{"id":184004,"date":"2012-09-11T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/11\/yet-another-person-disenfranchised-by-the-phants\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T01:33:00","slug":"yet-another-person-disenfranchised-by-the-phants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/11\/yet-another-person-disenfranchised-by-the-phants\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Person Disenfranchised by the &#8216;Phants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/09\/11\/cnbcs-jim-cramer-my-dad-wont-be-allowed-to-vote-in-pennsylvania\/\">CNBC\u2019s Jim Cramer&#8217;s dad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Cramer, host of CNBC\u2019s \u201cMad Money,\u201d revealed Tuesday that the Republican Party\u2019s voter suppression efforts will prevent his own father, a veteran, from casting a ballot this fall in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a problem,\u201d Cramer said on Twitter Tuesday morning. \u201cMy dad, a vet, won\u2019t be allowed to vote in Pa. because he does not drive, he is elderly, and can\u2019t prove his citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would mean Cramer\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now Republicans are pissing off hysterical white dudes.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that their base?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC\u2019s Jim Cramer&#8217;s dad: Jim Cramer, host of CNBC\u2019s \u201cMad Money,\u201d revealed Tuesday that the Republican Party\u2019s voter suppression efforts will prevent his own father, a veteran, from casting a ballot this fall in Pennsylvania. \u201cI have a problem,\u201d Cramer said on Twitter Tuesday morning. \u201cMy dad, a vet, won\u2019t be allowed to vote in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}