This is what happens when elected officials, entrusted to represent the voices of the majority, ignorantly vote on a multi-thousand-page health care bill without ever reading it.
Ex-congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper is only regretting her ill-informed vote NOW?
Former Democratic congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a Catholic from Erie, Pennsylvania, cast a crucial vote in favor of Obamacare in 2010. She lost her seat that November in part because of her controversial support of Obamacare. But Dahlkemper said recently that she would have never voted for the health care bill had she known that the Department of Health and Human Services would require all private insurers, including Catholic charities and hospitals, to provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and the “week-after” pill “ella” that can induce early abortions.
“I would have never voted for the final version of the bill if I expected the Obama Administration to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic Colleges and Universities to pay for contraception,” Dahlkemper said in a press release sent out by Democrats for Life in November. “We worked hard to prevent abortion funding in health care and to include clear conscience protections for those with moral objections to abortion and contraceptive devices that cause abortion. I trust that the President will honor the commitment he made to those of us who supported final passage.”
Video rewind from last year…
Continuing the Fight Against Obamacare | October 2011
Reminder from 2009 — Democrat leader John Conyers announced that he didn’t see any reason why he should read the ObamaCare bill.
Democrat Leader John Conyers Does Not See Point in Reading Legislation Before Voting
California’s ultra-progressive congresswoman Nancy Pelosi considers herself an upstanding Catholic and won’t ever waste a media opportunity to remind Catholic Americans of that delusional fallacy.
I could be wrong, though — I wasn’t aware that Catholics supported government-mandated and taxpayer-funded abortions, sterilizations, and artificial contraception as Pelosi does.
The ex-Speaker of the House also believes that the pro-abortion political desires of Barack Obama and the Democrat party are far more important than the moral teachings of the Catholic church and the religious convictions of millions of Catholics. And that Jefferson’s “separation of church and state” and the Constitution’s First Amendment can be capriciously disregarded if it helps satisfy the Obama administration’s relentless agenda to dismantle the freedoms of America.
This week, Pelosi said that the Oval Office’s Current Occupier Obama mandating that Catholic institutions fund abortions and sterilizations or face stiff government penalties showed that he was “courageous.” Violation of religious freedom in America by the nation’s top elected steward of the Constitution is now considered “heroic” by the Socialist Democrat party. Not to be confused with “government power grabbing” or “freedom robbing” or “tyranny.”
At least SanFranNan stopped shy of declaring, as many Democrats have since before the 2008 presidential election, that Obama is “The Messiah.”
The Catholic church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and the Catholic bishops of the United States have argued that forcing a Catholic individual to purchase a health insurance plan that covers these things–or forcing a Catholic institution to provide such a plan–forces Catholics to act against their consciences and is a violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.
In letters being read from the pulpit in Catholic parishes across the nation, Catholic bishops are saying: “We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law.”
At her Wednesday press briefing, CNSNews.com asked Pelosi: “The administration has issued a regulation that will require all health-care plans to cover sterilization and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that induce abortions. This would force Catholic individuals and institutions to act against their consciences. All across the nation, Catholic bishops are saying:–
Pelosi responded: “Is this a speech, or do we have a question in disguise as a speech?”
CNSNews.com continued: “‘We cannot–we will not—comply with this law.’ Catholic bishops are saying they will not comply with this law. Will you stand with your fellow Catholics in resisting this law or will you stick by the administration?”
Pelosi: “First of all, I am going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made, and I support it.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius first announced the proposed regulation in August as part of the initial implementation of Obamacare. The regulation, as proposed, was set to take effect on Aug. 1 of this year. In September, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent public comments on the regulation to HHS. In these comments, the bishops called the regulation an “unprecedented attack on religious freedom” and urged that it be rescinded.
Kudos to CNN “State of the Union” host Candy Crowley for bringing up on Sunday the undercovered story of the recent Obamacare-related decision to force Catholic employers to insure sterilizations, abortifacients, and contraceptives. When she mentioned “real outrage within the Catholic community” — and bishops’ letters opposed Obama were again read in parishes across America at Mass on Sunday — liberal Gov. Martin O’Malley blew off the bishops: “most of those in the hierarchy are also Republicans.” Is that why Obama’s violating their religious freedom?
