Michigan Dems charged in fake tea party scandal

[Dave]

You do wrong and you go to prison. It doesn't matter if your democrat, republican, libertarian or any other political party... you get what you deserve. If these guys are found guilty then they will pay the price.

 

 

Two Michigan Democrats were arraigned Wednesday on election corruption charges for allegedly propping up of fake tea party candidates in 2010, the Detroit News reports.

Former Democratic Party Chairman Michael McGuinness (right) and ex-operations director Jason Bauer have been charged with forgery, putting people up for office without their knowledge and other charges. The two party leaders allegedly conspired to field phony tea party candidates in an apparent bid to siphon off GOP votes and boost Democrats in two Michigan County Commission races and a state Senate race last year, according to the newspaper. Several of the charges are felonies, some of which carry penalties of up to 14 years in prison.

McGuinnes and Bauer resigned their positions in August. News reports indicate they have not commented on this week's charges.

 Last year, as tea party power grew across the country, tea partiers began accusing Democrats and others of using their party label to r... and skew elections. A lawsuit was filed in Florida last year where Democrats, including then-Rep. Alan Grayson, were accused of creating a Florida Tea Party.

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

Well... We always knew there were a lot of Fake things about the Democrat party didn't we??

[masonco]

I heard that before. Off the record here...I wonder why the notices there are new topics or responses to topics are not coming to my email?

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

You may just have to go into your page settings to request the emails Masonco. NING made some changes a while back and I had to reset my preferences.

[masonco]

ty I did that, but mail.com was also down this morning. So I wonder if that is part of the problem.

[J.B]

Why don't this get in the main stream News Media.  OOPs it is Dem's  Everything is ok to the media then.

[masonco]

There was a very short 30 second mention of it once on CBS or NBC, but nothing more. I am not savvy enough to search to see if it made it to their websites.

[J.B]

now I see why I didnt see it.   Wish it had been a GOP member doing something (It would have been on the news media for a week)

  would have never missed it

[masonco]

J.B. that is exactly the truth...almost. If GOP had done it, it would have been headlines for a month then brought up again at election time. Whatever happened to ACORN?

[AQUAMAN]

Shocking how those Tea Party groups keep getting victimized by the D's and other envious types. Guess TP's  have something on the ball that the others are afraid of, and need to sabotage.

[Edie Lindsey]

I noticed from the article that the two men that violated a whole bunch of these laws came from Oakland County.  Isn't this where Ludington CM John Shay and LPD's Chief Mark Barnett come from?  Just saying...

[AQUAMAN]

Yes, and it's known as the biggest and most lucrative of ALL COUNTIES in the entire State of Michigan. A Kingdom of Riches unto itself in the State, imho.