Finally, Republicans fight back
The Friday Letter / #502 / July 22, 2022
Wisconsin's Republican legislators aren't finished with the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a rogue band of political operatives that made up its own rules for the 2020 election in violation of state law.
We don't yet know if the WEC's lawbreaking cost Trump the state's 10 electoral votes. But if developments occurring in several states are any indication, we are confident that the truth, in Wisconsin and other states whose suspicious activity is finally coming to light, will eventually emerge.
Wisconsin lawmakers delivered the second of a 1-2 punch to this political arm of the governor. On Wednesday a joint House-Senate committee nixed the WEC's plan to allow election workers to correct errors on absentee ballots. As we reported last week in FL 501, the state supreme court ruled that drop boxes and third-party harvesting of ballots violates state election law.
The court did not say specifically, but we suspect it didn't consider it a good government practice to have paid election operatives snoop around in nursing homes to “helpfully” fill out ballots for elderly residents.
The commission wanted election workers to “correct” errors without contacting the voter. Lawmakers saw this as an opportunity for ballot tampering. Perhaps they secretly wondered if people too competent to fill out a simple form have any business voting in the first place.
“Specifically, the Commission said clerks don’t have to contact voters, and could instead rely on their own information to fill in missing pieces or addresses,” Benjamin Yount reports at Just the News.
That's a key point, relying on their own information – such as whether the ballot in question is a Democrat or Republican vote.
The WEC had help from vague wording in the legislation itself. Wisconsin voters were required to show identification the first time they voted by mail, Mollie Hemingway explains in Rigged, her expose on 2020 election fraud. Wisconsin carved out an exception for people indefinitely confined, as in nursing homes. That alone opened the door for clerks in the state's biggest Democrat counties (including the home of the ultra-left University of Wisconsin at Madison) to advise Democrat voters to claim they were indefinitely confined.
Hemingway says up to a quarter million of the state's mail-in ballots were cast with no identification. Biden was awarded Wisconsin with a 20,505-vote margin over Trump.
While Republican legislators in blue states are powerless to bring about election reform, red state lawmakers are beginning to tighten up procedures. Three Pennsylvania counties, for example, won't certify their May 17 primary election results because of questions about mail-in ballots, a major source of voter fraud nationally.
Fighting back
Until recently, there was a feeling that President Trump was about the only one raising a ruckus about 2020 election fraud. Now Republicans in several states are fighting back as more of them accept the reality that the fraud was real.
In Texas, the state Republican Party said it has trained more than 5,000 election workers and poll watchers in time for the upcoming midterms.
And the Republican Party of Arizona is offering two $50,000 rewards for information about a suspected vote-buying scheme in the state's August primary election.
For more on this story, see John Soloman's report at Just the News on 21 confirmed illegalities and irregularities in the 2020 election.
Lessons in double standards
“Justice Clarence Thomas must resign from the Supreme Court immediately or else be impeached,” the left wing website moveon.org demands in a tirade along with a petition signed by 1,218,421 American constitutional experts. Moveon is downright unhappy with some of Justice Thomas' recent SCOTUS opinions. They also don't like it that his wife, Ginnie, shot off her mouth about the election in scads of emails to Trump's chief of staff.
One more reason: Thomas lied at his 1991 confirmation hearing by saying he respects judicial precedent, and we know he doesn't because he voted to ditch Roe. Never mind that Thomas hadn’t heard the oral arguments of the 2021 case when Joe Biden’s Judiciary Committee was grilling him in 1991. It’s customary for judges to actually hear the arguments before ruling, but that concept escapes the lefty-loons.
But it's OK for Nancy Pelosi's husband to trade on insider information when he bought a bunch of stock in a company Nancy and her pals are getting ready to subsidize. We can understand why: The usual penalty for violations of the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act is – hold on to your hat – $200. Business Insider recently identified 65 current congressmen who have violated the law. Even though the sides are evenly matched, 34 Republicans, 31 Democrats, we can't help but think they are all playing for the same team – the one that continues to hose us ordinary Americans.
