Former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan is just one of dozens of people who say they didn't sign petitions for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to appear on the state's 2008 primary ballot and yet their names were approved by the county registration office.
Kernan told the South Bend Tribune that neither the print version of his name nor the signature that appear on the suspect document are anything like his own.
"Not at all," Kernan, owner of the South Bend Silver Hawks minor league baseball team.
State Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb has called for a federal investigation into the dubious signatures, which the newspaper reported on Wednesday were approved in part with a rubber stamp.
The Tribune reports that the St. Joseph County voter registration office has a Democratic and Republican member who sign off on petition pages submitted for review. However, Republican Linda Silcott was out of the office on bereavement leave on the days the suspected fakes passed through her office.
Silcott's stamped signature is used on the suspect pages while Democrat Pam Brunette signed off on the petitions in her own hand. The Tribune reported that Silcott's deputy, Mary Carrol Ringler, has authority to use the stamp, but she does not recall if she did so, in part because the dates of the forged petitions coincide with her first two weeks in her post.
Indiana Republicans plan to file a formal request for review with the Department of Justice by week's end.
"With candidates for office currently collecting signatures before the 2012 election cycle deadline, it is imperative we get to the bottom of this so it does not happen again," Holcomb said in a statement.
The fraudulent signatures raise "real questions about the integrity of our process and whether or not those individuals should have been on the primary ballot in the first place.
Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker told the Evansville Courier & Press that he supports an investigation.
"Even an isolated instance of misconduct, by one individual among the hundreds of volunteers working to collect signatures for the candidates, should be thoroughly investigated, and we support such an inquiry," he reportedly said.
To get on Indiana's ballot, statewide candidates must get at least 4,500 signatures -- 500 each from the state's nine congressional districts. The alleged forgeries were from St. Joseph County, the 2nd Congressional District, which is represented by three-term Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly. How deep does the corruption go with Obama and the democrats? All the way to the bone marrow, baby.
From the WaPo transcript of last night's GOP debates:
MR. GINGRICH: ...virtually every American has a reason to be angry. I think virtually every American has a reason to be worried. I think the people who are protesting on Wall Street break into two groups: one is left-wing agitators who would be happy to show up next week on any other topic, and the other is sincere middle-class people who, frankly, are very close to the tea party people in actually caring. You can tell which group is which.
The people who are decent and responsible citizens pick up after themselves. The people who are just out there as activists trash the place and walk off and are proud of having trashed it. So let's draw that distinction.
If they want to really change things, the first person to fire is Bernanke, who is a disastrous chairman of the Federal Reserve. The second person to fire is Geithner. The fact is, in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, the fix has been in, and I think it's perfectly reasonable for people to be angry. But let's be clear who put the fix in. The fix was put in by the federal government. And if you want to put people in jail, I want to second what Michele said: You ought to start with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. And let's look at the politicians who created the environment, the politicians who profited from the environment, and the politicians who put this country in trouble.
MR. ROSE: Clearly, you're not saying they should go to jail.
MR. GINGRICH: Well, in Chris Dodd's case, go back and look at the Countryside deals. In Barney Frank's case, go back and look at the lobbyists he was close to at -- at the -- at Freddie Mac. All I'm saying is, everybody --
MS. TUMULTY: So if you were in the White --
MR. GINGRICH: -- everybody -- everybody in the media who wants to go after the business community ought to start by going after the politicians who have been at the heart of the sickness which is weakening this country, and ought to start with Bernanke, who has still not been exposed...MR. GINGRICH: I'm going to say one other thing. I'm going to repeat this: Bernanke has in secret spent hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out one group and not bailing out another group. I don't see anybody in the news media demanding the kind of transparency at the Fed that you would demand of every other aspect of the federal government.
And I think it is corrupt and it is wrong for one man to have that kind of secret power.
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Newt knows who the Malefactors of Great Wealth are and who's making a good living by being Friends of Angelo or whomever.
My little heart goes pitty-pat at the thought of him debating Joe Biden. Wotta Veep he'll make!
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The problem with Newt is that there is a very tenuous connection between what he says and what he does. I believe if Newt returned to power, he would be quite comfortable sharing his bed once again with the Great Malefactors. Better he shoot arrows from the outside.
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Michele Bachmann also nailed many of the culprits who brought us the subprime/derivative debacle. The lame stream media has avoided these issues. The moderators appeared clueless. The OWS has missed most of this. Maybe they are trying to re-live Woodstock.
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Bachmann's cannon is rather tenuously bolted to the deck of her campaign ship. In calm waters, it looks impressive, but when the waves hit it has a distressing tendency to roll about and fire in random directions.
