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MinnPost - Norm Coleman on 'Newshour' on filibuster/comity

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MinnPost - Norm Coleman on 'Newshour' on filibuster/comityNorm Coleman on 'Newshour' on filibuster/comity
By Eric Black | Published Mon, Feb 8 2010 1:52 pm

Whoops. Wrote this on Friday but I didn't quite publish.

Playing off the swearing-in of Scott Brown, officially ending the 60-Dem Senate, the "PBS Newshour" on Thursday put up a segment about the filibuster and related issues and their panel included Minnesota's own Norm Coleman (plus MN native Norm Ornstein, plus our neighbor, former Sen. Tom Daschle of SoDak).

Coleman, unsurprisingly since it has been one of his signatures, said the answer was to reach across the aisle to get things done. You listen for yourself, but it sounded to me like he was putting the onus on the Dems to do the reaching, not sure why.

Me, I don't hear anyone talking straight about the need for filibuster reform, except maybe in the setup piece. But I'm becoming obsessed. Every time people talk about the filibuster as a guarantor or full debate, I want someone to say: It isn't about full debate. You could easily guarantee full debate and still guarantee that bills eventually get a vote. The issue not whether debate should be squelched. The issue is whether 41 senators should be able to squelch 59 from passing a bill.

Anyway, I'm putting this up mostly because of the unexpected Coleman sighting. Also notice, the think tank that Coleman will be running now has a name. The American Action Network. It will be, as described in the Wall Street Journal, "a new political group with the goal of organizing grass-roots support and raising funds ahead of the 2010 midterm elections."

OK, here's video. It's 16 minutes long. The panel that includes Coleman starts about four and a half minutes in, after the setup. (During the setup, from the Parallel Realities department, note that Repub. Sen. Jon Kyl, expresses his pain over the cheap shot that Obama took at Senate Repubs when the prez said, in the SOTU address, that the Repubs were demanding 60 votes on everything and always saying no. And, of course, in a strict sense, that is true. Repubs have not filibustered everything (nor did Obama say they did. He said that if they were going to demand 60 votes for everything, then -- given their new cloture-proof minority -- the must share the responsibility of governing.)

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Rep. John Carter (R-31) Fax: 202-225-5886
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-32) Fax: 202-225-5878

Utah
Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. (R) 801-538-1000
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Overtime Chapter 4: In Minnesota's Coleman vs. Franken U.S. Senate race, the system worked. But here's how to make it better....

Overtime Chapter 4: In Minnesota's Coleman vs. Franken U.S. Senate race, the system worked. But here's how to make it better.

By Jim Ragsdale
jragsdale@pioneerpress.com

Updated: 09/25/2009 10:23:55 PM CDT

After enduring eight months of lawyering and politicking, soberly examining ink-blotted ballots and having its courtrooms overrun by recount lawyers, Minnesota earned high marks for the way it managed the Coleman-Franken recount fracas.

The question is: Do we ever want to do it again?

The ordeal that resulted in sending Democrat Al Franken to Washington to replace Republican Norm Coleman may not be the kind of spotlight any state seeks. But it produced a trove of real-time research into how the nation's highest-voting state runs its elections and where the strengths and weaknesses are.

A consensus is forming that a tune-up rather than an overhaul is in order. The idea that Minnesota should chuck its super-deliberative process in favor of a tiebreaking do-over has not taken root.

The most widely accepted proposal for change is to simplify and standardize the filing and counting of absentee ballots — the "hanging chads" of Minnesota. Some have discussed compressing the post-election process, and others believe the winner of the recount should be seated while his opponent appeals.

Allegations of too-loose registration rules and the potential for fraud, championed by a conservative group, got no boost from Coleman-Franken, which found errors and screw-ups but nothing approaching intentional deceit.

But neither did the idea that the state should make voting easier. After fretting over mismatched signatures, unregistered witnesses and the technicalities

CHAPTER 1

Part I: The story of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race

Part II: The long, brutal fight to Senate Election Day in Minnesota

Part III: Election Night -- the end was just the beginning for Franken, Coleman

CHAPTER 2

Part I. For Franken, Coleman, lawyers, "things are going to get really ugly",

Part II. The ballots in the trunk and other myths, exposed

Part III. "Punch them in the nose"

Part IV. Ballots disappear: And so does Coleman's lead

Part V."This is going to be more intense than I thought"

Cast of characters: Chapter 2

CHAPTER 3

How Al Franken's attorneys turned a tight senate election into a courtroom rout CHAPTER 4

The system worked. But it could be better.

How Minnesota's elections could change

such thing as an absolutely perfect election,'' Foley said.

Minnesota benefited from clear laws, which set up a three-step recount-trial-appeal, laid out limits on the reasons an absentee ballot could be rejected and even provided a guide to gauge "voter intent" for oddly marked ballots. Minnesota runs decentralized elections — it has since territorial days, when New Englanders brought their ideas of local government with them — and local variations became Coleman's strongest issue.

The state's judiciary stepped into the spotlight. Three separate panels of jurists, all of them appointed or elected under a system that traditionally emphasizes qualifications over partisanship, looked at the evidence in public forums and acted as a check on each other's work.

One example involves events of Dec. 2-3, the point at which the recount was in great danger of losing all credibility.

Ramsey County announced it had discovered uncounted ballots in a Maplewood precinct, and Minneapolis announced it had lost already-tallied votes. The recommendation of election officials in each case — to add the Maplewood votes to the recount and to go with the Election Night count in Minneapolis — benefited Franken and set off nationwide alarms that the fix was in.

But each succeeding panel — the state canvassing board, which oversaw the recount; the three-judge contest panel, which heard the trial of Coleman's appeal; and the state Supreme Court, hearing the case on appeal from the panel's decision — looked at one or both of those decisions. They were accepted, grudgingly, as the best fixes for bad mistakes.

The election wasn't stolen, as the Wall Street Journal editorial page argues. The lights were on bright, and there were dozens of eminent witnesses. The first lesson to take away is that Minnesota's recount was long, tortuous, expensive — and eminently fair.

LESSONS FROM FLORIDA AND WASHINGTON

Florida and the state of Washington went through similar contested elections and have had many years to fix their systems.

What can we learn from them?

Florida in 2000 was the site of the infamous George W. Bush-Al Gore presidential recount. In Washington in 2004, Democrat Christine Gregoire won the governorship over Republican Dino Rossi after a hand recount and appeal. Those two races, like Minnesota's, were decided by margins in the neighborhood of one-hundredth of 1 percent.

One lesson we could consider would be whether to fill the seat after the recount, even though the appeal is continuing.

Gregoire took office while Rossi pursued an appeal for six months, eventually losing. The U.S. Supreme Court halted further recounts in Florida in time for Bush to be sworn in on Inauguration Day. But Minnesota had an open seat for six months while the court contest and appeal limped along.

