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    20080910
    PEOPLE News.
    GORDON SMITH News. Oregon Republican Politician Gordon Harold Smith News.Gordon SmithILLEGAL News. LAW News. LAWMAKER News.IllegalIMMIGRATION News.ImmigrationBUSINESS News. MONEY News. FINANCIAL News. WEALTH News.BusinessFOOD News.FoodWORKER News. WORKFORCE News.WorkersPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.PoliticsAGRICULTURE News.AgricultureREAL ESTATE PROPERTY News. Mansion News. Condominium News.PropertyHISTORY News.HistoryOREGON News.OregonMd News: MARYLAND NewsMdHAWAII News.HawaiiUTAH News.UtahWASH News: WASHINGTON News.Wash
    "Señor Smith: Low-wage Latino workers keep [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith’s family business humming. Not all of them are legal." ... "Up on a hill overlooking this Eastern Oregon town of 701 people, Smith Frozen Foods turns raw produce from the surrounding fields into ready-to-eat products." ... "Smith’s goods appear in grocery stores under other brand names. But in tiny Weston [Oregon], a water tank emblazoned with the capital letters S-M-I-T-H sits like a sentry greeting travelers on nearby Highway 11." ... "Gordon Smith, a United States senator from Oregon and the only Republican senator representing a West Coast state, has owned the plant his grandfather founded in 1919 for nearly 30 years." ... "“Son,” father Milan Smith once said, according to Gordon Smith’s 2006 memoir, “you can sell ice to Eskimos and coals to Newcastle.”" ... "Today, Smith Frozen Foods generates millions in income for the senator, according to Smith’s 2007 financial disclosure report." ... "And in this town, Smith’s wealth looms large, even though the 56-year-old lawmaker seldom visits and calls nearby Pendleton [Oregon] his home. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Smith is the 12th-richest member of the U.S. [United States] Senate, with an estimated net worth between $8 million and $39 million—wealth that’s allowed him to buy a $3.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Md. [Maryland], property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Park City, Utah, condominium and—more famously—four antique golf clubs worth $1.25 million." ... "The workers at Smith Frozen Foods, who clean the machinery, monitor production and pack upward of 50 million pounds of produce each year, earn about $80 a day, four or five days a week, 10 months a year—if they’re lucky." ... "One other thing—some of them appear to be illegal immigrants." ... "WW recently spent several days in Weston, and the nearby cities of Milton-Freewater [Oregon] and Walla Walla, Wash. [Washington], where most of Smith’s employees live. WW spoke to dozens of current and former Smith workers, Latino advocates, court personnel, public defenders, educators, police administrators, church officials, social service agents and business owners and determined that some portion of Smith’s workforce comprises undocumented immigrants." ... "It’s a revelation that may not be newsworthy around Weston, where most people this reporter interviewed knew, or assumed, that the agricultural processing plant hired illegal immigrants." ... "Additional interviews and review of public records reveal that Smith’s company appears to have employed illegal immigrants for decades, stretching back as far as the 1980s." -By Beth Slovic -WWeek.com
    20080729
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    HOME News.HomesNEVADA News.NevadaFLORIDA News.FloridaPHOENIX News. PHOENIX ARIZONA News.PhoenixARIZONA News.ArizonaLOS ANGELES News. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA News.Los AngelesSAN DIEGO News. SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA News.San DiegoSAN FRANCISCO News. SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA News.San FranciscoCALIFORNIA News.CaliforniaFLORIDA News.FloridaMICHIGAN News.MichiganMINNESOTA News.MinnesotaILLINOIS NewsIllinoisOHIO News.OhioGEORGIA News.GeorgiaNEW YORK News.New YorkSEATTLE News. SEATTLE WASHINGTON News.SeattleWASHINGTON News: WASHINGTON State News.WashingtonMASSACHUSETTS News.MassachusettsPORTLAND News. PORTLAND OREGON News.Portland -OREGON News.OregonCOLORADO News.ColoradoTEXAS News.TexasNORTH CAROLINA News.North Carolina
