^^^I'd say it'll never be settled issue until the majority come to the realization, and are will to recognize that 'Human Lives' ARE at stake!

Sex is cheap. Life is cheaper. I have no common beliefs with half of the country. Hard times are coming.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...-about-her-residence

Virginia Democrats last week took control of the state House and retained control of the state Senate by one seat — but a winning senator may have lied about residing in the district, a situation that could lead to the chamber falling into Republican hands.

Democrats are slated to control the state Senate 21-19, but if Ghazala Hashmi is ineligible to hold office because she lied on her campaign paperwork, then a situation could arise where she is replaced by a Republican, and Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears would cast tie-breaking votes.

Virginia Senate candidates are required to live in the district they are running for, and Hashmi filed candidacy paperwork saying she lived in an apartment on Boulder Lake Drive in North Chesterfield in Senate District 15.


But four neighbors filed a complaint saying she actually lives outside the district on Bosham Lane in Midlothian, and they provided a spreadsheet saying they had driven by the house 62 times during the month of October to document her residency. The notes include her car being there late at night and early in the morning, and her leaving the house shortly after 8 a.m. It also includes photographic evidence.

Putting Hashmi in a particular bind, if she did live in the Chesterfield apartment, then she may have committed a felony by concealing her ownership of the Midlothian home on sworn election forms.

The Certificate of Candidacy Qualification, which she signed March 14, 2023, says, “I now reside at the address shown below in the district in which I seek office,” under which she listed the North Chesterfield apartment.

The form also asks, “Do you or a member of your immediately family, separately or together, hold an interest valued at more than $5,000 in real property? DO NOT INCLUDE your principal residence.” She checked “no,” and did not list the Midlothian home. Real estate records show that she and her husband have owned that — worth nearly $600,000 — since 1999.

The form says “knowingly making any untrue statement or entry in this document is a felony under Virginia law. The punishment is a maximum fine of $2,500 and/or confinement for up to ten years. Also, you lose your right to vote.”

Hashmi is a current senator representing the old Senate District 10, which includes Midlothian. But after once-a-decade redistricting this year, her house became part of a new District 12. But she decided to run in neighboring District 15, representing Chesterfield County and part of Richmond, and apparently rented an apartment to have an address there.

Her home of 24 years is not currently listed for sale, according to real estate websites. Her car, observed to be parked there regularly, is easily identifiable because it has special legislator plates.

Hashmi won her election against Republican Hayden Fisher last Tuesday with 62% of the vote. Fisher told The Daily Wire, “I plan to stop them from certifying the election. She’s disqualified, that means I ran unopposed as a matter of law.”

“There’s no question whatsoever that she does not live in that apartment,” he said. “She definitely clearly intentionally lied on that form. And she does not reside in the district so she should not represent it.”

“She made no genuine effort to actually move into the district, she just rented an apartment. Why don’t you just sell your house and move into the district? She just doesn’t even care. The arrogance is mind boggling,” he said.

“Even if you look only at the document itself, she’s claiming she lives in this apartment and she didn’t list that she owns a secondary residence, when it’s a matter of public record that she owns it,” he added. “Number one, it’s a crime, number two, the board of elections should remove her.”

Fisher, a lawyer, said Hashmi’s votes must be declared null and void, and therefore the election goes to the second-place candidate — him. Holding a new election would not be appropriate because it would not punish the conduct, he said, and because of Democrats’ new law requiring 45 days of early voting, it would be enormously expensive to taxpayers and candidates, and leave residents of the district without a senator for months.

The complaint by four neighbors, which Fisher was not involved with, was dated October 31 and was addressed to Chesterfield County Registrar Missy Vera. Vera did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire. Hashmi also did not return a request for comment.

The candidacy form was signed under penalty of perjury and notarized in Chesterfield County. Election fraud and perjury charges could be brought by Chesterfield County Commonwealth Attorney Stacey T. Davenport, a Republican. However, Davenport narrowly lost her reelection bid on Tuesday and will be replaced next year by independent candidate Erin Barr.

“She should prosecute this completely because it’s open and shut. Either she’s living in the apartment and she had to list the residence, or shes living in the residence and she lied about living [in] the apartment. Either way she’s lying and it’s not a small matter, it goes directly to her qualifications,” Fisher said.

I don’t think they’ll follow the letter of the law here but just the chance that they might makes me smile a bit.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
I agree with J.D. Vance. Morally, I am opposed to abortion. Politically, such a position will deny conservatives power. Politics is the art of persuading people to vote for you, and then using the resultant power to improve their lives. The first step is getting elected; if you can't do that, you don't get to play.

ArtieS: I think the GOP should just stay out of it on the national level... persuasion should happen at the local level.

