After all, Julie Myers is, I think, 33 years old? And Bush's current Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House is 26... That's the kid who didn't complete undergraduate studies, was in charge of Bush's breath mints and then somehow got a Harvard MBA...
Grown ups indeed.
]]>New Jersey 1981The notorious 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial election between Republican Tom Kean and Democrat Jim Florio provided a window into voter intimidation and suppression techniques, vote caging in particular. The Republican National Committee used vote caging to compile a list of more than 45,000 voters, mostly Black and Latino, to challenge at the polls.[2] Republican “ballot security” teams hired armed guards with armbands to police polling places.
Kean won by less than 2,000 voters, but only after an almost month-long recount. Both state and county prosecutors launched investigations into voter intimidation. A federal court eventually entered a consent decree that prohibited the RNC from engaging in vote caging.
She is one of about 50 paid operatives.
Each one of the operatives is expected to video and blog their work.
Videos are on youtube, indexed by state.
Ashley's site is www.youtube.com/user/crncNY
Just change the last two letters in the URL to a different state, and you've got someone else's work.
I think this may be a chance to see young Republican ratfuc*ing in action.
And these kids are paid to do this.
Ashley was technically a volunteer for the McCain campaign because she is not paid by them. She is, however, a bought-and-paid for set of Republican hands.... who just happened to be helping McCain.
]]>Plausible deniability.
]]>GOP organizations use this tactic all the time for plausible deniability.
The NCRC has an umbrella of "affiliated organizations" where they pay for field operatives. And they're notoriously dishonest too. They fundraise extensively and tap the elderly for repeated small contributions.
]]>She was born in 1983, so she's 25.
]]>She was born in 1983, so she's 25.
]]>Ashley was a "field rep" for the CRNC. CRNC said they would hire about 50-60 positions.
Pay for the job was $3,600.
The program description is here:
http://crnation.com/2008/03/28/crnc-field-program-update/
Also, CRNC Executive Director Ethan Eilon is quoted saying "we terminated her effective today" on the current CR Nation dot com post. You don't terminate volunteers.
]]>Second, Ashley was twittering on "lifeinthefield dot com" where she was one of 50 CR's in the field being followed.
Third, Ashley may be a walking talking case of voter fraud, according to her current voter registration.
She is indeed from the Rochester, NY area but her voter registration (and that of her parents) is attached to a dariy farm in Blossvale, NY that her parents sold in October 2007. Both Ashley and her dad voted from this address in the 2007 election.
And Texas does not show a current voter registration for Ashley M. Todd.
]]>She is indeed from the Rochester, NY area but her voter registration (and that of her parents) is attached to a dariy farm in Blossvale, NY that her parents sold in October 2007. Both Ashley and her dad voted from this address in the 2007 election.
Texas does not show a current voter registration for Ashley M. Todd.
]]>Bloch had sent the President a letter, yesterday, notifying his intent to retire on January 5, 2009 - the last day of his five year term.
Why couldn't the White House wait? The OSC does not serve at the pleasure of the President. He is appointed for a 5 year term.
What "improper conduct" or violation of the law was just found out about Bloch that necessitated a firing?
]]>So, NOW, they find cause to fire him?
]]>And prior to coming to OMB, that top procurement official (who is married to one of those "declined to be prosecuted) was in charge of all Administration at Interior.
That top official today oversees policy of every dollar and cent the Federal Government spends
]]>Someone posted him at youtube -- and comments are equally as bad.
]]>Jacoby's name sounded familiar. It seems as though he can't help himself. The stories detailing his arrest today say he's 25 - which would mean he was 21 while perpetuating the frauds in 2004.
The St. Petersburg Times story from 2004 notes the various levels of "subcontracting" -
YPM "Young Political Majors" - owned by Mark Jacoby and incorporated at a "Town 'N Country residence"
Which worked for JSM Inc - owned by Mark Jacoby and Jenny Breslin
Which worked for Arno Political Consultants (of Sacramento, CA)
The Arizona story you quote above has JSM subcontracting for a company called Petition Partners
And then there are the other frauds that all seem to track back, at the grassroots level, to one of Jacoby's companies.
Why did the Breslin investigation stop in Ohio in 2004? Did Secretary of State Blackwell intervene somehow?
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