Archive for October, 2010
FLORIDA GROUND REPORT
SOUTH CAROLINA GROUND REPORT
KENTUCKY GROUND REPORT
Dear HillBuzz,
Wanted to write and give you a quick update on the status of the elections here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
First off I live in the Fifth Congressional district. The fifth district is HEAVILY Republican. During the Reagan administration the Fifth was second only to California’s Orange County in Republican registered voters. The rest of the state is just about as blue as the Democrats can make it, through gerrymandering and vote buying.
Mitch McConnell the Senate Minority Leader, representing Kentucky at large, pushed the other Senator Jim Bunning out of re-election by convincing donors that he was too old to run again. That’s pretty much what you need to know as far a back ground information. Also McConnell endorsed someone else in the primaries, and pushed hard to get him elected.
Running for the Senate Seat are Republican Rand Paul (son of rep Ron Paul R-TX) and Democrat Jack Conway.
Conway is currently serving as the Attorney General, he doesn’t really do much of anything except own racehorses. He and his father are co-owners of the horse Stately Victor who ran in the Kentucky Derby this year.
This campaign is UGLY, DIRTY & NASTY! Even the Washington Post called it the ugliest in the US. Conway keeps running that “Aqua Budda” ad which is just so stupid. How many of us can be held up to the crazy things we did in college?
Rand Paul has visited my area numerous times (too many to count)-I know he would be a great
Senator. I think Jack Conway has been to the Tri-County area once.
The 6th District Congressional race between Democrat incumbent Ben Chandler(grandson of former KY Governor, and baseball commissioner A.B. “Happy” Chandler) and Republican Andy Barr is nearly as ugly. Chandler keeps running an ad harping on a fake id arrest of his republican opponent, when he was 19 years old on college spring break. Chandler is tight with Nancy Pelosi and has gone along with all of the crazy Democratic spending, so he’s really sweating right now.
I live in the 5th Congressional district and I thought our rep Hal Rogers was running un-opposed, but after looking it up he does have a Democrat opponent but we have seen no ads for him at all.
Keep up the good work Boyz.
Love & light,
Heather in KY
ILLINOIS GROUND REPORT
Tuesday Open Thread: October 26th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Tuesday?
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IMPORTANT: There is no way a human being, with a heart and soul, can vote for Martha Coakley — for anything — after seeing Conviction
I’m writing this from my phone, so I have to be brief (a full report due tomorrow on all this), but the film literally just ended and I am sitting in my seat, in tears…with a need to implore all of you to GO OUT AND SEE THE MOVIE CONVICTION with Hilary Swank as Betty Anne Waters.
Everyone in the state of Massachusetts needs to see this movie.
I wish there was a billionaire somewhere who could buy free tickets to hand out to people on the street to go see this…because if they watch this movie, there is no chance in Hell of them voting for Martha Coakley — for anything — for the rest of their lives.
The woman is evil.
May there be a special place in Hell waiting for her.
In the film, Betty Ann (Swank) calls her “that f***ing bitch”.
There is nothing in the movie that would argue against that assessment.
Coakley does not appear in the film in person at all, to my knowledge (unless she was an unnamed female lawyer in a brief court scene at the end), but her presence is felt for the last third of the movie.
Here’s what happened, and why Coakley should be tarred and feathered and run out of Massachusetts on a splintered rail:
* Betty Ann Waters (Hilary Swank), spent close to 17 years working to get her GED, BA in college, and JD so she could prove her brother Kenny was innocent of a crime he was framed for by Ayer, Massachusetts police officer Nancy Taylor and the town’s police chief.
* After 17 years, Betty Ann found the DNA evidence that proved her brother was innocent. She submitted this evidence to Martha Coakley to have her brother’s conviction vacated. Coakley was just elected Attorney General at the time…and she refused to vacate the conviction for political reasons — it would have made her and her office look bad.
* Betty Ann petitioned to have the DNA evidence run through the crime lab. Martha Coakley ordered the lab to stall the proceedings. Coakley delayed the investigation of the DNA for 6 months of paperwork stalling before it was even allowed into the crime lab. Then, once it was in the lab, Coakley ordered the technicians there to bump the Waters DNA testing to the bottom of the pile each day. Cases that came in after Waters were processed before his, because Martha Coakley ordered the Waters case to be made the lowest possible priority.
* Betty Ann spent MONTHS hounding the crime lab to process her brother’s DNA kit and work his case. Finally, after Betty Ann badgered these people in person for a great time, they relented and ran his DNA and proved his innocence.
* Martha Coakley should have vacated the conviction at that point — but she refused once again for political reasons. She wanted to win re-election as AG, and didn’t want this embarrassment on her desk. So, instead of freeing Waters, Coakley ordered him retried as an accessory to the crime and kept him imprisoned.
* Betty Ann then had to go to all the witnesses in her brother’s trial from all those years ago and get them to admit that police officer Nancy Taylor and the Ayer police chief threatened the witnesses to lie against Kenny. They showed two women gruesome crime scene photos and told them “that could be you” if they didn’t cooperate, also telling them they would indict them as accessories to the crime unless they lied and said Kenny told them he committed the murders. Ultimately, Betty Ann was able to get Kenny’s own ex-wife to sign an affidavit that she lied against him and recanted her original testimony.
* Martha Coakley tried to delay Kenny’s release again, but Betty Ann and the lawyers from the Innocence Project she worked wtih went to the Boston Globe and the New York Times — with media pressure, Martha Coakely finally reluctantly vacated Kenny Waters’ coviction and freed him.
It was clear Martha Coakley acted not in the best interests of the people of Massachusetts, but out of her own desire for career advancement. She did not do the proper due diligence to investigate Kenny Waters’ innocence…and seemed to have thrown every roadblock she could to delay, delay, delay all efforts to determine the truth.
It’s disgusting.
It is a true travesty of justice.
The people of Massachusetts should not keep putting this terrible woman back in the Attorney General’s seat.
Please see this movie.
If Martha Coakley did this to one man, she’s more likely than not done it to others. Who knows what else this woman has done to advance herself at the expense of justice.
We have one week before the November 2nd election.
I ask you on a personal level, a human level, to please use this thread below to brainstorm any ideas you have for getting the truth about Martha Coakley out to the voters of Massachusetts.
How can we get scores of them to see this film before next Tuesday?
Any multi-millionaires out there able to wrangle some sort of Massachusetts ticket giveaway to get as many people into the theaters as possible to see this movie?
It is the most chilling abuse of power and selfish disregard for justice I have ever heard of.
Martha Coakley is, in a word, evil.
She really and truly is.
R.I.P. Kenny Waters…and God Bless Betty Ann Waters for all her hard work and everything she endured to free her beloved brother from Martha Coakley’s clutches.
TEXAS GROUND REPORT
| Dear HillBuzz: |
| Greetings from Houston, TX. This is yer old pal, Skating on Glue reporting from (clapclapclap) deep in the heeeeart of Texas!
Anyway- things in Houston are just about opposite of what you see in Chicago. Obama and his magic thug machine are given all the respect they deserve, which is roughly none. The jaw dropping incompetence that barry put on display while “handling” the Gulf oil spill was magnified hugely down here- Houston is very much dependent on the oil industry, almost as much as Chicago is dependent on graft and thievery. So when President Sandtraps put a freeze on off shore drilling, the local economy took a pretty big hit- a lot of people lost jobs in a lot of different industries. Think it’s fair to say not many votes were won with that bit of presidentin’. The dislike for obama has also jumped into the popular culture – one of the most popular wacky morning radio crews (Walton and Johnson) mock and deride Ear leader at least once every 15 minutes on their show every day. Rather refreshing, actually. Wonder when their IRS audits begin? Further, seeing an ogabe bumper sticker is an extremely rare event- maybe over by Rice University, but that’s about it. Nobody tries to defend the dipstick in chief, and nobody blabs about how stylish the first wookie is. The most odd thing I’ve found is that those that are democrats/left of center/barky fans are the ones looking over their shoulders before talking about their politics instead of the other way around. Again, rather refreshing. So far as local politics- confess to not knowing much about the congressional races. Tragically, the astoundingly moronic Sheila Jackson Lee hails from Houston (she’s the dolt that complained that hurricane names sounded too “Caucasian” and once waxed eloquently about “North and South Vietnam”) but her gerrymandered district appears unassailable. Yet another fine example of what makes up the world’s finest deliberative body, one supposes. Blurgh. Statewide, Governor Perry seems to be safe- something about the economy adding jobs and people from around the country (and Mexico) flocking to the state due to its prosperity makes for a very popular Governor, I guess. Which makes barry the zero’s infantile snubbing of Perry when Perry wanted to discuss border security an even bigger blunder. At any rate, that’s what I’m seeing down here in Houston. Y’all should come down and visit- they even have a junior version of Boystown called the Montrose district. Adios amigos, and catch the WAVE! |
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The Permian Basin (a geological formation) is in the middle of that stretch of Texas between Dallas/Ft. Worth and El Paso – pretty much flyover country out here where most of the businesses are dedicated to the oil and gas industry and the servicing thereof. The people are hardworking fiscal conservatives, for the most part Republican, and politically nothing much is expected to change out here. Our representative, Mike Conaway (Dist. 11) is virtually unopposed by any serious contenders and neither of our senators is up this go around. The governor’s race between incumbent Rick Perry and the former mayor of sanctuary city, Houston, Bill White will probably depend upon how much voter fraud goes on in the urban areas…. Mainly, Houston and Dallas. No telling how much of our illegal invasion will be voting for Mr. White there, since according to True the Vote, the fraud is rampant. This part of the state will stay Republican.
