Voting rights issue or school safety?

MoonHowler

December, 2012  at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Strasburg, Virginia.

 Fast forward to yesterday, June 11, 2013:

nvdaily.com:

Christopher Gerrit Johnson found his plans to vote in Tuesday’s primary temporarily stymied at the Strasburg Police Department before authorities agreed he had a right to cast his ballot and allowed him to do so.

Johnson’s initial trouble in voting at Strasburg High School, his designated polling place, stemmed from a “no trespassing” order banning him from Shenandoah County Public Schools property. The order was issued after an incident in mid-December when Johnson entered Sandy Hook Elementary School with a board bearing the words “high powered rifle.”

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Faux News and Ingraham lie again about Plan B

MoonHowler

These folks have told one lie after the other. As a matter of fact, many of the women’s reproductive rights groups were hotting mad at Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama because girls under 15 had to have parental permission to get the morning after pill.

According to mediaite.com:

The Fox News watchdogs over at Media Matters have flagged another clip of conservative commentator Laura Ingraham saying something “outrageous,” which is a bit like flagging a clip of the sky being blue, but in the process, they missed the big, fat lie that Fox and Friends‘ Steve Doocy told about President Obama‘s policy on Plan B emergency contraception. The Justice Department has dropped its appeal of a judge’s ruling that the drug be made available over-the-counter, without age restrictions, which Ingraham called a “good deal for pedophiles” and statutory rapists.

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Northam, Herring win Va Democratic primary

MoonHowler

The Democratic ticket for this fall’s election has been finalized.  Terry McAuliffe will run for governor.  Senator Ralph Northam will run for Lt. Governor, and  state Senator State Mark Herring from Loudoun County will run for Attorney General.

These Democrats are a stark contrast to the Republican ticket which is one of the most conservative tickets in the history of the Old Dominion.

Voter turn out was very light.  Only about 140,000 voters turned out to cast their ballot.  Time to turn up the heat now.