Posted on 10/25/2008 2:14:27 PM PDT by wistful
To: The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-001
Dear Chair Derby: I write on behalf of Hillary Clinton for President (”the Committee”) in regard to the January 19, 2008 Nevada Democ-ratic Caucus. The Committee is aware of a letter addressed to you today from the Obama for America campaign requesting an inquiry into the conduct of the caucuses. The Committee shares the Obama campaign’s concern that full participation in the democratic process may have been compromised by the substantial number of irregularities occurring at the caucuses, and we fully support a complete inquiry by the Nevada State Democratic Party (the ”Party”) into all caucus improprieties.
This letter is not intended as a response to the Obama campaign’s letter. However, in the interest of a complete record, and in contrast to the alleged minor procedural problems noted by the Obama campaign, the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party’s caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee has received a vast number of reliable reports of voter suppression and intimidation by the Obama campaign or its allies.
The Committee had 30 phone lines on Saturday to receive calls in its Las Vegas offices. These lines rang continuously from early morning until well after the caucuses concluded with reports from people who were victimized and who observed irregularities. The phone lines were so over-whelmed that many callers resorted to calling individual Committee staff cell phones to report that they could not get through. The Committee also received many similar calls at its national headquarters.
The Committee is confident that any investigation into the conduct of the caucuses will be thorough, fair and in the interest of insuring that future Party caucuses will be as open and democratic as possible.
Systematic Corruption of the Party’s Caucus Procedures The Committee received substantially similar reports of improprieties of such a number as to leave no conclusion but that the Obama campaign and its allies and supporters engaged in a planned effort to subvert the Party’s caucus procedures to its advantage. For example:
þ Preference cards were premarked for Obama.
þ Clinton supporters were denied preference cards on the basis that none were left, while Obama supporters at the same caucus sites were given preference cards.
þ Caucus chairs obviously supporting Obama: o Deliberately miscounted votes to favor Senator Obama. o Deliberately counted unregistered persons as Obama votes. o Deliberately counted young children as Obama votes. o Refused to accept preference cards from Clinton supporters who were at the caucus site by noon on the ground that the cards were not filled out fast enough. o Told Clinton supporters to leave prior to electing delegates.
þ Clinton supporters who arrived late were turned away from the caucus, while late Obama supporters were admitted to the caucus.
Manipulation of the Voter Registration Process Numerous reports received by the Committee demonstrate a concerted effort on the part of the Obama campaign and its supporters to prevent eligible voters supporting a candidate other than Senator Obama from caucusing. The Obama supporters complained of were acting in positions of authority at the caucus sites. Some of these reports are as follows:
þ Obama supporters wrongly informed Clinton supporters that they were not allowed to participate in the caucus if their names were not on the voter rolls. However, Obama supporters whose names did not appear on the voter rolls were permitted to register at the caucus site.
þ Obama supporters falsely informed Clinton supporters that no registration forms were available for them to register to vote at the caucus site.
þ Obama supporters wrongly told Clinton supporters who were attempting to caucus at the wrong precinct that they could not caucus at that site, while simultaneously permitting Obama supporters at the wrong precinct to participate.
þ Obama supporters were allowed to move to the front of the registration and sign-in line.
Voter Suppression and Intimidation The Committee received a substantial number of disturbing reports from voters that they had been subject to harassment, intimidation or efforts to prevent them from voting. Some of the most egregious of these complaints are described below:
þ Voters at at-large caucus sites were informed that those sites were for Obama supporters only.
þ Clinton supporters at at-large caucus sites were told that their managers would be watching them while they caucused.
þ Workers were informed that their supervisors kept lists of Clinton and Obama supporters, and were told that they could not caucus unless their name was on the list of Obama supporters.
þ Many Clinton supporters were threatened with employment termination or other discipline if they caucused for Senator Clinton.
þ Workers were required to sign a pledge card to support Obama if they wanted time off to participate in the caucus. þ Workers at one casino were offered a lavish lunch and permitted to attend and register to vote only if they agree to support Obama.
