Democrats “found” votes after the election was over. This is the same kind of fraud that Al Franken used to steal the election. Renee Ellmers is a Tea Party candidate who won fair & square while the NRCC told her that they would not help her in her campaign and now wont support her in the recount. I am beseeching all of my political friends to open your wallets and help her now as this is her most desperate hour! Ellmers needs money for lawyers to monitor the recount and stop this fraud.
Her opponent is Bob Etheridge, who became infamous when he assaulted a student who asked him an inconvenient question.
UPDATE – GOP Chairman Michael Steele is stepping up to help. This web site has always supported Chairman Steele through all of the unfair attacks from the GOP establishment and the elite media, we are gratified that our support was not misplaced.
UPDATE II – Renee needs $230,000 to monitor the recount to help insure that she isn’t ripped off. The NRCC sent $5,000 after Rush Limbaugh went off on them today.
Awesome. Folks we have gone through this bill backwards and forwards. This writer tends to stay away from superlatives but it is just this simple; this healthcare bill is so bad, so expensive and so destructive to healthcare, seniors, jobs etc that if you support it you are either a fool, evil, or are in denial about what is in it.
I realize this statement may offend some of my professor friends at IUSB, but I care about you and people enough to give you the splash of cold water that you desperately need. I challenge anyone to debate me publicly on the merits of this bill in front of an audience and when the debate is over perhaps you will realize what the American people made crystal clear on election day.
This is also about “process”. You do not do a power grab on 1/7th of the economy on a party line vote, using secret negotiating and bribes to cram it through.
Rudy Giuliani used to run the second largest health care company in the country. He tells how the bill is and scolds the pinheads on The View that they are stuck in their New York bubble which is not the real world.
Thought to keep in mind: even though yesterday was a massive Republican/Tea Party blow out there were still many close races where our team lost by VERY close margins.
I will start with The Walorski/Donnelly race right here in Indiana 2.
I – First thing’s first, Indiana 2 was gerrymandered to make it so a Republican could never hold this seat again as much of Elkhart County was gerrymandered out of the district. District lines should reflect communities and it is a no-brainer that Elkhart is a part of our community. If not for outrageous gerrymandering (really you should see the crazy way Democrats carved up Elkhart) Walorski would have won. More on this issue below.
Conservatives outvoted Donnelly last night. Libertarian Mark Vogel pulled almost 10,000 votes while Jackie lost by just over 2,500. Politico.com had something to say about this:
My colleague Kasie Hunt had a great story last week on stealth Democratic support for conservative third parties.
One place it worked: Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) narrowly edged out his GOP opponent by about 2,500 votes, while Mark Vogel, the Libertarian in the race netted almost 10,000 votes. Indiana Democrats spent about $15,000 dollars on a targeted mailer touting Vogel as the true conservative candidate in the race.
One consequence: Republicans will have even fewer scruples about aggressive efforts on behalf of the Green Party in 2012.
When gerrymandering is taken into consideration, the way that the voters have rejected the Democrat leadership is truly remarkable. There were many races where “impossible to defeat” Democrat incumbents either lost or skirted by with a few votes to spare. This brings us to….
II – Republicans took the Indiana House back last night (Grats Tim Wesco!) and when you consider the number of House races we lost due to gerrymandering (quite literally as much as two dozen) it becomes more and more clear that voters and conservative activists have to spend more time and attention on state legislature races. This very writer is guilty of this but has learned his lesson. I hope you will too. On a bright note many states including several in the East had victorious Republican state legislature blowouts that have not been seen in 100 years. This means that in 2012 districts will not be gerrymandered into silliness. Expect the now proven corrupt (more on this tomorrow) Obama justice department to sue over every district redrawn by these new state legislatures so start preparing for that now.
