Obama tries to rig election

[thundley4]

davidinalameda   (1000+ posts)           Wed Jun-02-10 05:33 PM
Original message
AP Sources: Obama administration talked about jobs with Romanoff, none offered
   
Source: Star Tribune

Administration officials dangled the possibility of a job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, administration officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a similar job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race.

These officials declined to specify the job that was floated or the name of the administration official who approached Romanoff, and said no formal offer was ever made. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not cleared to discuss private conversations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4409439

Cleita   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jun-02-10 05:35 PM
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1. This is uncomfortable if true.
   
Trying to rig elections is wrong.

You mean getting caught is wrong, right? DemonRats have been rigging elections for years.

Hawkeye-X   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jun-02-10 05:38 PM
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3. If Obama tried to buy off Romanoff, then Obama is a mistake.
   
:growl:

GodlessBiker (1000+ posts)             Wed Jun-02-10 05:41 PM
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4. I see a big difference between offering a job not to take another job and...
   
offering a job to get a particular vote.

Business offers people jobs all the time so that they don't take other jobs. I might go in to my boss and say I received a job offer from a competitor and that I am going to quit. He might respond by saying that he will give me a new job within the company if I don't take the offered job. I don't see anything wrong with that.

There aren't laws against corporations doing it, dumbshit.

[jukin]

If the most corrupt administration in history is caught breaking the law (again) and the MSM does not report it, did it really happen?

[Tantal]

If the most corrupt administration in history is caught breaking the law (again) and the MSM does not report it, did it really happen?

To the DUmmies, nothing has ever happened unless Queef and The Munch have shown outrage over it......THEN it happened.

[AllosaursRus]

If the most corrupt administration in history is caught breaking the law (again) and the MSM does not report it, did it really happen?

The story is getting out there enough now that they are being dragged kicking and screaming to report on it.

[Karin]

Poor dumb Cleita is quite overwrougt with these developments.  She's an idealogue, and the events aren't sitting well. 
This guy made the last post in the thread so far:

CynicalObserver (137 posts)      Wed Jun-02-10 10:55 PM
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25. you will find that there is very little concern for US laws here
 when it doesn't support the end-goal of most posters. It is a terrible sign when rule of law has become totally subsurvient to triumph of ideology or the party or whatever.