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Republican candidate for Governor reacted by saying she is going to continue her fight for election integrity and preparing people that they will be shocked at what she has discovered. One independent journalist, who was live on the scene for the past month, wrote about his reflections as well, after seeing what he called a “rigged and conflict-ridden” process. “Today, Maricopa County certified its rotten election, despite hours of witness testimony of wrongdoing and an extremely flawed election in the public comment portion of their meeting, “Jordan Conradson reported for Gateway Pundit, adding the points of conflict as he sees...

Democratic nominee Joe Biden said the only way he could lose the 2020 election was through “chicanery,” before later adding he would accept the results of the election. “Make sure to vote,” the former vice president told voters at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, “Because the only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on relative to polling places.” Biden said that President Trump was trying to discourage voting by casting doubt on mail-in ballot security and telling supporters to “go to polls and watch very carefully” on Election Day.

Cook County GOP Chairman Sean Morrison is attempting a first time ever-seen tactic to overrule or undermine all of the Republican Township Committees that chose to endorse counter to his primary picks with a sample ballot that hit mailboxes Friday. In the mailing, Morrison writes in a small box a comment that leads unknowing Republicans to believe that any other ballots - possibly including local township organization ballots - are illegal. Wheeling Township GOP Committeeman Ruth O'Connell told Illinois Review, "This mailing undermines the work we've been doing in Wheeling Township and my authority as a committeeman. We endorsed Jeanne...

GREENVILLE, S.C. -U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) released a statement Tuesday in which he accused Ted Cruz of "outright lies, questionable tactics" and a Facebook page that falsely said Gowdy no longer supports Marco Rubio.

The Obama presidential campaign is launching an effort to collect Republican email addresses by inviting its supporters to submit information about their Republican associates to the Obama 2012 website. The effort could help the Obama campaign build a database that would enable it to target Republican voters during the general election campaign. But, more perniciously, it could also become part of an Democratic effort to influence Republican primary voters to select a candidate Democrats think Obama could most easily defeat. The Democratic National Committee last month released a video that seemed designed to damage Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate feared...

Timothy F. Geithner has been misidentified as a former Wall Street insider from Goldman Sachs so many times since he became the Treasury secretary that he and his advisers had taken to joking about it. Then the joke backfired. Earlier this month, Mr. Geithner had breakfast in Manhattan with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Robert Steel, a deputy mayor and former Treasury official in the Bush administration who had previously worked at Goldman. Facetiously, a Geithner aide said Mr. Steel and Mr. Geithner knew each other from the investment bank. Later that day at a public event, the mayor in...

For many years the title of "Greatest Show on Earth" belonged to Ringling Brothers and its travelling circus. I had the pleasure of seeing the extravaganza for the first time about a year ago and was amazed at the talent of the performers, their skills, and the hours and hours of practice time that went into making everyone sit on the edge of their seats for the better part of two and a half hours. Unfortunately, they’re losing their title. Another circus has come to town which causes us all to be on the edge of our seats, displays little...

Yes, words matter. Even adding one wrong word could cost taxpayers trillions. That is exactly what is being proposed. Currently, publicly funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid only pay for medically necessary health care. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, publicly said President Obama's proposed health care plan will pay for "any service deemed medically necessary or medically appropriate." What a difference the word "or" makes.... Dropping "medically necessary" as a minimum requirement would be disastrous and bankrupt our health care system. ...Think this is fantasy? In December 2000, "HCA The Healthcare Company," a for-profit hospital chain, paid the...

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Hillary campaigns on first-name basis From first lady to senator to presidential candidate, Hillary is now using a one-name brand. Sheldon Alberts, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Thursday, March 01, 2007 In the beginning, she was just Hillary Rodham of Arkansas. In the White House, she became Hillary Rodham Clinton. Then, it was Hillary Clinton and, lately, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. But just when it seemed her political identity crisis was finally over, Mrs. Clinton has turned the tables on American voters once again. As she seeks to become the country's first female president, the senator wants to be known...