We have great state legislators like Joe Zakas, we should start talking him up and featuring his (and others) substantive accomplishments in mini-ads and posters to engage in a partial permanent campaign to educate voters on how Republican state legislators improve the lives of Hoosiers every day. For Example create a system of mini-posters of revolving internet mini-ads, Facebook status’, tweets, trading cards etc :
Did you know that Joe Zakas lead your Indiana Republicans and provided our local magistrates with additional authority, such as the ability to issue protective orders to combat domestic violence. That was a serious and creative response to an important need. Eventually it became model legislation. Now, Joe’s language is applied not just in St. Joseph County but across the state, improving Indiana’s court system, making it more efficient. You’ll find it in IC 33-23-5-5 (15).
The same can be done for all sorts of things the GOP has done to help improve the lives of people in need every day. I can even see putting little snippets like this on the back of business cards, which brings us to …
III -There were many close races even in traditional Democrat strongholds. Here in South Bend several people running for office like Deb Fleming only lost by a handful of votes. This proves that typically Democratic learning voters are willing to vote for a great GOP candidates (many House and Senate races where Republicans were thought to have no chance demonstrate this as well) . The national and state parties need to wage a teaching campaign to help educate voters. Democrats and Republicans know that the more accurate information voters have the better it is for traditional/conservative candidates.
This teaching campaign also needs to include a key element: the time has come for black voters to come back home to the GOP. The GOP needs to aggressively target black voters. Any examination of our inner cities where progressive politicians have had unrestrained power shows clearly how Democrats have not just let black Americans down, but have thrown them under the bus. The other issue to create a wedge is the status of inner city public schools where Obama, the Democratic leadership in league with the corrupt teachers unions have fought tooth and nail to keep minority inner city schools stuck in the status quo. Many people are not aware of this but there is substantial new evidence that proves that bad schools are not a result of bad neighborhoods, but rather bad neighborhoods are a result of bad schools (The documentary “Waiting for Superman” in theaters now highlighted some of this evidence). Black Americans overwhelmingly agree with the GOP when it comes to education reform.
This ad is a good example of how to get started:
When Carl Baxmeyer ran for office he did pretty good on the West Side for a Republican because he actually went there and asked for their vote. We need a communications machine that goes to the inner cities and gets in their face, but in a good way.
A good start would be for the likely new incoming Speaker Boehner as his first act to appoint Allen West as speaker for the day and have Pelosi pass the gavel to him (bold as hell isn’t it, but its a good start).
Allen West –
When the redistricting takes place the racial incitement rhetoric from the far left will begin so we need to have a communications offensive underway.
Look at this man in the video below. See that he has been whipped up by the incitement rhetoric of the far left. I would like to ask him a question: What has the NAACP done for you lately? Sure you can tell me all sorts of things they did in the 50′s and 60′s when the NAACP was a solidly Republican organization, but what have they done for you lately? Martin Luther King would be marching on inner city public schools and teachers union halls, why aren’t they? Why are they fighting to preserve the status quo? They have sold out to the far left for money and power haven’t they?Does the man in this video look satisfied with government?
If the GOP can make gains among black voters it could even make St. Joe County a Republican stronghold permanently.
IV – GOP Communications are often uncreative, ineffective and worn out. As fine a candidate and a leader Jacki Walorski is, IMO her communications machine has a long list of missed opportunities and her campaign wasn’t the only one by a long shot.
I look at the ads that ignore basic communications realities such as “the medium is the message” (an academic term that will take too long to explain here). I see the same tired old ads from our GOP with the candidate around table with blue prints on it, or the candidate in a hard hat pointing to something off camera that isn’t there…. let me be clear… the attention level of the electorate has changed and the type of ads that Chris Chocola ran in 2006 and have been run by so many candidates in this cycle are much less effective. Why?
It used to be that when organizations like Gallup and Rasmussen gave survey’s to test voter knowledge of the issues the results use dto look like this :
Republican voters would average 8 out of 10 issue questions correct
Independents would average 3 out of 10 questions correct
Democrats would average 4 or 5 questions correct.
