There remains a voice of reason amidst the Tennessee government rush to insanity. The state attorney general remains level headed enough to realize that we have Tennessee and U.S. constitutions.
That alone is reason enough to push back the tea-drinkers’ effort to change the method of selecting the attorney general. But, the other side of this is his levelheaded thinking will cause them to push more passionately to change the process.
Too busy drinking tea and changing the political landscape, the political forces of power don’t have time or inclination to read those stuffy old documents. Otherwise, they would have realized early on that their photo identification requirement for voters would run afoul of the constitutional right to vote.
The state attorney general said a few weeks ago that the proposed requirement for photo identification to vote “unduly burdens the right to vote” and would constitute a poll tax.
The only way around that, according to the attorney general, would be to supply voters with free photo ID cards. Actually, the champions of less government and cutting spending have a plan for that. They have proposed a separate measure to provide free photo IDs to those who don’t have them or can’t afford them. The free identifications would cost the state an estimated $200,000. How is that for limiting government and cutting spending? I can envision the bureaucracy now that would be required to create photo identifications and determine who would be eligible to receive them. But then, that would assist the governor’s promise to create jobs.