Archive for August 13th, 2008

From Election Journal:

Add the Nutmeg state to the list of those dealing with fraudulent ACORN voter registrations by the truckload. We spoke with Joseph Borges, registrar of voters in Bridgeport, the state’s largest City. Bridgeport is also the major population center of the fourth congressional district, home to one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional races where incumbent Congressman Chris Shays is facing off against yesterdays primary winner Jim Himes

Joe informs us that of the more than 5,000 registrations submitted by ACORN staff this summer, more than 20% have been fraudulent or duplicate. The Registrar’s office has not had time to fully investigate, however, has been contacted by voters who have denied filling out the card (read: forged). This model seems consistent with what we’ve seen in other states including New Mexico, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania…..

Joe also told us about an ACORN emplyee who was pretending to solicit job applications on behalf for election day poll workers on behalf of the Registrar’s office.  Once the employee had captured personal information (drivers licence number, social, DOB) they would then fill out and submit a registration card in the persons name.  Scores high for fraud creativity.

Interesting because in this “subprime mortgage mess” that we’re in, ACORN is treated like a savior among those who are trying to get mortgages they cannot afford. I wonder if there’s voter registration or absentee balloting done during those “mortgage education” sessions? Even more interesting is the financial institution who makes referrals to ACORN - Bank of America. Is ACORN shaking down banks to make loans to those who go through their programs, which could include “voter education”?

Very Interesting indeed….

Hmmm, who could have said that? Pat Robertson, James Dobson, some other leader within the evangelical movement that liberals love to criticize?

GG: Do you believe in sin?

OBAMA: Yes.

GG: What is sin?

OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.

That’s what Barack Obama told Cathleen Falsani (aka God Girl) in a 2004 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times columnist shortly after he won the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. I believe Jonah Goldberg put it best in his USA Today opinion column exploring Obama’s postmodern tendencies:

Statements such as this have caused many people to wonder whether Obama has a God complex or is hopelessly arrogant. For the record, sin isn’t being out of alignment with your own values (if it were, Hannibal Lecter wouldn’t be a sinner because his values hold that it’s OK to eat people) nor is it being out of alignment with Obama’s — unless he really is our Savior.

Click the link to read the rest of Jonah Goldberg’s great column.

(H/T - The Quick and the Dead)

Your humble correspondents from Hoosier Access are not able to attends drubbing, I mean, debate between LG Becky Skillman and Dennie Ray II at the State Fair Grounds, but friends of the site, Kurt and Kristen Luidhardt are there and following the action.  Make sure to check out their live blog and twitter feeds.

(why do I get the feeling this debate will resemble the debate bewteen Dick Cheney and John Edwards?)

Debate coverage via Twitter

Debate coverage via live blog

A new poll by Harris Interactive:

A new survey finds that 64% of Hoosiers support increased access to domestic oil and natural gas resources.

It seems that the rest of the country shares the same view. Polls from Pew, CNN, Zogby and others indicate that the majority of Americans from coast to coast are in support of more energy exploration in the United States.

This is a critical shift in public opinion, and one that our leaders in Washington need to recognize. According to federal government data, the United States has enough oil to fuel more than 65 million cars for 60 years and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. But current policies restrict access to 85% of the outer continental shelf and 83% of onshore federal lands.

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Critics of my letter to the editor on Monday argue that the Induced Birth Infant Liability Act, which Barack Obama voted against while he was a state representative in Illinois, would not have actually forbidden killing babies that survive abortions and are born alive. That is an interesting defense of Obama’s position, because Barack Obama himself disagrees with it. Speaking against the IBILA, Obama said:

Number one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided a — a child, a nine month old — child that was delivered to term. That determination, then, essentially if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean it, — it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.

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