The Virginia GOP Gone Wild!

[Pistarkle]

Last edited Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:58 AM - Edit history (1)

Virginia’s Tea Partied Republican Governor and Tea Partied Republican House members have gone stark raving mad with NRA-SPONSORED pro-gun and voter suppression legislation.

In regards to PRO-GUN LEGISLATION, Tea Partied Republican Delegate Mark Cole sponsored a bill “to prohibit the Clerk of the Court from disclosing information contained on a CONCEALED handgun permit application or on an order issuing a concealed handgun permit”! Tea Partied Republican Delegate Ben Cline sponsored a bill to “eliminate the optional FINGERPRINTING requirements for initial concealed carry permits”! What is this Tea Partied Republican fixation on freeing up CONCEALED guns in Congress and in state legislatures across the nation. Why are they so eager to give individuals, AS RECKLESS AS THEMSELVES, a FREE license to kill?

In regards to VOTER SUPPRESSION LEGISLATION, Tea Partied Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling cast the tie-breaking vote to pass Tea Partied Republican Governor Robert McDonnell’s fight to suppress the vote of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND Virginia residents! Tea Partied Republican elected officials SAY that the bill is necessary to ensure that “legitimate votes won’t be diluted by voter fraud”. Yet, they can PROVIDE NO EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD to support that LIE. All they want to do is suppress the votes of Latinos, Blacks, college students, the poor and the elderly.

These LATEST examples of Tea Partied Republican LEGISLATIVE ASSAULTS on human rights AND human life just goes to show that once you put ANY Tea Partied Republican in absolute power at ANY level of governance, they are more than willing to corrupt absolutely!

Remember that when you go to the polls in November, 2012 and help Virginia residents fight the Tea Partied Republican voter suppression bill at www.change.org/.../the-governor-of-va-oppose-virginias-voter-supp...

[Neurotica]

1. Don't forget all the anti-woman and anti-family and anti-public education bills...

Delegate Bob Marshall's personhood bill (HB1), which just came out of a House committee yesterday and will now be going to the House floor. If signed into law, this bill could not only be used to make all abortions in VA illegal, but also to make certain forms of birth control, including the pill, illegal.

SB484, which requires a woman seeking an abortion to undergo (and pay for) an unnecessary ultrasound...an ultrasound which is likely to be of the transvaginal variety to meet the requirements in the bill. This bill has already passed the State Senate and will undoubtedly pass the House and be signed into law by Gov. McDonnell.

SB131/HB321, which provides tax credits to corporations who donate to certain scholarship foundations (vouchers in disguise).

SB6, which would require drug screening for all welfare recipients (we've seen what a charade that has been in FL thanks to the Daily Show!)

SB349, the so-called "conscience clause" bill, which would allow private adoption agencies to refuse to allow gay parents to adopt children, as well as deny adoptions based on the religious and political beliefs of the prospective adoptive parents. This passed the State Senate, will pass the House, and will be signed into law by McDonnell.

I could go on and on and on...

It's a very discouraging time here.

[alfredo]

2. If a Republican calls a Dem, or the Dems something, chances are good they

are talking about themselves.

[Initech]

3. The tea party sucks.