Posted on 11/02/2006 8:52:48 AM PST by marc costanzo
Prosecutors Eye Ann Coulter Voting Probe
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County's elections chief said Wednesday.Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case to the state attorney's office by Friday.Coulter's attorney did not immediately return a call Wednesday. Nor did her publicist at her publisher, Crown Publishing.Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.Anderson's office received a complaint in February that Coulter voted in the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 Palm Beach town council election.
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>>Say, just a thought... What kind of crime would a guy have to commit to be placed in the same cell with Ann?<<
Criticizing a homosexual or some other thought-crime,
I guess .
Dr. Arthur Anderson is Palm Beach County ’s Supervisor of Elections (elected August, 2004 and assumed office January, 2005) and is a community leader, devoted family man, educator, and has provided consultation services to private and public sector organizations to promote operational efficiencies, community development, governmental and community relations. He received a certificate in 2002 from Centex Rooney-Palm Beach Community College in construction program management. Dr. Anderson participated in post graduate studies at Cambridge University , England (1982). He received a certificate from Saint Louis University (1981) in the Grantsmanship Training Program. Dr. Anderson earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University (1973)-combined major in Higher Education Administration, Institutional Research and Student Personnel. Cognate in Labor and Industrial Relations. Dissertation topic, Educational Programs in Business and Industry and Implications for Receiving Credit toward the External Degree. He attained his Masters degree in Guidance and Counseling with cognate in Psychology (1968) from Wayne State University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education, with a major in Social Studies, and cognates in English and Science (1965). Dr. Anderson served as an administrator and professor at Florida Atlantic University and Medgar Evers College and was a member of the Palm Beach County School Board (1986-1994), where he served as Chairman (1987-1989 and 1993-1994). He has served on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations and received many awards, honors, recognitions and accolades for outstanding leadership and service, special certificates of appreciation, Distinguish Professor awards, Man of the Year and Who's Who in American Education. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, and Church of All Nations in Boca Raton . Dr. Arthur Anderson is married to Mildred Singleton Anderson, M.D., and they are parents to six children.
Clever !
That guy there looks like that creepy actor Jeffrey Tambor .
My guess: He's just trying to do his job, Ann's and her lawyer are prepared for whatever trouble may come (and are possibly baiting them).
NINE MONTHS of a frivoulous investigation!!!! Unbelievable!
You're turning into quite the one-note charley.
Why is it you feel its your duty to set us yokel freepers right on just about every thread?
Because, in this instance, you're wrong.
lol..you wrote:
"Yeah, right, newspapers are going to actually publish her street address. The (extremely) hypothetical case of a newspaper editorial staff losing their collective marbles and doing something that exposes them jointly and severally to huge civil liability issues forms a mystical exemption to standard procedure."
LMAO....'Newspapers' HAVE PUBLISHED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS for cryin out loud!
What makes you so silly as to think that Palm Beach County would not love to reveal Anne's addy?
What planet do you live on?
SHHHHHH! You want them to send the black helicopter guys after you???
After further research...
He may be just trying to do his job but look what happens when he does:
"Elections chief leaves a race off ballot"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731100/posts
This HAS to be the worst mixed-metaphor of the YEAR!!!
ick.
And what would motivate a person to volunteer such information unnecessarily? Does this information lose its value if withheld from the prosecution?
If reasonable people like ourselves decide that there may be exculpatory information, doesn't that indicate that the burden of proof has not been met? Why would a person suspected of a crime arm their prosecutor with such information, assuming that it exists?
Do you presume that Ann is guilty because she is silent, despite your suggestion that she might be able to provide exculpatory information to the prosecutor?
So why were you terminated?
What makes you think she's hiding anything?
While the DA has the right to have all communication occur in writing, Ann (and anyone else, for that matter) has the right not to give this guy the time of day.
Put yourself in that situation. You're alleged to have committed some infraction on someone else's (?) say-so. After an initial contact with the DA's office, you see that most everything you've given the DA has been leaked to the press.
How are you going to counter that? What recourse is given you? After this guy has publicly dragged you through the mud, what do you owe this guy?
NOTHING!!!!
And so it is with Ann. She owes him nothing. She owes you nothing. And if the charges are deemed to be fully prosecutable with a fair to middling chance of success, she is entitled to her day in court.
And for what it's worth, Ann is a Constitutional lawyer of some notoriety. I'll put her credentials up against yours any day, sight unseen.
CA....
Because the former is unlikely to generate civil liability, while the latter is EXTREMELY likely to generate civil liability. Toothless threats of government prosecution are meaningless, but a very real prospect of paying out millions of dollars in a civil judgment will weigh very heavily. Welcome to America the Litigious.
Because she can make this thing go away in about two hours. She's kept it alive for nine months.
A bullet destroyed most of one of my two favorite lungs, thank you very much.
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