Eric Holder: Focus on Black Panther intimidation case demeans "my people"

Politico: Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.

Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.

The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.

"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black.

Holder noted that his late sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, helped integrate the University of Alabama.

"To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, and to say that the Black Panther incident wrong thought it might be somehow is greater in magnitude or is of greater concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history and the facts.," Holder said with evident exasperation.

It sounds like Holder is using race to deflect criticism of his handling of the Black Panther case.  As a black man he knows all too well how voter intimidation was used against our people.  As the first black attorney general, he should stand as a vanguard against all voter intimidation whether it is perpetrated by blacks, whites, the left or the right. He should have zero tolerance for voter intimidation rather than splitting hairs over the degree of the offense. 

Despite Holder's big talk about America being a nation of coward when it comes to race, he isn't being too brave here.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Politico

Joe Miller sues for exact spelling on write in votes

ADN: JUNEAU – GOP nominee Joe Miller is asking a federal judge to keep the state from using discretion in counting write-in ballots in Alaska’s hotly contested Senate race.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, comes the day before election officials planned to begin counting write-in ballots that could determine the outcome of the race.

Miller’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said the campaign is seeking a hearing on the matter as early as Wednesday afternoon.

A spokesman for the state Department of Law said he hadn’t yet seen the lawsuit and couldn’t immediately comment.

Miller’s rival, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, waged a write-in campaign after losing the primary to Miller.

Initial returns, including thousands of absentee ballots tallied Tuesday, showed write-ins maintaining a lead over Miller. However, it’s unclear how many of those write-in votes are for Murkowski or were properly cast for her.

Election law calls for write-in ballots to have the oval filled in and either the candidate’s last name or name as it appears on a declaration of candidacy written in. But election officials, pointing to prior case law, have said they plan to use discretion, in consultation with a state attorney, when it comes to misspellings or variations of Murkowski’s name.

While I am not crazy about disenfranchising anyone’s vote because of a misspelling, I can see were vote counters can use their “discretion” to allow all sorts of creative spellings. What is needed in this instance is a clear set of guidelines to determine what is or is not an acceptable spelling for Lisa Murkowski’s name.

What America sorely needs is some tighter controls on voting. Every election it seems like we are regressing into some dysfunctional hodgepodge with selective recounts, ballots “found” at the last minute and court determined outcomes.  I really don’t think things will improve until we all demand some sort of uniform integrity standards that both voters and voter counters must adhere too.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Alaska Daily News

Return of the New Black Panthers in Philly

Some quick comments on this guy.

1. 1.   I cannot believe anyone from the New Black Panther party would be stupid enough to show up at the exact same polling place that made them infamous over the last two years.
2. 2.    This dude ain’t the least bit scary.  I doubt I would have even noticed him if he was standing outside my polling place.
3. 3.   Best way to handle a clown like him in the future, ridicule!  Laugh him off, tell him exactly what a joke you think him and his leftist fellows are.

Many people were rightfully alarmed by the two New Black Panther members in 2008. But this guy is clearly not the same thing.  I take it as an indication that the far left is in retreat.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: My Fox Philadelphia 

ACORN workers charged with Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

It looks like the chickens from all that voter fraud in 2008 are coming home to roost.  

From Fox News: Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced felony charges against Maria Miles, Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka and Suzanne Gunka.

Miles and Clancy worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and are accused of submitting multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, including each other, to meet voter registration quotes imposed by the community organizing group. 

Henderson is charged with one count of voting by a disqualified person and providing false information to election officials. The allegation claims he was on a felony probation and prohibited from voting at the time. 

Herbert and Suzanne Gunka are each charged with double voting -- a felony -- by allegedly absentee voting and then going to the polls to vote. 

The story doesn’t end here. From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air we learn about how ACORN penalized workers who did not meet their daily quotas and how one young lady slept with her supervisor in order to avoid the quota system all together.

The Miles-Clancy complaint has some interesting allegations, which will undoubtedly create problems for ACORN in the future.  According to Maria Miles, ACORN required employees to register five people in a six-hour period.  Over the course of a week, that requirement gradually increased to 20 new registrants in a six-hour period.  If they failed to meet their goals on any one day, they would get docked an hour’s pay.  If they failed to meet that goal three days in a row, ACORN would fire them.

So instead of getting fired, ACORN workers began registering each other.  Not only did that protect their jobs, but one of them began having sex with the supervisor in order to keep from getting fired:

Miles indicated that at one point, Gabriele Robinson began sleeping with their supervisor, Edward Williams.  Miles stated she would go to Robinson’s residence and hang out for the day.  She stated at the end of the day, Williams signed off as though they had turned in their 20 signatures for that day, giving them their pay.  Miles stated that she and Robinson did this at least once a week, and that they received payments for those days when they did not turn in registrations because Robinson was sleeping with Williams.

Miles also advised the agents that the individuals would travel in groups and, if and individual registered a citizen to vote, the other SRDs would tell the citizen, “It doesn’t hurt if you sign this one also.”  Thus, multiple SRDs recorded a signature from the same person.  Miles stated that they were “all hoodlums” working for ACORN and they all had criminal histories, and that they were going to “do whatever they had to do” to be able to gain their money at the end of the day.

Morrissey has other items associated with this case, including allegations from the DA’s office that the police were dragging their feet on the voter fraud cases.

Once again the stench of ACORN rises. Even ACORN’s recent maneuver to hide itself by breaking up into its smaller organizations will not hide what they are up to. Too many people are on to them after 2008.  This is a good thing because the truly sinister part of ACORN is that they hide behind the noble cause of helping the disadvantaged while using the disadvantage to execute their corruption.

I hope the Wisconsin DA does not stop at these five. Instead, I hope Van Hollen presses upwards towards those who put these policies in place. We all know such action is going to have to happen on the state level, because on the Federal level, ACORN has some very influential friends.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Fox News

Via: Hot Air 

Let the stealing begin: Woman hands out blank absentee ballots in Lawrence, MA

You just knew there would be vote stealing, cheating and voter fraud in the Massachusetts senate race. Here is what appears to be a woman handing out blank absentee ballots on the street in Lawrence, MA.  Notice that woman refers to her candidate as “she”.

I hope the dude who filmed this had to good sense to call the cops.

Hat tip Election Journal

Michelle Malkin has the full scoop on who this Isabele Melendez chick is. Apparently she is a community activist, who ran for office once. Is this why she knows how to cheat the system?


If you know anyone in Mass, call him or her and make sure they vote. Tell them to get out everyone they know to vote, because if this race is close, it will be stolen.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Election Journal
Via: Michelle Malkin