Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” revealed Tuesday that the Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts will prevent his own father, a veteran, from casting a ballot this fall in Pennsylvania.
“I have a problem,” Cramer said on Twitter Tuesday morning. “My dad, a vet, won’t be allowed to vote in Pa. because he does not drive, he is elderly, and can’t prove his citizenship.”
That would mean Cramer’s father is one of nearly 760,000 voters, or about 9 percent of Pennsylvanians who regularly participate in elections, who the state said does not carry a state-issued photo identification. Despite that alarming statistic, a Republican Pennsylvania judge approved the law last month, saying that voters still have time to obtain their ID cards.
So now Republicans are pissing off hysterical white dudes.
Isn’t that their base?
Cramer solves his dads problems in just 7 hours. Being a rich, influential media asshole is helpful it seems.
Would a poor black woman receive the same assistance as rich white Cramer?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/jim_cramer_dad_voter_id_solved.php