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GOP Establishment v. Conservatives

Game on. True the Vote, a conservative elections watchdog organization, has taken action against the GOP in Mississippi, alleging voter fraud.

A conservative election-watching organization has filed a motion for a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, declaring it has evidence of tampering in runoff records.

Mississippi GOP Chairman Joe Nosef dismissed the complaint. 

He also said the state party now plans to take action against the group.

“We will not only defend ourselves but will seek sanctions against every single plaintiff because of this frivolous litigation brought against the MSGOP,” Nosef said.

If establishment Republicans devoted even half as much in resources and effort fighting Democratics as they do fighting conservatives, they'd likely control both the House and the Senate by now. And if anybody still believes that establishment Republicans differ in any substantive respect from Democratics, this should be an eye-opener.

Rather than welcoming a transparent and open investigation, they're behaving like AlGore in the famous "hanging chads" case. Apparently, they've forgotten that AlGore lost. And much like the Democratics, it won't be surprising to see establishment Republicans hauling carts around during the next election, hollering "Bring out yer dead!"

 

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Requiring ID Is Only Raciss When States Do it

The Obama administration is asking several hundred thousand people with subsidized health insurance to provide documents proving their identity and eligiblity.

The government is asking consumers for additional documents to verify their income, citizenship, immigration status and Social Security numbers, as well as any health coverage that they may have from employers.

The government has a long list of documents that consumers can use to establish their eligibility. These include copies of birth certificates, Social Security cards, high school diplomas, driver’s licenses, pay stubs and voter registration cards.

Apparently when there's money involved, requiring identification isn't raciss - it's only raciss when states enact voter ID laws. Glad that's all cleared up; it'd be embarassing if Holder started suing federal agencies for being raciss, after all.

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Almost Right

Scott Keyes, writing in The Atlantic, produces a tight and descriptive depiction of the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history, noting that it was part of a larger scheme to take control of an election. The account of the Rajneeshies' time here in Oregon is well-done, but he unfortunately then leaps to an entirely erroneous conclusion:

What does this bizarre, made-for-Hollywood episode tell us about voter fraud?

First, it’s really hard to pull off. Even for a group with thousands of loyal followers, millions of dollars, and a willingness to use germ warfare, it couldn’t achieve its relatively small goal of winning two county commissioner seats.

Voter fraud is exceedingly rare precisely because it is extraordinarily difficult to pull off.

Second, voter fraud is exceedingly rare precisely because it is extraordinarily difficult to pull off. If it were as easy as many conservatives claim, it would be ubiquitous, but that’s just not the case.

What he fails to note is that with the passage of vote-by-mail, Oregon Democratics greatly simplified things for fraudsters. Since nobody goes to polling places any longer, there are essentially no voter identification checks in place. This makes it relatively trivial for multiple ballots to be mailed by the same individual, and as might be expected, County officials even have trouble sending out the correct number of ballots in the first place; in the days leading up to the May 20 election, a gentleman noted in local media that although he's lived in his home for a decade, he still receives ballots addressed to the two former residents - despite contacting the County elections division and notifying them of the issue.

Since the days of the Rajneeshies in the early and mid-1980's, things have changed in terms of voter security in Oregon, and not for the better.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

What "Streetcar" Charlie, Portland's mayor, strongly desires is to retain control over the piggybank known as Portland water and sewer ratepayer funds, so he's been working the phones at night, lining up donations so they can run more negative ads against the measure to put control of both the Water Bureau and the Sewer Bureau under an independent board. Fortunately, his connections to the streetcar companies have paid off to the tune of $6,000 in donations.

Their negative ads are truly comical: they portray backers of the measure as "corporate polluters" when in fact the measure's backed by Portland Bottling Company - which makes soda pop - and craft brewers like Widmer and Bridgeport. And Siltronic, another backer, produces a line of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industries. These are "corporate polluters"? Laughable.

So besides the streetcar companies, who else is on Charlie's side in the fight? Why, that would include Portland Audubon Society, who received nearly a half-million in ratepayer funds to count birds. You certainly can't call them corporate polluters (corporate litigators, yes...). But the list also includes Northwest Natural and Portland General Electric; both are corporate polluters with Superfund cleanup liabilities: tar embedded in sediments in the Portland Harbor area remain from the days when Northwest Natural extracted gas from coal (yielding toxic coal tar), and PCBs and other toxics from PGE's transformers contribute to the load as well.

