"This has been the worst time for us," Zeoli said, holding back tears. "We’re behind in our mortgage payments. We were in foreclosure. We almost lost the house."
…she was able to make enough money by substitute teaching to catch up on the $350 monthly mortgage payments, but at 61, she says it’s nearly impossible to get a fulltime teaching job with health benefits….At one point, she even tried getting job at Wal-Mart, but was told she was overqualified because of her degree….
"When I first started, it was mostly people who had been suddenly unemployed," [the free clinic doctor] said. "Now it’s mostly the employed. With the economy getting worse and worse and worse that number is going to skyrocket."
We’ve been dragged on a jaunt more bumpy than Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Average folks budgets are squeezing tighter while the Golden Parachute crowd takes care of themselves. As Chuck Todd said on MSNBC this morning, McCain is losing middle class folks in the suburbs, the former "Reagan democrats," who have awakened to being trickled on by the folks who profit from trickle down economics. James Galbraith explains:
Reagan’s economists worshiped the market, but Bush didn’t worship the market. Bush simply turned over regulatory authority to his friends. It enabled all the shady operators and card sharks in the system to come to dominate how we finance….Greenspan blotted his copybook disastrously with his support of deregulated finance. This is a follower of Ayn Rand, an old Objectivist. His belief was you can’t really regulate and discipline the market and you shouldn’t try. I think Greenspan bears a high, high degree of responsibility for what has happened.
The moneyed few make their cash on the backs of middle class labor, especially the poorer folks who keep on getting the shaft – whose wages decline or stagnate while the richflation set sure did just fine. We’re all paying the Shock Doctrine price of the very few living high on the hog.
I’ll be doing GOTV calls this evening. It’s a place to start. Want to join me?
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Bright and early this morning, aren’t we?!!
Great GOTV story from here in NC:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..243/650631
Morning, Christy – I have to work today, so my ‘good deed’ is to go around and make sure everyone here at work knows where to go to vote and that they will go to vote.
Greenspan flip-flopped. He stated quite publicly that he was opposed to Bush’s $400 refund to the public. Then, he did a 180 and agreed that it was OK to do the stupid stunt after all.
Greenspan may have written about it in his book. I have not read it.
Greenspan betrayed himself in the way that Colin Powell betrayed himself.
Why did they do it? We may never know.
Wow – that little old lady did have guts of iron — out in the country, people have dogs and sometimes those dogs bite first and ask questions later. She gets today’s “you’re a saint’ award.
The good news is, my oldest son was one of those “trickle down” believers, but he told me lately that he’s now got to rethink his whole economic concept. It seems they’ve proved to him that without oversight and regulation, those that hold the financial high ground do so due to unbridled greed, and they cannot be trusted to regulate themselves as he was taught.
It didn’t hurt that I told him early on that if McSame gets elected, McLame will be trying to disencourage his employer from supplying his health insurance by taking away their tax incentive to supply it, and he will be forced to find insurance on his own, but he won’t find it at reasonable rates due to a “preexisting condition.” Easy to see what he had to do! Now he says he is being forced to vote for a Dem for the first time! Yay!!!
I guess it is better that the reagan democrats are waking up now than continuing to sleep through this worst of US economic times in the last 60 years. Those of us who saw problems coming with st. ronnie were dismissed as pessimists. The ways to express our opposition were certainly much fewer than now. Had there been an internet then, he may not have morphed into a saint now.
The American Awaking does not, however, ease my worries about control of the ballot box. Apparently the complaints of voter suppression and vote flipping by machines are rolling in by the thousands, but there is no Obama phalanx of lawyers out trying to bring pressure to correct the problems. Correction actions seem to be done by people and groups outside of the dem lawyers.
Hey Christie!
hope you and the peanut and mr. redd are well.
just posted this in the last thread-epu’d again!!!
mornin’ pups!!! have missed you all beyond measure.
haven’t read all of the comments yet–
wanted to say–anyone who is able please show up at your local obama campaign office today and tomorrow and see what they need.
haven’t been here for a while because i’ve been doing just that at my local office.
amazing bunch of people, and they’ve been working long days and nights for a long time, so, show up and take a load off, two more days, this last push for voters to show up and vote is vital.
: )
I’m going to spend most of the day and evening on calls for my Congressional candidate. Our county is sitting at 47% of eligible votes already cast, but we need 100%.