Do you still not understand why the Establishment Democrat-Republican cabal would just as soon not see Donald Trump return to the White House?
Short takes on the news
A Reagan-appointed senior federal judge sentenced a 69-year-old cancer patient to 60 days in jail for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered Pam Hemphill, a retired drug and alcohol counselor, to pay $500 in restitution spend three years on supervised release. Remember that Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd has yet to be indicted for the only death related to the incident, the murder of unarmed Ashli Babbitt, while Derek Chauvin does 22½ years for the accidental killing of a violent felon with a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system. . .
To the surprise of no-one, Biden's federal prosecutors drop charges against a production team working for left-wing activist Stephen Colbert who were charged with illegally entering and occupying a congressional office building. As a symbol of the regime's two-tiered justice system, Jacob Anthony Chansley, who paraded around the Senate floor in Viking horns without a shirt and sat in Pence's chair, is doing 41 months in federal prison. . .
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $17 million to house illegal immigrants last year in Arizona and Texas, One America News reports. . .
Under Homeland Security chief Mayorkas, the Biden regime sent more than 1 million illegal aliens into the interior between February 2021 and May 2022, Breitbart reports. . .
Gavin Newsom assures California ex-pats that their freedoms will be restored if they move back. He's running ads in Florida to tout California's vast freedoms – including the freedom to pay the nation's highest state income tax rate at 13.3 percent, along with the freedom to download free aps that show the location of human fecal deposits on San Francisco streets.
Those taxes are plainly needed. Last year 86 Los Angeles firemen made more than $400,000, and one captain's overtime pushed his earnings to $598,532. Firemen typically work a 24-hour shift every third day, many using their off days to pursue other business and employment interests.
Californians don't just get to pay higher taxes, unlike Floridians, who suffer under Gov. Ron DeSantis' tyranny of no state income tax and having to mix with people walking around outside without obedience masks. Or parents knowing their kindergarten children aren't being prepared for genital mutilation surgeries. Or the right of citizens to exterminate home invaders. And on. And on. . .
To ease the unimpeded inflow of illegal aliens, AG Merrick Garland has dismissed nearly a dozen Trump-appointed immigration judges, Jennie Taer writes at the Daily Caller. “The dismissal of Immigration judges on purely political grounds is unprecedented,” says Matthew J. O'Brien, one of the political casualties. . .
A Michigan public school employee who lobbied his employer's school board for LGBTQ curricula was arrested in a police sting targeting pedophiles, National File reports.
Recommended reading
“NeverTrump’s Latest Attempt To Dismiss Election Concerns Is Particularly Dishonest”
Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist
Like the Russian collusion hoax and Joe Biden's role in Hunter Biden's influence peddling scandal, the left is finding it increasingly difficult to keep a lid on what we now know was real election fraud in 2020. The key to stealing the election lay in flooding mailboxes with unsolicited mail-in ballots, all in the name of coping with the Chinese coronavirus.
So says Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at The Federalist and author of Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.
Democrats are no longer able to hide the tactic: send ballots to every address in the state where somebody at some time lived and voted. Some residences received multiple ballots for anyone who found them to fill out and return. An excerpt:
“The successful effort to change hundreds of laws and processes across the country to enable tens of millions of unsupervised ballots to flood the system was led by Marc Elias, the same Democrat attorney who had been behind the creation of the Russia collusion hoax, the lie that Trump didn’t win in 2016 but stole the election by colluding with Russia.”
Quotes for today
“The first rule of politics is claim credit and avoid blame.” – Ben Boychuk at American Greatness
“What am I doing now?” – Joe Biden, to aides upon stepping off his plane at Ben Gurion Airport, before promising Israelis to “keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust.”
“End of quote, repeat the line.” – Joe Biden, doing his Ron Burgundy imitation, reading from a Teleprompter® at a press conference.
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