A Question for Senator John Cornyn from Eddie Griffin
Dear Mr. Cornyn:
I almost cried when you called out the FBI to investigate ACORN. All I could see was blood hounds and water hoses, and ghettos under Nazi suppression.
There were sweeping allegations of “widespread” voter registration fraud. The organization was invaded by federal agents, searching for something non-existent... an unlawful attempt to cast a fraudulent vote.
The insinuation brings to mind something Texans have always been known for, in the past... stuffing the ballot box. But the "ignorant masses" have never stuffed the ballot box. It's always been an uphill struggle just to get them to overcome their apathy and go to the polls.
This “criminal enterprise” allegation against the community-based organization that registers poor people is as ludicrous, as it is malicious. Obliviously, Mr. Senator, you are ignorant of your ignorant constituency.
Now, for sure, we see that your allegations are untrue, Mr. Cornyn.
We always suspected that because of ACORN’s successful voter registration drive in this 2008 election, you targeted them, for the purpose of shutting them down, besmirching their good name, and impeding their works, in order to help your party win.
SO WHERE IS THE INVESTIGATION, NOW, Mr. Senator?
With almost 40% of the electorates in the state of Texas already gone to the polls in early voting (in this most watched election), we should surely be able to see, with our own eyes, whether or not there is a “massive voting fraud” being perpetrated, as you so claim.
A strange unexpected thing: Certain media outlets have started pouring over these claims, looking into the records to find some evidence of voter fraud, even going so far as looking for dead people who might have cast an illegal vote. A local television station went so far as to investigated such a claim, and found only a clerical error by the poll worker.
All the Mickey Mouse sign-ups were flagged before hand and culled out by ACORN itself, and left to be proven or unproven by the state. And, all the election registers around the country commend ACORN on its work and vigilance. Remember, ACORN was even well received and commended by John McCain in 2006, long before this year’s campaign.
Your allegations, Mr. Senator, are not panning out. With 2.7 million voters already gone to the polls in Texas to vote, WHERE ARE THE FRAUDULENT VOTERS?
You are obligated to answer, not for my sake, but for our sake of integrity in the election process. Like the Bible says: THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR.
Mr. Cornyn, you have no proof of “widespread voter fraud”, nor is there any to be found. This is the second election where ACORN has been made a GOP scapegoat. Even worse, your public call for an FBI investigation on trumped up, fabricated, unfounded allegation amounted to setting off was a false alarm for political gain, and to further damage, discredit, and destroy the good name of a reputable community organization and suppress their good work
Surely, if you still believe now as you profess then, that this organization is a “criminal enterprise”, then come forth with your proof and FBI findings. You made the allegation in the height of the campaign, please don't wait until after the election to present your proof.
This is one election we cannot afford to let hang like a hanging chad. And let me remind you, also: IT’S TOO LATE INTO THE ELECTION FOR AN APOLOGY. Using your office to bring false charges against the innocent should be a criminal offense. Wouldn’t you agree?
Sincerely,
Eddie Griffin (BASG)
http://eddiegriffinbasg.blogspot.com/
WHO'S GOT MY BACK COVERED
P.S. to: Mr. Rick Noriega: Your ad says, “I got your back.” Do you have ACORN’s back?
State Senate candidate Wendy Davis does? State Representative candidate Chris Turner cowered out?
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Daily Kos Host Online Fundraiser for Rick Noriega
Battle of Texas: ALERT!
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 30, 2008
Daily Kos will Host an Online Fundraiser for Rick Noriega
HAT TIP to U.S. Senator Candidate Rick Noriega
Guess what, folks? Rick Noriega showed up for battle, with a new Daily Kos battle cry:
Texas blue! Yee-haw! Better said: Turn Texas Blue! Yahoo!
The old Rebel battle cry never sounded so good coming from the mouth of a Democratic.
From Daily Kos release:
Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 05:00:04 PM PDT
Update: And tonight's winner is Rick Noriega, our Senate candidate from Texas, fighting to oust Box Turtle Cornyn! Let's all meet here tomorrow night at 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT with our dancin' shoes on, a beer at our side, some good music on and our credit cards handy to hang out and hang loose with our fellow Kossacks while we do our part to help turn Texas blue! Yee-haw!
(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/24/19023/257/390/641339)
Reported Eddie Griffin
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 30, 2008
Daily Kos will Host an Online Fundraiser for Rick Noriega
HAT TIP to U.S. Senator Candidate Rick Noriega
Guess what, folks? Rick Noriega showed up for battle, with a new Daily Kos battle cry:
Texas blue! Yee-haw! Better said: Turn Texas Blue! Yahoo!
