Something In The "Mail" For Democrats?
Friday, October 20, 2006 at 01:07PM Election fraud. One of my favorite subjects.
No, not the boogie-man machine election fraud type or even the exit polling “fraud” that shows Democrats winning, when in reality it is just people lying to obnoxious pollsters like I do every time I get the chance. I am talking about the pervasive NH cross-border kind of election fraud we enjoy here every election cycle.
I have a house down the road from mine whose owner lives in Maryland. He is a liberal, quite liberal as a matter of fact because he proudly displayed his Dennis Kucinich bumper stickers the last time he was up for an election.
So the guy has a house in NH and Maryland and votes here, so what. Most Democrats are quite happy with out of state voters because it benefits them. That is why Governor Lynch vetoed voter ID, by far one of the most popular issues with most Americans. Lynch did this because he is sooooooooooo bi-partisan. (Laugh here.)
Here is the rub with my Maryland voter. He rents the house out. People rent the house from him. THEY live in it not the cross-border voter. Oh that “domicile” definition is tricky.
But then again, this is NH and we have entered the Blue State Era. It is all a matter of definition and who you are.
So Mr. Maryland doesn’t actually live in NH, at least he owns property in NH. And there it was, his named still onthe Deering voter list along with two non-resident lawyers from the DC area that vote absentee in my town.
I stopped getting annoyed with this election scheme after seeing the same type of non-resident voters pick an under-funded, moon-bat candidate in a low turnout primary for the First Congressional race. There’s a backfire for ya.
Then we have the innovative election fraud that comes in two other types: Signs and mail. I have been subjected to both.
Since NH does not prosecute voter fraud, I think we should come up with new definitions for election fraud as our courts did in “cherish” meaning “income tax” in the education funding scam.
How about this:
If your political signs have been stolen or vandalized that would be a “crime” under some kind of definition. But if Democrat activists or even the party chair were involved in stolen political signs and the police and AG’s office fail to prosecute, or even investigate, we could call them “Fitched”.
“Fitched”, what an appropriate name for a crime that gets re-defined.
Now for mail:
Remember Manchester city office candidate Joe Kelly Levasseur who had his political mail “get lost” in the Manchester Post Office until AFTER the election back in November 2005?
It seems Joe Kelly’s political mail slipped out of the bag it was in with the rest of the political mail delivered by the same advertising company. Then it crawled off to a corner and died only to re-awaken after the election as over. The P.O. actually paid him BACK.
What’s with that? There was a court case involved if memory serves me well. And it was NOT with our NH court system, as in, the court of Chief Justice Broderick. This is a federal case.
How has this slipped by the Antique NH Media?
I hear something may crop up soon. Tic, tic, tic, tic.
Reader Comments (13)
Could you please do me a favor? I am not as savvy about local issues as many of the people here, and I do want to better understand what you are alluding to here. Could you explain it as you would to a NH outsider?
As for the sign stuff I think there is something that we can both agree on Ed. The electorate should never be this ticked off.
Although I am supporting someone slightly more liberal than I am, she is so much less liberal and angry than some of her supporters. In fact, the thing that gets me is people considered her more liberal than Jim Craig, I assume because she has a hyphenated name and is a woman. Having heard them both speak I believe we actually got the more centrist candidate.
Anyway, hopefully the anger subsides when we change out our representation to congress. And, I am no longer saying if. Jeb Bradley is choking, you see it and I see it. Someone must have Karl Rove hogtied and gagged in a room somewhere, because the current message passed down to the ranks is plain idiotic.
"leave the decisions to the leaders in Iraq"...my god, is Bradley just not reading his emails? Not answering the phones? Not watching the news?
Jim Baker, the closest friend of the elder Bush, is talking about troop withdrawals, opening discussions with Iraq and Syria, and has plainly said that "stay the course" is not working.
The only good news for Jeb Bradley these days is that the demand for granola is going up.
Real simple.
Much of what the Dem campaign is about is just media hype as usual. I do not see any groundswell of support for gun control, higher taxes, more government programs, anti-traditional family issues etc.
Sorry. It ain't there at my level.
In fact, let's take the recent Hodes signs that say
"Stop War - Stop Bass". They are completely the opposite of any sensible argument reaching out to ANY swing voters.
Charlie Bass is NOT a warmonger and is trying to protect our country in the best fashion he knows how - by fighting the war on terror we will be fighting for many years to come on their soil not New York. Like him or not HATE will not beat him!
Stop War Stop Bass is so Viet Nam era non-sense I beleive it is only designed to make liberals feel good. And so much of Liberalism is emotion. If you do not understand that we have nothing in common.