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious."
"Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged," the California Republican said in a statement. "The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It's time we know the whole truth."
The subpoena seeks, among other things, all communications regarding the operation from 16 top Justice officials, including Holder, his chief of staff, Gary Grindler, and the head of the department's criminal division, Lanny Breuer, as well as correspondence on specific dates to and from the former head of the ATF's Phoenix field division, William Newell.
It also asks for all documents and communications referring or relating to the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including any correspondence outlining the details of Zapata's mission at the time he was murdered.
Congressional investigators are demanding information regarding the investigation into the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Two guns found at Terry's crime scene were linked to the failed operation that allowed more than 2,000 weapons to "walk."
The subpoena also asks for correspondence that Justice Department officials had with the White House about the gun trafficking operation, as well as what information was shared by Justice officials in Mexico.
This second subpoena follows the first one issued in March to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Asked about the development Tuesday, Holder said his department "will undoubtedly comply with them," noting that Justice officials have already sent "thousands of pages of documents up to the Hill."
But Holder wouldn't answer whether he or anyone else at the department knew about the controversial tactics.
Holder addressed the matter at the end of a press conference about an alleged Iran-tied terror plot foiled by U.S. investigators. "What I want the American people to understand is that in complying with those subpoenas and dealing with that inquiry, that will not detract us from the important business that we have here to do at the Justice Department, including matters like the one that we have announced today," Holder said.
The new subpoena follows a week of back and forth between congressional investigators and Justice Department officials of "who knew what, when." Under scrutiny was Holder's testimony from May 3 when he told Issa that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
Fox News obtained documents addressed to Holder as early as nine months before that, which described the concept of Fast and Furious.
In addition to the congressional investigation being led by Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is calling for a special counsel to look into the matter.
The story is just breaking, so few details are available. It apparently targets 16 individuals atop the Department of Justice. Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox says he has seen the subpoena and that it’s “comprehensive.” He added that Holder can’t avoid having to answer it. As they say, it just got real. More details to follow.
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Squirm mofo, squirm. Take the 5th over and over...
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Ebang,
Sadly, I put it 7 to 1 or better that Holder will refuse to testify, and the White House will back him up, and the MSM will defend it to the death.
Mike
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Yeah, but remember what happened when Nixon tried that. It didn't work so well. I know, I know. WaPo and the New York Slimes were screaming bloody murder and they won't do that this time. But if the House decides to impeach it won't matter what the MFM are doing. Bummer will be in trouble.
[Washington Times] White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley ...Chicago political dynast and oligarch. He's a lawyer, he's a banker, a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton and a veteran of the J.P. Morgan Chase Executive committee. Currently Chief of staff to President B.O., where he looked out for the interests of the Little Man ... said Tuesday he will leave his job after the 2012 election.
"I made a commitment with the president through his re-election, which I am confident he will do," Mr. Daley told NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago. "Then my wife and I will be back in Chicago."
President B.O. chose Mr. Daley to replace Rahm Emanuel in January; Mr. Emanuel is now mayor of Chicago.
"It's been a great honor," Mr. Daley said. "The president's a terrific guy to work with and work for. And he's really a good person."
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Considering that Obumble will be voted out in 2012...
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Been hearing about this kind of stuff for a long time, Bart. I do not prefer the source, but know that it rings true. That's the kind of guy that was elected.
House Minority Whip the mealy-mouthed Steny "Stinky" Hoyer ...Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or whatever he is... suggested Tuesday that voters are to blame for the partisan bickering and standoffs that have defined Congress this year.
The Maryland Democrat said voters are "absolutely right" to think that "Congress isn't working very well." But that dysfunction, he said, is largely of their own making.
"The American people have every right to be angry [and] disappointed by the performance of the Congress," Hoyer told news hounds in the Capitol. "Of course, the American people have also elected people with hard stances, so that to some degree the American people are realizing the results of their votes.
"If elections have consequences -- which I think they do -- some of those consequences are getting what you vote for," Hoyer added. "In this case, many people voted for people who thought compromise was not something that they ought to participate in."
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"There wouldn't be gridlock if you didn't vote for those icky republicans. Knock it off."
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I don't think there would be gridlock in the Senate if the whole lot had been up for re-election.
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Steny is the one with the accent from southern Maryland and PG county. San Fran Nan is the daughter of the mayor of Bawlmer with the cultured accent.
[Associated Press]Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman ... the former B.O. administration official...
says he first thought rival Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan was a pizza price, not a real economic proposal. Hyuk hyuk hyuk... That's Korean for "I laff. Haw haw."
