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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:06 PM Jan 2018

Outraged a Democrat beat a pedophile, Alabama GOP votes to end special elections

Outraged a Democrat beat a pedophile, Alabama GOP votes to end special elections
Alabama Republicans are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure no Democrat ever goes to the Senate again.
By Kaili Joy Gray JANUARY 23, 2018

The Republican Party is still smarting from its humiliating defeat in Alabama last December, when Democrat Doug Jones beat alleged pedophile Roy Moore to assume the Senate seat once held by avowed racist Jeff Sessions.

Donald Trump wholeheartedly endorsed Moore, briefly went silent after multiple allegations emerged that Moore was infamous in his Alabama town for preying on teenage girls, and then even more enthusiastically re-endorsed Moore.

Republicans in Alabama, on the other hand, never wavered in their support for the man accused of sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s. Gov. Kay Ivey unapologetically said they’d rather have a child molester in the Senate than a Democrat.

So now, in a flagrant rebuke to the democratic process, the state’s Republican-controlled legislature has decided to try to ensure that no Democrat ever beats a Republican pedophile again.

https://shareblue.com/outraged-democrat-beat-pedophile-alabama-gop-votes-end-special-elections/

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Outraged a Democrat beat a pedophile, Alabama GOP votes to end special elections (Original Post) workinclasszero Jan 2018 OP

they are so funny when they lose samnsara Jan 2018 #1

It's the end of their world as they know it workinclasszero Jan 2018 #2

That can't possibly be constitutional. LisaM Jan 2018 #3

States can pretty much control their own election procedures. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #6

Wouldn't the ultimate irony be if Phoenix61 Jan 2018 #4

This is no surprise: "Alabama leads the nation in political corruption" procon Jan 2018 #5

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

1. they are so funny when they lose

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:07 PM

Jan 2018

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

2. It's the end of their world as they know it

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:12 PM

Jan 2018

and I feel fine.

LisaM

(27,813 posts)

3. That can't possibly be constitutional.

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:14 PM

Jan 2018

Can it?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,734 posts)

6. States can pretty much control their own election procedures.

Reply to LisaM (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:41 PM

Jan 2018

Many states fill vacant Senate seats by giving the governor the power to appoint someone to fill a vacancy until the next regular election.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)

4. Wouldn't the ultimate irony be if

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:16 PM

Jan 2018

a dem was elected governor? I know it's an incredible long shot but it'd sure be funny.

procon

(15,805 posts)

5. This is no surprise: "Alabama leads the nation in political corruption"

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:31 PM

Jan 2018

Alabama leads the nation in political corruption, new study shows

Alabama tops the country in public corruption, according to a new study examining perceptions of wrongdoing across the country.

The report by Illinois State University’s Institute for Corruption Studies ranks Alabama as the most corrupt state in the union for 2017 when it comes to what researchers call “legal corruption” — conduct by public officials that is technically legal but unethical. The state comes in second, behind Kentucky, in “illegal corruption,” conduct that is out-and-out against the law.

http://yellowhammernews.com/featured/alabama-leads-nation-political-corruption-new-study-shows/

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