    "Home prices down 15.8% in past year, S&P says: Seven of 20 cities tally monthly price gains in May, Case-Shiller data show." ... "Prices in 10 cities fell 16.9% in the past year." ... "Prices thus are at the same levels as they were in the summer of 2004, which means four years of appreciation have been effectively wiped out. Prices are down 18.4% from peak levels seen two years ago." ... "Here's a list of the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index with the annual decline through May: Las Vegas [Nevada], down 28.4%; Miami [Florida], down 28.3%; Phoenix [Arizona], down 26.5%; Los Angeles [California], down 24.5%; San Diego [California], down 23.2%; San Francisco [California], down 22.9%; Tampa [Florida], down 20.2%; Detroit [Michigan], down 17.4%; Washington [DC], down 15.4%; Minneapolis [Minnesota], down 14.8%; Chicago [Illinois], down 9.4%; Cleveland [Ohio], down 8%; Atlanta [Georgia], and New York [City, New York], both down 7.9%; Seattle [Washington], down 6.3%; Boston [Massachusetts], down 6.2%; Portland [Oregon], down 5.2%; Denver [Colorado], down 4.8%; Dallas [Texas], down 3.1%; and Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], down 0.2%." -By Rex Nutting -MarketWatch
    20080602
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    HILLARY CLINTON News. 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton News.Hillary ClintonACCOUNTING News.AccountingPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.PoliticsFLORIDA News. Floridians News.FloridaMICHIGAN News. Michiganders News.MichiganIOWA News.IowaPUERTO RICO News. PUERTO RICANS News.Puerto RicoNEVADA News.NevadaWASHINGTON News.WashingtonMAINE News.MaineBARACK OBAMA News. 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama News.Barack Obama2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "Hillary: Peddling pop vote canards to the end." ... "The facts, which must be repeated:" ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary [Clinton] does not lead in the popular vote by any measure other than her own idiosyncratic belief that Florida should count even though it didn't and hundreds of thousands of Floridians didn't vote because they were told it wouldn't; that Puerto Rico should count even though Puerto Ricans can't vote in the general election ("lead us to victory in November"???); that Michigan should also count even though it didn't and thousands of Michiganders didn't vote because they were told it wouldn't and she was the only person on the ballot; that Obama should get zero votes -- Zero!!! -- from Michigan ["Uncommited" received 238,168 votes, Clinton received 328,309 votes]; and that Obama also should get no votes from four states that he won [Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine], because they held caucuses and didn't count the popular vote." -By John Riley -Newsday.com
    20080523
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  • SEAWATER News. OCEANS News. WATER News. OCEANOGRPHER News.OceansGLOBAL News.GlobalCLIMATE News.ClimateSCIENCE News. SCIENTISTS News.ScienceENVIRONMENTAL News. ECOSYSTEM News.EnvironmentalATMOSPHERIC News. EMISSIONS News. Greenhous-Gas Emissions News. CARBON DIOXIDE News. AIR News.AtmosphericINDUSTRIAL News.IndustrialFACTORIES News.FactoriesCARS News.CarsHISTORY News.HistoryANIMAL News.AnimalsSEATTLE News. SEATTLE WASHINGTON News.SeattleWASHINGTON News.WashingtonCALIFORNIA News.CaliforniaOREGON News.OregonUS AMERICAN NewsUSCANADA News.CanadaMEXICO News.Mexico - "Acidified seawater showing up along coast ahead of schedule." ... "Climate models predicted it wouldn't happen until the end of the century." ... "So a team led by Seattle [Washington] researchers was stunned to discover that vast swaths of acidified seawater already are showing up along the Pacific Coast as greenhouse-gas emissions upset the oceans' chemical balance." ... "In surveys from Vancouver Island [British Columbia, Canada] to the tip of Baja California [Mexico], reported Thursday in the online journal Science Express, the scientists found the first evidence that large amounts of corrosive water are reaching the continental shelf — the shallow sea margin where most marine creatures live." ... "Off Northern California, the acidified water was only four miles from shore." ... ""What we found ... was truly astonishing," said oceanographer Richard Feely, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. "This means ocean acidification may be seriously impacting marine life on the continental shelf right now."" ... "All along the coast, the scientists found regions where the water was acidic enough to dissolve the shells and skeletons of clams, corals and many of the tiny creatures at the base of the marine food chain. Acidified water also can kill fish eggs and a wide range of marine larvae." ... ""Entire marine ecosystems are likely to be affected," said co-author Debby Ianson, an oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada." ... "Though it hasn't received as much attention as global warming, ocean acidification is a flip side of the same phenomenon. