A group with very strong ties to the Obama campaign and administration, the Advancement Project, has managed to push Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, into rushing applications by felons for new voting rights before Election Day. A battleground state, Virginia previously refused convicted felons the right to vote, hold public office and serve on juries, but the governor could reinstate those rights. The process usually would take a long time.
According to their website, "Advancement Project is a multi-racial civil rights organization. From Advancement Project's inception, we have worked "on-the-ground," helping organized communities of color dismantle and reform the unjust and inequitable policies that undermine the promise of democracy. Simultaneously, we have aggressively sought and seized opportunities to promote this approach to racial justice." Several places on the site mention 'social justice' as well, something of a leftist rallying cry for the past couple of years.
WND reports, "The group has convinced Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Kelly to speed up the process and add staff members to process felons' applications." The Projects website adds Kelly has, "agreed to process all completed restoration applications received by August 15, 2012, in time for the October 15, 2012, voter registration deadline and will expedite the processing of applications that were submitted after August 15th allowing applicants to vote this fall." Also on the site, "One in five African-Americans in Virginia is disenfranchised due to past felony conviction." They estimate it will add 450,000 new voters just from felons in Virginia. Just in time, how convenient for Obama...but of course, the project is just doing it for the people, right?
Who heavily funds the Advancement Project? Big shock...George Soros. Naturally, they are also supported by SEIU, AFL-CIO, Tides Foundation and many more leftist people/groups. The staff and board members of the group have some very close ties to the administration. Some have donated large amounts to the Obama Campaign, others have even worked on his former campaign. The list, available on a PDF (link below), is indisputable as it is public information easily obtained. How is this 'social justice'? Influencing election results by rushing to register as many people who are likely to vote for their candidate as possible? That's not justice, that's a scam.
With help from Brennan Center for Justice, another major leftist group that according to WND has a 'history of biased research', the project is also fighting to get rid of Voter ID laws in several states for the same reason. There's nothing racist about Voter ID laws. All states will help their low-income residents in obtaining ID, in many states, they even pay for or help pay for them. Getting that important information out to disabled and low-income people just doesn't fit their agenda. If they truly cared for those citizens, they would help to get the info out so they can get IDs for jobs, helpful services, voting and more. Again, just like it is with Obama's Amnesty (aka Voter Registration Drive), this administration shows utter disrespect for the laws of this country to secure four more years, and his place in history.
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© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012
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Comments: 37
Jailbirds :P
I guess, Acorn and the New Black Panthers are gearing up as well...
I would think it most boring to have people fix it so that I could get into office.. I would want to run and win fairly... But thats just me... I guess Obama and flunkies have different rules than the rest of us..
However, as I said previously (below somewhere)And might I add, that is the case no matter how they might end up voting.
The problem here is their feloniousness (has each one or has each one not actually, truthfully and honorably fulfilled all their debt-fulfilment obligations according to the particular state regs that apply?). It is not their party affiliation.
Unless you are saying you believe that all convicted felons are indeed Democrats, liberals, and progressives (Obama's people) and that their votes are definitely all shoos-in for the current occupant of the White House? ... If that was verifiable as the case, then a much much much closer look at those felon's history of "payment of their debt to society" would need to occur. +shrug+
R. F. Sep 16, 2012, 11:15pm EDT
Every time the right suppresses another vote, the "beacon on a hill" that Dead Rayscum liked to refer to American as, grows dimmer. Every time any of us helps another eligible person register to vote, that light grows brighter. Shame on the right.
If so, then more power to them.
If not, then those who are trying to help them should move on to a more worthy felon and/or cause.
I hope they work this hard to make sure their soldiers et.al. overseas aren't disenfranchised this year. In fact I think the stats on how well they process and expedite their applications and votes as compared with how well and how fast these poor disenfranchised criminal's apps are processed and expedited might be interesting reading after the election.
For Virginia "paying their debt" (putting the conviction on the past) is described as follows; So if they have truly followed the rules in order to be considered someone who has paid their debt and put their felony conviction in the past, but they are simply unaware that they can apply to once again be given the privilege of voting, I'm all for smeone giving them a hand.
However if they knew and just didn't give a hoot until someone led them by the hand, or if they have violated any of the terms of their probation (if any) or left any fines unpaid etc ... then too bad too sad.
In both cases they disenfranchised themselves (usually), but in the first I certainly have no problem with them being given help to rectify their situation. In the second, like I said, too bad too sad.
But you have a great need for a leadership whose policies are not corporatist in nature.