Fired ACORN Worker Wins $100,000 Settlement From Republican Con-Artist James O’Keefe
Former San Diego ACORN worker, Juan Carlos Vera will receive $100,000 in a settlement from federal criminal and professional liar James O’Keefe, after being secretly video-taped in violation of California law by the Rightwing propagandist. The tape was just one in a series of similar videos, all deceptively edited as part of his 2009 ACORN […]
NEWSFLASH: Federal Criminal James O’Keefe Is a Liar
You’ll be shocked — shocked — to learn (once again) that rightwing political propagandist and operative James O’Keefe, a federal criminal, is also a professional liar. From O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Investigates: Voter Fraud” racket on January 11, 2012… That was the lie. Here’s the truth. From TPM’s report on the dropped criminal investigation of a […]
Colbert on Republican ACORN Fantasies and ‘Dr. Rick Santorum’s Imaginarium’ [VIDEO]
So, yeah, this is pretty much what it’s all come to these days in the Republican Party. Imaginary “voter fraud” and imaginary U.N. tyranny… BONUS: The Daily Show also had his own take on the Republican dysfunction in the U.S. Senate (discussed by Colbert above) which led to the embarrassing failure to ratify the U.N. […]
Almost Half of GOP Voters: ACORN Stole It Again!
It was bad enough when a majority of Republicans were so disinformed after the 2008 election that they thought ACORN stole the election (almost 10 million votes, apparently) for Barack Obama. Now that ACORN is no more (since early 2010), the massive disinformation campaign that Republicans have been suckered into believing seems to continue nonetheless. […]
GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Fraudster David Horowitz Falls Apart On Air When Questioned…By Me
There’s a reason why most Republican wingnuts don’t venture outside of the safe confines of Fox “News” or other venues where they won’t have to face actual, reality-based information and questions from outside of their comfortable, fact-free bubble. My conversation on air Thursday with RW “voter fraud” fraudster, commie-hunter, and fact-challenged Fox fave David Horowitz […]
Two Republicans Arrested for Attempted Double Voting Just ‘Testing’ the System, They Say
Last Saturday, we told you about a rare case of polling place voter fraud, when a Republican voter attempted to vote twice in Nevada during Early Voting in the state. Appropriately enough, she was quickly arrested and taking into custody by the FBI. Nevada’s system of preventing double-voting at the polls worked well and efficiently, […]
VIDEOS: Fox ‘News’ Finally Reports on Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal, Includes Interview With Me in Their Coverage
Fox “News” has finally decided to cover the widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal. Sort of. Barely. And they’ve decided to include me in their coverage. It took more than a week, and it was becoming embarrassing that they hadn’t said a word about the national scandal rocking the Republican National Committee, so they had […]
Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Widens, Becomes Criminal Matter in Florida
A major element of the Republican National Committee’s overall attempt to game the 2012 elections by trying to affect who gets to vote and who does not, has just been stopped dead in its tracks. Along with it, a criminal election fraud complaint has now reportedly been filed with law enforcement in the state of […]
VIDEO: My Appearance Breaking the News About the Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal on Thom Hartmann TV Thursday Night
Last night, as news was just breaking that the Republican National Committee was firing their national voter registration firm, Strategic Allied Consulting (owned by Mitt Romney’s paid political consultant, and longtime GOP operative, Nathan Sproul), to whom they had paid at least $3 million over the last two months, I appeared on Thom Hartmann’s Big […]
NC GOP Joins FL in Firing RNC’s Romney-Tied Voter Registration Firm Accused of Fraud
[See BREAKING UPDATE at bottom of story. NBC News now reports the RNC has also cut ties with Strategic Allied Consulting.] The North Carolina Republican Party has fired the shady voter registration firm owned by Mitt Romney’s paid political consultant and longtime GOP operative, Nathan Sproul. The firing came as Democrats in the state were […]
KPFK ‘BradCast’: Palm Beach Election Supervisor Says FL Sec. of State Yet to Return Call About GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal
Given the rampage that state officials in Florida have been on over the past year to purge voter rolls of illegal, supposedly “non-citizen” voter registrations in the state, and the draconian restrictions they’ve attempted to place on third-party voter registration workers and organizations, in a supposed attempt to curb voter registration fraud, you’d think they’d […]
Republican U.S. House Staffer Pleads ‘No Contest’ to 5 Election Fraud Counts
No doubt Fox ‘News’ is going wall-to-wall with this today, so you’ve got no need for us to tell you about it, right? … What? They’re not? Huh. How strange. Well, then, if you haven’t heard, Lorianne O’Brady, a former staffer to Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) has pleaded “no contest” to five misdemeanor counts of […]
News21 on ALEC’s Push for Republican-Sponsored Polling Place Photo ID Restriction Laws
As with their excellent analysis and database last week finding just ten (10), total, cases of in-person voter fraud in all 50 states since 2000 which might have been deterred by polling place Photo ID restrictions, News 21 — an investigative reporting project of the Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation, based at the Walter Cronkite […]
Republican U.S. House Staffers Indicted for Felony Election Fraud as GOP Fraud Epidemic Continues
Given disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restriction laws Republicans have enacted in nearly a dozen states over the past year, you’d think there was an epidemic of Democratic “voter fraud” in this nation. That’s certainly the way the GOP has framed it, fooled the corporate mainstream media into reporting it, and even scammed the White […]
GOP in CA Hired ‘Professional Con Artist’ Who Turned in Thousands of Fraudulent Voter Registrations in $50,000 ‘Bounty’ Scheme
The head of a firm which was paid some $50,000 by the Republican Party in Sacramento to sign up new Republican voters this year has “an extensive criminal history, including a prison sentence for stealing from a family she befriended and buying a van with funds stolen from a youth agency.” Moreover, one of the […]