The complaints summarized above represent only a small sample of the complaints received by the Committee. With respect to each of these complaints and many more, the Committee has the names and phone numbers of those reporting these incidents and the specific precinct numbers where the incidents occurred. Upon request the Committee will share these with the Party with appropriate safeguards to protect these individuals from reprisal. On the whole, these reports show a troubling effort by the Obama campaign and its allies and supporters to advance their own campaign at the expense of the right of all Nevada Democrats to participate in the democratic process in a free, fair and open manner.
Senator Clinton and the Committee are wholly committed to ensuring that every eligible voter has his or her vote cast and counted. There is no place in the American electoral process for the types of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and supporters. Sincerely, /v
I would agree! Gianacana — I can see that happening. I have done a lot of reading on the mafia and it was very powerful going into the early 60’s. IMHO they helped elect JFK and when he unleased his brother on them, they got mad and got even.
Can you imagine how Hillary feels knowing this was snatched away from her...and she has to stand up with this guy. Politics suck. It’s not for rational, God-fearing humans.
Can you imagine how Hillary feels knowing this was snatched away from her...and she has to stand up with this guy. Politics suck. It’s not for rational, God-fearing humans.
WOW! CNN has been sitting on this the whole time. What else have they been sittin on is what I would like to know!
Interesting footnote to all this is the fact that a republished Ayers book is actually dedicated to RFK’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan.
I am still undecided as to how much of a Manchurian candidate B. Hussein is; he might just be an evil thug rabble rouser in his own right, assisted by ghost-writing henchman who have glommed on to his “charisma.”
You are not the only one who feels they are standing by helplessly while our country is being stolen... this morning on Fox they interviewed this young kid who voted in one of the Nikelodeon school elections and said he voted for Obama “because he is going to reduce taxes for 95% of America”... now this kid was all of 8 or 9 years old and has absolutely no idea what taxes are all about.... but that was his reason... can you say brainwashing? Well that is what Obama wants to force on all chldren in this country.. brainwashing.
This cat fight between the Clinton and Obama campaigns has been the media since it started back in Mid Jan., 2008. Here is a link to a Boston Hearld article of Obama’s complaint against the Clinton camp.
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/the_beat/?p=215
Washington Post:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/01/clinton_won_or_did_she.html
Time.com
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/obama_files_a_nevada_complaint.html
Hill/Billy knows what coming down. That’s why they are “keeping their enemies closer.”
That is what I am thinking as well. If you were Obama, would you want Hill and Bill giving you advice? I know I wouldn’t. :)
Possibly. The weak spot is, if it was a Mob contract, it doesn't explain why LBJ twisted the Warren Commission's arms off to return the "LHO acted alone" finding, which was baked into the cake from the start.
We know the Mob had compromised J. Edgar Hoover (or rather, he had compromised himself), but what was in it for LBJ to avoid a finding that led back to the Chicago Mob? Whereas on the other hand, anything that led back to Cuba or the Soviets would have been radioactive and could have induced men like Earl Warren and Gerald Ford (I think he was on the commission, too) to play along.
Turns out there's another explanation for the numbers, huh?
LBJs hands weren’t clean with respect to election fraud in 1960. That alone would have made him want to keep the Warren Commission away from the mob and their motive for whacking JFK.
I think the weak link in the mob contract theory is LHO himself. He was an extremely flaky guy, even for a patsy. How would you approach somebody like that and make him do exactly what you want him to do? One thing the mob was NOT known for was subtlety on the level of the KGB or GRU. The sheer difficulty of getting inside LHO’s head and making him see the thing through is the best argument for the LHO acted alone theory.
The mob hit theory is my favorite from a literary point of view because of the tragic elements combined with the colorful characters. But the best story isn’t necessarily the true story.
My high school French teacher told me the French have a saying, "When a thief steals from a thief, God only laughs."
His associates in New Orleans were beyond colorful and interesting. I know a black Orleanian who once met David Ferry, and who gave me a sense of what Ferry was like in person. He was the most incredibly bizarre little homosexual man, in both his appearance and his speech and deportment. Some corners of New Orleans society are truly, truly ..... bizarre.
So I would agree with you that the flake factor around LHO was somewhere just off the charts, so that he would hardly make a Mob patsy, much less a gunsel entrusted with a superheavyweight hit.
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