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Ok, already, I voted for you!
Hmmm. I wonder which political organization is behind this activity.
“Prompted by calls from voters targeted in a national political committee phone call and direct mail campaign, King County Elections Director Dean Logan reminds voters they do not need to re-register in order to vote this fall.”
http://www.metrokc.gov/electio.....03_10.html
It seems that the people contacted are informed that they may not be registered.
Since the voter roles are public information, it is likely that the source of the address the pitch is sent to belies the contents.
Looks like another way of discouraging the less aware voter from exercising their franchise.
Irons lost and Rossi lost. WA state has the most inept and IQ challenged crew in the entire GOP — and that is saying a lot.
You guys couldn’t even cheat your way to victory wuth those rigged voting machines in Snohomish county.
headless lucy@3
In Rossi’s case it was the King County democratic election machine that did the cheating.
re 2; voter Advocate: Here’s some information I’m sure you’ll be interested in. Although it’s in Snohomish county it still has to do with voter disenfranchisement and electoral cheating:
http://www.votersunite.org/info/lehtolawsuit.asp
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From what I have heard, the cheating occured even before votes were cast by the design of the voting screen, which made a slight mistake by a voter intending to vote for Gregoire register for Rossi.
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Someday you guys may get just one court or review organization to agree with you. Until then, it’s just noxious gas emitting from your sour bellies.
You can get more information on irregularities with these Sequoia machines here:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/0002466.htm
Slight error. Here’s the link on the Sequoia machines:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002466.htm
Donks make shit up about voting machines to cover up that they are LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS. Get over it sore looooooosers, you lost.
DOOFUS makes sh*t up about King County and KCREALS – what a sore looooser. I-912? Loooooooser.
Hey Doofus, the Dems are eating the Republican’s lunch in Olympia! But don’t worry! Kevin Carnes will save you all with a few postcard mailings. Are you on his staff DOOFUS? Must be.
No wonder Carnes is such a looooooooser…
MILOSEVICZ DIES
U.N. authorities announced that Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevicz, who has been on trial for war crimes in Serbia and Bosnia, was found dead in his prison cell at The Hague today.
Milosevicz, who suffered a heart ailment, appeared to have died of natural causes.
Hot enough down There for ya, Slobby?
In other news, the Bellingham vigilante who murdered two sex offenders was sentenced to 45 years. Good riddance to all 3 of ’em.
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Smells like Republikan dirty tricks! Those bastards know they can’t win a fair election. They resort to lies, deception, and voter intimidation and suppresion because no decent person would vote for their platform of war, torture, greed, corruption, and economic exploitation of the working class. They behave like Russians.
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They probably wouldn’t do very well in a shooting civil war, either. Despite the gun racks in their pickups, these cowards would run from a real fight, and have no clue what to do if someone shot at them. They’ve always hired poor kids and minorities to do their fighting for them. Hell, they need a personal coach to tell them how to wipe their own behinds.
Cheesy Chuckie @4
You again?! Bullshit.
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If King County’s votes had been properly counted in the first place, Rossi would have lost all three counts.
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Numerous voters reported their votes for Gregoire being changed to Rossi votes by the touch screen voting machines in Snohomish County.
Inexplicably, Snohomish County’s elected Democrat auditor has steadfastly defended the Sequoia voting machines. We need to replace that guy.
Clueless once again wakes up on the wrong side of the “crib” with his bottle “half-empty”.
Next we’ll here how poor his family was which caused his chronic immaturity.
Hey clueless, your parents lied to you!
That’s not a “pocket mouse squeeze toy” under your diaper dipshit!
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“Someday you guys may get just one court or review organization to agree with you.”
They’ll have a hard time finding a judge that gullible. Even their hand-picked Republican judge in their hand-picked Republican County didn’t buy their bullshit.
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100,000 Sequoia voting machine errors in Palm Beach County alone. Somebody ought to sue Diebold and Sequoia for voting machine malpractice. The compensatory damages are up to about $2.5 trillion by now.
Looks like another way of discouraging the less aware voter from exercising their franchise.
