tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11032459.post3825305456883272726..comments2024-02-06T12:13:44.496-06:00Comments on FREEDOM EDEN: ACORN Recruits Felons to be Special Registration DeputiesMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09149784619342993569noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11032459.post-43437587305164195582008-10-02T11:30:00.000-05:002008-10-02T11:30:00.000-05:00Why are you talking about the Christian Right?Defl...Why are you talking about the Christian Right?<BR/><BR/>Deflection. Evasion. <BR/><BR/>We're talking about ACORN and its record of fraud. <BR/><BR/>Look at the facts: <I>The law says anyone who can vote can be a special registration deputy, and felons can vote as long as they are no longer on probation or parole. But the attorney for the Government Accountability Board, which runs elections, issued an April 3 memo saying the board’s staff believed convicted felons couldn’t serve in the role.<BR/><BR/>Any convicted felon who served as a special registration deputy could face charges, said Assistant Milwaukee County District Attorney Bruce Landgraf.<BR/><BR/>...The Milwaukee Election Commission interpreted the law to mean convicted felons could serve as special registration deputies if they were no longer on probation or parole, said the city’s election administrator, Sue Edman. She said she never saw the GAB legal opinion until provided it today by The Associated Press.<BR/><BR/>Edman said she will change the commission’s procedures to require applicants to attest that they are not convicted felons.</I><BR/><BR/>If you have a problem with felons not serving as ACORN's special registration deputies, take it up with GAB and Edman. <BR/><BR/>Of course, I believe in forgiveness. Forgiveness doesn't mean becoming blind. It doesn't mean one should take unreasonable risks.<BR/><BR/>Felons have to live with the consequences of their pasts. They chose their fate. We all drag around our pasts. <BR/><BR/>Are you against vetting?<BR/><BR/>Speaking of double standard, you're very selective in meting out forgiveness.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09149784619342993569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11032459.post-1152522271361193762008-10-02T03:59:00.000-05:002008-10-02T03:59:00.000-05:00I seem to recall something in the Bible about forg...I seem to recall something in the Bible about forgiveness. Perhaps your more well read Christian readers can point me to the correct verses?<BR/><BR/>Hasn't a convicted felon who has served his or her sentence paid their debt to society? Aren't they entitled to a fresh start? Should we never again employ a convicted felon? That would result in a lot of unemployed people who would then need 'welfare' (gasp).<BR/><BR/>So, basically, the Christian right complains about the liberal welfare state, and then complains when liberals give actual jobs to the downtrodden (exactly the people Christ exhorted us to help). Wow - there is just no pleasing some people.<BR/><BR/>Also, could you explain the link between drug possession or prostitution (economic crimes) and voter fraud (a politically motivated deceit)? Why is someone caught with cocaine any more likely to commit voter fraud than, say, some random right wing alcholic adulterer? <BR/><BR/>Last time I checked, people in the United States were still presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But you have already condemned these people out of fear that they 'might' commit voter fraud, without showing any remotely reasonable causal link between the crimes they committed in the past and the crime you suspect they 'will' commit, at some point in the future. How very Orwellian of you.<BR/><BR/>I note, further, that your concern about voter and election fraud seems to be limited solely to those incidents allegedly carried out by liberals - conservatives seem to get a free pass:<BR/><BR/>1) no comment on the election fraud in Texas - http://www.bobbarr2008.com/press/press-releases/133/bob-barr-files-suit-in-texas-to-remove-mccain-obama-from-ballot/<BR/><BR/>2) Not a single mention of the McCain campaign's voter caging efforts in VA, OH, CO, NC, PA, FL, NM, WI, OR, CA and MN. See, for example - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0809/S00249.htm<BR/><BR/>Once again, your double standard shines forth.August Danowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05464854527635301885noreply@blogger.com