Starting in 2009 something changed that many people (including myself) thought we would never see:
Republican voters would average 8 out of 10 issue questions correct
Independents would average 7 out of 10 questions correct
Democrats would average 4 questions correct.
The GOP communications old guard has not pivoted or changed to reflect this new reality and make no mistake, this new political reality changes everything. The GOP needs to have more Socratic and substantive ads and communications. We need to prepare our candidates in more direct and substantive way to articulate the truth. Look at the ads by Allen West and Michele Bachman and even the radio ads by former Congressman Mark Souder, they were tremendously effective. Look at New Jersey where Governor Chris Chrsitie uses a Socratic, blunt, direct style of communicating and he is winning the PR battle against the Democrats and the rich teachers union (that union makes 130 million a year in dues), in an overwhelming Democrat state, using Youtube. Even the leftists at the Today Show loves this guy.
Chris Christie’s communications strategy is the same as my own. When it comes to the voters talk to them like adults and do not patronize them. When it comes to political enemies and those who put self over service my attitude and the strategy is this: I win. You lose. The people respond to this in a big way including traditional Democrat voters. Here are some links with some examples:
If I was in charge of GOP communications my TV ads would have gone something like the following. I would have had Jackie in front of the old White Hall plant and explained how those good jobs were taxed and regulated right out of the country. Then I would have taken her to Elkhart and Mishawaka Bayer and had her explain to voters how these jobs are threatened because of Donnelly’s new tax on medical devices. Than I would have taken her to the Miles Labs plant on Bieger Street where they used to make Alka Selter etc and explain how Donnelly’s new taxes on our medicines and new restrictions on using Health Savings Accounts for certain medicines hurts these jobs and helps send more away.You see, a well done Socratic ad when it comes on TV the first thought that enters their mind is “Hey there’s Jackie” instead of “Oh crap not another one of those ads” as soon as they hear the spooky music and see the first grainy picture. The health care bill was another missed opportunity. Sure Walorski’s ads tied Donnelly to it but many voters did not understand how it hurt their community directly. The ads I proposed would have taken that issue, brought it right home and in the voters face and shoved that terrible legislation right down Donnelly’s throat.
Jackie is an awesome person, but in my view her ads fell short of taking advantage of her personality or showing just how special she is. More Socratic ads would have helped to address that problem. Also on a minor point; in my opinion Jackie was a little too nice to Joe and let me explain what I mean by this. Those of us who have seen Jackie in action know she can get very tough with someone who is doing wrong, but when Joe Donnelly lies to her face and impunes her with bull-crap that can’t withstand a few minutes of intellectual scrutiny I did not see Jackie display the righteous indignation she was full well entitled to. It is possible to be a little too slick. It is better show a little more humanity (and even be a tad more flawed) as people can relate to that person better (a little too much humanity like with the early, missteps on the Sharon Angle campaign should be avoided).
V – Avoiding Missteps. Last but not least, the Sharon Angle race was winnable and so were several others. The GOP needs to have communications pro’s that understand today’s political reality. Many of our candidates are doers, not talkers. To compensate for that our communications teams need to come up with scripts and ads that best articulate the candidates own ideas and defend them from assault. I am not talking about assembly line talking points. What I am talking about is taking each candidate’s ideas and coming up with creative ways of presenting and defending them. We need more mock debate prep behind the scenes to get the candidate ready for prime time and an elite media who will be out to destroy them. Like I said our candidates tend to be doers not talkers, so we need to learn to avoid the consequences of a good idea being articulated in a bad way that gives the media or an opponent something to jump on (like what happened to Rand Paul early on, fortunately he was able to recover).
