December 01, 2009

College Democrats Implicated in Election-related Bribery
— Gabriel Malor

Teach 'em while they're young, I always say. And so do Democratic fraudsters, who had the College Dems help win an election by offering to paying them a $5 bounty for each voter the brought to the polls. The election in the Fourth Ward was the only contested election in Athens. The Democrat took the seat by only 30 votes.

Here's a letter from Ohio University College Democrats Vice President Kellie Galan reminding her fellow "darling Dems" (blech) in broken English that "if you bring a friend from 4th ward they are more then a friend, they're 5 bucks!"

Fortunately for Kellie, Ohio prosecutors are only setting their sights on Athens County Democratic Party Chair Susan Gwinn.

The Ohio University College Democrats, however, who were allegedly also involved in the plan, will not face any charges, according to the special prosecutor handling the case.

“We’ve got young people, students, not judicious… who are following the lead of a licensed professional, an adult,” said special prosecutor Dave Yost. “To the extent that there’s culpability, we don’t think it rests with the students.” He added that the College Dems have cooperated in his investigation.

On top of the charges already pending against Gwinn of theft in office, money laundering, unauthorized use of property, and falsification, an Athens County grand jury has now added two counts of elections-related bribery.

The charges relate to GwinnÂ’s alleged involvement in a plan to pay members of the OU College Democrats $5 for every voter they brought to the polls in the city of AthensÂ’ Fourth Ward on Election Day, Nov. 3. That ward was the only one in the city that had a contested City Council race.

Even Democrats are making pro forma calls for Gwinn to resign. So far, she has refused.

College Republican National Committee Communications Director (can't fit that on a business card) James Richardson has been all over this.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 01:07 PM | Comments (55)
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1 What's the controversy here?

Posted by: Eric Holder at December 01, 2009 01:09 PM (e8YaH)

2 Hmmm.  Speaking of unruly Democrats, you'll be pleased to hear that conservative luminary David Frum is begging Cahrles Jackson to return to the fold.

Posted by: Lou at December 01, 2009 01:10 PM (JElo+)

3 Ohio University?  Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 01, 2009 01:13 PM (DrB2V)

4 Wow, only 150 bucks for that seat? Al Franken got screwed.

Posted by: Jasper at December 01, 2009 01:13 PM (Y6fdy)

5 As I have said before, I could no more disown the Athens College Democrats than I could disown ACORN.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at December 01, 2009 01:13 PM (e8YaH)

6 This is why it was a travesty that those college kids who illegally registered to vote in Ohio for 2008 didn't get some actual jail time. We are far too lenient on vote rigging and electoral crimes, which is odd as the word "democracy" is one of the most abused words in the English language.

"if you bring a friend from 4th ward they are more then a friend, they're 5 bucks!"

LOL. Five bucks? Those are some pretty cheap friends the Dems have. Of course, that's no surprise. Sociopaths don't value "friendship" too highly. Five bucks is five bucks, after all. "Friends" are a dime a dozen. Dem voting "friends" are $60 a dozen.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 01, 2009 01:13 PM (A46hP)

7 Yes, but can they get me a house for my sorority prostitutes.


Posted by: mesa in Texas at December 01, 2009 01:14 PM (vAnE9)

8 Sounds like a couple of future Jack Abramoffs.

All these college kids need to do now is board that gravy train to Honduras to take the side of Manual Zelaya.

Posted by: WTFCI at December 01, 2009 01:16 PM (GtYrq)

9 http://tinyurl.com/y9btzny

Here's Kellie's (pretty sure) Facebook page.  I'd hit it, but I'd feel bad after doing it...yeah right. 

Posted by: billygoat at December 01, 2009 01:17 PM (DrB2V)

10 she's no Tricorner hat Babe

Posted by: eddiebear at December 01, 2009 01:18 PM (wnU1W)

11

Wait a minute.  I have a thot.

It's always... something.  It's always, um ....  Oh, yeah!  It's always Democrats involved in voter fraud.  Yeah, that's it.

I beat the NYT to that tidbit!  Must credit Porkins.  I'm sure the expose' will be out soon.

Posted by: Jek Porkins (rdb) at December 01, 2009 01:18 PM (RBdAa)

12 This is what happens with "any means to an end" type of thinking. You become that which you abhor.

Posted by: rawmuse at December 01, 2009 01:19 PM (L11fl)

13 11 she's no Tricorner hat Babe

Posted by: eddiebear at December 01, 2009 05:18 PM (wnU1W)

Few are, eddiebear!eleventy!

