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- Exchanger
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Michael Moore offers financial incentive for electors who vote
Don't they call that bribery? Never mind...... it's Mikey Moore. The same guy who is calling for people to disrupt the inauguration in January 2017.
Liberal author and filmmaker Michael Moore is offering a financial incentive to members of the Electoral College, just hours before they are scheduled to gather at state capitols around the country and formally declare Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States.
A number of electors who oppose Trump — Democrat and Republican — have said they will not cast their ballots in accordance with how their states voted. The U.S. Constitution does not require that they do so, although some states may impose penalties on the so-called “faithless electors.”But Moore offered to pay any state-imposed fines for electors who go against Trump and “vote their conscience.”“Republican Electors — If you vote your conscience at noon and your state fines you for this, I will pay your fine,” Moore tweeted Sunday night.
Republican Electors — If you vote your conscience at noon and your state fines you for this, I will pay your fine: — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 19, 2016
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
- Just Fred
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Re: Michael Moore offers financial incentive for electors who vote
Gotta love that electoral college system don't cha?
- Goose
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Re: Michael Moore offers financial incentive for electors who vote
So what?
It's over.
If some trumpers put 1/1000 the effort into solving problems that they spend hating on minor figures, hey we'd have theme parks on Mars.
But, it's not about solving the nation's problems now, is it?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- tennyson
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Re: Michael Moore offers financial incentive for electors who vote
I understand the protests and actually support the right of those who now feel disenfranchised by Trump's win to express themselves. I don't believe that there EVER has been a candidate that lost the popular vote by so much and still won the Presidency in our history. Sure they have a right to express their displeasure. That is what our democracy is all about.
I don't think anyone really tought Trump would not get the electoral votes he needed. That pretty much was just a sideshow.
All of this is, however, a big reminder that we have an electorate that is deeply divided. Will Trump heal the divide ? I am not holding my breath. As a matter of fact, he might make it worse. We will know in 4 years.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"