Posted on 04/22/2016 4:10:34 PM PDT by markomalley
Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) unexpected decision to give a blanket, automatic restoration of voting rights to ex-felons – the order covers those convicted of all crimes, non-violent to the most heinous – has upended the 2017 contests for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
The state’s pundits have been calling McAuliffe’s surprise decision — he never hinted at this while campaigning — a politically motivated effort to help longtime friend Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. This is based on their belief that African Americans will benefit the most, and skin color determines voting choices today. This belittles all involved.
Given the 2016 national polls, Clinton doesn’t need McAuliffe’s help in Virginia. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is trailing badly in the Old Dominion.
However, regarding 2017, McAuliffe’s assertion of possessing such sweeping constitutional power defies the positions of his predecessors.
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Guess who benefits from giving violent felons the right to vote?
What a party
Well, that’s his base voters.....
McAuliffe’s order is ILLEGAL.
The authority to determine who can vote is a legislative power not an executive one!
The man needs to be hauled out of his office and lynched!
Does VA have a law with regards to the voting rights of felons?
The Commonwealth has not been a swing state since 2004. McAuliffe's action, illegal as it may be, really does not change the electoral balance. The growth of the beltway has seen to that.
I know where it can swing from.
Will Hillary and Bernie be asked to disavow the support from felons who murdered blacks, as Trump was asked if he would disavow the KKK’s endorsement?
Trump should use this big time, she needs the votes of those who rape and murder your children.
This must be stopped. I recall back when McAuliffe was 'elected', something really strange about his win late in count. Total FRAUD begetting more FRAUD.
ARREST THAT SOB FOR ELECTIONEERING (OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED).
Exactly. We are rapidly approaching the tipping point where customary constitutional protections are no longrt adequate to preserve the Republic and the rights of free men.
Woe to you Virginia for lying down with evil. You a once great state. The birth place of presidents. Now a hollow, rancid, shell.
Mcawful is growing voters for his Presidential campaign
We are past that point.
The RNC abandoned Ken Cuccinelli. He could have won with the slightest bit of help. It was razor close as it was.
Convicts are too lazy or high to vote.
Democrats are disgusting bas**rds - one and all.
They have no conscience morality or ethics.
Any dirty trick is fine with them as long as they get what they want.
The nasty, filthiest type of democrat politiciian we see today isn’t the extreme - they are the mainstream.
Their criminality, venality and low, disgusting behavior make Dick Nixon look like a choir boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar..
Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Schmucky Schumer, Bill deBlasio, Terry McAuliffe and so many more...
Just absolute human garbage - each and every one a waste of life.
Agreed. And not the only RNC betrayal I have seen.
I wonder what the voters in Virginia think about this?
Including all the idiots who voted this man in as Governor.
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