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Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an “unholy alliance” between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal investigate the matter.
General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey charging that coordinated “misconduct” by McCain campaign representatives and GOP officials were relevant to the special prosecutor’s work, because the activities may relate to the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys in late 2006.
The letter requests that the special prosecutor’s inquiry “include a review of any involvement by Justice Dept. and White House officials in supporting the McCain-Palin campaign [and RNC's] systematic development and dissemination of unsupported, spurious allegations of vote fraud.”
To advance the effort, the Obama campaign convened a conference call with national reporters, though Friday afternoon is not a time that campaigns usually push priority messages.
Thats just rich... accuse the GOP of voter fraud in order to distract from the actual voter fraud that was found.
Just has me wondering, will there be anothher investigation into Obama abusing his powers as the presumptive President to ask for an investigation.
Probably not, its only abuse of powers when its Republican acts..
Wow you are considering him the presumptinve President? As of right now he and McCain are both sitting Senators who have the authority to ask for such things.
Oh surely a campaign who has to rely on ridiculous smears would NEVER do anything dishonest... especially McCain,who is so close to Bush,or that woman who abused her power as governor !!
I just heard this. They said that this has happened with Bush and now McCain and Obama caught it and is doing something to stop this before the election. Who is smart now.
I just heard this. They said that this has happened with Bush and now McCain and Obama caught it and is doing something to stop this before the election. Who is smart now.
Keith O had this as his opening story. Rachael Madden chimed in on how impressed she was that the Obama campaign once again anticipated and was ready. The Republicans did it before and this Democrat was ready. Remember the Attorneys Bush tried to fire for not pushing fraudulent claims against the Democrats in previous elections. Some of the same scoundrels are behind it again.
Bloomberg.com: Politics
Obama's campaign attorney said the investigation should look into a leak to the news media that the FBI is probing allegations of voter registration fraud by a grassroots organization called ACORN. The group's activities were denounced by Republican nominee John McCain in the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
Robert Bauer, general counsel to the Obama campaign, wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey a day after the Associated Press, citing unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating ACORN. The name is short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
A special prosecutor appointed by Mukasey already is looking into whether improper political considerations influenced the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. At least one prosecutor was fired following Republican complaints that he didn't aggressively pursue allegations of voter fraud against ACORN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/wa...0attorney.html
The most serious case, the report said, was the firing of David Iglesias, the former United States Attorney for New Mexico, who had tangled with two of his state’s leading Republican lawmakers, Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Heather A. Wilson, over what they saw as his slow response to voter fraud and political corruption accusations against Democrats in New Mexico.
“We concluded,” the inquiry said, “that complaints from New Mexico Republican politicians and party activists to the White House and the Department about Iglesias’s handling of voter fraud and public corruption cases led to his removal.”
I really don't understand why we the United States of America in general have so many issues about voting. It has already before this been said that this year there will be record numbers of voters in some areas. Equipment breaks some places then don';t have hand ballots. Why can't we get this right.
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