Here’s a bipartisan election fraud scandal for you —
State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a contractor and real estate developer who rose to become the first black president of the State Senate, and City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran III were arrested early Tuesday on charges of trying to illicitly get Mr. Smith on the ballot for this year’s mayoral race in New York City, according to federal prosecutors.
Mr. Smith, a Queens Democrat, and Mr. Halloran, a Queens Republican, were among a half-dozen people arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in the corruption case. Others included Republican County leaders in Queens and the Bronx, the mayor of the Rockland County village of Spring Valley, Noramie F. Jasmin, and her deputy, Joseph A. Desmaret, according to a criminal complaint. …
… Mr. Smith has said he was considering running for mayor of New York as a Republican, and the charges contend that he made payments to Mr. Halloran in exchange for the councilman’s assistance in setting up meetings with Republican leaders as part of an effort to get on the ballot, the complaint said.
Ed Kilgore writes that Smith “recently helped sell out his party to give Republicans partial control of the state legislature.”
Some of you might remember Halloran from the New York City snowstorm of December 2010. He was the guy who claimed “union thugs” were shaking down the city for more money to remove the snow. The claim was bogus, of course.
HA!
Chicago ain’t got nothin’ on NY!!!
At least the guy finally came out of the Democratic closet, and proved he really is a Republican after all.
WAAAY OT – GA town requires all heads of households to have a gun and bullets:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/02/187465/georgia-towns-new-law-requires.html
Ladies and Gentlemen,
More of your “small government” Conservatives at work – you MUST own a gun!
Did they amend the 2nd Amendment overnight while I was asleep, to read, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed – AND GUN AND BULLET OWNERSHIP WILL BE REQUIRED. And there will be no right to NOT own a gun, and keep and bear those arms.”
Ok, they say they won’t enforce the law.
THEN WHY THE FECK DID YOU MAKE IT A LAW?!?!?!?!
“TEH STOOOOOPID!” It burns with the heat of a trillion super-nova’s!
Bipartisan election fraud? Well, that’s some measure of progress at least. Maybe there’s hope for us after all.
So, party affiliations notwithstanding, the real fraud isn’t among voters, but rather candidates?
NY voters, repeat after me: “I got my ID right here, pal!”
Wow, It’s really a shame to see that the current political corruption has reached all the way to New York.
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