Posted on 03/17/2011 11:50:48 AM PDT by bronxville
PONTIAC, Mich. (WJBK) - Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November's ballot.
"It is not a partisan statement, and we need to make that very clear," said Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.
Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.
"Some of the people didn't even know they were on the ballot till they began receiving delinquency notices of filings that were required as a candidate," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.
The sheriff says 23 statewide races had questionable Tea Party candidates on the ballot and the investigation may go beyond Oakland County.
"It was learned that a scheme was developed by a party leader in Lansing to place on the ballot people pretending to be Tea Party activists and that this was going to be a statewide effort," Bouchard said.
John Tramontana, a spokesperson for the state Democratic Party, told FOX 2 that this was not a state party issue and it's not our place to comment.
"What we have here is illegal. It's forgery. It's fraud. It's perjury. It's those things. Then you cross a different line," said Bouchard.
It's not illegal to be a non-serious candidate. That's not what's being alleged here. What is being alleged is that the people that were on the ballot were phony candidates and that they got there by fraudulent means. That's the crime. http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/two-charged-in-tea-party-election-fraud-20110316-mr
I couldn't copy them but the pics are at the site...
...”that they have no plan B when we DO respond.”
Great insight of which I totally agree and their carelessness was the result of their getting away with it for so long hence their downfall. The truth is getting out and there’s no stopping it. I’ll be volunteering to be an observer at the next election.
“McGuinness was a campaign staffer for Jocelyn Benson who was a crown jewel of the Soros funded secretary of state project.”
Now that’s interesting...it gets better and better...we need to propagate that, play their own game, though with truth which is on our side.
It is good to see some progress in this country,sure there will be more “playing with Ballots” in 2012.
The left is seriously losing it bit by bit.
It is good to see some progress in this country,sure there will be more “playing with Ballots” in 2012.
The left is seriously losing it bit by bit.
Benson needs to be questioned.
From September of last year.
“Jocelyn Benson has been involved in questionable activity before, having worked for the Democratic National Committees Election Day program during the 2004 Presidential election.
An official DNC training manual, leaked to the press, encouraged liberal minority activists to make false claims of vote suppression against Republicans. Additionally, Michigan Democrat Chairman Mark Brewer attempted a hostile takeover of the Michigan Constitution by ballot proposal in 2008, using the same Democrat petition firm hired by the fake tea party. The Supreme Court struck down that measure, much like this years fake tea party. Questions linger on what role Brewer played in this scandal.”
Thanks for posting the video. One interesting point in the video is that the charges were also forwarded to AG Holder and the FBI. In spite of this looking like a really strong case, GUESS WHO’S SENT THE CHARGES DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE.
I still don’t think we should give up. We need to get the bigger fish, such as cripplecreek is linking to...these criminals are obsessed with their own infallibility but it’s this very arrogance that’s made them careless. How many offenses of the law did they make in the last decade... I’d say countless because we hadn’t been watching them too closely. This time they were caught with their hand in the cookie jar. My gut tells me that they won’t get away with it this time...much to blatant. AND we’re watching...
I’m sending your post to some of the blogs to remind them...the Socialists do so much cheating it’s difficult to remember it all.
If you go back and look there was a lot of news about it here in Michigan last fall leading up to the elections.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/pubs/mcc/
Also there were quite a few threads under the Michigan keyword here at FR.
I see now says the blind man...I was out of the country for 3 mos and missed that whole episode. Thanks cripplecreek.
I think Jennifer Granholm probably figures into this somehow, even though she wasn’t up for re-election.
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