. the people who don t have it are disproportionately people of color. i think wendy s lawsuit lays out that this is intentional or the basis of race. and third, even though texas is making the id available itself for free, if you can get to the place and you have to pay for transportation, and you have the documents that they require, which cost money, then allegedly it s free. anybody get caught like they were in pennsylvania, where they
weigh in on a foreign policy issue that really doesn t matter that much to me. you will be able to keep your doctor, maybe you won t be able to keep your doctor. this stimulus is about getting productive jobs back, maybe not that many productive jobs back. i will close guantanamo as soon as i m in office. guantanamo still open more than five years in office. saw mr. mubarak as an ally until he isn t. the space program means something until it doesn t. the issue isn t how you feel about any of these issues, but about how often the president changed his mind on these issues. the irs overreach targeting conservatives that he said wouldn t stand, now a scandal that others barely mention. the push for health care law ids because they matter, but push back for voter ids but don t matter.
they know better than to do that. well, i think that does tie together. one, in term of i do think in the time that we live in, in being able to say to someone, particularly you are racist because something you wrote and immediate defense, i m not racist, i have friends and people do that. there is a difference of racism and racist thought and racist practice that has where you have the power to change laws or policies that then have a racial impact, right? and then there s racial insensitivity. you saying something or a joke or you know, doing something which often happens in our pop culture right now where people misapply that to mom being racist as opposed to racial insensitive. and how people s views of voter i.d.s. if you go to polls across country in terms of people that has a racial impact.
king laid out that he called a dream. and one thing that has really unfolded today in a number of the speeches was the issue of voting rights. this is the contemporary challenge. this is the attack on american voters and this is something i think that this march has to take. the message has to be, we have to fight back on a local level, and it s going to take mobilization, isn t it? this is going to be brilliant on the basics, getting everybody involved, everybody that was here today has to be involved in their communities. we re going to have to have a whole new push on voter registration. and voter i.d.s. we have to get i.d.s while we re still fighting them for implementing voter i.d. laws. that s the scary thing about north carolina. north carolina, i was told on my radio show this week by several callers, there are 300,000 people who vote that do not have a government i.d. in north carolina. that s right. you know, not everyone has a driver s license. that s right. so