I have a pretty important legal question;
isn’t it illegal to claim you have not been convicted when you have?
at the very least, if there is no specific crime, isn’t it contempt of court?
can a person file a grievance as a friend of the court against stevens?
if so, this needs to be done, we need all the democrats we can get and stevens is going public with his “take it to the people” teevee add
twofl1 has a diary asking for support to the democratic challenger, this is a seat we really could use, democrats are saying they don’t think we will win filibuster proof majority, every seat counts
Go Jim!!!
i watched the debate between begich and stevens on cspan the other night. begich won.
I don’t know where you are, but here in FL that is absolutely wrong. Our county has 100 attorneys ready to go tomorrow and 5000 across the state. Ours is a county with a Dem Supervisor of Elections and the only citizens besides myself at the public “validation” testing of our ballot equipment were the two top Obama attorneys in the county. I suspect that has been the case across the country.
stevens is an uncumbant and he is going live
winning the debate is far from winning the election, we need this in the box and gift wrapped
I have to spend the evening going over all the propositions. I know I should have done so before, but better late than never.
Really worried about Prop 8. California is such an enigmatic state when it comes to voting. Strong support for Obama, but not for maintaining fair and equal rights.
McCain to campaign in Arizona today…..
Howard Dean to campaign in Arizona today….
Over 500,000 early ballots have been returned (mail in) in my county….. Early voting stations ….. friend waited 1 1/2 hrs at a central Phoenix location, another get in line and saw a sign that said if you are behind this sign the wait will be 4 hours…. Tempe location reported waits up to 7 hours…… And Scottsdale Library location had people lined up through the seating areas and sitting on stairs…. long waits too….
So far reported…. early voting in Maricopa County (4-5th largest in the nation)
Obama 47%
McCain 42%
Every year in July the Pequot library holds a gigantic book sale. Last year there were at least five hard cover copies of Greenspan’s book in mint condition available for $3.00 each. The next day they would be half price. Quite a quick comedown for a fairly recent book. I, too, was uninterested. I thumbed through it, but his style didn’t grab me.
As for the class struggle, it has always been interesting. The lower classes come to the conflict steeped in inferiority. The point of hierarchy is to create a system of greaters and lessers, and the lower classes satisfy themselves with dreams of glory. They prefer the dream to public programs to improve their lot. Progressives ignore this reality and are always surprised when the lower classes act against their pecuniary interest. The first need is to build them up psychologically, to have them see they are the equals of those society proclaims as their betters. It is only then that the difference in creature comforts available to one but not the other will become significant.
bmaz answered my question;
*damn it*
Morning all! How’s tricks?
Wonder what kind of meds they’re gonna have to pump in mcpalin to keep him fueled for all the stops he’s supposed to be making between now and tomorrow? Until just recently, he’s been doing good to make one a day.
They have probably been putting uppers in his prunes.
Karen Tumulty in Time has a good run-down of the next coupla days for Obama’s schedule. The fact that McCain has to go back to campaign in Arizona is a big sign, I think…big one.
OT
http://www.neco.org/awards/rec…..eminy.html
http://www.thetexasblue.com/on…..-000-lakes
The free marketeers and their enablers are running scared. They know that Reagonimics, trickle down, the free market, whose altar they have worshipped at for so long, has been proven to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors. They have worshiped false gods and through propaganda and subterfuge expected everyone else to do likewise. The people have at long last seen the through the sham and yet all the acolytes, priests and prophets of the big lie have remaining is to say any doubters of this phony religion will now impose a totallitarian regime. Most people know that in reality it is the free marketeers and the Republicans that have imposed their unique brand of socialism for the rich at the expense of the many. The true believers have demanded nothing less than blind obedience and faith yet are unable to see the true authoritarians when they look in their carnival sideshow mirrors. The lifeless corpse of a false Republican ideology lies at the feet of an outraged body politic. Now is the time to drive a stake into the heart of this beast to insure that it never rises from the dead to feed on the nation.
Why are the lawyers ready to go tomorrow? The problems are happening now. The rethugs have been working all along to get things their way. If the dems were working so hard at the validation tests all across the country, why are there so many vote flipping problems? Once the votes are committed, how is going back after the election day begins to look at the early votes going to help? It sounds as if you are saying that as soon as the horses get out, you will close the door. Why aren’t the lawyers out now screaming about the problems already known?