Commentby Voter Advocate— 3/11/06@ 9:33 am
Dean Logan how is that audit going with the Fed’s? Dean I think you are the one who is discouraging the voters. What little skeletons are hideing in your closet that the public needs to know about?
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Doofus is too stupid to be employed by Kevin Carnes or anybody else. He tried to get a mercenary job with an African dictator but nobody wanted him. Even his own mother doesn’t want him. When Doofus took the SATs, the biology lab eggplant scored higher than he did.
Doofus is the first person in the history of the SATs to get a minus score.
Kevin Carnes @22
Give it up, loser. You lost!!!! Looooooooooooooooooser.
Here’s another shining example of the moral majority that is neither.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11768281/
This turd is a big shot in the San Diego GOP. What do you expect from a republican? Not much is my guess.
Doofus is the first person in the history of the SATs to get a minus score.
That’s what happens when an unfortunate kid attends a private American Taliban school. High marks in wingnut propaganda – low marks in everything else.
Roger and Gang;
Subject: Elite Unit
The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces.These Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas boys will be dropped off into Iraq and have been given only the following facts about terrorists:
1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don’t like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.
5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt.
We expect the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday.
22.
See 7, 20.
This fellow would have made a great justice on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which Bush had nominated him to back in 2003 and 2004, only to be stalled by a threatened Democrat filibuster. And he had done such a wonderful job as Bush’s top domestic policy adviser, as shown by Bush’s approval rating in public opinion polls.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/....._aide.html
Bush shocked by arrest of former adviser
By DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Saturday said he was shocked and saddened to learn that former domestic policy adviser Claude Allen was charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores.
“When I heard the story last night, I was shocked, and my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment – if it’s true – that we were not fully informed,” Bush said. “Shortly thereafter, I felt really sad for the Allen family.”
Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday by police in Montgomery County, Md., for allegedly claiming refunds for more than $5,000 worth of merchandise he did not buy, according to county and federal authorities. He had been under investigation since at least January for alleged thefts on 25 occasions at Target and Hecht’s stores.
“If the allegations are true, Claude Allen did not tell my chief of staff and legal counsel the truth, and that’s deeply disappointing” the president said at the White House following an event on Iraq. “If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen’s life, and that is really sad.”
Allen, who had been the No. 2 official at the Health and Human Services Department, was named as domestic policy adviser at the White House in early 2005. He resigned abruptly on Feb. 9, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
The night of Jan. 2, after an alleged incident at the Target in Gaithersburg, Md., presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Allen called White House chief of staff Andy Card to tell him what had happened. The next morning, Allen spoke in person with Card and White House counsel Harriet Miers.
McClellan said Allen told Card and Miers that it was all a misunderstanding and cited confusion with his credit card because he had moved several times. “He assured them that he had done nothing wrong and the matter would be cleared up,” McClellan said.
The president first learned of Allen’s planned departure and the January incident in early February. But since Allen had passed the usual background checks and had no other prior issues that White House officials were aware of, “he was given the benefit of the doubt,” McClellan said.
Mallon Snyder, a Gaithersburg lawyer representing Allen, said his client was not improperly trying to take the items. Snyder said asked Target to produce videotape they said they have of Allen but that store representatives refused. He said he wants to meet with Target investigators to clear things up.
“It’s a misunderstanding on their part,” Snyder said, adding that the investigation had nothing to do with Allen’s departure from the White House.
Allen has been released on his own recognizance. Calls to Allen’s home in Gaithersburg, a Washington suburb, were not returned.
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The Republican strategy is to stop people from voting.
They love low voter turnout, try to see to that it happens.
It is good for a President to have a straight shooter to give him advice on how to run the country.
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Don’t these Quixotic lawsuits, so long after the fact, fall into the category of frivolous?
What would the remedy be, a year and 1/4 into the term? Even if Stefan were to prove that all the provisional ballots he’s carping about were improper, who would be culpable?
Talk about dead horses.
At least Claude Allen didn’t steal from a Wal-Mart. I don’t know what Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female member of the Wal-Mart Board of Directors, would have had to say about that.
