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Unions Behaving Badly: Registering Inmates to Vote, Spending Dues at Strip Clubs

The Albany Times Union has broken a story involving correction officers in Rensselaer county trying to unseat the incumbent Republican sheriff, Jack Mahar, through unsavory means.  The crux of the story involves getting inmates to register or change their enrollment to the Conservative Party, giving the Democrat challenger, Gary Gordon, an edge in the general election.  Gordon ended up capturing the Conservative line by a narrow margin, but losing the general election to Mahar.

Reports show a labor union leader for the corrections officers, Kevin Rogers, allegedly dropping off 140 voter registration forms that enrolled people

Read the rest at Big Government

Did an occupier make-off with $350,000 from OWS coffers?

Someone within the OWS movement must have attended the John Corzine School of Financial Management. Here’s an excerpt directly from the OWS General Assembly blog (we also captured an image of the blog in case they decide to remove the contents now its public):

This topic was initially posted 12/2011.

The issue of $350.000 being lost with the working groups Media and Live-stream involved.
The allegation was made by a Spokes at a Spokes meeting and appeared to be strongly supported by members of her cluster.

She identified a male who was actually live-streaming the meeting as associated with the allegation.

She insisted, she could not be in the room with this individual without the issue being addressed.

The facilitator, took a temper check and it was agreed, the issue would be place on spokes agenda.

But, the issue was never addressed.

The young lady who brought this  to Spokes, as since been threaten, intimidated and verbally abuse and told if she spoke of it with anyone she would be banished from Occupy Wall Street.

At The Atrium, the next day, the subject came up again, and it was alledged the amount of money Three-Hundred and Fifty, Thousand dollars($350.000).had been lost through (on the internet)…

This issue stayed on the Spokes Council’s Agenda for more than five (5) meetings, it never was addresses.

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New York Democrat: Voter Fraud Is ‘A Normal Political Tactic’

As the city of Troy, NY, awaits jury selection in the first trial involving two Democrats and their alleged roles in a “massive” voter fraud scheme, new details have emerged from the investigation.  Details involving two other veteran political operatives that have already pleaded guilty.

According to a recent Fox News report, Anthony Renna, a Democrat guilty of second-degree forgery, and Anthony DeFiglio, a Democrat guilty of first-degree falsifying business records, are trying to drag all local politicians, regardless of party affiliation, down with the ship.  Thus far, eight people have been charged in connection with the ballot fraud investigation,

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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ Mom & Dad Off To Jail For Corruption

HA! HA! HA! LMAO!!!

[Hysterical laughter!]

Yeah, well, they’re Democrats. What do you expect?

Hey Deb! How’re your mom and dad doing? Haven’t seen them in a while, everything okay? Give them my love, willya? Kisses.

HA! HA! HA! LMAO!!!

[Hysterical laughter!]

The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…

Of all of the most vile, bold face, shameless liars in politics, no one tops acting DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz….

Richard Rubin — husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own — was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.

Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax evasion after failing to report $100,000 in fees he received from the town of Davie for a land deal he brokered in 2004….

That also wasn’t too long after Rubin took in $1.1 million for writing grants for the town of Southwest Ranches — grants that were approved in part by the votes of his wife while she was a county commissioner.

Then, the probable-cause affidavit released last year contended, the couple was living quite lavishly — including spending money on artwork, cruises, vacations to Europe, and a $150,000 home repair project.

Democraps and corruption, sewn together like a hand in glove! How shocking!

HA! HA! HA! LMAO!!!

[Hysterical laughter!]

“Told you so!”

This Year’s List of Most Corrupt Politicians is Out – Read it and Weep Folks

I don’t care what party you are from, if you are corrupt, it is time for you to pack your bags.  If you broke the law, go to jail.  Sadly, some of these will be re-elected in less than a year.

This list is compiled by Judicial Watch and is alphabetical order.

1. Spencer Bachus (R-AL): He has become the face of acongressional “insider trading” scandal that has rocked the Washington establishment as 2011 draws to a close. Rep. Spencer Bachus, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was one of the principal targets of a (CBS News)  60

Read it all at Pundit Press

Corzine May Have Stolen $1.2 Billion from MF Global

If Corzine was a Republican, he would be behind bars instead of running around:
Former Governor Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) might have outsmarted himself as head of MF Global. A bankruptcy trustee today said that as much as $1.2 billion in customers’ funds is missing.

