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Vote of Confidence A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape—and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama. By Gretchen Reynolds A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape-and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama. In the final, climactic buildup to November's general election, with George Bush gaining ground on Bill Clinton in Illinois and the once-unstoppable campaign of senatorial candidate Carol Moseley Braun embroiled in allegations about her mother's Medicare liability, one of the most important local stories managed to go virtually unreported: The...

NH SECRETARY OF STATE AGREES TO INVESTIGATE Rep. Lawrence Rappaport, and his wife (Sept. 12, 2009) — New Hampshire State Representative, Lawrence M. Rappaport payed a visit to Mr. William Gardner, the NH Secretary of State, on Thursday, Sept. 10th. His stunning request: an investigation of Barack Hussein Obama’s presence on the NH 2008 Ballot. Gardner’s stunning response: an investigation will commence. I interviewed Mr. Rappaport by email, and asked him, on what basis did he make his complaint; he responded, “The basis for all of this is possible fraud. I don’t know what penalties will be assessed if fraud...

Anyone who spends more than ten seconds reflecting on life can usually recall dozens, if not hundreds of people who have had positive effects on their thoughts, opinions and outlook. Among the hundreds of people I've learned from over the years, two came to mind recently as I was watching A Thousand Clowns for the four hundred and eightieth time. Herb Gardner, the playwright, and Barbara Sproul, Chairman of the Religion Department at Hunter College. I never met Herb Gardner. Like everyone else, I knew him through his work. But during my years at NBC I met people who had...

CAMP HABBANIYAH, Iraq (Dec. 21, 2005) -- Marines deployed on a combat tour to Iraq find many different ways to relax and spend their free time. They play video games, watch movies, read books and even take online college courses. One Marine, though, uses his free time to make a direct impact oh the mission to turn Iraq over to a stable government capable of protecting its citizens. Cpl. Russell R. Hall, a wire man assigned to a six-man communications detachment with the 2nd Marine Division Training Center here, spends his free time ‘instructing the instructors’ as members of the...

GASTONIA, N.C. -- Reacting to the death of a North Carolina man in drunken driving accident involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick on Monday unveiled a proposal that she said would make local police more responsible for tracking illegal immigrants, Myrick said.The legislation would require all state and local law enforcement agencies to report immigration status, deportation orders and failures to appear to the FBI's National Crime Information Center database within 30 days of the incident.

Freeper TV Alert The May 31 edition of "Lie Detector" on PAX TV will concern two subjects that may interest Freepers. "Lie Detector" is a show where the guest agrees to take a lie detector test right on television. Two guests on the May 31 show: Known for lobbing softball questions at current President George W. Bush, elite press core official “Jeff Gannon” came under scrutiny by democrats and fellow press core members, who discovered his real name is James Dale Guckert with a checkered past and possible agenda. Was “Jeff Gannon” fed questions by the Bush administration to use...

SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- A former security supervisor at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testified Monday she never saw the pop star exhibit any illegal or improper behavior toward young boys. The supervisor, Violet Silva, also admitted she could not get into Jackson's bedroom suite unless it had been unlocked from the inside. Under cross-examination by the prosecution in Jackson's trial on child molestation charges, Silva conceded there were "some occasions" when boys stayed alone with the entertainer in the main residence. She said security staff generally went into the house only when summoned. Silva said that based on her...

Swift Boat Vet Receives Help from Former Whistle-Blower Gary Aldrich reaches out to man under fire Steve Gardner, member of the effective 527 group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is getting legal and financial help from Gary Aldrich, former whistle-blower and president of The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty. Gardner, also know as "The 10th Brother", was one of two men who courageously refused to stand with Senator John Kerry at the Democratic convention. As a result of this and an interview he gave stressing his strong opposition to a Kerry presidency, Gardner suffered threats, insults, and, finally, a...

