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LA Times: 'Man Arrested in Voter Fraud.' It's A Republican!
Maybe it really is true -- what goes around, comes around.
But that's not what first brought him to the notice of the police. It seems there was a rather large fraud that was also involved:
For reasons that are unclear and unexplained, it took seven squad cars and nine police officers to arrest Mr. Jacoby outside of a hotel in Ontario, CA.
Mr. Jacoby's attorney, Dan Goldfine, gave what is quite possibly my favorite line in this article when he said the arrest was part of a "long pattern of harassment against Mr. Jacoby for an entirely valid voter registration effort."
Mr. Jacoby was released on bail Sunday evening, but he might want to keep more bail money handy. Investigations into YPM have already started in such diverse areas as Florida and Massachusetts. And these came after his recent stint as a defendent in an Arizona civil rights lawsuit.
The California Republican party played its part well when it announced that the charges against Mr. Jacoby are "politically motivated." It shouldn't surprise anyone to find that a Democrat is the culprit behind the motivation. They say that Secretary of State, Debra Bowen (D), is "using her office to play politics."
SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud. [LA Times.]Mark Jacoby's firm, Young Political Majors (YPM) was hired by the California Republican Party to register voters. The only requirement to perform this job is a California law that says the signature gatherers must be eligible to vote in California. Apparently, Mr. Jacoby does not live in California, so he used an address where he used to live -- as a child.
But that's not what first brought him to the notice of the police. It seems there was a rather large fraud that was also involved:
Jacoby's arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.YPM received $7-$12 per head if the person registered as a Republican.
For reasons that are unclear and unexplained, it took seven squad cars and nine police officers to arrest Mr. Jacoby outside of a hotel in Ontario, CA.
Mr. Jacoby's attorney, Dan Goldfine, gave what is quite possibly my favorite line in this article when he said the arrest was part of a "long pattern of harassment against Mr. Jacoby for an entirely valid voter registration effort."
Mr. Jacoby was released on bail Sunday evening, but he might want to keep more bail money handy. Investigations into YPM have already started in such diverse areas as Florida and Massachusetts. And these came after his recent stint as a defendent in an Arizona civil rights lawsuit.
The California Republican party played its part well when it announced that the charges against Mr. Jacoby are "politically motivated." It shouldn't surprise anyone to find that a Democrat is the culprit behind the motivation. They say that Secretary of State, Debra Bowen (D), is "using her office to play politics."
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Hi Seashell, but I can't just post a greet and leave:
Only tangentially related in a geographical sense, because Ontario, California, is part of the area known as Inland Empire, which is where this newspaper is based, but it's something to read:
Michelle DeArmond, "Inland GOP mailing depicts Obama's face on food stamp", The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), October 16, 2008
The head of a Republican Woman's group mailed a newsletter with a graphic of Obama as a donkey on a $10 food stamp with graphics of a KFC bucket, BBQ ribs, watermelon and Kool-Aid on the front-page, then when it hit the fan, said she didn't know it was being racist, to her it was just pictures of food. Nice excuse: she's not a racist, she's an imbecile. I think she's really a liar.
October 20, 2008 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, look who's here.
BTW, note that LAT has an editorial dismissing the Acorn story. NYT's editor's blog has it up, too.
October 20, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Tom, OT, but this one ought to give you a laugh. Over at Wonkette, they posted some of the Free Republic members' responses to Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama:
A Children’s Treasury of Wingnut Responses To Powell Endorsing Obama
Some real racist hate, but hey they are FREEPing fools...The last one listed is hilarious:
How many different ways can this arse be trashed? Such a shame that his Home Skoolin' was lacking in the science of 'rithmetic, and he can't count all the way up to four.
October 20, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just joining the reunion, folks! Glad things have calmed down here againl
October 20, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah yes, the classic Republican excuse of "I'm either stupid or absentminded" (I suppose in this case, it's either stupid or racist). I agree, it's a thinly-veiled lie intended to cover a tactic so clearly racist on so many levels that stupidity just doesn't hold water.
October 20, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've been wondering how to track you down! Thanks, now I'm saved from having to sort through my inbox, although will try to send through that route later.
Update on your story and link from the LA Times:
'Obama Bucks' originated on a liberal website
October 20, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seashell, I'll message you through your reg_email_add at my blog when I next fire up t-bird.
October 20, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seashell, email add bounced undeliverable.
message me:
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October 20, 2008 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Done. Twice!
October 20, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
The LA Times headline is inaccurate, as the report indicates.
The only reason I mention this is because in reporting on the ACORN matter so many of the TV news vacuous talking hairdos are referring to "voter fraud", when in actuality it is registration fraud. There is a big, important difference twixt the two.
October 20, 2008 9:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is a voter fraud charge in the mix:
October 20, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huzzah! I thought Obama was starting to flip this attack on the GOP after the SCOTUS ruling on Ohio's voter reg case, but I've heard nothing since then. Now that they've got a Supreme Court ruling and a right winger engaging in overtly political voter registration fraud will Obama follow up and do his part to shoot the ACORN issue down with enough time before the election?
I hope so, but even if he doesn't I think most of us have learned to trust his judgement on how he runs his campaign. 2 weeks out from the election and most of the FUD among the left has disappeared.
October 20, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The original LATimes article says Jacoby's company, YPM, has "registered" 70,000 Republicans nationwide. At $7-$12 a head that means the Republicans have paid him $490,000 to $840,000. The LATimes contacted many he "registered" and 80% said they had no intention to registering, they were just signing a petition. Jacoby is connected to "JSM, Inc." which is connected to "Arno Political Consultants." There should be an investigation of how many of those 70,000 voters nationwide were duped.
October 20, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
jward, that's interesting information, especially as Jacoby is only 25 years old.
Best guess though as to how many of the 70,000 were duped is all the ones that wanted to register as Democrats and ended up as Republicans. It's not likely that the GOP gave any money for Democratic registrations. And that is a number that would be nice to hear.
October 20, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for your post, seashell. :)
October 20, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain campaign itself has employed a firm that also was found to have duped voters into registering as .
"John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states.
According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of "registering voters." The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket. "
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/mccain-employing-gop-oper_n_136254.html
October 21, 2008 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink