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- Republicans
As Election Thieves
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- by
Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence
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- OpEdNews.Com
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- The
Republican Party under the leadership of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney,
Tom Delay and their allies seem to have adopted a power at any price
mentality. Rigging the rules of American politics has never been
exercised as widely and blatantly in our history.
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- John
Ashcroft promised to be the people’s lawyer during his appointment
hearings. He stated that he would represent all the American people
and not just his Right Wing Republican backers. Under Ashcroft, no
investigations or prosecutions for denying voting rights in
Florida
during the 2000 Presidential elections were pursued. Around 90,000
legal voters were denied their right to vote by state government
officeholder under the control of Katherine Harris and Jeb
Bush. This action appears to have been aided by the state of
Texas
while George W. Bush was Governor. This is how the election was pulled
close enough for a Republican majority on the Supreme Court to hand
the Republicans the White House. This election theft set the stage for
a series of power grabs still being exercised by the Republican Party.
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Texas
, the Republicans ran an extremely poor slate of Congressional
candidates in 2002. Democrats won many seats in basically Republican
Congressional Districts. The losing Republican candidates held extreme
political views and/or lacked enough experience to handle the jobs
they were seeking.
Texas
voters decided that the Republican Congressional candidates were
inferior (in Districts that Republican candidates for the US Senate,
Governor and state houses carried during the same election.) Instead
of running better candidates, Governor Perry and the Republicans went
back on their publicly expressed promises in order to give Delay his
way in packing the Republican Congressional majority.
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- In
California
, the Republicans ran an extreme Right Wing candidate for Governor in
Bill Simon. Lacking respect for the voters, millionaire Republican
candidates spent millions to start undoing a legal election within a
few months. This power grab, like the one in
Texas
, is costing millions of taxpayer dollars.
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- Electronic
voting machines that have insufficient auditing mechanisms have been
adopted. The computer codes, which should be public, are being kept
secret. Most of these voting machine companies have close ties to
Right Wing Republican political activists or officeholders. We need to
make honest elections the number one issue in the 2004 while we still
have a democracy.
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- Written
by Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence (hosts of Democratic Talk Radio http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com
). You are
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