They are. Where have you been? Check out both the Brennan Center and the Election Protection websites, as well as the Obama campaign — they’ve been on this more than any other campaign year I’ve ever seen.
Great now send him over to the Lake in his free time to see his Mom write:)
Joe The Plumber is the current personification of that model. Rather than appreciating his current fix – one he has been in all his life – he bases his decision on a future hope that never comes.
This is one of the core Republican tricks. Don’t let the goverment get your money (even though you don’t have any for them to get).
No one wants other people to think they might be poor.
mccain people cancelled gov palin 10 minute sit-down with fox before her rally……..no time they said…..wow, kickin’ the dog that guards the henhouse. omg.
Just some anecdotal evidence from a very nice neighborhood. I canvassed on Sat with a very spread-out list of cul de sacs. A couple blocks from me I had two very interesting conversations. One was with a guy raking leaves. Maybe in his 40’s. He told me he’d always voted repub. But not this year. Things are seriously off the track and even though he knows his taxes may go up, he’s for Obama and his wife was out helping the Obama campaign. Two doors away from him was a lady who’s for Obama. We got talking and I heard words from her I haven’t heard for decades: let’s get rid of the military, all nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and “socialism… what’s wrong with that?” People are starting to be brave enough to talk about huge changes! She said her husband was for mcCain, but now he’s not sure.
Then there was the 81 year-old lady who lives in an apartment for the elderly. While she wasn’t willing to give a preference except “I hope I vote for the one God wants,” she next voiced concern for Obama’s safety and annoyance that some people would not vote for a black man (boy, was she bothered by that!). It was almost as if she was superstitious and didn’t want to say out loud who she intended to vote for.
Many, many Obama signs in my formerly pretty red neighborhood. It was honestly sad to see how many working class whites (in another, farther away neighborhood) were for mcCain, whereas the ritziest area in our city is mostly a sea of Obama signs.
Thanks Christy.
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Greenspan is the thread that ties the entire generation of Republican theft together through the Clinton insidious dismantling of the welfare system while allowing the tech bubble to inflate and explode straight into Bushie Boy’s wholesale looting of the Treasury.
Anyone who doubts that the media is complicit in this whole thing need only look at Andrea Mitchell who purports to be an objective reporter as she is enthralled at the GOP convention.
My 13 year old son is thrilled about tomorrow. I remember when JFK was running against Nixon and how excited i was to watch the little B&W TV we had to see who won. I remember the nuns having us pray for JFK so I have less of a problem about prayer warriors than I do with the other problems Palin poses such as her treasonous secessionist beliefs.
Here’s hoping.
Saturday there was dueling protests/rallys in central Phoenix…..the progressive groups planned a “Divorce McCain” rally and the McCain supports planned a counter rally……
Both hit the local news…… saw it posted on Huffpo…. the funny thing is that more people showed up for the Divorce rally than support one….. hahahaha
not time because palin going to alaska to vote….
HUH?????
last two days of the campaign and she’s flying to alaska….
i don’t get it.
Well said about ”dreams of glory” Like the saps who support low taxes on the rich because ”maybe someday I’ll win the Lottery”
it is going to be a long 2 days
Oh my. O’Reilly’s already been whining to beat the band the last few days because McCain wouldn’t do a sit-down with him. This evening’s yowl will be hilarious (if I can stomach watching him, that is…).
I have had that exact thought repeatedly. The vote flipping machines are widespread. I have heard absolutely nothing about a legal response, or any other kind, from Obama’s campaign about that. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some sort of response, but if there has been they have been very quiet about it. I find that very troubling.
hackworth November 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 am 4
Greenspan flip-flopped. He stated quite publicly that he was opposed to Bush’s $400 refund to the public. Then, he did a 180 and agreed that it was OK to do the stupid stunt after all.
Greenspan may have written about it in his book. I have not read it.
Greenspan betrayed himself in the way that Colin Powell betrayed himself.
Why did they do it? We may never know.
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2 words
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and power
Cautiously optimistic about another Democratic sweep in NH. It’s the rest of the nation I’m worried about.
-G
Morning all. I am feeling nervous and giddy as usual before an election. We have new electronic voting machines in CT http://www.vote-ez-ct.com/
and that makes me nervous as well, since I’ll be doing ye old stand by.
McCain said he would go on O’Reilly but he’d falafel about it.