We could learn to address our problems carefully — because the cure may be worse than the disease.

Florida dumped its infamous "hanging chad" punch cards and "butterfly ballots" but had a new problem with touch-screen machines — used in a close congressional race in which voters complained that they couldn't see one candidate's name on the ballot. Florida switched again, this time to optical-scanning machines with a paper ballot, like Minnesota uses.

We could learn to admit our mistakes.

Washington state no longer allows what is called "ballot enhancement,'' in which damaged or questionable ballots were marked by election workers. It has clarified how to determine voter intent but also expanded voting by mail, which accounted for 9 in 10 votes in 2006. After a judge determined there were 1,689 illegally cast votes, the state said it made an aggressive effort to purge felons and duplicate names from its registration system and to reform procedures in Seattle's King County.

THE ABSENTEE BALLOT PROBLEM

Florida and Washington began their post-close-race reforms by addressing the most visible problems. In Minnesota, that would be our absentee ballots, both the way they are filled out and the way election officials review and count them.

More Minnesotans voted by absentee in 2008 than ever before. To ensure security, an absentee ballot requires evidence of matching signatures, witnessing by another registered voter and other checks. Some 12,000 to 13,000 were rejected for not meeting the requirements.

Minnesota does not have "provisional" voting, in which a person whose registration is questioned is allowed to cast a vote, subject to later proof of timely registration. That means the pool of rejected absentees was the only source of "new" votes, if it could be shown they should not have been rejected.

Problem 1: Roughly 11 percent of the rejected absentees were determined to have been rejected in error. Those votes should have been counted but weren't. They were identified in a statewide sorting process performed by nonpartisan election officials.

Problem 2: While there is a state law governing the grounds for rejecting absentee ballots, not all jurisdictions checked signatures scrupulously or made sure the witness was registered in Minnesota.

Problem 3: Once the improperly rejected absentee ballots (which I called IRABs) were identified by election officials, the Minnesota Supreme Court gave the campaigns a veto over which of those should be counted.

Problem 4: Once the Franken team (which was then trailing) pushed the absentee issue forward, there was no clear law or precedent saying what should be done — whether they should be reviewed and recounted and, if so, by whom. It was unclear, even, whether the campaigns could have the names of those whose votes were rejected.

It took attorney general's opinions, a trip to Ramsey County District Court and a Supreme Court ruling to get the IRABs identified and counted.

The election vessel sprung a rather large leak. So what is the fix?

State Rep. Laura Brod, R-New Prague, who co-sponsored election-reform bills this year, said this shows the need for "greater consistency in how ballots are counted." Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and others support using a numerical code instead of a signature to ensure security and dropping the requirement that the witness be a registered voter.

In addition, the processing of absentees would be done by county or city absentee-ballot boards — not by overworked precinct workers. That, presumably, would allow for more uniformity. Many voting jurisdictions, including Ramsey County, already do that.

Some of these provisions were in an elections bill that became embroiled in an unrelated election-law fight and which Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed. The vetoed bill also addressed problem No. 3 by preventing the courts from allowing candidates to decide which absentee ballots should be counted.

This is a problem that can be solved, or at least made less severe, all sides seem to agree. But election law is always contentious. And the courts relieved some of the pressure to act by saying, in essence, that local variations in the administration of the state's absentee ballot law did not violate Coleman's rights.

WHAT WORKED

We pause for some good news: Most of the 2008 U.S. Senate election went off without a problem.

Voters filled in ovals next to their preferred candidate and fed their sheets into scanning machines and the counts were automatically recorded. Joe Mansky, Ramsey County elections manager, estimated 99.9 percent of all votes were cast and counted without any problems.

Yet, to view the process from a distance or through the prism of partisanship, you would think Minnesota was foundering.

As an example: Election Night totals reported by the media are clearly labeled by the secretary of state as "unofficial." This is because they have not yet been double-checked by election officials and approved by local canvassing boards.

Cities, counties and boards went through and checked their numbers and forwarded any changes along to the secretary of state's office, which regularly updated its totals. This began to look like a conspiracy when it gradually ate away at Coleman's lead.

But the adjustments were sand castles that would be washed away once the recount started and each man's total reverted to zero.

Voters who circled the oval or used a check mark or an "X" generally did not have their vote read by the scanner on Election Day. But during the recount, state voter-intent law orders the canvassing board to count these "squiggled" ballots if at all possible. The board also tried to determine intent for ballots with ovals filled in and also marked with an X and for those with odd names such as "lizard people" written on them.

This process drew a lot of snickering. The voter-intent law is criticized by some as akin to fixing the messy test papers of high-schoolers. One Florida columnist said this meant Minnesota surpassed Florida's chad-checking in electoral weirdness.

But this was an example of the board — the Democratic secretary of state, two Supreme Court justices and two district court judges — trying hard to follow the law.

SHOULD THE SEAT BE LEFT OPEN?

With every noncontroversial vote recounted by hand, the squiggled ballots and IRABs added in, with the Minneapolis and Maplewood votes counted, Franken was certified as the candidate with the most votes by the canvassing board Jan. 5. The new Congress took office the next day.

So why didn't Al Franken join them?

Well, we like process in Minnesota. We like to sit in airless basement rooms on glorious spring days and talk policy. Our recount is what one wag dubbed a "Minnesota Montessori Model," in which everyone gets a chance to speak as long as he or she wants.

Coleman exercised his right under state law to file a contest of the election — a trial of the election before a three-judge panel. He would also appeal the panel's decision to the state Supreme Court. Franken, had he been behind, probably would have done likewise. That added six months to the stalemate.

State law requires both the secretary of state, currently a Democrat, and the governor, currently a Republican, to sign an election certificate allowing a Senate candidate to be seated. Both refused to do so while Coleman's appeals were pending. Franken asked the state Supreme Court to order them to sign, and the court refused.

In the 2004 recount in the state of Washington, Democrat Gregoire took office while her opponent, Rossi, challenged the result in court. The judge hearing the case had the authority to remove her and seat Rossi if he found evidence that overturned the recount results. He ruled for Gregoire.

The issue is: Should Minnesota adopt some kind of "provisional" certification so a candidate who has won a recount can take the seat while the appeals continue? Ritchie favors this, saying most states allow for it. This fixes the problem of nonrepresentation during the long appeal.

But the Washington ruling showed judges are unwilling to overturn even the most questionable elections. And in today's hyperpartisan atmosphere, perhaps it's better to have an empty seat than one both sides lay claim to.

It turns out the world does not end when a state has only one U.S. senator for six months. The Citizens Jury, a group that heard testimony on Minnesota's election system in the summer, decided against recommending a provisional certification, preferring to wait until a winner is determined.

