Dirty Tricks in McCain's Behalf: Indiana and Virginia Citizens Blow the Whistle

No, Virginia, there is no such thing as Two Election
Days

Well, there's very little chance the Republicans will steal this election eventhough they are pulling out the stops to mis-inform and dis-inform voters. Check out the flyer above which was being circulated in the Hampton Roads area of the Old Dominion before it was brought to the attention of the Virginia State Police.

From yesterday's Virginia Pilot Union:

A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state elections officials.

In fact, Election Day, for voters of all political stripes, remains Nov. 4.

The somewhat official-looking flier - it features the state board logo and the state seal - is dated Oct. 24 and indicates that "an emergency session of the General Assembly has adopted the following (sic) emergency regulations to ease the load on local electorial (sic) precincts and ensure a fair electorial process."

The four-paragraph flier concludes with: "We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but felt this was the only way to ensure fairness to the complete electorial process."

No emergency action has been taken by the General Assembly. It is not in session and lacks the authority to change the date of a federal election. State Board of Election officials today said they are aware of the flier but disavowed any connection to it.

"It's not even on our letterhead; they just copied the logo from our Web site," said agency staffer Ryan Enright, noting the flier has been forwarded to State Police for investigation as a possible incident of voter intimidation. Election officials did not specify in which Hampton Roads localities the flier had been spotted.

State Police are aware of the complaint and are looking into it,
said spokeswoman Corinne Geller.

To which I add, may the Virginia State Police track down the operatives who would abort Democracy and try to keep the Greed on Parade in the White House by using such scurrilous means.

Dozens of Indiana telemarketers walk off the job rather than read scripts for McCain attacking Obama

Here's another high road taken by the Straight Talking campaign of the Maverick, John McCain. Since robo-calls are illegal in the State of Indiana, the Straight Talk Express contracted with an Indiana tele-marketer to have real live humans call voters and slime Obama using a script they were to read. However, there was a problem, a big problem, with this negative psy-ops war in McCain's behalf: some of these tele-marketing employees refused to be robots, instead, they critically thought and told their employer to fuck off:

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

The daughter, who wanted her name withheld fearing retribution from her employer, confirmed the story to us. "It was like at least 40 people," the daughter said. "People thought the script was nasty and they didn't wanna read it."

A second worker at the call center confirmed the episode, saying that "at least 30" workers had walked out after refusing to read the script.

"We were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger," this worker said. "I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."

This worker, too, confirmed sacrificing pay to walk out, saying her supervisor told her: "If you don't wanna phone it you can just go home for the day."

The script coincided with this robo-slime call running in other states, but because robocalling is illegal in Indiana it was being read by call center workers.

Representatives at Americall in Indiana, and at the company's corporate headquarters in Naperville, Illinois, didn't return calls for comment.

Imagine that: tele-marketing executives not knowing how to return a call to an inquisitive reporter.

Keep in mind, folks, that the Republican Party is the Party of Values. It's just they forget to tell you the values are negative values which prey on an un-informed and un-enlightened citizenry who believe Jesus talks only into the ears of Republican Presidents who invade sovereign countries and kill hundreds of thousands of their non-Christian citizens who had nothing, absolutely zero, to do with 9-11. Meanwhile, Osama sits in Pakistan mocking the Republican's handling of the global financial crisis. Mission Accomplished! Right-O.

What would Jesus not do? I tell you what he wouldn't do . . . he wouldn't be voting for another 4 years of corrupt Crony Capitalists profit immensely from war and socialistic bailouts of Sociopathic white collar millionaires and billionaires. And you can take that to the Church of your choice, Joyce.