Whooo Hoooo #2

He could have spared the rest of us if he hadn’t chosen the criminal path!

FITZ !!!

EffinCrookz!

Crooks and liars, crooks and liars!

The two guys in the picture, that is.

Thanks to TPM and Josh Marshall, I’ve been following CoinGate from the git, although the real credit must go to the Toledo Blade for the continuing investigative reporting…
This pleading by Noe, in sync with the oh-so-promised Rolling Stone story about the stolen election in Ohio, may create a splash !

There is some kind of stench coming out of Ohio and I am starting to smell it here in downtown DC. This stuff has a chance to make Fitzmas look like a rainy birthday party at the putt-putt. Check bradblog.com and Rolling Stone for more about Ohio Republican corruption, vote-rigging, etc. The good news is that this stuff may be big enough to make the MSM really take notice of the problems with voting machines, etc. BEFORE the mid-terms!! bradblog, the Toledo Blade, and the rest of the gang that have been busting their asses in relative obscurity are owed a hearty thanks from the American people for helping to save what is left of our democracy!!
Thank you, muckrackers and voting irregularities investigators!!!
peace,
jim

there’s more. and it has to do with voting.

and OT: this is for redd, because i don’t want her to waste her precious and talented mind trying to understand our media any more. they are totally owned.

it’s the only answer to the SCLM you need, and now there’s a direct connection between the media and the surveillance program.

Dems won’t win Shite in Ohio until they get rid of those electronic voting machines. I drove all the way to Toledo to work the 2004 election, which was stolen before our very eyes. For the life of me, I don’t understand why FDL NEVER features an article on stolen elections and electronic voting machines.

Buy tomorrow’s Rolling Stone magazine.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002891.htm

A damning and detailed feature article, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Rolling Stone and documenting evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election is set to hit newstands this Friday, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm. The online version of the article will be posted tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

The article — headlined on the cover as “Did Bush Steal the 2004 Election?: How 350,000 Votes Disappeared in Ohio” — has been several months in development and will contend that a concerted effort was undertaken by high-level Republican officials to steal the Election in Ohio — and thus the country — in 2004!

For those of you who are interested, Peter Beinart of the New Republic will be on WaPo online at 2 PM EST, to discuss the difference between GWB and Harry Truman, in spite of the fact that George would like you to confuse them based on their proclivities for disastrous, adventurous, warmongering.

Can you say Mayberry Macchiavelians ?

Breaking News via the Blade

http://www.toledoblade.com/app…..S/60601032

plus, Mr. Noe faces 50, count ‘em 50 charges on the comp fund deal

Tom #10
I agree. Buy Rolling Stone or read the article by Robert Kennedy Jr. online.
Can anyone say culture of corruption.
The MSM has poo-poo’d the Ohio voting machine story from the get go. Maybe now they will take it seriously.

Even though I probably already know the answer before I even ask,is ANYONE following up on the crooked tree of corruption that has to be the rest of all of said politco’s mentioned above?

One more thing

911 Truth Convention, THIS WEEKEND in Chicago.

50 percent of NYers polled said they don’t believe the Administration’s story on 911. They lived through it and should know. Garafolo on AAR said: “9/11 was an inside job.”

For more info:

http://911revealingthetruth.org/

Gosh, I hope they don’t hurt Noe’s wrist too hard when they slap it.

Toledo Blade has been doing a stellar job of digging and dogging this story for over a year. What I find so wonderful about these convicitions, isnt just that dirty rotten scoundrals are getting their just deserts but that finally someone is able to “starve the beast”.

With Noe and Abramoff out of the picture, just think of all those dollars the repubicans are NOT getting.

One of the biggest part of the Cunningham, Wilkes and others scandal is how the whole scheme worked by funeling OUR DoD tax dollars from the Appropriations committee to the Defense contractor to their employees to donate to the Repug Party….. MY tax dollars going to fund the Repugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was around 30 front groups created to for this money changing scheme.

i now have Rolling Stone on my RSS reader (Sage in Firefox) – I am so not a rock&roll aficionado but the breaking Ohio news may be fun to read eventually…

There’s always more questions after answers with this administration and each of its radiating scandals.

– When will the Bush/Cheney’04 campaign return the ill-gotten money to the state of Ohio?

– Why did the Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau have such a disproportionately large sum of money under its control, out of the perview of state auditors? (OH has nearly the same number of residents as neighboring MI, but more than 2X the money in its Workers’ Comp coffers; the Bureau was also exempt from audit by the state.)

– Why were OH turnpikes also exempt from state audit or any other official review? (Ditto with FL state turnpike system — see the parallel?)

That’s just for starters. There’s a LOT more going on in OH than meets the eye; the place is chockful of loose cash, like one big money laundering outfit. And then the connections to DeLay/Abramoff, too, that haven’t yet been researched…one of Blackwell’s buddies in muni finance won a contract related to “rebuilding Iraq” via his contacts with John Colyandro. Yeah, the same John Colyandro indicted for DeLay’s ARMPAC…

Hats off to the Toledo Blade, one of the all-too-rare newspapers in this country that still does hard-hitting journalism; the same paper also reported on the Tiger Force war crimes in Vietnam.

OT/EPU’d but still:

At atrios:

“Lamont: I think that those who got 132,000 troops stuck in the middle of a bloody civil war should be held accountable. I think those that approved ‘Heckuva Job Brownie’ for FEMA in 42 minutes should be held accountable. I think that those believe that the federal government should intervene in the Terri Schiavo case should be held accountable. That’s the last place I want the federal government going, into my hospital room and into my bedroom. I think those who supported Alberto ‘The Geneva Convention is Quaint’ Gonzales should be held accountable.”

Selah.

Busted at 14 — TPM and the Muck have been following this pretty closely all along. So have a few others. And the Toledo Blade ought to win a Pulitzer for their work on this — really top notch stuff.

“Noe Mo!”

Chicago Dyke,

Great link to the Solomon search story! J. Edgar is alive and well, it seems. Sigh.

cbl (12) — THANK YOU!! Great link!! Great news!! Good gravy, I hope they follow the entire ball of yarn all the way…

And RICO!!! Finally, a damned RICO charge!! It’s about time!!

