Hmm? It says the feedback form is no good too when I click "Feedback" .....:^(
Are they gonna get away with this BS ?!?!?! Again!? Wasn't there BIG vote fraud 4 years ago in SD?
What a crock!!
Posted on 10/30/2004 7:30:18 AM PDT by sdpatriot
------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted on Fri, Oct. 29, 2004
Oglala order could prevent GOP poll watching on Pine Ridge CARSON WALKER Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time.
In the document, Four Directions accuses Knutson of intimidating its workers on Wednesday at Pine Ridge by videotaping them on private property as they discussed the voting process.
It does not accuse him of intimidating voters going to the polls early.
Four Directions Executive Director Bret Healy said Friday evening the intent is to stop intimidation of tribal members.
"It's a two-by-four upside the head to get the attention of the folks that are causing problems," he said. "We want an election that doesn't have this kind of nonsense going on."
Attorney General Larry Long got a copy of the order late Friday afternoon and said he is not sure whether the tribal judge's order can be enforced and how many Republicans it applies to.
"Anyone who's subject to the order, presumably if they go within 100 yards of a polling place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, they'll be arrested and thrown in jail," he said after reading the order.
"I don't think you can read the order and reach either conclusion" about whether it merely applies to Knutson or all Republican employees and volunteers, Long said.
This weekend, Long plans to try to figure out if the state should file a legal response.
Healy said the order does not preclude Republicans from being at the polls.
"I guess it's only employees of the South Dakota Republican Party. That wouldn't affect volunteer poll watchers," he said.
But Long and Jason Glodt, executive director of the Republican Party, said the way the order is written, it could be applied broadly.
"It limits it to (Sen. Tom) Daschle and Democrat lawyers," Glodt said. "This is a page right out of the DNC (Democratic National Committee) playbook - their pre-emptive strike game plan that their poll watchers are supposed to claim intimidation, even if there's no proof of intimidation."
Glodt said Knutson hasn't worked for the party since early September but acknowledged that someone else was videotaping people in Pine Ridge in response to reports of voter problems.
"They were simply observing problems that were reported. They were not in or anywhere near a polling place," he said. "Our point is what are the Democrats trying to hide? Why don't they want Republican poll watchers in Pine Ridge?"
Healy said if Republicans had heard of voter problems, they should have told the auditor.
"What reports of irregularities?" Healy said. "They ought to report that to the appropriate authorities instead of going out there in vigilante style."
Glodt said the party had not yet decided how to respond.
The incident listed in the court order happened around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Robert Vander-Linden and other committee workers were gathered south of Pine Ridge on the property of PTI, a propane business, as drivers arrived with voter lists. They "were discussing voter turnout issues when a commotion occurred on the described private lands. The Four Directions Committee members turned to see Ryan Knutson videotaping the petitioners," the order states.
When asked what he was doing, Knutson said he was "just doing my job." He drove to a different area of the property but eventually left toward White Clay, Neb.
Vander-Linden and the owners of PTI "were upset by Mr. Knutson's conduct," the document states.
Knutson, "by trespassing on private property, ignoring directives to vacate said property, and videotaping attempts to get out the Indian vote are clearly attempting to chill the Indian vote," it states.
Shannon and Jackson counties comprise the reservation, which has 16,000 residents.
Both major political parties and some campaigns have actively courted Indian voters this year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © 2004 AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.aberdeennews.com
South Dakota: Larry Long (R) (605) 773-3215 500 E. Capitol, Pierre, SD 57501-5070 http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/
please ping you're lists..
Mr. RR will be at the Rapid City Republican headquarters all day today. There will be a whole bunch of calls made to whoever will listen regarding this sham. South Dakota law requires a Republican and a Democrat to always be with the ballots. Does State law apply to the Rez in this case? I would think so, since it is a Federal election. But, I dunno.
BTTT!
Urgent action ping.
thanks so much Liz and RR.. this is so urgent.