The fun races to watch will be Dists. 17, 18 and 30, where long time dems such as Eddie Bernice Johnson, Chet Edwards, and Sheila Jackson Lee will actually have someone running against them. Of course, since Dallas and Houston are involved in 2 of these races, I doubt anything will change, but it should be entertaining!
Dear HillBuzz,
Well, although I live in the great state of Texas, I happen to be in the San Francisco of the Hill Country, the state capitol and college town of Austin. Austin is a fairly typical college town and state capitol (aka “Liberal Enclave”), and the rest of the state pretty much disowns us. First of all, a lot of the kids come for college and never leave to go back home to more conservative areas of the state. And too many foreigners moved in during the dot com boom for work in Silicon Hills. Although a lot had to move on after the bust, there were still more than a few that were able to hang on, so the demographics here are very atypical for what you would expect for a state like Texas. So Austin has a definite “we are not really Texas” feel to it. On top of that, I live south of the river, not quite in the infamous “Keep Austin Weird” neighborhood of South Austin, where all the 70s hippies congregated, but close enough, apparently. that I seem to have a large proportion of liberals as neighbors. I know, because 2 years ago I drove from here to California and back for Thanksgiving and it was almost comical that from the state line to the city line I saw nothing but McCain/Palin signs, but once I crossed the “Great Divide”, it flipflopped and in the city it was pretty much Obama/Biden all over the place. This year the signage is severely curtailed, although they’ve been popping up like mushrooms after a good rain in the past week or so. And the remarkable thing is, from what I can see on the signs displayed so far, apparently NO ONE belongs to any political party this election cycle! Pretty amazing! The local Dim wardheeler has a full complement of the federal/state/local Dims signs, but others are pretty much single offerings of their particular pol. Amazingly, there are a few Republican signs out there–which I don’t remember seeing during the Campaign of Hope and Change. Can’t say if they are Reps getting brave enough to come out of the closet or disaffected Dims, since I don’t know any of the people personally.
Valinda Bolton was actually brave enough to send people out to ring doorbells in my neighborhood. She’s the incumbent Dim at the local level. I think I may have a big red “X” through my name on her list now. The young man was ernestly trying to convince me of all the great things she’s done for me and wanted to make sure I knew there was a big election coming up and to be sure and vote for her. He probably wished he hadn’t gotten an answer when he rang my doorbell! I told him “You better believe I know there is an election coming up, because never in my life have I waited so impatiently for one before!” That I wish I could have voted a year ago and had been counting the days until it got here. And that I did not start working when I was 9 years old picking cotton and grapes and cleaning apartments and working my way through college and doing without in order to save money for my retirement just to have some politician try to take my hard-earned money out of my hand and give it away to people who never worked a day in their life–like some of my relatives by marriage. And that I highly resented politicians who thought I was some cash cow and that I had made enough money. And that I was vehemently against amnesty and that I wanted illegals to be rounded up and sent home. That I was extremely unhappy that after investing my money for the past 20 years for my retirement years that I would have been better off to have stuffed it in my mattress for all it was worth now because of the toxic business environment that Zippy has created in this country. AND THAT I WANTED THE POLITICIANS TO QUIT SPENDING MONEY THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE! And that I would look at all the candidates extremely closely and whoever supported my viewpoints would have my vote. The guy was starting to back away by then–not sure if it was because he felt he needed to escape or because my volume level was raising appreciably as I was speaking. I haven’t had any return visits since he came by about a month ago. I think the word is out about me now!
