Posted on 10/08/2004 7:41:07 AM PDT by Area Freeper
Filmmaker Michael Moore responded Wednesday to the Michigan Republican Party's request that he be prosecuted for offering underwear and food to college students in exchange for their promise to vote.
"It's ironic that Republicans have no problem with allowing assault weapons out on our streets, yet they don't want to put clean underwear in the hands of our slacker youth," Moore said in a statement. "The Republicans seem more interested in locking me up for trying to encourage people to participate in our democracy than locking up bin Laden for his attacks on our democracy."
Moore said Republicans missed the "satire" of his giving underwear and food to get young people to vote.
Meanwhile, Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick on Wednesday denied the state GOP's request to file charges against Moore, the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant reported. The party on Tuesday had asked four county prosecutors to file charges, citing an election law provision that prohibits a person from contracting with another for something of value in exchange for agreeing to vote.
"Although we are a small prosecutor's office, we are extremely busy prosecuting serious criminal activity," Burdick said in a letter addressed to Greg McNeilly, executive director of the state Republican Party. "...I choose to devote our resources to prosecuting those who are delivering cocaine to our young people rather than underwear."
Moore is touring the country and imploring "slackers" who usually don't vote to head to the polls this year, saying they could make the difference in the presidential race.
During each program, habitual nonvoters are invited on stage to pledge to vote. First-time student voters are offered gag prizes such as clean underwear.
Burdick said he did not intend his letter to be flippant.
"All voters need to consider their responsibility to vote in a thoughtful, reasoned manner," Burdick wrote. "It is my judgment, however ... that if this matter were to be presented to an Isabella County jury, ... they would believe it should be resolved in the 'court of public opinion,' rather than through a criminal proceeding."
Maybe blubberbutt Mooreon should just stick to changing HIS underwear on a daily basis and maybe that fouls stench emanating from his nasty body will subside.
Hey Mike how about taking a long walk on a short bridge! Jacka$$!
Everytime I see that idiot I get an uncontrolable urge to scream "FREE WILLY".
I thought Democrats were more into that soiled underwear thing.
Maybe Moore can stoop to Gore's level and offer the homeless cigarettes and booze to vote. Moore=slavetrader wannabe.
New defense to vote fraud. Satire.
You know I'm getting fed up that the Libs have so many people out speaking for their cause, celebrities, Film directors, ex-Presidents, ex-Wannabe Presidents. Why do the Repubs run away with their tail between their legs all the time. I'm so fed up with this. We have tons of backing power, yet no one wants to risk getting out there a saying something. If more Hollywood conservatives and ex-Repub Presidents spoke up it could cancel out alot of the crap that the other side is spewing. If Conservatives want to become the majority again this needs to be done. Dems won't ever shut up unless there is someone willing enough to take them on.
This sounds like an admission that Moore was in violation of the law. Do you suppose he was concerned with the type of legal firepower Moore could hire?
Whatever his thinking, Moore now joins the group he claims to detest: the super-rich who don't have to follow the rules that the rest of us do.
Agreed. That was a really STUPID move by the Michigan party. It looked petty and ridiculous and gave Moore the perfect opportunity for a light-hearted response. They should be focusing their attention on the Dems who are passing out "walking around money", not some publicity stunt by Fatman.
I'll second that opinion
"Why do the Repubs run away with their tail between their legs all the time. I'm so fed up with this. We have tons of backing power, yet no one wants to risk getting out there a saying something."
Where are all the Republican Governors, Senators... in this election.
Where is Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert? I know Hastert was on wls AM radio telling dems that he brings home the bacon for the dems in Chicago last month, bragging about funding O'Hare for RICHARD J. DALEY.
THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE US HOUSE GROVELLING AT THE FEET OF A CORRUPT UNION/SOCIALIST CITY MAYOR DURING A MAJOR US ELECTION!
Rinos are stoopid and VERY spineless, I've been saying this since they threw Trent Lott under the bus. They are making me sick. My small donations to their causes are no more.
You know what's funny too. The one Conservative who is making a name for herself and actually has some stones is Ann Coulter. She is awesome when she slams down the stupid libs. She wasn't afraid to lose her job. She spoke up, and people are listening.
Translation: As long as you're not selling cocaine in our county, do whatever you want.
Note: I assume Burdick is a Dim, but I wonder if his office has many cocaine prosecutions this year. How would one go about checking such a thing?
Giving underwear to a coed college? You've never seen a protest where college students burn beer, have you?
Ummm... I'm pretty sure it would be illegal to bribe someone with an assault rifle in exchange for their vote.
Perhaps Michael Moore failed to see the satire in the Iran-Contra affair. Overcharging the Ayatollah Khomeni for weapons to lob at Saddam Hussein and using the money to fund anti-communist rebels in South America was 100 times funnier than Michael Moore's underwear stunt.
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