Raplh Zazula of Concerned Citizens USA of Westford continues to lead the grassroots effort to change Massachusetts law to require everyone to show proper identification to vote spoke recently at a Medford meeting of the Greater Boston Tea Party.
During his remarks Zazula gave a detailed description of the various requirements that must be met by persons who wish to observe activities inside polling stations. Ralph emphasized that by law everyone has the right to observe.
Zazula is hoping to increase the number of volunteer observers who can give some time during the Presidential Primary on March 6th, and at primaries and elections during the spring and summer and at the General Election in November.
An instruction video and printed worksheets are available and training sessions can be arranged. To inquire about the program, arrange a training session or presentation at your meeting email Ralph Zazula at www.ShowIDtoVote.com or snail mail to Concerned Citizens USA, P.O. Box 485, Westford, MA 01886.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Dead Voters, RIP
Liberals love to laugh off voter fraud.
Its "a made up problem invented by GOP operatives," Robert Koehier, a self-termed "peace journalist," snickered in the Jan 5 Huffington Post. Regarding ballot hijinks, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz chuckled: "There is almost none."
But recent news is not so funny. One probe caught on tape shows how easily anybody can vote on behalf of dead Americans. Elsewhere, the total ballots cast by the dead exceeded the winning margins in several high-profile elections. These cases confirm the urgent need for all voters to prove they are alive and to correctly identify themselves via photo ID - just as Americans do on non-election days.
James O'Keefe, the conservative video journalist whose hidden-camera sting operation doomed the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), struck again during the New Hampshire primary. O'Keefe's organization, Project Veritas, dispatched three videographers to the Granite State. On Jan 10, they visited precincts in Manchester and Nashua and asked poll workers, one by one, if their voter rolls bore the names of several deceased people. The poll workers handed out 10 ballots, never once asking for a photo ID.
"Live free or die," a poll worker reassured one investigator she thought was Reynold Caron, who died on October 14, 2011. "This is New Hampshire, No ID needed."
O'Keefe's team members never cast these ballots. They returned them, unmarked, to precinct workers. New Hampshire Democrats seem unconcerned that their voter rolls contain the names of dead people and, absent ID rules, fraudsters conveniently could vote the ballots of the expired. Instead Democrats want to indict these whistleblowers.
"They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, if in fact they're found guilty of some criminal act," Democratic Governor John Lynch to WMUR-TV in Manchester.
Republicans, however, consider this deadly serious. Following Project Veritas' revelations, Granite State legislators recently began debating two photo ID bills. The easiest way to disenfranchise the dead is to require every voter to show photo ID. Those who lack identification should get it for free and reasonable accomodations can be made for the infirm.
Let's not hear liberals' scratched record about how mandating a photo ID for voters is step one on the road to lynching. If true, then demanding a photo ID at America's airports would make the TSA equivalent to the KKK. Liberals' oft-cited claim that blacks are too befuddled to possess or aquire photo ID is pure racial profiling. Just how lame do they think black Americans are?
ID cards would help cleanse America's increasingly soiled voting system. Photo ID's would allow people to rest in peace rather than rush to the polls every Election Day.
Its "a made up problem invented by GOP operatives," Robert Koehier, a self-termed "peace journalist," snickered in the Jan 5 Huffington Post. Regarding ballot hijinks, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz chuckled: "There is almost none."
But recent news is not so funny. One probe caught on tape shows how easily anybody can vote on behalf of dead Americans. Elsewhere, the total ballots cast by the dead exceeded the winning margins in several high-profile elections. These cases confirm the urgent need for all voters to prove they are alive and to correctly identify themselves via photo ID - just as Americans do on non-election days.
James O'Keefe, the conservative video journalist whose hidden-camera sting operation doomed the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), struck again during the New Hampshire primary. O'Keefe's organization, Project Veritas, dispatched three videographers to the Granite State. On Jan 10, they visited precincts in Manchester and Nashua and asked poll workers, one by one, if their voter rolls bore the names of several deceased people. The poll workers handed out 10 ballots, never once asking for a photo ID.
"Live free or die," a poll worker reassured one investigator she thought was Reynold Caron, who died on October 14, 2011. "This is New Hampshire, No ID needed."
O'Keefe's team members never cast these ballots. They returned them, unmarked, to precinct workers. New Hampshire Democrats seem unconcerned that their voter rolls contain the names of dead people and, absent ID rules, fraudsters conveniently could vote the ballots of the expired. Instead Democrats want to indict these whistleblowers.
"They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, if in fact they're found guilty of some criminal act," Democratic Governor John Lynch to WMUR-TV in Manchester.
Republicans, however, consider this deadly serious. Following Project Veritas' revelations, Granite State legislators recently began debating two photo ID bills. The easiest way to disenfranchise the dead is to require every voter to show photo ID. Those who lack identification should get it for free and reasonable accomodations can be made for the infirm.