Truly touching speech by New Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner (the video editor added a few seconds of the predictably classless MSNBC meltdown on the end of the video) -
Senator Elect Marco Rubio Gives GOP awesome victory speech (scroll to 2:45 to get passed the “thank yous” and to the substance):
Allen West who has been called America’s new Frederick Douglass gives a fiery victory speech:
Allen West
Dr. Rand Paul: Hey Senate! Deliberate this… (Scroll to 1 minute to get by “thank yous”) -
Senator Jim DeMint, who was one of the architects of recent Tea Party victories, gives a smart and substantive speech (scroll to 3:15 to get by “thank yous”) –
We quote Politico.com from time to time, but we are VERY careful when we do and make sure that someone else backs it up because Politico gets the story wrong too often for my tastes.
Lately they have been running a series of hit pieces against Sarah Palin quoting “anonymous sources”. At least some of this is obviously made up. In a previous hit piece Politico’s narrative was that Palin is such a dingbat that other Republicans and conservative hosts like Glenn Beck are fed up with her. So what did Beck and his staff have to say about that?
In the Oct. 21 issue of Politico, an article written by Jonathan Martin attacks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her political activities and her dealings with other conservative leaders. One of Martin’s examples of Palin “wreaking havoc on the campaign trail” involved a disagreement with Fox News host Glenn Beck:
So the same clowns at Politico.com went and did a larger hit piece claiming all sorts of sources; anonymous of course. Greta points out that some of the “facts” in the hit piece are just plain wrong and together they dissect the smear piece, which is quite entertaining to watch.
Of course what is the substantive relevance of a presidential gossip and soap opera slights BEFORE the 2010 mid term? ….Exactly. The point here is to try and generate rifts and fights between GOP insiders and Palin/Tea Party people because if they keep coming together the leftists in the elite media won’t like it. Charlie Crist and Lisa Murkowski are running independent campaigns against Tea Party supported conservatives and the elite media would love to run hit pieces to help them out.
How these anonymous hit pieces work is like this: first the reporter goes through the rolodex and finds someone who they know hates the target, lets say Sarah Palin. So they pull up the primary opponent of everyone Palin has endorsed. They pull up Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle Charlie Crist, all of whom are Republicans who will reliably trash her. The reporter already has the narrative for the hit piece pretty much written and just needs to get the right talking head to satisfy a technical requirement of an editor, unless of course the editor goes along with making stuff up as well.
Lets say I work for the New York Times and now President Palin is expanding oil drilling. As a NYT reporter I don’t like us having our own energy so what do I do? I find a radical environmentalist who formerly worked in the Clinton or Obama Department of Interior and present him as an “expert” who then proceeds to tell us how Palin hates the little animals and the fishes and how reckless and dangerous it all is. This happens a lot. When I was in college i once did a report about how the same few leftist talking heads were used over and over by the networks as “random experts”. Here is an example: CNN Debates: Unbiased and Undecided Voters Turn Out to be Democrat Operatives .
Democrat Tom Perriello (Virginia 5th) supporter flips out and gets violent. Obviously this man has been incited by the Democrat race bating and Obama referring to Republicans at a recent speech as “enemies”. Warning graphic language –
Gabby Mercer catches Democrats stealing signs, later they toss a rock through her car window –
More on Gabby Mercer –
Steven Crowder attacked at John Stewart “Sanity Rally” –
Each one of these guys employs about 300 people. While Democrats give waivers to big business for all sorts of regulations and taxes, these guys get stuck.
Memorial Hospital cites Obama Health Care Reform on hospital layoffs
South Bend, Ind.
With St. Joseph County’s unemployment rate still sitting above ten percent, things could be getting worse thanks to cuts at Memorial Hospital.
Reporter: Kevin Lewis
With St. Joseph County’s unemployment rate still sitting above ten percent, things could be getting worse thanks to cuts at Memorial Hospital. Those cuts began back in June and hospital leaders say there’s no end in sight.
While hospital leaders admit the economy sparked this problem, it says the Obama Health Care Reform Act gave the hospital a one-two punch. While more people may soon get more health coverage, Obama’s plan cuts reimbursement dollars for hospitals at a time administrators say they could use them most.