I would like to extend my deepest thanks for your support and generosity. Your gift will help out more than you could know. Your kindness is greatly appreciated! Thank You! God Bless you and your family! Steven M Gardner

aypal for Steve Gardner (corrected) Tony Snow has provided us the information that so many of you have been asking for in order to help Steve Gardner: Here's the info I have from Steve. He has a paypal account through his email: sgardner5@carolina.rr.com; there's also a snail-mail address: P.O. Box 908; Clover, SC 29710. P.S. Tony has made me a hero at home. He's coming through on the autographed photo for Mrs. Trunk. UPDATE: We have corrected the email address above; we had originally omitted the "s" in "sgardner5@carolina.rr.com." It now reads correctly. HINDROCKET wonders: Can Tony send three? Posted...

On Hannity's show right now. Being discussed this hour.

As if O'Reilly doesn't have enough trouble stirring around him these days.... Last night on Factor he and Kerry biographer, Douglas Brinkley, had a smooch-fest to celebrate the paperback release of Brinkleys's Tour of Duty. Left unsaid, by both, was the fact that O'Reilly publicly praised Brinkley's book before its original, hardback printing. Can we say, "HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST"? In fact, the obviously love-struck Brinkley liked O'Reilly's thumbs-up so much they both agreed to publish....

FROM KRANISH ARTICLE WRITTEN IN MARCH: "Steven Michael Gardner served side by side with John Forbes Kerry in Vietnam, was wounded under Kerry's command, and was manning twin .50-caliber machine guns on a night that has forever haunted Kerry -- the night his crew killed a young boy in a sampan." LINK TO ORIGINAL BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE FROM MARCH. I briefly reached Kranish on his cell phone, and he asked me to leave a message on the office phone. I left him the message challenging him to do an update of this story. It haunted Kerry? Kerry's report did not...

Nicole Parra is the cute young democrat who bought and stole a State Assembly seat in California. She spent over $2 million to purchase this seat but had to throw in some voter fraud to make it happen. After she "won" (by 265 votes), she was appointed to chair the all important Veterans Affairs Committee. No, she's not a Veteran. The stupid democrats in this state thought that because she's a cutie with a cute butt that the Veterans would like her. Wrong!!!! The Veterans can't stand the little creep and they are offended that the democrats did this to...

In an interview with WorldNetDaily, "Band of Brothers" member James Wasser flatly denied he told a former swiftboat crew mate that he had always despised their skipper John Kerry but "came around" after a persuasive, private meeting with the senator at the beginning of the presidential campaign.

Commence firing...   With cash in their war chest and momentum on their side, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched yet another blistering television ad against John Kerry. The ad features one of Kerry's own swift boat crew members, Steve Gardner, refuting Kerry's decades-old claim that he and his crew were in Cambodia. Here is the transcript of the ad:STEVE GARDNER:   “I spent more time on John Kerry’s boat than any other crew member.John Kerry hasn’t been honest, he’s been deceitful.John Kerry claims that he spent Christmas in 1968 in Cambodia and that is categorically a lie.Not in...

In an interview with WorldNetDaily, "Band of Brothers" member James Wasser flatly denied he told a former swiftboat crew mate that he had always despised their skipper John Kerry but "came around" after a persuasive, private meeting with the senator at the beginning of the presidential campaign. Gunnersmate Steve Gardner, featured in the latest Swift Boat Veterans for Truth television ad challenging Kerry's war record, has been claiming on numerous TV and radio talk shows in the past month that Wasser made that statement to him in a telephone conversation in early March.

Swiftees launch third torpedo ad at John Kerry and his campaign.

As some newspapers don't know quite yet where to go with the SwiftVet stories, and others are blantantly shilling for John Kerry, perhaps it is time to get this matter settled. By a duel. Not of guns or swords. Of lie detectors. That's right, lie detectors. Steve Gardner, you have throw down the gauntlet. You have accused John Kerry of lying. He has his surrogates attacking you. It is time for you to make the challenge to meet him on a live television event and each man submit to a lie detector test. Perhaps the head of the FBI will...

Even a blind man can see that the Press is desperately trying to kill the Swift Vet story. They've tried ignoring them, but that didn't work. Then they (i.e. the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) tried character-assassinating them, but that's not working either (it's not that easy to slash down 250+ people). The latest attempt is the New York Times' dumb idea that showing that a Swift Vet seven years ago was Karl Rove's father's mother's uncle's sister's cousin's nephew's godson's best friend's lawyer would cause voters to "naturally" assume that Bush is mind controlling all 250+ Swift Vets...

