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Northam says he's restored voting rights of 10,000 former felons
The Hill ^ | February 12, 2019 | JOHN BOWDEN

Posted on 02/12/2019 10:37:25 AM PST by maggief

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced Tuesday that since he took office, voting rights have been restored to more than 10,000 residents previously convicted of felony charges.

The announcement comes as Northam has faced calls from prominent Democratic politicians in Virginia and elsewhere to resign after he admitted he wore blackface to a dance party during college.

“I believe in second chances and making our Commonwealth more open and accessible to all,” Northam said in a statement released by his office.

"Virginians who have repaid their debts should be able to return to society, get a good job, and participate in our democracy," he added.

According to the figures released by Northam's office, 10,992 Virginians have had their rights restored, including the right to serve on a jury and hold public office, since he took office last year.

"This is an important achievement that marks my administration’s unwavering commitment to fairness, rehabilitation, and restorative justice," Northam added in his statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blackkk; california; dukeuniversity; justinfairfax; meredithwatson; metoo; naacp; northcarolina; prorapecaucus; ralphnortham; vanessatyson; virginia
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1 posted on 02/12/2019 10:37:25 AM PST by maggief
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How could Virginians have voted for this through-and-through creep? Killing babies isn’t enough for him. Now he empowers the scum of society to vote, same as law abiding people. Do we need more damaged and/or screwed up people voting? That’s what dummocraps are for.


2 posted on 02/12/2019 10:39:42 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: maggief

Probably a dumb question, but do these 10,000 felons also get their 2nd amendment rights restored?


3 posted on 02/12/2019 10:40:31 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: maggief

How nice. I wonder who they will vote for?


4 posted on 02/12/2019 10:41:27 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: maggief

He thinks this will delight law-abiding African Americans, and as a result they’ll forget about the blackface thing.


5 posted on 02/12/2019 10:41:35 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: maggief

Virginia is a beautiful state, but a stinking gas-station toilet politically.


6 posted on 02/12/2019 10:41:55 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: EinNYC

What a total douchebag


7 posted on 02/12/2019 10:42:41 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: maggief

The whole idea of charging a Felony is the fact that there are no former Felons. Once a Felon, always a Felon.

Might as well erase the distinction between a Felony and a Misdemeanor.


8 posted on 02/12/2019 10:43:38 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: EinNYC
How could Virginians have voted for this through-and-through creep?

What was the alternative? Seems to me that Ed Gillespie wasn't all that, neither.

9 posted on 02/12/2019 10:44:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EinNYC

“The people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.”

- James Iredell, Sr, Debate in North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 1788


10 posted on 02/12/2019 10:45:29 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: EinNYC

northern va is full of carpetbagging new yorkers and jersyites....nuff said


11 posted on 02/12/2019 10:46:36 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: maggief
Blacks now own Northam.

No groveling, no concessions, and no initiatives will be enough.

Northam will spend the rest of his political career catering to every black whim and demand.

12 posted on 02/12/2019 10:49:12 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Kickass Conservative

I thought this had already been done I thought they all voted in 2016 too. I could be remembering wrong though.


13 posted on 02/12/2019 10:52:12 AM PST by cnsmom
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BlacksLiberals and race-baiters now own Northam.

But then, they did already. Or rather, he was willingly already one of them.

14 posted on 02/12/2019 10:53:59 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: Kickass Conservative

Really? Since when ?!?

The clear distinction is the amount of punishment that can be given.

Once the State has ceased punishment, the individuals full citizenship must be restored.


15 posted on 02/12/2019 10:54:55 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: maggief

Now the blacks have their old white man bitch who will do what ever they say


16 posted on 02/12/2019 10:59:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: maggief

Yeah, but did he pay for their hoods and new memberships to the VA-KKK?


17 posted on 02/12/2019 10:59:18 AM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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Wow. So many Dems in one place at one time. All those felons!

He should have set up a huge Blues Brothers impersonator prison show and then personally have done a command performance blackface Michael Jackson moonwalk lip synch for old times’ sake. Bring down the house.

Like the James Brown sequence in the T.A.M.I. Show (1964) where he had to be pulled onto the stage again due to cheers from the audience.


18 posted on 02/12/2019 10:59:56 AM PST by frank ballenger ( the End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: maggief

Cynical bastard.


19 posted on 02/12/2019 11:00:40 AM PST by relictele
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Northam: "I'm happy to announce that voting rights have been restored to more than 10,000 residents previously convicted of felony charges, the majority of which are Negroes!"

[McAuliffe whispers] "...African Americans..."

Northan: "...African Americans!"


20 posted on 02/12/2019 11:03:51 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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