http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/feclaws/ en-us Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:59:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264636/posts A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority. After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results. According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county... Redstate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264636/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:59:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253957/posts New York (AP) -- Longtime fundraiser Norman Hsu was convicted Tuesday of violating campaign finance laws in a case that became an embarrassment to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats. Prosecutors had argued that Hsu, 58, used straw donors to make thousands of dollars in campaign donations to bypass rules limiting the amount any single individual or group can donate. Hsu's defense argued he was framed by investors who cut deals with the government to avoid prosecution. AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253957/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 15:37:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224855/posts Planned Parenthood receives Title X funds from the Federal Government. Planned Parenthood also receives money from other Federal/State and Local Governments. It is reported that Obama's Headquarters in South Bend, Indiana was the Planned Parenthood Clinic. According to the report, the clinic boasted Obama signs as well as a PHONE BANK for making calls for Obama. Yet our Department of Justice went after Senator Ted Stevens during the election. Why is this not considered a serious violation of law and why is there no criminal prosecutions? South Bend, Indiana, is also the home to Notre Dame University... Finally, I would... Post from Fellow Freeper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224855/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204906/posts ""Wikileaks" explained in an earlier email that it was making public the information on Coleman's donors, including their credit card numbers, because of the "Coleman campaign's effort to impugn the election processes in the State of Minnesota." As a result of Wikileak's mass email of a spread sheet containing credit card information for thousands of Coleman donors, the Coleman campaign sent an email to its supporters today suggesting that they cancel their credit cards." Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204906/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175023/posts President-elect Barack Obama brought in nearly $750 million for his presidential campaign, a record amount that exceeds what all of the candidates combined collected in private donations in the previous race for the White House, according to a report filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. Underscoring the success of his fund-raising, Obama reported that he had nearly $30 million in the bank as of Nov. 24, despite spending furiously at the end of his campaign. Int'l Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175023/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2152681/posts We've seen it over and over, people in Europe who imagine that they should be allowed to vote U.S. presidential elections. Some of these people imagine that they should have a voice in our elections because, they say, America is so supremely powerful that the man who becomes our president makes decisions that will impact the entire world. Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2152681/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:22:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130847/posts An Augsburg College student and Sarah Palin supporter from Alaska was beaten on election night while walking to her dorm and was called a racist by a group of four young women because she had on a McCain/Palin presidential campaign button, authorities and the victim said. Annie Grossmann, a freshman on the Minneapolis college's hockey team, suffered blurred vision and is thought to have had a concussion from a punch in the eye, but declined medical attention, she said MPLS star and sickle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130847/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124867/posts At least one broadcast network and one Web site said Monday that they could foresee signaling to viewers early Tuesday evening which candidate appeared to have won the presidency, despite the unreliability of some early exit polls in the last presidential election. A senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman, said the prospects for Barack Obama or John McCain meeting the minimum threshold of electoral votes could be clear as soon as 8 p.m. — before polls in even New York and Rhode Island close, let alone those in Texas and California. At such a moment, determined from a... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124867/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:52:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124759/posts On Fox News now: Republicans: 2 Black Panthers with night sticks blocked polling place in Philly. Police were called.... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124759/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124756/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124756/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:08:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110447/posts I put up my McCain/Palin sign last Tuesday. Friday night, it was gone, replaced with an orange cone. I put out my spare McCain Palin sign, reserved for my parents, SAT morning.....gone between 1AM/6AM. Sunday night...same thing...same timeframe. Any suggestions? I put out my last sign...I am thinking of getting some constertina wire and putting it around my last McCain Palin sign with an additional hand-made sign stating " I have to take these measures due to intolerant liberals stealing my 1st Amendment rights". Anyways, I'm in Little Rock, AR. Anyone else seeing these events? Been at the same house... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110447/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088498/posts He has defeated Hillary Clinton, made history by becoming the first black man with a serious shot at the American presidency, and now Barack Obama could be set to top the music charts. After a raft of heavyweight musicians, from crooner John Mayer to rapper Kayne West, spontaneously pledged their support for him through songs, the Democratic presidential nominee has released an official campaign album. Soul label Hidden Beach Recordings, which counts Grammy winner Jill Scott among its signings, has unveiled Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement and will donate the profits to Obama’s campaign. The label’s generosity,... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088498/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:56:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085309/posts Mordecai Specktor says his 19-year-old son, Max, "has never been in a fight" and is "not a violent person." "He's an anarchist," said Specktor, the publisher and editor of Minnesota's Jewish newspaper, the American Jewish World. He's also "a University of Minnesota student, Jewishly educated." His son, he said, is "a wonderful guy." Max Specktor is also now branded a terrorist after his arrest earlier this month, along with seven others, on charges of planning to disrupt the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. He's been charged with conspiring to riot "in furtherance of terrorism" and could face up to... Jewish Exponent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085309/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079682/posts Seven out of 10 voters (69%) remain convinced that reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and this year by a nearly five-to-one margin voters believe they are trying to help Barack Obama. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of voters think most reporters are trying to help Obama win versus 11% who believe they are trying to help his Republican opponent John McCain. Twenty-six percent (26%) say reporters offer unbiased coverage (demographic crosstabs available for Premium Members). Just last week a Rasmussen Reports survey found that 51% of voters believed reporters... Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079682/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:52:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073956/posts A year ago, the Ramsey County sheriff's office began looking closely at a group called the Republican National Convention Welcoming Committee. What it found, according to an 18-page search warrant application and affidavit, led to weekend raids on two Minneapolis homes and a temporary St. Paul office for the self-described anarchist group. According to the document, investigation learned: The self-described anarchist group — whose main goal was to "crash" the Republican National Convention," according to its Web site — traveled to or communicated with affinity groups in 67 cities to recruit members and raise money. Group members discussed the possibility... St Paul http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073956/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:22:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073935/posts A 23-year-old Michigan man faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally possessing bombs, which he allegedly intended to use to destroy the Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention. Matthew Bradley DePalma, of Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession of firearms. According to his criminal complaint, DePalma had several Molotov cocktails in his possession a week before the start of the RNC. DePalma had been under investigation by federal investigators after he attended a protester conference in Wisconsin in July. Officials said DePalma went to the Hennepin County Library on Aug. 18... KSTP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073935/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:54:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073841/posts The Pioneer Press reports that the Ramsey County, Minnesota, Sheriff's office investigated an anarchist group that was considering kidnapping delegates to the Republican Party's convention in St. Paul. The would-be terrorists, who called themselves the "Republican National Convention Welcoming Committee," planned to shut down the convention. The group bears a striking resemblance to the Weathermen, a violent terrorist group founded by Barack Obama's unrepentant terrorist associate William Ayers. According to the news report: # The self-described anarchist group - whose main goal was to "crash" the Republican National Convention," according to its Web site - traveled to or communicated with... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073841/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:02:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067913/posts The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee in waiting Barack Obama is threatening TV stations that dare to run a controversial ad that questions Obama's friendship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.Politico quotes an Obama aide as saying this afternoon, "The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers."Politico has posted copies of letters the Obama campaign has sent to station managers and a letter the campaign has sent to the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the group that is... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067913/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065740/posts “Voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and supporters.” It is obvious that Hillary Clinton endorsed Obama only because she would probably have been excommunicated from the Democratic Party for failure to do so. The truth is that her campaign accused, and credibly so, the Obama campaign of serious misconduct during the Nevada Caucuses. This misconduct included intimidation of voters and what sounds a lot like Chicago-style machine politics at their worst. We encourage our readers to circulate the following PDF file, and/or the optical character transcription of it, as widely as possible... The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065740/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:05:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041980/posts Friend -- I wanted you to be the first to hear the news. At the Democratic National Convention next month, we're going to kick off the general election with an event that opens up the political process the same way we've opened it up throughout this campaign. Barack has made it clear that this is your convention, not his. On Thursday, August 28th, he's scheduled to formally accept the Democratic nomination in a speech at the convention hall in front of the assembled delegates. Instead, Barack will leave the convention hall and join more than 75,000 people for a huge,... Obamanation Headquarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041980/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013824/posts He is Steve Ybarra. He's a superdelegate in California and he, now, says he's willing to take either Clinton or Obama's side but for a big price. -snip For the last eight years, I've been trying to get the Democratic Party to pay attention to the needs of voter registration and education and get out the vote to the Mexican-American community. And guess what? We managed to lose two elections because of it. So, we're coming up on an election where the Mexican-American voter will be the person who makes the decision in this upcoming election. HEMMER: How did you... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013824/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 00:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013238/posts DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13) ― In this tight battle for the Democratic nomination we've heard a lot about the candidates courting superdelegates. But, one superdelegate is courting the candidates. He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million. Steven Ybarra of Sacramento says that eight-figure price is peanuts for the presidency. http://cbs13.com/local/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013238/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 21:14:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891232/posts Bill O’Reilly blasts DailyKos as a “hate site,” but according to a federal ruling released Tuesday, the popular liberal blog is as much a part of the media as Fox News when it comes to campaign finance rules. The Federal Election Commission unanimously dismissed a complaint filed against DailyKos by a right-wing blogger who had argued it was illegally acting as a political committee by giving support and free advertising to Democratic candidates. Adam Bonin, the lawyer who represented DailyKos, called the ruling “a big victory, but everything about the rulemaking and the precedent strongly suggested that there was no... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891232/posts#comment Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:51:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848178/posts NBC Universal will devote a whopping 75 hours of air time to showing Al Gore’s "Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.” And if Gore decides to run for president in 2008, the event would be "one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign,” according to The Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org, a Web site dedicated to combating liberal media bias. In addition to devoting all of NBC-TV’s Saturday, July 7 prime time to the concerts, CNBC will carry seven hours of coverage from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. EDT, Bravo will... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848178/posts#comment Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845459/posts In what will surely be one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign if Al Gore decides to run, NBC Universal announced late last week that its networks will devote an incredible 75 hours of time on Saturday, July 7 to showing Gore's “Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.” In addition to the entirety of NBC's prime time that night hosted by Ann Curry of NBC News, CNBC will carry seven hours of coverage from 7pm to 2am EDT; Bravo will show the concerts around the world for 18 hours... news busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845459/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:02:46 GMT