SHOULD THERE BE A DEADLINE?

There was no deadline on Minnesota's process. The court contest was open-ended; Coleman, who brought the case, was granted as much time as he needed (and could afford) to bring in evidence that would overturn the canvassing board's result.

Only one state — New Hampshire, in 1974 — apparently has taken longer to seat a U.S. senator in a disputed recount. "Why is this a good thing?" asks Steven Schier, political science professor at Carleton College. "Why are we proud of this?"

Was time the enemy of credibility in taking the election farther from Nov. 4 and deeper into legal minutiae? That's why Brod said she co-sponsored a runoff bill: because it produces a win at the ballot box, not in the courtroom.

Or did an open-ended process add to the public acceptance of the result by giving each man ample time — the Minnesota Montessori Model — to make his case? The legal process required the candidates to back up their political spin with facts and evidence.

Some believe the time frame could be compressed without stifling the candidate's rights.

Foley, the election law expert, said, "Minnesota didn't necessarily need three fair processes — maybe one or two would have been enough.'' He counts the canvassing board as Step 1, the court contest as Step 2 and the Supreme Court appeal as Step 3. He believes combining steps 1 and 2 would allow Minnesota to certify a winner by early January, in time to take the seat.

Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, who worked on this year's vetoed election bill and is trying to put together a bill for next year, agreed that one alternative is to combine the canvassing board and court contest into a single hearing. "That would be a way of quickening the process without getting rid of the safeguards,'' he said.

State. Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, who preceded Ritchie as secretary of state, believes there should be a strict division between the recount and the court contest. "A recount has one purpose only — to take those ballots counted on Election Night,'' she said. She believes the canvassing board erred by delving into rejected absentee ballots — a legal issue that should have been left for the courts. Under her division of labor, it would be difficult to merge the court contest with the administrative recount.

WHEN IT'S THIS CLOSE, WHY NOT A RUNOFF?

There is one final argument to consider: that the vote-counting instrument is not calibrated finely enough to handle margins measured down to hundredths of 1 percent. Fixing the absentee ballots won't change that, this view holds, and a tiebreaking mechanism such as a runoff or even a coin toss is the only legitimate answer.

Among these dissenters is Schier, a veteran observer of Minnesota's political scene.

"The state courts did what they had to do,'' he said. "But all they did was ratify a false certainty.''

He and Charles Seife, a science writer and New York University journalism professor, argue that the number of mistakes — everything from expected miscounts to improperly rejected absentees to the errors in Minneapolis and Maplewood to normal miscounts by hand and machine — greatly exceeded the margin separating the candidates.

"When the margin is this small, the voters' preferences isn't what determines the outcome,'' said Seife, who came to Minnesota during the recount and is writing a book about numbers in politics. "It's the whims of the legal system."

Seife praises Minnesota's recount and the fairness of its process. But he said Minnesota was attempting the impossible. "You can't measure a bacterium with a school ruler," he said.

Marc Elias, Franken's lead recount lawyer, said a runoff would not "yield greater confidence" than Minnesota's process did. A runoff is expensive for taxpayers. It is removed from the Election Day energy — in this case, from the Barack Obama factor — and generally has a lower turnout. It creates the opportunity for more special-interest advertising and also can end in a razor-close margin.

The election errors were fully reviewed. The recount and court contest looked at every questioned ballot — several times, and with several sets of eyeballs. Judgments made by successive bipartisan panels of judges suggested a consensus.

The Brod runoff bill called for a new election if the margin was less than one-eighth of 1 percent — which would have been a margin of about 2,300 votes in Coleman-Franken. The Citizens Jury considered the idea of a runoff and rejected it on a close vote.

THE UNENDING FIGHT FOR VOTES

Election law is written by elected officials. There are no noncontroversial election-law changes. Debate over how we vote is continuous, and Coleman vs. Franken has now become part of it.

Conservatives tend to worry about fraud and the security of our voting process and are likely to support requirements that voters present a picture ID at the polls.

Liberals tend to worry about removing barriers and are more likely to support such measures as "early voting," which allows voters to cast ballots in central polling places weeks before Election Day.

A conservative group called the Minnesota Majority has been critical of Ritchie's office because computerized registration databases do not match voter lists and contained many names of ineligible voters. They also note that thousands of registration cards are returned each year because no one lives at the stated address. They argue for requiring voters to produce a picture ID and against Minnesota's same-day registration law.

Sen. Katie Sieben, the Democrat who sponsored the vetoed bill in the Senate, said she draws the opposite conclusion from Coleman-Franken. Because more and more people aren't able to vote on Election Day, she wants to push for early voting so these people can cast a ballot securely, using a voting machine, probably at their county or city offices.

Pawlenty vetoed a bill that would have fixed the IRAB problem because it had no Republican votes. It had no Republican votes because Democratic-Farmer-Labor legislators wouldn't accept a picture ID amendment. The two sides are warily approaching each other during the offseason to see what they can agree on.

But let us remember the Florida rule — every "reform" can create new problems.

For example: The picture ID bill introduced in the Minnesota House by Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, provides for voters without ID to cast "provisional" ballots and prove their identity later. Imagine how the lawyers in Coleman-Franken would have swarmed around those uncounted provisional voters and how hotly contested each "proof" of identity would be.

MY TWO CENTS

There are some consensus fixes that could help iron out specific problems such as absentee voting. Many of these were in the vetoed bill and are likely to reappear. They would make it easier for voters to fill out absentee applications and easier for election officials to decide whether to accept them.

The one-half of 1 percent margin to trigger an automatic hand recount — 14,500 votes in this race — is likely to be cut in half and could be lowered further. An earlier primary (ours is now in September) seems to be a likely byproduct of Coleman-Franken, and military officials are encouraging states to move primaries up so general-election ballots can be mailed to troops on time.

But there's still that "unofficial" vote total. In super-close races, once all precincts have reported, further changes always raise suspicion. Transparency is a tried-and-true solution. Could the secretary of state request and publish reasons for such changes?

There are bigger changes — less likely to happen — that would shorten the time frame and deal with the empty-seat problem.

The idea of compressing the administrative role of the canvassing board and the legal role of the contest panel into a single step could lead to a much earlier decision and one that takes into account matters of law as well as the administrative details of the recount.

That could strengthen the case for seating the certified winner even if the opponent appeals, similar to the procedure in Washington state. That would mean the seat would be empty for a shorter period of time, or perhaps not at all.

It also would mean the healing benefit that time provided us would be gone; that lawyers would have to make their case quickly, perhaps before all facts are known; and that Minnesota would have to commit to the possibility that Senator A would serve for six months and then be replaced by Senator B.

Under any system, the worst case will happen and the coin will land on its side. Subjective judgment will be required. We will need a decision-making process with integrity.

