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Gov. Cuomo just pulled an Obama and Republicans are FURIOUS

This is a great example of how desperate Democrats are to win elections; and just how totalitarian they can be when they don’t get their way:

FOX NEWS – In an executive order signed Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote.

The move by the second-term Democrat came after state Republicans blocked a bill in the state Senate.

“I’m unwilling to take no for an answer,” Cuomo said at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York City. “I’m going to make it law by executive order.”

The new directive includes New York in a list of 14 states and the District of Columbia that allow felons to vote in elections after serving their sentence.

“It is unconscionable to deny voting rights to New Yorkers who have paid their debt and have re-entered society,” Cuomo said in a statement.

“This reform will reduce disenfranchisement and will help restore justice and fairness to our democratic process. Withholding or delaying voting rights diminishes our democracy.”

Cuomo said that nearly three-fourths of parolees in New York are black or Latino, and allowing parolees to vote will help them to reconnect with the community.

Republicans are furious…

But Republicans disagree and already started pouncing on Cuomo over the new measure. Republican Senate Leader John Flanagan said Wednesday that the order was bad public policy and could potentially be illegal because the governor ignored the Legislature.

Ed Cox, chairman of the state Republican Party, in a statement, called the directive an “outrageous power grab” in a bid to appeal to “radical primary voters,” according to the New York Times.

The legislature denied Cuomo, so what does he do? He pulls an Obama and gets out his pen and paper to do an end run around the legislature.

Of course he pretends that he’s a humanitarian or something in doing this, but we all know this is about winning elections. Perhaps he’s feeling the heat in his own battle against former Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon and hopes that by giving these felons the right to vote again, they will vote for him. That’s what I’m betting.

Either way, I hope Republicans in the state sue his pants off over this one and win. An preliminary injunction would be a nice place to start.

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