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Democrats bend IL constitution to help Bush exploit eve-of-911 RNC timing |
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by IMPEACH BUSH NOW [repost from Global IMC Newswire]
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22 Aug 2004
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Democrats have bent over backwards to exempt Bush from ballot access filing deadlines in 8 states so Bush can have the Republican National Convention so late (presumably so it is close to Sept. 11 to maximize Bush's post-convention "bounce"). They violated the State Constitution to do it in Illinois. Meanwhile, the Democrats block Nader and other third-party and independent candidates from ballot access, even using state employees to do it in Illinois. |
The Democrats have blocked Nader ballot access by suing in Arizona to disqualify 550 signatures collected by an ex-felon who had served his time but allegedly failed to pay a $400 fine, by infiltrating a Nader nominating convention in Oregon and convincing state election officials that there are the required number of voters present to lock the doors and start the convention, then refusing to give state officials evidence that they are in fact registered voters, by going to the homes of signature-gatherers and threatening and intimidating them, and a litany of other disgusting democracy-hating and police-state tactics around the nation.
Eight state governments, many Democrat-controlled, have passed special laws to grant exceptions to state ballot access laws whose deadlines fall before this year's especially late Republican National Convention (latest political convention in U.S. history!), which has obviously been timed by Karl Rove to fall right near the anniversary of 9/11 to help Bush win the election with a late jingoistic/fear-mongering surge in the polls. http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-bush03.html
The Democrat governor of Illinois, Blagojevich, and the Democrat-controlled Illinois legislature, at first held up the vote on the bill granting the same sort of deadline exception to Bush, in the hopes of embarrassing Republican opposition-party state legislators by attaching some pet Democrat legislation to the bill. But Blagojevich promises that the Democratic Party is firmly committed to granting Bush the exception: "The Senate must pass the bill," Blagojevich said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times. "President Bush is the president of the United States. He belongs on the ballot. And let people have the free choice in November of who they want to lead our country for the next four years." http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-bush03.html
And pass the "Bush-is-above-the-law" law the Democrats did, even though it directly violates the Illinois Constitution: http://randomactofkindness.com/comments.php?id=727_0_1_0_C1 http://randomactofkindness.com/more.php?id=733_0_1_0_M1
Apparently, the Democrats controlling the Illinois state government believe it is up to them who "belongs on the ballot", and that Bush "belongs" on it, but not Nader or Socialist Equality Party state legislative candidate Tom Mackaman. The Democrats apparently only believe in supporting Illinois voters' "free choice" on election day when it comes to the choice to vote for Kerry or Bush. When it comes to the choice to vote for Nader or Mackaman, the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail in court to find some, any, technicality or soup of concocted accusations, smears and lies, to thwart the will of the people signing Nader and Mackaman petitions to give voters a choice to vote for Nader or Mackaman. And they have used state employees to do it!!! http://www.unrepentantnadervoter.com/wordpress/index.php?p=124 http://popeyechicken.blogspot.com/2004/07/more-on-smear-campaign.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/cham-j20.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/mack-j30.shtml http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+print+storyid-2095-PHPSESSID-8ad3fea91ec8dc38cbda373b831b655f.html http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-2319.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/07/12/6617800 http://www.votenader.org/ballot_access/index.php |
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