Clear law and good judging saved us. Whatever path it takes to fix its elections and recounts, Minnesota needs to preserve the integrity and independence of its judiciary. Minnesota uses a merit-selection process to fill district court vacancies, and governors tend to follow this rule in filling appellate vacancies. While judges do run for re-election, the partisan endorsements and big-money advertising that have occurred in judicial races in other states have not taken root here.

Imagine how we would have felt if Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson, a leader of the canvassing board's recount discussions, had just come off a highly partisan election.

And there is still the wacky idea I started off with — that we should consider whether a recount and court battle, as fair as it was, is the best solution for super-close races.

Let's remember: This is a 46-year storm. The last such contested recount of this magnitude in Minnesota was the gubernatorial battle of 1962. While there have been many recounts in close races for lesser offices, a once-every-other-generation problem does not call for ripping the system apart.

It does call, however, for a new way of dealing with electoral emergencies.

"Let's go find the votes,'' Franken lawyer Elias told an associate in the days after the election. He found them fair and square. The recount and court battles that awarded the seat to Franken were also fair, and he is the legitimate U.S. senator.

But winning in the courts is far less satisfying in a democracy than winning at the ballot box. With all its faults, a tie-breaking runoff would settle super-close races in a way everyone can understand.

That seems like something smart Minnesota minds could figure out, in our meandering, thoughtful way, in the next 46 years.

"The bottom line is, as much as it pains me to say it, we probably did this as well as it could be done,'' said Fritz Knaak, a Coleman attorney who fought the recount battle from the beginning until his man lost. "There's no crying need, coming from all of this, for massive reform — unless (the reform) is a runoff.''

That's where I come down. Yes. It was fun while it lasted. We did our best. And no — let's not do it again.

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2009-05-09T03:26:00.000-07:00

FairVote Minnesota Media Advisory

For Immediate Release: May 8, 2009

Contact: Jeanne Massey, mip://074874d0/jeanne.massey@fairvotemn.org; 763-807-2550

Minnesota's top court to hear Ranked Choice (Instant Runoff) Voting case, May 13

MINNEAPOLIS – Next week the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Minnesota Voters Alliance v. The City of Minneapolis and FairVote Minnesota.

When: May 13, 9:00 - 10:00 am

Where: Courtroom 300, Minnesota, Judicial Center, 25 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul.

In 2006, Minneapolis voters approved the use of Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting) by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, 65 percent to 35 percent. The implementation of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in Minneapolis was challenged in Minnesota Voters Alliance v City of Minneapolis (27-cv-08-15) filed in Hennepin County District Court in December 2007. FairVote Minnesota, a non-partisan advocacy group, intervened in the case to join Minneapolis as a co-defendant. James Dorsey and Nicole Moen of the Fredrikson & Byron law firm and Keith Halleland of the Halleland, Lewis, Nilan and Johnson law firm serve as lead co-counsel in the case.

“We welcomed the decision by the Court to move quickly to settle this case,” said Jeanne Massey, executive director of FairVote Minnesota. “We fully expect that the Supreme Court will affirm Judge McGunnigle’s decision that RCV is supported by the Minnesota and the United States Consitutions and that Minneapolis can move forward in using this voting method for municipal elections beginning this November.

In a 30 page ruling rejecting the lawsuit, Judge McGunnigle wrote, “The City of Minneapolis has an important interest in respecting the democratic process, and the citizens of Minneapolis democratically voted for IRV by referendum” and concluded that the plaintiffs “have failed to demonstrate that IRV is either unconstitutional or contrary to public policy”.

The District Court decision was consistent with the outcomes of similar cases in other states, most notably Johnson v City of New York (1937) Moore v Election Commissioners of Cambridge (1941) and Stephenson v Ann Arbor Bd. of Canvassers (1975). In each case, RCV was upheld under the state constitution and/or election laws.

RCV is in use in several jurisdictions across the country and Minneapolis is poised to begin using this voting method in November for municipal elections. Additional cities may soon follow, in Saint Paul where a local referendum is slated to be on the ballot this year and in Duluth, where a referendum campaign has begun.

FairVote Minnesota was founded in 1996 to work for better democracy through public education and advocating progressive voting systems that lead to greater competitiveness, better representation and more participation.

NOTE TO EDITORS AND PRODUCERS: FairVote Minnesota representatives below are available to Twin Cities news organizations to provide additional perspective on next week’s hearing and other issues related to RCV. Click here for background on the court case and here for more information about Ranked Choice Voting.

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2009-03-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

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	More than 4 months after the election, the Minnesota Senate race between Republican Norm Colman and Democrat Al Franken is still undecided, despite a lengthy recount and trial. Two journalists discuss the race's details and whether a decision may be forthcoming.

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2009-01-09T12:58:00.000-08:00

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Bush and Palin are jointly asking the Supreme Court to re-interpret the Clean Water Act so that the mining industry can dump its wastes in streams, rivers and lakes throughout America. They want permission to kill every fish and organism in a particular waterway if necessary.

The only obstacle to achieving their ambitions is Earthjustice.

Arguing the case is Earthjustice attorney Tom Waldo, whose appearance before the Supreme Court climaxes a successful, years-long battle in lower courts to prevent a mining company from killing a pristine Alaska lake with chemically treated waste. It's this case the high court is hearing on Monday.

Tom Waldo, Earthjustice attorney

But, as Tom knows all too well, the stakes are much higher than one small lake. An adverse decision would make a shambles of the Clean Water Act and the waters it is supposed to protect.

The threat is especially imminent in Alaska, whose governor openly promotes unrestrained dumping of mine tailings because of the mining boom it could ignite. The first venture to benefit would be the proposed Pebble Mine—a monster gold mine planned to operate above Alaska's remarkable Bristol Bay, home to the world's richest sockeye salmon fishery. Dumping mine wastes into its waters could be disastrous.

As a supporter of Earthjustice, you have the opportunity to read a live report from the Supreme Court on Monday through our blog, unEarthed. The case will be heard at 10 a.m. (EST), and we expect to have our first blog report shortly after noon.

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2009-01-01T07:23:00.000-08:00

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.org

FAN Bulletin 1031: We came very close

January 1, 2009

Dear SHARON,

First a HAPPY and SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR to all fluoridation fighters wherever you are.

Second a HUGE thank you to all of those who gave so generously (some more than once!) to our fundraising drive for next year's work to rid the world of this fraud. We didn't quite make our goal - but we came very close. At the stroke of midnight we had raised $37,183, just $1,817 shy of our goal. If you remember we needed to reach $39,000 by midnight Dec 31 to receive another $1000 from a very generous donor. The good news, is that this person was so impressed with our overall effort that he has thrown in the extra $1000 any way.

