200,000 new potential voters:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1860832_.html&page=1&anc=bottom#bottom

Anyone else notice this?  

Sure - not all will vote.  Easily less than half.

But VA is already closely divided.  This could easily tip the scales.

LOL...Really trying hard for FHRC's VP slot isn't he?  Meh, knowing ex-convicts the way I do it won't amount to much of a much at all.

It's been long known that it was within a Virginia's governor's purvey to do such a thing, I'm surprised it took the carpetbagging bastard this long.

Well at it least it might serve to get right-leaning white peeps off their ass and go vote. Playing the race card is a double-edged sword.

The Legislature needs to speak on this.  And the courts.

Lawless shitbag is lawless.

McAwful is certainly living up to his name.  He can go have carnal knowledge of himself.

GOPe will stay home just like they did in 2013.



 

Wonder if he'd change his tune if impeachment were to suddenly happen. The only way this stops is to revoke the Governor's ability to do it. It just really pi$$es me off that he's flouting his rampant corruption and rubbing people's noses in it. He's as crooked as he is dirty so why hasn't some state police investigation take his ass down?

I have less issue with minor criminals who have proved by work and staying clean that they deserve their rights back, but to blanket restore every violent felon out there is beyond insane. Carpet bagging turd is just pushing the Clinton ground game. Scum.

by doing this we can kiss being a red state ever again good-bye

Shit, half will probably be felons again in another year. Might affect this election but I dont see it being as big of a deal long term.

 

Amazing felons would vote Democrat since it's their economic policies that made them felons in the first place.

If a criminal has paid his debt to society and is removed from probation I see no problem with him getting his rights back.............I don't believe in holding people down........out of spite.............

Yeah, but as mentioned either here or in the GD thread, he isn't restoring their gun rights.  If they can't be trusted with a gun, they can't be trusted to vote or serve on a jury, and probably shouldn't be walking the streets either.  Given recidivism stats, I think few are actually that trustworthy.  Just a gut feel.

"But mah blowjobs!"

We would probably have Constitutional Carry if Cuchenelli was governor by now.

Just another example of how the Left is destroying the value and meaning of being a law-abiding citizen.  They want felons and illegal aliens to be able to vote; they invent new "rights" for these radical fringe elements of society at the same time they are working to destroy the enumerated rights in the Constitution; their Governors surrender states rights under the Constitution in exchange for Medicaid expansion and other Federal subsidies and grants; and they use the treaty clause of the Constitution to surrender our freedoms to the the Socialist/Communist/Totalitarian shitholes that make up the rest of the world.  The Left's utopian society is Cuba or Venezuela and they will continue to wage their war until they achieve it.  

I think it's more who "freed" them or restored their rights.  Its a clear ploy to swell the ranks for HRC.

I heard Howell speak, what is not clear is who has standing to bring a court case?

I was making plans to flee Progressive CT, and move my Conservative Damned Yankee ass to the great state of VA as a political refugee.  However, it appears you guys are only 5-10 years away from falling into the Progressive abyss yourselves!

I have spent the last 40 years watching CT go from a solid centrist state, governed by common sense and fiscal responsibility, to a bankrupt PC nightmare.  Wedged solidly between NYC and Boston, the CT Yankee of old was slowly overwhelmed by the Progressive cancer that is Liberalism.  Unfortunately, it appears the same disease is eating away at one of the greatest states in the Union.  As both the historic heart of our nation, and the Confederacy,  it is truly sad to watch it sink.

I wish I could disagree with your assessment of where VA is headed.  

But the demographic trends don't seem to be in our favor.

Too late.  To many of your fellow CT Yankees have already destroyed this state.  Don't feel bad... MD, NY, NJ, PA, MA, RI, ME, VT and NH sent occupation troops down here too.  Now I can't wait to retire and get the hell out of VA.

Too late.  To many of your fellow CT Yankees have already destroyed this state.  Don't feel bad... MD, NY, NJ, PA, MA, RI, ME, VT and NH sent occupation troops down here too.  Now I can't wait to retire and get the hell out of VA.

