Christine Pelosi, YDA’s Executive Director posted today on Huffington Post about how the GOP and its corporate allies have a simple message for young people: Don’t Vote.
In their quest to defeat President Obama and hold a White House Tea Party, Republicans and their corporate allies have a new youth outreach message: Don’t Vote. While our troops fight and die for the rights of young Afghanis and Iraqis to vote and our leaders call for a freedom agenda across the Middle East, our Republican opponents seek to deny those rights to young Americans here at home.
The contrast is quite striking: in the Middle East, from Tunisia to Egypt to Lybia to Yemen, millennials are fighting for the right to have a stake in their own future. And while Republicans cheer them over there, they suppress millennial Americans here at home. From New Hampshire (where the GOP House Speaker says says you should not register to vote in your college community unless you or your parents lived there before matriculation) to Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (where there are photo ID bills to ban students from using in-state university- or college-issued IDs for proof-of-residency when voting and/or end same-day voter registration at the polls) to the Koch-funded corporate entity American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (which set up “model” legislation to disenfranchise young voters disenfranchise the radical right is organized, methodical, and determined to keep young people home.