Christy,

The Blade took home a Pulitzer last year for a story on Vietnam atrocities (Team Tiger ?) they rec’d Honorable Mention this year from The Pulitzer Committeee for their Congate coverage.

and that link I posted upthread is RICO Indictment for the State Comp Mgr Gasper

Now ‘dey got Noe, next up be Ney.

For those that don’t read Rolling Stone, give it a try. It usually has some funny commentary on the state of political affairs.
Anytime Matt Taibbi has an article printed it is well worth reading.
Also try Vanity Fair.

You wrote public has been bilked to the tune of over $1 million dollars

Didn’t he lose over $13 million in coins?

Bustedknuckles,

Just because all these people knew each other and dealt with each other, next you’ll be claiming there was a conspiracy!!

thanks, b. i love my blogmates, they rock.

tom in chicago- gmta! ;-)

Regarding the MSM’s hands-off approach to voting fraud: The problem that the MSM has with voting fraud is that, if it turns out to be true, what can they do about it? The media is naturally invested in the theory that our system of government and elections is “working” in some sense of the word. If it turns out that it is being subverted on a significant scale, then the subsequent crisis is far beyond anything the media is prepared to deal with. Even if they have the smoking guns, is it in their interest to expose them, or just hope that things get better? I can see how they can ask themselves this question. It is similar to the old ABSCAM affair in congress. The Justice Dep’t was running a sting operation on congressmen with bribes, etc. It turned out that there were so many congressmen willing to get stung that Justice abandoned the operation because it would have basically toppled the legislative branch. Oops! This is part of the perspective that is important to keep regarding Abramoff, Cunningham, and the like. Was it ever plausible that there was ONE crooked lobbyist and ONE crooked congressman? Of course not!! There were signs of many kinds of Republican voter-suppression and other shenanigans from 2000 through the entire 2004 campaign. Where there’s smoke, fire is a distinct possibility! I remember Peggy Noonan brushing this stuff off with “I heard that there was a Democrat registered as Betty Boop”. If that’s the best defense they can come up with, then you know they’re guilty! If Republican incompetence, cronyism, corruption, warmongering, hate-mongering, racism, gay-bashing, and jingoism haven’t turned you off yet, then maybe some good old-fashioned voting fraud will!
peace,
jim

Peace Vigil this Saturday at Lafayette Park in DC!! Should be fun!

Sholom, he lost $50M !

katymine-
in case you’ve never seen it -

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…../114820/90

Huffington is no longer featuring anything about the RollingStone story. No comments.

As we’ve witnessed in Ohio, the Diebold machines are not to be counted on unless your a Republican running for office. There have been several stories over at Huffington Post about a company that found a severe flaw in the machines that would allow someone to very easily tamper with the machines outcome. Yet no MSM source has talked about it. Wonder why?
Does anyone else fear that the Republicans will use the machines to stay in office this November?

Sholom (28) — think bigger, MUCH BIGGER. Noe had coins in his possession that went missing and a $50 million coin fund under his control, but may have been partially responsible (along with OH-BWC director Gasper) for $215 MILLION in workers’ comp funds being “lost” in a Bermuda investment.

So…how much does it cost to rig an election in Ohio, anyhow?

Oops- never mind- they just moved the stone story. My bad.

The Toledo Blade also mentioned $215 million in losses from a hedge fund. These guys were not ony thieves they were stupid.

Hugh,

I’m with you ! and I wish all these lunatics in the fever swamp would stop photoshopping Dear Leader in pics with all these felons !

Can I just flat out admit this story is very cheering to me? I am loving it.
Fucker belongs in jail for a long, long time.

Look at this link: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/…..rintpicart
Ney charging into battle on meth, in a jumpsuit. Course it was a mock meth lab, in Quantico, and meanwhile programs are being cut here because this state is so damn corrupt.
Sigh.

No wonder the GOP was anxious to push the Harry Reid non-story all week….between Savafian and Noe the entire Republican party looks to be involved in the Culture of Corruption

‘Thanx, Rush.’

“Tell us all your real name, will ya? And tell us where you really live…Tell us who you really are, Jack…give us your real name.

And, also… you might want to tell us when you’re gonna be in Las Vegas – that’s coming up soon isn’t it?”

Nothing quite like free advertising, is there?

;>)

Tom – Chicago
Why don’t you write an article and submit it to Jane and Christy. If they like it, I’m sure they’ll post it.
Have you heard of the Federal False Claims Act?
It’s my understanding that Ohio doesn’t have a state version. If you think there is solid evidence of fraud, why has no one filed?

well I bet “W” doesn’t know

“NOE” either, hmmmm?

Doesn’t know:
NOE
JACK

A**hole. May we be saved by the impending indictment of the rat: ROVE.

Without PJF and team, this country would be ‘lost’ … led astray by the ‘holier than thou Administration/Cabinet/Congress’ and the lapdog repugnant media.

Nuf said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..nted=print

NYtimes, June 1, 2006
89 Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Filed at 1:33 p.m. ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.

Why do all the low-lifes move to Florida? We have enough home-grown ones to meet our needs, we don’t need the likes of Noe clogging up the low-life arteries down here.
Sigh….hopefully, he’s head for a nice prison cell in some other state soon.

Cute little explainer in the Columbus Dispatch on Noe, too, from back in February this year.

Money quote:

“The indictment against Tom Noe demonstrates how pervasive the Republican culture of corruption is in Washington and Columbus,” said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera in a statement. “Tom Noe stole millions from Ohio workers and used it to help elect a governor who became the first convicted criminal to lead Ohio and a president whose administration is even more corrupt than Richard Nixon’s.”

Sing it, bay-bee. Amen.

Rayne 36,
You ask how much it costs to rig an election in Ohio. I don’t think it’s a matter of money, or at least not much. My sense is it’s more a matter of subtle hints and smears. At least in SE Ohio, that is how I see it.

Hey what’s the deal with this story about AP reporter Solomon’s files being looked at one month BEFORE 9/11?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/1/14124/06171

He’s the guy who’s been the hitman for the GOP at the AP.

