Browsing Posts in Election & Candidates
We are working with the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) to bring you one of the biggest rallies this year. All we want to know is are you ready to take your country back on November 2nd? If you are met us at the American Legion in Lockport on September 15th at 6:30 and be prepared for real change this November.
Go to www.novemberiscoming.com
The president’s support for Illinois senatorial hopeful Alexi Giannoulias is an unwanted reminder of the Windy City’s unsavory politics.
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JULY 23, 2010
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sent his party into a tizzy when he recently acknowledged that Democrats might lose the House this fall. A better indicator of how anxious the White House is about midterms is the news that President Barack Obama is headed to Chicago to fund raise for Alexi Giannoulias.
Mr. Giannoulias is running for Illinois’s Senate seat. That would be the seat vacated by Barack Obama, put up for bid by indicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and currently occupied by the ethically tarred Roland Burris. In keeping with this pedigree, Democrats have nominated the 34-year-old Mr. Giannoulias, Illinois state treasurer and heir to a family bank seized this spring by the feds.
In the heat of the Blagojevich corruption trial, and in the wake of Congress’s “financial reform,” the last person Mr. Obama wants to be stumping for is a failed banker who radiates Chicago politics. But it was the president who created this nominee and the White House that is now stuck with the liability.
Mr. Giannoulias met Mr. Obama on a Chicago basketball court and later introduced the politician to his banking family’s money, as well as Chicago’s Greek donor community. Mr. Obama would claim this was “critical” to his 2004 Senate victory, and two years later he repaid the favor. The 29-year-old Mr. Giannoulias worked in the family bank and had no political or policy experience. Yet when he decided to run statewide, Mr. Obama turned on his star power, narrating expensive TV slots that described Mr. Giannoulias as “one of the most outstanding young men that I could ever hope to meet.” He became Mr. Obama’s candidate and sprinted to a primary victory.
Mr. Obama continued to swing for Mr. Giannoulias right through the news that the Giannoulias’s Broadway Bank had loaned millions to Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a convicted bookmaker, as well as other crime figures. He stuck with him through the news that some of this money had been disbursed when Mr. Giannoulias was the bank’s senior loan officer.
And Mr. Obama stuck with him when even the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan, refused to endorse Mr. Giannoulias. “My history in politics, if you were alleged to be connected to the mob, you were done,” said Mr. Madigan in the run-up to the 2006 treasurer’s election.
The president got his reward when Mr. Giannoulias leveraged his new political clout to raise funds for the Obama presidential campaign. Mr. Obama would also take donations from Giannoulias family members and at least one Broadway Bank manager. A few local papers noted the gap between Mr. Obama’s new-politics rhetoric and his old-politics Giannoulias ties, but most media ignored it.
It wasn’t until late 2008, when the Blagojevich affair touched on the president-elect, that the White House began to realize how toxic these relationships might prove. It scrambled to recruit Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan for the Senate run, to sideline Mr. Giannoulias. But Ms. Madigan declined and Mr. Obama’s protégé wouldn’t be deterred.
His primary opponent, David Hoffman, resurrected the mob story line, leading to new details about Mr. Giannoulias’s lending history. He’s been under fire for mismanaging the state’s college savings program. The Blagojevich trial has rekindled interest in the Senate nominee’s older brother, Demetris, who was pushed for a state board position by convicted Obama fund-raiser Tony Rezko. Mr. Blagojevich appointed him in 2004, and then reappointed him a year later, 33 days after Mr. Giannoulias’s father donated $10,000 to the Blago campaign.
Then in April federal regulators seized Broadway Bank. Records showed the bank’s lending profile changed sharply after Mr. Giannoulias came on full-time in 2002. His lending department doubled down on the risky real estate loans that helped shred the housing market; Broadway piled up losses. Mr. Giannoulias prospered.
No doubt Mr. Obama can’t wait to arrive on Aug. 5 to raise money for one of those, ahem, “fat cat bankers.” And he’ll be landing in Chicago just as the Blagojevich trial is raising uncomfortable questions about Mr. Obama’s Chicago connections and his role pushing his friend Valerie Jarrett for the Senate seat. The state Democratic establishment is dutifully holding “Vote Alexi” signs, but many are bitter that the White House landed them with this guy. It won’t be a pleasant visit.
Republican opponent Mark Kirk has been running as a common-sense reformer and leading Mr. Giannoulias in polls. And earlier this month came the humiliating news that the Democrat had raised a piddling $900,000 in the second quarter, compared to Mr. Kirk’s $2.3 million. News of the White House fund raiser came a few days later. The intervention shows how worried the Obama team is that not just the House, but the Senate, could be in play.
