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amborin

(16,631 posts) Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:04 PM Oct 2012

Penn Newspaper Owned by Right-Winger Falsely Tells Voters They Need ID

Pennsylvania Newspaper Owned By Top Right-Wing Funder Falsely Claims ID Is Required To Vote

By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Oct 22, 2012 at 9:00 am

The Mount Pleasant Journal is one of several newspapers run by Trib Total Media, a media conglomerate owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Scaife’s foundation donated hundreds of millions of dollars to conservative organizations ranging from the American Enterprise Institution to the Federalist Society, and he currently serves as vice-chairman of the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s board of trustees.

http://thinkprogress.org/

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Penn Newspaper Owned by Right-Winger Falsely Tells Voters They Need ID (Original Post) amborin Oct 2012 OP

Needs JustAnotherGen Oct 2012 #1

He should be sued for fraud. TPaine7 Oct 2012 #2

That's what I've been thinking too Politicalboi Oct 2012 #4

Link to article BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #3

Maybe that will convince some Republicans who don't have ID not to MineralMan Oct 2012 #5

Look on the bright side tech3149 Oct 2012 #6

JustAnotherGen

(31,932 posts)

1. Needs

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:12 PM

Oct 2012

To be sent to the UN. Not to monitor - but to provide them with more evidence that there is a serious problem here . . .

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/263141-international-monitors-at-polling-places-draw-criticism-from-voter-fraud-group

TPaine7

(4,286 posts)

2. He should be sued for fraud.

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:14 PM

Oct 2012

Some enterprising lawyer should find a bunch of disenfranchised voters after the election and use a class-action suit to relieve him of some of his money.

As a pleasant side effect, the suit would give cheating Republicans another black eye in the news.

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

4. That's what I've been thinking too

Reply to TPaine7 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:21 PM

Oct 2012

People should be able to sue that bastard that threw the registration forms away too, and the organization he works for.

BumRushDaShow

(129,656 posts)

3. Link to article

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:15 PM

Oct 2012

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/22/1056351/pennsylvania-newspaper-owned-by-top-right-wing-funder-falsely-claims-id-is-required-to-vote/?mobile=wp

I trust folks in the Pittsburgh area are on it and expect the main paper there - the Post-Gazette has the correct info.

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)

5. Maybe that will convince some Republicans who don't have ID not to

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 12:30 PM

Oct 2012

try to vote.

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

6. Look on the bright side

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 02:04 PM

Oct 2012

It's only a weekly and nobody actually reads it. The only thing they do read from it are personal vanity stories, other than that it's pretty much devoid of content. The bigger problem is the Trib-Review and their association with local TV and their web presence.

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