Summary:
Understand this: The
vote on McKoon’s amendment was intentionally conducted in a way such that there
is no official record of how any senator voted. It was done with an
off-the-vote-tally-machine, un-recorded, raise your hand vote while several
senators scrambled around the chamber to avoid the video cameras that record
each day’s chamber events. See my MDJ blog space for a link to the video.
The
Marietta Daily Journal - By an unrecorded vote Georgia Senate OKs driver s
licenses to illegal aliens
With the 2015 Georgia
General assembly now in the rear-view mirror, conservative voters may want to
bypass the proclamations of the newspapers in Dunwoody and decide for
themselves about the “winners and losers.”
Republican-controlled
Georgia is still issuing driver’s licenses, official Georgia ID cards and
public benefits to illegal aliens. Those benefits include eligibility for
unemployment compensation.
Currently, the number
of Georgia illegals enjoying these rewards is well north of 15,000, with that
number predicted to swell by about another 200,000 if the now imperiled
26-state lawsuit against Obama’s second executive amnesty fails.
Intended to end this
wildly liberal, California-like and hushed-up practice, Senate Bill 6, offered
by state Senator Josh McKoon, was never even allowed a hearing in a committee
in the super-majority Republican state Senate. And it was never listed as
“important legislation” by the agenda-setting Georgia media.
But with a “Plan B”
action in a floor amendment offered by McKoon, language from SB 6 that would
have ended the practice of rewarding any illegal aliens with a Georgia driver’s
license did see a vote in the senate.
Readers would do well
to take an interest in the un-reported details of that vote.
McKoon’s surprise
amendment created no small amount of commotion and panic in the senate chamber,
because if some quick action was not taken, the Republicans who had assured
their constituents for years that they were against drivers licenses for
illegal aliens would have to actually vote to stop that practice. News tip:
There was as much or more pressure exerted on senators to kill SB 6 as there
was to pass the $ 1billion dollar transportation tax increase.
In the end, and on
orders from the people who really run Georgia, the Georgia Senate defeated the
McKoon amendment by a vote of 27-16. Did I mention that the Republicans have a
super majority in the state Senate?
Don’t rush to the
General assembly website to see how your own senator voted. There is no record.
Because the process of that vote and its result are yet another example of the
shameless and defiant contempt that many, if not most, current state
legislators hold for the voters who elect them as public servants.
Understand this: The
vote on McKoon’s amendment was intentionally conducted in a way such that there
is no official record of how any senator voted. It was done with an
off-the-vote-tally-machine, un-recorded, raise your hand vote while several
senators scrambled around the chamber to avoid the video cameras that record
each day’s chamber events. See my MDJ blog space for a link to the video.
To re-state it as
simply as possible, the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate killed an
amendment to stop illegal aliens from getting a driver’s license by holding an
unrecorded raise-your-hand-vote on whether or not to have an unrecorded
raise-your-hand-vote. Unrecorded won. We the people lost.
This reluctant denizen
of Capitol was there and watched this entire display of just how high the
contempt factor has risen under the Gold Dome.
When McKoon introduced
his amendment, he also made a motion to have the vote on adding it to the bill
in question conducted on the vote tally machine. By Senate rules that motion
must be quickly supported by at least five more senators. Of a total of 56
state Senators - thirty-eight of whom are Republicans - only four would defy
the real government of Georgia and back McKoon on getting a public, recorded,
machine- counted vote.
Confused? That is the
intent of the entire maneuver.
It has been stated in
this space before that stopping an on-the-record senate vote concerning illegal
immigration was and is an ultra-high priority. The event described above
represent a very close call for senators who even now will claim to be
conservative and pro-enforcement on immigration.
I leave it up to the
reader to judge various degrees of deception on the part of these elected
servants. But my own view involves my district’s state Senator, Judson Hill
(R). Hill stalled for weeks on co-sponsoring SB 6. After finally being cajoled
into signing on, he was not one of the four senators who supported McKoon in
the failed attempt for a recorded vote on the amendment.
Because of the danger
of constituents remembering any of this, a recorded vote would likely have
resulted in approval of the amendment.
There were no
Democrats who voted for a recorded vote on the McKoon amendment or for the
amendment itself.
I know what readers
must be asking themselves. How did my own Republican senator vote on the
recorded vote motion?
From the Cobb delegation
to the state Senate, only Senator Hunter Hill raised his hand in favor of a
recorded vote on the McKoon amendment.
Winners and losers
anyone?
D.A. King is president
of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. He is not a member of any political
party.
Read more: The Marietta Daily
Journal - By an unrecorded vote Georgia Senate OKs driver s licenses to illegal
aliens
Source:http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/articles/dak_mdj/art_dak_mdj_2015apr11.html
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