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from power plants, factories and cars that is raising temperatures worldwide also is to blame for the increasing acidity of the world's oceans." ... "Normally, seawater is slightly alkaline. When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into the water, it forms carbonic acid — the weak acid that helps give soda pop its tang. The process also robs the water of carbonate, a key ingredient in the formation of calcium carbonate shells." ... "Since the Industrial Revolution, when humans began pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Feely estimates the oceans have absorbed 525 billion tons of the man-made greenhouse gas — about one-third of the total released during that period." ... "By keeping some of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, the oceans have blunted the temperature rise due to global warming. But they've suffered for that service, with a more than 30-percent increase in acidity." ... "The acidified water upwelling along the coast today was last exposed to the atmosphere about 50 years ago, when carbon-dioxide levels were much lower than they are now. That means the water that will rise from the depths over the coming decades will have absorbed more carbon dioxide and will be even more acidic." -By Sandi Doughton -SeattleTimes
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  • WOMEN News.Women'sHEALTH News. PHYSICIAN News. MEDICINE News.HealthSCIENCE News.ScienceLIFE EXPECTANCY News. SENIORS News.Life-ExpectancyWASHINGTON News.Washington - "Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women: Historic Reversal, Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity." ... "For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women." ... "In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today." ... ""I think this is a harbinger. This is not going to be isolated to this set of counties, is my guess," said Christopher J.L. Murray, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington who led the study. It is being published in PLoS Medicine [PDF], an open-access journal of the Public Library of Science." ... "The study found a smaller decline, in far fewer places, in the life expectancy of men in this country. In all, longevity is declining for about 4 percent of males." ... "The phenomenon appears to be not only new but distinctly American." ... "Life expectancy is not a direct measure of how long people live. Instead, it is a prediction of how long the average person would live if the death rates at the time of his or her birth lasted a lifetime." ... "About 33 percent of women are now obese, compared with 31 percent of men. Extreme obesity is twice as common in women (7 percent) as in men (3 percent)." (1, 2) -By David Brown -WashingtonPost
  • 20080325
    MONEY News. PRICE News.
  • HOME PRICE News. HOME News.Home-PricesHISTORY News.HistorySEATTLE News. SEATTLE WASHINGTON News.SeattleWASHINGTON News.WashingtonPORTLAND News. PORTLAND OREGON News.PortlandOre News: OREGON News.OreNEVADA News.NevadaFLORIDA News.FloridaPHOENIX News. PHOENIX ARIZONA News.PhoenixARIZONA News.ArizonaSAN DIEGO News. SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA News.San DiegoCALIFORNIA News.CaliforniaMICHIGAN News.MichiganNC News: NORTH CAROLINA News.NC - "U.S. home prices fall 10.7% in January, Seattle's drop 1.3%." ... "U.S. [United States] home prices fell 10.7 percent in January from the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index of 20 cities, which saw the steepest decline in the two-decade history of the index." ... "Seattle[Washington]-area home prices were among the decliners, although the annual drop was a slight 1.3 percent. Only Portland, Ore. [Oregon], posted a smaller annual decline, 0.5 percent." ... "Worst hit were Las Vegas [Nevada] and Miami [Florida], both reporting 19.3 percent drops, as the regions are still paying the price for rampant speculation and overbuilding during the boom years. Those cities and 14 others — including Phoenix [Arizona], San Diego [California] and Detroit [Michigan] — posted record lows." ... "Only Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], squeaked by as a gainer in the Case-Shiller index, with a 1.8 percent increase in January compared with a year earlier." -By Vinnee Tong with contributions by Dan Caterinicchia -AP via -SeattleTimes
  • 20080312
    MONEY News. FINANCE News. COMPANY News. Lobbyists News. Economy News.
  • JOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainEUROPEAN UNION News.EuropeanPLANES News. Air Tanker Planes News. Airbus News. Boeing News. Aerospace News.PlanesMANUFACTURING PLANTS News.Manufacturing PlantJOB News.JobsUS AMERICAN NewsUSMILITARY News. Air Force News.MilitaryLEGISLATIVE News. LAWMAKER News.LawmakerPOLITICIAN News. POLITICS News.PoliticsARIZONA News.ArizonaWASHINGTON STATE News.WashingtonKANSAS NewsKansas2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "McCain's Role in Plane Pact Spotlights Ties to Lobbyists." ... "To show that he's a crusader against wasteful spending and congressional corruption, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain repeatedly brags about his leading role in stopping a scandal-plagued air tanker contract between the Air Force and Boeing in 2004." ... "Four years later, a $35 billion contract has been awarded to Europe's Airbus consortium to build the latest generation of tanker planes. The decision has sparked anger from Boeing's congressional supporters and critics of outsourcing. It has also focused attention on McCain's reliance on lobbyists in his campaign for president because his finance chairman and several other top advisers lobbied for Airbus last year when it was in fierce competition with Boeing for the Air Force contract." ... "McCain has spoken out for years against the influence of special interests in Washington, but his campaign includes a number of prominent Washington lobbyists, including campaign manager Rick Davis, who founded a lobbying firm, and top political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., chief executive of a well-known Washington firm. Neither of them lobbied for Airbus." ... "McCain finance chairman Thomas G. Loeffler and Susan E. Nelson, who left Loeffler's lobbying firm to be McCain's finance director, both began lobbying for Airbus's parent company in 2007, Senate records show. William L. Ball III, a former secretary of the Navy and frequent McCain surrogate on the trail, also lobbied for Airbus, as did John Green, who recently took a leave from Ogilvy Public Relations to serve as McCain's legislative liaison." ... "Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Washington state, where Boeing has long had a significant presence, have lambasted McCain for laying the groundwork for a decision that will cost their economy thousands of aerospace jobs. Lawmakers in Kansas, where Boeing has a plant, have also been critical." (1, 2) -By Michael D. Shear and Matthew Mosk with contributions by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum -WashingtonPost
  • 20080307
    POLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.
  • JOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainFRANCE News.FranceEUROPEAN UNION News.European UnionUS AMERICAN NewsUSMILITARY News. Air Force News.MilitaryAIRCRAFT News. Aerial News. Aircraft Manufacturers: Airbus News, Boeing News, Northrup Grumman News. Aeronautic News.AircraftMANUFACTURERS News.ManufacturersMONEY News. FINANCIAL News. MARKET News. COMPANY'S News.MoneyJOBS News. WORKERS News.Jobs2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionARIZONA News.ArizonaLOS ANGELES News. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA News.Los AngelesCALIFORNIA News.CaliforniaSEATTLE News. SEATTLE WASHINGTON News.SeattleWASHINGTON News.WashingtonILLINOIS NewsIllinois - "Boeing backers blame McCain for losing deal." ... "Supporters of The Boeing Co. blame [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, for the company's failure to win the lucrative $35 billion contract to build new Air Force aerial refueling tankers." ... "The Air Force last week awarded the contract to a team of Airbus parent EADS and Northrop Grumman Corp., triggering a firestorm from Boeing advocates who said the victory by the European-led consortium ignored American national security interests and would cost U.S. jobs." ... "Boeing advocates say McCain was a major force behind the Air Force decision to ignore the issue of government subsidies to Airbus when the tanker contract was put up for competitive bidding last year." ... "The issue of European government subsidies for Airbus has been raised for years by Boeing supporters who claim that those financial breaks have allowed the Toulouse, France-based company to undercut Boeing's prices and thus gain market share in the global competition between the two aircraft manufacturers. (Both the U.S. and the European Union, which claims Boeing also receives subsidies, have filed cases with the World Trade Organization.)" ... "Boeing advocates assert that those same subsidies helped European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. and Los-Angeles[California]-based Northrop Grumman win the Air Force tanker project, with a value that