Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results

[DLR'sCock]

Boxer to Stand With Conyers
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Report

Thursday 06 January 2005

Sources with Rainbow-PUSH have confirmed that Senator Barbara Boxer of California will stand with House members to protest 'irregularities' during Ohio's presidential election.

Details and statements will follow shortly.



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Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results
By Alan Fram
The Associated Press

Thursday 06 January 2005

WASHINGTON - A small group of Democrats agreed Thursday to force House and Senate debates on Election Day problems in Ohio before letting Congress certify President Bush's win over Sen. John Kerry in November.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., signed a challenge mounted by House Democrats to Ohio's 20 electoral votes, which put Bush over the top. By law, a challenge signed by members of the House and Senate requires both chambers to meet separately for up to two hours to consider it. Lawmakers are allowed to speak for no more than five minutes each.

While Bush's victory is not in jeopardy, the Democratic challenge will force Congress to interrupt tallying the Electoral College vote, which is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. EST Thursday. It would be only the second time since 1877 that the House and Senate were forced into separate meetings to consider electoral votes.

"I have concluded that objecting to the electoral votes from Ohio is the only immediate way to bring these issues to light by allowing you to have a two-hour debate to let the American people know the facts surrounding Ohio's election," Boxer wrote in a letter to Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, a leader of the Democratic effort.

The action seems certain to leave Bush's victory intact because both Republican-controlled chambers would have to uphold the challenge for Ohio's votes to be invalidated. But supporters of the drive hope their move will shine a national spotlight on the Ohio voting problems.

Bush defeated Kerry, 286-252, with 270 electoral votes needed for victory.

[aesop]

There's a shocking revelation...

Boxergate, here we come...

[ELVIS]

Force debate ??

How can you force debate ??


This is total crap!

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock Bush defeated Kerry, 286-252, with 270 electoral votes needed for victory. [/B]

nightmares can come true, it can happen to you...

[DrMaddVibe]

So how'd that work out?

LOL!

What about the turkey's Mr. Conyers!
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/turkey5e_20050105.htm

Where did turkeys go?

Gleaners asks if Conyers' staff helped needy people
January 5, 2005







BY JOEL THURTELL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER



The director of a Detroit food bank wants to know what happened to 60 turkeys -- 720 pounds of frozen birds -- that his charity gave to members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers' local staff two days before Thanksgiving to give to needy people.


Conyers' Detroit office promised an accounting of any turkey distribution by Dec. 27, but the Gleaners Community Food Bank had received no paperwork as of Tuesday, said the charity's director, Agostinho Fernandes.


Fernandes said he became suspicious that the turkeys didn't get to poor people after hearing from a friend that a federal court worker had said he was offered free turkeys from a member of Conyers' staff.


Conyers' press secretary Karen Morgan said Tuesday that she was told that some of Conyers' staffers gave the turkeys to poor people whose names were provided by the state Family Independence Agency. A fax with those names, she said, was to be sent Tuesday or today to Gleaners.


Maureen Sorbet, a spokeswoman for the FIA, said Tuesday, "I spoke to the central FIA office in Wayne County, and they were unaware of the turkey situation.


"Normally, we don't provide names" of FIA clients, Sorbet added. "Sometimes at Christmastime we might if people self-disclose. It's remotely possible."


By mid-afternoon Tuesday, Fernandes said he had received nothing from Conyers' office.


"I've got to tell you that our mission of feeding hungry people has been violated by the people who should have been guardians of our mission," Fernandes said.


Fernandes said Conyers staffer Elisa Grubbs signed a Gleaners invoice Nov. 23 acknowledging she picked up the turkeys on the congressman's behalf. Fernandes sent the Free Press a copy of the invoice.


Morgan said the staffers who picked up the turkeys had promised to provide Gleaners with an accounting by Dec. 27. Morgan said she would ask Conyers to call the Free Press to answer questions about the turkeys, but he did not.


Morgan said Tuesday that she had been assured that a list of recipients exists, but added that she had not seen it.


"You can imagine how we feel," Fernandes said. "They didn't pay anything. This was donations to them to help the needy. We get calls from different representatives who want to put together food baskets for their needy constituents and you have faith that these people are going to bring the food to the people it's intended to go to."


