Well…this is a topic that I just need to come back to since it is the most egregious attempt at voter fraud perpetrated by the repubs this year…well…not really, the voter suppression laws that were voted on here in Michigan were worse but at least Snyder vetoed some of them. What happened in the past couple of days is that Jase Bolger the speaker of the repub controlled house here in Michigan has basically thrown Roy Schmidt under the bus as he tries to protect his power in Lansing…even though his fingerprints were all over ole Roy’s change to the repubs from the dems and the manipulation of the process to make sure there would be no dem challenger. Ole Jase has said that Roy is basically dead in the water and has abandoned him as his plans have blown up in his face. That is just like the repubs…no moral compass, just political nonsense to win at all costs…geez…
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Had to come back to this one….again…
Well….I have talked about this topic, of the voter fraud that was perpetrated by the house majority leader here in Michigan, Jase Bolger, and the turncoat Roy Schmidt, before, but with every day there come new revelations that need to be shouted until our prosecutor here in Kent county, Forsyth, actually starts enforcing the law…if these were Dem shenanigans, you could bet he would have had them indicted and a trial date set by now. Mr. Forsyth’s excuse is that he wanted to make sure that the people know that this was going on before the election, so he shut down the investigation even though warrants had been issued to continue gathering evidence of this clear felony. What is stopping him from continuing the investigation now? After all, cases are reopened all the time when new evidence is discovered. How can anyone continue to respect the law when the repubs are in charge and selectively choose to enforce the law only when it won’t hurt them politically? This is just plain malfeasance and if Forsyth doesn’t do anything about this, he should be removed from office…geez…
Had to come back to this one…
Well…had this one attached to this morning’s life column but, as I thought about it, it didn’t really fit there so I thought I’d do a new one…if you remember, a few months back a couple of our wonderful repub legislators here in Michigan conspired to run a fake candidate so the turncoat Schmidt could rig the election…with an article int he Free Press this morning, it appears I was right…a State Police investigator here in Michigan says that both Schmidt and Bolger have conspired to commit perjury in their attempt to defraud the voters here in Michigan….now, I think our AG Schutte should stop chasing non-existent voter fraud and charge these criminals with the felony they deserve…just another example of the flagrant disregard for the laws of the land that the repubs here in Michigan show every day….these two should have resigned and now the rest of the party’s leadership, if there is any, should make sure this happens as soon as possible….
The only voter fraud is being done by the Republicans…
Well…if you are a regular reader here, you might have seen me do a post on the shady dealings here in GR (that’s Grand Rapids to those of you that aren’t from around here) where a long time Democratic rep Roy Schmidt waited until it the last few minutes of the filing deadline to switch parties, ensuring that the dems would not be able to register anyone to oppose him; leaving the dems to the arduous task of a write in campaign for their candidate. This sleazy nonsense has had some details put to it over the past couple of days, and it is even worse than was reported a few months back. It appears that rep Schmidt and the speaker of the house Jase Bolger, both repubs, put together a nasty little plan that tried to place one of rep Schmidt’s sons friends on the ballot as a dem with the stipulation that this young man not run any campaign so that rep Schmidt would have no opposition and would fix the election for him. Rep Schmidt even went so far as to pay this young man $1,000 dollars if he would register and even had his chief of staff file the paperwork…even though the young man didn’t live in the district. Then, we have the prosecutor for Kent County saying that while the move was sleazy, it didn’t break any laws. But, this is not true…if you prompt someone to make a false statement in court or on a political filing…it is called suborning perjury and it is certainly against the law. There is enough evidence here to charge both Schmidt and Bolger with this crime, this voter fraud that they say they are so opposed to and are so afraid of. At the very least, these two should immediately resign so a fair election can take place…after all, it’s what the repubs say they want….geez…
A local show of classlessness…
Well…there has been an interesting development on the local level of politics here in Michigan, and some would say a betrayal of the citizens of Grand Rapids, at least the Democratic ones by state Rep Roy Schmidt who just over the past few days has switched from the dems to the repubs. There are so many ways this tactic hits the ethical rock bottom, even for the repubs, that I have to comment on it…first, there must have been long term talks for this change to happen and all the while, rep Schmidt has been raising money for his reelection from his dem base…yep, that’s right, he is going to use the money from his dem supporters to run as a repub..at the very least, this liar should return every dime that he has gotten from any fundraiser or any other source that is dem affiliated. Second, the timing of the change was planned to ensure that the dems would not have anyone to oppose this turncoat in the election for this newly drawn district…just another instance where the repubs know they can’t win an election fair and square so they have to resort to this kind of shenanigans to manipulate the system to win…just like they are doing with all of the voter suppression measures that have been passed across the country. I say this to rep Schmidt…your whole career is a result of the dems supporting you and you would never have been elected, not once, if you would have run as a repub….this is political opportunism at it’s worst…you will fit right in with your new repub buddies….