Write to kim@wsj.com.
A new poll shows Harry Reid taking a 7% lead over Sharron Angle (44%-37%) according to a new Las Vegas Review Journal/Mason-Dixon poll. This follows millions of dollars in advertising Reid has aired attacking Sharron Angle and calling her an “extremist” because of her conservative views.
The good news? These changing poll numbers have taken place BEFORE we here at the Tea Party Express have gone up on the airwaves. In fact, it was because of bad polling data that we realized we needed to actually raise MUCH MORE money before we could go up on the airwaves and fight back – if we were going to defeat Reid.
As you know, we here at the Tea Party Express asked for 100+ Americans to donate $500 or more to our campaign supporting Sharron Angle and opposing Harry Reid. So far 52 people have responded. We still need 48 more people to answer our call for help!
If you can help us by making a contribution of $500 or more to this effort then PLEASE make a contribution online right now – CLICK HERE to DONATE.
As we said, Barack Obama has been able to raise millions of dollars from labor unions and left-wing groups for Harry Reid. We urgently need your help to fight back.
Even if you can’t afford to contribute $500 or more, but can only afford a contribution of $25 or $50 it will still help us get on the airwaves with our pro-Angle TV ads.
To make a contribution to this campaign – CLICK HERE.
As always, if you prefer, you can mail in a contribution to our headquarters:
Tea Party Express
770 L Street #1020
Sacramento, CA 95814
By Fred Dardick Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Last week I wrote an article titled How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Primary that introduced the conservative community to the movie “We Will Not Be Silenced”, made by Democrat activist Gigi Gaston two years ago. Her video documented widespread voter fraud committed by Obama supporters during the 2008 Democratic primary election to secure the nomination for Obama over the popular vote winner Hillary Clinton.
The story went viral and 24 hours later Fox News asked Gaston to appear on the Sunday morning program Fox and Friends. For the first time many Americans saw for themselves first hand accounts from Democrats who personally witnessed “the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign.”
As explained on the We Will Not Be Silenced website, “‘Change’ from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.”
Because of the program and other recent events concerning voter intimidation, including the Black Panther incident in Philadelphia and testimony from J. Christian Adams on the Department of Justice’s unwillingness to pursue voter related crimes committed by African Americans, people around the country are finally waking up to the fact that Democrat voter fraud is a far, far bigger problem than anyone had ever realized.
Some conservatives have mistakenly interpreted these events as only affecting Democratic primaries and aren’t concerned about the possibility of vote theft in a general election.
But they would be wrong.
While the voter fraud documented in Gaston’s film primarily involves Democratic caucuses, the bigger story here isn’t a single primary, but the bag of tricks that Democrats use to influence elections of all kinds.
Earlier in the week Fox News ran a story showing how illegal votes by felons in Minnesota were enough for Democrat Al Franken to beat Republican candidate Norm Coleman and claim the Senate seat.
Millions had voted in the Minnesota election, but at the end of the day all it took was 341 criminals to disenfranchise an entire state.
How to Steal an Election
What we are seeing is the transplantation of Chicago politics to communities throughout the nation that are completely unprepared for the level of fraud and intimidation that can be generated by thousands of unethical Democrats, including private citizens, local, state, and federal officials, and politicians, convinced that breaking the law is okay as long as the “right” candidate wins.
On July 6, American Thinker published an article by Lee Cary about an interview with a Chicago political machine insider. It contained the following warning:
“In Chicago, the Precinct Captains watch to see who votes and who doesn’t. Then, at the end of the day, others will cast votes for those who haven’t shown up to vote, all under the direction of the Precinct Captain. If the actual voter shows up later, they’re given someone else’s card. The Republican poll watchers don’t stop this. Hell, most of them are actually Democrats.”
The Democrat Voter Fraud Playbook is as follows:
1. ACORN registers the names, legitimate or not.
2. Black Panther, SEIU and other “community organizer” groups intimidate people, especially minorities, from voting Republican.
3. Voter lists remain unscrubbed of felons, dead people, and illegal immigrants.
4. On Election Day, precinct workers submit any unused ballots for Democrat candidates.
5. Democrat officials and politicians pretend like nothing happened.
It’s as easy as that to steal an election.
An Army of Republican Poll Watchers Will Be Needed this November
The voter fraud stories so far are just the tip of a very large iceberg. No one really knows the full extent of the problem and the Democratic Party is counting on Americans to shrug it off as just another conservative conspiracy theory.