The old Rebel battle cry never sounded so good coming from the mouth of a Democratic.
From Daily Kos release:
Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 05:00:04 PM PDT
Update: And tonight's winner is Rick Noriega, our Senate candidate from Texas, fighting to oust Box Turtle Cornyn! Let's all meet here tomorrow night at 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT with our dancin' shoes on, a beer at our side, some good music on and our credit cards handy to hang out and hang loose with our fellow Kossacks while we do our part to help turn Texas blue! Yee-haw!
(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/24/19023/257/390/641339)
Reported Eddie Griffin
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
BATTLE OF TEXAS: Part 3
TEN points down and only SEVEN days to go.
Excerpt (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Republican John McCain could carry Texas in this year’s United States presidential election, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 54 per cent of respondents in the Lone Star State would vote for the Arizona senator, while 44 per cent would back Illinois senator Barack Obama.
The underdog here is not Barack Obama, but U.S. Senate candidate Rick Noriega, who is down in the same Rassmussen polls 55% to 40%. Rick is running a heavy underdog race against one of George Bush’s favorite homeboy, John Cornyn, known to Bush as “Corn Dog”.
The only way for Barack Obama to win Texas, Rick Noriega would have to upset John Cornyn.
Texas was the last state to fall in the Civil War. It will be the last Red State to fall.
Throw your support behind Rick Noriega. If he wins Texas, we can all go home and rest.
Eddie Griffin
http://eddiegriffinbasg.blogspot.com/
Excerpt (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Republican John McCain could carry Texas in this year’s United States presidential election, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 54 per cent of respondents in the Lone Star State would vote for the Arizona senator, while 44 per cent would back Illinois senator Barack Obama.
The underdog here is not Barack Obama, but U.S. Senate candidate Rick Noriega, who is down in the same Rassmussen polls 55% to 40%. Rick is running a heavy underdog race against one of George Bush’s favorite homeboy, John Cornyn, known to Bush as “Corn Dog”.
The only way for Barack Obama to win Texas, Rick Noriega would have to upset John Cornyn.
Texas was the last state to fall in the Civil War. It will be the last Red State to fall.
Throw your support behind Rick Noriega. If he wins Texas, we can all go home and rest.
Eddie Griffin
http://eddiegriffinbasg.blogspot.com/
Government Heavy-Handed Intervention
A $700 Billion Pandora’s Box
By Eddie Griffin
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Bush administration puts pressure on banks
WASHINGTON – An impatient White House served notice Tuesday on banks and other financial companies receiving billions of dollars in federal help to quit hoarding the money and start making more loans.
"We're trying to do is get banks to do what they are supposed to do, which is support the system that we have in America. And banks exist to lend money," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
"The way that banks make money is by lending money. And so, they have every incentive to move forward and start using this money," Perino said.
(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown)
How can you command chickens when to lay eggs? Editor asks.
Under the authority of the $700 billion financial bailout plan approved by Congress and signed by President Bush earlier this month, the Bush administration plans to dole out $250 billion to banks in return for partial ownership. The Treasury Department, which is overseeing the massive capital injection program along with the rest of the bailout, will pour $125 billion into nine of the country's largest banks this week. Another $125 billion will go to other banks.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said the money would be used by banks to rebuild their reserves so that they would resume more normal lending practices — a crucial ingredient to breaking through a debilitating credit clog that is hurting the national economy and threatens to bring about a deep recession. More recently, though, Paulson said the money could be used by banks to buy other banks to make them both stronger to weather the financial storms.
On Friday, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. said it had received $7.7 billion in cash through selling stock to the government under the bailout program. PNC then said it planned to buy National City Corp. for $5.58 billion.
The tricky part is this: “to rebuild their reserves”. Before a bank can rebuild its reserves, it must restore its balance sheet by paying off debt.
If preferred stock value is recuperated in the transaction, then preferred shareholders recoup their loss before anyone else, unless there is a government stipulation otherwise.
HENCE NOT the henhouse is raided by the fox, the taxpayer bailouts out Wall Street first, even before considering the average ordinary American homeowners at risk.
Reported by Eddie Griffin (BASG)
PROOF LINE
The YouTube video in John McCain’s own words: McCain Voted With Bush 90% of the Time
By Eddie Griffin
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Bush administration puts pressure on banks
WASHINGTON – An impatient White House served notice Tuesday on banks and other financial companies receiving billions of dollars in federal help to quit hoarding the money and start making more loans.
"We're trying to do is get banks to do what they are supposed to do, which is support the system that we have in America. And banks exist to lend money," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
"The way that banks make money is by lending money. And so, they have every incentive to move forward and start using this money," Perino said.