I totally get your perspective.  However, I am a bit different from most "Yankees".   I could never understand why someone would go through all the trouble to uproot their lives and family, move hundreds or thousands of miles away, only to want to make the new place just like the situation you moved away from in the first place!  I would want to move to VA because of what it is, not want to make it what I am trying to get away from!

Guess it's the Ocala area of FL for me!

Using money taken from the citizens of the states to begin with.  It's perfect for the state-level politicians... they get some of the benefit of high taxes without the accompanying blame.

Liberals don't think like normal people.  It's part of the mental disorder.

I have two sisters-in-law, and one of their husbands,  that are EXACTLY what you guys think of Yankees.  Whenever I am around them, I feel like an animal stuck in a leg-hold trap.  In excruciating pain, and willing to chew my own leg off to get the fuck away!

It's great when any of them complain about what has happened to CT, and I get to throw up the 30 years of Liberally dominated politics that have destroyed the state in their faces.  All I get is lots of derp in reply, because they know I am right!  

VA is a great state.  I was stationed there for a couple of years, and have visited when I could. The natural beauty and history that fills almost every corner of the state is fantastic.   It is just so sad to see it circle the drain.

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-Warren-

The liberal philosophy is anything but liberating.  That said we have our own problems and are not losing b/c of the VA liberal voters alone.  NY lib dems have been funding and attacking us for years, and are entrenched in our state and national politics.  Add to that, the GOPe will often work against Constutionalist candidates, and frustrated voters will believe damn near anything when it's what they want to hear.  We are confused, scattered, if not somehow increasingly against each other with every election.  This would have been the last place I would expect to see "war on the vag" type stuff posted about Cuch, but some gun owners want or don't mind big gov, and rule by executive fiat, which is clearly happening.  Who is a voice of reason, and will bring understanding and some form of unity simply within the gun community?

Bad example.  When elections are decided by a couple of percentage points it's beyond that line of thinking...   It's a national trend, regardless of who you want to blame for it.  Look at the districts that voted against McAuliffe, it shouldn't have been that competitive.

There was the Sarvis effect too.  F that guy.

You can blame Sarvis all you want. But the real guys behind the defeat of the Republicans were Republicans. They were the guys who insisted on a convention instead of a primary.....because they knew that Bill Bolling would have won the primary. So they packed the convention with Coochbots, and picked a candidate that was so extremely right-wing that he had no chance of winning the middle-of-the-road voters that were so necessary to defeat McAwful.

And now look where we are. I hope you guys are happy.

Bill Bolling? The guy who supported Terry?

Fuck him

I was happy I got to vote for a real honest to god conservative for a change. Butthurt Bolling threw his support behind the Klinton Krony McAulffie so that's all you need to know about him.

+1  I was very happy to vote for Cucc.  He was a fantastic AG for gun owners, and was fantastic for gun owners in the GA before that.

Bolling's name should be stricken from all records of the VA GOP.

And look at all the good it got you.....and got the rest of us.

Voting and owning a gun are apples to oranges...........seriously.............Instead of worrying about removed felons getting voting rights back...........I am more worried about the 12 million undocumented folks living in this country........That republicans and democrats have done nothing at all.............

Build the wall Donald!!!!! :)

So who should I have voted for? Sarvis the fake libertarian?

No. You should have voted for the republican, just like I did. But once Cuccinelli was nominated, we didn't stand a chance. The majority of Virginia voters didn't share his strongly-held opinion on abortion, and that's what killed his chances. But we all knew that before that phony convention was held. Anybody with any sense could tell that Cuccinelli's far-right stance on the abortion issue as well as several others, would give McAwful the edge he needed to defeat Cuccinelli. And that's just what happened.

If he had the support of the GOP and their money he would have beaten McAullfie. As it was he was outspent like 3 to 1. But I will agree that his positions on a few social issues like abortion and the false "ban the blowjobs narrative" did hurt him. I doubt he would have gotten anything too hard core through the the GA though.

Oh well maybe we can keep Northum out of the governor's mansion this time. I don't know who might run on the R side yet, maybe Gellispie will try for it.

Just another example of how the Republican party is no longer conservative, it is just Republican.  The Republican party is at war with itself because there are still a great number of fiscal and social conservatives within it but the party who claims to represent them is not.  I hate the Republican party as much as I do the Demomarxists.

you are right...........plenty of republicans...........who are just RINO'S...........Chesterfield County Sheriff calls himself a Republican and he won't enforce ICE detainers, for fear of being sued...........what a minute........he is public safety right.....?????  Sworn to protect and serve............go figure...................lol and Chesterfield County is considered a safe haven for illegals....................................

The Dems have really perfected the slimy, quasi-legal, grey area of recruiting illegals, criminals, bums to their cause. Hell I figured something like this was coming. McClintonite stole some general discretionary funds for voting enrollment/franchisement bullshit last year. He tried to raid the petroleum trust fund (for water quality and environmental issues) to set up an acorn like organization. I figured Obama got every nare do well enrolled from Portsmouth to Lexington with his ground pounders in 08. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now for voters.

I heard somewhere Terry was being considered for the Hillery ticket, I mean he did give her 200,000 voters (most likely the low side of 20,000) but it's still votes. I hope she does, and he has to give up the mansion. I saw this,

McAuliffe asserts that any claim that he doesn’t have the authority to grant a blanket restoration of rights is “far-outside the weight of constitutional authority across the nation and would read into the text of the Virginia Constitution words that simply are not there.” This is just legal gibberish — the weight of constitutional authority “across the nation” has no bearing on interpreting the Virginia constitution. McAuliffe is reading into that constitution authority he does not have.  January 15, 2010, Mark Rubin, the counselor for former Virginia governor Tim Kaine (D., now a U.S. senator), sent a letter on the governor’s behalf to the ACLU, saying that Kaine did not have the executive power “to grant a blanket restoration of voting rights,” which the ACLU had requested. Kaine supported restoration of voting rights but refused to act because his counsel’s view was that the “better argument” was that the powers in the Virginia constitutional provision on clemency (Article 5, Section 12) “are meant to apply in particular cases to named individuals.” In fact, “a blanket order restoring the voting rights of everyone would be a rewrite of the law. . . . The notion that the Constitution of the Commonwealth could be rewritten via executive order is troubling.”

Even the Washington Post, which applauded McAuliffe’s action, acknowledged there is “no doubt” about the “political dimension” in this move by “a Democrat and longtime friend and fundraiser for Bill and Hillary Clinton” — namely, that it “grant[s] Democrats a crucial edge in a swing state ahead of November’s presidential election.”



BUT this is what I found most interesting. Advocates who have been working with the Virginia governor say they are planning to fan out into Richmond communities Friday to start registering people. Interesting, a city where we are paying gangs not to shoot each other is the first place they go to start getting voters. I wonder if they will be hitting Rustburg, Nelson and Campbell Co and Bedford with those same advocates... I bet not. We need to get VA back to being a red state this year, Badly

And Juan Williams is a massive tool, once again.

sadly VA will never be a red state again !! the left will never let it happen ....

 
Charllottesville has bled into Nelson. I think it's went blue the last couple of elections. Rustburg and Campbell county are still pretty redneck so they will likely stay red. Bedford is fairly red, but you have a lot of rich liberal assholes who have moved to Forest over the last 20-25 years, in another 15 or so, Forest might have enough population to turn Bedford County Blue, maybe not.




Lynchburg would be blue without Liberty.


 

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Va is now reliably blue on the Federal level and may be more likely Blue on the upper 3 offices of State. Local will remain a mix of red, blue, and purple.

The underlying issue is that (like the CHP issue) the legislature abdicates so much responsibility that a shitty governor can do things such as this.

Constitutionally we have a powerful Governor, he is given broad executive authority.  The Legislature tried to call a special session but doesnt have the needed 2/3 vote to do so.  They are now suing.







 

This is what tells you that it ONLY about putting Democrats back into the voting booths to vote for more Democrats...

If you did your time and fully paid your dues back to society and are considered fully forgiven, then ALL the rights should be restored.   If not, then Not...

He is a Scuz Bag of the lowest order....   Very Sad to see the Virginia people getting the "benefits" of the governor & government they voted for...

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