Katherine Harris Blackwell - Republican Whore

Look, I'm under no illusions that anything is going to declare John Kerry the winner of the Presidential race. This isn't Florida 2000, in which Gore clearly won the popular vote and was robbed by a partisan Secretary of State in that state, a partisan media who followed John Ellis' lead in declaring Bush the winner, and a partisan Supreme Court.



Yes, I believe that there was massive voter fraud nationwide in the form of votes being switched at the polling places, votes tabulated wrong, provisional ballots discarded, disenfranchisement of Democrats in the form of their polling places being stiffed on machines. The mistake the Democratic Party made was in focusing SOLELY on the voting machines, not realizing that the Republicans were going to cover ALL the bases. You gotta hand it to them -- they did a thorough job. They put the final nail in the coffin of any belief I had that the electoral system in any way works, but they did a thorough job.



I hope that at least one Senator stands up with John Conyers tomorrow, NOT to change the result of the election, but to shake people into realizing that unless something is done about the way elections are run in this country, we might as well declare Bush dictator-for-life and stop deluding ourselves that we have anything even remotely resembling fair elections -- and stop kidding the rest of the world that we are some bastion of democracy. I'm frankly hoping that it's Robert Byrd. He has nothing to lose, and for him to come full circle from his KKK affiliations of the 1950's to standing up for the rights of minorities to have their vote counted would be a fitting end to his story in political life.



But here's how arrogant the Republicans have come in their confidence that they can steal elections with impunity -- and get away with it. Case in point: one Kenneth J. Blackwell, Secretary of State of Ohio.



Here, via Raw Story, is the text of a letter he sent to Ohio Republicans, ON SECRETARY OF STATE LETTERHEAD, trying to drum up funds for his gubernatorial run. As if that weren't sleazy enough all by itself, here's a key quote (but do read the whole thing -- the envelope, page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5.

That's why in the late hours of Election Night, I was truly pleased to announce that President Bush had won a critical and clinching victory in Ohio, on the belief that it was statistically impossible for Senator Kerry to recover.

Note that this was before all the votes were even counted! Blackwell BRAGS about this. Of course, since HE ran the statistics, HE was in the position to decide whether it was possible for Kerry to recover.



Meanwhile, this guy is sending letters PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS, using the stationery of his office as Secretary of State, in a money grab for his gubernatorial campaign.



Kenneth Blackwell is a disgusting, pathetic, corrupt-to-the-bone excuse for a human being. His pride in the way he rigged the system for his Republican masters and is now using his office to launch a political career ought to offend everyone who believes in Democracy.