Dem Candidates, Officials And Vote Fraud Charges

Chalk this one in the stories you won’t see in the Philadelphia Inquirer category.

Maryland Democrat congressional candidate Wendy Rosen is facing up to 10 years in prison for voting in 2006 and 2010 in Maryland despite being a resident of Florida.  She withdrew from this year’s 1st District race against incumbent Andy Harris after the charges became public. She still got 92,000 votes. There are a whole lot of people in this country who really don’t care in the rule of law it seems.

Massachusetts state Rep. Stephen Smith, a Democrat, has pleaded guilty to vote fraud for his role in submitting absentee ballot applications and casting invalid ballots in multiple elections in 2009 and 2010 in elections that he won. Smith will escape jail time in return for the guilty plea, resigning from his office and agreeing not to seek elected office for five years.

In New Jersey, campaign worker John Fernandez is getting five years for filling out absentee ballots in other persons’ names without their knowledge for the 2007 New Jersey Senate campaign of Teresa Ruiz.

Filling out absentee ballots in other persons’ names without their knowledge is how the Democrat establishment won a 2009 election in Troy, N.Y. Apparently it was recognized as the normal course of business up there.

Does this sort of thing happen in Pennsylvania? In Philadelphia? Ho ho ho, as Santa would say.

In the last election, Democrats refused to seat  court-appointed Republican poll watchers at 43 sites in the city as the Dems followed their tradition of appointing their own poll watchers.  How did the Inquirer treat this bit of news? They noted it on the fourth page of a long piece about how a mean judge rejected a request to give the Democrat Party more provisional ballots in the city where several wards went 100 percent for Obama.

Yes, Republicans have good reason to be suspicious about the results of the last election.

If you don’t think it’s happening ask yourself why the Democrats fought so hard to keep photo voter ID from taking effect.

Here’s the report from Fox News about the recent vote fraud cases.

529 Contribution Deadline Is Dec. 31 For Free Enrollment

Contributions made by Dec. 31 to the Pennsylvania 529 College Savings Program can help reduce the tax burden on returns filed next spring, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). Taxpayers can deduct up to $13,000 per beneficiary in PA 529 contributions from Pennsylvania taxable income on state returns for 2012. Married couples filing jointly can deduct up to $26,000 per beneficiary, if each spouse has taxable income of at least the amount deducted. Additionally, family and friends can contribute up to $65,000 in a single year ($130,000 for a married couple filing jointly) for each beneficiary without incurring federal gift tax consequences. 
Earnings in a 529 plan are not subject to yearly taxes as they grow, and when used for qualified higher education expenses, earnings are tax-exempt upon withdrawal. 
To encourage more families to enroll in a program, free enrollment, a $50 savings, is available for all new PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP) accounts opened by Dec. 31 at the 529 website. Use the code TAXSMART when prompted. 

The Republican Veto

By Bob Guzzardi
This is what we are up against: a President willing to create an economic crisis to impose Socialism and to transform American government forever.
The House Republicans, elected in 2010, by the Tea Party movement, gave the House Republicans a commanding majority and the power to checkmate the President’s moves.   That veto power was, again, given to House Republicans by American Voters on 6 November 2012 as they were shellacked at the Presidential and Senatorial contests.  Elections have consequences.
 It is time for House Republicans to remember that there are three co-equal branches of government and that the House of Representatives has primary responsibility for the spending, debt, deficit and taxation. The House Rs have the power; use it  … for the good of America’s productive and very Forgotten Taxpayer and, even more importantly, to halt the President’s plan to replace American Constitutional Exceptionalism with European Welfare State Socialism
Ahead of the Curve: The Debt Ceiling Vote –
To continue operating, the government must borrow. The House Republicans have the power to block more borrowing. If not now, then when. Spending and borrowing won’t cure themselves and they are not getting better.
 
The Federal Government spends $2.4 more a year than its tax revenue. “Mandatory” and perennial Entitlements, Social Security, Medicare and Medicare plus debt service spending cause an annual deficit of $250 billion, that is, automatic spending swamps tax revenues before any spending for defense which, as you may recall, is the reason we have a federal government, not for wealth redistribution, corporate welfare, farm welfare, or a centralized, command and control of the economy , the Statist military model of an economy, or a banking cartel of currency and credit, the statutorily created Federal Reserve bank monopoly.
The Rs caved on Debt Ceiling and cooperated with the Democrats and the President and we got the biggest tax Increases increase in American history and indiscriminate spending cuts threatening national defense. The President and the Democrats are intransigent and for a reason, because it advances their transformation of our way of governance.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, “I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?”
“You get nothing,” the president said. “I get that for free.”  

Bill Would Up Right Of Cancellation To 15 Days

Legislation will be reintroduced in the new session to give senior citizens additional time to rescind purchases made as a result of a home or phone solicitation, reports stat Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). 
The bill would increase the current three-day, right-of-cancellation period to 15 days for the purchase of goods and services by a person who is age 65 or older if the purchase is in excess of $25 and is the result of a door-to-door or telephone home solicitation. According to an AARP study, more than 50 percent of telemarketing scam victims are over the age of 50. 
For senior fraud prevention tips, visit the “Seniors” section at the attorney general’s website, www.AttorneyGeneral.gov.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Buslzz dl thrl Joypzathz hu vjjhzpvu av zohyl vby islzzpunz, hss aol zuvd pu Hshzrh dvu’a thrl pa ‘dopal’. 

Ipun Jyvzif 
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah

Springfield, Pa. Was Luminary USA

Congratulations to the residents of the Kerr Lane and Duncan Lane and the other streets between Springfield Road and Woodland Avenue in the environs of Halderman Field in Springfield, Pa. for tonight’s (Dec. 23) fantastic luminary display.

The Christmas tradition of luminaries come to Springfield from Spain, where bon fires were lit beside the road to light the way to midnight mass,  via Mexico and the American southwest. It also come to symbolize lights to guide Joseph and Mary to lodging.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Zil ohni om u wbcfx cm vilh, ohni om u mih cm acpyh; uhx nby aipylhgyhn mbuff vy ojih bcm mbiofxyl; uhx bcm hugy cm wuffyx Qihxylzof, Wiohmyffil, Gcabns Aix, Zunbyl iz Ynylhcns, Jlchwy iz Jyuwy.

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. 
Calvin Coolidge 

Amendment On Arrest Powers Stripped From Defense Bill

An amendment “to clarify that an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war or any similar authority not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States” was stripped out of the just-passed $633 billion defense authorization bill in conference, reports Bridget Johnson of PJMedia.Com
The bill is now before President Obama.
Obama has vowed to veto the bill, but it passed with a veto-proof majority.
The Feinstein-Lee amendment clarifying the limit of government arrest powers passed the Senate 67-29 on Nov. 29. 
The conference committee led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) removed this provision. The revised bill passed the Senate 81-14 and the House 315-107.