And while Charlie spent a decade running around the country peddling streetcars to other cities, he can't really sell us on the idea that the cement and steel that go into the trackways - much less the steel and plastics that go into the cars themselves - are somehow magically produced by non-polluting producers and powered by unicorn farts. 

Hypocrites that they are, they paint the folks pushing the measure as "corporate polluters" when the folks who want to keep the piggy-bank at Porkland City Hall are either actual corporate polluters or feeding at the trough.

Barry U.N.-American

Barry's running around, yammering about "voting rights" again. Photo ID, which you have to have in order to drive or board a plane, among other things, is once again being portrayed as somehow "disenfranchising" people of their right to vote, and it's all a plot by those wascally Wepublicans.

Obama previewed that sentiment earlier this week while raising money for Democrats in Houston: "the idea that you'd purposely try to prevent people from voting."

When one donor shouted out that the Republican effort was "un-American," the president promptly concurred. "Un-American. How is it that we're putting up with that?"

Not to worry; that paragon of justice, Eric Holder, is all over it:

Meanwhile, the administration is stepping up its offensive. Attorney General Eric Holder has challenged the North Carolina election law as well as one in Texas.

"Let me be very clear. Protecting the right to vote - the action that truly makes our nation an exceptional one - will continue to be a priority for this administration, for this Department of Justice, for this president and for this attorney general," Holder said Wednesday at Sharpton's conference.

It seems rather clear that they don't like the idea of states' rights any more than they like the U.S. Constitution, and they're doing everything they can to limit both - including bringing in U.N. "observers" in a fruitless effort to prove that voter ID requirements prevent people from voting:

The United Nations, accustomed to more chaotic places on the globe, has overseen selected elections since 1991, and 44 observers from Europe’s Organization for Security and Cooperation were sent to the United States in 2012 to determine if photo identification requirements, including those in Tennessee, affected voter turnout.

For some reason, that little scheme didn't sit well with Tennessee legislators, who overwhelmingly passed a bill barring future such escapades. Naturally, some people have a problem with this, and accuse the state legislators of having something to hide. Evidently, they can't wrap their little heads around the fact that Democratics and Republicans both voted to pass the bill.

As one commenter correctly noted:

In the 1950′s the first real civil rights amendment was put before congress by President Eisenhower (a Republican) and Democrats north (JFK himself included) and south (Al Gore’s dad included) voted against it en masse.

Southern Democrats coordinated their efforts to kill Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s and ’60s.

All of the Southern Governors that opposed the Civil Rights movement were Democrats and they all remained LOYAL Democrats until the day they died….

And remember this; if it hadn’t been for the Republicans voting FOR the “Civil Rights Act” under President Johnson, it would have never passed. 84% of Republicans voted FOR the “Civil Rights Act” whereas ONLY 63% of Democrats voted for it. How racist of them.

Heck, every time I go to the doctor these days, they want to see a photo ID. Ditto for CT/MRI scans, lab tests, and more.

Obama and Holder are deeply afraid that voter ID will cost them the support that Democratics have long enjoyed among their reliable bloc of dead voters.

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Those Wacky California Democratics

Seal of the Senate of California 

Not content with the 2/3 supermajority they've held in the California state Senate since 2012, they've given it up.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- State Senator Leland Yee has been arrested on bribery and public corruption charges in a sting that has led to the arrest of 30 people across the Bay Area.

He was led out in tastefully matching cuffs. Dang, and he was running for Secretary of State and all.

Yee is one of three Democratic state senators facing criminal charges. Ronald S. Calderon, of Montebello, is facing public corruption charges. Roderick Wright of Inglewood was found guilty of eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud, for lying about where he lived when he ran for the senate office.

Calderon's decided to take a leave of absence, so he still gets his $95,000 a year salary. He's charged with 24 felony counts of taking bribes in exchange for legislative favors. Not that he's giving up much now; he'd already lost his committee assignments, and he term-limits out at the end of the year.