So with that $!000 and with 2 donations this morning ($70) our grand total is $38,243 from 325 donors.

To put this into perspective, at this time last year - under much more favorable economic circumstances - we had raised $33,023 from 193 donors.

We are extremely excited by the large increase in the number of donors over last year.

We are also excited about our prospects in 2009. Over the next few days we will be outlining some of the ways we will continue the effort to end fluoridation. One of the big ways of course is with our new DVD. We will get this (and other thank you gifts) to donors as soon as we possibly can. Meanwhile, we would appreciate hearing from our friends around the world summarizing their battles and successes they had this last year and their hopes for the coming year.

But today for us - we are going to get some rest. Next bulletin on January 2.

Thank you again for everything you do and being part of the team determined to end fluoridation worldwide.

Paul Connett

Center fo Public Integrity_Broken Government

2008-12-22T09:28:00.000-08:00

If you have trouble reading this e-mail, go to http://www.publicintegrity.org/enews/1095/

From the Center's Executive Director

Sharon,

The Center for Public Integrity is completing one of the most successful years in its nearly 20-year history.

Thanks to your support during 2008, we generated 7 major investigative projects, 70 individual reports, 4 searchable databases, and 9 podcasts. The Center was cited more than 1,000 times in other major media outlets. We’ve seen record traffic to our website and our daily PaperTrail blog. And, we received 4 prestigious national journalism awards. Most recently, our groundbreaking Broken Government investigation identified some 128 failures of government over the last eight years. It has been widely cited in year-end reporting and assessments of the Bush Administration’s legacy.

Read more below for more coverage on our latest project, Broken Government.

We couldn’t do what we do without your help. With friends of the Center for Public Integrity like you, we’ll continue this success through 2009 and beyond, despite a challenging economic environment.

Thanks again for your very important backing and best wishes for the holidays and the New Year.

Bill Buzenberg
Executive Director

Top Investigation

Broken Government
Just how bad is our government dysfunction? In an effort to answer that question, CPI embarked on an examination of the worst systematic failures of the federal government over the past eight years. In Broken Government, a comprehensive assessment of these failures, we found more than 125 examples of government breakdown in areas as diverse as education, energy, the environment, the military and veterans affairs, health care, financial management, consumer and worker safety, and more. While some are, by now, depressingly familiar, many are less well-known but equally distressing. And though the list is diverse, it also reflects some recurring — and troubling — themes. Read more - Listen to the podcast

Obama Citizenship is still ?

2008-12-18T08:14:00.000-08:00

Obama citizenship issue has merit, AOL poll says

In all, 43 states agree that there could be merit

Dear Sharon:

Here's the very latest from WorldNetDaily -- the Internet's premiere independent news website. You can always count on WND for the hottest and most important stories, the ones that make a difference to you -- seven days a week.

As always, we appreciate your readership and support.

Sincerely,

The WorldNetDaily team

Judge Kathleen Gearin_Canvass Board MN

2008-12-17T13:28:00.000-08:00

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Hometown Paper Twncities.com Obama's citizenship to USSC

2008-12-04T17:59:00.000-08:00

Suit contesting Barack Obama's citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's election.

Sharon4Anderson

Saint Paul, MN

If more persons would buzz these articles, We the People must know what is going on http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:pioneer_press...

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Government 4 the people by the people http://sharon4council.blogspot.com
If the USSC refuse's to comply with the Rule of Law, Constitutional Guarantee's, then the Congress
must override that Branch re: Separation of Powers

Obama_Constitutional Contest US Supreme Court 5Dec08

2008-12-04T12:42:00.000-08:00

Suit contesting Barack Obama's citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court - TwinCities.com

Suit contesting Barack Obama's citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court

By James Janega
Chicago Tribune

Updated: 12/04/2008 12:40:04 PM CST

CHICAGO _ The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's election.

The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer's supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's highest court.

The suit originally sought to stay the election, and was filed on behalf of Leo Donofrio against New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells.

Legal experts say the appeal has little chance of succeeding, despite appearing on the court's schedule. Legal records show it is only the tip of an iceberg of nationwide efforts seeking to derail Obama's election over accusations that he either wasn't born a U.S. citizen or that he later renounced his citizenship in Indonesia.

The Obama campaign has maintained that he was born in Hawaii, has an authentic birth certificate, and is a "natural-born" U.S. citizen. Hawaiian officials agree.

Among those filing lawsuits is Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama in the 2004 Illinois Senate race. Keyes' suit seeks to halt certification of votes in California. Another suit by a Kentucky man seeks to have a federal judge review Obama's original birth certificate, which Hawaiian officials say is locked in a state vault.

Other suits have been filed by Andy Martin, whose case was dismissed in Hawaii, and by an Ohio man whose case also was dismissed. Five more suits,

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A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a "conference" at the U.S. Supreme Court on December 5 — this Friday!

Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they review cases and decide which ones to accept for formal review. If only four of the nine justices vote to hear the case in full, oral arguments may be scheduled.

Here's How YOU Can Help:

You and 125,000 others have already signed the WND petition on this issue. If even a tiny percentage of you can respond to help us take the next step, the justices will know that millions of concerned Americans believe passionately that the Constitution must be followed to the letter.

Because the Supreme Court justices do not accept faxes or emails or telephone calls, there is only one way to make your voice heard in time for Friday's preliminary hearing — overnight delivery of your letters.

To make that process simpler, more convenient and less expensive, WND has devised a plan to get the following letter sent on your behalf by FedEx to each of the nine justices by Friday's hearing:

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Dear Associate Justice Thomas:

If the Constitution doesn't mean precisely what it says, then America is no longer a nation under the rule of law.

A nation no longer under the rule of law is, by definition, under the rule of men.

Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution clearly stipulates "No person except a natural born Citizen" shall be eligible to serve as president of the United States. That statement has clear meaning, and the Supreme Court of the United States is one of the controlling legal authorities in ensuring that the Constitution is enforced - even if doing so may prove awkward.

With the Electoral College set to make its determination Dec. 15 that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. be the next president of the United States, the Supreme Court is holding a conference Friday to review a case challenging his eligibility for the office based on Article 2, Section 1.

I urge you to take this matter most seriously - and judge it only on the clear, unambiguous words of the Constitution: A president must, at the very least, be a "natural born citizen" of the United States.

If you agree that this clear constitutional requirement still matters, the Supreme Court must use its authority to establish, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. qualifies for the office under that standard.

There is grave, widespread and rapidly growing concern throughout the American public that this constitutional requirement is being overlooked and enforcement neglected by state and federal election authorities. It's up to the Supreme Court to dispel all doubt that America's next president is truly a natural born citizen of the United States.

I urge you to honor the Constitution in this matter and uphold the public trust.

