WaPo Takes Out Ad for Democrats Against Photo ID Law

Today, the Washington Post decided to publish and promote a letter to the editor designed tugged on your heart strings about those dastardly Republicans in Richmond stealing votes from ‘life-long’ Republicans who served their country.

Virginia Republicans may indeed have already begun, as The Post so aptly put it, “digging themselves deeper into a hole of their own making ” [“ The GOP’s war on voters ,” editorial, Aug 15]. My 89-year-old father, a lifelong Republican who never missed voting in an election since he was first eligible to vote in 1946, may be forced to sit November’s out, thanks to those rascals in Richmond and their new voter rules aimed squarely at disenfranchisement.

Before my father was 21 and eligible to vote, he survived the Depression and the kamikaze dive-bombing of his ship, the USS Blue Ridge, during World War II. Today he no longer holds a valid driver’s license, the photo identification he thought he would present to election officials on Election Day. And, he doesn’t hold a current passport, military ID or any other form of photo identification except that old driver’s licence.

Thanks to the Republicans, my father, who served this country well and who is as mentally sharp as anyone I know, no longer can vote in Virginia. “Really?” he said to me, after I’d explained the details of the law and read The Post’s editorial to him. “Really, Daddio,” I said to him, after which followed a long, painful pause.

Unfortunately for Rosanne Scott of Alexandria, she lied to her father.

The Virginia Photo ID law specifically required that any individual without a Photo ID be provided one…at no charge.

For Rosanne, here’s the Alexandria registrar’s website:

Don’t have photo ID? You may get a FREE photo ID at our office any time we are open. We are located at 132 North Royal Street, Suite 100. Our hours are Monday – Friday from 8am to 5pm. We will also be open on weekends during the month of August from 8am to 3pm (both Saturday and Sunday). This ID is valid for voting purposes only.

While the Washington Post continues to run par for the course, blasting Republican efforts in Richmond, letters like this they use to back up their case just look foolish. And while old media gets up in arms about the Photo ID law, it looks worse when they ignore/sidestep the facts.

And it gets worse.

When WaPo promoted this story in their twitter feed, they tagged Virginia Democrats, seemingly to encourage them to promote a letter from a daughter lying to her father even further.

The only thing missing (besides the truth) in Rosanne’s letter was ‘Paid for by Graham Holdings Company to promote Virginia Democratic Party’.

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