Retarded vote Dem - and often:
GOP IS RIGHT TO BRING IN THE
FRAUD SQUAD
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
IT WOULD be a terrible thing if the dead are
allowed to rise from their graves today to vote.
Don't laugh - just remember the mayoral elections
of 1993.
We tracked busloads of people in The Bronx and
in Brooklyn and saw people voting two or three
times, said Billy Powers, chairman of the New
York state Republican Committee.
Me and Mike Long of the Conservative Party were
stopping them. "Hey,' I would say as they got off
the bus, "I just saw you vote.'
The Democrats, who provided this transportation
for double dippers, thought Billy Powers and Mike
Long were playing dirty pool - how dare they stop
the democratic process of allowing people to vote
two or three times.
It got worse.
Post Albany Bureau chief Fred Dicker and
photographer Luiz Ribeiro were in Brooklyn on
voting day in 1993.
It was a very sad, tragic scene, Dicker told me
yesterday. It was also cynical and outrageous.
What they saw makes you sick.
There was a busload of severely mentally retarded
people being bused in to vote for ^David_ Dinkins.
They were actually moved into booths and were
given a helping hand to pull the lever.
I remember talking to one gentleman and all he
could say: "I want my mother.'
I asked him who he was going to vote for. He said,
"I voted for Mommy.'
There was another gentleman who just said: "Oh,
we are here to go bowling.'
Not a great day for democracy.
Now, last week, a series of so-called minority
leaders, led by Charlie Rangel, the oldest shoe in
the store, were up in arms.
They protested that the New York state Republican
Party was going to dispatch poll-watchers to the
voting booths across the state.
Well, they are.
Since when do the Democrats think that they are
the only poll-watchers, said a feisty Bill Powers.
Up until 1993, there hadn't been a Republican poll
watcher at the booths for 20 years. Many
Democratic poll watchers. But Republicans
thought those things died, you know voter fraud,
died years ago.
Well, not what I saw in 1989 and 1993.
Not what Fred Dicker saw in 1993.
So, today, there will be Republican poll watchers,
as there will be Democrat poll watchers, which is
right.
I wonder who is unhappiest.
But behind all this, there is an arrogance that I
refuse to ignore.
Somehow Charlie Rangel and company think
Republican poll watchers will intimidate ethnic
voters.
The only intimidation I see comes from people who
bribe an illegal - or incompetent - voter with a free
lunch.
But there is yet a more horrendous arrogance
here.
Since when does the Democratic Party presume
that any man or woman would automatically vote
on a Democrat ticket?
Not the African-Americans that I know who are
voting for Sen. Al D'Amato.
Not the Hispanics that I know who are voting for Al
and George Pataki. Some arrogance.
When Bill Powers talks, he talks not as an elitist
Republican that Democrats so love to portray.
Powers a former Marine (There are no ex-Marines,
just former Marines) was a sweeper for Amtrak
and a former janitor before he rebuilt the state
Republican Party.
At Iwo Jima, there were 6,000 Marines left on the
beach that would never wake, he says. The bullets
of the enemy didn't find out what color or religion
they were. They were Marines. American Marines.
And this is an American election. Equal playing
field across the board.
He doesn't drink the perfect white wine the friends
of Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer drink.
He drinks draught beer.
And he will eat people for breakfast today if he
sees them committing voting fraud.
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