Colorado Dems: We Caught James O'Keefe and His Friends Trying to Bait Us Into Approving Voter Fraud

[mfcorey1]

James O'Keefe, the conservative provocateur, has been on the prowl in Colorado, the setting of a close Senate race between Democratic incumbent Mark Udall and GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, as well as a nip-and-tuck governor's contest. Last week, O'Keefe and two of his collaborators tried to bait Democratic field staffers into approving voter fraud involving Colorado's universal vote-by-mail program, according to three Democratic staffers who interacted with O'Keefe or his colleagues.


Last Tuesday, a man who appeared to be in his 20s showed up at a Democratic field office in Boulder wanting to volunteer to help elect Udall and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), according to a Democratic staffer who met with him and asked not to be identified. The man introduced himself as "Nick Davis," and he said he was a University of Colorado-Boulder student and LGBT activist involved with a student group called Rocky Mountain Vote Pride. Davis mentioned polls showing the race between Udall and Gardner was tight, and he asked the staffer if he should fill out and mail in ballots for other college students who had moved away but still received mail on campus. The Democratic staffer says he told Davis that doing this would be voter fraud and that he should not do it.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/colorado-dems-james-okeefe

[eridani]

1. Typical Repuke crap n/t

[2naSalit]

2. I hope they

ran him off with a pitchfork...

[bettyellen]

3. O'Keefe is such a big dick.

[elzenmahn]

4. I wonder if the Keefey O'Freak...

...came dressed in his pimp costume (complete with the mink stoll that he likely peeled from his car's dashboard).

He's getting increasingly obvious. And he's getting increasingly pathetic.

[Euphoria]

5. Hmmm, looks like O'Keefe

Is in violation of his 3-year probation, started in 2010.

[link:http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/100105-filmmaker-okeefe-sentenced-in-sen-mary-landrieu-break-in|

[SeattleVet]

6. It's been over 4 years since his probation started. nt

[Euphoria]

14. Oops. Math isn't my

strong suit.

[MisterP]

7. meaning he'll just take a victory lap and claim to be vindicated ...

[SoapBox]

8. I keep hoping someone will just

kick his ass.

[Historic NY]

9. One day he will f--k with the wrong person...

and get his head handed to him.

[Turborama]

13. If only someone would set up a trap and he ended up becoming a guest of ISIS

Using some bait he'd find impossible to refuse. Like an interview with a "rebel" in Syria who has some hard evidence on President Obama that would cause a political earthquake, but they will only give to O'Keefe. In Syria.

Well, one can dream. lol

[BobbyBoring]

28. ^^^^^THIS^^^^^

[shenmue]

51. I can't wait until he gets busted for disturbing the peace

[MattBaggins]

10. When is that little fucker going to go to jail

[robbob]

11. He should try the same stunt at a Republican campaign office

...what are the odds they would be all for his little fraud scheme?

[mythology]

41. But he can't pull this scam at a Republican office

They want fewer people to vote not more.

[Jackpine Radical]

52. So you would need to work up a voter intimidation scam.

Sell them on the idea of collecting registrations in black areas & burning them or something. $1 for every burned registration. Since the Republicans have already done this sort of thing, it should be no problem to sell them on it again on camera.

[vkkv]

12. Call the cops = citizens arrest for identidy theft.

Makes sense.

What they Repukes were offering is fraud and identidy theft.

[B Calm]

57. BINGO!

[annabanana]

15. Kicking for the daytime eyes!. . .n/t

[demmiblue]

16. What a smarmy little asshole, that one.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. The fact that Republicans do not loudly denounce his continued frauds done on their behalf

indicates they have a strong support for what he is doing.

[BobbyBoring]

29. Of course they support him

They cannot win on the issues so they have to use every cheap trick in the book to win.

[VA_Jill]

18. I am just waiting

for that little weasel to cross the line once too often and do something egregious enough to land him in prison. He is NOT that smart, folks!

[louis-t]

19. "wearing heavy makeup and a moustache"

He watched too many Peter Sellers movies, I guess. "Zere is a bumb in ze rumm."

[DFW]

40. "Za wrong man has-a escaped!" n/t

[louis-t]

43. "I vill dezide vat is zuspicious

and vat is NOT zuspicious!"

[Hoppy]

20. Again, please somebody, buy or rent him a sheep for an afternoon.

[Jackpine Radical]

53. And make sure to film what he does to the sheep.

[Hoppy]

56. I'm sure he will be very gentle.

[lolly]

21. He assumes liberals act like conservatives, doesn't he?

The whole set-up to this little "sting" operation relies on the assumption that people will do anything--lie, cheat, steal, break campaign laws--to win.

