Posted on 07/17/2010 8:39:00 PM PDT by no dems
I don’t get the Krauthammer haters. He’s been a staunch critic of Obowmao. Anything he’s said that sounds favorable has been grudging respect of the bastard’s political abilities, not his ideology.
You know...I took a day off work to be a poll watcher in 2008. I took an evening off to go through the training and listen to the SOS office explain all that we could and couldn’t do. I left that training wondering what good my presence would be as all the SOS(dem.)rules for poll watchers would stop me from reporting voter fraud or any other crimes. But, I didn’t change my intention to at least be standing there as an eye witness. Even if I couldn’t take pictures, even if I couldn’t use my cellphone to call the GOP attorney’s from inside the polling location to report fraud, a crime. I was ready, willing, and able to put on this poll watchers responsibility.
I never got anything from the GOP authorizing me, I never received credentials or even an assignment location.
A month later...I got this email. Personally, I think the whole matter should have been investigated. I believe the GOP itself is corrupt and in cahoots. Another FReeper told me to post this message in the body of a thread at the time, but remove the name. I did at that time follow that advice. But now, I don’t care so much and let the chips fall where they may.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
I really, really want to post this to the boards! What happened in Ohio was a crime and this is how BAD WE WERE! We couldn’t have saved our butts if they had been on fire. OHH!
To: Volunteers for Poll Watching Cuyahoga County.
I’m writing to both explain and apologize for the problems and failures which occurred during the election.
I first arrived in Cleveland on October 20th, as a New York volunteer for the Republican Party. Including election day I spent 10 days working to recruit Poll Observers and during that time spoke to many of you, asking for help defending the polls from illegal voting. Many of you agreed and following that agreement never received either an assignment, credentials that had been promised, or both. Many of you waited anxiously on November 3rd for credentials and assignments.
The details of multiple communications failures are a long tail of miss-steps that included spam filters, lack of training, multiple qualifying procedures, overtaxed volunteers and lack of co-ordination with workers in Columbus headquarters. Only after the fact did I realize that there were only a few polling stations that we could place observers in that were not in the heart of Cleveland, the most challenging areas of town. Columbus was making an effort to further qualify people for these difficult assignments after I had already spoken to many of you. They then excluded many because they couldn’t contact you in time. If they didn’t recontact you then you were never assigned. Even if some of you were contacted concerning a location the time was so short and the staff in Columbus so taxed for the time available that some were left hanging with a location, no credentials, but plenty of anxiety.
This is the short answer to what went on and why I am writing to apologize for the failures prior to the election. Hopefully things will run more smoothly in the future.
Thanks to all of you who stepped forward to protect the integrity of the voting system. My best wishes go out to you all.
Sincerely,
John McIntosh
I'm a long way from being committed to anyone. But, since you ask, so far I have been most impressed with Chris Christie and Steve King. If Sarah shows that after all these months on the national stage she can now take on the MSM and win, I would be very happy with her. If she loses again to Katie Couric in their next debate/interview, I hope she won't run.
And who do you choose?
Exactly right.
Good list. I had Bolton penciled in as the next Secretary of State, but he would make a fine VP.
LOVE IT!!!
Thanks!
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