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MN Senate08Election Orders

2008-11-26T14:12:00.000-08:00

Affiants Challenge Constitutionality Canvass Boards Judges

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Minnesota Senate Seat ’08 Election Orders

Al Franken for Senate vs. Ramsey County, Joseph Mansky, and John Does and Jane Does- 11-19-08 Order

Norm Coleman and Coleman for Senate '08 vs. Cynthia Reichert, in her capacity as the Director of Elections of the City of Minneapolis; John Doe and Jane Doe, Unnamed Minnesota county auditors or Minnesota election officials- 11/10/08 Order

In the Matter of the Stearns County Auditor's Petition for Ex Parte Order Securing Ballots- 11/7/08 Order

We The People_Obama Birth Certificate

2008-11-23T07:09:00.000-08:00

We The People Foundation

Nov 12th,2008US Constitution - Google Search

Second Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama

SEE THE EVIDENCE

In our two prior articles we discussed our intention to publish a full-page open letter to President-Elect Obama in USA TODAY. In effect, the open letter would be a Petition for Redress of a violation of the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution (Article II, Section 1).

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a citizen’s Right to Petition officials of the Government for Redress (i.e., for a Remedy) of alleged violations of the Constitution. Inherent in the Right to Redress is the citizen’s Right to a response.

Sharon signed Petition Release Obama's Birth Certificate

2008-11-22T12:18:00.000-08:00

LEGAL NOTICE TO THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, GUB.TIM.PAWLENTY,AG LORI SWANSO,SOS MARK RITCHIE,87 COUNTIES VIA STATE LEGISLATURES, MEDIA ET AL

MINNESOTA NATIVES ARE RESTLESS FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY WELCOME ?(Sharon4Anderson?) Homegrown/Hometown St.Paul MN.InternetFreeSpeech_2

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Obama Birth Certificate Petition
PETITION FOR PUBLIC RELEASE OF
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

To: Electoral College, Congress of the United States, Federal Elections Commission, U.S. Supreme Court, President of the United States, other controlling legal authorities

Whereas, by requirement of the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, no one can be sworn into office as president of the United States without being a natural born citizen;

Whereas, there is sufficient controversy within the citizenry of the United States as to whether presidential election winner Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii as he claims;

Whereas, Barack Obama has refused repeated calls to release publicly his entire Hawaiian birth certificate, which would include the actual hospital that performed the delivery;

Whereas, lawsuits filed in several states seeking only proof of the basic minimal standard of eligibility have been rebuffed;

Whereas, Hawaii at the time of Obama's birth allowed births that took place in foreign countries to be registered in Hawaii;

Whereas, concerns that our government is not taking this constitutional question seriously will result in diminished confidence in our system of free and fair elections;

SIGN THE PETITION

We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in demanding that the constitutional eligibility requirement be taken seriously and that any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter examine the complete birth certificate of Barack Obama, including the actual city and hospital of birth, and make that document available to the American people for inspection.

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Sharon signed Majority Election Integrity Petition MN

2008-11-22T11:42:00.001-08:00

Minnesota Majority - Standing Together for Traditional Values

Election Integrity Should be a Priotity

Dan's Blog

By Dan McGrath on 11/17/2008

Action Alert

Sign the Election Integrity Petition

Whereas the integrity of our elections is the foundation of our republic; and

Whereas the lack of adequate controls, verifications and audits in Minnesota's voter registration process make it highly vulnerable to errors and abuse; and

Whereas a review of Minnesota's voter registration rolls have revealed specific examples of suspected errors, omissions, inconsistencies; and

Whereas Minnesota's same-day voter registration process makes it impossible for an election official to certify that a new registrant is legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot; and

Whereas Minnesota has made substantial investments to ensure the integrity of its ballot counting process and should apply this same standard to its voter registration process; and

Whereas 24 other states have mitigated some of these problems by enacting laws requiring voters to present identification prior to casting their ballot; and

Whereas every Minnesota citizen who is legally eligible to vote deserves to know that their vote will be accurately counted and not undermined by gaps in the voter registration process.

Therefore, I do hereby call for an immediate investigation into apparent irregularities in Minnesota's electoral system and I call upon my elected officials to enact changes in Minnesota law to ensure a more secure, accurate and transparent election system, including:

Require voters to produce a government-issued photographic identification in order to vote in an election; and
Require the Secretary of State to employ specific data verification and validation techniques to ensure the accuracy and integrity of Minnesota's voter rolls; and
Require the Secretary of State to flag voter registration records that fail to meet a specific standard for accuracy and completeness so that these voters can be "challenged" by county election officials at the polls; and
Require an annual independent audit of the voter registration system; and
Require voters to register at least 30 days prior to an election so that all voters can be certified as being legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot on Election Day.

Take Action

Complete the form below to sign the petition and send a message to your elected officials demanding improvements in our electoral process. Ignore the false arguments used by some elected officials who say these recommendations will disenfranchise some voters.� Real disenfranchisement occurs when a citizen's vote is undermined by an election process that invites errors and abuse.

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Whereas the integrity of our elections is the foundation of our republic; and

Whereas the lack of adequate controls, verifications and audits in Minnesota's voter registration process make it highly vulnerable to errors and abuse; and

Whereas a review of Minnesota's voter registration rolls have revealed specific examples of suspected errors, omissions, inconsistencies; and

Whereas Minnesota's same-day voter registration process makes it impossible for an election official to certify that a new registrant is legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot; and

Whereas Minnesota has made substantial investments to ensure the integrity of its ballot counting process and should apply this same standard to its voter registration process; and

Whereas 24 other states have mitigated some of these problems by enacting laws requiring voters to present identification prior to casting their ballot; and

Whereas every Minnesota citizen who is legally eligible to vote deserves to know that their vote will be accurately counted and not undermined by gaps in the voter registration process.

Require voters to produce a government-issued photographic identification in order to vote in an election; and
Require the Secretary of State to employ specific data verification and validation techniques to ensure the accuracy and integrity of Minnesota's voter rolls; and
Require the Secretary of State to flag voter registration records that fail to meet a specific standard for accuracy and completeness so that these voters can be "challenged" by county election officials at the polls; and
Require an annual independent audit of the voter registration system; and
Require voters to register at least 30 days prior to an election so that all voters can be certified as being legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot on Election Day.

