and that was paul weyrich one of the co-founders of the american legislative exchange council alec and the foundation and at that time the time that the tape was made he was working on the reagan campaign now thanks to the nationwide efforts by conservatives to keep democratic voters away from the polls and rig the election for mitt romney. foreign election observers will be on hand to make sure that the voting rights of minorities in america are protected come election day more than forty four observers with the un affiliated organization for security and cooperation in europe will be deployed at polling stations all around the nation to monitor the election and potential disputes at polling stations these observers were asked for by civil rights groups in the united states and raise concerns over systemic efforts to restrict the votes of minorities ahead of the election including voter suppression id laws joining me now to discuss more about the need for these observers on election day is hilary shelton washington bureau director of the end of the hour it's great to have you back wel

here this is paul weyrich he is the guy who founded the american legislative exchange council was one of the co-founders the heritage foundation and in one thousand nine hundred at a ronald reagan event in a church in texas actually speaking to a group of republican activists areas. how many of our christian have what i call them grown good government they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now as a matter of fact go look for it in the elections quite candidly go stop voting populace go down. so this is been the official policy the republican party for a long time i mean you know the former supreme court justice chief justice rehnquist made his jobs down in arizona frightening literally i mean he was a big tall guy back in the sixty's. americans at the polling at the polling places challenging. i mean look if the more people who are watching american polling places on election day as long as they're not interfering with americans right to vote you k

catch them in the act of blocking millions of americans from voting and and kurt if you can if paul weyrich side ready on. this is this is there's a long history in the republican party of trying to well actually the long history in america because they used to be the democratic party before before the sixty's that was trying to suppress the black vote the jim crow laws and things of the republican party here's this is paul weyrich he is the guy who founded the american legislative exchange council was one of the co-founders the heritage foundation and in one thousand nine hundred at a ronald reagan event in a church in texas actually speaking to a group of republican activists in syria. somebody of all across. good government they want everybody. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now as a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candid like go up owning populist go down. so this is been the official policy the republican party for a long time i mean you know the form

this and i just i just see this is this is i mean we played the clip many times on this program paul weyrich saying the leverage of the republicans goes up as the voting populace goes down that's what they're all about it's very very simple and frankly the idea of a national id card creeps me out i'm i'm with the republicans when bill clinton during his administration they floated the topic of a national id card and all the republicans said was my papers please you want everybody to have to carry their i.d. that's what they did in nazi germany we're not going to do that so. where you have that tailor in ontario canada hey taylor thanks for watching what's on your mind tonight i absolutely love your program. thank you and the point i wanted to bring up is something you touched upon and that has to do with the fact that they didn't allow. a presidential candidate for the green party. to participate in the debate and i agree one hundred percent with you that it would have been a lot more interesting a lot more informative and along more to the point you know she wasn't dogging the questions tha