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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) may be in hot water with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) after she paid herself $17,500 in campaign funds following the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report. Recent FEC filings show that the freshman Democrat lawmaker may have run afoul of campaign finance rules by making payments to herself after she ended her candidacy on Election Day. According to FEC rules, a general election candidate can take a salary from his or campaign funds until the date of the election. “If the candidate loses the primary, withdraws from the race, or otherwise ceases to be...

Democrat Andrew Gillum officially conceded to Republican former Rep. Ron DeSantis in Florida’s gubernatorial race as a recount of votes showed a margin Gillum was unlikely to close.

Since November, the media have carried around Rep. John Murtha around on their shoulders like a conquering hero for his opposition to the war in Iraq. They’ve thrown around the words “war hero” like clowns throwing candy at a parade. Murtha was broadcast far and wide attacking Vice President Cheney for his five deferments from Vietnam, suggesting these chicken hawks don’t like any suggestions about how to fight a war. If Murtha were a Republican accusing a Democrat like this, we know what would happen. The so-called nonpartisan, objective, “mainstream” media would either (a) totally ignore him as an irrelevant,...

Today, the Public Disclosure Commission issued the following press release: June 10, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lori Anderson (360) 664-2737 Toll free 1-877-601-2828 WASHINGTON STATE DEMOCRATS AGREE TO RECORD FINE FOR CAMPAIGN VIOLATIONS Olympia – The Public Disclosure Commission yesterday accepted two stipulated agreements from the Washington State Democrat Party who agreed to pay $187,500 in civil penalties for campaign finance violations. The WSDCC agreed to pay $85,000 for failure to timely disclose the source of $394,544 worth of contributions and for failure to disclose $704,815 in debts and obligations during the 2004 election. In a separate agreement, a...

ITHACA NY--Tim Lim '06, the vice president of the Student Assembly, stepped down from his post as president of the Cornell Democrats last night amid allegations of voting improprieties in last year's student government elections and other alleged breaches of ethical conduct. Two other executive members also resigned last night. They were Nina Fixell '07, the group's director of public relations, and Heather Grantham '06, director of community relations. Grantham is a Sun columnist. [Victoria Lauterbach], the group's executive of fundraising, said Lim forced his fraternity's pledges to go around collecting netIDs and PINs, which were then allegedly used to...

It doesn't take psychoanalysis to figure out what Dan Rather's motivations were; the legal system has a process for recognizing bias.THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL which investigated CBS News's faked memos found no basis to accuse Dan Rather or Mary Mapes of political bias in connection with their roles in the offending 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service. In its report the Panel characterized the very question of whether a political agenda could play a role as "subjective" and "difficult." And panelist Louis Boccardi later explained that "bias is a hard thing to prove." Yet questions about motivation...

MIDI - SEATTLE An awful stench is in the air in Seattle Gregoire stole an office there in Seattle Once the fraud would begin, they'd recount till they win Though a voter may be dead, we get his vote the RATS said That is how they're being led in Seattle...in Seattle Extra votes kept being found in Seattle Like Cook County they think they are standing tall Christine had done what she must...come on, Feds, how 'bout a bust They did it in broad daylight, after all An awful stench is in the air in Seattle Gregoire stole an...

Dear Friend, Last Thursday the Secretary of State certified Chris Gregoire governor-elect. We have just finished the longest, most scrutinized election in Washington State history. Ballots have been checked, double-checked, and triple-checked. Democrats and Republicans from across the state have joined together to make this the most accurate election in state history. But, instead of taking Chris Gregoire's call for unity to move our state forward, Dino Rossi and the Republican Party have gone off on a bitter battle to tear down this election. They are trashing the Republican Secretary of State, they are trashing county auditors across the state,...

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All Washington state wants for Christmas is a new governor.Just when it seems as if Indecision 2004 could not get more serpentine, surreal or saddled with conspiracy theories, some monstrosity, like a fanged beast from an old black-and-white movie, jumps out. The latest twist involves bloodsuckers with briefcases: lawyers. Attorneys and political consultants are now scrambling after the results of a second recount yesterday gave Democrat Christine Gregoire a 130-vote edge. That margin appears to give her a decisive victory over Republican Dino Rossi in the closest and most bizarre governor's race in American history.Legal shrieks and cries of electoral...

Gregoire(D) 1,373,051 +609 Rossi(R) 1,373,041 +557 Results not final ******** Don’t call her Gov. Gregoire – yet Final recount puts Democrat ahead by 130, but Rossi and GOP plan to appeal outcome KENNETH P. VOGEL; The News Tribune Last updated: December 24th, 2004 02:40 AM Democrat Christine Gregoire sealed an extraordinary come-from-behind 130-vote victory in the third and final count in the governor’s race Thursday. But Republican Dino Rossi, winner of the first two counts, refused to concede. His supporters expressed outrage over the results and laid the groundwork to challenge them. Washington’s first statewide hand recount concluded Thursday when...

With all the votes tallied after a recount in the roller coaster race for governor, Christine O. Gregoire, the Democrat who trailed in the campaign and in a previous recount, won by 130 votes as battered Republicans demanded more vote counting and vowed to use every legal weapon to reverse the extraordinary turnaround. The Republican candidate, Dino Rossi, 45, won the Nov. 2 election in the initial count by 261 votes and a machine recount by 42 votes. But a statewide hand recount completed Thursday gave Ms. Gregoire, 57, a microscopic but notable lead out of the 2.9 million votes...

Are numerous other counties counting previously rejected ballots? No. Case made by Secretary of State and Democrats is wrong Seattle, WA – Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed and Democratic leadership have proclaimed that King County is not alone in counting numerous ballots that were previously rejected by county canvassing boards. However the claims are untrue. In Chelan and Thurston counties, each reconsidered one previously rejected ballot. “Two counties, two ballots,” said Washington State Republican Party Chair Chris Vance. “That’s it.” While King County is revisiting hundreds upon hundreds of ballots that were previously rejected – not once but twice...

Just announced. Christine Gregoire has picked up enough votes to win the gubernatorial race by 10 votes. The disputed 723 ballots, now freed by a state supreme court decision, will be counted by the King County Canvassing Board tomorrow. The race will be officially certified tomorrow.

The following documents will form the vasis for the filing of a petition to recall Christine Gregoire should she steal the election for governor for the state of Washington. Many people at Free republic have been aware of my fight against corruptyion with the government and courts of the state of Washington, including racketeering by Gov. Locke, AG Gregoire and even the Chief Justice of the state supreme court. Unfortunately the FBI and US Attorney, even though they have admitted to me in telephone conversations that the Chief Justice of the Washington state supreme court has been obstructing justice in...

Republicans announced plans Thursday morning to sue King County over 573 newly discovered ballots that could change the outcome of the closest governor's race in Washington state history. The county's Canvassing Board voted Wednesday to prepare the 573 absentee ballots for inclusion in the hand recount, over the objections of Republicans who urged the county to investigate the ballots first. State GOP Chairman Chris Vance said Thursday the party would seek a court order Thursday afternoon in Pierce County, aimed at slowing down the processing of the previously rejected ballots to allow them to be better tracked and verified. Specifically,...

Attended a Lawyers for Bush meeting today. All Pennsylvania Freepers, deliver the Republican vote and we will stop the RAT fraud vote in Philly. The race is a dead heat and the amount of contacts (Door knocking and phone calls) is phenominal. I would say what they were but I wouldn't want any trolls to get a heart attack. All I'll say is it will be more than 20 as many conacts as in 2000. Also, if you live near Blue Bell and have time tommorrow, BC04 needs people to knock on doors (and people to drve the knockers around)and...