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Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State, , Secretary of State

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MN Majority Election Integrity Petition

2008-11-22T11:42:00.000-08:00

Minnesota Majority - Standing Together for Traditional Values

Election Integrity Should be a Priotity

Dan's Blog

By Dan McGrath on 11/17/2008

Action Alert

Sign the Election Integrity Petition

Whereas the integrity of our elections is the foundation of our republic; and

Whereas the lack of adequate controls, verifications and audits in Minnesota's voter registration process make it highly vulnerable to errors and abuse; and

Whereas a review of Minnesota's voter registration rolls have revealed specific examples of suspected errors, omissions, inconsistencies; and

Whereas Minnesota's same-day voter registration process makes it impossible for an election official to certify that a new registrant is legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot; and

Whereas Minnesota has made substantial investments to ensure the integrity of its ballot counting process and should apply this same standard to its voter registration process; and

Whereas 24 other states have mitigated some of these problems by enacting laws requiring voters to present identification prior to casting their ballot; and

Whereas every Minnesota citizen who is legally eligible to vote deserves to know that their vote will be accurately counted and not undermined by gaps in the voter registration process.

Require voters to produce a government-issued photographic identification in order to vote in an election; and
Require the Secretary of State to employ specific data verification and validation techniques to ensure the accuracy and integrity of Minnesota's voter rolls; and
Require the Secretary of State to flag voter registration records that fail to meet a specific standard for accuracy and completeness so that these voters can be "challenged" by county election officials at the polls; and
Require an annual independent audit of the voter registration system; and
Require voters to register at least 30 days prior to an election so that all voters can be certified as being legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot on Election Day.

Take Action

1	Compose Message

Message Recipients:

Your U.S. Senators

Your U.S. House Representative

Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), Governor

Carol L. Molnau (R-MN), Lt. Governor

Lori Swanson (Dfl-MN), Attorney General

Your State Upper Chamber Representatives

Your State Lower Chamber Representatives

Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State, , Secretary of State

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Whereas the integrity of our elections is the foundation of our republic; and

Whereas the lack of adequate controls, verifications and audits in Minnesota's voter registration process make it highly vulnerable to errors and abuse; and

Whereas a review of Minnesota's voter registration rolls have revealed specific examples of suspected errors, omissions, inconsistencies; and

Whereas Minnesota's same-day voter registration process makes it impossible for an election official to certify that a new registrant is legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot; and

Whereas Minnesota has made substantial investments to ensure the integrity of its ballot counting process and should apply this same standard to its voter registration process; and

Whereas 24 other states have mitigated some of these problems by enacting laws requiring voters to present identification prior to casting their ballot; and

Whereas every Minnesota citizen who is legally eligible to vote deserves to know that their vote will be accurately counted and not undermined by gaps in the voter registration process.

Require voters to produce a government-issued photographic identification in order to vote in an election; and
Require the Secretary of State to employ specific data verification and validation techniques to ensure the accuracy and integrity of Minnesota's voter rolls; and
Require the Secretary of State to flag voter registration records that fail to meet a specific standard for accuracy and completeness so that these voters can be "challenged" by county election officials at the polls; and
Require an annual independent audit of the voter registration system; and
Require voters to register at least 30 days prior to an election so that all voters can be certified as being legally qualified to vote prior to casting a ballot on Election Day.

Take Action

1	Compose Message

Message Recipients:

Your U.S. Senators

Your U.S. House Representative

Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), Governor

Carol L. Molnau (R-MN), Lt. Governor

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JudicialWatch_Obama's Clinton Cabinent

