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Nick Vermeil
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HellToupee
Footballguy
It was her job to look good. She wins and suddenly she's vintage Willie Mays on the Mets. So sad. She want a business person , she was miss universe . She ate her way out of a job like Fridge Perry or Pablo Sandoval. He didn't call a soccer mom , it was MISS UNIVERSE. WTF.
HellToupee
Footballguy
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
Nothing in the past year suggests that it is.
Obviously Putin wouldn't mock his hair. If he didn't like Donnie's hair, he'd tell him to change it.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Not based on the emotional stability he's shown. No. Especially following his stated desire for us to be seen as "unpredictable" with the use of nuclear weapons.
Have you not been paying attention?
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TobiasFunke
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Except that the three biggest ones (Cuba embargo violation, sexual harassment/discrimination allegations at California golf club, violations of NY laws on soliciting charitable donations) didn't come from the campaign. They came from print news media. They just happened to be ready for publication during the same 24 hour period, which would be an amazing coincidence if there wasn't a new story like this almost every day.
3C's
Footballguy
I think the word you're looking for is #######. Hypocrite works too I suppose.
I am SHOCKED that a person gets in the best shape of their life before the biggest event of their life and lets go a little once it's over. It's not like she turned into a fat cow. She gained likely about 15lbs and at pageant time she was probably a bit underweight.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
I feel like we're at the part of the movie where the press finally remembers what their real job is and how much they enjoy real reporting. Now is the musical montage of reporters talking on phones, knocking on doors, and furiously typing away on computers.
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mr. furley
Footballguy
i actually believe Trump wants nuclear winter to eliminate his enemies
but not until after be bellies up to an Atlantic City buffet for a few hours while watching strippers sniff blow off his daughters rack
Widbil83
Footballguy
massraider
Footballguy
massraider
Footballguy
Kid should have known better. There being an 80% chance that Trump voters attended a tech high school, this sign was bound to be rigged in some way. Be thankful the guy wasn't a plumber, junior!
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Sammy3469
Footballguy
The ridiculous part is any one of those 3 would sink a normal campaign.
The more ridiculous part is I'm sure the Clinton campaign has more where this came from.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
At one point The Trump campaign tried to get volunteers to sign non-disclosure agreements so broad it prevented them from criticizing Trump publicly for the rest of their lives. VOLUNTEERS.
Very curious how much NDA language is in the contracts for the people actually getting paid. Because the story I want to hear told is from some mid-level Trump campaign staffer with first-hand up-close accounts of the incompetence.
cstu
Footballguy
In a normal election with two candidates relatively equal in debating ability this is a viable strategy. However, being an adult debating a child gives her an enormous edge that she should take advantage of as often as possible.
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Bruce Dickinson
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There's video of Trump promising to release his tax returns as an incentive for Obama to prove he was born in the United States. If Trump closed that deal like he claims, it's time for him to live up to all the terms of the agreement. I suppose this is why deal-making is an art form.
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Alan Sepinwall Retweeted
Benjamin Craw
Mr. Gorbachev, CHECK OUT THIS SEX TAPE.
cstu
Footballguy
cosjobs
Footballguy
Debating again would be a bad move for H. She should crush, but he could upset. No debate no upset and ride the wave into office. But if this can bait him into tax returns, it's worth it.
Don't Noonan
Footballguy
I haven't seen Em post in here for days. Was he banned?
massraider
Footballguy
Saw a great meme on Facebook.
Hillary yelling, ''Show us your tax returns!!''
Trump shouting, ''I emailed them to you!''
massraider
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cstu
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Certainly, but are those situations really that far-fetched? The man is absolutely unstable.
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mr. furley
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/29/dont-vote-for-donald-trump-editorial-board-editorials-debates/91295020/
In its 34 years of existence, USA Today has had a no-endorsement policy. In a historic first that breaks 34 years of tradition, the board decided this election season to revisit its no-endorsement policy — then threw it out and penned a scathing critique of the GOP nominee that read more like an anti-endorsement.