Jon Corzine took over as head of MF Global shortly after he stepped down as Governor of New Jersey. During that time, he bet heavily on European sovereign debt. As those debts started to go bad, he co-mingled customers’ settlement cash with the firm’s own cash.

On October 29, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

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Tony Rezko Sentence: 10 1/2 Years

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s advisor, Tony Rezko, was sentenced today. Rezko, the former Obama confidante, was charged with extorting millions of dollars. This comes as Rezko was already waiting in prison. He will be sentenced to 10 1/2 years in jail, with time served.

His family still supports him:

Several family members called out ‘we love you” to Rezko as he was led away.

“That’s what an honest man deserves in this country!” one relative shouted outside the courtroom.

When others tried to quiet her, she said: “I don’t care, put me in with him!”
But it looks

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EVEN MORE CORRUPTION: 80% of Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Financial Supporters

As Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” The most corrupt administration in U.S. history was exposed yet again for, guess what? Yup! Even more corruption! Gangster government, baby!!!

When President-elect Obama came to Washington in late 2008, he was outspoken about the need for an economic stimulus to revive a struggling economy… After he was sworn in as president, he proclaimed that taxpayer money would assuredly not be doled out to political friends…

…But an examination of grants and guaranteed loans offered by just one stimulus program run by the Department of Energy, for alternative-energy projects, is stunning. The so-called 1705 Loan Guarantee Program and the 1603 Grant Program channeled billions of dollars to all sorts of energy companies…

…In the 1705 government-backed-loan program [alone], for example, $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted as of Sept. 15 went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers—individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party. The grant and guaranteed-loan recipients were early backers of Obama before he ran for president, people who continued to give to his campaigns and exclusively to the Democratic Party in the years leading up to 2008. Their political largesse is probably the best investment they ever made in alternative energy. It brought them returns many times over.

…The Government Accountability Office has been highly critical of the way guaranteed loans and grants were doled out by the Department of Energy, complaining that the process appears “arbitrary” and lacks transparency. In March 2011, for example, the GAO examined the first 18 loans that were approved and found that none were properly documented. It also noted that officials “did not always record the results of analysis” of these applications. A loan program for electric cars, for example, “lacks performance measures.” No notes were kept during the review process, so it is difficult to determine how loan decisions were made. The GAO further declared that the Department of Energy “had treated applicants inconsistently in the application review process, favoring some applicants and disadvantaging others.” The Department of Energy’s inspector general, Gregory Friedman, … has testified that contracts have been steered to “friends and family.”

…These programs might be the greatest—and most expensive—example of crony capitalism in American history. Tens of billions of dollars went to firms controlled or owned by fundraisers, bundlers, and political allies, many of whom—surprise!—are now raising money for Obama again.

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CORRUPTION: Administration pushed Solyndra to keep layoffs quiet until after 2010 midterms

Say, does anyone remember “transparency?” Whatever happened to that novel idea, anyway? I’m telling you, this administration has more skeletons in its closet than Count Dracula’s castle. It is by definition, corrupt. The Nixon administration was more honest than this one. I guess that’s why, with being the worst president ever, his administration is the most corrupt ever.

Solyndra’s chief executive warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010, that he intended to announce worker layoffs Oct. 28. He said he was spurred by numerous calls from reporters and potential investors about rumors the firm was in financial trouble and was planning to lay off workers and close one of its two plants.

But in an Oct. 30, 2010, e-mail, advisers to Solyndra’s primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explain that the Energy Department had strongly urged the company to put off the layoff announcement until Nov. 3. The midterm elections were held Nov. 2, and led to Republicans taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million) but have not committed to December yet,” a Solyndra investor adviser wrote Oct. 30. “They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.”

Solyndra has become a rallying cry for Republicans who argue Obama used his clean energy initiative to steer valuable loans to benefit his friends and donors.

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Those of you planning to vote for Obama next year, you really don’t have any ethics, do you? You are just as bad as he is, so, you folks that vote for him have given up your right to talk about anything to do with ethics, corruption etc… You are the problem, not the solution.