My latest Pajamas Media article about instructions at DOJ not to enforce laws prohibiting ineligible voters from being on the rolls.
UPDATE: If you want to see how academics excuse this sort of abrogation of legal responsibility, click here. Explicitly refusing to enforce federal laws requiring that no ineligible voters be on the rolls becomes: “stressed using DOJ resources to further minority access.” The unwillingness to bring Section 8 cases and only Section 7 cases when the Bush adminstration brought both becomes: “usual kind of shift of emphasis that comes from a change in Administrations.” Naked instructions to ignore the law becomes: “differing philosophies on voting rights.”
Race. Natural shifts. And just an understandable different way of seeing things. Like it says at the top of the screen – more red than the ivory tower.
I left a comment on that article requesting that someone look into the numerous cases of alleged fraud during the caucuses, as it fit the same pattern. I also left a frustrated comment on your Pajamas piece yesterday, requesting the same thing.
Wow. Asked and answered. The Fox News report today was a good beginning. It is a shame that it was never followed up on.
Maybe next someone can highlight how Obama broke into politics in the first place — by having all his opponents thrown off the ballot on trivial technicalities.
I suppose his followers are just following him, afterall.
Remember when Obama was a real stickler for details?
From CNN:
“In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago’s gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
“That was Chicago politics,” said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. “Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice.”
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If names were printed instead of signed in cursive writing, they were declared invalid. If signatures were good but the person gathering the signatures wasn’t properly registered, those petitions also were thrown out.
Askia came up 69 signatures short of the required number to be on the ballot.
Kass, the Chicago Tribune columnist, said the national media are naive when it comes to Chicago politics, which is a serious business.
He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer. The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.
“It’s not the tactics of ‘let’s all people come together and put your best ideas forward and the best ideas win,’ ” Kass said. “That’s the spin; that’s in the Kool-Aid. You can have some. Any flavor. But the real deal was, get rid of Alice Palmer.
“There are those who think that registering people to vote and getting them involved in politics and then using this tactic in terms of denying Alice Palmer the right to compete, that these things are inconsistent. And guess what? They are. They are inconsistent. But that’s the politics he plays.”
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