More on Democrat-Farrakhan Section 5 Rallies in Alabama


WBRC: “The national leader of the Nation of Islam spoke on behalf of keeping the Voting Rights Act intact at Birmingham’s historic Kelly Ingram Park on Friday. . . . ‘Farrakhan, Farrakhan, Farrakhan,’ chanted through the park.”

The Tribune: “Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan spoke on the Capitol steps and at rallies earlier Friday in Birmingham, Selma and in Shelby County. Farrakhan said participating in the rallies has ‘been a very powerful experience.’  He was introduced by a number of state and regional black leaders.”

WNCF: “Joining Farrakhan were state leaders and senators, but protestors wanted their voices heard too.  Farrakhan arrived in Montgomery surrounded by his own protective guards, to speak about section five of the Voting Rights Act and the state of the black community. ‘We must fight for the section five in the voting rights legislation because they don’t have the will to allow you to continue to vote uncontested,’ he says.  Farrakhan was invited by state Senator Hank Sanders and Mayor of Tuskegee Johnny Ford, who both say Farrakhan was instrumental in bringing awareness to the Voting Rights Act.”

Fox:“‘Laws passed for the Negroes’ benefit are so widely unenforced that it’s a mockery to call them laws,; Farrakhan said. ‘Would now be free to keep us going back and forth to court. Litigating, litigating and litigating. Hell with litigation,’ Farrakhan said.”

Shelby County Reporter: “Farrakhan joined prominent Alabama politicians such as Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford and state Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, on a June 14 pilgrimage to support the two sections, going from Birmingham to Montgomery with stops in Columbiana and Selma along the way.  ‘There is no advancement that white Americans made that we were not a part of,’ Farrakhan said to cheers and whistles. ‘We died in every battle that America has had.’  Boynton said she supports Farrakhan wholeheartedly. ‘Every time I see him, he speaks the truth,’ she said. ‘That’s why people don’t like him, because he speaks the truth.'”




 

Obama nominates mega contributors and fundraisers as European ambassadors

– Handing plum European posts to key campaign boosters, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to Denmark and tapped two major fundraisers for postings in Spain and Germany.

Fundraising guru Rufus Gifford, who raised upward of $700 million as the head of Obama’s 2012 finance operation and held a similar job previously at the Democratic National Committee, is Obama’s pick for Denmark, the White House said. Obama selected James Costos, a vice president of HBO, as his envoy to Spain.    

Breakthrough: Election Integrity Lightning


My review of James O’Keefe’s new book Breakthrough.

“. . . These circumstances create blind spots among those who spend most of their time speaking to only the like-minded.

It allowed O’Keefe to capture ACORN workers willingly help a child prostitution ring. It allowed him to capture unionized New Jersey teachers boast about how little work they did and how even using the N-word won’t result in discipline to a tenured teacher. It allowed us to see the anti-Christian anti-Israel proclivities of officials in government funded radio.

It gave him a chance to expose the willingness of Obama campaign operatives to aid federal felonies and facilitate double voting. We saw the blind spot of Patrick Moran, a Democrat operative and son of Congressman Jim Moran, when he helped devise tactics to commit felony voter fraud in Virginia.

All the while, O’Keefe’s cameras rolled.

These blind spots permit conservatives to capture the establishment targets in their natural and embarrassing state. “

More from Miami: Online absentee ballot fraud marks the ‘e-boletera era’


 


“Now, it’s electronic.”


 


The election scandal dogging Congressman Joe Garcia’s campaign and two state House races makes it clear: Computer techies are supplementing old-school, block-walking ballot-brokers known as boleteras… A third incident cropped up Thursday in Miami’s mayoral race, but the case appears unrelated to last year’s fraud when two groups appeared to act separately from each other…


 


The ultimate goal was the same: get mail-in ballots into the hands of voters, a job that many boleteras once handled on the streets of Miami-Dade.  Now, it’s electronic.


 


“This is the e- boletera era of Miami politics.”

“Miami-Dade’s Fernandez-Rundle: Restore voters’ trust, legislators”



As absentee ballot fraud continues to undermine the integrity of Florida elections, Miami-Dade County state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle calls on the legislature to enact stronger reforms that will help local officials fight voter fraud and ensure honest elections.  Via the Miami Herald:


 


We have already had successes with the election fraud task force I formed in August… The recent search warrants executed in the ongoing criminal investigation into computerized absentee ballot requests has already resulted in the resignation of the chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia.  Arrests virtually stopped the ballot brokers (boletería) in the November election — another testament to what we have already accomplished.


 


Our task force investigations are only one effort to attack voter fraud. I asked the Miami-Dade Grand Jury to review the issue… The recommendations of the grand jury did lead the Legislature to outlaw paying people or accepting payments to collect absentee ballots. It is now a first-degree misdemeanor crime. This is a half-step toward what is actually needed to foil vote manipulators, making such activities felony crimes. A misdemeanor charge will not deter them and will not result in a jail sentence.


 


However, the Legislature chose not to pass a number of reforms that might have helped ensure honest elections. Although recommended by the grand jury, Florida still does not outlaw collecting absentee ballots… The Legislature chose not to pass the strongest prosecutorial tool available to help fight fraud, a reinstitution of the witness signature requirement on all absentee ballots. This was the tool that allowed me to file charges against more than 60 defendants and convict them in the 1997 Miami mayoral election. That election was overturned because of absentee voter fraud…


 


Almost all voter fraud is committed through the use of absentee ballots. If we really are committed to the fight against voter fraud, all of us must play a role. Citizens must not only be our eyes and ears, they must urge our legislators to reform our laws. During the last legislative session, I went to Tallahassee to advocate for stronger protections for the integrity of our elections. We must repeatedly tell our legislators that we want true reform, not Band-Aid solutions.


 


“House Update: Tiny Movement Toward Republicans”

A commentary posted on Rasmussen Reports by Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik: 


At this very early point in the 2014 race for the U.S. House, small Republican gains — as in, less than five seats — look likelier than a similarly small gain for Democrats. That’s because the Republican targets just look a little better than the Democratic ones.   

While most of redistricting is complete and litigation has run its course, the piece identified judicial intervention in redistricting a “wild card”: 

Courts drawing different maps in Florida and Texas that allow Democrats to gain seats out of both places would be the electoral equivalent of divine intervention — a dose of which, having to do with redistricting or something else, is almost a requirement for the Democrats to have a real shot at taking the House next year.