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Talk about your strict constructionist, the founder of the Tea Party Nation thinks renters should be denied the right to vote.

As Judson Phillips explains, the Founding Fathers "put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners."

In considering Mr. Phillips's ideas you have to wonder: Just how many Tea Party members are renters? Does Mr. Phillips believe they should be denied the right to vote?

Just curious....

http://www.ourbroker.com/news/tea-party-nation-founder-renters-should-be-banned-from-voting-042911/#axzz1KomwzuZJ