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To: tonto who wrote (306629)	10/16/2006 8:24:23 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576660

"What the Kerry campaign wanted to do is stop people from voting." Nonsense. No connection to the campaign other than these kids was ever made. It wouldn't make sense either, it doesn't take that long to change tires and was, at most a nuisance.

To: tonto who wrote (306629)	10/16/2006 8:38:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576660

No, the tire slashing was part of the crime. What the Kerry campaign wanted to do is stop people from voting. You didn't have to tell me.........I understood what the intent was. So......are you ready to talk about Cunningham.....or how about Taft in Ohio.......Delay in Texas......then there is Ney from Ohio? We have a big selection from which to choose.

To: tonto who wrote (306629)	10/16/2006 11:04:06 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1576660

Kerry and democrats wanted every legal voter in the country to vote and their vote to be counted. Rove's machine was in the business of making sure that didn't happen in 2004, especially in swing states and most especially in Ohio where they stole it all. Regardless of your politics, you should never side with political criminals like Rove-Bush-Cheney. Kerry ran a clean honest, truthful campaign. And he will run another one next year. You should be supporting politicians who are honest and believe in democracy. Bushies are very dishonest and believe only their supporters have the right to vote. That's fascism. It's also cehating. Cheaters should never be allowed to win.

To: tonto who wrote (306629)	10/19/2006 11:07:36 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576660

No, the tire slashing was part of the crime. What the Kerry campaign wanted to do is stop people from voting. You are familiar with what happened in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004? Does the name Ken Blackwell ring a bell? These dirty tricks have been practiced by both sides. Al ======================================================= AG: Voter warning linked to GOP campaign 37 minutes ago SANTA ANA, Calif. - State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said. "We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained," said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer. He declined to identify the specific Republican campaign Wednesday, citing the ongoing investigation. The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register both reported Thursday that the investigation appeared to be focused on the campaign of Tan D. Nguyen, a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (news, bio, voting record). The letter, written in Spanish, tells recipients: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time." In fact, immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens can vote. Complaints about the letters this week prompted state and federal investigations, and Barankin said investigators had been questioning people in Orange County. The two newspapers reported state investigators had found the location where the letters were printed and mailed to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County. The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source, said authorities had interviewed Nguyen at his office. Nguyen did not return messages left by The Associated Press or either newspaper. Sanchez said in an interview Thursday on Univision that the sender should be punished for stating that immigrants can't vote. It would be unfortunate if the person responsible was another immigrant, she said. "What a shame, really, that this is still happening in the United States today," Sanchez said. The owner of Huntington Beach-based Mailing Pros, Christopher West, told The Orange County Register that he was hired to do the mailings but didn't know what they said and didn't know any laws were being broken when the mailer was sent. He said he gave investigators the name of the person who hired him. "I'm the one that processed it, and I don't read Spanish," West said. "Until the investigator read it to me, I didn't know the content." Scott Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, condemned the letter as "an obnoxious, grotesque piece of work." "Regardless of who did it — Republican or Democrat — if it's a crime, then whoever did it should be prosecuted," Baugh said. A group of six Vietnamese-American political candidates running for offices in Orange County issued a joint statement saying: "The content of this mailer is offensive to the immigrant voters, regardless of their ethnicity." The note's letterhead resembles that of an anti-illegal immigration group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform, but group leader Barbara Coe said she told investigators for the attorney general's office Wednesday that her group didn't authorize the letter and she didn't know who sent it. "The letterhead was altered and I've never head of any Sergio Ramirez," the name signed to the letter, Coe said. Numerous political leaders including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have denounced the letter and called for the investigations.