Comments on: Heritage Official: Bell Hasn’t Tolled For Scarborough

By: Sherlock

Sherlock — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:36:39 +0000

Thanks Brogan Gubmant for the additional info.It really puts everything into perspective. If the buddy system works and we, the tax payers, have to fork out another $ 12000 for a new election are we going to enforce the law and take the 200+ illegal voters to court? I hope so at least we will get our money back. Unfortunately we might get Scarboriugh back as well. Heaven forbid.

By: Paid to Post

Paid to Post — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:00:15 +0000

Anyone other than Hutto’s campaign staff want to weigh in?

Look, they even have their own blog now.

Boring post. At least the consultant blogging & fighting is funny. Dem consultants fighting Repub consultants on Howie’s consultant blog.

Scarborough AND Hutto should demand a refund.

By: Petey Pablo

Petey Pablo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:10 +0000

will his recent engagement to former Senator Ceips affect any of this…..

By: palmetto wahoo

palmetto wahoo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:27:17 +0000

Wallace has had numerous opportunities to prove it in front of fellow republican-controlled bodies (Chas Election Commission, SC Election Commission) and even members of his own party agree that there is no evidence of any wrong doing. How many chances are we going to give him to steal away this election??

By: rick not Quinn

rick not Quinn — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:40:43 +0000

Folitics: You say “two parties can play this game” and you ARE correct. This is happening in elections at all levels. What should happen is that the local election authorities need to clean up their act, then no party would find any problem to raise. This is going on all over and can be corrected. Scarborough has a lot of proving to do. Knowing someone lives out of the district and proving it are two very different things. If Wally can PROVE it then it will be hard to deny him a new election.

By: Brogan Gubmant

Brogan Gubmant — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:21:03 +0000

http://jonesonpolitics.com/2009/01/05/scarborough-defended-by-nationally-known-corrupt-vote-thief/

Interesting follow up piece regarding this situation. This could end up being a national corruption story. Good old SC!

By: common sense

common sense — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:19:14 +0000

Hey Republican Swamp Fox,

Hutto has already taken her seat.

By: follitics

follitics — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:56:10 +0000

Scarborough’s “evidence” was produced the morning of the Election Commission hearing. It was a mishmash of “documents” for people with names similar to voters in the House 115 election, supposedly showing that they lived somewhere else. That “evidence” was explored for three hours, with contradictory documents produced for many of the supposed “illegal” voters.

The “evidence” was produced when a longer list of supposed illegal voters was shot to pieces by research and interviews by Peterson-Hutto’s team. The irony in that research was that most voters were not only legitimate House 115 voters, but they volunteered that they had voted for Scarborough.

Scarborough is playing a game — get it “out there” that he was beaten by fraud, so he can win next time. It’s an expensive game, and a dangerous one. If he succeeds, every close election in SC will be dragged through spurious protests and appeals. Two parties can play this game, and it isn’t good for democracy.

By: Who has the Guts?

Who has the Guts? — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:46:21 +0000

Scarboroguh has claimed that more than 211 people voted who should not have. IF THIS IS CORRECT, then there really is no other decision. State law provides that there SHALL be another election under those circumstances.

So there are really two questions:

1) is Wally;s evidence as he says it is, and
2) does anybody have the guts to follow the law?

There are no other questions, under any circusmtances. All the BS about disenfranchisment and overturning elections is the stuff for blogs. We live (or should) in a world governed by laws only, not opinion and spin.

If his evidecne is correct, then the House will have an intersesting choice: follow the law OR become an “activist legal authority” like all the “activist” judges so many lawmakers say they cant stand

Kudos to Scarborugh for sticking to his guns.

By: Republican Swamp Fox

Republican Swamp Fox — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:26:26 +0000

Way to go Lacklan, you showed them with your logic and cunning why Hutto should take her seat. You are a political mastermind, you even backed Gov. Richardson you cunning mastermind.