If you roll up a chair and type your way to Memorial Hospital’s web site, you can click your way through 45 active job openings. Pay the hospital a visit and you’ll see it’s still getting patients and paying for construction improvements. So why would it cut nearly fifty jobs in just five months?
“No more discriminating against children with pre-existing conditions. No more retroactively dropping someone’s policy when they get sick, those days are over,” President Obama said at a June press conference.
Hospital leaders say the days of high-priced insurance may be over, but add that the days of cuts are here. In a statement the hospital said:
“Health care reform in its current state has already started to cut reimbursement rates to hospitals across the region and the country and we expect that reality to get worse moving forward.”
Dan Coats is going to blow out Democrat Congressman Ellsworth for Indiana U. S. Senate. The polls are not close.
Jackie Walorski is clearly the better choice as Joe Donnelly has ran a campaign of smears and lies against Jackie. The Associated Press, Factcheck.org and other watchdog groups and media outlets have blasted Donnelly for dishonest ads. Even Democrat Party Chairman Tim Cain said that Donnelly is running away from who he is (click HERE for video). When you cannot defend your record sling mud and that is exactly what has happened in this race.
Jackie is not a get along to go along type of person, she will grab the bull by the horns and drag the GOP into doing the right thing for the economy if she has to. People talk to me and I know that Jackie is prepared to stand up to anyone, even her own party leadership if necessary. Jackie has the tenacity of Bill O’Reilly and the heart of charity worker.
Charlie White is clearly the best choice for Secretary of State even if you toss out his qualifications it is important to remember that Hungarian billionaire George Soros has launched his “Secretary of States” project in an effort to rig elections in the United States. A vote for Charlie is a vote to stop Soros and preserve election integrity.
Greg Dudeck is running for Indiana House District 7. Dudeck “gets it”. He is a small business man who knows something about the law and how to bring business back home. Dudeck is a smart, down to Earth guy who is perfectly comfortable having a plain chat with anyone.
Dick Pfiel running for Indiana House District 8. Pfiel is a small business economics guru. His long history of making small to medium sized businesses grow and work through thick and this may be just what Indiana needs right now.
Tim Wesco is running for Indiana House District 7. Wesco is a young man, but he is a young man who has near prodigy ability and intellect. There is little doubt that Wesco will eventually make his mark in national politics.
Jim Fox and Scott Deurring will make a great crime fighting team for St. Joe County. Fox is running for Sheriff and Deurring is running for prosecutor. Crime is just too high in South Bend and everyone knows it, but more importantly Fox and Deurring are men of restraint. Lately we hear more and more about police and prosecutor abuse and having men in these positions who respect the limits of their office is good for all of us.
Deb Fleming, Dale Devon, Dennis Jordan, J Kata, and Matt Wilson are running for St. Joe County Council. The nepotism, kick backs and other games in local country government are no secret. In the case of Deb Fleming, she destroyed her opponent in their debate. It was clear that Fleming understands the county, the budgets, and the economics of our situation better than her opponent. Fleming is a dentist and a small business owner who knows about making a payroll. Fleming is a natural leader and has impressive athletic ability.
The obvious choice for Indiana State Senate is Joe Zakas. Joe is a very smart guy who is humble and thoughtful. Joe has been involved in state politics for a number of years now and has served the people of Indiana very well. I was once put in the position of doing opposition research against Joe for a primary fight and I didn’t find much. What I learned is that Joe is the kind of guy who looks for problems and/or places where state law or processes need to be improved and relentlessly works to fix them. Joe is not loud or flashy, but he is wise and tireless. There is not the space to list the ways he has helped his fellow Hoosiers.
There are only one school board race I am following (hey we can’t do it all). Chris Riley is running for PHM School board. Riley is a local attorney who cares about young people and education. I realize that this is easy to say but I have seen Riley in action with young people and he is a natural. He is also not going to be a puppet of the teachers union.
