Early Voting Begins Today for Virginia Redistricting Referendum

[alang1216]

Similar to CA. Both states amended their Constitutions to take redistricting away from their partisan legislatures.

Scumbag Dems in both states said '**** that,' our Constitution is just a piece of paper.

It appears these states don't want gerrymandered districts but Texas does. I only voted for this amendment because of what Texas did. I originally voted to take redistricting away from our partisan legislature.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Nope. Under existing law, the VA Constitution prevented the legislature from redistricting. They literally had to amend their Constitution to pull off this scumbaggery. Same with California. Again, partisan scumbaggery writ large.

Other than your TDS, not sure why you are defending this.

They are doing it under existing law, the law allows for VA Constitution amendment.

The vote was to amend the VA Constitution for temporary redistricting authority.

You know

 

[WorldWatcher]

Conservatives in TX and UT did not have to literally amend their Constitutions to redistrict like CA and VA scum Dems did.

So VA and CA are scumbags for letting the people vote?

What a concept.

WW

 

[Rawley]

They are doing it under existing law, the law allows for VA Constitution amendment.

The vote was to amend the VA Constitution for temporary redistricting authority.

You know

WTF dude? Amending the Constitution is changing the law

 

[Rawley]

So VA and CA are scumbags for letting the people vote?

What a concept.

WW

They are partisan scumbags for amending their Constitution to allow partisan scumbags to redistrict.

 

[WorldWatcher]

WTF dude? Amending the Constitution is changing the law

Correct.

They used the legal process to amend the constitution, so they acted within the VA Constitutional law.

Meaning their actions were no "illegal", they followed the VA Constitutional process.

The peoples voice was heard.

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

They are partisan scumbags for amending their Constitution to allow partisan scumbags to redistrict.

And Texas was partisian scumbags for starting the mid-cycle redistricting issue on orders of Trump.

Your point?

WW

 

[Rawley]

It appears these states don't want gerrymandered districts but Texas does. I only voted for this amendment because of what Texas did. I originally voted to take redistricting away from our partisan legislature.

SO you happily stripped your fellow Virginians of their right to be represented in Congress because of something that happened in Texas? Dat's f*cked up.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Correct.

They used the legal process to amend the constitution, so they acted within the VA Constitutional law.

Meaning their actions were no "illegal", they followed the VA Constitutional process.

The peoples voice was heard.

WW

They didn’t expect mob rule to prevail. Anyone who supports this or excuses this is immoral.

 

[WorldWatcher]

They didn’t expect mob rule to prevail. Anyone who supports this or excuses this is immoral.

Anyone that supported Texas's power grab ordered by Trump is immoral.

You point?

WW

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I voted today. I want to know what the hell is up with the wording of this referendum:

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

• Yes
• No

Restoring fairness? Nothing subjective about that, is there? I thought these things were supposed to be free of bias. How is eliminating every GOP district but one anything near "fair"?

Might I suggest the correct wording?

Should the Constituition of Virginia be amended to alow the General Assembly to eliminate almost every Republican district?

Democrats being Democrats

 

[Rawley]

Correct.

They used the legal process to amend the constitution, so they acted within the VA Constitutional law.

Meaning their actions were no "illegal", they followed the VA Constitutional process

WTF dude. you normally don't play these asshole word games. I never said it was illegal, and you admit that they had to change the law,

Using your "logic" under "existing law" President Trump can shut down the NYTimes, because there is a process for amending the Constitution.

We're done.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Anyone that supported Texas's power grab ordered by Trump is immoral.

You point?

WW

Bad things don’t justify bad things. What’s more, VA, thanks to the swollen fed gov, has a dynamic way different from Texas.

 

[Rawley]

And Texas was partisian scumbags for starting the mid-cycle redistricting issue on orders of Trump.

Your point?

WW

Full circle, my point is that you are defending this scumbaggery because of your TDS

 

[WorldWatcher]

What Virginia just did is the most anti-American thing I've ever seen. There is no comparison to Texas or another state. None.

Wait what?

Putting it to a vote of the people is now anti-American?

But you are correct, there is no comparison to Texas that did it at the request of Trump to retain power after the mid-terms with no vote of the people.

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

Full circle, my point is that you are defending this scumbaggery because of your TDS

And you defended Texas starting the whole mess because your are MAGA and wanted to hold on to power after the mid-terms.

Your point?

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

Bad things don’t justify bad things. What’s more, VA, thanks to the swollen fed gov, has a dynamic way different from Texas.

Texas redistricting = Good

Virginia redistricting = Bad

Got'Cha.

WW

 

[Rawley]

And you defended Texas starting the whole mess because your are MAGA and wanted to hold on to power after the mid-terms.

Your point?

WW

When did I ever defend TX other than to say that they did their redistricting under existing law?

In my state, CA, only 42% of the voters are Dems, yet they have over 82% of our Congressional representation. And that was not enough for them. They had to amend our Constitution to get more power. They are scumbags.

 

[Lockback]

Wait what?

Putting it to a vote of the people is now anti-American?

But you are correct, there is no comparison to Texas that did it at the request of Trump to retain power after the mid-terms with no vote of the people.

WW

Of the 11 Congressional districts, prior to the misleading amendment language (an old Democrat trick), the Democrats had the advantage 6-5. It will now be 10-1. That affects not only the people of Virginia but the U.S. Congress. It's a cheap parlor trick that the Dems poured at least $50 million in dirty dark money.
Spanberger is a fraud.
The Democrat Party is a total fraud.

 

[toobfreak]

I only voted for this amendment because of what Texas did.

What Texas did? What a minute? Did Texas break the law? No, they followed it, so they had a right. Did Texas effect a new law in place just to allow it like California did? Nope, this was the standing law already in place.

So then, did Texas' redistricting make the distribution of representative more or less fair? One can argue that but it appeared to me it was more fair, and besides, they followed state law, it was their right.

Now Virginia jumps in, slaps in a new governor, slaps in a new set of laws just so they can effect redistricting, and Voila, you are OK with it.

Pretty funny that democrats are reacting in panic simply because one other red state merely did the same thing they commonly do.