In its 34 years of existence, USA Today has had a no-endorsement policy. In a historic first that breaks 34 years of tradition, the board decided this election season to revisit its no-endorsement policy — then threw it out and penned a scathing critique of the GOP nominee that read more like an anti-endorsement.
Bruce Dickinson
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Where is that prosecutor who put Martha Stewart in jail? Can we track that person down and appoint them Special Prosecutor Of Trump's Shady-### Bull #### Business Dealings And ####ed-Up Sexual Harassment Of Women?Sammy3469 said:
Maybe bring on Ken Starr to help out. We know that guy has relevant work experience and recently became available.
cstu
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squistion
Footballguy
Jeffrey GoldbergVerified account @JeffreyGoldberg 6m6 minutes ago
Maybe we don't need Donald Trump to be President Eisenhower during a 3 a.m phone call,
but he shouldn't be the Insane Clown Posse either.
Maybe we don't need Donald Trump to be President Eisenhower during a 3 a.m phone call,
but he shouldn't be the Insane Clown Posse either.
cstu
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To me this was completely shocking. USA Today is the milquetoast of newspapers and for it to come out so strongly against Trump tells you how terrible he is.
Bruce Dickinson
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cstu
Footballguy
I said before that the media built him up and during the last 7 weeks would tear him down.
Only a narcissistic sociopath would commit as many crimes as he has and still think he's going to get through the election process unscathed.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Sounds like video from Trump's deposition in one of the lawsuits related to restaurants in the Old Post Office Building is getting released today. 
HellToupee
Footballguy
Hillary hurting more industries
For Some Newspapers, Endorsing Clinton Means Losing Subscribers
Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday.Doug Mills/The New York Times
By SYDNEY EMBER
September 28, 2016
The subscription cancellations were coming every 10 minutes. Angry readers have been calling in droves. One caller issued a death threat.
“We’re feeling the weight of our history,” Phil Boas, the editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Until it endorsed Hillary Clintonon Tuesday, the newspaper, founded in 1890, had never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president.
In endorsing Mrs. Clinton, The Republic’s editorial was, by any interpretation, scathing toward her opponent, Donald J. Trump. “Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads,” the editorial says at one point. “That’s beneath our national dignity.”
“Trump’s long history of objectifying women and his demeaning comments about women during the campaign are not just good-old-boy gaffes,” the editorial added. “They are evidence of deep character flaws. They are part of a pattern.”
The newspaper is not the first this year to break with its long tradition of endorsing Republicans for president. The Dallas Morning News, which had not supported a Democrat for president since before World War II, and The Cincinnati Enquirer, which has endorsed Republicans for nearly 100 years, have backed Mrs. Clinton. The Houston Chronicle, which has in the past endorsed a Democrat for president but which typically supports Republicans, eschewed Mr. Trump in July, long before endorsements are generally published in an election year.
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The papers lay out different reasons for supporting Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump — his lack of political experience versus her established political career, his outbursts and insults versus her steadiness — and some are perhaps more repudiations of Mr. Trump than glowing endorsements of Mrs. Clinton, whose faults are also cited.
“Any one of Trump’s less than sterling qualities — his erratic temperament, his dodgy business practices, his racism, his Putin-like strongman inclinations and faux-populist demagoguery, his contempt for the rule of law, his ignorance — is enough to be disqualifying,” the editorial board of The Houston Chronicle wrote.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which endorsed Mrs. Clinton last week, put it particularly bluntly: “Trump is a clear and present danger to our country.”
For some readers, however, the endorsements proved a step too far. “Certainly, we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation,” Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, told Poynter this month.
Mr. Boas of The Arizona Republic said he expected “a lot of cancellations,” pointing to cancellations at The Cincinnati Enquirer, which like The Republic, is owned by Gannett.
But he said financial considerations were “never a factor” for the newspaper’s nine-person editorial board. “It was more of a curiosity,” he said. “We know we’re doing the right thing. We feel very good about this decision.”
The endorsement of Mrs. Clinton would probably not have come as a surprise to the paper’s faithful readers, he said. The paper had already written several cautionary editorials about Mr. Trump, including one last November, when a black protester was beaten at one of Mr. Trump’s rallies in Birmingham, Ala. It also ran an editorial after Mr. Trump mocked a New York Times reporter with a disability.