The party that gerrymanders, suppresses votes, and actually gets caught participating in voter frauds is the one that keeps screaming about liberals cheating to win elections.

Once again, if you want to know what they're up to, look at what they accuse/assume liberals are doing.

[Initech]

22. How much longer can the GOP continue to cry wolf on this issue?

It's been proven that they're the ones most likely committing voter fraud and intimidation, so it's good to see that we're calling them out for their bullshit.

[JHB]

34. Wrong tale. They've added a second tier scam to "the emperor's new clothes"...

The figured out the weakness of the "only a fool can't see our finest silk spun from the finest thread" and added a coda:

"Any child who says the emperor is naked is possessed by a demon and is trying to damn us all!"

Thus ensuring that their audience will only see what they want to see, and anyone who tells the truth is pre-defined as a fool or a threat.

[niyad]

23. why isn't this little creep's pic up in EVERY democratic campaign room across the country?

i loved some of the comments after that article, including the "but the other side is doing it" meme. wasn't aware that dems had someone as sleazy and disgusting as the keefe.

[Erose999]

24. Cockweasel will probably just cut and past videos together to make it look like something wrong is

going on.

Whenever he is found the proper response would be to call the po-po immediately and file a police report that he is attempting to solicit election fraud. Get it all on video.

Someone is going to have to catch O'Queefe red handed and on video before he gets any sort of consequences. He's got wealthy sugar daddies keeping him out of jail.

[Kingofalldems]

25. Who funds his operation?

Follow the money.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. Brietbart.com

[starroute]

49. But who funds Breitbart?

[Kelvin Mace]

27. Call his parole officer and ask him if it is okay for a convicted criminal

to conspire to commit vote fraud?

[malthaussen]

30. Why isn't this thug in jail?

As if we didn't know.

-- Mal

[Enthusiast]

31. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! James O'Keefe is engaging in election fraud.

No surprise to me. The fucker should already be in jail.

[billhicks76]

32. Someone Entrap Him

Lure him into something ugly that will ruin his reputation.

[1StrongBlackMan]

35. Rui9n his reputation! ...

... his reputation ... ... ruined? ...

[billhicks76]

36. Amongst Conservatives

[1StrongBlackMan]

37. I doubt he has a reputation ...

even among conservatives ... except for as space filler on breitbart.com.

[billhicks76]

46. Wrong

Do you not see how many fools are watching FOX by the ratings? Granted many of their online profiles are fake sock-puppets that even permeate DU sometimes but believe it or not they like this idiot.

[RiverNoord]

45. This guy is not even remotely a 'conservative.'

He's a fringe radical. Period. He goes around trying recklessly to provoke people into committing crimes. Then, when he fails, he edits his recordings of these attempts to make it appear as though he succeeded. In my mind, he's a criminal thug with no redeeming value in his 'political' activities. If people who call themselves 'conservative' look to people like him for stuff that they consider valuable to the advancement of their political agendas, then, as to them, the word conservative is utterly off base. They're also fringe radicals.

I'm very 'liberal' with respect to respecting and appreciating diversity in society, in thought and in deed. I keep an open mind about most things, since I've found that life experience does result in shifting perspectives, and the alternative is being dead.

However, I'm 'conservative' in how I personally go about most things in my life. I tend to take small steps as I get a feel for possible goals, I am careful to respect how my behavior might affect those around me, and I try not to take small setbacks too hard, because I've found that life has far more of them than successes.

That's conservative. I'm a liberal conservative, in that sense. It really is time to retire the term 'conservative' as a reference to modern ultra-right wing radicals.

[billhicks76]

47. DUDE

Me too...the definitions of conservative have been turned on their head but make no mistake a large portion of Republicans have run off like lemmings into Whackadoodle Land.

[JHB]

38. Playing 'hide the weasel' with an actual weasel?

Granted, it wouldn't be much of a surprise that he prefers his own kind, but can you ferret out some little minx to volunteer to go through with it?

It would explain, though, why he's prone to cry out "Wolverines!" without any apparent reference to Red Dawn.

[Mister Nightowl]

33. O Jimmy Boy

The slime, the slime is calllllllllllling.....

[randr]

39. There ought to be an app to track this worm.

[world wide wally]

42. Throw this motherfucking puke breath in jail... At the bottom of a sewage ditch.

[RoccoRyg]

44. He's still mad that...

He didn't get to lure that reporter onto his boat full of sex toys and porn and cast off to sea. I wonder what he was planning to do with her.

[raven mad]

48. All the Republicans know how to do in three short words:

lie, cheat, steal.

[blkmusclmachine]

50. oh wow

[imthevicar]

54. Scumbag Like his old Man.

[Hoppy]

55. What's the background to his old man?