(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown)
How can you command chickens when to lay eggs? Editor asks.
Under the authority of the $700 billion financial bailout plan approved by Congress and signed by President Bush earlier this month, the Bush administration plans to dole out $250 billion to banks in return for partial ownership. The Treasury Department, which is overseeing the massive capital injection program along with the rest of the bailout, will pour $125 billion into nine of the country's largest banks this week. Another $125 billion will go to other banks.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said the money would be used by banks to rebuild their reserves so that they would resume more normal lending practices — a crucial ingredient to breaking through a debilitating credit clog that is hurting the national economy and threatens to bring about a deep recession. More recently, though, Paulson said the money could be used by banks to buy other banks to make them both stronger to weather the financial storms.
On Friday, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. said it had received $7.7 billion in cash through selling stock to the government under the bailout program. PNC then said it planned to buy National City Corp. for $5.58 billion.
The tricky part is this: “to rebuild their reserves”. Before a bank can rebuild its reserves, it must restore its balance sheet by paying off debt.
If preferred stock value is recuperated in the transaction, then preferred shareholders recoup their loss before anyone else, unless there is a government stipulation otherwise.
HENCE NOT the henhouse is raided by the fox, the taxpayer bailouts out Wall Street first, even before considering the average ordinary American homeowners at risk.
Reported by Eddie Griffin (BASG)
PROOF LINE
The YouTube video in John McCain’s own words: McCain Voted With Bush 90% of the Time
NATIONAL BATTLE STATION ALERT!
DISMISS FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF FAVORITISM BY THE MEDIA
How to spot and deal with PROPAGANDA in the 11th Hour
McCain Lashes Out at News Media
NOTE THIS REPORT-
Yet another study backs up the contention that the mainstream news media's coverage of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is more favorable than its coverage of Republican John McCain.
(http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778)
Poor John, the whole world is against him. But Big Bad John is crying fake tears about not being treated more favorable like the ever-popular Barack Obama.
John has a problem. First, he does not look presidential under pressure. He is high strung and ill tempered. Secondly, his Straight Talk Express is like Indian say: “Forked tongue”. Third, he is too militaristic in his foreign policy perspective, a saber-rattler and loose cannon.
Barack Obama is so well received around the world that he drew crowds of hundreds of thousands of people on his recent trip to Europe. He is well respected of other nations, a man with an air of peace, calm under pressure, consistency in vision, and analytical in his approach to solving problems.
The media cannot make Poor Joe beautiful. You cannot make a purse out of a sow's ear. Maybe he ought to try some of Sarah’s lipstick for pigs.
Fact is: John McCain is what he is. Judge for yourself.
DISMISS ALL FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE MEDIA- Boycott FOX News
Signed,
Eddie Griffin (BASG)
How to spot and deal with PROPAGANDA in the 11th Hour
McCain Lashes Out at News Media
NOTE THIS REPORT-
Yet another study backs up the contention that the mainstream news media's coverage of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is more favorable than its coverage of Republican John McCain.
(http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778)
Poor John, the whole world is against him. But Big Bad John is crying fake tears about not being treated more favorable like the ever-popular Barack Obama.
John has a problem. First, he does not look presidential under pressure. He is high strung and ill tempered. Secondly, his Straight Talk Express is like Indian say: “Forked tongue”. Third, he is too militaristic in his foreign policy perspective, a saber-rattler and loose cannon.
Barack Obama is so well received around the world that he drew crowds of hundreds of thousands of people on his recent trip to Europe. He is well respected of other nations, a man with an air of peace, calm under pressure, consistency in vision, and analytical in his approach to solving problems.
The media cannot make Poor Joe beautiful. You cannot make a purse out of a sow's ear. Maybe he ought to try some of Sarah’s lipstick for pigs.
Fact is: John McCain is what he is. Judge for yourself.
DISMISS ALL FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE MEDIA- Boycott FOX News
Signed,
Eddie Griffin (BASG)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Battle of Texas: Part 2
Forth Worth Star-Telegram Endorses Barack Obama
By Eddie Griffin, BASG
Monday, October 27, 2008
FORT WORTH – Star-Telegram Endorses Barack Obama for President of the United States.
See it first online at http://www.star-telegram.com/225/story/996463.html.
HAT TIP to the Forth Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board
Today, the American people aren’t just asking for change; they are demanding it.
The economic inequities are no longer tolerable. As remarkable as it is to say during a time when U.S. troops are actively engaged in wars on two fronts, Americans are looking for a visionary leader who will focus first on the daunting domestic financial crisis that has upended so many lives.
