Here's an article from Florida about a brazen political theft from a former state SENATOR with a history of dubious dealings before he was even elected and continuing with the help of the state Republicans to do the dirty on current campaigns!
All over this country, republicans are repeatedly and blatantly breaking campaign laws to not only disenfranchise voters but to enrich themselves from donor monies. AND NOTHING is being done about it!
It's like third world politics in a supposedly industrialized country! With the help of the very same people who they are sticking it to. No offense, but aren't older people suppose to get wise from experience? Is the Florida sun bleaching the brains of its older people?
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41 minutes ago, chare said:
Then perhaps you should have included in your title that you were only referring to a Republican being accused of voter fraud, as opposed to suggesting that all Republicans were involved in general criminal behavior as you thread implied.
That's not what the title of the thread implies, IMV. Perhaps that's your interpretation of the title.
Republican Criminals? How else should that be interpreted?
Like this!
Bertolt Brecht wrote of East Germany’s ruling party:
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
From Gingrich to Trump, same ideology and same politics. To hell with the people. We want power and we don't care how we get it or who gets hurt acquiring it!
Republican majorities are rushing to pass laws that strip away the legitimate powers of newly elected Democratic governors while defeated or outgoing Republican incumbents are still around to sign the bills. Even if the courts overturn some of these power grabs, as they have in North Carolina, Republicans will remain securely entrenched in the legislative majority through their own hyper-gerrymandering—in Wisconsin last month, 54 percent of the total votes cast for major-party candidates gave Democrats just 36 of 99 assembly seats—so they will go on passing laws to thwart election results. Nothing can stop these abuses short of an electoral landslide.
The fact that no plausible election outcome can check the abuse of power is what makes political corruption so dangerous. It strikes at the heart of democracy. It destroys the compact between the people and the government. In rendering voters voiceless, it pushes everyone closer to the use of undemocratic means.
And they use whatever means necessary. They destroy their own credibility in the process and simply don't care! Any organization much less a political party that can tolerate people like McConnell who's up to his eyeballs in corruption, Nunes, Trump, Steve King, Kushner, Bannon, Roger Stone, Flynn etc can never claim to be anything but corrupt and criminalistic!
Imagine being responsible for one of our patient's death and how we would feel or the consequences and these things, I can't refer to them as people anymore, are directly responsible for thousands of deaths and haven't even been able to even say sorry much less modify their behaviors to even their own supporters?
I like that the walls are crumbling down on this scandal. It does go to show that there are processes in place to stem this kind of activity. Democrats are calling for the winner to resign and a new election held.
About the deflection, no I don't think it's just Republicans engaging in shady political behavior. But that's not the article in discussion.
At the end of the day as a Floridian, I trust that it isn't widespread and have to trust the election process here in Florida. We are a Republican run state with majority Republicans voting, even if there might be more Democrats, they just don't show up to vote.
Republicans do have a history of trying to manipulate things in their favor. A blatant example is them ignoring the vote of the citizens allowing convicted felons the right to vote after they've served their time. They attached a "but they must first play their court costs" to the bill, essentially guaranteeing that convicted felons wouldn't be able to vote.
I've also told the story of how my democrat neighborhood was gerrymandered by Republicans out of the city and combined with a majority republican district across the water in another county. It was quite obvious what they were doing. The courts deemed this illegal.
Most recently republicans are trying to make it hard to vote by mail which is a process overwhelmingly used by Democrats.
Various experts have described the Pennsylvania congressional map drawn in 2011 as a partisan gerrymander drawn to benefit Republicans. Test after test found that the map was an extreme outlier, and in all three elections held under the map, in 2012, 2014, and 2016, Republicans won the same 13 out of 18 U.S. House seats.
The same 13 out of 18 seats, even as statewide votes split equally between Democrats and Republicans, even as Pennsylvania went for former President Barack Obama and then President Trump, former Gov. Tom Corbett and then Gov. Wolf, voted for U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and also Pat Toomey.
A group of Democratic voters, led by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, sued over the map last year, saying it violated the state constitution by discriminating against Democrats. In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed, overturning the map and ultimately imposing its own.
That decision set off a nasty political and legal fight and has upended politics across the state, drawing attention from across the country....
PA's Congressional map redrawn in 2011 by Republican led legislature. My Delaware County (DELCO) was considered Republican then; the 1st district in Philly ( green area, lower right corner) was extended into DELCO along Delaware River to pick up Republican towns and voters. Above Pittsburgh -left side map, District 12 extended into 4th county to pick up Republican Johnstown.
PA Supreme Court redrew map in 2018 post lawsuit. Now I'm in 5th District with Mary Gay Scanlon as my Representative --she's House Judiciary Committee, Vice Chair often seen in hearings on C-SPAN and broadcast news shows. Much more equitable areas based on population totals instead party status.
That it's a thread about criminals who are also republican.
People who are OK with electing a criminal president are probably OK with white collar crime anyway. Anyone who invested 60 minutes of their time investigating who Trump was, his childhood, his business dealings, his family would have found out that he left a large swath of pain in the world, but no, they didn't do their due diligence and elected him anyway. At least Huey Long built highways and schools in Louisiana while creating his legacy of criminality. Trump left us nothing but death and debt.
Here's a republican who is from NJ that used to be a wrestler and spoke like someone from NJ but has now surfaced in Texas, running as a Texan with the drawl and the hat and ***! Literally!
Do you realize how stupid he must think republicans and Texans are?
Here's a republican who is from NJ that used to be a wrestler and spoke like someone from NJ but has now surfaced in Texas, running as a Texan with the drawl and the hat and ***! Literally!
Do you realize how stupid he must think republicans and Texans are?
Here's a republican who is from NJ that used to be a wrestler and spoke like someone from NJ but has now surfaced in Texas, running as a Texan with the drawl and the hat and ***! Literally!
Do you realize how stupid he must think republicans and Texans are?
And he would be correct:) Smart move on his part.
Just to clarify, as answered the question posed, you are suggesting that Republicans and Texans are stupid?
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That's not what the title of the thread implies, IMV. Perhaps that's your interpretation of the title.