could eventually top $100 billion." ... ""The only reason that (Airbus) could even bid a low price is because they receive a subsidy," said [Washington Democratic Representative] Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose Seattle-area district includes thousands of Boeing workers. "Senator McCain jumped into this and said that they (the Air Force) could not look at the subsidy issue, which I think is a big mistake," he told PBS." ... "McCain himself has received support from the EADS North America executive suite. He has received more than $12,000 in campaign donations from some of the company's top U.S. officials, support that continued even as his presidential campaign was foundering in mid- to late 2007." ... "McCain's donors include EADS North America Chief Executive Officer Ralph Crosby and Senior Vice President of Government Relations Samuel Adcock." ... ""The person that stopped (the tanker) from going to a U.S. company was Senator McCain," said [Illinois Democratic Represenative Rahm] Emanuel, "and now we are going to send major high-paying jobs overseas."" -By Eric Rosenberg with contributions by Daniel Lathrop -SeattlePI
  • 20080211
    POLITICIAN News. POLITICS News.
  • MIKE HUCKABEE News. Arkansas Republican Michael Dale 'Mike' Huckabee News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee News.Mike HuckabeeJOHN MCCAIN News. Arizona Republican Senator John Sidney McCain III News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain News.John McCainLUKE ESSER News. Washington State Republican Politician Luke Esser News.Luke EsserWASHINGTON State News.Washington_StateARIZONA News.Arizona2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "Huckabee: Washington State vote like the Soviet Union." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee continued to cry foul Monday over the results in Saturday’s Washington State GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses, saying the state party chairman's decision to call the race there early for [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] John McCain is reminiscent of elections in communist bloc nations." ... ""That is not what we do in American elections," Huckabee said on CNN's American Morning Monday. "Maybe that's how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don't just throw people's votes out and say, 'well, we're not going to bother counting them because we kind of think we know where this was going.'" ... "In a statement released Sunday, Huckabee's campaign said Washington's GOP Party Chairman Luke Esser called the race for McCain when Huckabee was only losing to the Arizona senator by 242 votes and over 1,500 votes remained to be counted." -By Alexander Mooney -CNN 
    POLITICIAN News. POLITICAL News.
  • MIKE HUCKABEE News. Arkansas Republican Michael Dale 'Mike' Huckabee News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee News.Mike HuckabeeJOHN MCCAIN News. Arizona Republican Senator John Sidney McCain III News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain News.John McCainLUKE ESSER News. Washington State Republican Politician Luke Esser News.Luke EsserWASHINGTON State News.Washington_StateARIZONA News.Arizona2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionLAWYERS News. LEGAL News.Lawyers - "Huckabee disputes vote count." ... "The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question Sunday after [2008 Election Republican] presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party's declaration that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Senator from] Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count." ... "Huckabee's campaign took issue with Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser's decision to call the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the precincts counted." ... "At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by 242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted." ... "In a news release, Huckabee's campaign said there were "obvious irregularities" in the state's Republican caucuses and that it is sending lawyers to explore "all available legal options regarding the dubious final results."" ... ""This was an error in judgment by Mr. Esser," a Huckabee campaign release said. "Washington Republicans know, from bitter experience in the 2004 gubernatorial election, the terrible results that can come from bad ballot counting."" ... ""This clearly requires a full excavation as to what happened," [Huckabee campaign spokesman James P.] Pinkerton said. "The political impact of calling an election before all the votes are counted is pretty seismic. Chairman Esser should fully explain what happened and why to the satisfaction of all Washington state Republicans and all Republicans nationwide."" -By Janet I. Tu -SeattleTimes
