Thursday, October 23, 2008
Of course! He doesn't want to enable what would be a majority Republican vote. A Democrat who would rush to court to make sure ballots are available in...Hmong... (blatant theft of something I heard Michael Graham say last night) has been ignoring federal rules regarding the handling of absentee ballots of members of the military. Add to that his refusal to investigate ACORN's activities in the state... Graham has the outrage: ACORN, Yes! American Soldiers, No!
ACORN, yes! American soldiers...not so much.
That's the message from Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin to local members of the US military.
The same Secretary of State who has thus far refused to even investigate ACORN's activities here in Massachusetts--and who supports giving tax dollars to a group committing election fraud- -- won't do his job to protect the right to vote for men and women fighting for our nation abroad.
One of the problems uncovered during the 2000 Florida fiasco is that American military personnel deployed abroad often don't get their chance to vote. Ballots arrive too late, aren't processed when they return, are disqualified on technical grounds without the soldiers ever knowing, etc. So Congress passed a law in 2002 mandating that election officials like Secretary of State Galvin track track how many soldiers and overseas voters request a ballot, have one sent to them, and how many come back and are actually counted.
Pretty basic stuff, for a very profound cause: protecting the right to vote of people getting shot at while defending ours. But Bill Galvin told the soldiers to get stuffed. Galvin refused to obey the law and make sure Massachusetts military members got their ballots and had their votes counted.
Think there were any guys in Iraq who wanted to vote on Bush vs. Kerry in 2004? Well, tough luck if they lived in Massachusetts. Galvin refused to to his job. The 2006 Congressional election? Same thing. Guys who may have wanted to vote against "Surrender Now!" Massachusetts congressman James McGovern never got the chance.
And that, of course, is the point. Secretary of State Bill Galvin can read the polls...
No surprises here. His boss, Gov. Deval Patrick (the original "Yes We Can!" candidate) has his own ties to ACORN, even securing them a grant in this cash-strapped year: Gov. Deval Patrick has tie$ to embattled ACORN
Gov. Deval Patrick, a national co-chairman of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, teamed up with the Illinois senator to represent the controversy-plagued activist network ACORN in a 1993 case and secured money for the group in this year's state budget, the Herald has learned.
Patrick secured a $33,000 grant for the Springfield branch of ACORN's housing program in April. ACORN Housing New England Regional Director Theresa Naylor said the money was used for "foreclosure prevention."...
Update: Graham has an update: Bill Galvin Gets An Early Start On The "Fairness Doctrine"
...before today's show, my producer called and emailed Secretary Galvin, inviting him to tell his side of the story. "He's too busy and will not have time to come on," Galvin's spokesflak said. But after the show started, and Galvin began hearing from angry military family members, he suddenly found time to call the show.
Not for a conversation, but for a threat. Secretary of State Bill Galvin's spokesflak called my producer while I was on the air to complain about the content of my show. Then we were informed that the Secretary was filing a complaint against me with the Federal Communications Commission because he didn't like what I was saying. Galvin was apparently hoping that such a threat to my livelihood would shut me up.
This posting shows how well that worked.
How can a politician who doesn't have the guts to pick up the phone and call me complain to the FCC about the content of my show? Galvin was welcome at any time to be part of our conversation. Instead, he went to the government to try and end the conversation altogether.
That's today. Now, imagine this same story six months from now with President Obama in the White House, Nancy Pelosi overseeing a supermajority in the House and the latest version of the "Fairness Doctrine" working its way through the liberal-dominated Congress...
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Deval Patrick is not Bill Galvin's "boss". The Secretary of State is a separately elected office and does not report to the Governor in any way.
Democratic co-conspirator.
I'm an independent voter, I'm very concerned that you are taking away the basic American right to vote for what ever candidate you choose. You work for all citizens regardless of the political background. It is your swore duty to the Commonwealth to make sure that all Massachusetts citizen serving abroad recieve and process the ballots without interference or interference by way of neglect. It's still the same.
Forget the about FCC that is also an American citizens right to freedom of speech, you can't bully that away from citizens. You should be contacting the Justice department so you know what your responsibles are to the American public here and abroad.
Amazing Grace,
Ol' Nappy hopes you sent your comments to Bill Galvin, at his office on One Ashburton Place in Boston. Nappy doubts very much that this liberal Pol reads the comments on this blog or this blog, for that matter. He's the one who needs to hear it. You'll have a hard time finding anyone here who disagrees with you.
Michelle McPhee (7-10 PM weekdays on WTKK 96.9 FM) is organizing a protest. The last I heard, she was trying to scrounge a big inflatable rat, like the ones unions use to protest scab workers when there's a strike. Michael Graham (9 AM - Noon weekdays on WTKK 96.9 FM) is in on this caper too.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND DEMOCRACY!
Media owners determine who is elected in the USA.
The American voter should want to be informed of who paid for Obama's recent TV broadcasts and who owned the TV stations, that transmitted the propaganda; and the production staff who wrote and edited the propaganda. Perhaps, AIPAC could enlighten the American people. I believe, the American electorate have a constitutional right to know!