Monthly Archives: May 2012

Emboldened New Black Panthers Turn to “the Bullet”

 Daily Caller: The “New Black Panther Party is woefully disappointed in President Barack Obama, and is openly implying that the best way to reach its goals is no longer through ‘the ballot’ but through ‘the bullet.'”

Comforting.

Then there is this poetry:

“Black peoples are the whores and prostitutes of the Democratic Party, and mistreated mistress that is courted in the late of night, but left hanging when it is time for real change in the light of the post election day,” Shabazz wrote, following a dissertation on the need to “Vote for Revolution.”

Compromise With Vote Fraud Deniers Yields. . . nothing

Latest at PJ Media Rule of Law:


Governor Bob McDonnell’s signing of the Virginia Voter ID bill yields a valuable lesson for Republicans working on voter integrity measures in the future: compromise cannot purchase peace from voter fraud deniers. McDonnell signed an extraordinarily timid Voter ID bill last week and then ordered the state board of elections to mail voter cards to every voter.

The cards, which do NOT contain photo identification, can be used in the polls instead of a photo ID. In other words, anyone who obtains one of the cards can still vote in the name of a dead voter. Consider the actions of Lafayette Keaton in Oregon for an example how this could work. Keaton is not the only person to have voted in the name of the dead. But mailing of the cards eliminates the argument that some voters will not have ID to use on election day, except it really doesn’t.

See, rational people presume mailing new cards to every voter solves the problem. But voter fraud deniers aren’t rational people. They fear that irresponsible voters will lose their card, that the disorganized and marginal will misplace their cards and be disenfranchised on election day. The voter fraud deniers use the lowest common denominator voter to argue that any given election integrity measure disenfranchises voters.

Most Republicans, rarely exposed to the deniers and activist groups like Project Vote, never encounter these extremist arguments. In other words, they underestimate the enemy. Like day follows night, McDonnell is now being criticized for signing the Voter ID bill.

Critics of the legislation expressed disappointment with McDonnell’s decision and took issue with the potential costs associated. “This bill will cost significant resources in training and administration for election officials,” said Sen. A. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico. “In this economy, as we have too few dollars for education, public safety and transportation, we should not be wasting valued monies to suppress voting. This is now a costly boondoggle and an affront to Virginians and the Constitution.” Anna Scholl, executive director of ProgressVA, said Virginians’ constitutional rights “have been caught between Bob McDonnell’s allegiance to his right-wing allies and his vice presidential aspirations.”
Never mind that Donald McEachin led the charge to force Virginia into expensive special sessions just to redistribute committee chairmanships and is one of the biggest spenders in Richmond. He just doesn’t like spending money on election integrity. Wonder why? Scholl goes full-kook, calling the law a “voter suppression” measure. Make no mistake, the voter fraud deniers and election integrity opponents aren’t interested in compromise. They seek only victory. Victory means stopping every single proposal that involves ensuring lawful elections. No amount of compromise will ever satisfy them. They will still resort to attacks against proponents of election integrity who just finished compromising with them. Of course the formerly important NAACP is one of the groups fighting hard against election integrity. I detail their descent into racialist irrelevance in my book Injustice. I heard that the Governor feared an NAACP rally against him on the steps of the statehouse. These days, given how far the NAACP has fallen, Republicans couldn’t ask for better press. Nearly eighty percent of Americans agree with Voter ID and election integrity. It’s time the GOP start enthusiastically riding that tailwind. The next question is whether Virginia will now repeat the mistakes of Texas and South Carolina and offer up a sacrifice to Eric Holder’s DOJ instead of going straight to federal court for approval under the Voting Rights Act. Will Virginia Republicans underestimate their enemies and assume that no rational person would be against the Virginia law? Will Virginia Republicans underestimate the potential for mischief and lawlessless of the United States Department of Justice. Stay tuned.

Alabama approves new House districts to cement Republican majority

The
Alabama House split along party lines Monday in approving new House
districts supported by a Republican majority aiming to increase its grip
on the Legislature.


The House voted 66-35 for the GOP-backed House districts after
rejecting four different district plans proposed by Democrats. The
Senate also worked Monday on new Senate districts. Like the House, it
rejected several Democrat-backed proposals and was planning a vote on
districts supported by Republicans before adjourning for the night.
  Democrats
said the Republican plans pack black voters into minority districts and
reduce the number of black voters in some districts represented by
white Democrats, which will make it harder for them to get re-elected.
In recent years, legislative districts that are overwhelmingly white
have tended to vote Republican.


“It’s almost like they are trying
to create a white GOP and a black Democratic Party,” Senate Minority
Leader Roger Bedford of Russellville said.

In the House, one black
Democrat, Rep. Barbara Boyd of Anniston, accused Republicans of “making
black districts blacker in order to get rid of white Democrats.”

“The Vote Fraud Deniers”

Florida recount captain Thomas Spencer at PJ Media.

“So what, precisely, is the strategy of these dem-deniers? First, of course, it is to whip up minorities against Republicans. Second, it is to make the ballot so insecure that millions of phony votes get tallied up for Democratic candidates. In November, they plan to flood the precincts with bused-in provisional ballots and same-day-registration votes. Once in the box, it will take years for anyone to figure out that many were illegal.”

Four Florida counties accounted for 20,000 deceased voters on rolls

According to reports from Florida, Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Pinellas counties removed approximately 20,000 deceased registered voters from the voting rolls.

The spotlight’s been on dead voters since the Florida Department of
State used a new state law to get access to 90 million files about
people who’ve died across America. The results, issued in recent weeks
to Florida’s 67 counties: 51,966 dead people still listed as active
voters.

…Counties previously missed most deaths of Florida voters if they
occurred in another state, because state law did not allow Social
Security Administration data to be used to purge voter rolls. Only data
from the state Bureau of Vital Statistics could be used.

A Florida
law in 2011 changed that, and the state’s giant dump of dead voter
names came as a result of using national Social Security records of
people who died, going back “decades,” Cate said. In the future, the
lists would be smaller, reflecting only the new deaths, he said.

“This is a very positive development,” said Cate. “We were able to access a new database.”

Broward
has removed 4,482 names of dead people from the April results,
according to state data. Miami-Dade dropped 4,860 names, and Palm Beach County
shed 6,682. Another popular retirement county, Pinellas on the west
coast, also had more than 4,000 dead people on its rolls, the state’s
data shows. 

Full story here.

“It’s time to investigate the IRS”

….for political dirty tricks.  

Richard Nixon ordered the IRS to conduct tax audits of those on his
infamous “Enemies List.” Now, a spate of investigations and leaks coming
out of President Obama’s IRS raises concerns that this administration
may also be using the power of the nation’s most feared agency to
silence its political opponents. 

Today, more than six dozen grassroots citizens groups seeking to gain
501(c)(4)—and in some cases 501(c)(3)–tax status today find themselves
facing unexpectedly invasive investigations and onerous procedural
hurdles. All these groups have received non-profit recognition at the
state level. Yet their requests for IRS recognition have been left in
bureaucratic limbo for months—in some cases, for more than two years.


full story at Foxnews.com.

More Voter Fraud Charges in New Mexico

 Details here.  “Prosecutors say Silvia Gomez, the city’s former senior center director, was charged with registering four people who live in Texas to vote in a New Mexico election.”

No doubt the criminal behavior was aided and abetted by government officials who refused to purge voter rolls of ineligible voters for two election cycles and officials in Washington D.C. who involved themselves and gave cover for the lax enforcement of Federal law.  More later.