That Claude Allen guy who was busted for ripping off Targets and such, was a certified ringleader of the American Taliban. When he resigned last month, the fundies (Agape Press) had all their panties in a bunch, saying he was “too Christian” for the Shrub and resigned because he couldn’t get any traction on his wacko fundie ideas. Wonder what those dopes are saying now? According to reports, this freak was also the WH’s main dude (not)coordinating the early Katrina efforts. Earlier in his career, he was auditing every damn AIDS organization that got money from the feds, he’s one of those abstinence only, condoms don’t work, abortion must be outlawed dipshits. I half expect well find out he’s a gay anti-gay self-loathing closet case like Jim West.
ROGER RABBIT HERE IS YOUR LESSON FOR THE DAY.BOATS GO ON SHIPS AND SHIPS GO TO SEA.GOT IT.
GBS THE NAVY WASHOUT.YOU KNOW WASHING OUT OF THE NAVY IS REALLY BAD.BUT WHAT IS EVEN SADER IS YOUR STILL A FUCK WOG.NEVER CROSSED THE LINE.OH THATS RIGHT YOU HAVE TO BE SHIPS COMPANY OR AIRWING.GBS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER ON BOTH COUNTS. GBS SHIP THE USS NEVERSAIL IS WELDED TO THE PIER.
Don’t the freeptard trolls like DAWO know they make themselves look like morons?
I guess the answer is no.
37 – Moron is as moron does.
HEY YO/DAWO – IT MUST BE TOUGH FOR YOU TO DEFEND OL’ SHRUB TO YOUR PALS AT (UN)SP AND THE LOCAL WINGNUT TAVERN. SHRUBBIE WANTS TO HAND OVER OUR PORTS TO THE “TOWEL-HEADS”. JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION I GUESS – ANOTHER 9/11, ANOTHER WINGUT SWEEP IN NOVEMBER – ISN’T THAT THE PLAN DUMB ASS WASH OUT?
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female member of the Wal-Mart Board of Directors,
Was Sam Walton alive then? At least they bought American in those days.
You know it’s easy to spot the particularly inbred and stupid…when they can’t think of anything reasonable to say, they mindlessly attack Senator Clinton.
By the way, I noticed that Allen is starting his presidential campaign today. Now since he still has to run for Senate, will the righties attack Senator Clinton for doing the same thing and give their rethug buddy a free pass? Of course they will. Hypocrites always do things that way.
Knock yourself out, DAWO. Your days are numbered here unless you start adding something meaningful to the conversation.
BUSH AIDE CAUGHT STEALING
The prison bus makes daily stops at the White House now. Meanwhile, in California’s 49th Congressional District, Jeeni Criscenzo is running unopposed in the Democratic primary to challenge Republican incumbent Darrell Issa, whose claims to fame include (a) selling car alarms, (b) allegedly pulling a gun on his business partner, and (c) being accused of stealing cars.*
* The auto theft charges against Issa ultimately were dropped; Issa allegedly claimed his brother did it.
Pretty soon they’re gonna reserve a parking space for the paddy wagon just outside the West Wing.
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference overwhelmingly endorsed Bill Frist for the GOP presidential nomination tonight.
With that item of business out of the way, now I wonder which will occur first — Frist gets indicted, or Frist gets nominated?
Maybe John Gotti Jr. can be Frist’s running mate …
But if that doesn’t work out, maybe John Gotti Jr. can be Frist’s cell mate, and Frist can be Gotti’s prison bitch!
They need a reserved parking space for the prison bus over at Congress, too.
The Republican strategy is to stop people from voting.
They love low voter turnout, try to see to that it happens.
Commentby Voter Advocate— 3/11/06@ 2:12 pm
Actually republicans want a low turn out for dead people and illegal aliens. The republicans do well when there are high turn outs. The 2004 election had a very high turn out. Now if we can get the donk counties to mail ballots to military personnel we can get even a high turn out.
RUFASS, caught in a perpetual time warp. Kind of reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Can’t decide if he is Meatloaf or the Professor. Whichever one, he is the most factually bankrupt person posting on this blog (And I use ‘person’ very liberally)
Hell, RUdeFUckS is over on the newer thread acting as if the American Center for Voting Rights is a legit. organization.