GOP Can't Make Up Its Mind About Abortion
By Brian C. Joondeph

Abortion has been a divisive issue in the U.S. ever since the Supreme Court, in an act of legislating from the bench, somehow found in the Constitution a “right” to abortion.

Even liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized this decision:

Ginsburg, who died in 2020, criticized the 7-to-2 decision both before and after she joined the high court. She argued that it would have been better to take a more incremental approach to legalizing abortion, rather than the nationwide ruling in Roe that invalidated dozens of state antiabortion laws.

Instead, the Roe decision, 50 years ago, went against the Tenth Amendment as abortion was not mentioned in the Constitution:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court set the record straight in the Dobbs ruling, returning the decision to the states via their people or elected representatives,

The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey are overruled; the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.

Some states jumped at the opportunity. My state of Colorado has no limits on abortion, allowing it from conception until birth. Last week Ohio passed a more limited right to abortion via Constitutional amendment, with no restrictions up until fetal viability, around 22-24 weeks of pregnancy, or later if necessary “to protect the life or health of the mother.”

Not defined is “health” of the mother. Physical health? Mental health? Emotional health? These will be decided on a “case by case basis”, probably without much thought or scrutiny.

What did SCOTUS say in Roe v. Wade? Was it unlimited abortion or were there restrictions? Here is the Roe decision:

In the first trimester of pregnancy, the state may not regulate the abortion decision; only the pregnant woman and her attending physician can make that decision. In the second trimester, the state may impose regulations on abortion that are reasonably related to maternal health. In the third trimester, once the fetus reaches the point of “viability,” a state may regulate abortions or prohibit them entirely, so long as the laws contain exceptions for cases when abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the mother.

After last week’s elections, the left is giddy and the establishment Republicans are worried, particularly over their party’s stance on abortion. They cite the Virginia legislature turning Democrat due to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proposed 15-week limit on abortion with exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother.

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The defeated Virginia proposal is not much different than the Roe decision which Democrats wanted left in place. Virginia previously limited abortion to the first 26 weeks and the ballot proposal would have changed that to 15 weeks, basically the first trimester.

Democrats, as usual, dominated the messaging: “Liberals ran ads attacking ‘MAGA extremists’ who want to ban abortion. Never mind that Mr. Youngkin proposed a prohibition at 15 weeks with exceptions.” Democrats also outspent Republicans by at least two to one.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel also declined the Virginia GOP’s request for funds to match the DNC spending. Perhaps some additional spending would have overcome the few thousand vote loss. One wonders if the RNC elites are actually pro-abortion?

National Review, taking a pause from Trump bashing, insists that the Republicans must compromise on abortion, taking more of a Democrat position. They tout presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s push to find a “national consensus” on abortion, and that the GOP should not push for federal abortion ban.

Good luck finding a “national consensus.” The Democrats want no limits while the Republicans want sensible limits or no abortions at all. What’s the middle ground?

Virginia was voting on a “middle ground,” Roe-like limits. This wasn’t a federal ban, despite media gaslighting. A federal ban would never pass the current Congress and a Democrat president, so the concept is a nonstarter. It is also contradictory to the spirit of the Dobbs decision, which turned abortion over to each individual state.

The country is divided and it’s either a compromise or continuous battle that Republicans will in most cases lose based on the narrative. The left accuses Republicans of wanting to ban all abortions and jail any woman who had one. The media piles on and Republicans say nothing in response, leaving Democrats to define the issue.

How do voters feel about a compromise? A Scott Rasmussen poll found that 56 percent of voters want abortion permitted only during the first trimester.

A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that 52 percent of likely U.S. voters consider themselves pro-choice on the issue of abortion, while 42 percent say they are pro-life. 50 percent believe “abortion is morally wrong most of the time.”

With a 50-50 split, good luck forming a “national consensus.”

What about other progressive countries, particularly the “enlightened” European Union? Abortion on demand is permitted from 12 to 14 weeks for most countries. This is more restrictive than the failed Virginia proposal.

Specifically, Spain and Belgium restrict abortion after 14 weeks with Italy, Norway, and Switzerland at 12 weeks. Most permissive are Singapore and the Netherlands at 24 weeks.

Compare that to Oregon, New Jersey, New Mexico, Maine, and Colorado where elective abortion is permitted up until birth.

The libertarian view is to get government out of the abortion issue. My friend Laura Carno, in her book “Government Ruins Nearly Everything”, makes the case for “The false dilemma of morality versus compassion.” She suggests non-government alternatives including privately funded crisis centers and an emphasis on adoption, keeping government out of abortion, while exercising both morality and compassion.

Should government have no role in regulating abortions, letting women have the final say? Does that then equate abortion to cosmetic plastic surgery or gender mutilation surgery, regulated only for minors but readily available for adults?

