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March 06, 2015 02:19 PM UTC

Fun With Press Releases: Say What Now?

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Republican Wayne Williams

Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams will be in North Kingstown, Rhode Island on Saturday to represent the state of Colorado at the "keel laying ceremony" for the USS Colorado attack submarine.

Yup.

It's a nice idea to have a Colorado elected official on-hand to help dedicate a submarine named Colorado, but why is Williams doing this? Thankfully, a press release from the Secretary of State's office explains:

As Colorado Secretary of State, Williams provided authority for the Navy to use the state seal as part of the keel laying ceremony for the USS Colorado.

Well, okay then.

Full press release after the jump…

 

Williams joins Navy ceremony beginning construction of attack submarine USS Colorado

DENVER, March 6, 2015 – Secretary of State Wayne Williams will represent the state of Colorado at the keel laying ceremony for the USS Colorado on Saturday, March 7, 2015 at the Quonset Point Facility in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

A keel laying ceremony marks the official start of construction on a new ship. The ceremony will also be attended by the Secretary of the Navy, the governor of Rhode Island, and several members of Congress.

“It is a great honor to represent our state at the keel laying ceremony of the USS Colorado.” Williams remarked. “Coloradans are very proud of their state. It’s a place where people act boldly and achieve greatly. It’s exciting to know that Colorado’s name, and our values, will be carried around the world by such a magnificent submarine.”

When complete, the USS Colorado will be a high-tech attack submarine. It is the third Navy ship to bear the name Colorado. The first was an armored cruiser commissioned in 1905. During World War I, the vessel was renamed the Pueblo and used to transport soldiers and materials to England. The second USS Colorado was a battleship that took part in the invasion of Tarawa during World War II.

As Colorado Secretary of State, Williams provided authority for the Navy to use the state seal as part of the keel laying ceremony for the USS Colorado.

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9 thoughts on “Fun With Press Releases: Say What Now?

  1. I hope they play the Village People's "In the Navy" at the keel-laying ceremony. I hope Wayne gets all his immunizations before he ventures into Rhode Island, one of bluest states in the country!

    1. Well, you are probably right that Williams is an idiot, but you can't pin the reference to the Pueblo on him.  The one mentioned in the presser was commissioned in 1905, and was likely a coal-burner.  As with the Colorado, multiple ships sailed under the name Pueblo:

      USS Pueblo may refer to:

      • USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a US Navy spy ship (Navy intelligence), boarded and captured by North Korea in 1968. She is currently still in commission.

       

  2. There was a fictional USS Colorado in the short-lived ABC drama Last Resort in 2012. When the network pulled plug on the series after 13 episodes, they blew up the sub. 

  3. He’s surely an idiot, and Colorado escapes mention because Williams and Dipshit Gessler have so far been unsuccessful, but don’t forget what Republican SoS’s and Leg’s are doing around the country as one of their primary goals:

    In 2011 and 2012, 180 new voting restrictions were introduced in forty-one states, with new laws adopted in nineteen states that made it harder to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Many of these laws were blocked in court in 2012, but a year later the Supreme Court gutted the VRA, dealing a devastating blow to voting rights. As a result, twenty-one states had new restrictions in place in 2014.

    …Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision, states with the worst histories of voting discrimination, like Alabama, no longer have to approve their voting changes with the federal government. The Southern states that were previously subject to “precelarence” have been particularly aggressive in curbing voting rights.

    …Texas’s voter ID law, the strictest in the country, was blocked in 2012 under the VRA. But immediately after the Shelby decision, Texas officials announced it would go into effect. The law was blocked again in 2014 as an “unconstitutional poll tax,” but the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overruled the court’s decision and approved the law for 2014, which the Supreme Court affirmed.

    A month after Shelby, North Carolina passed the most sweeping voting restrictions in the country– requiring strict voter ID, cutting early voting, ending same-day registration and curtailing virtually every reform that made it easier to vote. A preliminary injunction against key provisions of the law was rejected by the courts.

    As North Carolina shows, the restrictions go well beyond voter ID. Alabama required proof of citizenship for voter registration. Florida cut early voting, shut down voter registration drives and disenfranchised ex-felons. Georgia drastically reduced the number of early voting days and is poised to cut it again. Local jurisdictions like Augusta, Georgia, and Pasadena, Texas, have changed their election structures to make it harder for minority candidates to be elected.

    This trend is getting worse in 2015. In the first few weeks of this year, forty new voting restrictions were introduced in seventeen states. That number will grow as state legislatures consider proposed legislation. Nevada, New Mexico and Missouri are among the states moving to pass voter-ID laws. “It’s surprising and remarkable that in 2015 we’re fighting over the same thing we fought over 50 years ago—the right to vote,” says Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center.

    1. Zap, you’re right that we have to keep our eyes on voter suppression. On voter ID laws, I think we’re best off just conceding that people will need photo or state approved IDs to vote, and should concentrate our efforts as nationally active Democrats in helping voters to get the IDS.

      In 2008 and 2012, OFA registered hundreds of thousands of voters. We need to repeat that in 2016, create agencies and mobilize an army of volunteers, community groups, faith groups, and paid staff to make voter registration (with acceptable IDs) happen.

      I don’t think we’re fighting the best battle to win this war. Rest assured that Republicans will be leaving no rock unturned-over to get their base out and ballots turned in. We’ll just have to do a better job than ever before.

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