Let's not hear liberals' scratched record about how mandating a photo ID for voters is step one on the road to lynching. If true, then demanding a photo ID at America's airports would make the TSA equivalent to the KKK. Liberals' oft-cited claim that blacks are too befuddled to possess or aquire photo ID is pure racial profiling. Just how lame do they think black Americans are?
ID cards would help cleanse America's increasingly soiled voting system. Photo ID's would allow people to rest in peace rather than rush to the polls every Election Day.
Another Reason Why Texas Prospers
Rodger A. Keats has it right in his letter of Jan 14 ("Protecting the Election of Democrats") when he describes how a minority-anglo Texas has ruffled the National Democtratic Party. In my 49-year stint as a resident in Texas, I witnessed a 100% Democratic state in the 1950's change to one of the reddist of red states today. Among other states, its economy and job creation are beyond comparison. It has become the absolute opposite of California; it does not need nor require a state income tax;and it pays for a substantial homestead exemption on resident and senior-citizen property taxes.
It appears that Sam Houston had it right in his negotions with the U.S. Congress over the 1845 Treaty of Annexation when he reportedly said in essence that Texas is going to keep ownership of its public lands or we are not going to join, thus laying the groundwork for its economy to become unique among the 50 states. Texas doesn't have a significant share of its area under federal control, as many other states do, and it is able to profit from royalties on state lands on which it encourages development.
It appears that Sam Houston had it right in his negotions with the U.S. Congress over the 1845 Treaty of Annexation when he reportedly said in essence that Texas is going to keep ownership of its public lands or we are not going to join, thus laying the groundwork for its economy to become unique among the 50 states. Texas doesn't have a significant share of its area under federal control, as many other states do, and it is able to profit from royalties on state lands on which it encourages development.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Teacher Unions defend the Incompetent
They have trouble with spelling, grammer and showing up to class on time - and we're not talking about the students.
The City of New York tried to expel 26 teachers from the classroom last year for gross incompetance - such as English teachers who couldn't write or speak the language properly.
But officials maintain that stingent union rules prohibited them from succeeding in just half those cases - even when hearing officers actually agreed with the principal's assessments.
That's because the city has to prove not only that the teachers can't do their jobs but also that they have no shot at ever improving. "What happens is every single thing is litigated or grieved or has had a fuss made about it," said Mayor Bloomberg, who, along with Governor Cuomo, has demanded statewide adoption of new teacher evaluations.
The City of New York tried to expel 26 teachers from the classroom last year for gross incompetance - such as English teachers who couldn't write or speak the language properly.
But officials maintain that stingent union rules prohibited them from succeeding in just half those cases - even when hearing officers actually agreed with the principal's assessments.
That's because the city has to prove not only that the teachers can't do their jobs but also that they have no shot at ever improving. "What happens is every single thing is litigated or grieved or has had a fuss made about it," said Mayor Bloomberg, who, along with Governor Cuomo, has demanded statewide adoption of new teacher evaluations.
Environmentalism's Appeal: Slow Industrial Progress
In turning down the Keystone XL Pipeline the President has uncovered an ugly little secret that has always lurked beneath the surface of environmentalism. Its basic appeal is to the affluent. Despite all the professions of being "liberal" and "against big business," environmentalisms main appeal is that it promises to slow the progress of industrial progress. People who are already comfortable with the present state of affairs - who are established in the environment, so to speak - are happy to go along with this. It is not that they have any greater insight into the mysteries and workings of nature. They are happier with the way things are. In fact, environmentalism works to their advantage. The main danger to the affluent is not that they will be denied from improving their estate but that too many other people will achieve what they already have. As the Forest Service used to say, the person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer.
Environmentalism has spent three decades trying to hide this simple truth. How can environmentalists be motivated by self-interest when they are anti-business? Doesn't that align them with the working classes? Well, not quite. You can be anti-business as a union member trying to claim higher wages but you can also be anti-business as a member of the aristocracy who believes "trade" and "commercialism" are crass and not attuned to the higher things in life. Environmentalism is born from the latter, not the former. It has spent decades trying to pretend it has common cause with the working people. With the defeat of the Keystone Pipeline, this is no longer possible. Too many blue-collar and middle-class jobs have been sacrificed on the alter of carbon emissions and global warming.
Environmentalism has spent three decades trying to hide this simple truth. How can environmentalists be motivated by self-interest when they are anti-business? Doesn't that align them with the working classes? Well, not quite. You can be anti-business as a union member trying to claim higher wages but you can also be anti-business as a member of the aristocracy who believes "trade" and "commercialism" are crass and not attuned to the higher things in life. Environmentalism is born from the latter, not the former. It has spent decades trying to pretend it has common cause with the working people. With the defeat of the Keystone Pipeline, this is no longer possible. Too many blue-collar and middle-class jobs have been sacrificed on the alter of carbon emissions and global warming.
I-93 Border Toll will be Considered to Fund Transit
State Representative Sean Garballey on Tuesday announced that the legislatures MBTA caucus will consider adding a NH/Mass Border Toll to raise funds to help pay for transit funding shortfalls that includes expansion projects such as the Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford.
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