Budget analysts changed employee time cards to allow the San Diego City Attorney's Office to funnel extra money from lucrative special city accounts, according to results of an internal investigation released yesterday. City Attorney Michael Aguirre said the improper accounting, which took place from 1997 to 2004, included time cards being altered to reflect work for the wrong department, and part-time work billed as full-time. Questionable billing of other city departments continued in his office through this week, Aguirre acknowledged, even though he said he put new policies in place to stop the activities within a month after he took...

MEXICO CITY - Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged his supporters to take to the streets Saturday, claiming the governing party stole its victory in a close election that he said was more fraudulent than those held during 71 years of one-party rule. The protests could mark a turning point in what has so far been a peaceful campaign to succeed Vicente Fox. In a meeting with foreign correspondents, Lopez Obrador said there were more irregularities in Sunday's balloting than in elections under the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, which ruled Mexico until it was ousted by Fox...

It may not be on a scale of Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez's bid to pack the Coastal Commission with his cronies is very troubling all the same. As speaker, Núñez, D-Los Angeles, gets to make four appointments to the 12-member panel. Under state law, if an appointee is unable to attend a Coastal Commission meeting, he may send a designated alternate in his place. Núñez, however, is attempting to dictate who the four alternates will be – a clear usurpation of each commissioner's legal authority. What's more, the timing of...

Police target rogue lawyers after bid to murder Law Society official The Scotsman news.scotsman.com Thu 26 Jan 2006 MICHAEL HOWIE POLICE investigating the attempted murder of a senior legal official have drawn up a list of aggrieved clients and rogue lawyers amid a growing belief that his work holds the key to the vicious knife attack. Leslie Cumming, 53, the chief accountant with the Law Society of Scotland, was repeatedly stabbed outside his Edinburgh home at around 5pm on Monday. The assailant, who was wearing a black balaclava, pounced on Mr Cumming as he locked his garage door in...

Can we see the problem here? While our congressmen are trying to convince their peers that Louisiana government officials are honest enough and skilled enough to handle billions of dollars of hurricane aid money for New Orleans and elsewhere, the congressman who represents the Crescent City is trying to explain away a bundle of cash investigators found in his freezer. At the same time, a huge fight is erupting in Baton Rouge among politicians over who will get to touch the federal money as it passes into the state. The cynical reading of that scenario is, of course, that money...

The seven Michelin teams have agreed that they will only race in the USGP if a chicane is fitted before the banked Turn 13 overnight. The teams have written a letter to the FIA explaining their position and requesting the construction of a chicane. However that is extremely unlikely to happen, which means that we could see a race take place with just the six Bridgestone cars in it, if the Michelin teams stick to their agreement. The news emerged after most of the world’s media had headed off to dine in downtown Indy, which means that Speedtv.com was left...

LeBoutillier says the book will reveal Hillary's struggle with New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to get his seat. Though a Democrat, Moynihan had little use for Hillary. LeBoutillier writes: "Seven years later - after her husband's impeachment - Hillary Clinton decided to run for Pat Moynihan's Senate seat from New York. First Lady Hillary Clinton came to ask for Senator and Mrs. Moynihan's blessing and endorsement, visiting the Senator in his Washington D.C. living room - this time at the Watergate hotel and apartment complex. "Pat Moynihan was recuperating from recent back surgery and hadn't been up to the...

<p>BOSTON -- Tyco International Ltd., acknowledging a raft of new accounting problems, took big charges to clean up its books and reported a $468 million loss for its fiscal second quarter.</p> <p>Some investors said the latest accounting problems, the fourth announced by Tyco since October, further eroded the credibility of the giant conglomerate's new management team. But others were cheered by the quarter's strong cash flow, and were optimistic that Tyco may have finally put most of the bookkeeping issues behind it.</p>

As the last day of early voting wound down Friday, a federal judge ruled that the two-sheet ballot Bexar County has been using for two weeks violates state and federal laws. U.S. District Judge Edward C. Prado wrote that the ballot, which requires voters who want to vote a straight ticket to mark both sheets, "is a change affecting voting and is ineffective without preclearance from the Department of Justice under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act." The League of United Latin American Citizens, which filed the lawsuit protesting the two-sheet ballot, and the Democratic Party of Texas, which...