He thinks he can peddle this bullshit forever.
Sounds like they are ready to eat their own, over at Sound Politics
“Jarret does need to go. He is nothing more than a dem masquerading as a republican. Clibborn is further right than him.”
Unfortunately, the Liberal-Communist-leaning Democrats – masquerading as Republicans seem to plague our State and National government lately!
The Republican party, and what it stands for, has become fatally infiltrated….just as the Democrat party was infiltrated decades ago…
Our country needs to refocus amd return to the will of the people. This may require the creation of a *new* party. One that is purged of these fanatical and impossibly flawed globalist/elitist/communist/socialist/anarchist ideologies. No more “Nannies”..No more United Nations. No further acceptance and creation of entitlement and welfare generations. No more political penthouse suites, corrupt election systems, eco-nazis, Mercer Island, Broadmoor, Bellevue ghetto-rats in suits, legalized reverse discrimination, glorification and mandatory acceptance of sexual deviancy, etc….No more!
No more nonsense and distraction. We need to refocus to remember just what in the heck we – as American citizens – truly require to live out our American dream…. We just don’t need the daily dose of hot-button distraction anymore.
Voter Advocate @ 53, thanks for enlightening me. I thought ACVR was American Cancer – Vote Republican
Funny watching the rethugs turn on each other. Watch and see how bad it gets when they try to pick an 08 presidential nominee. They will finally start telling the truth about each other. Their biggest challenge will be finding a candidate who’s not in jail or under indictment.
If King County’s votes had been properly counted in the first place, Rossi would have lost all three counts.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/11/06@ 11:48 am
Roger first King County has to quit using that new math. Then if the count is off stuff more ballots into the box.
FTC @ 41
You have a good point. I remember buying things from WalMart back in 1987, and they proudly said that practically all their stuff was made in the USA.
For Richard Pope (for the third time – answer this time you weenie):
Hey, jackass. Just found this on the PDC’s website. Have you ever won anything in your sad little existance?
“The Commission voted to recommend that the Attorney General take no further action on a 45-day citizen action letter that alleged Dwight Pelz failed to 1) timely report contributions and expenditures for his 2005 King County Council campaign and the disposition of surplus funds, and 2) include information about the open records inspection period on his candidate registration form. The Commission recommended no further action after considering staff’s investigative findings that showed the 2005 Pelz King County Campiang was discontinued after March 2004 when he became a candidate for Seattle City Council and that all reports were filed and available to the public at least one year prior to the 2005 election.”
Found here.
You have got to love it. When the RepubliCONS held their first ‘straw vote’ for their unPresidential candidate for 2008, 37% of the respondents selected Senator Bill (I love cats) Frist. Congratulations are in order to the straw voters. The RepubliCON Coven had its pow wow in Tennessee, Frist the Cat is from Tennessee, Tennessee had 50% of the voters in the straw poll, and Sen. Frist got a whopping 37% of the votes. At least their is some hope for the 13% of Tenneseans that voted against Frist the Cat!
Willia @ 60
The PDC Report of Investigation submitted by their Chief Campaign Finance Specialist, Kurt Young, on February 18, 2006, clearly shows that Dwight Pelz broke the law.
http://www.pdc.wa.gov/complian.....I22306.pdf
Look at Page 3. Pelz filed seven campaign finance reports late, varying between 4 and 61 days past due, involving $7,055.92 in contributions and $21,772.75 in expenditures.
On Page 5, Pelz filed a late report on February 7, 2006 (only after I filed my complain against him) showing how he disposed of the remaining $11,118.26 in campaign funds. These expenses were reported between two months and five months after the reports were due.
However, the assistant director of the PDC wrote a memo stating that these violations were not serious enough to merit enforcement action:
http://www.pdc.wa.gov/complian.....ommend.pdf
Maybe Claude Allen should get off on his shoplifting charges for the same reason. If it is okay for a ranking Democrat to file late campaign finance reports on “only” $32K of expenditures, surely it should be okay for a ranking Republican to irregularly process credit card refunds on “only” $5K of merchandise from Target.