My old friend Talia Reed is running for Oregon Township Board in neighboring Starke County. Talia is a pal of mine from college who is now a teacher. I am not sure of the most eloquent way to say this so I am just going to tell it like it is. Talia Reed is one of the greatest minds I have ever encountered. Her knowledge of history, politics, literature, economics, law and philosophy is most impressive. Reed is a relentless learner. Every school has that one mega smart, wise, self educated teacher that everyone thinks is the coolest; well Talia Reed is that person.
Of course this is no surprise as Joe Donnelly has ran a campaign of Lies. I do not say that lightly. Left leaning watchdog groups like factcheck.org and even the Associated Press blasted Donnelly’s campaign ads as just plain false.
This is a part of our new last minute “Dirty Tricks” category.
Picking on Media Matters is pretty easy as much of the nonsense that they post can be debunked in minutes utilizing a couple of internet searches. Since George Soros gave this bunch a million dollars to smear people I thought it would be fun to go and pick part one of their posts just as a reminder.
So I started reading and laughing at how transparent the lies they post have become. Behold this latest example:
John Fund and Jedediah Bila baselessly suggest Obama wants felons and illegal immigrants to vote rather than soldiers [on Hannity].
Baselessly? Well apparently Media Matters missed it when the media and think tanks wrote and broadcast about this, but they also missed it when Obama’s own Justice Department commented on the issue!
The Justice Department is not enforcing the MOVE Act and as a result some states decided not to mail out ballots to military members overseas in time for the election. Yet Felons had their ballots hand delivered to them in the jails.
MOVE is the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) act. Nine states failed to get this done while the Dept. of Justice yawns. The military is being disenfranchised from the election. This is an old tactic used by Democrats as Al Gore’s lawyers convinced a Democrat appointed federal judge to agree to toss out all military ballots in Florida in 2001.
Military voters from the land of Lincoln could be shut out of the midterm election after the Justice Department reached an agreement with Illinois that gave the state “a pass” for violating federal election law, an advocacy group warned Monday.
The Justice Department hammered out the court agreement Friday addressing the failure of 35 Illinois counties to send military and overseas absentee ballots 45 days before the election — a requirement of the MOVE Act. The agreement gave voters from six of those counties a few extra days to send back their ballots but did not specifically address the other 29 counties.
Eric Eversole, a former Justice voting section attorney who runs the nonprofit Military Voter Protection Project, told FoxNews.com the deal effectively lets wayward Illinois election officials off the hook and does little to ensure the state’s military voters get their ballots in time.
The Justice Department, which has been woefully lax in enforcing MOVE and ensuring compliance among a number of states that have missed their deadlines, reached an agreement in court last Friday with 35 Illinois counties that didn’t get their ballots out on time. Six counties got an extension by two or three days to receive and count overseas ballots by Nov. 16.
The other 29 counties essentially got a pass. Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said these counties already have 14 extra days after the election to count soldiers’ ballots. But if any votes aren’t counted in a timely manner, she said, “we can file a lawsuit.” This is not how soldiers who may get killed not knowing if their votes counted should be treated.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Board of Elections hand-delivers ballots to inmates in Cook County Jail. The board doesn’t even wait for the inmates to apply — it brings the applications with the ballots! More than 2,600 inmates have cast ballots — strikingly similar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not receive a ballot for Tuesday’s election.
You see Media Matters that is the Justice Department commenting on the story… But wait there’s MORE!
The politically charged gang led by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is more interested in helping felons vote than in helping the military to vote. Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, has put a legislative hold on the already troubled nomination of James M. Cole to be deputy attorney general until the attorney general ensures full protection for voting rights of our military (and associated civilian personnel) stationed abroad. The senator is right to raise a ruckus.
Mr. Cornyn co-authored a 2009 law mandating that states mail absentee ballots to military voters at least 45 days before the election. Yet, as former Justice Department lawyer Eric Eversole first reported in The Washington Times last week, the department seems to be encouraging states to apply for waivers so they won’t have to follow that law. More than 17,000 Americans serving overseas were denied the vote in 2008 – but, presumably because military personnel are thought to lean conservative, the liberal Obama administration is in no hurry to correct the situation.
