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14 Apr 09

Lawmaker apologizes for Voter ID remark | KXAN.com

Rep. Betty Brown , Republican state representative, to Ramey Ko, discussing the problems posed by voter ID laws for Asian-Americans whose names are often transliterated inconsistently (and who therefore will sometimes find discrepancies between what is printed on state-issued ID documents and on voter rolls): "Well, rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese, as I understand, it's a rather difficult language... Do you think it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?... This is something that would make it a lot easier both for you and poll workers if there was some name you could adopt just for these identification purposes that would be easier for Americans to deal with."

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17 Jan 09

Jackson council drops its saggy-pants ordinance | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger

  • "I certainly respect the Constitution," Melton said, "but we have some issues that are much bigger than the Constitution."
  • He said the ordinance was an attempt to "save all the children we can."





    "In these neighborhoods, they're showing their naked behinds," Stokes said. "It's embarrassing."

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