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  • MIKE HUCKABEE News. Arkansas Republican Michael Dale 'Mike' Huckabee News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee News.Mike HuckabeeJOHN MCCAIN News. Arizona Republican Senator John Sidney McCain III News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain News.John McCainLUKE ESSER News. Washington State Republican Politician Luke Esser News.Luke EsserWASHINGTON State News.Washington_State2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionLAWYERS News. LAW News.Lawyers - "Huckabee camp may fight caucus results: Supporters of the Republican candidate allege irregularities during the Washington state GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses Saturday." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Republican Mike Huckabee prepared Sunday for legal and political challenges to [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's apparent victory in Washington's presidential caucuses." ... ""The Huckabee campaign is deeply disturbed by the obvious irregularities in the Washington State Republican precinct caucuses," Huckabee campaign chairman Ed Rollins said in a statement posted Sunday on the campaign's Web site." ... "Rollins did not specify what the irregularities were and said it was "an outrage" that GOP Chairman Luke Esser declared McCain the winner with just 87 percent of results in Saturday night." ... "At that time, McCain led Huckabee by 2 percent." ... "Rollins said Huckabee's lawyers "are prepared to go to court, and we are also prepared to take our case all the way to the Republican National Convention in September."" ... "[Huckabee's Washington State campaign leader Joe] Fuiten said some of the candidate's supporters complained they had not been allowed to express themselves and have their votes properly counted." ... "Kim Davis of Lakewood in Pierce County [Washington] outlined her experience in an e-mail that Fuiten sent to Esser and Huckabee's national campaign." ... "In an interview, Davis said she "absolutely" thought McCain supporters rigged voting in her precinct because she and a [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Ron Paul supporter were denied a chance to run to be delegates." ... ""They didn't follow the process. No one got to talk. No one got to vote," she said." ... ""I felt like what they did was wrong," she said. "If they could do that to us, I wondered how many other places could that have happened."" -By Jerry Cornfield -HeraldNet.com 
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  • LUKE ESSER News. Washington State Republican Politician Luke Esser News.Luke EsserWASHINGTON State News.Washington_StatePOLITICIAN News. POLITICS News.PoliticianHISTORY News.History2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "Luke Esser’s tradition: “voter fraud, dirty tricks, and voting a straight Republican ticket”." ... "On this soggy [2008] Election Day let’s harken back to the sage advice of [former Washington State Republican Senator] state Sen. Luke Esser (R-Nervous), who wrote a column on this very same subject in the UW [University of Washington] Daily, way back on Nov. 3, 1986, the day before that year’s midterm election."
    • ... "We all remember those great political traditions — whistle-stop tours, kissing babies, voter fraud, dirty tricks, and voting a straight Republican ticket." ... "Like any sport worth its salt, in politics you have adversaries, opponents, enemies. Our enemies are loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats. To win the election, we have to keep as many of these people away from the polls as possible." ... "Now your average leftist loudmouth is a committed individual and can almost never be persuaded to ignore his constitutional rights. The deadbeats, however, are a different matter entirely. Years of interminable welfare checks and free government services have made these modern-day sloths even more lazy. They will vote on election day, if it isn’t much of a bother. But even the slightest inconvenience can keep them from the polling place." ... "Many of the most successful anti-deadbeat voter techniques (poll taxes, sound beatings, etc.) that conservatives have used in the past have been outlawed by busybody judges." ... 
      -By Luke Esser
    "Esser doesn’t just want to suppress the Democratic vote, he’s proud of it. And while I suppose his column may have been a feeble attempt at humor, many a feeble truth is said in feeble jest." ... "Poll taxes, beatings, voter fraud… young master Luke apparently thought all that was funny. But then, what’s the big deal when your enemies are just a bunch of loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats?" -By Goldy -HorsesAss.org
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