-G
The very, very wingnutty guy in my neighborhood (the one who had a “Kerry is a traitor” banner hanging from his front porch in 2004) has had no signs in his yard the entire election season, even in the primary. Until yesterday, when he put up a sign that says “Sarah!” The fact that he couldn’t bring himself to stick a sign with McCain’s name on it in his yard spoke volumes on how soft McCain’s support might just be here…and made me laugh a little. *G*
Will let you guys know how calls go this evening. The local Dem office was really busy yesterday, too.
That’s bizarre — didn’t they think to get them absentee ballots? Jeebus, nice attention to detail there. Not!
Mornin’ Christy and Fired Up Dogs !
…because it is never too late to do the right thing
Prop 8 Still Needs Volunteers
or Go Here and help out that nice young man from Illinois
I am phonebanking and working on a diary for tomorrow night
demi - would this help ?
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center put together by those hippies over at Swing State – click on the map – lotsa kewl links
almost 500,000 doors were knocked on yesterday in ohio. don’t know the contact numbers.
gonna have to go and get ready to leave, two more days. two more days.
take care pups.
In case of trouble with an electronic voting machine, whip out the old video cell phone and record the problem. They want to use technology against us, so let’s return the favor.
the golden parachute crowd is not just greenspan – it’s rubin and summers. and it’s everyone who voted for or supported the wall street bailout while ignoring the needs of people like vicki zeoli.
Also, call the election protection folks at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Can’t remind folks about that enough…
I am hoping the Prescott College students feel rowdy tomorrow. It is small liberal arts school in Prescott, Arizona.
oh yeah, fox was alive and well this morning, posted a few things on the last thread at the end, among them that eagleburger said he’s headed for a big depression and that powell backed obama because of his dislike for bush.
and cbs sunday morning show did a thing with o’reilly yesterday, sad, sad man.
and the absentee ballot thing–i can’t believe that one. maybe they thought she wouldn’t last and would be back in wasilla on election day!!!
The big dawg is suppose to be in millcreek tonight. Might give the local dems a little election bounce.
lotsa “loud guitars” tomorrow night baby !!!!
good to see you
the rabid gucci beast’s rally is on right now….hard to hide her ‘edge’ the beast is coming out of her, exorcism right before our very eyes.
He was in Beckley, WV, on Saturday for a rally, too. They’ve been deploying him in more rural areas where he can really energize the vote, but under the national media radar. It’s been interesting to watch. Hillary Clinton will be headlining a rally in Pittsburgh, PA today as well.
Christy Hardin Smith@43
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hehehehehehehe
big smooch cbl!! miss ya mucho
sunshine posted this last night on the cheney thread–read it late last night
play it loud my dear.
obama rising-bruce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
ok, gotta check in and see if they need me yet, wasn’t supposed to go in until later, but i have a feeling it’s nuts there, will check in later….
Thanks cbl2. There’s two of us, so one can check the site and the other will look at the stuff sent to us in the mail. Oh boy, oh boy.
dmac …left you a response downstairs,your a sight for sore words”g”
Re: electronic voting machine problems. Campaigns needs to stand x yards away from polling location entrance. That puts a hamper in recording problems.
WTF!?! Are they afraid she’ll really go ’round the bend on TV and put *both* feet in her mouth?
hey tweaks.
bye.
Obama is sprinting through the finish line just as he has asked all his supporters to do. He’ll be campaigning in Indiana tomorrow…election day.
i posted this link a couple of threads ago, so pardon the repeat but i think folks will enjoy it. a new one from billmon: Landslide Watch
i think so, she’s on right now, she’s coming unhinged.
adrenaline is not her friend.
’she’s come undone’
and sadly, got your note, thanks babay.
ok, gotta run, everyone that’s able, show up at a campaign office today and give a few hours……
will check back in later.
signing off
millcreek is the southern part of erie and should draw in folks from around erie county. Probably a good speaker for this area which trends blue in moderate/right leaning way.
I just hope it helps to unseat bush dog phil english.
hi!
Today it is off to phone bank. Tonight it is poll checker meetings. Tomorrow will be at the polls all day. Last night was conference call with Obama campaign. This is the homestretch. After tomorrow it will be time to take a break but not until then.
Christy,
I’m in NM with lots of other people from AZ, CA, TX, OR and other places working hard to make sure NM is Obama/Biden in 2008.
