Very Angry Americans

[BDBoop]

Town halls return and so does the anger - Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com

Still licking their wounds from what liberals believe was a capitulation by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats on the debt deal, liberal activists online are consoling themselves with – and pushing – confrontations at congressional town hall meetings.

Sites like Daily Kos and Think Progress are gleefully cataloguing local news reports of angry constituents confronting the likes of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) – for reading the Wall Street Journal’s “hobbits” editorial – and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) – for entitlement cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama’s perceived move to the right.

The liberal calls for action as lawmakers return to their districts from DC for the summer break echo the right’s 2009 successful strategy of aggressively crashing congressional town halls and haranguing Democrats over the health care bill.

“Hopefully we see this scene play out in states and districts all over the country this August, and that the cry ‘where are the jobs’ will be as loud and get as much attention as the cries of ‘death panels’ two summers ago,” Joan McCarter wrote at Daily Kos. “In fact, we should make sure it is. Keep an eye out for your representative and senators’ town meetings. Show up and ask them, Democrat or Republican, ‘Where are the jobs?’ Ask them about tax breaks for corporations and rich people. And get it on video.”

Some of that anger it being taken out on Democrats from liberal constituents unhappy with the debt ceiling compromise. McCollum, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, faced questions about Obama like “Whose side is he on?” and “What are progressives telling him?”

But it is not just liberals that are angry this summer.

 

[Truthmatters]

The American people dont like the historically failed ideas of the right.

Why do they keep winning elections?

Cheating

 

[BoycottTheday]

I want to see the leftist hecklers heckled, that would make a good vid

 

[Truthmatters]

Why do you condone cheating in elections?

 

[BoycottTheday]

T

Cheating

So stop cheating, you leftists would feel better being decent patriotic citiZens for a change.

 

[dilloduck]

If liberals are so pissed about getting screwed around why do they keep electing people who are bought of by the very same people they hate ?
The system is broken.

 

[Truthmatters]

the proof of the rights cheating is in the court records

 

[Full-Auto]

I want to see the leftist hecklers heckled, that would make a good vid

Much deserved too.....

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Yet, another cut n paste masterpiece

 

[Truthmatters]

Why do you people continue to pretend there is not cold hard court documented evidence your party cheats to win elections?

 

[dilloduck]

Why do you people continue to pretend there is not cold hard court documented evidence your party cheats to win elections?

Stop spamming threads with your cheating accusations---couldn't you confine them to one?

 

[Truthmatters]

Caging (voter suppression) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Evidence of caging in the United States

[edit] 1980s

In 1981 and 1986 the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent out letters to predominately African-American neighborhoods. When tens of thousands of them were returned undeliverable, the party successfully challenged the voters and had them deleted from voting rolls. Due to the violation of the Voting Rights Act, the RNC was taken to court. Its officials entered a consent decree which prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that targeted minorities or conducting mail campaigns to "compile voter challenge lists."[5]

[edit] 2004 US Election

BBC journalist Greg Palast obtained an RNC document entitled "State Implementation Template III.doc" that described Republican election operations for caging plans in numerous states. The paragraph in the document pertaining to caging was:


V. Pre Election Day Operations New Registration Mailing
At whatever point registration in the state closes, a first class mailing should be sent to all new registrants as well as purged/inactive voters. This mailing should welcome the recipient to the voter rolls. It is important that a return address is clearly identifiable. Any mail returned as undeliverable for any reason, should be used to generate a list of problematic registrations. Poll watchers should have this list and be prepared to challenge anyone from this list attempting to vote.[6][7]
Shortly before the 2004 election, Palast also obtained a caging list for Jacksonville, Florida, which contained a high number of African Americans and registered Democrats. The caging list was attached to an email which a Florida Republican party official was sending to RNC headquarters official Tim Griffin.[7][8][9]
The Republican National Committee sent letters to predominately urban minority areas in Ohio. When 35,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the party employed poll watchers to challenge the voters. Voting rights groups challenged the RNC in a case that went to the Supreme Court, but the RNC was not stopped from challenging those voters. Similarly, the RNC sent out 130,000 letters in Philadelphia hoping to cage voters there. Philadelphia is a city with a majority African American population that votes heavily Democratic. The Republicans were attempting to cage votes by people who were likely to vote for the Democratic candidates.[10]
In the Ohio court challenge, the RNC submitted a caging list that targeted urban and African-American areas in and around Cleveland.[11]
Journalists found evidence that the Republican National Committee (RNC) attempted to use caging to suppress votes in five states in the 2004 US presidential election. For example, in New Jersey RNC officials used caging lists to challenge absentee ballots and absentee ballot requests.[11]

