Drug money funds voter fraud in Kentucky

FoxNews.com ^ | July 25, 2012 | Eric Shawn

[Hunton Peck]

Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky.

That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.

[Hunton Peck]

US Attorney Harvey was appointed by the same president Obama who appointed Eric Holder, who has been claiming that there's no evidence of significant vote faud.

Sniff, sniff.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Was there anyone who thought “The Wire” was fictional?

[blueunicorn6]

How else do you explain California? They elect every liberal on the ballot but vote down legalizing pot? The Democrat party in California is bought and paid by illegal drug dealers. And before the legalizers start jabbering, the best way to get rid of the illegal drug dealers is for the illegal drug users to grow up and stop.

[Hunton Peck]

I’m not familiar with it. Is it a movie?

[HiTech RedNeck]

sniff sniff? lol

anyhow, i bet drug money never bought votes for any republican.

[Hunton Peck]

The article goes on to describe vote fraud on behalf of both parties’ candidates (another case of bipartisanship being a Bad Thing...)

[Tex-Con-Man]

An excellent HBO series about life in liberal Baltimore. Alot of the series is centered on the drug dealing in the projects, but as the series evolves, it looks into the Democrat controlled local/state government, police, unions, schools and ends up looking at the Baltimore Sun.

There is barely a Republican in the entire series, and every aspect of life the series addresses is completely corrupt and dysfunctional.

And a driver for a congressman gets caught in a police sting picking up a bag of money from a drug dealer.

I don't think the writers intended the outcome, but it's a look into what happens when Dems run virtually everything...and it's very ugly.

[Hunton Peck]

Ah! Thanks. From HBO, eh? That’s surprising.

[GOPJ]

He says the problem is rooted in economic woes, which is why votes are routinely for sale. In that part of the state, jobs are scarce and poverty is high.

Sorry it's NOT economic woes - it's old fashioned corruption. Voter fraud's been going on big time with democrats since the 1960's... Chicago was a modern center of voter fraud.

Comments like this ('economic woe') insult the honest working poor. Folks who cheat the vote - and the people they cheat for - those on the take (welfare, disability etc) and the liberal elites who benefit from the broken are not dealing with 'economic woe'. Greed, power, laziness, yes, but NOT economic woe...

[bluecat6]

Drug money driven voter fraud in eastern Kentucky.

In other news the sun rose today....

Just watch Justified on FX. It may be a drama but it is not far off.

Kentucky is Democratic but Blue Dog Democratic. This is not about trying to turn the state to Obama in November. In rural Kentucky its probably 60 - 70 or more Democrat registration.

Economic woes??? Eastern Kentucky has never NOT had economic woes. That situation did not start in 2008.

[XHogPilot]

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[JustSayNoToNannies]

the best way to get rid of the illegal drug dealers is for the illegal drug users to grow up and stop.

That would do it - but that's beyond government's control, whereas it's completely within government's power to stop hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands, which is what drug prohibition does.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections

And drug prohibition gave them the money to do it, by hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands.

[XHogPilot]

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[lentulusgracchus]

....stop hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands, which is what drug prohibition does

So by all means, let's remove all the impediments so kids can tweak affordably every night.

Opium ruined China. How many more large-scale demonstrations do you need? Or do you just want your cheap joints?

[antisocial]

bflr

[JustSayNoToNannies]

stop hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands, which is what drug prohibition does

So by all means, let's remove all the impediments so kids can tweak affordably every night.

Since kids report that they can get marijuana more easily than beer or cigarettes, it seems the best way to keep substances out of kids' hands is to legalize them for adults, giving their sellers a disincentive to sell to kids (namely, the loss of their legal adult market).

Opium ruined China.

When opium was legal in the USA, its use never got anywhere near the levels in China - and the addiction rate was no higher than heroin addiction today:

"The peak of opiate addiction in the United States occurred about the turn of the century, when the number probably was close to 250,000 in a population of 76 million" - David F. Musto MD, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/ophs.htm

"numbers like heroin addiction. You can find numbers that go from 255,000 up to the one I'm currently using, 980,000, if I remember the last time we updated it, and those are all valid scientific studies." --Drug Czar Mcaffrey, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/symposium/panelmccaffrey.html

[bert]

wrong program

This episode of payoffs in Jackson County is certainly the result of Boyd Crowders expansion from further south in Harlen county. It has Crowder finger prints all over it.

The investigation is Justified.