Wright's also taken a paid leave, but somehow managed to avoid expulsion. If these guys were Republicans, they'd be so out of there. But Democratics protect their own, no matter what. Curiously, Wright was convicted of voter fraud, which every Democratic knows never occurs. Imagine that.

 

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Left Behind

Barack Obama's signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. 

Latinos are staying away from Obamacare in droves, and that has His O'liness really upset. So he's back to doing the only thing he really knows how to do: he's campaigning.

“You don’t punish me by not signing up for health care,” Obama told Hispanic audiences during a recent televised town hall. “You’re punishing yourself or your family.”

Like a candidate hunting for votes in the closing days of a campaign, Obama was back on Hispanic airwaves Monday as Univision Radio broadcast his latest pitch.

“The problem is if you get in an accident, if you get sick, or somebody in your family gets sick, you could end up being bankrupt,” the president said.

Well, why in the world would they not be signing right up for Obamacare? Oh, right - it's the same reason why Holder's DoJ and Democratics in general fight voter ID, despite the fact that 78% of  Americans favor it:

Fear that applying for health care will bring unwelcome scrutiny from immigration authorities. The health insurance exchanges are only for citizens and legal U.S. residents, but many Hispanic families have mixed immigration status. Some members may be native born, while others might be here illegally.

"Might be"? Why, who'd ever have thought it?

Tri-Met Reacts To Tigard Vote

After passage yesterday of a measure mandating a vote of the people on light rail projects, among other things, the reaction from Tri-Met was unambiguous:

The TriMet boss said his agency will follow the lead of the Metro regional government, which is in charge of the Southwest Corridor Transportation Plan to reduce traffic jams in the future. TriMet, he said, will put tracks, dedicated bus rapid transit lanes or regular bus stops wherever Metro plans for them to be installed.

In other words, if Metro tells them to run rails into Tigard, that's what they'll do, vote or no vote. And Portland City Council member Steve Novick, who just loves the inordinately expensive little two-car toy "trains" that run through downtown and elsewhere, had this to say:

Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick, who has supported a light-rail study for the Southwest Corridor, told the Tigard Times that he wasn’t sure the 36 percent turnout for Ballot Measure 34-210 reflects the will of all voters.

Really? That's a 6% higher turnout than Washington County managed for the last primaries. And it's interesting that Portland City Council seems to have had no such concerns about whether their "arts" tax vote actually reflected the will of all voters. Especially in view of the fact that after Portland City Council got done tweaking and "refining" the thing after the vote, the final product bears no resemblance to what was actually voted on. How very selective!

The general reaction of the politicians is perhaps best described in the words of an old Bare Naked Ladies song:

Everybody get in line, everybody turn and cough

Everything'll be all right; this won't hurt at all.

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No ID Required

Three states asked a federal commission to allow them to ask voters for proof of citizenship; naturally, the bureaucrats refused.

“The EAC finds that granting the States’ requests would likely hinder eligible citizens from registering to vote in federal elections, undermining a core purpose of the NVRA,” the commission said in its ruling, referring to the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law.

Ah yes, they're trotting out the old "disenfranchisement" boogeyman again. There's no evidence to back their contention, it's just how they feel. So, once again, they're going to insist upon burning through more taxpayer dollars via the courts. And there's no question that it will be hashed out once and for all in federal courts:

Indeed, the states’ request to the EAC was in part spurred by a Supreme Court ruling last year. In that case, the justices said Arizona couldn’t refuse to accept the federal registration forms.

But Justice Antonin Scalia also specifically said Arizona could ask the EAC to include the request on forms distributed in that state, and said if the EAC refused, the state could come back to the courts.

When Democratics enacted that stupid "motor-voter" law back in 1993 (at the behest, of course, of liberal activists Piven and Cloward), those folks with functioning brains understood - and warned of - the potential for rampant fraud. Twenty years later, an abundance of evidence validates our concerns. When every state on the west coast cheerfully hands out drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, there's certainly no reason not to sign them up to vote as well. And twenty years on, Democratics are determined to keep it going.

After all, laws and little things like integrity are for Republicans and other idiots.

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