Jim Preston @ 31 –

I appreciate your description of how huge the scandal could be (or is), but I can’t believe the MSM would throw up its hands in the face of it and back off. It’s not up to them to “fix,” anyway. It’s up to them to reveal.

Mind you, I don’t have an alternate theory. Every day I ask myself or my wife or my invisible friend, “What is more worth covering than this? What is more worth the NY Times or WaPo’s energies than this blatant fraud at the most fundamental level of our ‘democracy’?” None of us has an answer.

I still ask it. I just don’t agree that they see the scale of the crime and are quietly backing off because it’s too gigantic.

The next step needs to be going after Bob Taft for his involvement in this. He has said he had no knowledge but Noe was reported to have proof Taft did in fact have knowledge of what was going on. The Republicans here in the Buckeye state are really going to struggle this year and it is about time.

I have the Blade bookmarked to keep track of the fabulously expanding Noe scandal.

Also Blackwell is the most corrupt SoS in America. And that’s saying something. He stole Ohio for Bush and may be going down finally-per Bradblog.

Anyhow, “It’s getting hot in here”

And here I always thought we (FL) had the most corrupt SoS in America. Oh well, Ohio doesn’t get to call theirs “Alligator Bag,” so we still got THAT going for us.

Here’s an idea goopers- the Blackwell/Harris ticket for 08. Those to were born to run together!

Those of you in Ohio–What’s the latest on DeWine? Is he making progress or sinking in the gooper pit of muck?

Just say Noe to Ney!

http://www.zackspace.org/

Go Space!

Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company’s RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. He made the statement on national television earlier this week.

Silverman was being interviewed on “Fox & Friends.” Responding to the Bush administration’s call to know “who is in our country and why they are here,” he proposed using VeriChip RFID implants to register workers at the border, and then verify their identities in the workplace. He added, “We have talked to many people in Washington about using it….”

(Drudge)

Matt’s right on top of a very “sensible” solution to the immigration problem.

Mr Wonderful @49 –

My theory, FWIW, is that Ohio (like so much of the rest of the nation) is viewed from NY and DC as “out there somewhere.” If it had been a NY/DC area case, or one of the neighboring suburbs (like MA, PA, MD, or VA), then maybe it makes the news.

For TV, the words “Nothing to see here” are almost literally true. Unless you’ve got a good video shot, there’s almost always no story. Not always, thank God, but it’s a rule of thumb to go by in most cases.

What’ve we got here? Old white guys, and missing coins. Just doesn’t stack up against the fires, car chases, suspicious packages being examined, and (drumroll, please) the missing white women.

And as Uncle Walter used to say, “That’s the way it is . . .” Of course, he didn’t cry after he said it.

No major media outlet is going to break a story about vote fraud in Ohio unless they really have the goods- it’s way too explosive. Don’t think they’re actively looking for any “goods” either.

rw at 56 — wow, now you can find your lost pet and your lost illegal immigrant housekeeper, all in one fell swoop. (Good lord, do these people even THINK about how their crack-brained ideas sound?)

what if we also implant RFID chips in white, blond females too? they seem to go missing more often than socks in a laundry room!

don’t know about y’all, but I’ve ordered one of these

http://www.popcorn.com.au/sitelocal/truck.jpg

Updated statements from both Brad and Rolling Stone at

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002894.htm

Blackwell figures most prominently, of course.

Redd–Unbelievable isn’t it- unbridled capitalism at work I guess. So now applicants for guest worker status will get a free chip installed along with their brown card.

cbl at 61 — I am so saving that picture in the hopes that I will be able to use it soon. hehehehehe

Yeah, #ilson.
Implant chips in all white women!! That’s the ticket.

*ilson46201 #59,

Now THAT was funny!

Just got another “dial a lie” computer phone call from the Bilbray campaign claiming that Busby is lyin to smear Bilbray and to cover up her “liberal” past. Those who have been following the race will find this claim particularly amusing- Francine is a converted GOOPER!

It will all be over soon.

Off Topic: Doughy Pantload Alert

My local paper today printed a column by Jonah Goldberg that implies Al Gore lied about spending time in Cannes during the summer when he was 15. Goldberg says that according to a biography, “the former vice president’s 15th summer was spent working on the family farm.” Goldberg is too stupid to understand that the summer “when I was 15″ (Gore)is not the same as Gore’s “15th summer,” (when Gore was 14), or to recognize that Gore could have done both in the same summer.

I know this was discussed on FDL within the past week or so but haven’t been able to locate that post. According to The American Prospect (http://www.prospect.org/horsesmouth/2006/05/post_32.html#002542), a spokesman for Gore has verified that he spent one week studying French in Cannes the summer he was 15, and also worked on the family farm that summer. Someone like Goldberg could argue that “the summer I was 15″ is an exaggeration of the one week Gore’s spokesman said he spent in Cannes.

Question: is it worthwhile writing to my local paper and smacking down Goldberg for the “when I was 15″/”15th summer” mixup, or is it better to leave the issue alone and not give further publicity to Goldberg’s implication that Gore lied?

I was horrified to see his column in my local paper; I think this might be the first time it has run. I would love to convince the newspaper that Goldberg is untrustworthy and that they shouldn’t run his column. But I don’t want to appear to be splitting hairs and have someone come back with the “one week doesn’t equal ‘for the summer’” argument as another Gore exaggeration.

Does anyone have any advice on this? Or are there better issues to attack Goldberg on?

Btw, Where ARE Barb and Jenny?

Agree- Wilson gets the snark of the day award.

Socks in a laundry room indeed!

Neuro 68;
But Al’s a LIAR dontcha know? Also he sighs too much. That’s why we need incompetence in the White House instead.

Hmmmm . . . Who would fall under the category of “friends” in Noe’s “spare my family and friends” line?

I suppose “spare my f&f” sounds better to some folks than “Yeah, I was caught dead-to-rights, and there’s no way I can wiggle out of it,” but when he stands before the judge that f&f stuff just isn’t going to cut it.