But take it from a lifelong Chicagoan, it’s not just Bosnia that needs election observers to keep voter fraud in check.
The dropping of voter intimidation charges by Department of Justice political appointees against billy club wielding Black Panthers sends the message to the Democrat community that mass voter fraud can continue without fear of legal reprisal.
Justice officials know full well that if they were to start digging around this Pandora’s Box of fraud, many influential Democratic organizations (especially ACORN) and politicians will be implicated. So they go straight to Step #5 from above and pretend like there’s nothing to see.
While the problem may be substantial, there is one way Republicans can fight back: Keep a close eye on voting locations. Election fraud only works if citizens remain ignorant to the problem and unwilling to become involved in the voting process.
Considering the importance of the upcoming November elections, an army of Republican poll watchers, especially in minority neighborhoods which are often treated like never ending vote generating machines by unscrupulous Democrat politicians, will be needed to prevent liberals from once again stuffing ballot boxes and gaming the system.
By Fred Dardick Thursday, July 8, 2010
Think those billy club armed New Black Panther thugs in Philadelphia were the first time Obama used Stalinist tactics to intimidate voters and disenfranchise the American people?
Think again.
In testimony this week before Congress, former Justice Department Official J. Christian Adams revealed that not only were similar claims “pervasive”, but Obama activists committed the “same” crimes during the 2008 Democratic primary to help then Sen. Obama defeat Democratic heir apparent Hillary Clinton.
Obama gamed the system in 2008 by not only allowing an army of young men station themselves outside polling locations in African American communities to prevent elderly women and others from voting for their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton, but he also trained thousands of willing accomplices—while I do not have confirmation, I do sense the presence of ACORN here—spread throughout the Democratic caucuses to commit voter fraud on a massive scale.
The movie “We Will Not Be Silenced”, made by Democratic Party activist Gigi Gaston, produced by Bettina Sofia Viviano, and executive produced by former Clinton Campaign Regional Director John Siegel, documents how the unknown Senator from Illinois used “falsified delegate counts, falsified documents, and other violations” to beat the seemingly unbeatable Clinton machine and claim the Democratic nomination.
The documentary describes “the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign… ‘Change’ from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.”
“Teachers, professors, civil rights activists, lawyers, janitors, physicists, ophthalmologists, accountants, mathematicians, retirees… discuss how their party has disenfranchised them, and how, when they saw and reported multiple instances of fraud, everyone turned a blind eye. Rather than support and protect the voices and votes of its loyal members, the DNC chose to sweep this under the rug by looking the other way.”
During the election the Hillary campaign issued multiple press releases in an attempt to publicize these events and bring them to the voter’s attention, but to no avail. The main stream media, like the Democrat Party leadership, had already chosen their candidate.
They willfully ignored the worst election abuses in a generation and allowed an immoral and unworthy man take control of this great nation.
I highly recommend you watch the entire video; it will only take about 35 minutes and is well worth the time. Be sure to forward it on to others, because everyone should know the true story about how Obama became President.
A link to the We Will Not Be Silenced website.
The documentary is available in four parts on YouTube here. ()
We Will Not Be Silenced Highlights
Part 1, 3:35, “Obama supporters were going back through the crowd, telling the people that were on the other side of the table and people outside (Hillary supporters), that they could go home, that they had been counted. I turned and said ‘Don’t they need to sign a sheet first?’ And of course, that is how they are counted. A lot of those people who went home (without signing), English was not their first language.”
Part 1, 4:45, “I was listening to a conversation… The people were talking about how they were going to be collecting names for the following day, asking people if they were coming back to caucus… They were talking about how they were going to be taking those names and they wouldn’t have to be physically there, but their votes would be counted.”
Part 2, 0:25, Dr. Linda Hayes: “We investigated fraud at the precinct level in conventions all over south Houston… Hillary attained 51% of the votes in Texas and by popular vote Obama only attained 47.4%. As a scientist and mathematician I was curious as the results came in from the precincts and that the precinct caucuses did not reflect those numbers, so I could see something was wrong… We laboriously went through each of the (caucus) sign in sheets to see if they were properly filled out… and many, many, many Obama people either came to the wrong precinct, they did not sign in properly, they did not show ID, or they had not voted that day… How they determine the delegates is on these sign in sheets. So when so many people were registered illegally for Obama, they attained the lion’s portion of the delegates.”