Early voting opened October 18th and I happened to be running errands after work yesterday, so I stopped in to vote so I didn’t have to worry about going before or after work on Election Day. There was a fairly impressive line waiting to vote, but that might have been partly due to the computer being a little balky. No one was very chatty, just waiting patiently. But no one walked away when they saw the line, they just fell in at the back to wait their turn. Once the computer decided to cooperate, things moved right along and there were machines available to use once you got signed in, so people were not spending a lot of time on them, indicating they had pretty much made up their mind before they got to a machine. Since I hadn’t planned ahead that I’d be voting that afternoon, I didn’t have my voter registration card on me, but my driver’s license was good enough verification to get my computer code so I could vote. I asked the poll worker how she was and how her day was going, and she said they had had quite a few people both days and that it stayed busy pretty much all day with no slack times. When I got to the machine, I did something I have never done before in my voting life (and I voted for Hubert Humphrey my first election, so I’ve been through a few!), I voted the straight Republican party ticket! Always before I would go through each office and vote for a candidate individually. I’ve never voted party before–it was always for the individual regardless of affiliation. That is a thing of the past now. This election it is definitely JUST SAY NO to any and all Dims. Probably ditto for 2012. Once the dust clears, then I’m going RINO hunting!!!
One thing that struck me when I was looking at the ballot was here in the brightest blue spot in a red state, more than half of the judgeships only had a single candidate running and about 100% of those were Dims. So although I can see November 2012 from my house, that is not the end, my friends. Once we’ve weeded the Legislative and Executive branches of our government, we need to start looking at the Judicial. Because sometimes even when elections do make a difference, judges apparently can hit the reset button. And we can’t leave the job undone, my friends, and only fix part of the problem, or we’ll just have to do it all over again. I’m having flashbacks to my teenage charlady days, so I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, get my mop and bucket and start cleaning up the filth.
Deep in the Heart of Texas
INTERNATIONAL GROUND REPORT: Switzerland and Europe
From my lofty perch in the Alps, this is what is happening in the German-speaking part of Switzerland , mostly in and around Zurich , as well as a glimpse at what is happening in Switzerland and in Europe . I hope that Hillbuzz colleagues abroad can add to this.
The two largest local newspapers in the Zurich area are said by some locals to “balance” each other. In my view, the Neuer Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) is left of center, and the Tagesanzeiger is far left of center. Yeah, that’s some balance.
Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, the far left Tagesanzeiger has been ignoring the elections in the US . The last real article about Obama was back in early September, and it only mentioned that he had lost (as of then) about 25% of his voters. I guess it would infuriate too many dear readers if the paper published too much and too often about the upcoming electoral disaster caused by a fellow Marxist.
The NZZ, on the other hand, has more recent articles, noting how the “euphoria” in the US about having elected the first black (sic) president has sobered up. There’s an article about how Cuomo will probably beat Paladino, and a recent, tired opinion piece about how America is a “burned out superpower” and that the current crop of multi-culti kiddies in college who are getting the same kind of jump-start on higher education that Obama did will be the new elite that will “save” America . The silly editorialist fails to connect A to B that it was precisely this entitlement thinking without real responsibility that makes Obama unfit to run a lemonade stand, let alone the Ship of State.
This is why I never, ever read the newspapers here. I only went online and researched them for this ground report.
The online presence of the major TV station, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), is much more even-keeled, noting the upcoming “fiasco” for the Democrats, with simple graphics, a call-out box about US elections, and the conclusion, based on polling data, that the Republican will take the House, and perhaps the Senate. But there is also some Swiss blogger who is allowed to post on NZZ online, who can’t help bringing up Karl Rove and George Bush again, blaming all the money in politics on them alone.
The average Swiss citizen does not care on whit about the US elections. On the other hand, things are becoming more conservative in Europe in general, and Switzerland in particular.
For example, Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said in public that mult-culti had “utterly failed” in Germany , and that “we feel bound to the Christian image of humanity – that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.” (big black eye to the unassimilated Turks). Sarkozy is winning slowly against fat, overpaid union thugs who have paralyzed France with strikes for his daring to raise the retirement age – from 60 to 62! Italians, faced with many non-assimilated Romani (gypsies) who illegally created shanty towns and crime-sprees around Rome, returned them to their homeland (Romania), Greeks are agitating to have fences put up on their border with Turkey to stop illegal immigration, the horrifyingly intolerant leftist/islamonazi-driven prosecution of Geert Wilders has been stopped (for now) because of judicial malpractice (and the prosecution has asked to terminate the proceedings), the UK is telling the EU bureaucrats that a requested 6% EU budget increase is out of the question in times where the same EU is requiring austerity measures from the member states. Europe , perhaps too late, is waking up to the double threat of entrenched socialism and the incompatibility of Islam with western values and society.
