Koch/GOP voter suppression hits new low in Maine referendum ad campaign

[jpak]

Some background - our wonnerful GOP legislature marched lockstep with Koch Moran Nation in passing anti-voter legislation last spring.

Specifically they ended Maine's 40 year old tradition of election day registration using bogus "facts" that it has lead to "voter fraud". Maine's GOP leaders told lie after lie to support the fraud claims - which were thoroughly discredited.

This summer, Maine citizens initiated a People's Veto to restore election day registration (Question 1 this year).

Koch Moran Nation has been running ads against Question 1, implying that "outsiders" were manipulating Maine voters.

The ad is a lie fest - read the column...

http://www.pressherald.com/news/stand-up-for-maine-ethics-election-law_-_2011-11-06.html

Bill Nemitz: Take ad at its word: Beware 'outsiders’

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It turns out Dutson actually wanted to talk about other things. Like the fact that Donald Sussman, the wealthy hedge-fund manager who’s married to Maine’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, contributed $285,000 to the pro-Question 1 “Yes on 1/Protect Maine Votes.”

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Wait a minute. Isn’t Sussman a legal Maine resident who’s entitled – this being a free country and all – to spend his money wherever and however he pleases?

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WCSH-TV reported Friday that Webster told them “no one in Maine was involved or consulted in the creation of the (15-second) ad.”

Rather, the station reported, Webster said it was the work of “a conservative group from out of state – which he did not name.”

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[Scuba]

1. Go Maine! Yes on Question 1 !!!!

[tsuki]

2. LePage is a crook who gamed the Florida system to educate his

crooked spawn. Since he's a liar and a thief, he feels all Mainers are liars and thieves.

[jpak]

3. He also hired is FL educated daughter (a new FL-State graduate) at $41,000 a year with benefits

FYI - Maine's median income is $35k

LePage = LeSuckage

yup

[saras]

4. We have a winner - at a global level.

I think you've nailed the problem with the Right. They genuinely can't imagine what it would be like to NOT be a liar, thief, molester, etc. who needed to be controlled externally and spied on by their whole culture to ensure compliance.

So ordinary people baffle them. They look like marks that just won't smarten up, even though they're not stupid. If they can provoke fear and hatred in the marks, then they get someone they can relate to.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Yes, that's exactly right.

And let me add that you have just described a reasoning pattern that is extremely common among psychopaths.