The Justice Department is so unenthusiastic about military voting that its website still lists the old requirement for a shorter 30-day military voting window, rather than the current law mandating 45 days. On the other hand, the Justice Department has no legislative mandate whatsoever to involve itself with helping felons to vote, but its website devotes a large section – 2,314 words – to advising felons how to regain voting privileges.
As confirmed by The Washington Times last week, Justice Department official Rebecca Wertz told a Feb. 1 conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State that the new law’s requirements are somehow open to interpretation. On July 28, an attendee at that conference – heretofore uninterviewed – told The Washington Times that Ms. Wertz’s message was “totally undermining” the law. The earlier reports actually underplayed the effect of Ms. Wertz’s comments. “It was even more pronounced at the meeting,” said the source. “She undermined [the law] right in front of everybody. When I heard what she was saying, I thought: ‘You’ve got to be kidding!’ … It was a clear reversal of roles for Justice to no longer be enforcing the law.”
After looking at the minutes of that conference, Mr. Cornyn responded forcefully. His office confirmed that he did place the hold on Mr. Cole because of the military voting issue. His July 26 letter to Mr. Holder does not actually mention his hold, but its tone was strong stuff.
“The statute does not create any discretion for the Executive Branch to decide whether or not to enforce its legal requirements,” the senator wrote. Ms. Wertz’s comments “fly in the face of the clear statutory language, undermine the provisions in question and jeopardize the voting rights of our men and women in uniform.”
The senator laid out a series of four steps he wants Mr. Holder to take to ensure that states respect the 45-day deadline, including a demand that the Justice Department provide a state-by-state accounting of compliance efforts. The hold on Mr. Cole, reportedly a personal friend of Mr. Holder, is sure to grab the attorney general’s attention. Our troops deserve his respect.
Oh look Media Matters the Justice Department commented on the story again!
The Washington Times did a second editorial on this story HERE.
Starting on October 27th (how is that for late in the game) after seeing some local news outlets and the elite media start to pick up on the story the Justice Department held a press conference announcing that they will get tough with states that do not get ballots out in time (of course this is the opposite message they were on record as having before).
Justice Dept. pushes states on new law to protect military voters
The ballots of U.S. military personnel abroad — even those in remote war zones — must be received and counted before the November election results are declared final, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights chief asserted Wednesday.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told reporters his voting rights attorneys have repeatedly gone to court in recent weeks to force states to abide by the 2009 law designed to get ballots to soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen in time.
The new law, called the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, requires states to transmit absentee ballots to service members, their families and other overseas citizens at least 45 days before a federal election.
The military ballots were supposed to be out at least 45 days ago but in the last few weeks the Justice Department leaps into action! Ohhh sound so tough right? Ok now read this very carefully:
Four states and one territory were compelled by courts to comply with the law. Wisconsin, New York, New Mexico, Illinois and Guam were ordered to provide ballots, and in most cases required to provide extra days to receive and count the ballots.
Most of the voters (43,000) are from New York. The court order requires New York to wait until November 24 to receive and count absentee ballots to ensure the military votes are tallied.
New York gets an extension to November 24th to count ALL absentee ballots … hello let the ballot stuffing begin. New York is has highly contested Governor, House and Senate races. It is no secret that New York has issues with absentee ballot fraud – LINKS – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
But in Illinois when the GOP asked for a similar extension for military ballots only what was the Justice Department position:
However, in Illinois the Republican Party went to court to argue that in some cases it may be necessary for military personnel to cast ballots after Election Day. The Justice Department objected, insisting post-election voting has never been allowed. A federal judge Wednesday denied the GOP request.
