The LuLac Edition #4,458, December 16th, 2020

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During the recent counting of votes for a Presidential election, there were a lot of Republicans who lacked the spine and courage to not realize that Donald Trump, lost. Times Shamrock outlines the shame.

 KAUFER, BOBACK AND TOOHIL LACKED THE COURAGE TO PROTECT YOUR VOTE

 Courage is hard to come by in today’s Republican Party.

Cowed by a lame duck president determined to cast doubt on the election that will remove him from office, many members of his party have entertained wild conspiracy theories and signed on to dubious legal actions aimed at robbing millions of their votes.

There are exceptions. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger resisted direct pressure from President Trump to subvert the will of voters there.

Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, summoned to the White House last month and lobbied to reject the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, did their duty this week as Biden’s electors confirmed the decision of that state’s voters.

And outgoing Michigan Congressman Paul Mitchell announced Monday he is leaving the Republican Party and chided the GOP and Trump for sowing doubt on the 2020 election.

“It is unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third-world nation and incite distrust of something so basic as the sanctity of our vote,” he said.

Then there are Aaron Kaufer, Karen Boback and Tarah Toohil, Republican state representatives from Luzerne County who signed a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a complaint by the Texas attorney general seeking to nullify the presidential votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. The court ultimately refused to allow Texas to proceed, finding it lacked legal standing.

In prepared statements, Kaufer and Toohil portrayed their actions as merely defending the powers of the state General Assembly, arguing that changes to voting procedures approved by the commonwealth’s Secretary of State and Supreme Court violated the Pennsylvania and U.S. constitutions, claims already firmly rejected in both state and federal courts. Boback was too timid to even respond to a request for comment.

Kaufer, in particular, claimed the amicus brief “did not seek to take sides in the decision, nor did it seek to overturn the election.”

But the Texas filing clearly stated its purpose: to “enjoin the use of unlawful election results” and “remand to the Defendant States’ respective legislatures to appoint Presidential Electors,” in effect to substitute the will of the Republican-controlled legislatures in those states for that of the voters, who favored the Democratic candidate.

The brief signed by Kaufer and the others sought to open the door to the disenfranchisement of millions to satisfy the bruised ego of a rejected president.

It is striking that Kaufer, Boback, Toohil and U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, who signed a similar brief with his Republican colleagues in Congress, can find such fault with an election that returned each of them to office for two-year terms.

Their hypocrisy and willingness to go along with unfounded allegations that may do lasting damage to the public trust in our system of government should not be forgotten if they seek reelection in 2022.

 

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