It does, however, follow the long tradition of Dubya’s “artful wording” as Tony Snow put it. Froomkin’s back from his vacation/birthday celebration, and he really goes after Dubya and the press. His headline: “Bush’s Lie,” about lying to the press about the SecTreas resignation. Dan spends as much time asking why the press won’t call it a lie as he does wondering why Dubya didn’t just duck the question.

See the whole thing at http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00879.html

Go Dan!

Saw Goldberg’s latest in the LA Times this morning- ignored it as always. Can’t think of any reason to spend the time reading that nit wit or responding to his silliness. Can’t believe that the LA Times PAYS him for that crap.

neurophius: if you were the son of Lucianne Goldberg, wouldn’t you too be obsessing about all the other kids having a decent and good childhood? have pity on poor Jonah – not all child abuse is physical!

and was his Mom prescient or what : naming her pudgy child something always associated with whales? poor Jonah!

CNN reporting the BIG stories- FLASH- Batwoman is a lesbian! Yep- they’re really running with that one!

John Casper = I second.

neurophius — discouraging any publication from publishing the distorted stylings of Jonah Goldberg is NEVER a waste of time.

Bobby Kennedy JR’s piece up now.

http://www.rollingstone.com/ne…..ion_stolen

and Mary Cheney is sending Catwoman into the MidEast to clean-up the evil-doers? Catwoman versus Khameni ?

“Jonah Goldberg that implies Al Gore lied about spending time in Cannes during the summer when he was 15.

What next? Maybe Goldberg will unearth evidence that Gore stole a watermelon when he was 11, or broke a neighbor’s window when he was 9. Goldberg is pathetic. And that’s his only positive trait!

Bustednuckles:
Thanks for the link.

Thanks, bustedknuckles @ 12:08. Can’t help but notice that the Rolling Stone servers seem to be loading a bit slowly. ;-)

A cute diversion

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/dishonestdubya/

Looks like someone took Ohio’s Motto to heart: Ohio – The Heart of It All

I guess “Republican Party Corruption” was too long and “it” had to suffice.

oh my– such a post wingnut Carol Platt Liebau has up at HuffPo lecturing libruls on Haditha. She is taking quite a spanking for it, too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..21995.html

I’m halfway thru the first of four pages of the Kennedy piece
D
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Jeebus, Ive only read 1/2 of the first page and I’m going to go find the biggest mother fucking hammer I own.Time for a little stress release.

Just dropping in with a quick observation…. I find it odd that Noe has pleaded gulty to the federal offenses before the state court trial — this means that his pending state crime can be used in calculating his non-biding (wink wink) sentencing guidelines AND his federal guilty verdicts can surely be used 1)If he testified at his own trial in Ohio and 2) if he is found guilty to aggravate his sentence — heck, he might be in “three strikes” territory as a felon recidivist.

So, Immanantize smells a State deal.

No Felon Left Behind.

-GSD

omg, if that’s *ilson’s response, it must be juicy as hell – was saving it as a reward once the chores were done – but heck, they can walk on dusty floors for one more day !

fyi- Ohio papers – nothing in Cleveland or Cinci papers on this morning’s RICO Indictment – good ol Columbus Dispatch at least has the RICO story front paged

but so far, nothing about the RS article

The photo will be used as proof positive that Dumbya never met the guy; never even heard of him.

Peterr – the long tradition of Dubya’s “artful wording”

If only we could tape it to the refrigerator.

Bustedknuckles — I recommend chain saw therapy! Don’t you have a tree that needs to come down? Perhaps the neighbors have an extra one you could bring down? I find it to be tres theraputic…

But hammering is good, too.

neurophius (68) — I’d be sorely tempted to ask Jonah why all the interest in a single week in Gore’s early adolescence when the entire early adulthood of George W. Bush is so much more entertaining and open to conjecture. Surely the history of the man currently occupying the White House is of far more importance to the American public, yes?

Or is Jonah doing the advance work on the next President of the United States and this is the best he could find in the way of gossip?

The Rolling Stone article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. on election fraud is up. Here’s the print-friendly version:

http://www.rollingstone.com/ne…..olen/print

Hmm…

Bush and Kenneth Lay

Bush and Tom Delay

Bush and Tom Noe

Bush and David Safavian

Bush and Claude Allen

Bush and Lewis Libby

Bush and Duke Cunningham

Bush and Jack Abramoff

It is all merely a coincidence, there is no collusion, racketeering or culture of corruption in the Republican Party whatsoever.

-GSD

Can’t believe that the prosecution is recommending a very light 2 1/2 year sentence for this jerk. Some poor black kid who holds up an inner city convenience store would get 10-15 in the slammer.

Immanentize – I asked my Dad (who has 45 years in the game of crim law), about whether a state defendant’s own federal court allocution could be used against him whether or not he took the stand, and, assuming that he got the part about the person not taking the stand in the state case. He thought yes. He said the case is Crawford v. Washington, which came down probably sometime in 2003, which dealt with allocutions/statements by a co-defendent being used against another defendent where the co defendent wouldn’t testify, or something like that (that hearsay thing).

neurophius: Attack!!!

Sorta on topic:

Great radio show here in Salt Lake from KUER’s RadioWest on Diebold voting machines here in Utah. Great discussion centering on the public’s trust in these machines.

http://www.publicbroadcasting……_ID=922256

OfT: Francine Busby is running an ad that splits the Minutemen supporters from her GOP opponent on Tuesday.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com…..ll_im.html

cbl (90) — no surprise there about the lack of coverage Cleveland and Cincy papers. Have heard so many complaints about the bias there.

I have concerns about this news, though, as happy as we are to finally put some sunshine to this mess; there were people in OH who saw things who’ve been intimidated and are terrified to say anything about it. They are afraid for their lives. The kind of money we are discussing in this thread is more than enough to buy the permanent kind of shut-your-mouth treatment.

There is more than one reason we didn’t get the whole story about Ohio, besides the fact the press is pWN3d.

There are no words to adequately describe my pounding heart, hot tears and fury after reading that article! How appropriate it appears on this particular thread.

Gonna mow the lawn and thank my lucky stars for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Over at TP they have Nutso Bolton cheering on a “unilateral” strike on Iran….