“Trump through the primary and into the general did a half dozen things that we believe would have been disqualifiers in years past,” Mr. Boas said. “We think that we are being traditionalists here. We’re saying we’re not willing to compromise our values.”
The decision to endorse a Democrat, however, was not taken lightly. The newspaper did not have a record of its endorsements, and it hired a researcher to determine when it had last supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican. A historian was brought on to review the researcher’s work. When they found out the paper had never endorsed a Democrat, Mr. Boas said, “It was a real surprise.”
But in the end, he said, the editorial board’s decision was not contentious. “We’re never in unison on anything, but it wasn’t a difficult thing,” Mr. Boas said. “It was the kind of thing that just evolved over time.”
For Some Newspapers, Endorsing Clinton Means Losing Subscribers
Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday.Doug Mills/The New York Times
By SYDNEY EMBER
September 28, 2016
The subscription cancellations were coming every 10 minutes. Angry readers have been calling in droves. One caller issued a death threat.
“We’re feeling the weight of our history,” Phil Boas, the editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Until it endorsed Hillary Clintonon Tuesday, the newspaper, founded in 1890, had never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president.
In endorsing Mrs. Clinton, The Republic’s editorial was, by any interpretation, scathing toward her opponent, Donald J. Trump. “Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads,” the editorial says at one point. “That’s beneath our national dignity.”
“Trump’s long history of objectifying women and his demeaning comments about women during the campaign are not just good-old-boy gaffes,” the editorial added. “They are evidence of deep character flaws. They are part of a pattern.”
The newspaper is not the first this year to break with its long tradition of endorsing Republicans for president. The Dallas Morning News, which had not supported a Democrat for president since before World War II, and The Cincinnati Enquirer, which has endorsed Republicans for nearly 100 years, have backed Mrs. Clinton. The Houston Chronicle, which has in the past endorsed a Democrat for president but which typically supports Republicans, eschewed Mr. Trump in July, long before endorsements are generally published in an election year.
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The papers lay out different reasons for supporting Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump — his lack of political experience versus her established political career, his outbursts and insults versus her steadiness — and some are perhaps more repudiations of Mr. Trump than glowing endorsements of Mrs. Clinton, whose faults are also cited.
“Any one of Trump’s less than sterling qualities — his erratic temperament, his dodgy business practices, his racism, his Putin-like strongman inclinations and faux-populist demagoguery, his contempt for the rule of law, his ignorance — is enough to be disqualifying,” the editorial board of The Houston Chronicle wrote.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which endorsed Mrs. Clinton last week, put it particularly bluntly: “Trump is a clear and present danger to our country.”
For some readers, however, the endorsements proved a step too far. “Certainly, we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation,” Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, told Poynter this month.
Mr. Boas of The Arizona Republic said he expected “a lot of cancellations,” pointing to cancellations at The Cincinnati Enquirer, which like The Republic, is owned by Gannett.
But he said financial considerations were “never a factor” for the newspaper’s nine-person editorial board. “It was more of a curiosity,” he said. “We know we’re doing the right thing. We feel very good about this decision.”
The endorsement of Mrs. Clinton would probably not have come as a surprise to the paper’s faithful readers, he said. The paper had already written several cautionary editorials about Mr. Trump, including one last November, when a black protester was beaten at one of Mr. Trump’s rallies in Birmingham, Ala. It also ran an editorial after Mr. Trump mocked a New York Times reporter with a disability.
“Trump through the primary and into the general did a half dozen things that we believe would have been disqualifiers in years past,” Mr. Boas said. “We think that we are being traditionalists here. We’re saying we’re not willing to compromise our values.”
The decision to endorse a Democrat, however, was not taken lightly. The newspaper did not have a record of its endorsements, and it hired a researcher to determine when it had last supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican. A historian was brought on to review the researcher’s work. When they found out the paper had never endorsed a Democrat, Mr. Boas said, “It was a real surprise.”
