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Bubba [Clinton] Gives Voice to Landrieu; Edwards Goes on More Junkets
The American Prowler ^ | 12/06/02 | The Prowler

Posted on 12/05/2002 9:26:56 PM PST by Holden Magroin

Bubba Gives Voice to Mary Landrieu

Published 12/6/02 12:04:00 AM

BAYOU A VOTER?

Bill Clinton and Al Gore may not be physically in Louisiana trying to bail out Sen. Mary Landrieu's campaign, but a lot of behind the scenes, national Democratic Party types are working hard for her. The biggest name to surface is that of Donna Brazile, a native of Louisiana, who has been working to rally the troops in New Orleans and other urban centers where the black vote is critical to Democratic hopes.

"With the election falling on a Saturday, it's going to take extra effort to get the vote out for us," says a DNC staffer working in Baton Rouge. "This whole thing seems rigged to go Republican. They are much more motivated."

The weekend voting aside, Republicans are already getting ready for Florida 2000-like shenanigans at polling places.

According to the DNC source, the party has already lined up a number of "volunteer" drivers to get voters to the polls for a fee of $5 per voter. "This is standard Louisiana politicking," says the source. It's how Landrieu won last time out.

Landrieu won her first election by less than a percentage point in 1996, with a wide array of voter fraud occurring throughout the state: everything from multiple votes by the same voter to voters who had been dead for five years when they supposedly pulled the lever.

"We know it's going to get ugly, but we're trying to be ready," says an RNC source. To that end, the party is said to have sent a number of volunteer Republican lawyers to Louisiana to be ready to file complaints in local jurisdictions if irregularities occur.

Brazile may have been the brains behind Al Gore's campaign, but Bubba is still king for both Democrats and Republicans, if the Louisiana election is any indication. Democrats in New Orleans came alive last weekend when rumors were circulating that Clinton might show up in town to campaign for Landrieu.

And Republicans have been excited by Clinton too, thanks to a radio ad by Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell which features a Clinton imitator who identifies himself as "Bubba."

"You know, I miss Washington. But there's a woman in the Senate I can always count on. My Washington and Hollywood friends think she's great. Hillary? Heck no! I am talking about Mary Landrieu."

Bubba then sings his political paramour's praises for voting yes on taxpayer-funded abortions, needles for drug addicts and closing military bases.

WHO WAS THAT CHAP?

Sen. John Edwards' relationship with the real Bill Clinton paid off in London on Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the now-senior senator and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate.

Edwards had asked Clinton to call Blair on his behalf to help get him a meeting on a European junket Edwards hopes will help burnish a perception that he has foreign policy experience.

But no sooner did Edwards walk out of the meeting, which lasted longer than Edwards expected, than he was on a conference call to reporters in Washington in North Carolina crowing about the meet. Edwards claimed that he and Blair hit it off, but that may be because, according to British press sources, Edwards told the Labour PM that he supported the Bush agenda on Iraq and terrorism without hesitation.

"Blair's people said he was quite the suckup, as you say," says a British foreign affairs reporter in London. "We all understood that this man wasn't serious about anything, it was all for his domestic aims. None of us really knew who Edwards was."


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: edwardswatch; landrieuedwards
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
How can a Saturday vote be "rigged" if it's mandated in the state constitution?

Is that just something they say when they things aren't going their way? I wonder if they are considering challenging THAT law, too.

And I really wonder why their own party thinks Democrats won't go vote on a Saturday?

41 posted on 12/06/2002 7:05:08 AM PST by Howlin
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To: drstevej
Republicans are motivated means it's rigged.

You all down there are mean-spirited and plotting to deny the Democrats their rightful seat in the House!

