Posted on 01/13/2018 2:40:16 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Chelsea Manning to run for US Senate: Transgender former soldier who leaked classified data to WikiLeaks is seeking Democratic nomination in Maryland
Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.
Manning, who was granted clemency by former U.S. President Barack Obama, was released in May from a U.S. military prison in Kansas where she had been serving time for passing secrets to the WikiLeaks website in the biggest breach of classified data in the history of the United States.
Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Captain Peter Blood wrote:
How can Manning run for the senate or anything else? She/It did not get a pardon and is still a convicted felon.
A commutation? Not a Pardon? HMMM...
Well, I was mistaken.
And anyone who does not vote for him will be prosecuted for the high crime of homophobia.
Manning received clemency from Obama not a pardon.
“Pardon is an “executive forgiveness of crime”; commutation is an “executive lowering of the penalty.” Waldman: A “pardon wipes out the conviction while a commutation leaves the conviction intact but wipes out the punishment.”
Unfortunately, per the US Constitution, a convicted felon can still run for Congress:
The Constitution requires that members of the House and Senate fulfill three requirements:
1) All members of the House must be at least 25 years old, and members of the Senate must be at least 30 years old.
2) Members of the House must have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and members of the Senate must have been a U.S. citizen for at least nine years.
3) They have to be an “inhabitant” of the state “when elected.
Maybe a porn film?
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Doesn’t have the balls.
The FACE of the DEM party.
Be ashamed you fools! be ashamed
Except the Democrats won't be stupid enough to give Manning a primary victory.
The FREAK Bradley Manning must NEVER be allowed into any position of responsibility!!!!
He’s strictly freak-show material!!!!
I hope that Maryland Dims are not too stupid or deluded to fall for his scam! But perhaps I’m hoping for too much!!!!
I’m tempted to show up at one of his campaign stops and toss tampons at him.Of course I’d wind up doing 5 years for a hate crime....
Maryland did have the "Rain Tax".
if can beat Cardin in primary? GOP secretly fund campaign?
It takes two to tango. Balls optional. It’s the 21st century.
The Constitution provides no such restriction.
Can convicted/imprisoned traitorous FELONS who put their political tantrums over their country’s security even run for senate? Or would they just find themselves right at home among other crooks? Anyone who would vote for a traitor like this, a mangled mind like this who should have been shot, should have their mental acuity seriously questioned.
A mutilated homosexual transvestite is NOT and can never be “transgender”.
Another post turtle? Hey, it worked for Obama. The globalists like sock puppet candidates.
The Democrats have their perfect presidential candidate for 2020 in Manning.
It will become MD’s next Senator since no other Dem candidate’s “victimhood score” is even close ...
Why isn’t it doing ten years hard time? I guess treason is a misdemeanor now.
A commutation of sentence does not excuse the crime only time served. Manning is still a convicted Felon, so I don’t think she can run for office. Any office.
Anyone know other info on this????
“normally they wait to be senator before being traitors.”
John McCain didn’t
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