Last night while in the car, I was listening to Hugh Hewitt and heard an exchange so striking that it warranted a phone call to my husband at home to determine if anyone on FR was discussing it. Unless I missed a key word in my search, it doesn't seem to have been addressed, so I'll describe it here myself. I turned on the radio in the middle of an interview with Steve Gardner of the Swift Boat Vets, who was recounting an incident in Vietnam that involved the shooting of an adult and the inadvertent shooting of a child,...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican Dean Gardner in his race to unseat Democratic Assemblywoman Nicole Parra Tuesday, a move seen as a serious blow to Parra's re-election drive. It also came as a surprise to some people in both parties, apparently including Gardner. "We weren't sure," he said Tuesday, "that he was going to endorse in any races against an incumbent." An endorsement of a Republican candidate by a GOP governor would normally be routine. However, an aide said earlier this year that the governor had agreed to appear at just a few fund-raisers for Republican legislative candidates. "There has...

Interview from 8-10-4 edition of the Hugh Hewitt Radio program. I interviewed Steve Gardner today. He served two tours in Vietnam, including two months and two weeks of John Kerry's swift boat service--on John Kerry's swift boat-- from November 1968 through January 1969:HH: Mr. Gardner, welcome to the Hugh Hewittt Show, it is an honor to talk to you.SG: I am glad to be here Hugh.HH: Thanks for your service.SG: Thank you again, I really appreciate you're allowing me to come aboard.HH: Now let me start with some basics. I said you served two tours in Vietnam. Can you tell...

It's a favorite tactic of the Kerry campaign. So in Albuquerque on Tuesday, John Kerry, war hero, was greeted by Vietnam veterans, his band of brothers. But 1,600 miles away in Washington, a different band played a different tune about the John Kerry they served with in Vietnam, reports CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts. "The John Kerry that I know is not the John Kerry that everyone else is portraying," said veteran Steve Gardner. "He was aggressive, but vain and prone to impulsive judgment. He was a loose cannon," said retired U.S. Navy Adm. Roy Hoffman. For nearly an hour,...

A former Navy gunner who served with presidential candidate John Kerry in Vietnam found himself in the media crosshairs this week. Until two weeks ago, Steve Gardner of Clover, S.C., had not talked with anyone from his 10-member Kerry-led boat crew in more than 30 years. The other nine members have generally described Kerry's leadership as heroic and exemplary under fire. Several have appeared with Kerry during campaign stops. Not Gardner. "Our job in that boat was to engage the enemy and Kerry did what he could to avoid confronting the enemy. He ran like a dog," Gardner said in...

Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2004The Tenth Brother Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, interviews Kerry’s tenth warmate and gets a story sharply different from what the other nine crew members have had to say ByDOUGLAS BRINKLEY Just when it looked like Senator John Kerry’s so-called Band of Brothers were unified in vouching for his leadership in Vietnam there is suddenly a lone ripple of dissent in the ranks. “What can I say?” Kerry said when told that a former crewmate had unpleasant memories of him as his commanding officer. “I’ll take nine out...

Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. - Ladies Handgun Seminar This Saturday, January 31, 2004, Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) will hold a Ladies Handgun Seminar at Second Amendment Sports, 2523 Mohawk St., in Bakersfield, starting at 9 a.m. Forty women will learn the basics of gun safety and self-defense. Most of the women are novice shooters. The event is free and includes lunch. The morning session will consist of classroom instruction on safety and self-defense theory. After lunch, the women will head to the range to shoot, some for the very first time. Instructor will be Don Busse of "Martial Arms" (tactical...

It's official: Next year's contest to represent the west side of the valley in the state Assembly will be a rerun of last year's battle. The only two candidates who have filed papers to run in the 30th Assembly District are Democratic incumbent Nicole Parra of Hanford and Republican Dean Gardner of Bakersfield. In 2002, Parra defeated Gardner by 266 votes, an election so close it took weeks of counting to decide who won. In other races, Republican Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield drew a Democratic challenger in his 32nd Assembly District as the deadline for filing declarations of intent...

