https://www.yahoo.com/news/tx-democrats-want-investigation-dan-205832101.html The Texas Democratic Party wants the Travis County District Attorney’s Office to investigate Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick after he sent unsolicited applications to vote by mail to potential voters. Patrick sent applications to voters leading up to the March 1 Republican primary, including in Tarrant County where the Star-Telegram reported that an Edgecliff Village resident got one of the applications accompanied by a letter encouraging those over 65 to use the voting method. The letter contained the official seal of Patrick’s office and the return envelope for the application was addressed to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. The Texas Democratic Party alleged in a letter Friday to Travis County District Attorney José Garza that Patrick violated Texas election law. Patrick supported a new state law that includes a provision making it a state jail felony for a “public official or election official” to send applications to voters who didn’t request one. Under the law that went into effect Dec. 2, candidates and political parties are allowed to send the forms. "The second-highest official, our state’s Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick has flagrantly violated S.B.1 (a law he championed last year) by illegally sending unsolicited vote-by-mail applications to voters across Texas and using his official seal and title to do so,” the letter from Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa reads. “Left unchecked, the Lieutenant Governor’s actions create two sets of rules: one for Democrats (who must comply with every provision of S.B. 1) and one for Republicans (who can pick and choose which provisions of S.B. 1 apply to them).” Hinojosa continues to ask Garza to “investigate his actions and to ensure that he will face full accountability under the Law.” Patrick’s office and campaign did not immediately return requests for comment. In the letter, the party raises concerns about the return envelope being addressed to the Texas Secretary of State and the letter containing Patrick’s seal. The letter’s envelope includes an address for Blakemore & Associates, which does campaign consulting for Patrick. “Regardless of whether this was funded by a campaign, by affixing the official seal of his office and his signature (with the signature line Dan Patrick/Lieutenant Governor) on a mailer containing mail ballot applications, he violated the very law he was so in favor of — at least as the state’s election officials have interpreted this provision of law,” the Friday letter from Hinojosa reads. “Dan Patrick intended for recipients of the mailer to think it was an official letter from his office.” The return address being marked to the state not individual counties’ early voting clerk resulted in delays for thousands of submitted applications, according to The Texas Tribune, which reported that the letters were also received by voters in central Texas and Houston.
Why do you have to deflect? Why can't you just say, yeah he broke the law and should face the consequences? You don't agree it's hypocritical to support a law against sending out mail in ballots, the law goes into place, and then he sends them out anyway, knowing it was illegal. Looks like maybe he was trying some loophole, but he got caught.
And no the Democratic party are not all angels. They aren't in a great state right now, and I'm not happy with where they are at.
When you follow a story about a republican with a comment denigrating Republicans as a whole, you can't be surprised when you receive a reply along those same lines.
I wasn't surprised The majority of Republicans are against mail in balloting. This has not been the only case where Republicans in office have said they are against it, but used it when it benefited them. The above example in Texas shows Republicans are against mail in ballots, mostly to stop Democrats from voting. There has been a lot of hypocrisy in the Republican party like the above and there will continue to be. Nearly all instances of voting fraud since Trump and the Republicans called the election stolen have been committed by Republicans. I never agreed with most Republican principles, but I used to have some respect for Republicans. There are some good Republicans like yourself still out there, but you are becoming the minority as your party is being over taken by Trump and the far right. More and more far right candidates who espouse Nazism and candidates supported by Trump are replacing the old guard. So, even if it is not all Republicans, it is definitely plural.
