Posted on 12/01/2016 9:30:39 AM PST by Enlightened1
Electoral College voters based in Colorado have formed a political non-profit to block Donald Trump from the presidency.
According to The Denver Post, Michael Baca, a Democratic elector, filed paperwork Tuesday with the Colorado Secretary of State's Office to create the "Hamilton Electors," a group able to fundraise unlimited donations from individuals, corporations and labor unions for political reasons.
The goal of the group is to convince Republican and Democratic Electoral College voters to unify behind a Republican alternative for President or force an Electoral College deadlock.
“I was opposed, actually, to raising money because I would prefer to just have this done organically,” Baca told The Denver Post. “But we’ve had people throwing money at us through our website.”
Baca also told the newspaper several Democratic voters and one Republican voter have officially committed to the movement, and the group is in talks with four other Republican voters as well. It will be difficult however. There are laws in 29 states that prohibit electors from voting contrary to how the state's population votes.
Ultimately, Baca thinks the success of the movement is unlikely, but is pursing it anyway.
“In all likelihood, when it’s all said and done, we’ll probably end up sending that money back to the people,” Baca told The Denver Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
My reading of the Constitution is that they don’t get to Go Rogue for Kasich or Blooomberg.
Their choice is Trump or Hillary. That’s it.
The title neglects to mention that the Electoral College Voters are Hillary voters.
#faketitle. #fakenews.
getting the sense that this is their next “line of defense”...(at least in their perception)
They know, viscerally, that the recounts are not gonna fly....so they are trying this route.
they are betting that everyone has a price...and that if they toss enough money at some electors, those electors would flip. soros/clinton crime foundation has plenty of money to do this very thing. money, threats, etc. you name it...they are capable of it.
it is absolute sedition, no question.....but they are desperate to stay in power, and will stop at nothing.
there really are no solid legal provisions to combat this kind of crap.....our founders never envisioned corruption at this level, or depth....
just my humble opinion.
“The goal of the group is to convince Republican and Democratic Electoral College voters to unify behind a Republican alternative for President”
Apparently these traitors don’t know about the republican primaries. We all ready had alternatives to Trump and they all lost. Including Hillary.
While unfaithful electors have happened before, never en masse. Sure as hell it would wind up in court....and the unfaithful electors will get their a**** kicked to the curb.
Have Michael Baca’s photo, phone, address, occupation, etc. been made public?
You know why it got a headline.
You clicked on it.
Me too.
That's why.
Are they going to use the money to bribe the electors? Congress should just throw out the faithless electors.
FYI PEOPLE:
Electors are, in each state, from slates of electors. Groups of electors.
Both parties create a slate (party officials or maybe state legislators of that party). The winner has his party’s slate “appointed”.
So in Texas (or any red state), the Electors who show up to vote are from the GOP slate of Electors. A Texas Democrat elector is not even going to be in the room when the Electors vote. This is true in all the states that went red (for Trump).
So this stuff means nothing.
Great plan. Convince Democrat electors pledged to Hillary to NOT vote for Trump. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
These desperate last gasps will backfire. If I was a Trump Republican elector I would resent these pressure tactics immensely.
I think the actual electors would feel the same way.
They must want a Civil War. I will keep buying ammo just in case.
It's a state matter. Congress has nothing to do with it.
I hate communists like this pig, Baca. I’d love to kick his ass.
The Founders did envision shady Electors. That’s why Congress has to approve individual Elector votes and state vote totals, and can deny them individually or from whole states.
so maybe these people always intended to vote for Trump all along and just filed as democrats to be unfaithful to HRC in the first place. Yeah, that makes more sense than what they are saying out loud.
They'd make the situation in the country very interesting if the electoral college elects a president that basically no one in the country, from either party, voted for.
It might achieve their real aim of replacing the electoral college with a popular vote determining the winner. More likely though, the country would descend into a full-scale civil war.
they just want power. Add to that, their fear nowadays, is that they may be occupying a jail cell at some point, when their crimes have been exposed.
so, they are desperately trying to stay in power. consequences be damned.
since when have the left been worried about consequences?
to them, the end justifies the means. even if people have to die. History shows us that. hitler, stalin, mao, pol pot, castro, uncle ho...the list goes on and on.
Loons “throwing money at us through the website” is the key here. Baca is looking at picking up a little Christmas MONEY with this bull****.
good point.
I was thinking more in terms of the level of corruption that is driving the behavior.
But, yes, you are correct.
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