This is going to happen. These lunatics want it to happen….

-GSD

Why does Rolling Stone hate America?

Tom Noe and the Ohio GOP have done a heckuva job keeping it safe from Democrat terrorizers, and liberating all those pension fund dollars wasted on working folks. Don’t you know that the haves and have mores need new yachts?

Besides — the Clenis has an office in HARLEM, while the Clenis Consort is an alleged Senator in Washington. Why don’t you talk about real news like that, and who the Clenis is seeing in his HARLEM office?

And why hasn’t Rupert Murdoch bought the Toledo Blade, so they can report the good news from Iraq? Not a single Fox News reporter has been blown up this week, and Dear Leader’s minions are doing a heckuva job over there.

for me, the most convincing info in the Ohio story is where the liberal Black woman judge beat Kerry in votes in white rural areas. That’s impossible!
I’ve been involved in the nitty-gritty of local elections for over 20 years and know how to read comparative results of precincts. I’ve even gerrymandered (legally) some election districts. There definitely was finagling (stealing) of votes going on in Ohio, for sure. No doubt!

Ken Blackwell needs to recall some Commandments or another where it says something about “Thou shalt not bear false witness” and “Thou shalt not steal”

Ohio elections: elderly Republicans that I personally know voted Democratic for the first time ever in 2004. We was robbed.

In the 2005 Ohio elections, several good government referenda that were slated to pass by huge margins….lost by huge margins. The Columbus Dispatch poll was wrong for only the second time in history, after 2004.

Oh, and among the referenda was one that forbids recounting. Nice.

Ohio was the tipping point, we lost the Presidency. Seeing these folks brought down in Columbus will be JUSTICE.

MrWonderful@49 – Time may tell how deep Republican voter fraud has been over the last 6 years, and whether or not it is ever deemed important enough for people or the media to do something about it. It took dead white college kids in Mississippi last time to move the football, along with a lot of other things, and people didn’t have Brad and Angelina to distract them back then, either. It would seem to me that the time is now for groups to get organized for very serious exit polling, poll-watching, etc. around the mid-terms. The thing is, that this stuff needs to be done in a professional manner. Running around at the last minute screaming about how the lines are too long won’t work, I can guarantee you that. Holding up 5 independent exit polls that each agree with each other and disagree with the recorded results might get us somewhere. The crazy part is that the Republicans approach voter suppression/fraud with a multi-pronged attack. First they keep people from registering and purge the voter rolls. Then they make it hard for them to vote. Then they call Diebold. Then they fool around with recounts, provisional ballots, etc. This thin, broad type of manipulation has many advantages. One is that each particular case can be argued for on one misguided principle or another, such as “The Democrats used to do that.” Another is that it is difficult to show that any particular one of the techniques “changed” the outcome, when it might definitely be true that they cumulatively changed the outcome. The fact is that there is one political party that has an institutional committment to voting fraud, and it is the Republican Party.
peace,
jim

Forbids recounting: I mean because it failed, now recounting is severely restricted.

If the guy raised funds for over half of the current, sitting state S. Ct., I almost hope there is a plea. What a nightmare to send something like that up – however it came out.

I don’t know this person, they have never been to my white house!
who is this person anyway? pioneer? that is out west, huh?

At some point very soon it will be impossible for the American public to deny the fact that their president is in fact nothing more than a career criminal, and that they have been royally “had.” The republicans are running in November on the meme that “If the house or senate changes hands, they’ll impeach him.” Damn straight we will. We’re not giving this thief any more time to clean out our house than we have to.

I’m not even halfway through the Rolling Stone article, and I am livid. The GOP has reduced us to being a nation that may need UN election monitoring in order to safeguard the process. That’s just heartbreaking and pathetic.

Voting fraud: you will see it AGAIN in 2006 and if nothing changes, the Presidency will be stolen again in 2008.

Anybody want toast?

Anne,

I think that the Democratic party should formally request UN monitoring of the next election. It would get a lot of attention and bring this shameful treason into the limelight. I say this in all seriousness.

in 2004 members of the Congressional Black Caucus requested election monitors from the Europeans – some arrived.
Locally the wingers were screaming at our Congresswoman for daring to do that. On Election Day, she’s always the first to vote : her voting machine was broken and wouldn’t let her pull down the lever above her name. Of course, this was all on live TV and replayed all day long. Indiana wasn’t a battleground state though…

Just finished the RFK, Jr. article in Rolling Stone – the one quote that stuck out: “Kerry says his fellow Democrats have been reluctant to push the reforms, fearing that Republicans would use their majority in Congress to create even more obstacles to voting.”
Just when I think things can’t get any lower…

The news report noted that Noe is living in Florida.

To wit:

“A bankruptcy loophole allows residents of Florida, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas to use their homes to shield unlimited amounts of money from creditors.

The unlimited exemption has made Florida, in particular, a haven for celebrities walking away from their debts. O.J. Simpson fled to Florida, purchasing a multimillion-dollar house in Miami, after a California court ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages for the wrongful death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. None of the damages has been paid.

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/bizti…..krupt.html

If anyone that just read that piece about election fraud is not VERY angry right now, Have someone make sure you aren’t actually dead.208 bibliographic references in that article.THAT is one very well investigated article.And it is infuriating to think that the ‘OLD MEDIA’ doesn’t think there is any thing wrong there.Nope, move along, we have some voting machines to polish.

Re: Rolling Stone

Ahhh So glad to take the tin foil off! As the day wore on with no article, I was really starting to wonder. Glad that theory got debunked.

OT from end of last thread re: Chertoff telling NYC to drop dead. The daily News had a blistering editorial today demanding Chertoff be fired immediatly.

Mike Chertoff used to be a New Yorker. In fact he used to be an ASUA in the Southern District of New York.