<p>HANFORD -- Bakersfield Republican Dean Gardner announced his plans Wednesday to take a second shot at the 30th Assembly District seat. In a four-stop motor home tour of the southern Valley, Gardner vowed to defeat Democrat Nicole Parra, who won the 2002 election with 265 more votes than Gardner.</p>

Parra in eye of political storm By VIC POLLARD, Californian Sacramento Bureau e-mail: vpollard@bakersfield.com Saturday April 12, 2003, 10:59:36 PM SACRAMENTO -- Democratic Assemblywoman Nicole Parra knows the Republicans are watching her like a hawk, looking for any misstep they can use in a campaign against her next year. Her solution: Play basketball with them every Tuesday morning. To political professionals, Parra's razor-thin margin of victory over Dean Gardner in the west-side 30th Assembly District last year makes her vulnerable. It automatically puts her on the GOP's list of "targets" for an all-out campaign to unseat her before she has...

Dean Gardner, conservative Republican & Navy Vet, "lost" this Assembly race by 265 votes! The investigation of voter fraud is on-going. Meanwhile, it turns out that the CA GOP made a point of screwing Dean Gardner. I have been freepin' the "winner" Nicole Parra every chance I get. And to add insult to injury, Nicole Parra has been appointed to Chair and very important Veterans Affairs Committee. I AM SOOOO PISSED, you have no idea!! Here's the article. Kern GOP kept cash out of local race By VIC POLLARD, Californian Sacramento Bureau e-mail: vpollard@bakersfield.com Friday March 07, 2003, 12:12:32 PM...

Chair goes to frosh Parra By GRETCHEN WENNER, Californian staff writer e-mail: gwenner@bakersfield.com Sunday December 29, 2002, 10:02:30 PM Assemblywoman Nicole Parra will be in Bakersfield today, flanked by the state Assembly speaker and her father, Pete Parra, a Kern County supervisor, for an event announcing her appointment as chairwoman of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee. Parra said the appointment, which she learned of late last week, makes her one of just five Assembly freshmen to chair a committee. The Democratic assemblywoman vowed to be "a fighter for veterans." The 11 a.m. event, which is scheduled to include an appearance...

Dianne Hardisty: Some ballots too late to count Saturday December 07, 2002, 06:30:11 PM Oscar Meza was disappointed. Richard Beckwith was resigned. And Renee Covey was frustrated and angry. These three Kern County citizens learned last week after I called them and told them that their ballots were not counted in last month's general election. The absentee ballots of these voters and about 1,000 others were delivered to the Elections Division after the polls closed after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Election Day. It happens every election, according to Abbe Shugart in the Elections Division. Boxes after boxes of...

The freep took place on the north steps of the Capitol in Sacramento. Today, Nicole Parra was sworn in as the Assembly Member from the 30th Assembly District (Bakersfield area). But she got her sorry butt freeped by yours truly for VOTER FRAUD. The Grand Jury is still investigating. Here's the link to the previous thread about how the democRATS are stealing this election: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/798851/posts And now here's the FReep report: WOW! It was great!! It took all my courage just to do it cuz it looked like I was going to be the only freeper to freep and so...

Freeping Opportunity Monday, Dec. 2, 5 p.m., on the North Capitol Steps (L Street side), Sacramento. Here's the flyer: NICOLE PARRA CHEATER, LIAR, THIEF, FRAUD (You be the judge) Grand Jury is investigating: Military voters DISENFRANCHIZED (Lemoore NAS is in this district). Republican absentees trashed. Bribed voters voted multiple times. Non citizens voting. Despite overwhelming evidence of voter fraud, Nicole Parra will be sworn in as Assembly Member representing the 30th District on Monday, December 2nd. This flyer will be delivered to every State Assembly Member and every State Senator in order to warn them that a fraud is in...

<p>A Fresno County Superior Court judge ordered Wednesday the release of the names and addresses of 154 voters who cast provisional ballots in Fresno County for the 30th Assembly District.</p> <p>Judge Gary S. Austin ruled the release of provisional voter's names, home telephone numbers and signatures were public record, and lifted a stay issued Monday that stopped the counting process.</p>