Democrat's Culture of Corruption: "You Don't Need Papers for Voting"

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Busby on defense, says she misspoke

By Dani Dodge
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 3, 2006

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: ?You don't need papers for voting.?

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.

But someone taped it and a recording began circulating yesterday. After she made that statement at the meeting, Busby immediately said: ?You don't need to be a registered voter to help (the campaign).?

She said that subsequent statement was to clarify what she meant.

The recording, which was played yesterday on Roger Hedgecock's radio talk show, jolted the campaign.

Busby, a Cardiff school board member, is in a tight race with Republican Brian Bilbray, a congressman-turned-lobbyist, who has based his campaign on a tough anti-illegal-immigration stance. Busby has focused her campaign on ethics reform. The two are vying to replace Randy ?Duke? Cunningham, who was jailed after pleading guilty to taking bribes.

Busby said she was invited to the forum at the Jocelyn Senior Center in Escondido by the leader of a local soccer league. Many of the 50 or so people there were Spanish speakers. Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: ?I want to help, but I don't have papers.?

It was translated and Busby replied: ?Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help.?

Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign.

?She's soliciting illegal aliens to campaign for her and it's on tape ? this isn't exactly what you call the pinnacle of ethical campaign strategy,? Bilbray said. ?I don't know how she shows her face.?

The two later met in a debate in Carlsbad last night.

Earlier, San Diego Minutemen volunteer Anthony Porrello said he got the tape from an an anonymous Minuteman and passed it on to the news media and talk radio. News of the gathering had circulated among local Minutemen before the meeting, according to William Griffith, the independent candidate in the race who has been endorsed by the San Diego Minutemen.

He attended, but did not hear the statement. He said he was in the back of the room.

?I heard what I expected to hear from a Democrat who supports amnesty,? he said. Busby says she doesn't support amnesty, but backs the comprehensive plan pushed by U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that includes opening a path to citizenship for people in the United States illegally if they pay penalties and abide by certain conditions.

Busby said that Republicans are now twisting her words. She does not in any way support or advocate that illegal immigrants vote, she said.

?I was clarifying the question that was being asked in Spanish and then stated that you do not have to be a registered voter to help the campaign because there were many people who appeared to be to be under 18 in the group who wanted to volunteer,? she said in a statement. ?I'm not surprised that the Republican Party is making this last-minute, desperate ploy and it is absolutely false.?
Link (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/50thdistrict/20060603-9999-1mi3busby.html)

I think we'll sum up her words and her subsequent attempt to backtrack by paraphrasing a "popular" liberal book title, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Left".

Can you say landslide defeat?

I knew you could.

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Champion of Illegal Aliens Voting Rights

Audio Link (http://drudgereport.com/bs.mp3)

[rastaman]

Guess which is "the most corrupt administration in U. S. history." Informed Americans, as opposed to those who get their news and political education from the "fair and balanced" sources like Fox News, know that the contenders are all Republican administrations.

While posing as paragons of virtue and truth, Conservative Republicans claim that Bill Clinton's administration was "the most corrupt administration in American history", despite the fact that history contradicts everything about that statement. It may be hard to order them exactly, but here are the contenders for the first, second, third & fourth "most corrupt administrations in American history" :

Here's a web page devoted to the corruption of the two Ulysses S. Grant administrations : http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h234.html :
"The frequency of these events led to the use of the term "Grantism", a word synonymous with greed and corruption. Many people at the time speculated that money from these ventures was being funneled into Republican Party coffers. These unsavory dealings led to the establishment of a more moral "Liberal Republican Party."
Here's the way one site about Warren Harding summarized that administration:
"The Harding administration is infamous not only for the Tea Pot Dome Scandal but for the general corruption of his administration. He was most unprepared to be President even though he had served in the state senate, as Lieutenant Governor, Governor, and Senator from Ohio. He did not have the physical stamina or the strong character required for leadership in the White House. Like U.S. Grant's administration, blind party politics and bad appointments led to vast corruption."

See http://www.shakerwssg.org/warren_g_hardi..._ohio.htm.
Unlike the efforts of the Republican Party and the so-called "Liberal" media to make mountains out of molehills, $ 60,000,000 or tax-payer money, any number of FBI agents and reporters, and 3 years of relentless investigations by both the media and the government ultimately showed that there was nothing in the Clinton administration that could compare with the true scandals of the Nixon administration, in which Spiro Agnew became the first and only U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace (on October 10, 1973), and Richard M. Nixon only avoided impeachment the following year by becoming the first and only U.S. president to resign in disgrace.

Then, after a brief reprieve, with one of the most pious and moral Christian presidents ever, Jimmy Carter, the Republican Party gave us the Ronald Reagan / George Bush team.

By the end of Reagan's two terms, 138 officials in his administration had either been convicted, indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. "In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

The corruption of Ronald Reagan's administration was so massive, and so under-reported, that it requires a separate web page all unto itself:
The Massive Corruption of the Reagan Administration.

The whole party claim
to be HIS followers !
The Republicans / Conservatives talked about the need to elect George W. Bush in order to restore honor, dignity, ethics and morality to the White House. Hmmm, let's take a look at the so-called honor, dignity, ethics and morality of George W., his brothers, his father and those who served in the Reagan administration :

George Walker Bush
Reaped $14 million from selling his $600,000 stake in a deal that involved the building of a new stadium for the Texas Rangers. George profited handsomely while taxpayers were stiffed for the money to subsidize Bush and his investment partners.

[Labrocca]

Rastaman don't cut and paste your posts please.