{"id":3527,"date":"2010-11-30T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/tea-party-nation-president-says-it-makes-a-lot-of-sense-to-restrict-voting-only-to-property-owners\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:29:46","slug":"tea-party-nation-president-says-it-makes-a-lot-of-sense-to-restrict-voting-only-to-property-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/tea-party-nation-president-says-it-makes-a-lot-of-sense-to-restrict-voting-only-to-property-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Nation President Says It &lsquo;Makes A Lot Of Sense&rsquo; To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s original intent for you: only rich white guys can vote. I\u2019m a property owner and I vote to throw this loon off the island.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Judson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"Judson\" alt=\"alt\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Judson.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips: \u201cThe Founding Fathers originally said, <strong>they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote.<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. <em>[mjh: Meaning no voting rights for human property such as women and slaves?]<\/em> <strong>But one of those was you had to be a property owner.<\/strong> <strong>And that makes a lot of sense<\/strong>, because if you\u2019re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. <strong>If you\u2019re not a property owner, you know, I\u2019m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners<\/strong>.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/11\/30\/tea-party-voting-property\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Tea Party Nation President Says It \u2018Makes A Lot Of Sense\u2019 To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s original intent for you: only rich white guys can vote. I\u2019m a property owner and I vote to throw this loon off the island. Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips: \u201cThe Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn\u2019t you were just a citizen and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/tea-party-nation-president-says-it-makes-a-lot-of-sense-to-restrict-voting-only-to-property-owners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea Party Nation President Says It &lsquo;Makes A Lot Of Sense&rsquo; To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}