Republicans Attempt to Steal Election

Following is an email I received from MoveOn.Org. This is an organization solely funded by its members. It alarmed me enough, I decided to share it this way.

Dear MoveOn member,

We’re hearing a lot about the trumped-up charges against ACORN these days—but very little about the massive voter suppression campaign being orchestrated by the Republicans. The GOP is trying to purge thousands of Democratic voters off the rolls in states like Ohio, Florida, and Colorado.¹

John McCain and Sarah Palin are falsely accusing a community organizing group—ACORN—of voting fraud to distract the media from their own party’s wrongdoing.² Worst of all: It’s working.

The truth is, McCain is vilifying ACORN to justify voter suppression—making it harder for Obama supporters to vote.

The GOP’s voter suppression campaign could steal this election. But we can stop them with a rapid-response fund to support legal actions, run newspaper ads to get the media talking about GOP voter suppression, and prosecute anyone who tries to steal this election.

Can you chip in $25 to kick off our No Stolen Elections fund?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/suppression.html?id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=3

The simple act of raising funds to protect this election will send a warning to right-wing operatives who think they can get away with voter suppression.

For over twenty-five years, Republicans have promoted the myth of voting fraud to argue for restrictive voting laws—but Bush’s own Justice Department found virtually no organized voting fraud.³ Now McCain is attacking ACORN in order to justify a frenzy of lawsuits making it harder for Obama supporters to vote.

Here’s what he’s not telling you:

• The only fraud committed was against ACORN itself. ACORN hired 13,000 workers to register a remarkable 1.3 million new voters. And a few of them turned in registration forms with inaccurate and even made-up names to get credit for work they didn’t do. ACORN fired them and turned them over to the authorities.⁴

• ACORN reported the fraudulent registration forms. In most states, ACORN is required by law to submit all forms collected whether they appear to be bogus or not—that way election officials, not partisan groups, can make the call. ACORN flags cards that may not be legitimate. And in many places, the charges of fraud only came up because ACORN was the one who flagged the cards!⁵

• This won’t have any impact on the election. No one is allowed to vote unless they are properly registered. And there is no evidence of false registrations actually leading to organized voting fraud.⁶

We can’t let false charges of voting fraud distract us from the very real voter suppression campaign that is already well under way.

Republicans are looking for typos on voter registration forms, threatening to challenge homeowners facing foreclosure, and falsely warning that voters with outstanding traffic tickets may be arrested if they go to the polls.⁷

Help protect this election from Republican voter suppression. Click here to contribute $25 to our No Stolen Elections fund:

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/suppression.html?id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=4

Thanks for all you do.

–Noah, Laura, Ilyse, Daniel and the rest of the team

P.S. You can learn more about the false charges against ACORN by clicking here:

http://acorn.org/quickfacts

P.P.S. Republicans aren’t just smearing ACORN—they’re smearing Barack Obama, too, by sending around untrue emails about him.

Have your friends or family ever forwarded you an email with false attacks on Obama? If so, be sure they know the truth. Forward the email to The Center for Political Accuracy, and they’ll reply with the true facts for you to respond with:

info@politicalaccuracy.org

Sources:
1. “States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal,” New York Times, October 8, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html

“Check-off box delays thousands of voter registrations,” Denver Post, October 14, 2008
http://www.denverpost.com/previous2/home/ci_10713377

2. “ACORN defends efforts amid voter-fraud allegations,” Associated Press, October 14, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081014/ap_on_el_pr/voter_fraud

3. “In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud,” New York Times, April 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html

“The Truth About Fraud,” Brennan Center for Justice
http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/

4. “The Truth About ACORN’s Voter Registration Drives,” ACORN
http://acorn.org/quickfacts

“Group Answers Charges of Voter Registration Fraud,” New York Times, October 14, 2008
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/acorn/

5. “Voter Group Admits Mistakes, Defends Work,” ABC News, October 14, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31241&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=5

“Is there ACORN fraud in Florida?,” Orlando Sentinel, October 15, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31239&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=6

6. “‘Fraud’ vs. ‘Suppression’,” Politico, October 14, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31240&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=7

7. “After A Surge in Registration, A Surge in Suppression,” Brennan Center for Justice, October 7, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31236&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=8

“Democrats fear GOP will turn away foreclosed voters; GOP won’t rule out using residency change to challenge a ballot,” Indianapolis Star, October 3, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31237&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=9

“Vote-scam fliers target black neighborhoods,” Philadelphia Daily News, October 2, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31041&id=14429-7722982-Ob6DJ_x&t=10

McCain is at it again!!!

