Wave Maker

I hesitate to butt into the Blue Party's business, but there is an interesting dust-up occurring as a result of one legislative candidate's bogus allegations about illegal voting, alleged intimidation of voters, and a resulting call for his censure (on Mac this morning, so unable to link, but click the headline).

The controversy centers around the issue of registering Boston-area university students who hail from another state. One candidate claimed the effort of his opponent to register Boston University students was illegal, etc. He make the monumentally stupid move of sending an "open letter" to the media in which his cavalcade of factual ignorances were laid bare. As a result, there is a call to his local City Committee to censure him for voter intimidation.

I'll leave the internal politics up to them. But I do want to make this observation: Anyone who organizes voter registrations on college campuses is just doing the smart thing. Anyone who challenges it is just dumb. That includes the Republicans at UNH mentioned in the Blue Mass piece --

N.B. -- Wanna bet college student registrations would aid Republican candidates more than Dems in most states?