Posted by: billygoat at December 01, 2009 01:19 PM (DrB2V)

14
We really need to crank-up the penalties for election fraud.

If the penalties stay as lax as they are, then I'm tempted to get some action for myself.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:21 PM (Ce+tv)

15 Here's Kellie's (pretty sure) Facebook page.  I'd hit it, but I'd feel bad after doing it...yeah right. 

Posted by: billygoat at December 01, 2009 05:17 PM (DrB2V)

--A fan of both 0bama and Kathy Griffin.

Say no more.

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2009 01:22 PM (I3Udb)

16 Frum and Charles are two of a kind: "If you don't let ME make the rules, I don't want to play with you!"

Posted by: Emily Litella at December 01, 2009 01:23 PM (Ate22)

17 Corrupt Democrats?

Hmmm....

No sir, I don't like 'em.

Posted by: Mr. Horse at December 01, 2009 01:24 PM (Ate22)

18 @13 rawmuse

You become that which you abhor.

Heh.  A year ago, I *did* abhor the idea of tampering with elections.  I've since been radicalized.

There is no damned reason why any lefty should have a say in anything that affects my life.  I'll stay within the law so long as I have something to lose if I'm caught, but it isn't a moral question for me anymore.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:25 PM (Ce+tv)

19

We’ve got young people, students, not judicious… who are following the lead of a licensed professional, an adult,” said special prosecutor Dave Yost. “To the extent that there’s culpability, we don’t think it rests with the students.” He added that the College Dems have cooperated in his investigation.

*BLINK*...yer effing kidding me, right? They won't be prosecuted for violating election law because they're students and not judicious?

So, all the yoots have to do is plead ignorance of the law.

Talk about carte blanche.

Posted by: beedubya at December 01, 2009 01:28 PM (AnTyA)

20

I can't think of a non-violent crime that's more heinous than vote fraud. Vote fraud nullifies the votes of others. if I may be so bold, may I say that it actually DISENFRANCHISES people of their vote. Disenfranchises them much more directly and brazenly than the bullshit disenfranchisement the left accused Republicans of in Florida in the 2000 election.

If having your vote stolen doesn't piss you off, then you clearly don't give a shit about one of your most sacred rights as a citizen.

I would hammer these fuckers and send a clear message to anyone else trying it. Of course Democrats won't support any harsh penalties because this is their life blood. Batsards.

And they're bastards too.

Posted by: LGoPs at December 01, 2009 01:28 PM (tm/sN)

21 The only point of elections is to prevent us from tearing each other apart, limb from limb. The consent of the governed is that which is fraying at the seams presently. I include myself in that group.

Posted by: rawmuse at December 01, 2009 01:28 PM (L11fl)

22 @21 LGoPs

Vote fraud nullifies the votes of others. if I may be so bold, may I say that it actually DISENFRANCHISES people of their vote.

And, what exactly is wrong with DISENFRANCHISING a lefty?  Nothing.  They deserve no voice.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:29 PM (Ce+tv)

23 You can dork me anytime...anyplace...even in the squeakhole

Posted by: Blanche Carte at December 01, 2009 01:29 PM (AnTyA)

24 @22 rawmuse

The only point of elections is to prevent us from tearing each other apart, limb from limb.

It works only so long as our laws are observed.  While being forced to obsess over the obvious things like election fraud and voter intimidation, the looters have taken the helm and are tearing us limb from limb.

It's just a matter of time before they have to escalate from using the threat of force to using force itself.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:32 PM (Ce+tv)

25 And, what exactly is wrong with DISENFRANCHISING a lefty?  Nothing.  They deserve no voice.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 05:29 PM (Ce+tv)

I have zero sympathy for leftards. That having been said if we start cheating and they start cheating then the whole process just degenerates into one big goat fuck. Easier IMO to monitor for fraud and hammer the shit out of it when found. 

Posted by: LGoPs at December 01, 2009 01:33 PM (tm/sN)

26 “We’ve got young people, students, not judicious… who are following the lead of a licensed professional, an adult,” said special prosecutor Dave Yost.


Uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most college students over 18, and therefore, adults?

I'm assuming that Ignorantia juris non excusat no longer applies in Ohio.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2009 01:33 PM (l1Wlr)

27 @26 LGoPs

I have zero sympathy for leftards. That having been said if we start cheating and they start cheating then the whole process just degenerates into one big goat fuck.

Once one side starts cheating, then it has already become one big goat fuck.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:35 PM (Ce+tv)

28 @26 LGoPs

Easier IMO to monitor for fraud and hammer the shit out of it when found.

And another thing:  I don't recall ever hearing about any hammers swinging over stuff like this.  We need to get Anka on this.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:36 PM (Ce+tv)

29

OU is a glittering turd of progressiveness nestled in the foothills of Appalachia. I've been there many times and the level of moonbattery there is mindbending.