I just got a breakdown on early voting in my Congressional district, FL-6. I’ve put a bunch of the numbers up on Oxdown. The good news is that R’ outnumber D’s in registration for the district by over 12,000, but D’s outnumber R’s by just under 3000 in early and absentee voting. Also, we had been concerned about the 18-24 age group. They were sitting at only 5.3% voted on 10/24, but after a massive Obama ground game on the UF campus, they now are at 27.7%. Many more intend to vote tomorrow in large groups.
I believe JoeLie has a rude awakening comin’. His smugness will soon fade to disbelief. He thinks he holds the trump. Nothing could be further from the truth. I yearn for his ’comin’ to Jesus’ moment.
Wow — that’s a huge surge in voting for that age group in such a short turn-around timeframe. Impressive!
Watching McCain speaking now. Oh, he pulled that I’m not Bush, if Obama wanted to run against Bush, he shoulda….again and again.
And then he has that little ha ha moment. He’s ever so proud of that line from the debate. It’s like he’s saying, I just love that line. That’s my line. Me. I’m so funny. ha ha.
Isn’t it amazing how you can tell a “good” car honk from a “bad” car honk? I think many people are honking support. And few seem to be the annoying car honks.
Yes, people I’ve talked to said it was impossible to walk across the campus without someone asking several times if you have voted yet. The Obama office here is also huge and there are Obama volunteers everywhere, even at the falafel shop across town when I was there for lunch Saturday.
Good morning, Christy and firepups one and all! Anybody excited today?
On Saturday I taught a class at San Francisco State and during lunch and the breaks, everyone was very energized, working hard on No on Props 4 & 8 (4=parental notification 8=ban gay marriage). It is San Francisco, after all, so there were no McSame supporters in my class…but they probably wouldn’t have spoken up in any case.
On Sunday I was out running errands in my little Peninsula town and watched the busy-intersection picket signs go from 3 or 4 middle-aged men on 2 corners with “Yes on 8″ posters to clusters of young people on 3 of the 4 corners with lots of “No on 8″ signs.
Personally, I am looking forward to Peaches Christ’s press conference on the steps of City Hall Tuesday night if SF city Prop R passes.
i love you muchly,thanks for that… Jim White
Getting younger voters motivated enough to actually follow through and vote is no easy task — so kudos to you guys. There’s often an enthusiasm gap between the “like the candidate/loathe the other one” and actually casting the ballot. So good on you guys for crossing that threshold!
Off to teach and then off to the union hall this p.m.. Big win in Michigan looms on the horizon for Dems!
by the way
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo…..038;page=1
and
http://blog.wired.com/wiredsci…..tex-i.html
maybe,just maybe,we are at the END of the BEGINING…ht/Winnie
With any luck, she won’t be back down to the lower 48 for years. Hopefully, Joe the Whatever will also retire to his bedroom with a #2 pencil and Big Chief tablet, to right his memoirs.
I don’t know, Christy! The last thing I expected was for younger kids to bring up the election while trick or treating, but that’s what happened! See my Oxdown diary! That’s way kool, I think!
times they are a changin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpZWU-0434
(I am having trouble with response button).
kdh22 @71. Liarman is bound to try and sleaze his way into good graces. I hope Harry Reid will not be taking any more checks from Holy Joe. But that’s probably too much to ask.
I have to work today and tomorrow. I plan on being awake at the crack of dawn to vote. The most i can do is make sure that others are going to vote at work, and i’m betting all my coworkers will. We did last time around,and will again.
I live on the west side of michigan, but i’m still betting this side is going heavily to Obama. Downtown is plastered with the signs, which is more than i can say for the McLame ones.
mui1: If Reid knows what’s best for him and the party, he better not back down from his statement the other day re: HolyJoe.
sadly:
This one’s for the new generation from the old generation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8
The link’s not working. Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
aliasofwestgate@87
The CT shoreline sadly has run out of Obama/Biden signs, buttons, bumperstickers you name it. We have none zilch. People have to make up their own signs, or improvise with card stock. I can’t understand why we are being ignored in this. But then CT is not exactly battleground territory.
New post from Jane: The Robocall Nobody Wants To Own
I’m no economist, but I’ve wondered why liberals never used the term “demand side” to explain that “supply side” economics is not the only possible theory. If the mid and lower end of the economic scale have money, will not “entrepreneurs” find ways and means to supply the goods and services they demand. Isn’t that at least as likely as the theory that if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, they will employ most of it to expand production and services to provide jobs, particularly in a world market for labor? It seems to me that there is no such thing as an American company anymore, whereas there definitely are American workers.
