VA republicans will retake control of the VA senate

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

F**k Phillipp Puckett. I hope he rots in prison.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

ITT: Republicans ecstatic that poor people won't have health insurance.

Also ITT: Republicans applauding blatant bribery.

Never change, GOP.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Puckett has withdrawn consideration, however, the language of Virginia's law against bribery is as follows:

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Now I'm not sure what the state tobacco commission's salary is, but considering the state senator salary is $14k a year, it looks like the law's going to give Puckett as much grief as he's given to Virginia's lower class.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

If this situation happened in reverse, it would no doubt be called bribery by Republicans. There are ways of doing dishonest things without breaking the law. An executive order in comparison to this is nothing and at least it would make the whole bribery scheme for naught.

I don't recall most of the Republicans accusing Max Baucus of taking bribes when President Obama gave him a cushy job so that he'd resign early to help Democrats try and hold on to that seat. It's kind of like how a lot of the Democrats in Virginia who were mad last November about the Republicans trying to change policy through a budget shutdown were fine with Terry McCrook trying to change policy through a budget shutdown.

This thing with the shutdown and Puckett is no different than what has been going on recently in other circles. It's just this time, team red and blue are reversed.

Yeah, there's no monetary gain from Baucus resigning though. He takes a downgrade in money and status.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

And even if there had been, how exactly does that justify bribing Puckett to resign?  I swear, it's like complaining about imaginary Obama "scandals" has become the Republican party's version of "Oh yeah?  Well, I'm rubber and you're glue, so anything you say bounces off me and goes back to you."

Who was bribed? It doesn't appear that Puckett is getting a magical money sack. He's not getting a shiny new job. His daughter's appointment is probably going to go through, but the holdup was his fault in the first place for being a sitting legislator. It's not like the Republicans just invented that custom out of thin air. Huffpost and ThinkSoros are quick to use the word "bribery" even though there isn't any evidence of it, other than that there's an outcome detrimental to Democrats. For all we know, Puckett resigned because Josh Lyman bullied him too much, or his wife has cancer, or he's getting a divorce. But because Terry's plan falls apart, the automatic assumption is that icky Republicans "bribed" the Democrat to get him to resign. What happened here is no different than the Max Baucus Ambassadorship.

He was approached by Republicans about a more lucrative job than the Virginia state senate himself in exchange for his resignation, and he accepted. A higher salary is involved. Baucus took a less lucrative job. There is nothing more to argue about this point. This is not partisanship, this is the truth.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Going by the VA legal definition of bribery, I'd say that there was a pecuniary benefit by him resigning his job, and would benefit a sitting senator and state representative by influencing the main roadblock to their party's majority to resign and allow their positions to become law of the land in the Commonwealth.

I'm interested in your point, but looking at the legalese, I'd say it's a bribe.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

okay

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Not sure where else to post this, but...

Delegate Rosalyn Dance wins the Democratic nomination for Henry Marsh's seat, even after she supported the VAGOP's gerrymander because it created a black-majority seat (at the expense of diluting black/Democratic power in eight other districts).

So between this and nominating Northam to be LG, this cycle's been the Year of the Traitors in Virginia. The Democratic Party needs to grow some balls, fast, before more self-serving excuses get in office.