A few years ago they experimented with Anarchy and provided community bicycles for everyone to use. A bunch of smartasses threw the bicycles in the river and the Anarchists called the police, ironically enough.

They throw one hell of a Halloween party, tho!

Posted by: Alex's Cabin at December 01, 2009 01:36 PM (LWRpx)

30 Once one side starts cheating, then it has already become one big goat fuck.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 05:35 PM (Ce+tv)

You've got me there.

Posted by: LGoPs at December 01, 2009 01:36 PM (tm/sN)

31 I'm assuming that Ignorantia juris non excusat no longer applies in Ohio.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2009 05:33 PM (l1Wlr)

That went by the wayside around the same time that the courts changed from caveat emptor to caveat vendor, for the sole purpose of providing insane and outrageous judgments for excursions into stupidity on the part of consumers. At least the courts are consistent in their drive to hold no one accountable, except for those with deep pockets.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 01, 2009 01:41 PM (A46hP)

32 Is it just me or does the term "cheating democrats" strike you as redundant too?

Posted by: Just a cynic.... at December 01, 2009 01:46 PM (v4UYp)

33 "Easier IMO to monitor for fraud and hammer the shit out of it when found. "

And when it is found and nothing is done . . . then?  Go John Galt?  Move to another country?  You get people disenfranchised and then fraud is no longer needed.

 This is easy to stop, you show up to vote with ID, if you can't make it on election day you get your butt down to a county office.  Now you can still play some games, but your options are limited and it is much harder to get away with fraud and this is the favorite way to stuff the ballot box.

Posted by: Just Another Poster at December 01, 2009 01:48 PM (NgoAe)

34 "if you bring a friend from 4th ward they are more then a friend, they're 5 bucks!"

Love that OU edumacation; most of them have their brains fried from too much partying assuming they had a brain to begin with.  Btw, they're the reason that Ahia State football players often emphasize that they're from THE Ohio State university because of a recent dust-up as to which school got to claim that moniker.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 01, 2009 01:52 PM (2Uu3I)

35

Yes, let's keep the Voting Rights Act only for the southern states.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 01, 2009 01:54 PM (B+qrE)

36 The list of things that outrage me more than voter fraud is pretty short. I live in a place where they found unopened boxes of ballots floating in the bay. I was livid, really, to the point of violence. I did not commit violence, but seriously, I was thinking of finding the elections supervisor, and choking her with my bare hands. And I certainly would go to prison for the rest of my life and it would all be worth it for that one moment when her trachea was under my thumbs. In effigy, of course.

Posted by: rawmuse at December 01, 2009 01:54 PM (L11fl)

37 Check out Kellie's Facebook and leave her a nice message. So, Kellie, they're paying you $5.00 a pop to fix erections in Athens.

Posted by: medulla oblongata at December 01, 2009 01:55 PM (uTmVS)

38 @31 LGoPs

I apologize for my tone.  Believe me, the nastiness was meant mostly for myself.

*I* am the apostate regarding the sanctity of electoral integrity in our form of representative government.  My argument is this:  The integrity is already lost.  It won't fix itself.

If we cannot tighten the rules and institute hard penalties for cheating, then the contract is null and void.  If we continue to slide, then we will probably get to "one man, one vote, one time" within the next couple of decades.

Posted by: MikeO at December 01, 2009 01:58 PM (Ce+tv)

39

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 01, 2009 05:52 PM (2Uu3I)

They got first dibs on all that sweet Meig's County Gold! The entire campus is full of hippie freaks. All the local kids either go to Ohio State or Hocking College.

Posted by: Alex's Cabin at December 01, 2009 01:59 PM (LWRpx)

40 Yes, let's keep the Voting Rights Act only for the southern states.

Winner. /thread

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at December 01, 2009 02:00 PM (Mi2wf)

41

In a quite ironic twist of...erm, irony...I revealed my Ohio University alumnus status a mere two threads ago.

I was in the College Republicans, and fully recall [a whole three years back, wow] that the College Dems were as scummy as they appear in this account.  Bastards would spy on us as we put up our flyers and sidewalk chalk and whatnot about meetings and events, and then they'd tear them down and wash off the chalk in the middle of the night.  Some of us went to sleep at night, 'cause some of us went to...you know...class instead of eating burrittos and riding unicycles at College Gate while blasting Dave Matthews all day.  Damn hippies.  They truly were everywhere.  I can't tell you how much anti-Bush crap I saw everywhere, and I also can't tell you how GRATEFUL I am that I was out of there before Obama's campaign.  Oy, what a nightmare. 

I majored in Political Communication.  Met some real crazies in class.  Just heard from one of them today, actually: he's working in DC, still batshit loony, go figure.

