Posted on 08/22/2020 8:48:30 AM PDT by yoe
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has claimed that the prevention of felons being able to vote is a legacy of slavery in America.
AOC Talks Nonsense About Felon Voting
Ocasio-Cortez believes that felon disenfranchisement, a system perpetuated by 48 states that prevents convicted felons from having the right to vote, is grossly unjust. On an Instagram livestream, the freshman congresswoman rattled off a number of reasons why someone may not be eligible to vote in national elections in the United States.
[snip] Whilst this may sound like complete crazy talk to ordinary citizens, it is not only Ocasio-Cortez who is in favor of convicted, violent felons being given the chance to decide who runs this beautiful country. Only last year, both Senator Bernie Sanders and Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that they were open to allowing the Boston marathon bomber the chance to vote in prison!
(Excerpt) Read more at streetwisepolitics.com ...
AOC Claims we don’t need any stinking laws until our party has full control then we will have only demands or else.
Nothing stupid about it; they are her clientele, and she needs their votes.
I am rather inclined to agree with her. If a citizen of this country has paid his debt to society, and has turned his life around and become an upright hard working and honest taxpayer, I think that after a period of time, all of his civil rights should be restored.
Somebody stick a sock in her cakehole. She is beyond insufferable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_Jsag42ng&feature=youtu.be
Thumbs up!
Every time she opens that horse face of hers she claims the title Airhead of Congress.
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