Just hours after Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee deposited $150,000 each in Abigail Spanberger’s campaign account and the Virginia House Democratic Caucus’ coffers, Virginia Democrats began to attempt a scheme so brazen, it boggles the mind.
First, they want to override a constitutional amendment that gives a bipartisan commission of legislators and citizens the authority to draw Virginia’s congressional districts with a new amendment that gives that authority back to the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
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Second, to push that proposed amendment forward, they want to create a workaround to circumvent an amendment process that has been in place as long as there’s been a Virginia.
The Daily Signal sits down with former Virginia Attorney General and Deputy U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli from the Election Transparency Initiative to find out what’s really afoot here and how can it be stopped.
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