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Senate Republican Leader: Obama seeking to change First Amendment ‘an act of radicalism’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that President Barack
Obama is seeking to change the First Amendment to keep corporate money
out of political campaigns.

“Democrats in the House and Senate recently proposed the so-called,
‘People’s Rights Amendment’ which basically repeals the First Amendment
and just this week, citing Citizens United, the president’s top
political adviser — this is not some back-bench member of the House of
Representatives — the president’s top political adviser, David Axelrod,
told an audience in Manhattan that, quote, ‘When we win, we will use
whatever tools are out there, including a constitutional amendment, to
turn it back,’” McConnell said in a speech at the American Enterprise
Institute on Friday.  This, my friends, is all you need to know about this
administration’s view of free speech. The courts have said that Congress
doesn’t have the authority to muzzle political speech. So the president
himself will seek to go around it by attempting to change the First
Amendment. Amending the First Amendment for the first time in history is
an act of radicalism — an act of radicalism.”

The Daily Caller has the video and story

Taxpayer Funded Campaign Fundraiser in PA

 Tribune Review.

“A former research analyst for former Democratic state Rep. Stephen Stetler testified on Monday that part of her taxpayer-funded job was to raise campaign money for him and the House Democratic Campaign Committee.


Asked if Stetler told her that was part of her job description when he hired her in 2004, Erin Grace said, ‘That was my understanding.’


Stetler, 62, of York, a former House leader who chaired the Democrats’ campaign committee, is on trial in Dauphin County Court on charges of theft, conflict of interest and conspiracy for allegedly using public resources for political campaigns.”

Dead Voters in Maryland

 Election Integrity Maryland has found dead voters in Montgomery, Prince Georges and Baltimore Counties.  The press release:

“Despite assertions by the Maryland State Board of Elections that voter registration records are kept up-to-date, the non-partisan watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland (EIM) has discovered names of deceased voters in Prince George’s County who remain on the voter rolls, as well as names of voters who have moved or who have duplicate registrations.  Some voters are registered out of vacant lots, post office boxes and Mail Box stores.”