From The New York Times:
MIAMI, April 2 — Hinting that a remarkable turnaround in state policy was near, Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday that he hoped to persuade members of the Florida cabinet this week to end the practice of stripping convicted felons of their right to vote.
Florida is the most populous of three states whose constitutions require withdrawal of voting rights from all convicted felons, and it has the nation’s largest number of disenfranchised former offenders. The other two states are Kentucky and Virginia.
Felons in Florida who have served their prison and probation time can apply to have their voting rights reinstated, but the process can be time consuming and complex. Only a few hundred have their rights restored each year in Florida, where the American Civil Liberties Union says 950,000 remain disenfranchised.
Mr. Crist, a Republican, said that to win the support of some cabinet members, he might require former felons to pay whatever restitution they owe to victims before regaining their rights. Some civil rights groups, including the A.C.L.U., oppose such a compromise, but Mr. Crist said he had little choice.
“I want to do the doable,” he told reporters in Tallahassee. “I’m pushing as hard as I can to get as much as I can, but there’s a point beyond which I cannot go.”
And this asshat is a Republican!
Also note for the record that the ACLU is even opposed to making the return of the franchise dependant upon the criminals paying restitution.
Doesn't Christ realize that the pool of convicted thieves and drug dealers and robbers and murderers is second in size only to illegal aliens as an untapped (mostly) reservoir of Democrat votes?
Does this moron want to be the last Republican governor of Florida?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
There's a moonbat in the room. Who left the window open?
Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 8:05 AM
Labels: Florida, Liberal Republcan Moonbattery
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