[edit] 2008 US Election
As noted earlier, the Republican Secretary of State in Michigan was found purging voters from voting rolls when voter ID cards were returned as undeliverable. In the court challenge, the federal judge ordered the state to reinstate the voters.[12] The judge ruled that the state's actions were in violation of the NVRA. His decision noted that there was no way to prevent qualified voters from being disfranchised as their cards may be returned as undeliverable due to postal error, clerical error, inadvertent routing within a multi-unit dwelling, and even simple misspelling or transposition of numbers in an address.[13]
In December 2007, Kansas GOP Chair Kris Kobach sent an email boasting, "[T]o date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!"[14]
Republicans sent out fundraising mailers to voters in five Florida counties: Duval, Hillsborough, Collier, Miami-Dade and Escambia, with 'do not forward' on the letters. The mailers included inaccurate Voter ID numbers and ostensibly confirmed with voters they were registered as Republican. The RNC declined to discuss the mailer with the St. Petersburg Times. A representative denied the mailing had anything to do with caging. "Two top Florida elections officials, both Republicans, faulted the GOP mailing, calling it "confusing" and "unfortunate" because of a potential to undermine voter confidence by making them question the accuracy of their registrations." Some officials expressed concern that the RNC would try to use a caging list derived from the mailers.[15]
In Northern California reports of voter caging emerged when letters marked 'do not forward' were sent to Democrats with fake voter ID numbers. The description of the letters matches the letters that were sent out in Florida.[16] See the caging letter that was sent out here. Many details on the letters were false; for example, the letters referred to a Voter Identification Division but RNC personnel said they had no such department. The RNC did not return calls from a news organization regarding the letters.
On October 5, 2008 the Republican (but elected on the Democratic ticket) Lt. Governor of Montana, John Bohlinger, accused the Montana Republican Party of vote caging to purge 6,000 voters from three counties which trend Democratic. These purges included decorated war veterans and active duty soldiers.[17]
The New York Times found in its review of state records that unlawful actions in six states led to widespread voter purges, which could have impact on the 2008 elections. Some of the actions were apparently the result of mistakes by the states' handling voter registrations and files as they tried to comply with a 2002 federal law related to running elections. While neither party was singled out, because the Democratic Party registered more new voters this year, Democratic voters were more adversely affected by such actions of state officials.[18]

 

[naturegirl]

Are you talking about ACORN Truthmatters?? The group 0bama proudly recruited for this 2008 campaign?? This is in court records.

A judge on Wednesday fined the defunct grass-roots community organizing group ACORN $5,000 for its illegal voter-registration program in Nevada — but said he wishes he could have put someone in prison, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

At the sentencing, Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley said if a person had been before him instead of a corporation, he would have slapped the individual with a 10-year prison term.
“And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it,” Mosley said.

Judge fines ACORN but wanted prison - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com

(yay I got to post a link)

 

[rhodescholar]

Why do you condone cheating in elections?

The cheating by the left, like acorn and other voter intimidation, and the refusal of the leftist turds to allow for voted IDs?

Is that the cheating you are referring to?

 

[BlindBoo]

Are you talking about ACORN Truthmatters?? The group 0bama proudly recruited for this 2008 campaign?? This is in court records.

A judge on Wednesday fined the defunct grass-roots community organizing group ACORN $5,000 for its illegal voter-registration program in Nevada — but said he wishes he could have put someone in prison, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

At the sentencing, Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley said if a person had been before him instead of a corporation, he would have slapped the individual with a 10-year prison term.
“And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it,” Mosley said.

Judge fines ACORN but wanted prison - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com

(yay I got to post a link)

FYL- "The incentive program — dubbed Blackjack or 21-Plus — gave workers an extra $5 each shift they gathered 21 or more filled out voter registration cards. Prosecutors said ACORN authorized a Las Vegas field worker to run the illegal compensation program.

Under Nevada law it is “unlawful for a person to provide compensation for registering voters that is based upon the total number of voters a person registers.”

Not that there were any illegally registered voter voting in the election becuase ACORN illegally compensated it's employees, as opposed to Republican party policy of caging. Not really a valid comparison.

 

[BoycottTheday]

I want to see the leftist hecklers heckled, that would make a good vid

Much deserved too.....

Id actually develop a squad of anti hecklers to surround and yell louder, fight fire with fire.

 

[Truthmatters]

Boggs judge had own campaign cash issue - Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun


the judge in that ACORN case is a dirty little creep

 

[BoycottTheday]

Takes one to know one Grandmum used to say.

 

[Truthmatters]

Judge Mosley Defends His Teen Son

 

[Truthmatters]

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