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PAGE 20, OCTOBER 20, 2008, THE ISLANDER
Last minute
thoughts
With our 56th Presidential election
looming just two short weeks away
on Tuesday, November 4, I thought
I'd bore you with some last minute
thoughts on the quadrennial event.
Just an FYI, the John McCain-Sarah
Palin and Barack Obama-Joe Biden
tickets, while certainly the most popu
lar, aren't the only bus ride in town.
Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root are
running on the Libertarian ticket.
Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez are
the Independent candidates.
Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle
are running on the Constitution party
platform.
And former Democratic Congress-
woman from Georgia Cynthia McKin
ney represents the Green party along
with her vice presidential partner, New
York political hip-hop acitivist Rosa
Clemente.
So don't tell me you don't have a
choice.
I do have some concerns though,
not the least of which is this recent
ly uncovered voter registration fraud
involving ACORN - Association of
Community Organizations for Reform
Now - an organization that not only
endorsed Obama, but was represented
by the Democratic presidential candi
date in a 1995 lawsuit against the state
of Illinois to force the state to imple
ment the National Voter Registration
Act of 1993.
Obama's campaign also hired a firm
with ties to ACORN for a massive
get-out-the-vote effort during the 2008
primary, although, Obama's campaign
is not working with ACORN for the
general presidential election.
ACORN has over 350,000 members
and more than 850 neighborhood chap
ters in over 100 cities across the United
States. A large number of them are
under investigation in as many as 14
states.
And this isn't the first time...
In 2007, Seattle’s KOMO TV report
ed the following: “King County pros
ecutors filed felony charges Thursday
against seven people in what a top
official described as the worst case
of voter-registration fraud in state
history, while the organization they
worked for agreed to keep a better eye
on its employees and pay $25,000 to
defray costs of the investigation. The
seven submitted about 1,800 registra
tion cards last fall on behalf of the lib
eral Association of Community Orga
nizations for Reform Now, or ACORN,
which had hired them at $8 an horn'
to sign people up to vote, according to
charging documents filed in Superior
Court.”
Now the FBI has gotten involved in
the current ACORN voter fraud inves
tigation.
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
ACORN calls the investigation, bogus
voter fraud charges aimed at camou
flaging voter suppression.
Of course they do. But I say, where
there's this much smoke, there's fire, so
I'd wager there is something to this.
Here's the big hypocrisy of this...
remember the 2004 election when the
Democrats went ballistic over a few
hanging chads in a couple of south
Florida voting precincts?
That was a BB in boxcar compared
to the allegations against ACORN.
This is much more widespread and
it's not just allegations, much of it has
been proven.
But yet the Democrats, now that
the shoe is on the other foot, are yell
ing and screaming that this is all a big
'voter suppression' conspiracy against
them and their candidate even though
this is a much bigger and more serious
issue.
Here's the simple solution... don't let
any organization, be it liberal, conser
vative, independent or whatnot, regis
ter people to vote.
Registering to vote is something
people should be required to do on
their own. If a person is handicapped
and absolutely cannot get to the Elec
tion Board, then someone from that
Election Board can assist them. But it
should be illegal for partisan organiza
tions to register voters.
What else is bothering me?
I was talking to a liberal friend
the other day who told me a couple of
the reasons the left doesn't like Sarah
Palin is because she is pro-gun and
because of her religion.
I asked about the religion issue and
was told by my friend that she had
seen a video of Palin on YouTube®,
an obviously unimpeachable source to
be sure, in a church where folks were
speaking in tongues.
"Isn't that discrimination,?" I asked
"and Oh! is it worse than Obama being
a member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's
church of racism and hatred for 20
years?"
Oh, she replied, he didn't know Rev.
Wright was like that.
This person acutally believes Obama
didn't know anything about Wright's
true colors even though he sat in the
Turn to Page 9 - Back Talk
esday 1 NowmlxTij Kevin
(faujli asks your vnte fat
Solicitor of State Court.
Kevin has proveii trial and
appeals; evp eric Lice: a 75&
conviction rate as Assistant
District Attorney in over JO
criminal jury trials. He suc
cessfully defended every gnillv
verdict challenged on appeal.
Tic has also served our commu
nity for nearly 20 years, on the
hoards of 'Hie Brunswick Civic
Orchestra* EStg Brothers/Big
Sisters, Marty l.yims Founda
tion, and 5t. 1'rancis Xavier
School among other civic
groups-
Kevin is a Rotarian and Cham
ber member former Kiwanian
and ,hwee; anti past president
of ihe Briuitwick-Glynh Bar
Association.
Your vote far Kevin Gough as
Solicitor is a vote for Integrity
and proven experience. Make it
count in the upcoming
eleclioiw.
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