Time is Running Out: Check Out Your Ohio Voter Registration

There is still time to check and change your voter registration.

Check your voter registration to make sure you are registered. Check here.

The deadline for voter registration is October 11.

Check to make sure your name and address are current.

Change your name if it’s different from the last time you voted.

Change your address if you’ve moved since the last time you voted.

Note: Ohio does not have online voter registration, nor can you change your name and address online. You must mail or hand-deliver the registration form. The form to change your name and address is the same as the one used to register to vote.

Get your voter registration form and see the drop-off locations here.

Election Day is November 8, 2011.

Get more information to protect your vote at http://www.acluohio.org/issues/VotingRights.

Momentum Builds for Recall of GOP Legislators in Wisconsin

There is a strong effort to recall eight of the Republican leaders who supported Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) in passage of state law that strips collective bargaining rights from most public sector unions. If at least three of these folks get recalled .. then it is possible to put an end to Walker's legislative majority. Here is a video that is being shared in Green Bay and other places inside of Wisconsin.








Elections have consequences. It would have been so much easier to combat these GOP initiatives last November during the mid-term elections. We need to ensure that we register and vote each and every time we have a chance to do so.

Our Politicians Ain't Post-Racial Yet -- Just ask Jack Davis (R-NY)

Jack Davis

Unemployment is terrible in the Black community. So, I was ecstatic when I learned that an independent candidate for Congress in New York was willing to explore unique ways to get jobs for inner-city African Americans.

Of course, my joy at this uplifting news was immediately drained when I heard the rest of the story ...

It turns out that some rich businessman ... Jack Davis ... who is running for congress up in Buffalo (NY) suggested that Latino farm-workers be deported out of the country so that Black folks from the inner-city could be transported to replace them in farms. [SOURCE]

Davis, who has made several runs for the House as a Democrat and Republican, made similar statements in 2008. "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work," he said then.


The special election for congress is set for May 24. I tend to think that Davis won't get much electoral support from the Black or Latino community in this election.