The nation has experienced the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, an enormous stock-market plunge among the worst in history, record-high energy prices, and an ongoing war in Iraq that has exacted an agonizing cost in lives, dollars and international prestige.
Americans need new leadership.
For many of the same reasons that the Star-Telegram recommended Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, it is recommending Democrat Barack Obama in 2008.
By Eddie Griffin, BASG
Monday, October 27, 2008
FORT WORTH – Star-Telegram Endorses Barack Obama for President of the United States.
See it first online at http://www.star-telegram.com/225/story/996463.html.
HAT TIP to the Forth Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board
Today, the American people aren’t just asking for change; they are demanding it.
The economic inequities are no longer tolerable. As remarkable as it is to say during a time when U.S. troops are actively engaged in wars on two fronts, Americans are looking for a visionary leader who will focus first on the daunting domestic financial crisis that has upended so many lives.
The nation has experienced the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, an enormous stock-market plunge among the worst in history, record-high energy prices, and an ongoing war in Iraq that has exacted an agonizing cost in lives, dollars and international prestige.
Americans need new leadership.
For many of the same reasons that the Star-Telegram recommended Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, it is recommending Democrat Barack Obama in 2008.
AM I NOT AMERICAN, too?
By Eddie Griffin
Monday, October 27, 2008
As part of a great international campaign, AM I NOT HUMAN, I was forced to stop and ask myself: Why I am not as American as Sarah Palin and John McCain’s “Real American”. AM I NOT AMERICAN because I have the prefix of an African? Who is the Real American and why are the rest of us snubbed as sub-human Americans?
On Friday, I exercised my right to vote as an American citizen, without fear or intimidation, without bloodhounds and water hoses, without poll taxes and grandfather clauses, without lynching, but not without animosity, fear mongering, and slander.
The little old lady in this video at a Sarah Palin rally said, “I am afraid blacks will take over.”
Wherever did such fear arise? Who stoked this fire?
Of course, African-Americans would like to have a say in government, like anybody else. But a black “takeover” is a figment of someone’s wild imagination and weak conscious. This stoke of fear is aroused purely by skin color ideations and stereotypical prejudices.
Reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s with hunt for Communists during the 1950s, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested investigating all the members of Congress to see which were American and which were un-American. Now Bachmann is ready to eat her words and apologize to Barack Obama for calling him “un-American” (but only after dropping in the polls in her bid for reelection).
Is it no wonder that they claim that Barack Obama is a socialist who palls around with a domestic terrorist? “He is not like us,” claims Sarah Palin.
He is a Muslim. The same little old lady at the rally said as much: “This is a Christian nation, and I hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim.”
How could she reject the truth and the facts? Or, does truth and facts even matter?
Thirty percent of the American public still approve of George Bush’s handling of the presidency. Naturally, this would be part of the “Real America” of which McCain speaks, and rightfully so also the right extreme where a so-called “real red-blooded American” would never vote for a black man. This Real America can only exist in the eyes of those who see the rest of us as somewhat less.
Monday, October 27, 2008
As part of a great international campaign, AM I NOT HUMAN, I was forced to stop and ask myself: Why I am not as American as Sarah Palin and John McCain’s “Real American”. AM I NOT AMERICAN because I have the prefix of an African? Who is the Real American and why are the rest of us snubbed as sub-human Americans?
On Friday, I exercised my right to vote as an American citizen, without fear or intimidation, without bloodhounds and water hoses, without poll taxes and grandfather clauses, without lynching, but not without animosity, fear mongering, and slander.
The little old lady in this video at a Sarah Palin rally said, “I am afraid blacks will take over.”
Wherever did such fear arise? Who stoked this fire?
Of course, African-Americans would like to have a say in government, like anybody else. But a black “takeover” is a figment of someone’s wild imagination and weak conscious. This stoke of fear is aroused purely by skin color ideations and stereotypical prejudices.
Reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s with hunt for Communists during the 1950s, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested investigating all the members of Congress to see which were American and which were un-American. Now Bachmann is ready to eat her words and apologize to Barack Obama for calling him “un-American” (but only after dropping in the polls in her bid for reelection).
Is it no wonder that they claim that Barack Obama is a socialist who palls around with a domestic terrorist? “He is not like us,” claims Sarah Palin.
He is a Muslim. The same little old lady at the rally said as much: “This is a Christian nation, and I hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim.”
How could she reject the truth and the facts? Or, does truth and facts even matter?
Thirty percent of the American public still approve of George Bush’s handling of the presidency. Naturally, this would be part of the “Real America” of which McCain speaks, and rightfully so also the right extreme where a so-called “real red-blooded American” would never vote for a black man. This Real America can only exist in the eyes of those who see the rest of us as somewhat less.
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