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McAuliffe to sign order restoring rights to 206,000 felons
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 04/22/2016 | JIM NOLAN

Posted on 04/22/2016 8:16:38 AM PDT by GIdget2004

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To: GIdget2004

Disenfranchised for a felony conviction’
Ah the democrat logic at work no wonder thins are so screwed up.


21 posted on 04/22/2016 8:31:05 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: GIdget2004

Interesting that he trusts these people with the vote but not with a gun. I personally believe that anyone convicted of a single NON-VIOLENT felony, and who has had no trouble with the law for ten years since completion of their sentence should have ALL of their civil rights restored.

If I can’t trust you with a gun, then I can’t trust you with a vote. And vice versa.


22 posted on 04/22/2016 8:31:19 AM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: coloradan

+1

See my #22 which says much the same thing.


23 posted on 04/22/2016 8:33:01 AM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: GIdget2004

So they can pass NICS now?


24 posted on 04/22/2016 8:33:58 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: GIdget2004

Not good enough, McAwful.

You need to sign a bill that lets violent felons vote 25 times, non-violent felons vote 10 times, and deny the vote to people who have not been convicted of a felony.


25 posted on 04/22/2016 8:38:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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To: coloradan

While the knee-jerkers will go to town on you, let me state my agreement.

A person who has served his time should have all his rights restored, voting and gun rights included. The existence of a growing class of rump non-citizen citizens only further serves to detach the government from the will of the people and encourage it to proliferate even more laws to strip these rights.

If they’re rights, they’re rights. Citizens without rights are something no conservative should countenance.


26 posted on 04/22/2016 8:39:43 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: GIdget2004

Of all the sleazy, scumbag, snake-bellied, slug Clinton Enablers I can remember, McAwful ranks right up there with little Georgie, Rahm, Begala, and the one true snake Carville.


27 posted on 04/22/2016 8:41:11 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GIdget2004

Restoration of rights

Restores right to vote, sit on jury, hold public office, and serve as a notary public. It does not restore firearms rights. In 2015, Governor McAuliffe adopted a policy allowing individuals that have had their rights restored to have that restoration noted on their official criminal record if they choose. See https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=11651.

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http://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/virginia-restoration-of-rights-pardon-expungement-sealing/


28 posted on 04/22/2016 8:42:18 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: GIdget2004

.... There is definitely a panic and rush to get Illegal Immigrants and the rights of Felons restored ASAP by the Obama administration for some reason.


29 posted on 04/22/2016 8:43:33 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: thoughtomator

I mostly agree. See my #22.


30 posted on 04/22/2016 8:44:19 AM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: GIdget2004

Looks like the Rats have the felony vote locked up.


31 posted on 04/22/2016 8:46:16 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (We have leaped off the cliff toward madness and we are still falling...)
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To: GIdget2004

It saddens me to see what has happened to Virginia over my life time. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m from Northern Virginia. A small dairy farming community that has been dying for decades.

Someone asked me at the gas pump, before a snow was supposed to hit, how well Northern Virginians drive in the snow. I laughed and said, “Well, of the couple of dozen who grew up around here , we do OK. Everyone else is from somewhere else.” A little hyperbole, but he got the joke.

Just to get a jab in. Trump did donate handsomely to Terry.


32 posted on 04/22/2016 8:49:11 AM PDT by mirvin
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There is a lot you can criticize about democrats but one thing you can’t say is that they aren’t consistent.

The democrat elites like Obama, McAuliffe, and Hillary who go easy on criminals also want to disarm the rest of us.

Every few years democrats stumble on a new way to thumb their noses at America and boost their election fraud at the same time.

The current fad is to let dangerous criminals and terrorists out of prison and roam free.

And vote.

These democrats know that they don’t have to live near or interact with the dangerous criminals and terrorists they release into the general population.

And they all have armed government security to protect them.

The hypocrites believe it is perfectly acceptable to extort tax money from us to pay for their armed security but unacceptable for us to own guns to protect ourselves from criminals and terrorists - both foreign and domestic, in and out of government.


33 posted on 04/22/2016 8:51:42 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: GIdget2004

Willing to bet MONEY that the right to keep and bear arms is NOT being restored for these felons. Chucky Schumer closed that “loophole” at the federal level years ago.


34 posted on 04/22/2016 8:52:16 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: GIdget2004

I’ve come to believe every citizen has and should not be prohibited from voting... even though it probably means they will use their vote in an opposite way that I would.


35 posted on 04/22/2016 8:54:07 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: GIdget2004

How is this an executive and not a legislative function? With the stroke of a pen, 1 man can create 200,000 new voters? My question is of course rhetorical, as I know the answer is we no longer have divided government or checks and balances at any level of government. The great American Constitutional system is dying in front of our eyes. It makes me sick. Both Dems and Republicans are responsible: Dems for agitating for this breakdown for decades and Republicans for being such spineless cowards and never standing up to the sleazeball Dems.


36 posted on 04/22/2016 8:56:21 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: GIdget2004

Let me tell anyone

In prison the northern VA and DC blacks are the most I’ll behaved in the federal system

Feral drooges hated by all

Known as DC Blacks

The governor smells more dem votes is all


37 posted on 04/22/2016 8:57:10 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: mothball

From the article:

“Research by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia cited by the administration estimates that 1 out of every 5 African Americans in the voting-age population in Virginia are disenfranchised because of its law.”


38 posted on 04/22/2016 8:57:18 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: GIdget2004
Since when is the Clinton-crony governor able to legislate new state laws?

There should be a judge somewhere to invalidate this or put it on hold until past the election

39 posted on 04/22/2016 8:58:47 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: eyeamok

Doesn’t give full restoration because Feds don’t recognize it


40 posted on 04/22/2016 8:58:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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