2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBreaking: GOP Caught Red Handed, Election Fraud in Indiana
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149641/-Breaking-GOP-Caught-Red-Handed-Voter-Fraud-in-Indiana
There's a story developing in La Porte County, Indiana. It seems a voter purge in 2011 went rogue. The local GOP successfully purged about 20% of our voters16% of them illegally, it seems. Fortunately, they were caught red handed at the last minute, and County scrambles to get eligible voters back in system.
In today's paper, La Porte County Democratic Chair John Jones has called for Federal Investigation of election fraud here.
Anyway, here's the background:
We brought concerns about the purge to the Election Board in February 2012.
The scale20%seemed way too big.
We brought forward specific allegations of a pattern of errors in procedures from a worker in the Voter Reg office.
In February, Donna Harris, Director of Voter Reg., assured the Election Boardunder penalty of wrong-doingthat her office was following procedures properly.
Recently, Lynn Spevak (Dem), our current Clerk of the Circuit Court and a member of the Election Board, received a call from a would-be voter who discovered she couldn't vote.
AmandaInAustin
(13 posts)Mitt Romney profited $115 million dollars off the Auto Bailout after declaring We should let Detroit Go Bankrupt
Mitt Romney is facing tough questions this week over how much he profited from the auto rescue. Romney's stock in Delphi is worth 4000% what he paid he for it, and the gain is mysteriously missing from financial disclosure forms. Watch it.
http://current.com/community/93948534_the-ed-show-auto-workers-demand-answers-from-romney.htm?xid=RSSfeed
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** Same Topic: Current TV Report on Romneys Profiteering from the Auto Bailout
*Video Link at: http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/how-mitt-and-ann-romney-made-up-to-115-million-on-the-auto-bailout
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Greg Palast's Longer Article on Romney Bailout Money/Excerpt from his Website--includes another Video as well..
"Romney & Co sent Every Single UAW Delphi Job to China"
He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry"
Really? REALLY?
Here's the facts, ma'am:
As I reported in this week's Nation magazine cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a special partnership with the vulture fund that bought Delphi, the former GM auto parts division.
[Watch our Democracy Now! report on the Romney group's auto plant closures.]
The Romney vulture fund investment syndicate shipped every single UAW production job EVERY job to China.
Just after Nation broke the story, Washington newsletter The Hill received the Romneys admission of profiteering:
"Romney's campaign did not deny that he profited from the auto bailout in an email to The Hill, but it said the the report showed the Detroit intervention was 'misguided.'"
The truth? On June 1, 2009, the Obama Administration announced that Detroit Piston's owner Tom Gores, GM and the US Treasury would buy back Delphi. The plan called for saving 15 of 29 Delphi factories in the US.
Then the vulture funds pounced.
Nation discovered that, in the two weeks immediately following the announcement of the Delphi jobs-saving plan, Paul Singer, Romney's partner, secretly bought up over a billion dollars of old Delphi bonds for pennies on the dollar.
Singer and partners now controlled the company ... and killed the return of Delphi to GM.
These facts were revealed in a sworn deposition of Delphi's Chief Financial Officer John Sheehan, confidential, but now released on the web.
Sheehan said, under oath, that these speculators threatened to withhold key parts (steering columns), from GM. This would have brought the auto maker to its knees, immediately forcing GM's permanent closure.
The extortion worked. The government money that was supposed to go to save jobs went to Singer's hedge fund Elliott and its partners, including the Romneys.
Once Singer's crew took control of Delphi, they rapidly completed the move to China, sticking the US taxpayers with the bill for the pensions of the Delphi workers cut loose.
Dan Loeb, a million-dollar donor to the GOP, who made three-quarters of a billion dollars off the legal scam, proudly announced that, once he and Elliott took control, Delphi kept virtually no North American unionized labor
In all, three hedge funds run by Romney's million-dollar donors have pocketed $4.2 billion, a return on their "investment" of over 3,000%, all care of the US taxpayer. The Romneys personally earned minimum $15.3 million, though more likely $115 million a range their campaign does not dispute.
Frankly, I'm no fan of the way Obama handled the Delphi bail-out. Allowing these speculators to crank the US taxpayers for $12.9 billion in subsidies and losing almost all the auto parts jobs in the process.
But when I heard that Son of a ...Detroit, Mr. Romney, tell us, 'I would do nothing to harm the US auto industry,' I thought I'd lose my dinner. I suggest Romney repeat this directly to the Naylor family of Kokomo, Indiana.
Bruce Naylor lost his job at Delphi, then his health insurance (terminated by the Romney syndicate) - then his home to foreclosure.
Should Obama have done something about that? You bet. If I were the president, I'd have started with putting the vulture speculators out of business including Elliott's silent, hidden partner, one Mitt Romney.
* Want the full story of Romney's vulture-pack partners? I have several chapters on Paul "The Vulture" Singer and other million-dollar donor magnates backing Romney (and those backing Obama too) in my new book, "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits," with an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and illustrations by Ted Rall.
* And a question to the US media: HELLO, ANYBODY HOME?
This info on Romney's profiteering and the shipping of Delphi jobs to China by his cronies is on the COVER of Nation Magazine and in a New York Times bestseller (Billionaires & Ballot Bandits). So, where is the New York 'Paper of Record'? Or, for that matter, MSNBC?
Bill Press explained it to me when I was on his show this morning, "Sorry, Greg. There's no more investigative reporting in America. No reporters, just repeaters."
That's why I fear Jimmy Carter's statement that, "The American people deserve a president as good as they are." Now I'm afraid that's exactly what we'll get.
*Greg Palast's Website excerpt/video found at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/romney-co-shipped-every-single-delphi-uaw-job-to-china/#more-7164
George II
(67,782 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,370 posts)... you need to familiarize yourself with the rules. You should be responding to the topic of the post you reply to, and there is a limit to the length of any excerpts you post (so as to avoid copyright violations).
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C_U_L8R
(45,042 posts)and they might think twice before messing with the vote
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nc4bo
(17,651 posts)How big does the book/room have to be before something is done about it?