But in the end, he said, the editorial board’s decision was not contentious. “We’re never in unison on anything, but it wasn’t a difficult thing,” Mr. Boas said. “It was the kind of thing that just evolved over time.”
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
Are we expecting anything in particular?Sounds like video from Trump's deposition in one of the lawsuits related to restaurants in the Old Post Office Building is getting released today.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I believe it is Zakarian. I don't think there was much according to what I read about the transcripts. Still should be interesting to see though.Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Banger
Footballguy
so fire her...keep her out of the limelight but publicly calling a 19 year old girl names, having her ride an exercise bike at PR event isn't right or acceptable and there aren't many people in world that would do that (besides our presidential candidate of course). Is she were your daughter how would you feel?
Skoo
Footballguy
Can't really blame her for being the best candidate, that's what she's supposed to be going for.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
This is so good I'm not sure "Checkers v Chess" captures the differential properly. It's like Hillary is playing Halo 5, and Trump is playing that Combat! cartridge that came with the Atari 2600.
squistion
Footballguy
Wait, Hillary is hurting the dead tree media by receiving their endorsements?
Did she somehow force these newspapers to endorse her?
HellToupee
Footballguy
Investigation launched after dead people are registered to vote in Harrisonburg
By GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch13 hours ago
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Harrisonburg officials and the FBI are investigating allegations of voter registration fraud after officials say almost 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.
Harrisonburg Registrar Debbie Logan said Thursday that investigators have found from 18 to 20 potentially fraudulent registrations. The Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday that an investigation is underway, but offered no additional details on the case.
The applications were turned in by a voter registration group called HarrisonburgVOTES, officials said. The group’s representatives could not be reached for comment Thursday. No charges have been filed.
The Breeze, the student newspaper of James Madison University, reported that the applications were submitted by a studentworking for the group. The problem came to light when an employee in the registrar’s office noticed a new registration had come in from Richard Claybrook Sr., the late father of a well-known local judge.
“When they used a distinguished resident of Harrisonburg’s name and address, it came to the attention of an employee who has worked in the city for many years,” Logan said.
“We were pretty disgusted that they would use his name,” Richard Claybrook Jr. said of his father, who died in 2014. “He was a retired educator and had served in World War II. He was always a law-abiding citizen.”
Logan said applications using a deceased person’s real name and address but a false social security number would not be flagged in the voter system.
The fraudulent voters are still technically registered as the investigation continues, Logan said, but if her office receives an absentee ballot from one of the dead voters, it would react appropriately. Logan said she expects the State Board of Elections and her local electoral board will allow her to cancel the registrations before the Nov. 8 election.
Republican lawmakers held a news conference call Thursday to call attention to the investigation, which they said proves voter fraud is real and validates their push for strong voter ID laws.
“Often times we hear our Democrat colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia or is a myth,” said House Speaker William H. Howell, R-Stafford. “Well it does indisputably exist.”
“If it hadn’t been for the vigilance of a citizen, this fraud effort may never have been uncovered until it was too late,” said Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, who chairs the House Privileges and Elections Committee.
Others weren’t convinced that the case represents a close brush with election fraud.
Del. Marcus B. Simon, D-Fairfax, said it’s “very disingenuous” to suggest the applications were part of a large-scale fraud, because votes would have to be cast either in person by elderly impostors or through absentee ballots sent to real home addresses.
“There’s no way any reasonable person could conclude that this was part of an effort to actually cast votes for people that aren’t able to cast votes,” Simon said.
Billing clerk who stole $900K spent $26K on cosmetics, $12K on iTunes, $2,600 on Jimmy Buffett tickets
Chesterfield County resident Edith Harris was sentenced to 3 years for embezzling $900,000 as a billing clerk for Virginia Physicians for Women.
13K people text Stafford woman instead of C-SPAN
during the presidential debate.
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By GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch13 hours ago
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THINKSTOCK
Harrisonburg officials and the FBI are investigating allegations of voter registration fraud after officials say almost 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.
