11-06-2006, 12:41 PM
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Banned
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Hundreds of links to news reports of www.nrcc.org "robo-calls" to fool voters into blaming democrats for repeated, harrassing calls:
http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8...nG=Search+News
<img src="http://www.brazosriver.com/andymeyers1.jpg">
http://www.brazosriver.com/#nov5pow
Quote:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4304612.html
Nov. 2, 2006, 12:09AM
Signs link Dems to terror and illegal immigrants
GOP Fort Bend official says they are just repeating party's position
By LORI RODRIGUEZ and ERIC HANSON
Fort Bend County Democrats are irate about campaign signs linking Democrats to illegal immigrants and terrorists, but the Republican county commissioner who paid for them said they accurately reflect Democratic positions.....
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Quote:
http://www.newsobserver.com/138/story/505370.html
Published: Nov 02, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Nov 02, 2006 03:19 AM
Pulling a fast one at the polls
Ruth Sheehan, Staff Writer
On Monday morning, when Chapel Hill lawyer Bob Epting approached the early voting center at Morehead Planetarium, he had every intention of casting his ballot and heading to the office.
But in a town famous for its Halloween revelry, a little trickery was apparently at work a day early.
By Epting's account: He walked to the side entrance and was approached by a female college student who asked whether he was a registered Democrat.
"Yes I am," he said.
She replied, "Good, here's a list of our judicial candidates."
Epting thanked her, folded the piece of paper without looking at it and put it in his pocket. As a lawyer who is fairly active in politics (his law partner is longtime Rep. Joe Hackney), he didn't need a list to tell him who to vote for, especially among the judges.
But after exiting the poll, he remembered the piece of paper and removed it from his pocket. Standing at the top of a dozen or so marble steps, he scanned the list in disbelief. It was a list of Republican candidates.
"I was so focused on the list, I wasn't watching where I was going and fell on my [behind]," he said.
Epting said he confronted the young woman and told her he found her practices deceitful.
But he didn't stop there. Back at his office, he shot off an e-mail message to friends and a few folks in the media (myself included).
I was out of the office on Monday, but Daniel Siler, news director for the Chapel Hill radio station Newstalk 1360 WCHL, headed straight to the planetarium.
"At that point," Siler said, "she was still misrepresenting herself."
Siler said the young woman did not ask his party affiliation but did offer him a "list of good candidates."
When he pressed her on her affiliation or the affiliation of the candidates, "it took six questions for her to admit that it was a list of Republicans," he said.
She finally walked away rather than identify herself by name.
Siler was kind enough to send me a recording of the exchange.
Now, the fact that this woman was a Republican rather than a Democrat really bears little relevance to the story. Had she been a Democrat, I would have the same disdain for her manipulative ways.
To me it is a reminder of the difference between the allure and the reality of our new "nonpartisan" judicial elections.
Established by the legislature four years ago, nonpartisan judicial elections sounded so good. So pure. Above the fray.
Except that most of us don't spend our days in the courthouse. We rely on endorsements.
Many voters, I'd wager, would be happy to have a handy list to vote from in the polling booth.
And in fact, both parties have spent plenty to have such lists printed. So much for the nonpartisan veneer.
On Wednesday morning, Siler and I went to the early voting station at Morehead Planetarium. But the only person working the polls was a white-haired woman representing the Orange County Democratic Party.
Unlike the coed, this woman didn't offer me any unsolicited -- not to mention incorrect -- voting advice.
On either side of the political aisle, such trickery has no place at the polls -- even at Halloween.
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<b>repubs: if you have similar reports from sources OTHER than your own outlets (LGF, NRO, mrc.org, newsbusters....etc....in other words....from the "real" press....please post them on these threads!</b> |
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