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09-12-2012, 06:56 AM
TV Host Jim Cramer Says Father Will Not Be Allowed To Vote Because Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jim-Cramer.jpg
Cramer’s father is one of 750,000 Pennsylvanians (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/05/511205/over-750000-pennsylvanians-could-be-disenfranchised-by-voter-id-law/) whose right to cast a ballot is in jeopardy this fall. Some residents don’t have access to an ID agency, others don’t have access to their birth certificate, and some are just too old (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/04/793811/meet-alice-the-105-year-old-who-was-almost-too-old-to-vote-under-pennsylvanias-voter-id-law/) for the computer system to recognize their age and give them an ID. In total, approximately one in ten (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/05/511205/over-750000-pennsylvanians-could-be-disenfranchised-by-voter-id-law/) otherwise-eligible Pennsylvanians don’t have an ID that officials would accept under the state’s new voter ID law.
Less than seven hours later, the “Mad Money” host tweeted (http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/voter-id-problem-solved-for-jim-cramers-dad) that authorities with Pennsylvania’s transportation office “came directly to the rescue” of his father.
So how did it happen so fast? Needless to say, the reach of the younger Cramer, who has more than a half million Twitter followers and a net worth reportedly in the tens of millions of dollars, had a lot to do with it.
Jan McKnight of the Pennsylvania Department of Transporation told TPM that a fellow staffer alerted her to Cramer’s tweet with an email. McKnight was then able to contact Cramer’s publicist. The publicist gave Cramer’s family a phone number for McKnight.
“I can’t go into the details because of privacy issues, but we were able to help him,” McKnight told TPM. She also said she has helped other people get IDs after reading accounts of their struggles in the news.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/jim_cramer_dad_voter_id_solved.php
Hummm ... isn't that great ...
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jim-Cramer.jpg
Cramer’s father is one of 750,000 Pennsylvanians (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/05/511205/over-750000-pennsylvanians-could-be-disenfranchised-by-voter-id-law/) whose right to cast a ballot is in jeopardy this fall. Some residents don’t have access to an ID agency, others don’t have access to their birth certificate, and some are just too old (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/04/793811/meet-alice-the-105-year-old-who-was-almost-too-old-to-vote-under-pennsylvanias-voter-id-law/) for the computer system to recognize their age and give them an ID. In total, approximately one in ten (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/05/511205/over-750000-pennsylvanians-could-be-disenfranchised-by-voter-id-law/) otherwise-eligible Pennsylvanians don’t have an ID that officials would accept under the state’s new voter ID law.
Less than seven hours later, the “Mad Money” host tweeted (http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/voter-id-problem-solved-for-jim-cramers-dad) that authorities with Pennsylvania’s transportation office “came directly to the rescue” of his father.
So how did it happen so fast? Needless to say, the reach of the younger Cramer, who has more than a half million Twitter followers and a net worth reportedly in the tens of millions of dollars, had a lot to do with it.
Jan McKnight of the Pennsylvania Department of Transporation told TPM that a fellow staffer alerted her to Cramer’s tweet with an email. McKnight was then able to contact Cramer’s publicist. The publicist gave Cramer’s family a phone number for McKnight.
“I can’t go into the details because of privacy issues, but we were able to help him,” McKnight told TPM. She also said she has helped other people get IDs after reading accounts of their struggles in the news.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/jim_cramer_dad_voter_id_solved.php
Hummm ... isn't that great ...