Harrisonburg Registrar Debbie Logan said Thursday that investigators have found from 18 to 20 potentially fraudulent registrations. The Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday that an investigation is underway, but offered no additional details on the case.
The applications were turned in by a voter registration group called HarrisonburgVOTES, officials said. The group’s representatives could not be reached for comment Thursday. No charges have been filed.
The Breeze, the student newspaper of James Madison University, reported that the applications were submitted by a studentworking for the group. The problem came to light when an employee in the registrar’s office noticed a new registration had come in from Richard Claybrook Sr., the late father of a well-known local judge.
“When they used a distinguished resident of Harrisonburg’s name and address, it came to the attention of an employee who has worked in the city for many years,” Logan said.
“We were pretty disgusted that they would use his name,” Richard Claybrook Jr. said of his father, who died in 2014. “He was a retired educator and had served in World War II. He was always a law-abiding citizen.”
Logan said applications using a deceased person’s real name and address but a false social security number would not be flagged in the voter system.
The fraudulent voters are still technically registered as the investigation continues, Logan said, but if her office receives an absentee ballot from one of the dead voters, it would react appropriately. Logan said she expects the State Board of Elections and her local electoral board will allow her to cancel the registrations before the Nov. 8 election.
Republican lawmakers held a news conference call Thursday to call attention to the investigation, which they said proves voter fraud is real and validates their push for strong voter ID laws.
“Often times we hear our Democrat colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia or is a myth,” said House Speaker William H. Howell, R-Stafford. “Well it does indisputably exist.”
“If it hadn’t been for the vigilance of a citizen, this fraud effort may never have been uncovered until it was too late,” said Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, who chairs the House Privileges and Elections Committee.
Others weren’t convinced that the case represents a close brush with election fraud.
Del. Marcus B. Simon, D-Fairfax, said it’s “very disingenuous” to suggest the applications were part of a large-scale fraud, because votes would have to be cast either in person by elderly impostors or through absentee ballots sent to real home addresses.
“There’s no way any reasonable person could conclude that this was part of an effort to actually cast votes for people that aren’t able to cast votes,” Simon said.
Billing clerk who stole $900K spent $26K on cosmetics, $12K on iTunes, $2,600 on Jimmy Buffett tickets
Chesterfield County resident Edith Harris was sentenced to 3 years for embezzling $900,000 as a billing clerk for Virginia Physicians for Women.
13K people text Stafford woman instead of C-SPAN
during the presidential debate.
Editorial: Joe Morrissey makes front page of The Washington Post
The front page of Wednesday’s Washington Post featured a story on Joe Morrissey. “In Virginia’s capital a political ‘bad boy’ upends race for mayor,” the headline screamed. The piece discussed…
Editorial: Let Gary Johnson debate
If the presidential debate commission refuses to allow Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson onto the big stage, tens of millions of Americans will miss an opportunity to form their own impressio…
gmoomaw@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6839
Twitter: @gmoomaw
massraider
Footballguy
You going to start posting recipes?
The General
Footballguy
I really don't care about this, just him shows him to be a creepy dude, but we already knew that.
Women though I don't think like being called a fatass by fat, old rich Dbag.
mr. furley
Footballguy
Bob Magaw
Footballguy
Seth Meyers A Closer Look 9/29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37P_fGVSumY
1) First there was "the cyber", now we have "the google".
2) Gary Johnson goofiness - A) Sticks tongue out in interview (have to see it - Meyers jokes, maybe next time, only eat half the brownie?), 2) Taking a long range view of global warming, the sun will eventually encompass the Earth
and C) Even AFTER the Aleppo fiasco, when asked to name just one world leader he admires in a recent interview, he couldn't (VP mentioned a recently deceased one, and also had to come up with a former one, last name only - Fox of Mexico).
* No doubt a function of the pathological narcissism, but it is bizarre how he is proud of and takes credit for stuff that makes no sense:
Birtherism, fat shaming, "not" going there with Bill Clinton's indiscretions (while going there and having his surrogates/shills do so with a full court press).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37P_fGVSumY
1) First there was "the cyber", now we have "the google".
