State elections officials are sharply criticizing an undercover video that surfaced Tuesday and purportedly shows individuals using the names of dead or living people in order to obtain ballots for Vermont elections, including this year’s presidential primary.
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“It’s unfortunate that outside entities don’t have better things to do than try to make fun of the trusting nature of Vermonters and voting on Town Meeting Day,” Sorrell said. (Burlington Free Press, 3/13/2012)
In a story first brought to our attention by a trusted RedStateVT stringer, voter fraud is uncovered in Vermont. But wait, Liberals told us that voter fraud does not happen and that voter ID laws were discriminatory towards minorities. What to do now?
Drying on the Vine
More than $16 billion in loans authorized five years ago by Congress to develop fuel-efficient vehicles has yet to be disbursed, with applicants for the money complaining that the Energy Department is crippling plans for greener cars and trucks at a time of rising gas prices.
Some companies contend that the loans, administered by energy officials, have dried up because of a political firestorm that followed the bankruptcy last year of the solar panel company Solyndra, which had received a federal loan from a related program. The bankruptcy fed Republican criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of clean energy loans because one of the investors in Solyndra was a major fund-raiser for the president. (NYT, 3/12/2012)
Good news! $16 billion of your tax dollars saved from the green energy sinkhole!
Loop d'Loop
Although federal election law prohibits super PACs from coordinating their spending with campaigns they are supporting, the Obama camp is exploiting loopholes that allow the president’s aides to help court donors. (NYT, 3/12/2012)
Bernie? Bernie?
Sparks Flying
New polling data are sparking a vigorous debate over whether an Obama administration rule requiring employers to offer free birth control is a political winner for the White House, particularly among women, as many Democrats have assumed.
Two new surveys, one by The Wall Street Journal/NBC News and the other by the New York Times/CBS News, show overall opposition to the rule's requirement that religious institutions offer contraceptive drugs free of charge. (WSJ, 3/13/2012)
Nancy Pelosi's gambit with freeloader Sandra Fluke just may backfire after all once the truth comes out. Tell us again....how come a 30 year old law student cannot afford $10/month for recreational sex?
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