42 posted on 12/06/2002 7:06:10 AM PST by Howlin
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To: RJayneJ
I've read before that Clinton talks to Edwards all the time. Maybe he's going to be their stalking horse.
43 posted on 12/06/2002 7:07:17 AM PST by Howlin
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To: crystalk; Constitution Day; mykdsmom; ncweaver; wimpycat; jern; billbears; Vinnie; goosie; ...
Here in NC, we can't remember the last time he "visited" with us to show us his credentials.
44 posted on 12/06/2002 7:08:57 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
I think Edwards is going to run in 04 instead of Gore. Why cause he is Clinton's puppet.
45 posted on 12/06/2002 7:14:45 AM PST by KevinDavis
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To: Holden Magroin; TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!; Cobra64; crystalk
FYI...pray that these '1996 election voter frauds" be prevented.
They're Stealing the Election [LA]-Did voter fraud swing last year's [1996] closest Senate race?
Source: Reader's Digest; August 1997; Author: Trevor Armbrister

Note: Links show how the facts of the case this article describes correspond to patterns uncovered in San Francisco's stadium election investigation.

Earlier this year in an office building in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, witnesses were still talking about the 1996 election for the U.S. Senate in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Republican Louis "Woody" Jenkins.

"This nice person drove up and asked whether I was registered," one woman said to the lawyers and investigators for Jenkins. "I told him I was but I didn't feel like going. He said, 'If I paid you, would you go?' I got up and dusted off my little pants and got in the car." The woman, who neither reads nor writes, said the man took her to three polling places, where she voted and signed an "X" each time.

On Election Day, said a 32-year-old mechanic, he drove a van, "picking up people to go down there to vote at least ten times or more." For his efforts, he received $700.

One woman, who said she voted three times, groused about how much she was paid. "I was supposed to get $75 and all they gave me was $25." She said they also gave her an "ol' stanky T-shirt" with Landrieu's picture on it.

These are among the numerous allegations that constitute the core of Jenkins's challenge to a very close election; Landrieu won by only 5788 votes out of more than 1.7 million cast. Even though Jenkins cried foul as soon as the election returns were in, his charges were not taken seriously at first. He was called "a sore loser" who need to "get on with his life."

Quietly, however, he and his volunteers began gathering evidence. In more than 8000 pages of affidavits and exhibits, they claimed to have identified 7454 phantom or illegal votes. ................"


46 posted on 12/06/2002 7:17:25 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
we should offer $10 and a free crack pipe to stay home all day.
47 posted on 12/06/2002 7:22:35 AM PST by GoMonster
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To: Howlin
***plotting to deny the Democrats their rightful seat in the House!***

I plead guilty!
48 posted on 12/06/2002 7:25:48 AM PST by drstevej
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To: drstevej
Take it to the limit!
49 posted on 12/06/2002 7:38:10 AM PST by Howlin
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To: KevinDavis
I hope you're right. In all the national polls I've seen, he's below Al Sharpton.

And here in NC, he's on skaky ground. He must be under the impression that all this traveling is impressing us here. On a day when half the state is covered with ice and doesn't have power, I don't imagine his tea with Tony will make a big impression.

50 posted on 12/06/2002 7:39:42 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
I've read before that Clinton talks to Edwards all the time. Maybe he's going to be their stalking horse.

It appears to me that Clinton wants to run so bad, that he can barely contain himself. So he intends to run Edwards as a surrogate. I will be watching to see if there are similarities with his '92 campaign. I think he really wants McAuliffe job, but he fears it wouldn't appear seemly.

51 posted on 12/06/2002 8:02:09 AM PST by RJayneJ
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To: Howlin
That is why in 04 is that Edwards is going to be the "sacrificial lamb" of the Democrats. I think Clinton is doing some behind the scenes movement to get him nominated. He still controls the democrat party.
I could be wrong however.
52 posted on 12/06/2002 9:54:30 AM PST by KevinDavis
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To: KQQL; All
PLEASE ping me with results everyone I have to work.
53 posted on 12/06/2002 3:11:54 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Stand Watch Listen
B U M P

Did you see this?!

54 posted on 12/06/2002 3:25:01 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Holden Magroin; All
clinton cajun


55 posted on 12/06/2002 4:04:00 PM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T

56 posted on 12/06/2002 6:53:10 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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