Posted on 06/30/2017 7:37:33 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe was the first governor to defy requests for information from Donald Trump's voter commission, announcing that he refuses to turn over voter registration information from the state.
An attorney for McAuliffe previously filed voter identification lawsuits in a number of states that were bankrolled by millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros, who wants to expand the electorate by 10 million voters, documents leaked last year show. The governor's attorney also works with a number of major progressive groups on voter efforts.
McAuliffe, who has vetoed a number of voter identification related bills in recent months, announced Thursday that he will not abide by the request from Trump's voter commission.
"Today the Commonwealth and the other 49 states received a lengthy request from Kris Kobach, the vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, requesting a list of all registered Virginia voters, the last four digits of their social security numbers, their addresses, date of birth, political affiliation, and their voting history," McAuliffe said in a statement. "The Vice Chairs letter also contained a list of vague inquiries about the election policies and laws of the Commonwealth."
"I have no intention of honoring this request. Virginia conducts fair, honest, and democratic elections, and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia," it continues. "This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November. At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trumps alternative election facts, and at worst is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression."
Marc Elias, a powerhouse lawyer for a number of high-profile Democrats, is an attorney for McAuliffe. Elias is a partner at the D.C.-based law firm Perkins Coie and served as general counsel for Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign.
As Elias was serving as Clinton's top lawyer, he was simultaneously filing voter identification lawsuits in a number of states. Elias spearheaded the effort from his capacity as an attorney at Perkins Coie and separate from the Clinton campaign.
Elias began the effort by filing lawsuits in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Virginia. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, one of the initial plaintiffs on an Elias lawsuit in Ohio, was replaced and later investigated for voter fraud. A canvasser for the group was ultimately jailed on 13 felony counts of voter fraud, including registering dead people to vote.
The voter identification efforts were fueled by at least $5 million from Soros, whose top goal includes expanding the electorate by at least 10 million people by 2018, the Washington Free Beacon discovered after hacked documents from the billionaire's organizations were leaked last year.
Following Trump's victory, Democrats quickly scrambled to build a massive network to combat voter ID-related issues.
Let America Vote, a nonprofit founded by former Democratic Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, filed paperwork with the federal election commission in February. The group carries a mission of "winning the public debate over voter suppression in the United States." Elias sits on the group's board of advisers.
Elias was also tapped earlier this year for the board of Priorities USA Action, a liberal Super PAC that shifted their focus to pushing back against voter ID laws.
The group pulled in $157 million in itemized individual contributions last year, with $9.5 million coming from George Soros. Alexander Soros, George's son who has quietly stepped up as a major liberal donor, cut a $1 million check to the group.
Priorities announced plans of absorbing Every Citizen Counts, a nonprofit created by Clinton allies that focused on mobilizing Latino and African American voters. Elias would lead the challenges for Priorities from the nonprofit arm.
"McAuliffe's posturing should surprise no one. Every time someone takes a good look at Virginia's voter roll, they find evidence of election crimes that his policies inspired," said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group.
"Given his party's recent obsession with all things Russia, I do not see how he can justify refusing to answer questions like, How can the Commission support local and state election administrators with regard to information technology security and vulnerabilities?'."
Elias responded to inquiries from the Free Beacon by referring to two of his tweets.
"No state should cooperate with this sham effort and no Democrat should serve on this voter suppression commission," one reads.
At least felons. He did that loudly and publicly. He is worried about all the multiple registrations and the noncitizens and the dead people who vote in several locations.
WorldCom
What a cesspool....sad
If they want their votes to count in Federal elections, they cant stonewall the government when it attempts to determine if the voting is valid. What they do in state elections is their business.
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You have stated my position with precision. The 9th Circuit Court will, however, disagree.
This could be a long process. We need some Trump lawsuits ASAP. 2018 is just around the corner.
McAwful is a clear and present danger to Virginia!
He is a classic example of why we SHOULD NEVER ELECT A LIEBERAL DEMOCRAT TO ANY OFFICE IN THE LAND!
I tried doing a search, but couldn’t find anything. Does anybody remember the voter/donor database the Clinton’s had in the White House? I can’t remember details of it all, but I do remember there were some questions raised about it.
GlobalCrossing
Don’t accept Virginia’s electoral votes if they refuse to comply.
Cut off all federal funds to this renegade state.
...and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia,...
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no evidence that we will give up ...
Whoever opposed voter ID is for voter fraud.
You know what would be fascinating regarding this voter fraud cover up attempt by the crook McCauliffe?
A TWEET from TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's hardly amazing.
The RATS know the only way they can win a national election is with voter fraud, the more the better. If President Trump significantly cuts down on illegal voting, the RAT party is finished.
Virginia isn’t in the Ninth Circuit.
“Turn off any Federal funds going to Virginia.”
It would be easier to simply pose as a Democratic party front group and ask for the publicly available information.