2) Gary Johnson goofiness - A) Sticks tongue out in interview (have to see it - Meyers jokes, maybe next time, only eat half the brownie?), 2) Taking a long range view of global warming, the sun will eventually encompass the Earth
and C) Even AFTER the Aleppo fiasco, when asked to name just one world leader he admires in a recent interview, he couldn't (VP mentioned a recently deceased one, and also had to come up with a former one, last name only - Fox of Mexico). * No doubt a function of the pathological narcissism, but it is bizarre how he is proud of and takes credit for stuff that makes no sense:
Birtherism, fat shaming, "not" going there with Bill Clinton's indiscretions (while going there and having his surrogates/shills do so with a full court press).
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Grace Under Pressure
Footballguy
Jeremy
Footballguy
Even if you're a Trump supporter who can somehow overlook or is in denial about the bigotry, the misogyny, the ties to Russia, his insulting of soldiers or their families, his business world corruption, his cruelty, his complete lack of knowledge or willingness to learn what a president needs to know, and all the other baggage...this has to keep you up at night. We're talking about possibly making him the commander in chief and he has the emotional maturity of a toddler. Nobody can deny that fact. You just can't. The President of the United States cannot act like this. And he's proven time and again he cannot change.
HellToupee
Footballguy
Really don't think the average woman is sympathetic to beauty pageant contestants
I really don't care about this, just him shows him to be a creepy dude, but we already knew that.
Women though I don't think like being called a fatass by fat, old rich Dbag.
HellToupee
Footballguy
He fought in World War II. He died in 2014. And he just registered to vote in Va.
By Laura Vozzella
RICHMOND —
Virginia Politics
September 29, 2016 at 3:27 PM
(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
The FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote in this critical swing state.
One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.
“His family members were very distraught,” said Garst, who confirmed the existence of the FBI and police investigation but said she could provide few details because the case is ongoing.
All 19 were initially registered as voters in the Shenandoah Valley city of Harrisonburg, although a clerk double-checking the entries later raised questions about one. She recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge’s father had died.
“He was a retired Fairfax County elementary school principal and had fought in World War II,” said his son, retired Harrisonburg General District Court Judge Richard Allen Claybrook Jr. “So our family is very disgusted that they would pick his name, because he was such a law-abiding citizen devoted to public service.”
Related: Amid voter ID fight and ‘misleading’ mailings, voting to begin in battleground Va.
All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar’s office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.
Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with reporters to call attention to the investigation.
“Oftentimes we hear our Democratic colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia, or it’s a myth,” House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said. “This is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections.”
House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
“First of all, there was no voter fraud — they caught him,” Toscano said. “Nobody cast a vote. . . . There’s still no evidence of that going on in the state. But there is evidence every time you turn around that the Republicans are trying to make it more difficult for citizens to vote in elections.”
Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post.
By Laura Vozzella
RICHMOND —
Virginia Politics
September 29, 2016 at 3:27 PM
(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
The FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote in this critical swing state.
One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.
“His family members were very distraught,” said Garst, who confirmed the existence of the FBI and police investigation but said she could provide few details because the case is ongoing.
All 19 were initially registered as voters in the Shenandoah Valley city of Harrisonburg, although a clerk double-checking the entries later raised questions about one. She recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge’s father had died.
“He was a retired Fairfax County elementary school principal and had fought in World War II,” said his son, retired Harrisonburg General District Court Judge Richard Allen Claybrook Jr. “So our family is very disgusted that they would pick his name, because he was such a law-abiding citizen devoted to public service.”
Related: Amid voter ID fight and ‘misleading’ mailings, voting to begin in battleground Va.
All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar’s office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.
Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with reporters to call attention to the investigation.
“Oftentimes we hear our Democratic colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia, or it’s a myth,” House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said. “This is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections.”
House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
“First of all, there was no voter fraud — they caught him,” Toscano said. “Nobody cast a vote. . . . There’s still no evidence of that going on in the state. But there is evidence every time you turn around that the Republicans are trying to make it more difficult for citizens to vote in elections.”
Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post.
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