Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right's Vision of a Constitutional Convention

[merrill]

A Radical Right-Wing Dream To Rewrite The Constitution ...

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[Auld Phart]

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Not seeing anything in your link pertaining to the OP

 

[1srelluc]

I'd prefer a Article of Confederation of like-minded states.....I think we are long past the Perpetual Union part.

I'd sooner drive on dirt roads than be under the thumb of leftists.

 

[JGalt]

I propose a Constitutional convention to define the Democrat Party as a terrorist organization.

All in favor, say "Aye..."

 

[JGalt]

Not seeing anything in your link pertaining to the OP

Why would you click on any link that had the word "Huffpost" in it anyway? Do you want to catch teh AIDS?

 

[jbrownson0831]

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[Dante Reawakened]

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Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention - EXPOSEDbyCMD

CMD releases “Convention of State Politicians,” a new report documenting how a constitutional convention would give hand-picked GOP delegates supermajority control over any proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

www.exposedbycmd.org

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[Oddball]

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[Dante Reawakened]

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could you comment on the content?

It's not a Huffpost editorial.

For Immediate Release: Sunday, July 31, 2022

Contact: David Armiak, Research Director, [email protected]

The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today documenting how a constitutional convention would give hand-picked GOP delegates supermajority control over any proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Right-wing groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and Convention of States have been ramping up their campaigns in recent years to force the first constitutional convention since 1787 as a way to sidestep Congress and radically rewrite the Constitution, often using populist rhetoric about the need for people to take back control from big government and politicians, according to a new exposé by Insider.

However, the report, “Convention of State Politicians,” takes a deep dive into the states’ delegate selection laws across the country to reach a startling conclusion: If the Right gets its way, American voters would have no role to play in a constitutional convention.

Who would decide on what amendments go out to the states? Politicians chosen by…politicians.

The report finds that:

To date, 22 states have enacted resolutions or legislation detailing delegate selection procedures. In 18 of those states, the legislature as a whole or legislative leadership would pick the delegates. Another three states divide that power between legislative leaders and the governor.
Only one state, Rhode Island, includes a role for voters in choosing delegates to a constitutional convention. Indeed, 10 states automatically make politicians, typically legislators or the governor, their convention delegates.

Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention - EXPOSEDbyCMD

CMD releases “Convention of State Politicians,” a new report documenting how a constitutional convention would give hand-picked GOP delegates supermajority control over any proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

www.exposedbycmd.org

 

[Ralph Norton]

A Radical Right-Wing Dream To Rewrite The Constitution ...

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You're linking an article from July 31, 2022?
And you're just letting us know now?

Oh, but by the way - Huffington Post?

 

[Dante Reawakened]

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Context:
The U.S. Constitution can be amended in two ways. The first method is the one the country has always used: Congress
proposes amendments to the states for ratification. The second method is one that has never been tried: states formally
ask Congress to call a new Constitutional Convention, opening the Constitution to change. Congress is required to call a
convention if at least two-thirds (34) of states request one. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has made
it a top priority to get 34 states to pass resolutions calling for a convention in 2016.

https://www.aucd.org/docs/BBA%20Constitutional%20Convention%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

 

[TNHarley]

Leftists dont want to bother rewriting it. They just ignore it.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

You're linking an article from July 31, 2022?
And you're just letting us know now?

Oh, but by the way - Huffington Post?

It's about ALEC. They've been active with this for a decade (or more?).

Amending the U.S. Constitution

To date, Congress has submitted 33 amendments to the Constitution, 27 of which were ratified by the states.

www.ncsl.org

 

[yidnar]

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Huffpost ? you mean the leftist rag that was once the Huffington post ? the same rag that printed this ...

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Huffpost ? you mean the leftist rag that was once the Huffington post ? the same rag that printed this ...

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I grew up in Santa Barbara. For a very long time, my district there was represented in The House by Bob Lagomarsino. Who was a very widely-respected and admired Congressman. The Democraps would go through the motions, each election year, of fielding a throwaway candidate to run against him, but everyone knew that Lagomarsino was going to be reelected, and nobody seriously wanted otherwise.

So, in 1992, along comes this carpetbagger from Texas, a spoiled heir to an oil fortune, who has decided to use some of his inheritance to buy himself a seat in Congress.

Lagomarsino never knew what hit him. Suddenly, in the primary, he found himself the target of a toxic, vicious, slanderous negative campaign, against which he had no idea how to defend himself, nor the resources to effectively do so. The carpetbagger easily defeated Lagomarsino in the primary, and of course, went on to easily defeat the Democraps' throwaway that was already prepared to lose against Lagomarsino.

The carpetbagger, of course, proved to be a pathetic excuse for a Congressman, spending nearly all of his term focused on the next election cycle, when he ran for Senator against Diane Feinstein. The one bright lining in the 1994 election was that I knew that one way or another, we were going to be rid of one worthless, crooked elected representative. Either the carpetbagger was going to lose his bid for the Senate, and go crawling back into whatever dark, filthy hole he had crawled out of in the first place, or else he was going to defeat Feinstein, and remove her from office.

I turned out that Feinstein held on to her office, and the carpetbagger slithered away in defeat.

That carpetbagger was Michael Huffington. His wife, at the time was Ariana Huffington, née Stassinopoúlou, who was one of the main founders of the Huffington Post, later renamed to Huffpost. At some point, they divorced, and at some point, Michael Huffington came out as a demifaggot.

Ariana has had ties to the Rajneesh movement, that weird cult that took over a town in Oregon for a while, back in the 1980s, and carried out a bioterrorism attack there.