Short list:
This is NOT a Presidential campaign. There will be many less cross-border voters because they are battleing in Mass. for Deval Patrick a socialist. Most Boston Union workers will stay in Mass.
Voters are ticked off all right. Starting last November voters booted out Baines, voted IN a fiscally conservative Dem. in Portsmouth, and adopted spending caps (more is the AG hadn't screwed with them).
Come March 2006, voters all over NH voted DOWN between 120 and 150 million in unnecessary projects at the school and town level. CNHT was so successfull we were almost (almost) ashamed of ourselves. NOTHING passed unles it was pre-saved for or funded by grants. If we had six more weeks to design web sites and strategy for taxpayer groups we could have done more with the anti-tax mood.
All of this was dome with NO favorable media. What some schools and towns voted in in past years was by lying, such as the Schoolies in Bedford saying the new school woud add 30 cents to the tax rate when it will be more like $5-6.00 like we predicted. In Windham they aye 12 MILLION short of the school project voted in there. The school propnents should be drummed out of town. Does not bode well for tax and spend libs from my point of view.
AND WE HEAR NO ONE BEGGING FOR AN INCOME TAX OR GAMBLING!!!
If the mail diversion by P.O. employees in Manchester ever hist the papers we are in for tough sledding for Dems. I am sure the press will keep is quiet.
And how Ironic to see who is involved!!!!!!!!
As for "Stop War - Stop Bass", I didn't write it but it seems more a political statement than "BASS" Although I know where you are coming from and sympathize. He is doing his best and is not some war criminal. Neither is Bradley. That's sort of why I wrote "Rome is Burning." I am a Democrat, but there are core principles that conservatives have fought for, and I see George Bush sabotaging it. It is a shame, because small government, low taxes,and staying free from foreign entanglements are all noble beliefs that definitely belong in the public debate, and they have been shot to hell by the world's chief conservative.
I agree with you that people are letting their emotions get away with them. But this is across the board. If you don't see angry Republicans, you are just not looking.
As for liberalism, I know that a lot of people have firm convictions and call themselves liberals. Others have different ones and call themselves conservatives. It seems to me that either one of them can get riled up if you use the right words, and play the right music.
My advice to you is to get used to some liberal music. It is what the failures of our president invited. Conservatives who complain about Nancy Pelosi should have been watching the warnings over the last couple of years.
As for me, I welcome the change. It's woken up the fight in both parties, and a fight brings out the best in us.
You guys ran on" Failure In Iraq" in 2004 in the presidential race and what happened.
Bush won with 3.8 million more votes. And picked up seats in congress as well in defiance of all polling and expert guesses.
Hint: There is no electoral college in a mid-term. Do you think 3.8 million people changed their minds? Democrats put on the most massive voter registration push ever and still Republicans turned out the biggest gain in decades. You couldn't even win Duke Cunningham's seat!
A month BEFORE we invaded Iraq I was invited to the White House along with about 250 other grass-roots organizers from around the US and spent some time listening to about four Bush administration officials, one was Rove.
We were informed that the plan was to take the war on terror to the terrorists and not leave until we win. At the time that was Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Iraq, and AlQeda cells world wide.
Rove said the battle would have ups and downs and it would be a long campaign but we would not back down until it was over. At least they have a plan.
Cut and run Dems want power and Iraq is their single most effective (they think) battle cry. It seems liberals fight different battles when we have troops on the ground.
If liberals do win we will see stacks of sun baked skulls as far as the eye can see just like in South east Asia.
So let me get this straight.
Liberals have other bumper-sticker "issues" Free Tibet! and Stop the Killing in Darfur!
With what, a barrage of poetry?
It really is wearing thin.
I believe Broderick was the Democrat chair back when then Governor Merrill appointed him to the State Supreme Court, where he is acting as though he still is the party chair judging by his actions.
He was NEVER a "democratic" chair.
Were we after Al Qaida or Saddam Hussein? There was never any terrorist activity in Iraq, and the Al Qaida presence was small enough to combat with intelligence forces. I don't think we needed to invade Iraq to fight against the few thousand Al Qaida in northern Iraq.
We could have invaded Saudi Arabia and found the financial support and the membership reserves. We didn't. We could have invaded Iran and cut out some of the planning activity. Or we could have invaded Pakistan and killed all the intelligence support for Al Qaida. But, we didn't. We didn't address the real threat. We were stupid.
Say what you want about poetry, it is more effective than stupidity.
I was about to respond but your last sentence speaks volumes I now do not have to write.
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Nice national defense strategy.
TJ:
I have written 137 articles. Sorry I got something wrong. He was head of the NH Bar, damn near same thing but wrong none the less.
I'll correct the rest of the mistakes you can point out TJ.