Excerpts from Article Now Posted (Bobby Kennedy's Rolling Stone article)

[Columbus]

Ohio Honest Elections Campaign is posting excerpts from the article:

http://www.OhioHonestElections.org

Thursday, June 01, 2006

(Updated below) 341 South Third Street in Columbus, Ohio (our office) has been buzzing for months with the news of a certain pending article in a national magazine. As usual all requests for documentation and information were provided. Yesterday the news finally broke. Rolling Stone magazine is publishing an article entitled “Did Bush Steal The 2004 Election? How 350,000 Votes Disappeared in Ohio.” The author is Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Since the 2004 election many unkind epithets have been thrown at those whose wish was for a forensic, effective examination of what happened in Ohio in 2004. The voter intimidation and suppression did not impress those who wanted just to move on without an autopsy of the corpse. National so-called progressive blogs banned, with expletives, anyone who broached the topic of election fraud.

Today we will post excerpts of the Bobby Kennedy, Jr. article in Rolling Stone magazine (as usual focusing on Ohio). Buy the magazine when it hits the newsstands.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.:
“Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush – and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush’s victory as nut cases in “tinfoil hats,” while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as “conspiracy theories,” and the New York Times declared that “there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.”

[emlev]

1. Will you change the subject line to say which article you mean?

You don't even say it at the top of your post.

[mod mom]

2. Emlev, Why no mention of RHP or Fitrakis in Brad's breaking story on

this?

[emlev]

9. Fitrakis footnoted once in Rolling Stone article online

looks like Richard Hayes Phillips isn't. No time to read the article right now. I assume lots of what he'll talk about comes directly or indirectly from RHP. (That six votes per precinct stat is my very own, though.)

[emlev]

10. Oops. There are footnotes on each page. RHP is mentioned.

And there's a link in the online version of the article to Richard Hayes Phillips's affidavit:

http://www.yuricareport.com/2004%20Election%20Fraud/AffidavitPhillipsShowsKerryCouldWinOhio.html

From there there's a link to his website.

But people who read the print version won't get any of this, I believe.

Oh, no. I just clicked on the link to his website and it doesn't work. It should say this:
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/alpage.htm

I'll see what I can do.

[Columbus]

3. apologies

I apologize. I actually wanted to post an entry in the thread about the article and instead started a new one. I'll see if I can change the title.

[rodeodance]

4. k and Rec.

[rodeodance]

5. send this to KOlbermann

[rodeodance]

6. [e-mail] All should send to Keith.

[Columbus]

7. More good excerpts posted

Update: ”The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush’s victory in the electoral college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency.” And

“After carefully examining the evidence, I’ve become convinced that the president’s party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004.” And

“A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 2004 – more than enough to shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes.” And

“Indeed, the extent of the GOP’s effort to rig the vote shocked even the most experienced observers of American elections. “Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen,” Lou Harris, the father of modern political polling, told me. “You look at the turnout and votes in individual precincts, compared to the historic patterns in those counties, and you can tell where the discrepancies are. They stand out like a sore thumb.”

[IndyOp]

8. Yo! RFK, Jr. got LOU HARRIS to comment -

HOT DAMN!!


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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! -> Warren Mitofsky vs. Lou Harris <- FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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