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Monday, October 20, 2008

Its the Votes, Stupid! BradBlog Breaks Voter Registration Fraud Arrest Story, Live on Fox News!
Posted by Melina | 8:13 AM
Our great friend Brad of Brad Blog was able to break this story live on Fox News last night in the midst of an appearance with scary John Fund, punditizing for the left on a segment that was purported to be about voter disenfranchisement/fraud through home foreclosures. These things usually devolve into a tit for tat of "well, no one made the borrowers take the loans" versus "well, no one made the banks loan the money," with the likes of Fund saying "poor banks were forced by Freddie/Fannie..." and that the unscrupulous borrowers should have known better...whatever; used to be that the lender did a thorough check as to whether a borrower could afford a loan. So, enter our hero, stage left, with a real breaking story about real, immediate, lawbreaking on the GOP side, and gasp!!! ...Fox led with the breaking story at the top of the news hour, and Fund is probably still bristling.

This is a great example of real news reporting meeting Faux News and the real stuff winning out.... Because when faced with stark truth, even in the face of the angry Fund types trying to spin it, this kind of thing can't get a footing even at Fox. They have to leave it with a "well, if this is true we will run it," statement...and then, they sorta have to run it...

Imagine what would happen if each outlet had to be fair and balanced, and if it was a matter of national regulation rather than corporate interest ...imagine what would happen if Americans had the actual information breaking from wherever the news was, without the spin, and were tasked with coming to their own conclusions...it sounds quaint and old fashioned, but here it is; reporting like it used to be....


Thanks, as always, to Brad for working tirelessly to get the truth out about making our votes count and be counted! This is probably the one most important issue leading to this election, and we all need to be aware of what is going on. Visit Brad often for the constantly breaking news and let your representatives know that you are watching this situation and that you expect to be protected and to have your vote counted.

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Democrat tries to take GOP's House 79 seat
By GINA SMITH - gnsmith@thestate.com
On Nov. 4, voters in House District 79 will choose a Democrat with much in common with Barack Obama or keep the faith with a Republican who practices the same moderate brand of Republicanism as his predecessor.

On the campaign trail, Democrat Anton Gunn sounds Obama-esque.

“When I finished at USC, I didn’t go to work for corporate America,” Gunn told a crowd during a debate between the candidates to represent the district, which spans Northeast Richland and southwest Kershaw County. “I didn’t go to work for state government.”

Instead, Gunn became a community organizer, as Obama did in Chicago after graduating from Harvard Law School. Both say they turned down more profitable career opportunities to work for community causes.

David Herndon, Gunn’s Republican opponent, is a small government-lower taxes conservative with a progressive view of education.

A small-business owner, he is cut from cloth similar to state Rep. Bill Cotty, the moderate Republican who has held the Northeast Richland/Kershaw County seat since 1995. Cotty announced his retirement earlier this year.

“I’m here because of the children,” Herndon, a father of three, told the debate crowd. “Not only mine but all of ours.”

THE OBAMA EFFECT

Twenty months ago, few knew who Barack Obama was.

Gunn, a relative campaign newbie at the time, thought the U.S. senator of Illinois should be the next president and he could help him do it.

Fast forward to today: The once-unknown Obama leads in the presidential polls, and South Carolina is gaining the reputation as the state — above all others — that helped launch him to the nomination.

Gunn was Obama’s S.C. political director, delivering 55 percent of the state’s Democratic vote in January’s primary.

That brought statewide name recognition and national media exposure to Gunn. An August article in Time magazine about Gunn was entitled “A Leader of Obama’s Grassroots Army.”

Meanwhile, Herndon is running for office for the first time and is best-known politically for a short stint as chairman of the Kershaw County GOP.

The two candidates are even in terms of outside help.

Both the Republican and Democratic state parties are phone-banking for their respective candidates. And each has received $5,000 from his State House caucus.

However, Gunn is ahead in fundraising, bringing in nearly $80,000 from contributors around the nation, including some deep-pocketed donors in California, New York and Washington, D.C.

Herndon, who is not accepting out-of-state contributions from special interests or political action committees, has raised about $26,000, according to his campaign manager, Rod Shealy Jr.

Shealy points out that Herndon was heavily outspent in the primaries but still won with 56 percent of the vote.

What may affect the race the most is something neither candidate has control over — the district’s increasingly diverse demographics.

District 79, one of the largest in the state in terms of registered voters, is nearly 40 percent “non-white” with more than 12,000 black and Hispanic voters and more than 19,000 white voters. A large minority population generally favors a Democrat.

The slumping economy paired with an unpopular Republican president also could trickle down to hurt Herndon and other Republicans in state races.

“This year brings challenges,” said Herndon, who says he will donate his legislative salary to community causes if elected and will not serve more than three terms. “But South Carolina has been a Republican state for a long time. It’s always been a Republican seat.”

For more than a decade, the district’s voters embraced Cotty, a moderate Republican who worked successfully across the aisle to reform welfare and to remove the Confederate flag from the State House dome.

Cotty has endorsed Herndon.

“The Legislature, House and Senate, are dominated by Republicans,” Cotty said. “To put a Democrat in is akin to having no voice. The big issues, like public education financing, are going to be made by the Republican Party.”

HIS OWN MAN

Gunn, a former USC offensive lineman, says his work with Obama has not altered his strategy. (Much of his time on the Obama campaign was spent in other parts of South Carolina, he said.)

Instead, Gunn says he is sticking to the same strategy that he used in 2006, when he narrowly lost to Cotty.

“I’m just doing more of it,” Gunn said. “In 2006, I just ran out of time. If I had talked to 298 more people, then I would have won.”

Gunn’s biggest lesson from his 2006 defeat? Take no voter for granted.

“Whether someone is a staunch conservative who’s never voted for a Democrat or a die-hard Democrat who’s never voted for a Republican, they’re all people,” he said. “As a candidate, if you take the time to talk to people, you’ll find out that there are things you have in common.”

Herndon is complimentary of his predecessor, Cotty, but is also working to make his own mark.

Shealy, Herndon’s campaign manager, predicts the Republican will take a more visible role in enacting major state reforms, including eliminating the state Budget and Control Board and the competitive grants program, which lawmakers use to funnel money to local projects. Critics call it a legislative slush fund.

“He’s running primarily to give the reformers another ally, someone who wants to restructure government,” Shealy said.
10/21/08, 7:42 AM  
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