the federal government or are you can't afford democracy that's what it's about this is this is paul weyrich one of the co-founders of the heritage foundation the american legislative exchange council areas lend it out to a group of republican by the way at this time he was the adviser to the reagan campaign. how many of our quits have what i call. wrong good government they want everybody to vote i don't want everybody to vote. won by a majority of people they never have from the beginning of our country and they are not. leveraging the elections quite candid like. owning a populist. so you know i'm in. there to cities it's pretty clear and it's only republican governors who are pushing to say no to early but it's not a republican legislators. you've got to look at the context this place in the context of of trying to frustrate get out the vote operations trying to frustrate voter registration or frustrate say a voter registration trying to frustrate every effort to get as many people to vote as possible to just take issue with my friend here in the situation for democrats is we represent w

i just a brain fart i forgot it but you know the case the out of the american lawyer paul weyrich bless you and in fact we have a clip of him floating around someplace that i would love to play it in just a moment but isn't this an example of how if you can't well actually let me play this is paul where he was that he was reagan's main strategist one nine hundred eighty this is when he made the statement in one thousand nine hundred and he was also george bush senior's main strategist and worked on the george w. bush campaign he's since passed away but. any of the founder the american legislative exchange council which proposed all this legislation for voter suppression idea laws and one of the co-founders the heritage foundation paul weyrich. how many of our chris have what i call them grow 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 matter of fact our leverage in the election is quite candid like going to opt out of owning populist g

reasonable suspicion the american legislative exchange council was started in part by a man named paul weyrich who also helped start the heritage foundation and several other republican think tanks and when he in one nine hundred eighty when he was working on the ronald reagan campaign he had this to say to a group of republican activists. how many of our quest to have what i call but do grow good government they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote. by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not. in the elections quite candid like. now i doubt he thought the some day there'd be a youtube and that would get you know but that's been the republican strategy do you really think that americans are wakening to this and that we can push back and what does a modern voting system look like how do we respond well i think very well americans are outraged to think that anyone would try to circumvent the power of the american vote and say that somehow a true blue few should make decisions for all of us i think most of us would be outraged

angry and i mean i mentioned we mentioned alec in the debate before we played a little clip from paul weyrich when i saw this was all of that yeah you know our leverage in the elections goes up as you noted bob it was goes down i mean this is been the republican mantra for twenty two years now and thirty two years and and what what is being done about that what how do we push back when we've got state after state that's actually passing these voter suppression you know they are the key thing that you know to voters i work for also was very unique caucus and i think that we do issues from voting rights of the right the issues and i think that what we're seeing is the connection with alec for instance trying to roll back all these rights will try to cripple rights regarding voting voter rights and bringing forth ideas regarding voter i.d.'s but even further than that we're seeing things that are trying to. enfranchise experiments to try to keep their voice from ever being heard and that really hurts democracy as well but even further was seeing issues were gone the prison industrial complex and