Ca.'s Republican Sec. of State tryingto pull a fast one re: Diebold????

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Will_California_send_Diebold_packing_before_1118.html




Beware, California. You might just be getting snookered.

It's VERY important to watch this guy very closely until we get a duly elected Democratic SoS back in California.

Personally, I blame Kevin Shelley for this.

I think he should have stood his ground. :wtf: Republicans don't resign when there's a scandal. In fact, they usually get promoted. I can't believe he resigned. He should have just said "screw em'" like the GOP does in the face of scandal. Now he's left us to the dogs.

I meant he should never have certified the recall in the first place.

It was Shmuckenegger that was putting constant, enormous pressure on Shelley to step down and replace him w/a Re-Puke hack that would start rigging elections if they couldn't win them fairly (which they nearly never can).

SoS would certify the recall effort if Dr. Kenneth Matsumura (who shows evidence that many prominent Asian doctors are neither conservative nor default supporters of Republicans) succeeds in getting enough recall signatures in to get a special Total Recall, the sequel election up and running?

Democrats strike again, you'd think the recall would have been enough.
No, the Dems had to do more damage.

By a quick show of hands, how many of you know who Kevin Shelley is?
Nobody?! I guess I’m not too surprised. If you remember him at all, it’s probably only for the fact that he was rather quietly run out of office earlier this year with sordid allegations of scandal and corruption. The Los Angeles Times delivered the news on February 5, before quickly moving on to other things: “Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced his resignation Friday, saying he could no longer adequately run California's elections office ... For months, he had been dogged by federal and state criminal inquiries and scathing audits of his financial management and treatment of employees.” (Tim Reiterman "Secretary of State Shelley Steps Down," Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2005)

No big deal, right? Just another corrupt politician getting what he had coming. No one is going to shed any tears over that. And so it was that no one came to his defense and no one lamented his political passing. No one in Sacramento, no one in the mainstream media, and no one in the alternative/progressive media. No one on the right and no one on the left. Shelley was cast aside without a hint of protest from anyone.

And that, my friends, is simply shameful. As it turns out, you see, Shelley wasn’t the bad guy in this story. The first tip-off, of course, is the fact that, as I may have just mentioned, no one came to his defense and no one lamented his political passing. Because if the entire corrupt media establishment and the entire corrupt political establishment are united against you, then it is a pretty safe bet that it isn’t because you yourself are corrupt.

It is hard to imagine that any level of corruption would cause either the media or the political elite in Washington or Sacramento to turn against one of their own. No, the reality is that when all of official Sacramento and every avenue of the media decide to bring down a formerly well-regarded politician, they haven’t all suddenly decided that it might be a good time to weed out corruption. To the contrary, they have likely decided to weed out those who might pose a challenge to the web of corruption that poses as a form of democratic government.

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr75.html for the whole article.

You have to ask how long anyone can hold up with mounting legal fees and no support. Did you know he's been exonerated on all charges?

not for stepping down, but certifying the S'election' that brought an idiot like Shmuckenegger to be the bane of California -- he and idiots who voted for him (many of whom now regret it -- duh, what did you expect??) should all hang their heads low in shame.

he really have? What were his options? What would have happened had he not certified it and did he truly have that option?

the current Republican SoS would not certify the corresponding effort to recall the Shmuckenegger and it's doubtful the Dems would be able to force him to do so. They would simply say "He is not guilty of any 'recallable offenses' ". Shelley should have stuck to the same line.

That's all I need to know.

They were going to "Davis" him , and punk ass Democratic senators went against him publically. I wrote letters to several.
Besides you end up saying" No job is worth this, certainly not my family"

Any paper worth the paper it's printed on would have looked further into the allegations.

see this:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3355280

Virtually NO MSM reported this:

The criminal complaint says Lee funneled $125,000 dollars from that grant into Shelley's campaign for secretary of state. He resigned amid this controversy and others, two months ago.

But State Attorney General Bill Lockyer says he's cleared Shelley of any wrongdoing in the Julie Lee matter. We caught up with Lockyer at a luncheon this afternoon in Berkeley.

Bill Lockyer, (D) California Attorney General: "Kevin Shelley was not a participant in this crime. He is absolutely innocent of any personal involvement in the crimes that Julie Lee committed."

Lockyer says even though Shelley's campaign got money from Julie Lee, he played no role in the crime. This is good news for Shelley, but he's not out of the woods yet. He's the subject of a federal investigation into his handling of $46 million dollars from the Help America Vote Act program.

(The charges about how he handled HAVA money were all dropped too.)

bought out "electioneer" establishment. This went into play about a day after he decided to decertify Diebold.

And as usual, the good guy, the progressive was brought down and discredited EVEN THO IT ULTIMATELY PROVED HE DID NO WRONG


This secretive club is who we are up against re getting trustworthy elctions back on the US.

Kevin Shelley is a good guy and a martyr to America.

was not the day he decertifed Diebold, but the day he certified the 'Total Recall' S'election'.

And once again, not just California, but America has to suffer for the 'nice guy' posturing of the Dems.

he couldn't have used his bully pulpit as Governor of California to put consistent, overwhelming, merciless pressure on Shelley to force him to resign.

It was not about what charges were or weren't baseless, it was about generating any controversy that would have forced Shelley to resign, something they couldn't have done if Shelley hadn't certified the 'Total Recall' S'election' in the first place.

They have a mad-on against Maxine Waters, for one thing.

Lughead Arnie saw the results of his Props last week...he freaked out and said to McPherson:

"Hey Bruce, I'm gonna LOSE next year, so QUICK get me some DIEBOLD magic."

but why couldn't the idiot Californians who voted for him in the first place see that coming?

What's the latest on this issue?