Utah's former governor said during Monday's candidates' debate that he isn't open to Cain's plan to replace the current tax code with a national 9 percent sales tax, 9 percent income tax and a 9 corporate tax. Huntsman says he needs something "doable, doable, doable" over the "9-9-9" idea.
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Also from CHINA DAILY FORUM > WORLD'S CLIMATE IS CHANGING + THERE IS A CHAIN REACTION HAPPENNING, espec as per Tectonic Plate shifts.
and
* SAME > UK OIL + GAS [Reserves] MAY LAST JUST 17 YEARS.
Until circa 2028-2030?
And once again again again ...@ Virgina, we re-learn why the status of the Oil-Gas, etc. resources in the GULF OF MEXICO/MAHICO 2040-2070, ala BP DEEPWATER HORIZON, was brought up decades ago by Guam Taotamonas.
[Real Clear Politics] Michele Bachmann says if you turn Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan upside down it becomes 6-6-6. "I think the devil is in the details," she said at the GOP debate hosted by Bloomberg and Washington Post.
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Maybe she should check up on the subject - dudette, it may be a publishing error from the original.
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Fragment from Papyrus 115 with number 616
In May 2005, it was reported that scholars at Oxford University using advanced imaging techniques had been able to read previously illegible portions of a manuscript which stated 616 instead of as the majority of texts which state 666.[11] The existence of manuscripts attesting to 616 had also been noted before this finding. Another early witness Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C) (a palimpsest) has it written in full: ἑξακόσιοι δέκα ἕξ, hexakosioi deka hex (lit. "six hundred and sixteen").[12] This, along with the translation of P115, has led some scholars to conclude that 616 is the original number of the beast.[13]
The NRSV translation for Rev 13:18 includes this translation note: "Other ancient authorities read six hundred and sixteen".
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I fear we may all soon be reading from the... Book of Romney. I hope this isn't some sort of pre-planned, faith based conversion to temple moon worship.
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I didn't care much for her foster parent self-accolades either.
Right, or her "I'm not just a lawyer, I have an LL.M. too" self-accolades. Yes, she is still just a lawyer - one who puffs up an easy-peasy one-year program in tax law as an "advanced research degree," just like that super-genius "Constitutional Law Professor" we've already got.
[Yahoo News] U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, source of more leaks than a plumber could keep up with... says he's planning to introduce legislation to make it a federal crime for people to mislabel products as containing maple syrup. Well, by Gawd, that'll straighten the country out!
Leahy said Tuesday the legislation is needed to protect Vermont's maple crop from fraud. Probably that and global economic collapse are the greatest problems the United States faces today...
The move came in the aftermath of a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation that found a man who had been selling fake Vermont "maple" syrup, when the product contained no syrup. Did it contain any maples?
Leahy's proposal would create a new federal felony offense and increase the sentences that prosecutors can seek for people who defraud consumers and farmers by intentionally mislabeling maple products. That's right! String 'em up! It'll be a lesson to the others!
Leahy, a Democrat, announced his plan at the same time he was announcing the state had received a $70,000 federal grant to help market Vermont maple syrup.
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The state or a consortium of producers can trademark "Real Vermont Maple Syrup" and then tag their stuff to identify the 'real thing' without more laws.
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..no problem. New Mexico is a location for a lot of federal NIMBY activity - remember they nuked New Mexico first! It help keeps the state just ahead, in the average per capita income, of Mississippi and Louisiana.
[Real Clear Politics] "Scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done," President Obama said today to a "Jobs Council" meeting.
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Congress controls the purse strings, not you Bambi. You are not a king, or an emperor. The founding fathers put this kind of check and balance in for just this reason. To keep crackpot idiots like you and your staff from spending us into bankruptcy (that's congress' job to put us into bankruptcy).
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Keep acting like a king to spread scam money you little punk. Do it wrong and we may find you personally liable - clean out your bank account to pay for un-authorized funds you spent.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan is just one of dozens of people who say they didn't sign petitions for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to appear on the state's 2008 primary ballot and yet their names were approved by the county registration office.
The story is just breaking, so few details are available. It apparently targets 16 individuals atop the Department of Justice. Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox says he has seen the subpoena and that it’s “comprehensive.” He added that Holder can’t avoid having to answer it. As they say, it just got real. More details to follow.
the mealy-mouthed 
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman 
[Real Clear Politics] Michele Bachmann says if you turn Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan upside down it becomes 6-6-6. "I think the devil is in the details," she said at the GOP debate hosted by Bloomberg and Washington Post.
[Yahoo News] U.S. Sen. 