Part 2, 5:35, John Siegel: “Hillary won the popular vote by about 4%, but ended up losing the caucuses by 10%. So there is this huge 14 point swing between what Hillary should have won in a normal state and what she got at the end of the caucuses in Texas.”
Part 2, 6:20, “The worst thing that we saw in Indiana, was parents coming into the office saying that the Gary Indiana Public School System had bussed their children to Crown Point Indiana to vote in the election. That was a great civics lesson, but if children were being told to go to the polls and vote for Obama, which they were, parents were livid. They were outraged and they wanted to know what could be done about this… It was atrocious, because what lesson in civics were kids learning that day? Win by any means necessary? The right to vote is a sacred right in America, and we take school children and bus them on a school day, tell them who to vote for, then pay them for their lunch, and then dismiss them from school early on taxpayer money?”
Part 3, 0:00, “By about twelve o’clock, one o’clock on election day, all hell broke loose. We started getting phone calls from people at various precincts where there were Obama supporters getting sign-ins before the polls had even closed. We had people who were being shouted down and intimidated when they were for Hillary Clinton.”
Part 3, 3:54, Civil Rights Activist who had marched with Martin Luther King: “I had come to Indiana in the early afternoon about one o’clock. I was just sort of riding through the communities to get a feel for what was going on… There were some guys who had put up lawn chairs in front of the door going into the community center, so I stopped and parked my car. I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote, this fight that has gone on for many, many, many years and to see two African American young men deny the right, under the veiled threat of violence, to a woman who looked to be around 80 years old, and not allow her an opportunity to vote. I felt appalled. While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.”
Part 3, 7:20, Kevin Dujan, Iowa: “There were these two women sitting at the table checking in people, looking over names. I went standing behind the two elderly women that we had brought to the caucus location and they mysteriously could not find their names in the book. The two women saw that these women had Hillary stickers on them… so they weren’t going to let them caucus. They said ‘Oh, you must be in some other caucus.’ I said ‘Look lady, I’m from Chicago and I know tricks like this. Let me see that book or we’re going to get the precinct captain over here and we’re going to look and find the names together. I guarantee this woman’s in here, because she’s not a liar. She’s ninety years old and has been looking forward to this. Don’t tell me she’s not in the book.’ Well then, wouldn’t you know it, miraculously and mysteriously, once I made that big of a push, she magically found her name in the book and let her go be a part of the caucus… I noticed that that was not happening for any of the Obama people, they were just getting waved right through.”
Part 4, 5:45, “I thought it was an isolated incident, just in my precinct. It’s not, and that what bothers me. How can we not look at the system? If it happens in every precinct and every one of us has a very similar story, I can not believe that we don’t see it as manipulating a situation. People told me, Obama supporters who went to the training, that they have been trained to be aggressive.”
Part 4, 6:20, “They knew from the beginning all the problems with all the security holes in the caucus. They knew they filtered out people. They knew the low turn out rates. They must have known from other elections how many votes from caucus states are not exact votes, but just an estimate projected from news organizations.”
How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination.
Hosted By: Cook County GOP. Palos,Homer/Lockport and Cook County Tea Party
Support Dr. Barbara Bellar run for Illinois Representative of the 35th District. She stands for FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, SMALLER GOVERNMENT, FREE ENTERPRISE, CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES, PRO-LIFE AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM. SHE’S READY TO STAND AND FIGHT FOR OUR STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Cash Bar
Appetizers
Ticket Price: $10.00
August 12
7:30-9:30PM
Hackney’s in Palos
9550 W. 123rd Street
Palos Park, IL. 60464
RSVP BY AUGUST : Dr. Kathleen Ward:361-2403
For more information about Dr. Bellar go to http://www.ElectBellar.com
GREAT Radio Interview! Cedra simply explains the situation and the basis for the Chicago Machine’s actions to get her off the ballot.
by Mike Flynn
As we feared, the Chicago Democrat Machine reached into neighboring Will County and lined up a couple Democrat officials to throw Cedra Crenshaw, GOP candidate for the 43rd State Senate District, off the ballot. The Machine candidate in the district, A.J. Wilhelmi, is a legacy politician who was specially appointed to the Senate seat. The Democrat Machine would prefer a coronation, rather than a competition. The Election Board’s decision is below:
While the two Democrats on the Will County Board of Elections found enough reason to toss Cedra Crenshaw off the 43rd State Senate Republican ballot in November, Republican member County Clerk Nancy Schultz Voots filed this minority report dissension. Click here to downlaod the whole decision Davis_vs_Crenshaw_Decision.
