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

[workinclasszero]

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/

[samnsara]

1. they are so funny when they lose

[workinclasszero]

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

and I feel fine.

[LisaM]

3. That can't possibly be constitutional.

Can it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

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

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]

4. Wouldn't the ultimate irony be if

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

[procon]

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

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/