(09-23-2020, 07:43 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 01:50 PM)mikesez Wrote: Yeah but

Florida's previous harsh treatment of felons w/r/t voting rights was also a "blatant attempt to influence the outcome of an election.". A successful attempt that spanned decades.

A partisan legislature can do it, but a partisan billionaire can't? I see your point, but, I don't get it.

The makeup of the legislature changes every two years.  How can an "...attempt that spanned decades" possibly be partisan?

I'm not saying he can't do it, I'm saying recognize it for what it really is.  If people want to praise Bloomberg for using others (about whom he otherwise couldn't care less) for political gain, that is their right.

1) Republicans have had control the Florida legislature, both houses of it, continuously since 1992. Yes, it spans decades.

2) while Florida has not allowed felons to vote since the 1800s, it was the war on drugs starting in the mid 1980s that really gave us this remarkably high number of people who could not vote. And they continue to not be able to vote, to the present day. This affected the legislative election in 1990, in 1992 and 1994, you get my point. It spanned decades. and of course you know what the Republicans did at the state level once they got control in 1992, they made these drug laws even stricter, and ramped up prosecutions even more.

3) Financially, guys like Bloomberg are actually going to lose under a Biden administration. He's doing this because he believes in the cause, not for his own political gain.

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