Thursday, May 26, 2005
Take that, young people!
Hahaha! You don't get to vote! Neener neener neener!
Robert Reynolds, president of the Berkeley chapter of the National Youth Rights Association, who helped present the proposal to the council, said he was surprised at the outcome.
"It was sort of ironic that the council members who voted against (the proposal) used their democratic right to vote to deny someone else that same right," Reynolds said.
It's also sort of ironic that the dude running the campaign to get the right to vote for damn kids doesn't even know what a democratic right to vote is. (Here's a hint: Our democratic right to vote involves elections. When our elected officials vote on policy, that's not the democratic right to vote.)
Of course, Betty Olds knows a good sound byte opportunity when she sees one:
Several council members who opposed the measure said 16 and 17- year-olds would not be able to vote intelligently enough.
"There's enough idiots voting already," said Councilmember Betty Olds.
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