Dadhusker:

Kennedy also does an excellent job of demolishing the often quoted excuse given for “why the exit polls were so wrong” (emphasis added)…

“According to Mitofsky, Bush partisans were simply disinclined to talk to exit pollsters on November 2nd(34) — displaying a heretofore unknown and undocumented aversion that skewed the polls in Kerry’s favor by a margin of 6.5 percent nationwide.(35)

Industry peers didn’t buy it. John Zogby, one of the nation’s leading pollsters, told me that Mitofsky’s ”reluctant responder” hypothesis is ”preposterous.”(36) Even Mitofsky, in his official report, underscored the hollowness of his theory: ”It is difficult to pinpoint precisely the reasons that, in general, Kerry voters were more likely to participate in the exit polls than Bush voters.”(37)

Now, thanks to careful examination of Mitofsky’s own data by Freeman and a team of eight researchers, we can say conclusively that the theory is dead wrong. In fact it was Democrats, not Republicans, who were more disinclined to answer pollsters’ questions on Election Day. In Bush strongholds, Freeman and the other researchers found that fifty-six percent of voters completed the exit survey — compared to only fifty-three percent in Kerry strongholds.(38) ”The data presented to support the claim not only fails to substantiate it,” observes Freeman, ”but actually contradicts it.””

We’ve known about this for a long time. Some of us have suffered for it, been called tinfoil-wearing moonbats. Forgive and forget; it’s now time for ACTION. We also know that the media is bought or intimiated; we’ll have to do the heavy lifting ourselves.

NEED FROM YOU:
Get out your email distribution list of progressive friends; dust off your Meetup.com message board and your DFA-Link blog. Warm up your blog. Let’s get this spike on Technorati going (you do know that Technorati now has an agreement with AP to provide a list of active stories AND blogs, yes?).

Email something similar to the following message to all your progressive peeps TODAY. Ask them to do the same thing. Post the same on message boards and your blog. Here’s a sample that I just mailed out to my own peeps, feel free to use it if you like, or write one of your own:

Subject: MUST READ: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Was the 2004 Vote Stolen?

Heads up, gang. The following article was released today in Rolling Stone magazine:

http://www.rollingstone.com/ne…..ion_stolen

Buzz around the internet and the blogosphere in advance of this story has been HUGE.

Relatedly, Bush Pioneer Bob Ney of Ohio pleads guilty to three federal charges of violating campaign laws ” the largest campaign money-laundering scheme prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department since new campaign finance laws were enacted by Congress in 2002.”

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pb…../305310017

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01506.html

Terrence W. Gasper former chief financial officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, charged with violations of federal RICO and money laundering laws for accepting $25,000 in 2001 from Tom Noe:

http://www.toledoblade.com/app…..S/60601032

Please be prepared for push back; it’s not improbable that much of the negative press about certain Dems and corruption (although possibly warranted in the Jefferson case; it is unwarranted in the case of Sen. Reid) has been queued up to coincide with the expected release of this bad news for Republicans. We can expect to hear a lot of “Dems are dirty, too” chatter in the days ahead. The magnitude, reach and impact of the corruption in the state of Ohio, though, has little precedent on the left side of the aisle; it is the perfect argument for not permitting one party to have too much power in any state let alone the country.

Pass the word. Let’s roll, people.

NEXT UP: Letters to the Editor.

Ed N Sted, #120 – Thanks, I am still shaking my head

Agh. I think my comment went into web hell, a call for action…

headline from raw story:

FEC FINDS GOP SENATE LEADER VIOLATED LAW IN $1.4 MILLION PERSONAL LOAN: DEVELOPING…

rwcole re: DeWine, this looks interesting.
http://www.whiotv.com/news/9299256/detail.html

“Brown also said, recent free trade agreements, including the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which he opposed and DeWine supported, have crippled American manufacturers like Delphi.

With such a close race, and with the Delphi cloud looming over voters throughout the Miami Valley, the Delphi dispute could decide this race.”

neurophius #68
I cannot find where I read that someone called Gore’s public relations person to clairify the “summer in cannes” and cannot find where I read it. But what I remember is that Gore was working his grandfathers farm in TN that summer but did go to France & Canne for a week when he was 15-16 yrs old. (I guess his birthday is in the summer).

So the jist of it was, if you regularly go to granpa’s farm for summers but had the opportunity to go to FRANCE for a trip when you are 15′ish, what would you remember 20 plus yrs later? Ya really think you would remember mucking out the barns vs Canne?

Pleaaaaaaaaaaaasssssseeee !

Tell us all your real name, will ya? And tell us where you really live… Tell us who you really are Jack… give us your real name. And, also… you might want to tell us when you’re gonna be in Las Vegas – that’s coming up soon isn’t it?

What’s with that Las Vegas thing? Am I totally off-base here, or does it almost sound like Oxy-Boy is accusing “Jack” of being Bill Maher calling in to try and prank him?

Either way, court-enforced sobriety apparently isn’t going over too well with ol’ Rush, is it? What a friggin’ loon…

at 117

Kerry is full of shit. Dean has been all over this issue and has revitalized the Democratic Lawyers Council to deal with the issue.

BTW to lawyers out there: as part of the 50 state project Gov. Dean would like to see state chapters of the DLC (someday when people see those initials, they will think of lawyers fighting election fraud not the Dem Leadership Council moving the party to the right)in all 50 states. So if anyone wants to start a chapter in their state, call the DNC.

If you ask for a staffer named Anna Martinez, she can probably hook you up. At present there are chapters officially formed in NY and DC, with a couple of other states in formation.

DLC needs lawyers will to be state, county and local coordinators. Don’t worry if you have never done this before. We train both lawyers and poll watchers and we will have a national manual out (hopefully) by this fall.

I have running an election monitoring proram since 2001 and it gets bigger every cycle. And it works!

The thing is, sending ppeople from out of state in atthe last minute, really is not the most effective thing to do. We need homegrown lawyers working in thier own communities and it is a year round effort.

It includes HAVA compliance and voter role purging monitoring and voter registration protection, lots of things beyond just election day.

It is something you can actually get in ther and do that really makes a difference

I think I could spit nails without even trying…

Kerry’s quote makes the Democrats sound like victims of abuse, who are too afraid to speak up and defend themselves for fear of getting an even worse beating. And what, exactly, has tippy-toeing around these goons gotten them? More abuse.