URGENT.
SOUTH DAKOTA USAG FEEDBACK FORM IS AT:
http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/contact#
(ignore the message that the site is closed down---the feedback form is OK)
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON DASCHLE.
letters@aberdeennews.com
In Re: Aberdeen News, Oct. 30, 2004 "Daschle resident status explored" By Ian H. Fennell, American News Writer. Aberdeen
News tells the sorry tale of Sen Daschle's Kafkaesque metamorphosis from a down-home South Dakotan to an ultra-liberal lord of a $1.9 million Washington mansion who does not even pay his fair share of property taxes.
News reports say that the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) is investigating hether Sen Daschle is actually entitled to a property tax exemption he claimed on the $1.9 million Washington mansion he and his wife purchased in 2003, and that Sen Daschle declared on official documents filed with OTR that the District mansion was his "principal place of residence."
At issue is the homestead exemption, a property tax credit limited to owner-occupants who declare their homes to be their "primary residence." The affidavit filed with OTR that bears the senator's signature makes that claim.
A flurry of activity began on September 29, 2004 when Talon News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the executed Application. That same day, Carl Piggott, an OTR auditor rescinded the homestead exemption---possibly at Sen Daschle's direction. The following day, the OTR legal staff reinstated the credit.
A second news source reported that OTR faxed a letter to Daschle's Washington office asking that a new application be executed. The details of the activities that ensued beginning September 29 have not yet been revealed, but Doug Schauss, a spokesman for the OTR told news organs that the matter was "under review with the legal staff" and that a "resolution was expected soon."
These puzzling circumstances suggest Sen Daschle has something to hide. First Sen Daschle claims he did, and then he says he didn’t, apply for a tax exemption.
He can't have it both ways.
South Dakotans should ask themselves, "If Sen Daschle lied to you about this issue, what else has he lied to you about? "
The noble Red Man, is getting a yellow stripe down his back.
What is noble about cheating in an election? why are they trying to hide the Indian vote?
shame on the American Indian for allowing their Leaders to
block a fair election.
Bump. My inlaws live in Watertown. IMHO this is how Daschle kept his seat in the last election!@ Big time, big time voter fraud.
Unfortunately it didn't 'hit the press' until months after the election, and like many stories was soon forgotten.
Hmm? It says the feedback form is no good too when I click "Feedback" .....:^(
Are they gonna get away with this BS ?!?!?! Again!? Wasn't there BIG vote fraud 4 years ago in SD?
What a crock!!
Is it possible for FReepers to go there as poll watchers?
Tom can't steal SD again!!!!!!!!
South Dakota: Larry Long (R) (605) 773-3215 500 E. Capitol, Pierre, SD 57501-5070 http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/
Oh, the feedback form did work. Thanks. :^DI sent the AG my note:
From this article:
Oglala order could prevent GOP poll watching on Pine Ridge
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10051938.htmIt appears to me that Democrats are gearing up for massive voter fraud.
PLEASE do whatever possible to allow poll watchers at these polling locations.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Calls needed in Thune v Daschle campaign! urgent!
(Voter Fraud)
We need you FReepers to call S.D. Attorney General Larry Long's office and request the state take action against this judgment.
South Dakota: Larry Long (R) (605) 773-3215 500 E. Capitol, Pierre, SD 57501-5070
http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/OR .....
URGENT.
SOUTH DAKOTA USAG FEEDBACK FORM IS AT:
http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/contact#
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Nice job. Thanks for the input.
BUMP
Thanks. I also saw an email link on the site.
I doubled-down and sent them an email as well.
I left my message. I was pleased wih myself - I ended up being quite succinct and well-spoken - something I can't always be when speaking off the cuff (I suffer from the same thing Bush suffers when speaking sometimes!).
Hold on, newbie. Are you trying to get Native Americans upset with Republicans? I'd tread carefully here.
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