Work for the GOP for some Ramen noodles?

Political parties, when desperate will resort to some very low-life and desperate tactics - much like the GOP is doing in California. Folks, this is your enemy.
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http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/the-latest-gop-foot-soldiers-the-homeless/

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Republican operatives in California have cooked up a dirty trick that looks like an election reform measure. They are trying to put an initiative on the ballot to divide the state’s 55 electoral votes between the winner and loser in next year’s presidential race, replacing the current winner-take-all method.

The reason it’s a dirty trick, as the Editorial Page noted recently, is that they are not trying to reform the Electoral College nationally — or to divide the electoral votes of Republican states like Texas. The initiative aims at rigging the Electoral College so that even if the Democrat wins the national popular vote by a wide margin, she or he might still lose the presidency.

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Now, as the Times reported today, there are charges that petition gatherers are going to shelters on Skid Row and offering homeless people Snickers bars and instant noodles in exchange for their signatures.

If the charges are true, the petition gatherers may have broken the law. There’s also the harsh irony that the people trying to buy the votes of the homeless are working to put a party in power that opposes the interests of the poor.

Most of all, though, it’s just creepy to buy hungry people’s political assent by dangling food in front of them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x486306

Some people need to go to jail for this stuff.

That's why they passed the SCHIP bill! :sarcasm:

I had not read that.

I won't mention any names, but it was one of the things that I saw as a member of DFA coming together with other national groups in a large metro organizing center. I am **not** an economic elitist, but you'd think someone would be asking folks something like, "Rank the importance of: 1. Getting voters informed and ready to vote. 2. Receiving a check for a day's work" (note: that was work that required absolutely NO commitment to the mission of the organizing group, no follow-up, no identification with a type of career-path, nothing more than walking neighborhoods).

A LOT of money went down that particular hole.

What you describe is much worse, because the signature on the petition IS the mission.

Some, not all, GOP'ers are lower than snakes in the sewer...