Texas Gov. Rick Perry marked President Obama’s arrival in his state Tuesday with a statement asking him to apologize for Attorney General Eric Holder’s remark to the NAACP last week that Texas’s 2011 voter ID law amounts to a “poll tax.”
Via ABC News:
“Perhaps while the President is visiting Texas, he can take a break from big-dollar fundraisers to disavow his Attorney General’s offensive and incendiary comments regarding our common-sense voter identification law,” Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement. “In labeling the Texas voter ID law as a ‘poll tax,’ Eric Holder purposefully used language designed to inflame passions and incite racial tension. It was not only inappropriate, but simply incorrect on its face. The president should apologize for Holder’s imprudent remarks and for his insulting lawsuit against the people of Texas.”
President Obama will visit San Antonio and Austin Tuesday for a number of campaign events and fundraisers.
