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Former Democratic Party chairman enters no contest plea
The Oakland Press ^ | 10-17-2011 | ANN ZANIEWSKI

Posted on 10/19/2011 4:26:08 PM PDT by Darren McCarty

The former chairman of the Oakland County Democratic Party will be sentenced in December after entering a no contest plea to charges related to allegations of voter fraud.

Michael McGuinness was charged earlier this year with three counts of uttering and publishing, and three counts of perjury. He and Jason Bauer, the former political director of the county’s Democratic Party, were accused of fraudulently entering the names of three people as candidates for a group calling itself The Tea Party for county commission or state Senate seats to appear on the November 2010 ballot.

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Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and other county officials asked for a grand jury to look at filings made by Oakland County candidates for a group called The Tea Party. Signatures didn’t match their voter registration cards, and one candidate said he hadn’t filed to run and was living out of state.

Officials linked the filings to Bauer, who notarized candidate filings. He later resigned from his position with the county Democratic Party, as did McGuinness.

(Excerpt) Read more at theoaklandpress.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: democrats; faketeaparty; jasonbauer; mcguinness; michaelmcguinness; mikemcguinness; ratcorruption
I hope they rot or make a deal to turn all the others involved in. This is in the second largest county in the state of Michigan. Luckily Ruth Johnson, now our Secretary of State, was their clerk and quashed this. Instead of stealing elections, at least one of not two democrats are getting nailed on felonies.
1 posted on 10/19/2011 4:26:18 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
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To: Darren McCarty

Last I heard the investigation was ongoing.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Jocelyn Benson was herself involved. For those who don’t know, Benson was the Soros secretary of state project candidate who was clearly groomed to steal elections. She teaches election law at Wayne State.


2 posted on 10/19/2011 4:57:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Which brings up the question: When we get around to trying the Cretin-in-Chief, will he claim “No brains” instead of “no contest”.

After all, we know that he’s no lawyer (something that’ll have to explained by the Harvard Joke School of Law at some future date).


3 posted on 10/19/2011 5:04:10 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: cripplecreek

It would not surprise me in the least. I believe both Bauer and McGuinness worked for Benson on her campaign.


4 posted on 10/19/2011 6:02:01 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Perry and Cain I can support, but no Romney)
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To: Darren McCarty

I know that one of these guys was dismissed from a campaign a few years ago over falsifying a sob story about a woman with a sick child in an attempt to push Obamacare.


5 posted on 10/19/2011 6:32:59 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Somebody that lives there needs to file a suit against them for violating their civil rights.


6 posted on 10/19/2011 6:41:01 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Looking at some older stories and it looks like they’ve been trying all kinds of stunts to get out of this. In this story from April they attempted to get a judge to recuse himself because he’s a republican.

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/04/13/news/doc4da5badf5f006111554013.txt


7 posted on 10/19/2011 6:47:26 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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8 posted on 10/19/2011 7:19:41 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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