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In January 2010 the former Massachusetts governor proudly cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He didn’t own property in the state at the time, and had registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence. Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter registration purposes as “where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life.” Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years behind bars and a fine of $10,000.
“This country is bankrupt; all great nations go down because they extend themselves overseas. …let’s defend this country, and stop pretending we can tell other people how to live!”
“This country is bankrupt; all great nations go down because they extend themselves overseas. …let’s defend this country, and stop pretending we can tell other people how to live!”—
Ron Paul, calling for less foreign military involvement, and a rededication to strict, domestic military defense.
He’s a racist, homophobic, sexist piece of trash, and he’s probably either crazy or stupid… but he’s the only Republican on the field right now that I could support to any degree. If Romney or Gingrich or Santorum wins the Presidency with the Congress we have now, then we won’t have a nation by the next elections. Ron Paul might set us back to the Dark Ages, but he wouldn’t completely flush the country down the drain. And then, once he’s out, we can elect someone smart and modern-minded to repair the damage he caused. If it’s Mitt or Newt or Rick, there won’t be anything to repair.
I want to vote for Barney Frank, or Sherrod Brown. I’ll take Obama if that’s what’s on the menu.
Had the same thing been carried out by a worker for the now-defunct ACORN, Republicans —- and even Newt Gingrich —- would have called it massive “voter fraud.” But the 1,500 acts of fraud, by Gingrich’s own admission, were carried out by a worker hired by his campaign, so it seems the media have barely noticed it.
Nonetheless, The BRAD BLOG has received confirmation from two different state agencies that the 1,500 alleged cases of ballot petition fraud said to have been carried out on behalf of the Gingrich campaign, in their unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Republican primary ballot in Virginia, are now being carried out by the state Attorney General’s office.
In late December, after Gingrich had failed to turn in enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, he was caught on video tape telling a supporter in Iowa that the reason for the failure was due to a campaign worker who created 1,500 fraudulent signatures.
“We turned in 11,100 —- we needed 10,000 —- 1,500 of them were by one guy who, frankly, committed fraud,” Gingrich is seen and heard saying in video originally aired by CNN.
The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives downplayed the incident, by explaining to the woman that the entire affair was “just a mistake,” after they had “hired somebody who turned in false signatures.”
Neither he nor his campaign, however, has made the name of the alleged “one guy” public, to our knowledge, despite the extraordinary number of fraudulent signatures created and turned in by that “one guy” in what an official at the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) described to us as “definitely an illegal act.”
News of the embarrassing criminal investigation is confirmed today, even as voters go to the polls for Florida’s 2012 GOP Primary, where Gingrich is facing off against front-runner Mitt Romney who, ironically —- and uncomfortably enough for Republicans —- may also find himself the subject of a criminal voter fraud investigation in the not-too-distant future…
Chris Dodd’s statements about the blackout yesterday got me thinking.
These huge media distributes got so big making money from us. Money we paid for the entertainment they distribute. Money they in turn are trying…
(via stfuconservatives)
A video that MUST be seen.
If you care about democracy, this is the most important issue in politics.