In Switzerland , the next referendum in November will be on two issues, one on unified tax rates for high earners rather than letting the cantons “compete” for high wage-earners by offering lower taxes (guess which party / faction wants to unify tax rates and basically eliminate low tax-rate competition?). The other is to strengthen deportation of crime-committing immigrants (and those who abuse social services), and even rescinding residency permits. Foreigners account for 22% of the population, but almost 50% of the crime rate. Although initiated by the Schweizer Volkspartei (SVP – the conservative party that commands about 31% of the votes among the top 4 parties that run the government), all parties support some version of this initiative. If the vote were taken today, the SVP version would pass by a landslide.
I know this isn’t much of a US-focused piece (well, for obvious reasons), but I think you can see that even outside the US, people are getting fed up, and the complicit media shills are lying low.
I am so very much grateful to the posters who provided information on their state elections, and to the “Hillbuzz babes” (as Rush refers to them!) for making this all possible.
Kind regards,
ZurichMike
BREAKING: Democrats committing voter fraud in Fairfield County Connecticut nursing homes
We just got an email from a woman in Connecticut who heard a caller on a radio show tonight say she witnessed Democrats filling out ballots for unresponsive, dementia-addled patients in nursing homes. The caller identified two facilities by name.
Can someone track down the names of those two nursing homes?
For some reason, when a lot of you send these tips to us you leave out a lot of vital info…and then we need to sleuth this stuff out. In this instance, it would have been great to know the radio station call letters, the show and hosts’ names, and of course the names of the nursing homes.
We know you get excited when things happen, but just imagine how much more effective you could be if you stepped everything up a notch and answered all the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of something so that all the info needed was right there in one place.
You know the media won’t report on anything that makes the Left look bad…so if we want to expose these crooks we all need to work together.
We are willing to shout about voter fraud from the top of the mountains…but we need your help to get all the facts to really nail the Left for what they are up to.
Consider yourself deputized in this effort. It is now your job through November 2012 to work every day to bust Democrat fraud.
Who else heard about this Fairfield County Connecticut nursing home fraud?
BRISTOL PALIN DANCING WITH THE STARS WEEK SIX WATCH THREAD — vote, vote, vote and vote some more!
Call in number: 1-800-868-3407
Bristol Palin is dancing again tonight on Dancing With the Stars…it’s Week Six of the competition.
It’s imperative we all support Bristol as much as possible to give this wonderful young lady as much time up on that stage as she wants…she’s earned this moment in the sun, after everything awful the Left has done to her. Seeing how proud all the Palins are of young Bristol makes us eager to vote and vote and vote for her every week.
If any of you out there ever wondered what it felt like to be a Democrat, you have your chance every Monday because you can vote multiple times for Bristol on ABC.
First, during the show, the very moment the program begins you can vote up to ten times from every phone you own: 1-800-868-3407
Then, after you are done phone voting, fire up the computer and vote as many times as you’re allowed with each email address you own: http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars
Get all of your Palin-supporting friends to vote and vote and vote.
It will be great to keep Bristol on the program through November…so that the Palins will have a family member on the air through the debut of Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC come November 14th.
That program will carry the Palins through the holidays…and the start of Governor Palin’s book tour…which will wrap up around February 6th, Super Bowl Sunday, when we expect Governor Palin to announce her candidacy for president…on Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday.
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Here’s something one Bristol Palin fan is doing in Missouri to celebrate Bristol’s time on Dancing with the Stars.
The bakery “Cookies by Katie” has been making Bristol Palin Dancing with the Stars cookies to munch on while people watch the program each week. They sent us photos of their “Team Bristol” cookies, which we think are just darling:
There’s a Mamma Grizzly, a Palin moose, a Dancing Star and Shoe, a map of Alaska, a little fancy footwork, a mirror ball trophy, an American flag, and an “I can see the trophy from my house” nod to a clever slogan Bristol’s been using on her Facebook.
The “Team Bristol” package is $22 plus shipping.
The cookies are delicious…like a sugar cookie…and are a creative way of having a little fun while watching Alaska’s favorite First Daughter dance for the nation.
