KING: By an unrecorded vote: Georgia Senate OKs driver’s licenses to illegal aliens

By D.A. King, Macon Telegraph, April 12, 2015

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Understand this: The vote on McKoon’s amendment was intentionally conducted in a way that there is no official record of how any senator voted. It was done with an off-the-vote-tally-machine, unrecorded, raise-your-hand vote while several senators scrambled around the chamber to avoid the video cameras that record each day’s chamber events.

To restate it as simply as possible, the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate killed an amendment to stop illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses by holding an unrecorded raise-your-hand-vote on whether or not to have an unrecorded raise-your-hand-vote. Unrecorded vote won. We the people lost.

This reluctant denizen of the Capitol was there and watched this entire display of just how high the contempt factor has risen under the Gold Dome.

With the 2015 Georgia General Assembly now in the rearview mirror, conservative voters may want to ignore the proclamations of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and decide for themselves about the “winners and losers.”

Republican-controlled Georgia is still issuing driver’s licenses, official Georgia ID cards and public benefits to illegal aliens. Those benefits include eligibility for unemployment compensation.

Currently, the number of Georgia illegals enjoying these rewards is well north of 15,000, with that number predicted to swell by about another 200,000 if the now-imperiled 26 state lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s second executive amnesty fails.

Intended to end this wildly liberal, California-like and hushed-up practice, Senate Bill 6, offered by state Sen. Josh McKoon, was never even allowed a hearing in a committee in the super-majority Republican state Senate. And it was never listed as “important legislation” by the agenda-setting Georgia media.

But with a “Plan B” action in a floor amendment offered by McKoon, language from SB 6 that would have ended the practice of rewarding any illegal aliens with a Georgia driver’s license did see a vote in the Senate.

Readers would do well to take an interest in the unreported details of that vote.

McKoon’s surprise amendment created no small amount of commotion and panic in the Senate chamber, because if some quick action was not taken, the Republicans who had assured their constituents for years that they were against driver’s licenses for illegal aliens would have to actually vote to stop that practice. News tip: There was as much or more pressure exerted on senators to kill SB 6 as there was to pass the $1 billion transportation tax increase.

In the end, and on orders from the people who really run Georgia, the Georgia Senate defeated the McKoon amendment by a vote of 27-16. Did I mention that the Republicans have a super majority in the state Senate?

Don’t rush to the General Assembly website to see how your own senator voted. There is no record. Because the process of that vote and its result are yet another example of the shameless and defiant contempt that many, if not most, current state legislators hold for the voters who elect them as public servants.

Understand this: The vote on McKoon’s amendment was intentionally conducted in a way that there is no official record of how any senator voted. It was done with an off-the-vote-tally-machine, unrecorded, raise-your-hand vote while several senators scrambled around the chamber to avoid the video cameras that record each day’s chamber events.

To restate it as simply as possible, the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate killed an amendment to stop illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses by holding an unrecorded raise-your-hand-vote on whether or not to have an unrecorded raise-your-hand-vote. Unrecorded vote won. We the people lost.

This reluctant denizen of the Capitol was there and watched this entire display of just how high the contempt factor has risen under the Gold Dome.

When McKoon introduced his amendment, he also made a motion to have the vote on adding it to the bill in question conducted on the vote tally machine. By Senate rules, that motion must be quickly supported by at least five more senators. Of a total of 56 state senators -- 38 of whom are Republicans -- only four would defy the real government of Georgia and back McKoon on getting a public, recorded, machine-counted vote.

Confused? That is the intent of the entire maneuver.

It has been stated in this space before that stopping an on-the-record senate vote concerning illegal immigration was and is an ultra-high priority. The event described above represent a very close call for senators who even now will claim to be conservative and pro-enforcement on immigration.

I leave it up to the reader to judge various degrees of deception on the part of these elected servants. But my own view involves my district’s state Sen. Judson Hill, R-Marietta. Hill stalled for weeks on co-sponsoring SB 6. After finally being cajoled into signing on, he was not one of the four senators who supported McKoon in the failed attempt for a recorded vote on the amendment.

Because of the danger of constituents remembering any of this, a recorded vote would likely have resulted in approval of the amendment. I know what readers must be asking themselves. How did my own state senator vote on the recorded-vote motion? There were no state senators from Middle Georgia who raised a hand in favor of a recorded vote on the McKoon amendment or who voted for the amendment itself. Winners and losers anyone?

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. He is not a member of any political party. Official video of the state Senate actions he described can be seen on the blog page at (http://www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org.)

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