Here we go again…. McCain announces he is suspending his campaign to concentrate on the bailout problem. No commercials,  doesn’t want to honor the debate, etc. Well, today I have seen 2 of his commercials, so he is saying one thing and doing something else yet again!!

McCain is NOT your friend

https://political.moveon.org/donate/myfriends2.html?id=13871-7722982-ek4BJcx&t=1

Watch the above video for some truth about John McCain. I’m sure you will find it as interesting as I did!

Facts on Big Oil and the Republicans

Facts
Paid for by Big Oil is a joint project of numerous non-profit groups working to end the influence oil companies have on America’s energy policy. America’s dependence on oil is a threat to our economy, our security and our environment. By investing in a clean energy future, we can create millions of new jobs, become energy independent, and protect the planet. But with too many Members of Congress in the pocket of big oil that future remains out of reach. Paid for by Big Oil is working to hold these Members accountable – we need leaders to stop working for big oil and to start working for the American people.
In 2007 alone, the big five oil companies-BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, ExxonMobil and Shell-made $123 billion in profit. ExxonMobil alone made $77,245 every minute-more money generated in one minute than 70 percent of Americans earn in one year.
Despite these record profits, oil companies still receive more than $18 billion in federal tax breaks.
Since 2007, Republicans in the Senate-like Mitch McConnell-have voted against cutting tax breaks for oil companies 6 times. They also voted against investing in clean energy 9 times.
In the past two years alone, Republicans-like John Boehner-have voted against cutting tax breaks for oil companies 3 times. They also voted against clean energy 7 times.
Although the U.S. consumes 25 percent of the world’s oil, we have less than 3 percent of the remaining oil reserves.
The U.S. sends $700 billion overseas each year to purchase oil from other countries
In 1970, the U.S. imported 24% of its oil. Today, we import nearly 70%.
In the past two years, gas prices have nearly doubled.

Unbelievable!!

People! You need to wake the hell up! I cannot believe the McCain-Palin ticket is ahead in the polls. When you consider Obama had massive donations after Palin’s speech, just who are these pollsters asking? They sure didn’t ask me or anyone else I know. So how did they get the figures they are publishing?

If the figures are even remotely correct, what is wrong with the (especially) women who say they are for the Republicans? Are they blinded by the smile on Palin’s face? Are they not aware she is a liar and two-faced? Do they not care simply because she’s female? It is never a good idea to vote for someone on their looks, what comes out of their mouth (withut doing some research) or their sex (an accident of birth).

Am I going to be ashamed I am a woman, a thinker, an American? (oops! I’d better watch that or I’ll be branded alongside Michelle Obama as an anti-American terrorist.) When I see some of the comments made by women on TV I want to puke! I know women are smarter than this! Don’t fall for the false rhetoric of McCain and Palin. Check the facts and you will see they stretch the truth or out and out lie!!!!!

McCain-Palin Distorts the Truth

As reported by  http://www.factcheck.org/just-the-facts/.html

McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding

September 10, 2008

Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn’t come from Obama.

Summary

A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama’s attacks on Palin “absolutely false” and “misleading.” That’s what we said, but it wasn’t about Obama.

Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to “dig into her record and background.” The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to “dig dirt.”

Update, Sept. 10: Furthermore, the Obama campaign insists that no researchers have been sent to Alaska and that the Journal owes them a correction.

Analysis

We don’t object to people reprinting our articles. In fact, our copyright policy encourages it. But we’ve also asked that “the editorial integrity of the article be preserved” and told those who use our items that “you should not edit the original in such a way as to alter the message.”

McCain-Palin 2008 Ad:
“Fact Check”

Announcer: The attacks on Governor Palin have been called “completely false”…”misleading.”