And how, exactly, are these kinds of actions and tactics by Republicans, that take away the right to vote in order to engineer victory for themselves, any different than the flag-burning they want to make unconstitutional? What they did, and no doubt plan to continue to do, is as un-American as it gets.

There is no hell hot enough for these creatures.

I look forward to reading the Rolling Stone article, but I’d caution anyone who thinks it will blow the lid off our kleptocracy to explain why this article in the September 2005 Harper’s hasn’t already done so.

CHRISTY, JANE, ET. AL:

EVERYONE, EVERYONE, IS RIVETED BY THE ROLLING STONE VOTE FRAUD STORY. YOU ARE AN INFLUENTIAL BLOG, PLEASE,

PLEASE,

PLEASE,

PUT IT UP TO THE MAIN STORY. Stop ignoring this. What’s the point of voting if our votes don’t count?

Rayne -
I did see your comment upthread about folks who are keeping their mouths shut – have sometimes made snarky references to Hyman Roth’s ‘Lakeville Road Boys’ but only half kidding – hope to goodness the innocents remain protected

Operation Enduring Felon

Jack Cafferty just mentioned this…

The Florida League of Women Voters has faithfully helped register voters for 67 years, but Republican lawmakers now have put them out of business. Chalk it up to last year’s election reform law, and call it a political disgrace.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05…..egis.shtml

Dadhusker (117):

You quote RFK, Jr.: “Kerry says his fellow Democrats have been reluctant to push the reforms, fearing that Republicans would use their majority in Congress to create even more obstacles to voting.”

Congressional Democrats, including Kerry, remind me of the Jews who cooperated with the Nazis — making lists, issuing nametags, informing on illicit gatherings, etc. They didn’t want to be confrontational, just as the Democrats now don’t want to do anything to rile up those angry fascists across the aisle.

We are fucking doomed.

ralphbon: it’s another brick in the wall. I’ve read all this already too but we gotta keep laying bricks.

Anne (129) — around my parts we’ve called that defeatist attitude to which Kerry refers, “battered wife syndrome”. (With apologies to all sufferers of domestic abuse.)

The entrench Dems flinch and hang back whenever there is a need to come out fighting, as if they have been beaten too many times. They act as if they’ve lost the will to live and are merely going through the motions.

How would a patriot act, after all?

But I refuse to be a victim. I am not going to take this lying down. And I refuse to slink away into that good night. F*ck that. I am so over that. I want my gawddamned country back and I’m going to get it, shrinking battered Dems in office or no.

I am so angry I have to stop and take a walk.

Just finished the Rolling Stone piece. Took a while cause my computer froze everytime I wanted to change pages. Scary stuff. That there could be such an all out attack on the voting process- and a paid recount with virtually no media coverage is incredible.

The media has to be afraid of this story. If the election process has been hijacked- then there is no remedy at the polls. Democracy is dead- and violence becomes the only way to redress grievances.

No media outlet wants to be responsible for sponsoring armed insurrection- it’s as serious as a heart attack- but this is outrageous.

Jack is asking this ? this hour

4 p.m.: Is the right to vote being threatened in the United States?

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/situation.room/

Rawstory has an embarassment of riches today. The Vote Fraud story is the biggest by far, but there are also a few other interesting bits. A possible investigation into a proLeiberman blog site that had quotes up from Obama and Reid – that they may never have made.

Paul Hackett filing suit against the VA (D*MN an opportunity was really missed by the party with Hackett – but he and Andrew Horne both seem to be hanging around which makes it more interesting by far)

My favorite – What’s a guy gotta do to get his ambassadorship these days? WaPo via Rawstory

http://tinyurl.com/rl6wo

Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum is in line for the Ambassadorship to Oz. McCallum headed up the Justice suit against the tobacco companies, where DOJ reduced the claimed damages from $130 billion to $10 billion, over the adverse testimony of its own witnesses.

Supposedly McCallum’s old Hotlanta firm worked for the tobacco industry. Dick Durbin (love to see someone fight the good fight Senator *g*) has been sitting on the nomination, thinking maybe a bit more info on the sudden and puzzling reduction for the benefit of the tobacco industry should be forthcoming.

Enter CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington – fast becoming one of my 3 or 4 favortie gadflies) with FOIA requests to get info on contacts between Justice officials and various others re: the man-made Cave In. No timely response, so last October CREW files suit.

Now the District Judge (Sullivan) says: You got a point. Assoc. AG McCallum, go’on an whisper a few sweet nothings in their ear to explain why its taking so darn long to come up with the response.

Somedays Oz must seem very far away.

The criminal secretary of state is still in office in Ohio and is running for governor. There is absolutely NO reason to think that the fucker won’t do the same things again- and there is no reason to think that Clusterfuck’s keystone cops are going to bring any charges against him.

It’s up to the people of Ohio to take back their state. I wish them luck and offer to help in any small way I can.

cbl (132) — it’s okay, you wouldn’t have known about it, there’ve only been intimations and never anything more. I can’t reveal how I know about it; I only know that reporters whose names have crossed this blog and others have looked into this and cannot report on actual witness-produced statements or evidence because the witnesses are too afraid to come out.

Trust me when I say it was more than a few smears or whispers that happened in any part of Ohio.

If we do anything right at all in the next 6 months, we will increase awareness across the country and motivate people to be more active in the democratic (little d) process; we need people to be poll watchers and actually work the polls, instead of assuming that whomever is already doing it will be adequate and impartial. Contact your local clerk’s office now and find out how you can help in the primary and the election. I will be. And you know in your heart that they will be, too.

ck at 12:41 p.m.

Why do you and others call Bill Clinton “the Clenis”? What does that mean?

Rayne:

Thanks, I’ve already sent this out to my private list.

There’s more than enough meat on the bones here to warrant more than one full scale investigation. I believe Kennedy has accumulated a preponderance of evidence that indicates widespread, organized fraud has occurred in a US presidential election.

The implications are quite simple. If what RFK Jr reports is true, Bush holds the office of the president through pure fraud. Our constitution provides remedies for just such dispicable high crimes. And if Bush holds office through fraud, then all available legal means must be employed to remove his entire administration from office — immediately.