I’m sure that I will be called a troll, but this has bothered me for quite a long while. The dems have done some things to fight voter suppression, but not much effectively to battle vote flipping. I looked at the sites that Christie said to check and there is nothing there about lawyers fighting the current real-time machine flips. We have had eight years and little to nothing has been done by those in a position to do something. All the GOTV efforts may do, given this situation, is help mccain. I will cast my vote for Obama, but don’t be surprised Wednesday morning to see that mccain has won a close race ala Truman.
See Bradblog for an up-to-date look at the voting machine problems.
Wasn’t the rationale that they had to go with “supply side” economics in order to break the upward spiral of inflation?
every polling palce in this county is covered by at least 1 attorney. many will have 2.
Can’t seem to get a reply to Crosstimbers @ 91
Excellent point. This is exactly the problem with concentrating wealth. Capitalist, free market systems depend on consumer demand. After the wealthy buy their five mansions, yacht, private jet, and twelve automobiles, that’s it. They invest their wealth in real estate, stocks or whatever. For the most part they don’t buy things, certainly not enough to keep something like an automobile industry going. Demand comes from the middle and lower classes because there’s more of them. If they have the money they buy stuff and that gets things going.
Our present economic problem has three solutions. We print money to bail out everyone in sight which should be very inflationary, but has not been as yet; we ask our creditors to cut us slack so we invent new stuff and put our people to work; or we tax the wealthy and use their money to prime the pump or a combination. We cannot change things without increasing demand and we can’t increase demand unless we decide to trickle up rather than trickle down.
Q: isn’t it illegal to claim you have not been convicted when you have?
A: Generally, it isn’t, unless you are under oath when you deny the conviction. This question often appears on employment applications in which the applicant is warned that a false answer will result in the applicant’s rejection, or if already hired, the applicant’s termination. There are federal and state laws that criminalize voting, if the voter has a prior felony conviction. A felony is defined by statute as any crime for which the maximum sentence of imprisonment exceeds one year. Stevens was convicted of multiple federal felonies. I’d have to check the federal voting statute to see how the word “conviction” is defined because no conviction is “final” until the appellate process has been completed and the conviction has been upheld. I don’t believe the federal statute defines “conviction” as a “final” conviction and my answers are based on this assumption.
Q: at the very least, if there is no specific crime, isn’t it contempt of court?
A: No, it would not be contempt of court, unless the court ordered the person not to vote, which may have happened in Stevens’s case after the jury delivered its verdict. The Court has the authority to remand a convicted defendant into custody pending sentencing. If the Court decides to permit the convicted defendant to remain free pending sentencing, it always imposes conditions of release and a prohibition against voting may be one of the conditions. If not, since voting is a crime, Stevens would have violated one of the standard condition of release; namely, do not commit any crimes. Assuming a violation, the matter would not be handled as a contempt. Instead, the pretrial supervision officer would advise the Assistant United States Attorney who tried the case and file a motion to revoke the release. The court would hold a hearing.
Q: can a person file a grievance as a friend of the court against stevens?
A: No, because the proper procedure is to contact the Assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted the case, the lead investigator, or the pretrial release officer supervising the defendant’s conditional release. Contact the Pretrial Supervision Department of the United States Probation Office in the city where the case was tried, which is Washington D.C. in Stevens’s case. Note, however, that his probation officer probably works out of the Anchorage office since Stevens lives there. Check with the D.C. office to find out. When defendants reside outside the district where the case is pending in the federal system, supervision of the defendant’s pretrial release is assigned to the pretrial office in the district where the defendant resides. That probation officer would report any violations to the court where the case is pending.
To avoid a yes-you did; no-I-didn’t situation, a photograph or video would be helpful although every voter has to sign-in when they vote, so the sign-in list should be consulted and probably would be by an official with access to the list, if a complaint results in an investigation.
However, with so many people voting early, Stevens may have voted absentee, or by mail before the jury returned its verdict. If so, he would not have violated the law, but his vote should not be counted. You would have to check with the State of Alaska, assuming that’s where he’s registered to vote, to find out if it allows early voting. I think each state maintains a list of the people who voted absentee, or early, and that list should be checked to see if and when Stevens voted. If he voted early or absentee after the jury delivered its verdict, he’s got some splainin to do.