Posted by: Nicole at December 01, 2009 02:05 PM (CH1cF)

42

They throw one hell of a Halloween party, tho!

Tell me you saw the guy dressed as a wang, and his three friends walking w/ him, dressed as herpes?  He was a staple.

Posted by: Nicole at December 01, 2009 02:08 PM (CH1cF)

43

@39 MikeO

No problem Mike. There are few things that I am more passionate about than the integrity of my vote. My wife and I refuse to use Absentee Ballots. I figure that if the bastards are going to steal my vote, I'm going to make them work for it and do it to my face. I also show my ID, which is not required where I live, but I still make the point to the register checkers that they should be interested in knowing and verifying who I am.

Vote fraud probably comes as close as anything to making me consider violence. That's how important the issue is to me. I certainly agree with and understand your tone.

Posted by: LGoPs at December 01, 2009 02:15 PM (tm/sN)

44

Tell me you saw the guy dressed as a wang, and his three friends walking w/ him, dressed as herpes?  He was a staple.

Are you talking about this past Halloween? Last time I was there for Halloween was 2001.

Posted by: Alex's Cabin at December 01, 2009 02:18 PM (LWRpx)

45 So if the innocent younguns shouldn't bear any responsibility, I can't think of any better reason to raise the voting age.

Posted by: lurksalot at December 01, 2009 02:24 PM (gbCNS)

46

Tell me you saw the guy dressed as a wang, and his three friends walking w/ him, dressed as herpes?  He was a staple.

Wait. Was he a wang or a staple?

Seriously -- you don't want to confuse those two. Ever. Really. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 01, 2009 02:30 PM (n2wxa)

47 Those kids ought to be charged, too.  I don't think the statutes say, "If you're over the age of 23 and offer bribes for votes, you're in trouble" or "It shall be a violation of this act for anyone not enrolled in and attending school to offer bribes for votes."  I suspect that it's a violation of law no matter who you are or how old you are.  Letting them escape punishment is just another episode in the continuing saga of "Personal Responsibility Is a Fucking Joke in the US."  Is the prosecutor a Dem?

Posted by: Jazz at December 01, 2009 02:48 PM (hnq5i)

48

Are you talking about this past Halloween? Last time I was there for Halloween was 2001.

I was there from 02-06; saw him on two H'weens.  Then there were the bowling pins and their friend the bowling ball, and they'd tumble down Jefferson and Morton Hills.  That was great, too.  Halloween was fun, but also annoying to live there that weekend--too many new rules and regulations and incidents and crap.

Posted by: Nicole at December 01, 2009 02:49 PM (CH1cF)

49

Seriously -- you don't want to confuse those two. Ever. Really. Trust me on this

Lolz.  Sounds like the voice of experience there...

Posted by: Nicole at December 01, 2009 02:51 PM (CH1cF)

50 Athens County Prosecutor Dave Warren, a Democrat, said at the time the investigation was launched, “I think it smells like the Democrats are trying to buy an election.”
*       *        *
Presently, no members of the College Democrats have been indicted in the vote bounty scheme, likely attributable to the logistical and public relations nightmare in trying dozens of co-eds with voter fraud.

Who'd have thunk? Really?  A DEM refusing to prosecute Dems? Because it's too HARD?  Awwwww, man, I'll bet that was in his job description - "Duties: Prosecution of all violations of Ohio State Law, except when it's going to be hard."

Posted by: Jazz at December 01, 2009 02:52 PM (hnq5i)

51

WeÂ’ve got young people, students, not judiciousÂ… who are following the lead of a licensed professional, an adult

We've got 18 yr olds serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These punks wanna play adult games, then they can take the consequences.

BTW, I'm a graduate of OU. Loved the campus, hated the political atmosphere.

I remember protesting Hillary when she came to campaign for Bill in '92 when some crazy old man came up and started screaming that I was a Nazi.

He was a little too close for my liking, and I came damned close to beating the shit out of him.

After he left, my brother looked at me and said, "That guy is a history professor here. No shit."

That's OU for ya.

Posted by: Warden at December 01, 2009 03:01 PM (QoR4a)

52 Hmmm, well it sure seems that Kellie is being taught a lesson.  Of course, the lesson is that even if you're caught rigging an election you can get away with it.  I'm all in favour of giving someone a break but this person is an adult.  She's in university so one presumes that she understands that you're not supposed to buy votes with cash (real polititions use stimulus programs unless it's Chicago then it's bats and cash).  While I don't think she should get the book thrown at her she should get charged with something.  The special prosecuter needs to smacked with a rolled up newspaper.

Posted by: scr_north at December 01, 2009 03:12 PM (GE/dx)

53 The college should do ethics reviews on the students and throw them out.

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