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Florida Democrats clucking over voter registration drives at local Chick-fil-A restaurants
Topic Started: Sep 30 2016, 08:32 AM (189 Views)
Copper
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It's a rainy day, I was just going to eat lunch at home. But now I'm headed for the Chik-fil-A.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/09/30/florida-democrats-clucking-over-voter-registration-drives-at-local-chick-fil/

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Florida Democrats clucking over voter registration drives at local Chick-fil-A restaurants

Democrats in Pinellas County, Fla., are crying fowl over the supervisor of elections’ decision to hold voter registration drives at nine area Chick-fil-A locations earlier this week on National Voter Registration Day.

Susan McGrath, head of the county Democratic Executive Committee and leader of the Pinellas Stonewall Democrats, a pro-LGBT equality group, says she is all in favor of getting out the vote — just not at Chick-fil-A, the Georgia-based fast-food restaurant chain beloved for its fried chicken sandwiches and its adherence to the Southern Baptist culture of its founder by closing on Sundays. The company's CEO Dan Cathy has made multiple remarks in the past expressing a personal opposition to same-sex marriage.

According to the Tampa Bay Times and Creative Loafing, McGrath wrote a letter to Elections Supervisor Deborah Clark, who chose Chick-fil-A for the voter drives, saying: "As an elected official, you have a duty to be evenhanded and fair. Surely, you and your office staff do understand that using Chick-Fil-A as the base for voter registration activities is not only inherently unfair but overtly partisan as well. This company has a strong and well-understood history of anti-LGBT activism and is publicly associated with Republican Party values."

She compared it to a Democratic supervisor deciding to hold the event at Planned Parenthood and said the get-out-the-vote campaign might just as well be held at the county’s Republican Party headquarters.

McGrath suggested that a recent surge in the number of registered Democrats in the county may have been an impetus to hold the drive in a place Democrats tend to avoid.

"While some Democrats may occasionally dine at Chick-fil-A (and perhaps even members of the LGBT community), the coordination of Pinellas voter registration activities with this right-leaning business very clearly conveys that your office is targeting Republican-leaning voters," McGrath wrote.

A spokesman for Clark said her office will hold 350 voter drives at hundreds of locations this year. He did not address McGrath’s allegations, other than to say the popular chicken chain gets a lot of customers.

In her letter, McGrath strongly urged Clark's office to reconsider holding future voter registration events at Chick-fil-A locations.

Across the country, other food establishments are getting into the voter registration game. In Houston, a fleet of taco trucks is now doubling as voter registration centers throughout the city.
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In Houston, you can register at a Taco Truck.
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Surely, you and your office staff do understand that using Chick-Fil-A as the base for voter registration activities is not only inherently unfair but overtly partisan as well. This company has a strong and well-understood history of anti-LGBT activism and is publicly associated with Republican Party values."
Why do Democrats want to suppress voter registration?
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George K
Sep 30 2016, 08:42 AM
In Houston, you can register at a Taco Truck.
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Surely, you and your office staff do understand that using Chick-Fil-A as the base for voter registration activities is not only inherently unfair but overtly partisan as well. This company has a strong and well-understood history of anti-LGBT activism and is publicly associated with Republican Party values."
Why do Democrats want to suppress voter registration?
I thought last election they were rigging it by helping people register?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aqua Letifer
Sep 30 2016, 08:46 AM
I thought last election they were rigging it by helping people register?
They only want to register the people they want to register.

Can't have those gay-hating Rethuglicans voting, you know.
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George K
Sep 30 2016, 08:47 AM
Aqua Letifer
Sep 30 2016, 08:46 AM
I thought last election they were rigging it by helping people register?
They only want to register the people they want to register.

Can't have those gay-hating Rethuglicans voting, you know.
So Democrat-run voter registrarion booths are all actively turning away Republicans?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Quick, somebody post a picture of those two black guys outside a voting station in 2008!
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Aqua Letifer
Sep 30 2016, 09:04 AM
George K
Sep 30 2016, 08:47 AM
Aqua Letifer
Sep 30 2016, 08:46 AM
I thought last election they were rigging it by helping people register?
They only want to register the people they want to register.

Can't have those gay-hating Rethuglicans voting, you know.
So Democrat-run voter registrarion booths are all actively turning away Republicans?
Didn't say that, did I?

The whole point of the article is that the Democrats are objecting to what they perceive as a Republican entity registering voters. Apparently, they don't like the kind of voters that are being registered.

In Cook County, you can register to vote at churches. Draw your own conclusions.
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Sep 30 2016, 09:24 AM
In Cook County, you can register to vote at churches. Draw your own conclusions.
Trump is the antichrist?
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I got the chicken sandwich - no pickle, fries and a large chocolate shake with whip cream and a cherry.

Nice.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Copper
Sep 30 2016, 08:32 AM
Susan McGrath, head of the county Democratic Executive Committee and leader of the Pinellas Stonewall Democrats, a pro-LGBT equality group, says she is all in favor of getting out the vote — just not at Chick-fil-A, the Georgia-based fast-food restaurant chain beloved for its fried chicken sandwiches and its adherence to the Southern Baptist culture of its founder by closing on Sundays.
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She compared it to a Democratic supervisor deciding to hold the event at Planned Parenthood and said the get-out-the-vote campaign might just as well be held at the county’s Republican Party headquarters.
Guess what? That's exactly what's been going on for two months:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/planned-parenthood-launches-voter-registration-campaign-n624411

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Planned Parenthood will begin a (cough, cough) nonpartisan campaign to register voters at its clinics, on college campuses and online to help marginalized populations participate more in this election cycle, the women's health provider announced to the Huffington Post Friday.

The voter registration campaign titled "My Vote, My Voice" will have volunteers in 45 states set up tables outside of Planned Parenthood clinics and other spots in communities to educate people about their state's voter ID laws while helping them register to vote. Two weeks before the general election, volunteers will also remind people to vote.

"If we can't all participate in our government, we all get cheated," said Anna Keene, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman, to the Huffington Post. "We're launching the 'My Vote, My Voice' campaign to help ensure that every voice is heard and every vote is counted in communities across the country. No matter what your political beliefs are, if you don't or can't vote, then you can't elect officials who will keep your best interests in mind."
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Hey, Democrats in VA are having voter registration drives in morgues and funeral homes.
Edited by Luke's Dad, Oct 1 2016, 02:33 PM.
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Sometimes I feel as if I live in a banana republic.
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George K
Sep 30 2016, 09:24 AM
In Cook County, you can register to vote at churches. Draw your own conclusions.
So that's in just Black churches or evangelical churches too?
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John D'Oh
Oct 1 2016, 02:39 PM
Sometimes I feel as if I live in a banana republic.
That's because you do.

FBI director Comey proved it.
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John D'Oh
Sep 30 2016, 09:10 AM
Quick, somebody post a picture of those two black guys outside a voting station in 2008!
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