One of the truly annoying things about Minnesota Public Radio is that they will publish anything, even when they KNOW the folks they are quoting are lying to them.
Happens damn near every day on their new mid-morning show, but they slap each other on the back for being open-minded even as listeners - and donors - plead with them to be journalists first and foremost.
Such is the case with this story about the outfit known as ALEC, who go out of their way to write laws that conservatives pass, almost always without altering the "proposal" they are handed. Hell, I'm not even convinced they read more than the talking points.
Currently, ALEC is pushing "Voter ID", which here in Minnesota is going to a ballot initiative because our governor is smart enough not to disenfranchise the elderly, poor, disabled, and college students to "solve" a problem that (I think) only affected .00002% of the last election. I may be plus or minus a zero there, but basically the solution will affect about 40% of disabled Minnesotans and stop a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of potential illegal votes.
Who is on the side of democracy here?
ALEC and the NRA and other odious cretins are also behind the "kill anyone you please" laws in the news of late. In Florida it is the original "Stand Your Ground" law, that allows folks to get out of their car, walk up to a teenage kid whose color you don't care for, and kill him because you feel threatened by a bag of Skittles.
Here in Minnesota it is called the "Castle Law", which allows you to declare a pup tent an extension of your house and to shoot anyone who comes near it. No, I'm actually not making that up.
This, too, is up for election here in Minnesota this fall. If it isn't in your state, it probably will be soon.
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