So the Justice Department makes deals that allow some areas extra time to mail out the ballots – some deal since they are still no good if they come back late in most states – In New York the Justice Department is all for an extension as long as ALL absentee ballots can be counted late (let the stuffing begin!) – and in Illinois well no, even though military ballots are sent out late the Justice Department says opposes letting them count if they can’t get back in time.
Yup real tough.
And another lie from Media Matters destroyed in mere minutes. It’s so easy. Felons pushed to vote, military screwed, Obama Justice Department helping it along.
Ralated:
The Heritage Foundation also wrote about the issue HERE asking “Why is Obama Letting Non-Citizens Get Away with Voting?”
This is a part of our new last minute “Dirty Tricks” category.
County government run TV Station Channel 28 in Delaware claims they “forgot” to run the 30 minute spots Christine O’Donnell bought as her closing argument to Delaware voters.
So let us be clear; O’Donnell bought the 30 minute spots, reminded the TV station about it, promoted it on other media so everyone knew about it and the government owned TV station just forgets to air it….
1 minute until the premiere of our 30 minute feature. Tune in to meet all the heart warming people I’ve met on the campaign trail. Ch. 28
Okay… this is NOT our show! Must be a programming mix up. We will get back to you…
This isn’t our show either! We are told channel 28 “forgot” to air it…both times… even though we paid for the time slot last week.
Dirty politics again? I’d like to think the County run station really did just “forget” even though we reminded them this morning.
This should give people yet another example of what Republicans have deal with regularly when it comes to the corrupt elite media in this country.
You can view O’Donnell’s closing argument at the following link and it is obvious why they didn’t run it; it is good! I feared that it might have been a snoozer but wow was I wrong. You will love it! - http://christine2010.com/we-people
This is a part of our new last minute “Dirty Tricks” category.
This is not the first time the “make it up media” has been caught red handed conspiring to manufacture smears against Republicans to change an election.
CBS News reporters were caught on voice-mail via a phone, that was thought to be shut off, conspiring to invent a scandal by claiming a campaign volunteer is a child molester or manufacturing a violent encounter.
Transcript:
FEMALE REPORTER: That’s up to you because you’re the expert, but that’s what I would do. … I’d wait until you see who showed up because that indicates we already know something.
[Laughter]
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: Child molesters…
MALE REPORTER: Oh yeah. … Can you repeat Joe Miller’s, uh, list of people, campaign workers, which one’s the molester?
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE VOICE: We know that out of all the people that will show up tonight, at least one of them will be a registered sex offender.
[Laughter]
MALE REPORTER: You have to find that one person.
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: And the one thing we can do is, we won’t know, we won’t know but if there is any sort of chaos whatsoever we can put out a twitter/facebook alert: saying what the… ‘Hey Joe Miller punched at rally.’
FEMALE REPORTER: Kinda like Rand Paul. I like that. That’s a good one.
Sarah Palin reacts on Fox News Sunday early Sunday morning. –
The rest of the elite media is not reporting the story with any justice; a Google search late Sunday night for this story shows only a handful of media outlets reporting the story and most of them are local Fox affiliates. This story has been out since Saturday night and below is screen shot of the Alaska Daily News senate race coverage (notice the links section has no mention of the story) late Sunday Night (10:30 PM Eastern complete with Lisa Murkowski Ad). The ADN had an article on their web site late Sunday but it was not promoted not was it in their Senate Race link list till Monday. This is not a surprise considering that ADN was “investigating” the bogus “Trig is not Sarah’s baby” allegation MONTHS after the story was debunked.
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Below is the reaction from The Washington Post, which was to claim that the media is “Pro-Palin Corrupt” and that Palin gets too much coverage for her popularity and why… because she isn’t in the top few most followed people on Twitter… amazing. Of course Sarah Palin is THE most followed/Liked person on Facebook (and Facebook is way more popular than twitter), but reporting that does not fit the narrative that the Washington Post wished to present. This piece is so outrageous and laughable that I fear that the Post will scrub it so I took a screen shot:
