Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Trump Faces Federal Investigation After Melania Speech, New Details Emerge

http://news.groopspeak.com/breaking-trump-faces-federal-investigation-after-melania-speech-new-details-emerge/

By now, the entire political world should already be aware of the Melania Trump plagiarism allegations. After all, entire portions of her speech were lifted from Michelle Obama, and the Trump organization even sent out a letter acknowledging that fact.

Now, things are getting even more serious. Not only is this bad for their public image, but a complaint has just been filed with the Federal Election Commission claiming that the Trump campaign violated federal election law.

Meredith Mclver, the woman who tried to take the blame for writing Melania’s speech, doesn’t work for the Trump campaign. She works for the Trump organization. There’s a difference – and it’s a big one (as far as the law is concerned). If she did, indeed, help Melania with her speech, as she admits by her very own writing, then she broke campaign finance laws, it’s as simple as that....

But – here’s what we know – she definitely is not a paid employee for Trump’s presidential campaign. No record exists of her receiving compensation in any form. And, if she is, the Trump campaign didn’t list it. That in itself would also be a violation since campaigns are supposed to list all in-kind contributions of goods and services on a regular basis.


Extra butter on mine, please.

I think it has a few teaspoons of hot sauce on it. Not many will be able to stomach it.

Its not much but it is funny. Give it a couple of weeks when the details of the Imperial Vice Presidency he's offered Pense comes out.

Well, there is at least a shred of truth to that meme's premise. After all, the GOP has become notorious for the lack of (oh how to say it) people of color in its rank and file. They're always doing photo ops by placing the 2 or three POC that are present in prominent spots near the front of rallies and near the cameras. The Trump campaign has been caught this election putting up pictures of black families they lifted from google images along with narratives suggesting they were Trump supporters. So, a meme mocking a picture of a bunch of white-looking people who are supposedly Latino Trump supporters has a basis in the real facts of who the GOP is, and how they operate.

That was really something when Trump posted pictures of the black family that was copied from google. "His" black family.

absolutely

racism is racism

I wonder why that took so long - people were commenting on that letterhead from the day the letter was released.

Perhaps I'm oversensitive to it since I'm white-looking , but it seriously pisses me off when people say I (or anyone) can't be of some background because we don't look like their expectation of some group.

I've not been mistaken for my Japanese ancestry most of my life, but have been mistaken at some Chinese and Korean restaurants.

It is okay, you do have somewhat of a point, that is if the republicans could be trusted. The GOP trust issue is where you seemed to go awry.

If the GOP could be trusted then your point would have had legs. It is good you are on top of this anyway.

Your heart is in the right place but you have been duped by the GOP.

Paul Ryan wants to take the pre-conditions clause away from our healthcare insurance. Women will be hurt most from this where (according to insurance companies old policies) being a woman is a precondition. I do not trust the republicans and I have been conditioned to see their racist, sexist, homophobic etc... scams from a mile away.

This has nothing to do with trusting the GOP.

This has to do with people propagating racist and inaccurate memes like that.

As I said before, keep that in mind when georgeob comments on blonde native Elizabeth Warren. It will be difficult to meaningfully object to that if we accept memes that suggest there are not blonde blue-eyed Latinx.

You are correct about Paul Ryan.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/04/paul-ryan-lets-bring-back-pre-existing

My wife has said he looks like a gangster. He's worse than a gangster; he's trying to take away a good chunk of women's health care as a representable of the people.

Well I disagree.

It is about trust and I don't trust the republicans to represent race with any honesty.

I won't be trying to empathize with you again. Geez...

Forget it.

A Democratic governor doing the right thing in the face of a Republican legislature.

Virginia Governor Bypasses Court Ruling To Help 200,000 Ex-Felons Vote
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/23/3801355/virginia-felon-voting-update/

Virginia Governor Bypasses Court Ruling To Help 200,000 Ex-Felons Vote

by Alice Ollstein
Jul 23, 2016 10:36 am


Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is taking action to restore the voting rights of thousands of ex-offenders in the state after a court decision Friday put them in jeopardy. He’s getting around the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling against him by signing 200,000 individual clemency grants to the state’s ex-offenders to ensure their right to vote in November.

In a 4 to 3 decision late Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia stripped away the voting rights from 200,000 ex-offenders who had recently regained full civil rights through one of McAuliffe’s executive orders, effectively disenfranchising one in five of the state’s African American voters.

The court said the governor lacks the authority under the state constitution to issue a blanket rights restoration to everyone in the state with a felony record who has already served their full sentence. A study earlier this year found that the vast majority of those impacted — 80 percent — committed non-violent crimes. Most have been out of prison for more than a decade, and African Americans are disproportionately represented. Forty-six percent of the ex-offenders are black, though blacks make up less than 20 percent of the state’s population.

The non-partisan group that has for months been leading the charge on registering ex-offenders to vote, New Virginia Majority, released a statement saying the ruling “reaffirms the Commonwealth’s Jim Crow legacy,” noting that the vast majority of states restore voting rights upon release from prison.

“Excluding Virginians from the ballot, even after they’ve paid their debts to society, is a cruel, inhumane reminder of past mistakes,” said Tram Nguyen, the group’s executive director. “Importantly, today’s ruling validates entrenched interests in the Virginia General Assembly bent on silencing a large swath of Black Virginians in order to maximize their political power.”

But just hours after the decision, McAuliffe vowed to push back by signing clemency grants for the state’s ex-offenders one by one.

“The struggle for civil rights has always been a long and difficult one, but the fight goes on,” he wrote. “I remain committed to moving past our Commonwealth’s history of injustice to embrace an honest process for restoring the rights of our citizens, and I believe history and the vast majority of Virginians are on our side.”


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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/23/3801355/virginia-felon-voting-update/