Posted on 10/06/2010 8:31:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Thanks to an increasingly lowered level of public discourse and comportment, more than ever those notorious or infamous for their behavior are help up as people worth applauding. Just as unfortunate, many of these lowlives are ending up voted in as our representatives in state and federal offices. Michigan thinks it has a way to address this problem, but the sad thing is they even have to do it at all.
A November ballot proposal will give voters in the Wolverine state the opportunity to decide if criminals should be barred from holding office for at least 20 years after they've earned certain types of felony convictions.
As the AP reports:
The measure would ban anyone from being elected or appointed to any state or local elective office if they’ve been convicted of certain felonies in the previous 20 years. It would apply to felonies involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud or a breach of public trust connected to the person's government job.One would think that a sentient voter wouldn't need a state statute to tell him not to vote for a crook. Unfortunately, looking across the country seems to reveal that this common sense ideas isn't so common as one would hope...
Seems to me that there was an armed robber on the ballot for something a few years back.
One would think that voters wouldn’t VOTE for a criminal and such a law wouldn’t be necessary. But Democrats aren’t smart like normal people.
You would think so but certain demographics seem to see a criminal record as a badge of honor.
Thank you for not excerpting
BTTT
You may certainly cease clicking on these posts, of course. No one is holding a gun to your head.
When you have voters who are either felons themselves, have felon sons, or have felons as occasional sugar daddies, voting for a felon is no big deal, as long as the felon can be relied upon to bring home the goodies for the people who support him.
Do you have a complaint with someone bumping your thread?
I’m a felon (drunk driving) and I vote more conservative than most people.
this is to stop people like Kwami from running again
“this is to stop people like Kwami from running again”
Like I said, one would hope that voters wouldn’t even VOTE for such a criminal, but they do when they are Democrats. It’s sad this law was even necessary.
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