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FBI plants fake candidate in W.Va race
San Jose Mercury News & AP ^ | 12-03-05 | LAWRENCE MESSINA

Posted on 12/03/2005 1:50:17 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)-Thomas Esposito's campaign for the Legislature seemed to be following the usual pattern. The longtime Democratic mayor issued press releases, raised money and bought newspaper ads. Signs bearing his name popped up in yards around rural Logan County.

But less than a month before the May 2004 primary election, Esposito dropped out, saying he had to withdraw bcause of his ailing mother-in-law.

The real reason surfaced only later: The FBI had planted Esposito among the field of candidates to help find evidence of vote-buying in southern West Virginia.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: corruption; crooks; esposito; fbi; politicians; voterfraud
For a minute there, I thought that Robert Byrd had been exposed as a mole.

I like it here, but I swear to God, sometimes the jokes about my state just write themselves.

1 posted on 12/03/2005 1:50:18 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Come to the Big Cities and learn what vote buying en masse is all about.


2 posted on 12/03/2005 2:00:30 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion it will give it to you.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

There seems to be a unwillingness to mention the words corrupt DemoRATs in the article.


3 posted on 12/03/2005 2:01:03 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

In the SF Bay, you don't have to worry about having a life preserver on. If you ever fall off your fishing boat or a Red & White ferry, you can always just wait for a ballot box to float by and grab onto that.


4 posted on 12/03/2005 2:07:09 AM PST by dersepp (I Am A Militia Of One)
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To: dersepp

Eh, you city slickers an' yer high falutin' fancy ways...


5 posted on 12/03/2005 2:28:25 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (The Democratic Party-Jackass symbol, jackass leaders, jackass supporters.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel; mountaineer
Notice that the sting didn't use a Republican?

Thanks for posting, the story is very interesting.
6 posted on 12/03/2005 2:52:31 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave ("Liberals out of power are comical-Liberals in power are dangerous!"-Rush Limbaugh.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

This is only a microcosm of what has been going on nationwide for decades. Democrats have been stealing votes and voting for dead folk and buying votes with crack cocaine for years.


7 posted on 12/03/2005 4:55:12 AM PST by manwiththehands (Democrats and the MSM: lies and hypocrisy on steroids)
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To: Forte Runningrock
"The longtime Democratic mayor issued press releases, ... "

What did the FBI do with the money he raised. (And, why did they think a newcomer to the slate would be rewarded with purchased votes?)

8 posted on 12/03/2005 6:13:17 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: manwiththehands

re#7 Yep. Nice to see some investigatin' (and prosecutions) going on. Methinks that W has had the DOJ on this stuff since 2000. I hope so...


9 posted on 12/03/2005 7:58:06 AM PST by eureka! (Hey Lefties and 'Rats: Over 3 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

To be a good fake of this kind in West Virginia, he'd probably have to refer to his mother-in-law as "Aunt Lulu".


10 posted on 12/03/2005 8:47:20 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Besides a few of us who frequent FR, how many people in this country realize what a huge smash in the teeth for the kleagle this is? Anything that curbs voter fraud has GOT to hurt sheets!!!!!!! Hee hee hee!


11 posted on 12/03/2005 9:24:12 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (We will never murtha to the terrorists. Bring home the troops means bring home the war.)
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