Our big problem in Virginia is Governor McAwful and voter fraud. He even pardoned felons to bestow them voting rights.
I apologize in advance here, for picking this nit: though McAuliffe restored voting rights to felons in a transparently duplicitous fashion, he did not "pardon felons" per se.
He first tried a blanket restoration of voting rights for 206,000 felons; his blanket restoration was rightly overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court; but then he restored the rights, on an "individual basis" to some 13,000 felons. (Pretty amazing that he miraculously found time to do this individual review of 13K felons' cases while performing his other gubernatorial duties, huh?)
Speaking of amazing, isn't it amazing and utterly fascinating that the various media outlets didn't question the fact that only 13,000 of the previous 206,000 won McAuliffe's "voting rights restoration lottery"? That is, no one seemed to question the transparent unseemliness exposed by the fact that Governor McAuliffe had previously tried to restore the rights of an additional 193,000 other felons with his blanket executive order. No one pointed out the glaring fact that with McAuliffe's blanket order, he sought to basically disenfranchise over 190K additional law-abiding citizens.
As one of those law-abiding citizens who was (and still is) disenfranchised, I view McAuliffe with complete and utter contempt. Granted, he was a Clinton crony and a Democrat hack from the get-go. Thus, my opinion of him wasn't good to begin with. But the brazen nature of his actions is just one more reason why I cannot understand why anyone would vote Democrat. The Democrat Party has been hijacked by thugs, thieves, crooks, and criminals.
Al Capone was a piker compared to the modern-era Democrat Party.
No surprise Saul Alinsky’s mentor was Frank Nitty. Alinsky admitted he had only invented a better, less risky method of extortion. Hillary’s idol was Alinsky. Why are we not surprised one can truthfully use Al Capone and “this gummint” in the same sentence with a verb like “corrupt”.
When Trump's Attorney General starts investigating the Crintons, IMO, he will find an entire landscape of crimes and I am sure that McAuliffe will be part of this.
I assumed it was a pardon since that technically is within his power. But to grant felons the right to vote without legislation?
You aren’t kidding!