Posted on 09/16/2008 4:01:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Lansing, MI (AHN) - The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking an injunction against a county GOP leader and the Republican National Committee from implementing a reported plan to prohibit voters with foreclosed homes from casting ballots in November.
"Senator McCain has no real plan to turn Michigan's economy around or help families faced with losing their homes - so his party has decided the only way to save his campaign is to deny the right to vote to families most affected by his disastrous economic policies," Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe said in an email announcing the lawsuit.
Democrats filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan along with three Michigan residents. "This 'lose your home, lose your vote' program is part of a broader scheme - misnamed an 'election integrity' program - to harass voters and suppress the vote throughout the State of Michigan in the upcoming election on November 4," they said in a news release.
The Michigan Messenger reported last week that Macomb County Republican Party Chairman James Carabelli was planning to use election challengers to keep voters with foreclosed homes from casting ballots. "We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," he is quoted by the Obama campaign as saying.
Election laws in the Great Lakes State allow for parties to assign "challengers" to monitor polls on election day. Such workers are allowed to challenge a voter's eligibility such as one's being a true resident in the city. Pundits say a program to challenge voters with foreclosed homes will likely hit African-American voters the hardest.
Carabelli has denied making any such statement to the Michigan Messenger. "I never said anything even close to that. We won't be doing voter challenges on foreclosures, and we've never had a plan to do it," he told the Detroit News.
What say you?
SAUL ALINSKY RULES......PROJECTION! ACCUSE YOUR OPPONENT OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
SAUL ALINSKY RULES......PROJECTION! ACCUSE YOUR OPPONENT OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
Democrats are filth.
Sounds like the racists is excercising his racism even further.
Obama suports people illegally voting from foreclosed homes they no longer occupy.
Exactly - he knows what he did to get himself elected in Chicago - what a hypocrit.
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“SHELBY TWP., Mich. – Macomb County Republican Party Chairman James Carabelli said a liberal blogger libeled him last week, fabricating a quote attributed to him that has burned its way across the Internet and the mainstream media, adding he will take legal action Wednesday to clear his name.”
“This story is not true. The Michigan Messenger made it up,” Carabelli said. “Because of reckless and fabricated reporting by the Michigan Messenger, my good name has been besmirched on the Internet and across the mainstream media and my reputation irrevocably harmed.
http://migop.org/news.asp?artid=170
Sounds like Obama doesn’t want people watching the votes.
Hmmm. Gee, wonder why?
Obama’s making a coordinated race-baiting push.
Time to start voting by finger print.
Last week, the MichiganMessenger.com, a liberal blog funded by the Center for Independent Media, a known front group for liberal billionaire George Soros, published an online story claiming Carabelli said the Macomb County Republican Party planned to use lists of foreclosed homes to challenge voters on Election Day. Immediately after the story was published online, Carabelli and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saulius “Saul” Anuzis condemned the story as false. On Friday, Carabelli demanded the Michigan Messenger retract the story. The Michigan Messenger has yet to retract the story or provide proof that the quote attributed to Carabelli is accurate.
The bottomline is that this is a COMPLETELY FABRICATED STORY and I would presume there will be a counter suit not to mention a libel suit.
Quite likely, especially given Hussein's response. From what I can gather, "Community Organizer" is a euphemism for "Cog in the old Democrat vote fraud machine".
Lie, cheast steal. “It doesn’t have to be the truth if you say it loudly enough.”
OBAMA/Alinsky
Yep...
Coordinated with George Soros, LeftBehind Bloggers, and of course, the ever accomodating mainstream print media
Thank you, Kate.
I wonder if Americans could hit Obammie with a suit for all the fraudulant voter registrations that his side is submitting.
With a sprinkle of ACORN dust thrown into the whole recipe.....
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