Posted on 07/21/2004 6:52:43 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
WASHINGTON – Undaunted by Kofi Annan's rejection of a plan for United Nations monitoring of the U.S. presidential elections this fall, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-TX, is taking her case to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Johnson has urgently asked Powell to make an official request that the U.N. provide observers for the Nov. 2 elections in the United States to "ensure free and fair elections."
Thirteen Democratic congressmen, led by Johnson, sent a letter July 8 to the U.N. general secretary requesting the presence of U.N. representatives in every county of the country during the voting process and any vote recount afterwards.
The U.N. immediately responded that such a request could not be accepted unless if came from the U.S. government. Otherwise, a spokesman said, it could be considered "intervention in a country’s sovereignty."
"As legislators, we should guarantee the American people that our country will not experience another nightmare like the 2000 presidential elections," the members of Congress said in their letter to Annan.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson
In her letter to Powell, Johnson expressed grave concerns regarding electoral system reforms that were not undertaken after the 2000 election.
Recalling the contentious Florida vote count in 2000, the lawmakers urged the U.N. to "ensure free and fair elections in America."
"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," Johnson said in the letter. "This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself."
Meanwhile, Rep. Corrine Brown, a Florida Democrat, announced that the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has confirmed that it will be present in the United States – specifically, in Florida – on Election Day.
However, state election authorities in Florida have already announced that such observers are not to be allowed access to the voting process and, in any case, they would have to remain at a distance of more than 50 feet from the polls.
Besides Johnson, the congressional signers to the original U.N. letters included Julia Carson of Indiana, Jerrold Nadler, Edolphus Towns, Joseph Crowley and Carolyn B. Maloney, all of New York, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Corrine Brown of Florida, Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, Danny K. Davis of Illinois, and Michael M. Honda and Barbara Lee of California.
It's not that the UN thought the election was rigged, it's because the UN didn't like the outcome.
Sure, and we can let France settle any disputes: "Hmmm, Bush only took 65% of the popular vote and only got 345 electoral votes. Something is obviously fishy here, we declare Kerry the new president..."
The Black Communist Caucus speaks.
Next!
With a little luck she just might get enough attention from the national media to cause trouble for the Cash and Kerry campaign.
Will the good people of Texas go for this? Which district does Johnson represent? He needs to be recalled ASAP.
Why would democrats want increased supervision of the election? Dozens of their voter-fraud schemes might be revealed.
What I don't get is what, in the history of the UN, makes grown men and women think that body had the capacity to fiarly oversee an American election?
Our government is the longest running republic in the world, with an unbroken democratic tradition running back to the 18th century.
The UN General Assembly is composed largely of despots, thugs, and crooks, representing not their nation states but themselves and their own cronies back home, who stand to make $$ whenever a UN project falls into their lap.
WTF do such people know about the American way, and what other purpose would they have by participating in an election oversight program here than to f--k it up?
I know I'm preaching to the converted on FR with all this. But I'd appreciate someone explaining to me how the UN is perceived as fair and just to the Left.
Thanks in advance.
"Eddie" is a SHE......
whoops schizephrenics s/b schizophrenics
Sure, bring them on -and they WILL be eliminated.
NO JOKE - Just a promise to stop an illegal invasion!
It is a blind to make it appear that democrats are fearful of voting fraud instead of being the ones behind it during every election since God Knows when. It's just another lie.
Eddie Bernice Johnson and her ilk know full well there is no chance in hell the UN would be allowed anywhere near our polls. The democrats would actually pass out and #2 their pull-ups if they thought anybody might get in the way of their schemes and dishonesty.
Bernice is from Houston, where the 30th district has produced some of our finer idiots. It's a aberration, not the norm. Here's one photo (hint: Maddie Albright is the bag on the right):
Great pic! Did you use that helmet as target practice?
You beat me to the obvious observation, so I'm posting it again for emphasis. Clearly, actual honest elections are the last thing in the world sought by the Democratic party.
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