Honest. You can’t make this stuff up. From RawStory 33% of voters are renters.
Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips said denying the right to vote to those who do not own property “makes a lot of sense” during a weekly radio program.
“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote,” Phillips said. “It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote.”
“Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today,” he continued. “But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community.”
“If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”
They will have to recast themselves as the ‘landed gentry’ party. Boy, talk about a party flip flop – took them less than two years.
I have never read greater words of wisdom. I’m changing party affiliation from none of the above to Tea Party. This means that my wife and I who lease property from our daughter in Coos County (to assure her cash flow) will not be burdened any longer with local politics as we can’t vote. Apparently it also means that because we OWN Silicon Valley property, and other property, we get to vote in each of those states and communities. The brain dead dude did not state if there is a maximum number of votes that we may cast annually.