Georgia GOP elector resigns after anti-Trump comments

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Georgia GOP elector resigns after anti-Trump comments

Updated 6:39 pm, Wednesday, August 3, 2016

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Republican resigned Wednesday from his role as an elector, hours after saying he can't vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and may not support him as a member of the electoral college.

Baoky Vu said in a joint statement with the Georgia Republican Party that his comments on Trump would be "detrimental" to the party.

"I have not lost faith in who we stand for as a party and will continue to fight for those who uphold our Constitution and our shared values," the statement said. "It is the least that I can do as a grateful citizen of this great nation."

Vu was chosen by Georgia Republicans as an elector, constitutionally required stand-ins for presidential candidates in the electoral college system.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Georgia-GOP-elector-resigns-after-anti-Trump-9111778.php

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1. Oh that's GOOD, repuke ELECTORS!!!

[rurallib]

2. wonder what he thinks his party stands for?

Trump seems to be the embodiment of republican policy right now.

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3. The LONGEST journey begins with the first step.

First step is to completely obliterate The Con and send his base back under the rocks from whence they crawled when they heard that it was OK to openly spew vile bile in the name of being anti "politically correct."

[Person 2713]

4. +1

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5. Now the wheels are really coming off the wagon.

Couldn't have happened to a better jackass!

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6. We're number 49!

As a long time Dem in GA, the dominance of the Republican Party here has embarrassed me (Gingrich, Paul Broun, Zell Miller, etc.) more times than I'd ever want to count.

My personal state motto is "Georgia - better than Mississippi." Sooooo glad I was born in NY.