Fighting for Voter Equality and an Economy that Works

Aug 09 2013

U.S. Senator John Cornyn authored two op-eds, taking a serious look at the Obama Administration’s overreach into Texas’ voter ID law and poor handling of the economy.

In the Austin American-Statesman, Sen. Cornyn argued that Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama’s recent decision to go after Texas’ voter ID law represents a disturbing trend of partisan politics being inserted into important policy decisions.

“And consider the current facts on voter turnout: According to a Census Bureau report, 68.2 percent of registered Hispanic voters in Texas went to the polls in the 2000 general election. By 2012, with an additional 747,000 Hispanic Texans on the electoral roll, the rate had risen to 71.2 percent. Meanwhile, the rate for African-American Texans rose to over 86 percent in the same period – the highest among all racial groups tracked in the Census Bureau report,” wrote Sen. Cornyn.

“Unfortunately, these facts mean little to a politicized Justice Department bent on inserting itself into the sovereign affairs of Texas. As Texans, we reject the notion that the federal government knows what’s best for us. We deserve the freedom to make our own laws and we deserve not to be insulted by a Justice Department committed to scoring cheap political points.”

Read the full op-ed here.

After President Obama’s recent speeches on the economy, Sen. Cornyn wrote in the Houston Chronicle that instead of championing genuine bipartisan growth initiatives, President Obama pushed the same failed policies of the last four and a half years.

“If raising taxes, raising spending, and stoking class warfare represented the path to prosperity, our economy would be booming. Instead, we've been suffering through the weakest recovery and the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Depression. That's the real Obama record,” Sen. Cornyn wrote.

“We cannot spend our way back to full employment, and we cannot tax away our long-term debt problem.  The sooner President Obama and Democrats accept that, the sooner we'll be able to implement the long-overdue reforms that are needed to save our economy, save our entitlement programs, and save the American Dream.”

Read the full op-ed here.