Republican Senator Katie Britt tried to claim that New York City requires identification to shovel show in an attempt to defend the SAVE Act Thursday.<\/p>\n
At a press conference on Capitol Hill, the Alabama politician tried to argue that because many regular parts of daily life require people to produce identification, Republicans\u2019 extreme voter ID bill is just par for the course. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t rent a home, you can\u2019t go to work, you can\u2019t shovel snow in New York City without an ID, and you can\u2019t get into [Senator] Jon Ossoff\u2019s campaign event. So, I\u2019m pretty sure as we look to try to achieve the American dream, whether that\u2019s getting insurance, whether that\u2019s getting a car, whether that\u2019s signing your kid up for school, you need an ID,\u201d Britt said<\/a><\/p>\n Leaving aside the fact that most Americans don\u2019t have an aspirational dream of buying an insurance policy, Britt is likely piggybacking on Republicans\u2019 jab at a specific New York City government program<\/a> to help clear the city of snow. <\/p>\n That program hired temporary snow shovelers in severe weather, and, thanks to federal employment laws, required two forms of identification as the job pays up to $30 an hour\u2014a living wage Britt and her fellow Republicans are unfamiliar with. You can shovel all the snow you want in the city without an ID\u2014you just won\u2019t get paid by City Hall. <\/p>\n And all of the parts of the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d Britt mentioned, including getting insurance for some reason, aren\u2019t rights enshrined in the Constitution. Voting is a right guaranteed to all eligible American citizens, and requiring people to produce their passports, passport cards, or their birth certificates, as the SAVE Act mandates, is costly, burdensome, and an illegal poll tax<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican Senator Katie Britt tried to claim that New York City requires identification to shovel show in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69159,9,24,56,63,65,64,60181,29576],"class_list":["post-168622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-katie-britt","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-shovel-snow","tag-voter-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}