2008-11-22T09:07:00.000-08:00

November 21, 2008

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:
Welcome to the Third Clinton Administration
The news out of the fledgling Obama administration went from bad to worse. Last week I told you about Valerie Jarrett, the corrupt Chicago politician serving as co-chair of President-elect Obama's transition team. (This is in addition to Clinton co-conspirator John Podesta as the other transition team co-chair and Clinton attack dog Rahm Emanuel as Obama's Chief of Staff.)
Now we can add two other Clinton insiders to the list: Clinton impeachment lawyer Greg Craig and former Janet Reno deputy Eric Holder, reportedly tapped as Obama's White House Counsel and Attorney General respectively. These are bizarre selections indeed for the man who promised to "bring change" to Washington. Instead, it is like the Clinton Administration, Act III.
Someone asked me the other day, "What will Monica Lewinsky's job be?" Maybe we should ask Greg Craig.
As I mentioned, Craig served as Clinton's impeachment lawyer. He defended the very worst of the Clinton scandals, most notably the former president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, in which Clinton was found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice by the House. Earlier this week I said to the press, given Craig's defense of Bill Clinton's lies and obstruction, what sort of legal advice will Mr. Craig give to President Obama? Will it all depend on what the meaning of "is" is?
The leftist Craig also defended the violent government raid that delivered Elian Gonzalez to Castro's Cuba. In fact, we believe that Craig was working with communist Cuban government during the Elian affair. It was widely reported Craig helped kill a deal that would have transferred custody of Elian to his father as long as the father could freely choose where they were to live.
Craig defended Ted Kennedy during the trial of Kennedy's nephew William Kennedy Smith in the infamous Palm Beach rape case. He also defended Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin John Hinckley, Jr. (Craig helped piece together Hinckley's insanity defense.) He's also represented a war criminal or two. That's quite a record.
Unbelievably, the Bush State Department hired Craig to defend it against Judicial Watch litigation on behalf of a Clinton era State Department official who blew the whistle on UN corruption. (The litigation ended in settlement.)
Now Craig will be asked to run interference for the Obama administration.
Eric Holder, Obama's choice for Attorney General, was also involved in the Elian Gonzalez raid. As deputy attorney general under the craven Janet Reno, Holder participated in planning the raid that not only traumatized Elian, then six years old, but also led to the violent abuse of peaceful protesters outside of the home of Elian's Miami relatives. The protesters, many of them older women, were simply praying the Rosary when they were gassed and beaten by heavily armed government agents. (You may recall Judicial Watch sued Reno and Holder on behalf of the raid victims.)
Remember all of those last-minute, controversial pardons issued by President Clinton in the waning days of his administration? Guess who was in charge of approving the list, which included convicted felons who had paid large sums of cash to the Clintons? That's right. You guessed it: Eric Holder. He was the acting attorney general at the time. That list, by the way, included two Weather Underground terrorists and the infamous fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife made substantial contributions to the Clintons. Holder not only personally helped Rich get the pardon, but he upended the rule of law by undermining Justice Department procedures put in place to protect the pardon process from abuse.
His record is dismal and includes support for commutations for members of FALN, a Puerto Rican terrorist organization, and he derailed investigations of the Clinton fundraising scandals while at Justice.
Holder admitted he should have handled the Rich pardon differently. As I told Politico, Holder "admits he's on the wrong side of an issue that ruptured Washington at the last day of the Clinton administration, and he gets a promotion?"
Now Holder will be asked to serve as the highest law enforcement officer in the land. It's frightening.
Pardons for terrorists may not bother Obama, given his close relationship with Bill Ayers and company, but principled Senators ought to reject Holder's nomination and give strict scrutiny to others.
Obama Violates His Own Pledge - Taps Daschle for HHS
Here's one campaign pledge President-Elect Obama plans to toss out the window right away. Check this out from The New York Times:
President-elect Barack Obama's selection of former Senator Tom Daschle for secretary of health and human services [sic] posed new questions on Wednesday about how broadly the new administration would apply Mr. Obama's campaign promises to limit potential conflicts of interest among his appointees.
At issue is Mr. Daschle's work since leaving the Senate four years ago as a board member of the Mayo Clinic and a highly paid adviser to health care clients at the law and lobbying firm Alston & Bird.
In a detailed list of campaign promises, Mr. Obama pledged that "no political appointees in an Obama administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years."
The New York Times notes that the Obama administration would likely ask Daschle to recuse himself from "any matter" involving the Mayo Clinic or any of the clients serviced by Alston & Bird, which "represents dozens of…concerns including pharmaceutical companies, health care providers, and trade groups for nurses and nursing homes."
Daschle's main responsibility, if confirmed, would be to push through Obama's planned healthcare system overhaul, which would most certainly have an impact on all of the industries served by Daschle. It is beyond reason to think that Daschle, as Secretary of HHS, would recuse himself from leading the charge for healthcare reform. If Obama sticks with Daschle, Obama must jettison a key campaign promise.
Of course, in addition to Daschle's personal conflicts of interest, there is also the matter of his wife, Linda Daschle, who has been a lobbyist for many years. As The Associated Press noted, "One area of [Tom Daschle's] review will include the lobbying connections of his wife, Linda Hall Daschle, who has worked mostly on behalf of airline-related companies over the years." (You may recall that following the terror attacks of 9/11 Judicial Watch investigated Tom and Linda Daschle for their role in selecting faulty bomb detecting equipment for the airline industry. We also raised ethics questions about Mrs. Daschle's lobbying of the Senate while her husband was in office.)
Can anyone seriously believe that Linda Daschle's lobbying firm won't benefit from her husband being the Cabinet member charged with effectively nationalizing nearly 20% of our economy?
I understand that most of his friends from Chicago are too corrupt to run his new government, but can't Obama find anyone not corrupted by the game here in Washington to help him?
Stevens Loses Re-Election Bid
At least one convicted felon won't be going back to Washington. It appears that Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens has lost his reelection bid to Democrat Mark Begich. According to The Associated Press:
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.
Stevens' ouster on his 85th birthday marks an abrupt realignment in Alaska politics and will alter the power structure in the Senate, where he has served since the days of the Johnson administration while holding seats on some of the most influential committees in Congress.
The crotchety octogenarian built like a birch sapling likes to encourage comparisons with the Incredible Hulk, but he occupies an outsized place in Alaska history. His involvement in politics dates to the days before Alaska statehood, and he is esteemed for his ability to secure billions of dollars in federal aid for transportation and military projects. The Anchorage airport bears his name; in Alaska, it's simply "Uncle Ted."
Just days before the November 4^th election, "Uncle Ted" was convicted by a federal grand jury of lying on his Senate financial disclosure regarding $250,000 he had received in improper gifts. He now faces a potential prison sentence of 35 years. However, he won't have to suffer the inglorious distinction of being thrown out of the Senate by his Republican colleagues. The voters took care of that. Republicans continue to pay the price for allowing Stevens-style corruption to fester.
While Stevens received the fate he deserved, other shady characters in Congress have not, including William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson, Charles Rangel, John Conyers, and Nancy Pelosi, all of whom return to Capitol Hill despite being linked to serious scandals.
There's a disconnect between what voters say they want and their behavior on Election Day. According to a Judicial Watch-Zogby poll conducted on October 16-19, 2008, 91.9% of likely voters said that corruption is a serious problem in Washington. And yet two weeks later they voted to send corrupt politicians back to Washington to continue the cycle.
"Uncle Ted" appears to be the exception this year and hopefully his defeat represents the start of a trend.
Until next week...
Tom Fitton
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I believe requiring folks to show photo identification in order to vote is a common-sense idea in order to ensure the integrity of our election process. I will say however, that I'm very sensitive to the concerns regarding folks who may have trouble obtaining an ID such as the elderly or folks having financial difficulties. I whole-heartedly support grant programs to help offset the costs of IDs in order to vote.

As you may know, back in April the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, upheld the state of Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. The Court ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their Constitutional rights (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board).crawford v. marion county election board decision - Google Search The Indiana law requires a government-issued photo ID such as a driver's license to vote in federal, state, and local elections.

More than 20 states require some form of identification at the polls. Currently, voting ID requirements are decided by each state. As you may know, in Minnesota voters are required to present a government issued ID, but not necessarily a photo ID.

The Senate most recently voted on voter ID legislation on May 23, 2007. Senator McConnell offered an amendment to require a government issued photo ID for voting, and I supported his amendment. Unfortunately, it failed by a vote of 41 to 52. Currently, there is no legislation in the Senate to federalize a photo ID system across the country.

Since most election law is set at the state level and will not come before the United States Senate, I encourage you to contact the Governor, the Minnesota Secretary of State, and your state legislators regarding this issue. I have included the contact information below for Governor Tim Pawlenty, MN Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, as well as a link to the Minnesota State Legislature District Finder:

Governor Tim Pawlenty 130 State Capitol 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Saint Paul, MN 55155

Office of the Secretary of State 180 State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Saint Paul, MN 55155

Minnesota State Legislature District Finder

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Thank you once again for contacting me. If I may be of further assistance to you in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me again.

Sincerely,
Norm Coleman
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The official campaign for President may be over. But Barack Obama's Selective Service registration card and accompanying documents show that questions about him are not only NOT over, but if the signature on the document is in fact his, our next Commander-in-Chief may have committed a federal crime in 2008, well within the statute of limitations on the matter. If it is not his, then it's proof positive that our next Commander-in-Chief never registered with the Selective Service as required by law. By law, he was required to register and was legally able to do so until the age of 26.

Alan Keyes v. Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

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Story Published: Nov 18, 2008 at 9:52 AM EST

Story Updated: Nov 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM EST

SACRAMENTO, Calif.- A former opponent of Barack Obama's has come back to haunt him over questions regarding Obama's citizenship.

According to a press release from the American Independent Party, former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and other members of the party have filed suit in California Superior Court in Sacramento to stop the state from giving its electoral votes to President-elect Barack Obama until documentary evidence is provided to prove Obama is indeed a natural born citizen of the United States. A copy of the writ can be found here.

Keyes also ran against Obama as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in 2004. Obama won that election to serve his first and only term in the U.S. Senate.

The Obama campaign countered similar accusations early in 2008 by posting Obama's certification of live birth, and saying: "Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America."

A copy of this document is available from the Obama campaign:

In October the Hawaii State Health Department declared the certificate is genuine.

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