The voting controversy [see Shuler's Bob Riley and the Mysterious Votes] and the apparent election-funding scandal are not connected. But when you put them together, they paint a pretty grim picture of what happened to the Siegelman campaign in 2002.
It appears that illegal campaign funds helped Riley make it a close election, and then something funny happened overnight on election night to change numbers and give Riley the victory. When you consider that Don Siegelman then wound up in prison on a bogus federal prosecution, you begin to see what an enormous injustice this is--not only to Siegelman personally, but to all Alabamians. After all, evidence is mounting that we've been under the leadership of an illegitimate governor for almost eight full years now. Sounds an awful lot like what happened on the national stage with the Bush-Gore election in 2000--the main difference being that Gore, thankfully, was never prosecuted for federal "crimes."
And it's ironic that Siegelman was one of the first (maybe the first) governor to support Al Gore's presidential campaign. In fact, Siegelman has said publicly a number of times that he thinks that's one of the reasons he was targeted by Karl Rove.
If
this doesn't sit well with you, speak out. As Gov. Siegelman rightly
points out, selective prosecution can happen to anyone. Next time it
could be you.
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This is the fax that I recently sent to the White House about their failure to replace US Attorney Leura Canary. The conflicts of interest and prosecutorial misconduct by her and her staff are well-known. A Republican paralegal* working on the case against Gov. Siegelman blew the whistle on Canary and company. If anyone wants to use it as a template or the inspiration to send their own message, I would be most pleased. It's hardly a masterpiece but Gov. Siegelman liked it and it does get the message across. Don't shy away from respectfully expressing strong emotion.
Fax: 202-456-2416
To: President Barak Obama
From: Joan Brunwasser, Election Integrity Editor, OpEdNews
Date: October 29, 2009
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