Or is a total ban more appropriate? Illicit drugs are banned in America yet almost 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2022. Underage teenagers consume plenty of alcohol. Abortions would continue even if completely banned. Common sense and morality cannot be legislated.

Perhaps the best solution, for which I may be pilloried by readers, is for national level Republicans to not make abortion an issue as it is now a state issue based on the Dobbs decision. The federal government should have no business in abortion.

Instead, it is a state issue, to be decided by elected representatives or better yet the voters through a ballot referendum. States can restrict all or no abortions, or anything in between. With 50 states, most Americans can find a state in which to live, one which aligns with their values and beliefs. If they find abortion rules in their state intolerable, they are free to move to a different state.

Let the Democrats make the proposals at a state level and Republicans can simply say, “Let the people decide.” Maybe that’s a cop out but the current GOP approach, including national restrictions, without the GOP making their case, changing hearts, souls, and the culture, is doomed to fail.

If the Republicans continue to lose power at the national, state, and local level over their wishy-washy abortion stand, the rest of their agenda fails as well.

If abortion is the hill Republicans want to die on, they will lose and there goes any chance of fixing our myriad problems, including an open border, weaponized federal government, out of control spending, endless foreign wars, inflation, and other pressing concerns.

Abortion is ultimately a moral choice, which cannot be legislated in a free society. Fiddling over abortion while America burns on so many fronts is misplaced energy. Abortion is a sensitive issue on both sides and the Constitution provides a remedy for settling the issue, although to many an imperfect solution.

Republicans must make the case for life, changing hearts and minds. Democrats will simply use the issue as a club to beat hapless Republicans who have no sensible solution or proposals.

Republicans could not answer accusations that they wanted to push granny over a cliff or make her eat dog food over Medicare and Social Security reforms. Now they don’t respond to accusations that they want to jail or execute any woman who has an abortion. There is a reason Republicans are called “the stupid party.”

Until or unless Republicans figure out a coherent message, their time and energy would be best focused on other pressing issues. The last several election cycles have made this clear as taking the same approach over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer.
https://www.americanthinker.co..._about_abortion.html

I'm against abortion and I'm against losing control to a party that caters to the abortion lobby.

Trump won, not because he championed against abortion; it was simply a side issue with you as part of the umbrella of getting constitutionalist justices on SCOTUS.

You don't get Democrats openly admitting that "Black Lives Matter" is about Marxism or "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" is about the annihilation of the state of Israel. You don't pick up a fight where the opposition has overwhelming leverage in terms of propaganda and confusion is on their side.

if you want to know why Virginia REPs lost on 7 Nov, watch this 15 minute video at

https://townhall.com/videos/20...in-virginia-n2631129

hint: RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

zero dollars from RNC

The Vile Hag concedes.

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WTOP.com: Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj concedes, won’t seek recount

Scott Gelman | sgelman@wtop.com

November 15, 2023, 1:44 PM

Days after Election Day in Virginia, incumbent Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj has conceded to challenger Bob Anderson.

The county’s election office certified the results on Tuesday with the final tally of 68,068 votes for Anderson and 67,768 for Biberaj.

“After counting more than 136,000 votes, we were short 300,” said Biberaj during a news conference Wednesday outside the Leesburg courthouse. “That is less than one quarter of 1% of all the ballots submitted.”

The results of the race are close enough for her to request a recount under Virginia law, but Biberaj said she will not pursue one “in order to conserve the taxpayer funds, as well as to expand the transition period better serve the people of Loudoun County.”

Biberaj became the first woman to be elected as the county’s top prosecutor when she won four years ago.

Calling it an “honor of my life” to serve the county, she said she was proud of her service.

Biberaj touted her office’s ability to reduce “mass incarceration without increasing recidivism,” and said violent crime in the county is down 31%.

“Loudoun remains one of the safest places to raise a family. We have laid the groundwork for continued progress for years to come,” she said.

Biberaj has been criticized for prosecuting a father of a Loudoun County rape victim. Gov. Glenn Youngkin later pardoned that father. She was also criticized for the decision to stop trying certain misdemeanor crimes in January of this year.

In a tweet, Anderson, who was the county’s commonwealth’s attorney from 1996 to 2003, said, “I am ready to get to work restoring transparency to the office and to deliver on my promise to protect our community from violent crime.”

Biberaj said that her next steps is to ensure a smooth transition in the county commonwealth’s office. “That’s my sole focus at this moment.”

Get wrecked bitch! HAHAHAHA

so whaddabout the Shashimi who faked her real address...

are they gonna call that one?

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Ghazala Hashmi

link to article

not looking good that anything will happen


https://www.wtvr.com/news/loca...-address-nov-14-2023

Will the court disqualify Virginia Sen. Ghazala Hashmi's win? CBS 6's political expert says it's unlikely.