Logan’s allegation against so-called Republican operatives is merely a desperate Dean Logan “sideshow” to deflect attention away from Stefan’s nearly 6-month old Public Record request for the Transaction Logs. Logan takes a few phone calls from Democratic Party activists and makes it news. Why?
TO DEFLECT!
Transaction Logs documenting each & every entry into that Voter Registration Datadase is a FUNDAMENTAL component of any database system like this. It shows who made the entry & when.
Logan is a very desperate man….Stefan has him checkmated but Logan is still looking for another move. Watch, Logan will try to get Stefan to look away for a second as Logan cunningly shifts a piece, hoping no one will notice.
Too bad for Dean Logan, it’s all on TAPE (or a Disc)!
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“At least their is some hope for the 13% of Tenneseans that voted against Frist the Cat!”
You give them too much credit — don’t forget, they’re Republicans. They’re just worried that running a guy under indictment for fraud might discourage turnout in their law-and-order base.
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“Unfortunately, the Liberal-Communist-leaning Democrats – masquerading as Republicans seem to plague our State and National government lately!”
I have to agree our national government has been infiltrated by communists posing as Republicans.
http://www.rense.com/general39/meets.htm
Roger and Gang where is your outcry?
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1047
Friday Sermon in Iraq: Oh Allah, Send Your Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Volcanoes to the People of Denmark
Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon in Iraq, aired on Salah Al-Din TV on February 10, 2006.
Preacher: Bring Your wrath down upon the heads of the people of Denmark, oh Allah. Bring Your full force down upon their heads, oh Allah. Make Your ground swallow them up, oh Allah. Send Your earthquakes upon them, oh Allah. Send Your hurricanes upon them, oh Allah. Erupt Your volcanoes upon them, oh Allah.
[…]
You do not know how to respect the monotheistic religions, or the prophets and messengers. Oh Arab and Muslim rulers, a trade boycott is not enough. Closing down embassies is not enough. You should instruct your peoples to boycott all the infidels.
Roger and Gang is this your problem fear of the unknown or the fact you could be wrong?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11787047/
‘Fear of the unknown’
The prospect of serving in a violent Iraq is still part of the equation for potential recruits, and Army officials say more frequent deployments have hurt recruitment for the active-duty Army, which began suffering shortfalls last year. The Guard has tried to address that concern by establishing a rotation cycle of one year abroad for every five years at home, which lends more predictability to the commitment, recruiters and military analysts say.
“Fear of the unknown hurts people. We want to take away the fear,” said Maj. Kristine Wood, recruiting commander for West Virginia. Since 2004, the Guard has had nine brigades deployed in Iraq and elsewhere, but that will drop to two by year’s end, officials say.
Frist isn’t under indictment, is he? What is the status of that investigation?
Probably the straw poll will give a big boost to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who came in second. McCain could have come in second, but he chose to punt instead
Richard, did you even read the news articles? You stated:
“surely it should be okay for a ranking Republican to irregularly process credit card refunds on “only” $5K of merchandise from Target.”
This POS was buying the merchandise, going out to his car, returning with the empty bags, filling the empty bags with new merchandise, adding items along the way towards the customer service counter and getting a fraudulent refund for his previously purchased and left in the car merchandise and to top it all, proceeded to walk out of the store with his cart and all of the unpaid merchandise he had picked up. Get a life RP, this scumbag is one of the many reasons that honest people pay inflated amounts for their purchases. But then again, as a high ranking RepubliCON, you were probably in on dreaming up this scam for you pals.
JERRY@43 THANKS FOR THE TIP FUCK YOU
@40 YOUR BRAIN IS STUCK.CANT WAIT FOR HILLARY TO RUN.OH BY THE WAY CALL HOME THE VILLAGE IS MISSING ITS IDIOT
WILL HILLARY SELL OUR PORTS TO THE “TOWEL-HEADS”?
OK YO/DAWO I’LL CALL HOME AND TELL ‘EM YOU CAN’T GET AWAY FROM YOUR KEYBOARD UNTIL YOU’RE “FINISHED”.
Cougar @ 69
Can’t you understand satire when you see it?
Do you think I actually LIKE the fact that we have such POS public “servants” running our country?
And I don’t think the Democrats would do any better.