On screen: Photo of Obama, FactCheck.org banner, “‘completely false’ .  .  . ‘misleading’ 9/0/08″

And, they’ve just begun.

The [Wall Street] Journal reports Obama “air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers” into Alaska to dig dirt on Governor Palin.

As Obama drops in the polls, he’ll try to destroy her.

Obama’s “politics of hope”? Empty words.

McCain: I’m John McCain and I approved this message.

Less Than Honest

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said “completely false” attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.

They call the ad “Fact Check.” It says “the attacks on Gov. Palin have been called ‘completely false’ … ‘misleading.’ ” On screen is a still photo of a grim-faced Obama. Our words are accurately quoted, but they had nothing to do with Obama.

Our article, posted two days earlier, debunked a number of false or misleading claims that have circulated in chain e-mails and Internet postings regarding Palin. There is no evidence that the Obama campaign is behind any of the wild accusations that we critiqued. There is no more basis for attributing these viral attacks to the Obama campaign than there is for blaming the McCain campaign for chain e-mail attacks falsely claiming that Obama is a Muslim, or a “racist,” or that he is proposing to tax water. The anti-Palin messages, like the anti-Obama messages, have every appearance of being home-grown.

Digging for “Dirt”

The ad also quotes the Wall Street Journal as saying that the Obama campaign “air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers to dig dirt on Governor Palin.” That’s also a distortion. The Wall Street Journal opinion article did not say that the Obama team was there to “dig dirt.” It said they were there do “dig into her record and background.” Maybe the McCain-Palin campaign knows something we don’t about what’s in Palin’s record and background.

The full quote, from an item by conservative columnist John Fund, dated Sept. 9:

WSJ’s John Fund, Sept. 9: Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.

Fund said the opposition researchers were mainly interested in a controversy surrounding Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan. Monegan has claimed he was dismissed because he wouldn’t fire a state trooper who was in a divorce battle with Palin’s sister; the Alaska Legislature is investigating whether Palin acted properly. Fund also stated that the Palin family has accused the trooper of “using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson, drinking in his patrol car and illegally shooting a moose.”

Now, that’s “dirt.”

Update, Sept. 10: After this article was posted, the Obama campaign contacted us to say that John Fund’s article is wrong.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, Sept. 10: John Fund’s claim that we “air-dropped” 30 lawyers into Alaska is false. No one from the Obama campaign or the DNC has been sent to Alaska. We’ve asked Mr. Fund for a correction.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin’s speech told us a lot about her. It told us she can distort the facts and deliver mean-spirited zingers with the best of them. But it didn’t tell us the truth about Sarah Palin’s extremist positions. The following are points that prove it:
1. Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is “God’s task.” She’s even admitted she hasn’t thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted saying, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.
2. Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools.
3. Palin doesn’t believe that humans contribute to global warming.  Speaking about climate change, she said, “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being manmade.”
4. Palin has close ties to Big Oil.  Her inauguration was even sponsored by BP. (Her husband works for BP.)
5. Palin is extremely anti-choice.  She doesn’t even support abortion in the case of rape or incest. She also does not support stem cell research, which is vitally important.
6. The only sex education she advocates is abstinence, which has been proven not to work – by Palin’s own pregnant teenage daughter!
7. As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them—shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. According to Time, “news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving ‘full support’ to the mayor.”
8. She DID support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said “thanks, but no thanks” to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks “while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.” As mayor of Wasilla, Palin requested – and received – $27 million in federal earmarks. Twenty-seven million for a town of less than 9000 people. Some reformer!
9. Palin advocates the shooting of wolves from airplanes, claiming it saves game for hunters. In reality, wolves kill the weak and do not threaten the moose population for hunters.
She talks a good game; just like George W and you all know where that got us! Considering all of the above, do we really want this inexperienced woman, with views far, far outside the mainstream, just a heartbeat from the presidency?

As for Senator McCain, he voted 90% of the time with GW Bush. He continues to vote for and support tax breaks for big oil companies even though they had record-breaking profits last year. (Gee, maybe that’s why our gas prices are so high.)

McCain and Palin are definitely NOT what America needs!