Florida. The supression and intimidation of black voters continues

State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd “investigation” that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November.

How could Jeb Bush NOT be involved in this.

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Nader ballot fraud in Oregon alleged

Last night, right here at Political State Report, we broke the news of the SEIU fraud and forgery investigation into Nader’s petition for the Oregon ballot. At a press conference this morning, SEIU released more evidence. The key item: SEIU Local 49 contacted 269 people whose names were on petition sheets - and only 32% report that they actually signed the Nader petitions. The key quote, from SEIU veep Alice Dale: “This fraud is too pervasive to have been committed without at least the complicity of the signature gatherers.”

From the SEIU press announcement

Evidence of overwhelming and systemic fraud in the Ralph Nader for President petitions was released today by the Service Employees International Union. An analysis of the petition sheets and a direct survey of people whose names appear on the petition suggests at least two-thirds of all signatures turned in by the Nader campaign to date are fraudulent.

Yes, SEIU is strongly Democratic, and yes the Dems will do whatever they can to stop Nader from getting ballot status. But none of that means their allegations aren’t valid. Nader has been a bit too eager, in my view, to get on the ballot, what with his alliances with the right and sloppy, at best, voter registration methods - all of which tarnishes his role as The Mr. Clean of Politics.

And you haven’t heard a peep out of Green Party candidate David Cobb, have you? Didn’t think so… He’s just up and vanished.

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Your tax dollars at work

Attempting to destabilzing democratic elections in Venezuela

The vehicle for this meddling in Venezuela is the National Endowment for Democracy, which calls itself “a private, nonprofit organization” but is funded by U.S. taxpayers. Its self-described mission is “to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.”
In the case of Venezuela, “strengthening democratic institutions” has meant financing groups that helped carry out the failed coup attempt against Chavez in April 2002. Coup leaders representing the traditional oligarchy in Venezuela, and their supporters in the U.S. government, saw a “problem”: Chavez is genuinely interested in a fairer distribution of wealth and refuses to subordinate his country to U.S. policy. Their “solution” was a coup that lasted for 48 hours, during which an illegal decree installed a businessman as president and dissolved the National Assembly and the Supreme Court. The United States quickly backed the coup, until loyal officers and civilian groups restored Chavez to office.

Former President Jimmy Carter monitored the Venezuela election and found it clean, as did the other observers. The Venezuela right wing, and the Bushies by proxy, got their butts kicked 58%-42%.

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