Virginia has a significant and influential muslim population and network of mosques.
What the hell has happened to Virginia?
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Northern Virginia happened - “suburb” of DC & densely populated & infested with members of The Swamp & they screw us over every election. The rest of VA, with the exception of Bobby Scott’s district** is “conservative” for the most part.
**VA 3rd: The district takes in most of Richmond, all of Portsmouth, along with most of the black-majority areas of Norfolk, Hampton and Scott’s home in Newport News.
Terry McAuliffe’s latest scandal just the tip of the iceberg
by Dr. Steven J. Allen Jun 3, 2016
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/terry-mcauliffes-latest-scandal-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/article/2592889
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the top Clinton operative who holds elected office, is under investigation yet again. This time, it involves $120,000 given to McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign by a billionaire who served in China’s communist legislature.
McAuliffe’s business and political dealings have raised questions repeatedly. For example, in the 1990s, as McAuliffe set records raising money for the Clintons, congressional investigators uncovered a Chinese government scheme to funnel money to the Clinton operation through a number of businesspeople, including a man named “Charlie” Trie. In that case, 94 people either refused questioning, pled the Fifth Amendment, or left the country.
During that period, McAuliffe helped a company named Loral Space get seats on official trade missions, and, reportedly with McAuliffe’s intervention, the Clinton administration overruled national security officials to approve a Loral deal that gave China critical missile technology. Loral’s CEO became the largest donor to the Democratic National Committee, where McAuliffe became chairman.
In 2009, McAuliffe founded GreenTech Automotive, a manufacturer of electric vehicles. “If you have good green projects, there are billions of dollars that are looking for those projects,” he said at the time. Soon after, McAuliffe received a package of special-interest “incentives” loans, grants and targeted tax breaks from state and local governments in Mississippi to build a plant there. The taxpayers’ care package totaled at least $5 million. At the plant’s ribbon-cutting, Bill Clinton was an honored guest.
Why did McAuliffe, running for governor in Virginia, build his plant in Mississippi? Because Virginia provided no taxpayer goodies. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership, which hands out “development incentives,” was “dubious of the project from its beginning.” One official wrote, “This company is a complete start-up venture and it appears the management team has no previous experience in automotive manufacturing.”
Despite “failing to satisfy questions about its financing and viability,” McAuliffe kept looking for government handouts. The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel went so far as to call the fundraising ploy “Terry McAuliffe’s Solyndra” and a “crony-capitalist embarrassment.”
The Mississippi project was supposed to produce 1,500 jobs. Later, company officials dropped that to 350 by late 2014. A recent group photo of employees shows about 75 people.
But there’s more to the GreenTech story than crony capitalism: McAuliffe’s visa business.
Under the Immigration Act of 1990, through a little-known visa program called EB-5, a foreigner can obtain a green card by investing $1 million in the U.S. ($500,000 if the company locates in a rural or high-unemployment area). Both government agencies and private companies can issue EB-5 visas in exchange for high-dollar investment.
GreenTech, shortly after its founding, partnered with Gulf Coast Funds Management run by Anthony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s brother to recruit EB-5 investors. (Today, Rodham runs the GreenTech EB-5 operation, and the two companies share offices in McLean, Va.) Between 2009 and 2012, EB-5 visas helped GreenTech raise $67 million from over 100 foreign investors. Gulf Coast collected more than $7 million of its own during that time, suggesting a massive “visas for sale” scheme. By early 2013, at least 31 Chinese had received green cards through the McAuliffe/Rodham EB-5 operation. (Keep in mind that, in China, there’s no real distinction between the Communist Party, the government and the business elite.)
Gulf Coast attempted to acquire an EB-5 visa for a Chinese telecom executive linked to the Chinese government. Zhenjun Zhang, the Huwaei Technologies executive who coordinated with Gulf Coast, was accused by former CIA Director Michael Hayden of “providing sensitive information about foreign communication systems to Beijing,” according to one report. Yet Gulf Coast still made a pay-for-visa deal.
One possible explanation: Foreign nationals with green cards can contribute to elections, thanks to a loophole that McAuliffe is currently exploiting to excuse monies he (and the Clinton Foundation) received from Chinese billionaire Wang Wenliang.
Coincidentally, Gulf Coast’s Rodham is the godfather of the grandson of Aslan Abashidze, a former official in the former Soviet nation of Georgia, who partnered with Rodham in a deal to export hazelnuts. Abashidze was removed from office in 2004, thanks to public protests stemming from his conviction for stealing $57 million in government funds. Abashidze was also accused of murdering a former deputy.
Money and political power, coming together in business deals involving some of the world’s most corrupt people. The latest investigation into Terry McAuliffe proves the Clinton ‘90s never really ended.
Trump should just tax the heck out of anyone traveling to DC from Virginia :P
Call it a liberal toll tax :P
Terry McAwful. Doesn’t surprise me.
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