More Dishonesty on Arizona Case, from Mississippi

Again, to anyone that can read, the Arizona case had nothing to do with voter ID.  Nothing.

But that doesn’t stop the Jackson Clairion Ledger from publishing this headline, and quoting Benny Thompson’s outright misstatements of fact.

Ariz. voter ID ruling not pertinent to Miss.’s proposed law, sec. of state maintains

Thompson:

But U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson praised the Arizona decision and said he hopes the courts shoot down “burdensome” voter ID laws, which Thompson equated to “a modern-day poll tax.”

The “Mob vs. America”

 More on the trespassing mob who stormed onto Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s property with bullhorns.

“Over the weekend, illegal-alien protesters descended on the private residence of Kansas secretary of state and immigration-enforcement lawyer Kris Kobach. As Twitchy.com reported on Saturday, 300 amnesty activists marched into Kobach’s neighborhood and barged up his driveway and right onto his doorstep. It’s how the Alinskyite “community organizers” roll.

“Mandate Schmandate”: What happens next in contested Hattiesburg mayoral race?



Another close Mississippi municipal election under a cloud of fraud allegations – what happens next?


 


Democrat incumbent Mayor Johnny DuPree has been certified the winner over independent challenger Dave Ware, by a margin of 37 votes, but:


 


“The drama surrounding June 4’s contested mayoral election drags on” as “irregularities bubble to the surface,” including “ballots with just two mayoral candidates, according to the claims of several voters” and ballots left unsecured overnight in an “unlocked City Hall and vault.”


 


More disturbing is “the strange case of voter Mitchell Carter who claims he shared a Rowan school polling booth with a DuPree campaign worker who voted on his behalf, though not for the candidate of his choice [Ware].”  18-year-old Carter tells his story in video at the link:


 


“It just happened that quick… They went out and picked out all the younger people to make them vote for DuPree, because they don’t know about all the politics and whatnot… My mom is saying African Americans, we worked hard to vote, you know what I’m saying? And when you strip that right, that’s like disrespecting the whole Civil Rights movement, you know?”


 


What’s next? Likely a court ruling on “whether enough incidents of illegal votes altered the election,” predicts former University of Southern Mississippi political science professor and DuPree supporter Joe Parker, who believes DuPree will “come out OK in the end,” quoting President John F. Kennedy after his narrow defeat of challenger Richard Nixon in the 1960 election: “Mandate. Schmandate. I’m here (in office), and he’s (Nixon) there.”


2009 all over again in Canton, Mississippi



As in 2009, Rodriguez Brown will be sworn in as Canton, Mississippi’s Ward 1 Alderman, following a judge’s ruling to allow the municipality’s general election to be certified.  As in 2009, Brown’s Democratic primary opponent was Ray Rosamond, who lost this time by just four votes.  And as in 2009, authorities are investigating voter fraud allegations made by Rosamond against Brown, nephew of fraudster Ike Brown. 


 


Then: “Rosamond alleged people outside of Ward 1 and Canton voted in the race and that some voters were provided illegal assistance by poll workers, which he said aided Brown to victory.  Rosamond also charged that Ike Brown, Rodriquez Brown’s uncle, interfered with the election.” 


 


Now: “Rosamond has sworn statements from seven different witnesses, including poll workers, poll watchers and voters, about the problems they saw during the May 7 election. One poll worker said she was told by a member of the Democratic committee to tear up affidavit ballots for two persons not listed on the poll books and the committee member escorted them to the voting machines… in 10 to 15 cases, the person giving the assistance actually did the voting on the machine.”


 


In a departure from 2009, Rosamond’s July 15 challenge hearing could result in a new Ward 1 election being held.  But the Madison County District Attorney’s investigation of these and other allegations (“We originally had six to eight complaints and we’re up to a dozen.”) could, as with the 2009 elections, result in multiple voter fraud convictions.


 


Ooops, maybe Arizona wasn’t a “victory” after all

Left leaning folks now start to see what I wrote about yesterday at PJ Media, the Arizona case wasn’t exactly the “victory” the left first thought it was.  From SCOTUS blog Pyrrhic victory for federal government in Arizona voter registration case?:

“The Court categorically holds — without dissent — that the Elections Clause of Article I of the Constitution (Art. I, § 4, cl. 1) “empowers Congress to regulate how federal elections are held, but not who may vote in them” (emphasis in original).


This unanimous holding resolves a long-unresolved question about Congress’s power to determine who may vote in federal elections, and would appear to implicitly overrule at least one of the Court’s holdings in the landmark 1970 case of Oregon v. Mitchell.”

Big Radio

Will be on today with Dick Morris in 2pm hour, Rusty Humphries, Lars Larson tonight and Glenn Beck TV later today to talk about the Arizona case.  Link to audio of my hit with Mike Huckabee is down the page.