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Georgia Republican says he might withhold electoral college vote from Donald Trump
AJC.com ^ | Aug 3 2016 | Jim Galloway

Posted on 08/03/2016 9:26:19 AM PDT by austinaero

Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector – a constitutionally mandated stand-in for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Should Trump take Georgia, Vu will be one of 16 Georgia members of the electoral college who will formally decide the U.S. presidential contest.

Vu has just put out a statement saying that he cannot bring himself to vote for Trump in the November general election. And he might not vote for Trump as a member of the electoral college, either.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blog.ajc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; election; republican; trump
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To: EagleUSA
So what was this RINOs price tag ???

And some people believe your assertion is hyperbole.

YES, MEDIA and GOPe turncoats ARE selling out their honor AND selling *us* out for a buck!

Soros and the DNC pockets are as deep as they need to be to prevent Trump from ruining the NWO elites' monopoly on power and his reinstating of our sovereignty.

81 posted on 08/03/2016 11:04:07 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: Jacquerie

That doesn’t change my mind. We have elected Presidents the same way forever. This is a coup, individuals defying the will of the people. No other way to see it.


82 posted on 08/03/2016 11:15:47 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: Jacquerie
If Trump is not the embodiment of the Framers’ ideal president, he is certainly the echo of a process that sought men of character and accomplishment for our nation’s highest office.

We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder. Join Convention of States.

I agree.

83 posted on 08/03/2016 11:18:39 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: HarleyLady27

It is not “a lie.” Electors are not bound to vote for anyone. Normally electors are chosen by the party and nominee and those two are not fighting each other in August.


84 posted on 08/03/2016 11:33:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Hostage
The proper course of action before the 17th Amendment and now with the Electoral Collage is for states to ‘bind’ the legislatures and now the Electors to the will of the voters. The Electors are not to have any say in who they elect other than to follow the will of the voters.

So, if on Thanksgiving the President-Elect rapes a nun and strangles a puppy, the electors have no choice but to vote for him in the election in December?

85 posted on 08/03/2016 11:49:55 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Jacquerie
It sounds all warm and fuzzy in theory, but in practice, while the framers wanted to avoid parties and factions, it is unrealistic to claim that they didn't foresee them. Much of the constitution was based on their own experience and their own ancestor's experience gained from the English Civil War, the Salem Witch Trials and their own reference with English politics and the Tory and Whig factions.

Vu's motives are not avoiding factionalism or anything which the framers might have envisioned as an ideal. They are a play for attention.

86 posted on 08/03/2016 11:54:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SoothingDave

Your post is not worth any in-depth response because it is ludicrous.

Do not post to me again.


87 posted on 08/03/2016 11:55:04 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Jacquerie

Go pound sand....he will cheat the voters who have no choice but to pull the lever for him....IF you want to vote Trump he will be the elector.

THAT is NOT what the founders intended


88 posted on 08/03/2016 12:05:58 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Signalman; governsleastgovernsbest

Ga info. Been posted once or twice, but this is latest.

Heard anything/any reactions from Loudermilk on this? I have gotten NOTHING from him in the mail - not even primary even campaign garbage.


89 posted on 08/03/2016 12:08:37 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Hostage

Sorry that you find the logic of the Framers “ludicrous.” The electors are real people so that they can exercise real judgment.


90 posted on 08/03/2016 12:12:06 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Jacquerie

The Constitution means nothing to the Trump fans.


91 posted on 08/03/2016 12:13:26 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: austinaero

92 posted on 08/03/2016 12:13:54 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: austinaero

GOP-GA needs to revoke his creds.


93 posted on 08/03/2016 12:37:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: Vigilanteman

I addressed factions in the links.


94 posted on 08/03/2016 1:02:10 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Nifster

Pound yourself. My research is accurate.


95 posted on 08/03/2016 1:03:26 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Signalman

Actually it would be refreshing to find an establishment member of the GOP that isn’t/hasn’t been a “traitor” for many years now.


96 posted on 08/03/2016 1:13:47 PM PDT by ImpBill (Conservative "l"ibertarian who has known for a while The Republic is DEAD. RIP)
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To: austinaero

Tweet him @BKVu #NoHonor


97 posted on 08/03/2016 1:15:11 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: Kenny

“This is a coup. They’re undermining our electoral process against the people’s will.”

Who are “they”? Rhetorical question. For whoever “they” are, have been undermining the process for longer than “we” care to remember.


98 posted on 08/03/2016 1:18:44 PM PDT by ImpBill (Conservative "l"ibertarian who has known for a while The Republic is DEAD. RIP)
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To: austinaero

At least they printed his whole name and ran a picture of him.


99 posted on 08/03/2016 1:19:21 PM PDT by Gaffer (Paint your face, gird yourself and stand with your backsides to the enemy.)
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To: austinaero

He is the only one with guts to come out in public and say this, there will be a ton of defectors from the electors, I don’t know what we can do about it.


100 posted on 08/03/2016 1:26:35 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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