I can’t wait to see which chickenshit Democrats can’t add two and two here. This situation is now far worse than Watergate.

neurophius #68: It’s definitely worth the effort to smack him down. Letting these smears go in an effort to avoid calling attention to them has never worked. If you need it, Greg Sargent has lots of good material on exactly how Goldberg is lying (including an online promise to print a correction, which has never appeared.)

neurophius:

Uh, because of the huge focus on Mr. Clinton’s penis nether region.

Unfortunately, Kennedy’s piece is quite long. Few will ever read it. If the core message isn’t captured in a smaller version and circulated- it will die- stillborn. Damn!

Clenis = Clinton’s Penis

I find it ironic that in the middle of the RFK Jr. article out pops Noe’s wife’s name, and it runs for several paragraphs. The post was up before the Rolling Stone article hit the web.

Here’s the evidence that Gorilla Doktor is a criminal:

Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) received notice from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) indicating that in response to a complaint filed by CREW, the FEC found that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s 2000 Senate campaign committee, Frist 2000, Inc. violated federal campaign finance laws, RAW STORY can report. Their release follows.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0601.html

neurophius –

The Clenis is formed by a contraction of Clinton and Penis, in honor of the Right Wingers obsession with his.

I believe it was coined by an Atrios regular — Digby? Lambert? Holden?

Anyway, that’s what it’s about . . .

ANyone wishing to hook up with the democratic Lawyers Council who either can’t get through to Anna martinez at the DNC or who prefers to be on the recieivng end of contact can just put your non spammable version (you know “screen name at esp provider dot com”) in a comment, I will make sure someone from the DLC emails you with further info.

neurophius –

I wrote a response to your Clenis question, but Word Press or the spam filter seems to have eaten it.

rwcole,

Arrgg. it’s not that I disagree, it’s just so frustrating.

Compared to “War & Peace”, the Kennedy article is very, very, very, very short.

It is also ground breaking in that it brings together numerous small pieces of the story to paint a very disturbing larger picture. It is not any single event, but the unlikely combination of all events taken together as a whole that is so damned revealing. Any single event can be dismissed as ‘unintentional’ or ‘isolated’, but the whole story is so damning it cannot be dismissed.

I have very little patience with people who have attention spans shorter than the Planck length but alas, I know you have good point. what to do?

Ed–Perhaps someone will recap it in a one page version in which a running total of likely stolen votes is run:

Sections one- purged registrations- 135,000 votes- brief description with footnotes.

Section two- scarce polling machines- 96,000 votes- brief decscription- footnotes- etc.

ck says – I believe it was coined by an Atrios regular.

Yes. I saw this resolved on an Atrios thread a few months ago. Can’t remember the coiners name though.

new thread.

rwcole,

I’ve got that awful sinking feeling like we just missed the last chance to get off the boat before it goes over the falls…

OMG, paddle quick!

Two wiseguys saying, “Ciao, paisan!”

Anybody done a RICO analysis on all of this? I mean the whole Bush mob criminal enterprise? What if it could be proved that there was a conspiracy to hollow out the U.S. Treasury, in part for the benefit of the co-conspirators?

All–
Are you kidding? I had to stop reading the Rolling Stone article *during the intro,* my heart was pounding and I was so furious. I have to get some work done before I go back. I may just buy the paper copy, to encourage RS to do more.

Jim Preston @ 108–

Agree. So here’s my (next) question: Even if you’ve got people waving ten exit polls in full agreement, then what? Who ya gonna call? If the criminals are running the gov’t. (in, say, Ohio), what recourse does anyone have? I mean this literally, not despairingly. The cops? The state’s justice dept.?

I can’t even write this, I’m so livid.

Is it sensible, or deluded, to think that applying concerted pressure on, say, the NY Times, to write about this, will have an effect? Not because everyone is afraid of the NYT, but because once it reaches their front page, everybody thinks that everybody thinks there must be something to it. I don’t think I’m a romantic as regards The Press, but I do think public pressure can result in things, and one way to collect and focus it is through mass media.

The larger question would be, if not the media, then who? Look at how wimpy the Dems are. Look at how fully corrupted the Repubs are. Somebody hit me on the head with a brick and put me out of my misery…

Thanks to all who answered my Clenis question. I guess I am still more naive than I realized.

Thanks also to advice on the Jonah Goldberg lie. I decided smacking him down in my local paper–and possibly influencing them to drop his column–outweighs any risk that it might just give further life to the Al-Gore-as-serial-exaggerator crap.

Thanks to all who answered my Clenis question. I guess I am still more naive than I realized.

Thanks also to advice on the Jonah Goldberg lie. I decided smacking him down in my local paper–and possibly influencing them to drop his column–outweighs any risk that it might just give further life to the Al-Gore-as-serial-exaggerator crap. I demanded they print a retraction and find a new columnist.

Noe way! No Noe! Way!

QUESTION:
What does this make those that accepted this money?

By pleading guilty Noe saves the Republicans a lot of bad publicity as the mid term elections near. Taft will be leaving office at the end of the year so there is always a chance Noe will be pardoned for serving his masters so faithfully.

It’s not just mind-bending RICO but also virulent racism. Look at the copperhead hirstory of the place and look at the riots in 2001. Then came the long queue’s and delays to vote – where were they again? What districts?
Democratic corporatism is the wrong road of appeasement and Sirota is right. There has been a ‘ hostile takeover’. This has all led us to this disaster.
The Democratic party must get back to the road map laid out by Martin Luther King and that is democratic socialism.
Time to clean up our own back yard.

I have this awful feeling that as the scandals keep unfolding, the media, including the blogs, are too busy hopping from one on one day to the next on the second day, to the next on the third ….. ad infinitum.

Can we get a TV ad that shows a cascade with dates? – preferably for all States from mid September.

It should include gory footage of war and images of (patriotic?/brave?) sexual perversion.

And oh, ignore the paper hatted wingnuts like they are non-corporeal aliens or the consultants for that matter.

Now I understand why the Supremes are criminalizing whistleblowers. When we get our country back we can fire these paid shill justices. It takes so much money to pay so many people for democracy.