A Conyers staff member who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal told the Free Press that Grubbs and her cousin, Conyers' Detroit deputy chief of staff Marion Brown, along with a former Conyers aide, DeWayne Boyd, picked up the turkeys and later gave contradictory accounts of what happened to the birds.


The unnamed staff member raised concerns in a memo sent to both the FBI and House ethics committee. Conyers was the target of an informal ethics committee inquiry last year following a Free Press investigation about use of staff members during work hours for political campaigns.


Boyd, who was fired from Conyers' Detroit office in 2002, was convicted on seven counts of fraud last month in U.S. District Court in connection with a scam he ran from Conyers' office in 1999.


Boyd, Brown and Grubbs did not return Free Press calls.


A spokesman for the ethics committee could not be reached for comment.


A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office declined comment.


Contact JOEL THURTELL at 248-351-3296 or thurtell@freepress.com.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Force debate ??

How can you force debate ??

This is total crap!

They had to debate the issue for two hours.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
So how'd that work out?

LOL!

What about the turkey's Mr. Conyers!



Look at the neocon butthole, MsSaddVibe, mock procedure and then go for the distraction turkey story. Taking our freedom for granted neocon-style!

http://www.president-bush.com/bush-turkey.jpg

What about the turkeys? You voted for one.

[DrMaddVibe]

So when someone more inline with your mode of thinking (or pants off) decides to do the very same pardon it's funny?

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
So when someone more inline with your mode of thinking (or pants off) decides to do the very same pardon it's funny?

What the hell are you talking about? Are you drunk?

[FORD]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
What the hell are you talking about? Are you drunk?

Poor AssVibe must have mixed the Zoloft with his PMS medicine again :(

[ELVIS]

What do you mix yours with ??

Overpriced beer ??


:D

[Jesus Christ]

Not everyone can turn water into wine, Gregory.

[DrMaddVibe]

Jesse: Hillary Nixed Promise on Elex Vote

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson heard Hillary Clinton Thursday morning railing against the legitimacy of the presidential vote in Ohio, he assumed she was about to follow through on her promise to vote against certifying the Electoral College results.

Instead Sen. Clinton voted the other way, leaving Jackson wondering what happened to the deal he thought they had.

While lobbying her on Wednesday, "she told me I was preaching to the choir," a suprised Jackson told the New York Post.
Mrs. Clinton certainly sounded yesterday as if she and the one-time civil rights leader were on the same page.

"As we look at our election system, I think it's fair to say that there are many legitimate questions about its accuracy, about its integrity, and they are not confined to . . . Ohio," she complained to the Senate.

But when it came time to follow through, Hillary headed for the tall grass - leaving California's Barbara Boxer holding the bag as the lone Senate Dem to actually register her objections with her vote.

The disappointed reverend probably should have realized that Sen. Clinton would try to have it both ways - without formally lining up with the Democrat grassy-knollers.

In fact, only last week Hillary's advisor-in-chief gave Bush's election his seal of approval.

"I voted for the other fellow, but President Bush won this election fair and square," Bill Clinton told CNN's Larry King




LOL!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Jesse: Hillary Nixed Promise on Elex Vote

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson heard Hillary Clinton Thursday morning railing against the legitimacy of the presidential vote in Ohio, he assumed she was about to follow through on her promise to vote against certifying the Electoral College results.

Instead Sen. Clinton voted the other way, leaving Jackson wondering what happened to the deal he thought they had.

While lobbying her on Wednesday, "she told me I was preaching to the choir," a suprised Jackson told the New York Post.
Mrs. Clinton certainly sounded yesterday as if she and the one-time civil rights leader were on the same page.

"As we look at our election system, I think it's fair to say that there are many legitimate questions about its accuracy, about its integrity, and they are not confined to . . . Ohio," she complained to the Senate.

But when it came time to follow through, Hillary headed for the tall grass - leaving California's Barbara Boxer holding the bag as the lone Senate Dem to actually register her objections with her vote.

The disappointed reverend probably should have realized that Sen. Clinton would try to have it both ways - without formally lining up with the Democrat grassy-knollers.

In fact, only last week Hillary's advisor-in-chief gave Bush's election his seal of approval.

"I voted for the other fellow, but President Bush won this election fair and square," Bill Clinton told CNN's Larry King




LOL!!!!!!!

More cut -n- paste from Ms.AssVibe! Thanks!