O’Malley also claimed that this is not a big deal because “these same rules apply in countries like Italy which have overwhelming numbers of Catholics, and yet we did not see the reaction in those countries to these sorts of things.” This might be because while 97 percent of Italians think of themselves as Catholic, church attendance is very low (from 15 to 30 percent). They go to church on an Obama schedule. (Fore!)
Or course, alleged Catholic O’Malley is presently putting all of his prestige behind legalizing “gay marriage” in Maryland, so he’s not exactly on a church wavelength.
Archbishop Broglio’s letter to military personnel around the world was similar to the Bishops’ letters to the faithful in the US informing them of the unjust contraception mandate issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and proclaiming that we cannot and will not comply. But his letter also contained a hard hitting line tailored especially for the military: “It is a blow to a freedom that you have fought to defend and for which you have seen your buddies fall in battle,” He emailed his pastoral letter to Catholic military chaplains on January 26, with instructions that it be read at all masses in military chapels on the following Sunday.
Florida’s Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t accepting this atrocity silently — he’s introduced a bill that protects millions of Americans against Obama’s abortion-drug mandate by establishing a firm religious exemption. Bless you, Sen. Rubio.
How many Catholics still believe that Barack Obama is a moderate?
The recall petition fraud in Wisconsin has been ridiculously rampant.
Guess no one in the Socialist/Democratic Party thought that anyone would actually CHECK all those signatures for validity, eh? Certainly not the liberal Government Accountability Board, who are scrambling to find a way to ignore the fraud findings from the past week.
Remember: to many members of the Democrat party, cheating, lying, forgery, sending death threats, committing a felony, doing whatever is necessary to get what you want is always justified. And if you get caught, well, then, lie some more. Therefore, the discovery of so much fraud in just a few days is not surprising.
Another photo from the 'I Stand with Scott Walker' Facebook page
Glen Shulfer, one of the many volunteers who is engaged in verifying signatures on the Walker recall petitions, has been communicating with me on what he himself has witnessed and experienced in the Wisconsin recall trenches.
In this, his first reporting of assisting at the verification center, Glen wrote:
It was a very moving experience at the verification center. It was packed, even a bunch of kids doing work too. It was so great to see so many people try and help Walker. There are about 15 centers around the state; I am in the Waukesha one, a south suburb of Milwaukee. We ran out of petitions on my shift because there were so many volunteers working. All we did was look for missing information, signature, date, etc. I found one obviously fake name that you probably won’t hear on the news:
Jane S. Beaver
69 Beaver Rd
Beaver Dam, WI
I laughed so loud when I found this that some old ladies asked me what was so funny. I couldn’t tell them! So I flagged it as possibly bogus. Ya think?
For the record, there is no Beaver Road in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Crikey — wish all the fraud was this easy to spot.
In another correspondence, Glen wrote:
I’ve heard today that ET signed it, also Martin Luther on King Drive. A girl found an entire page (10 signatures) ALL written in the same handwriting. I even looked at them, and it sure did look like it. All the same pressure, same left angle slant. Some were printed and some written, but it was all the same. Most were in the same address too. And of course, from the People’s Republic of Madison. Then there were pages that were circulated by the circulator who was arrested for throwing beer on a Republican State senator during the riots last year. Well, he never dated it or signed it, so they will all be thrown out.
Glen is a proud American and a former band member of popular 1960s/1970s rock band The Grass Roots — he is also an accomplished, talented songwriter and singer. I’ve featured his conservative music videos in the past.
Video encore of the song Glen wrote in support of Gov. Walker, which has generated a lot of liberal hate — crank up the volume:
A liberal group is offering a $10,000 reward fund for anyone with information on recall fraud.
Scot Ross, Executive Director of One Wisconsin Now, says the fund is in response to reports of alleged plans to destroy recall petitions.
“We need to make sure that people know this is against the law and we’re willing to invest our own money in order to make sure that the law is upheld,” says Ross.
The group is also drawing attention to recall petitioners’ rights.
Recently, the Government Accountability Board has said recall fraud is a felony offense.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin has released a statement saying that they do not “condone or support any misconduct or foul play by any outside groups or rogue individuals who interfere with the recall process.”
A Republican Party spokesperson suggests that One Wisconsin Now should extend their inquiry to those who claim to have signed the same petition multiple times, signed on behalf of family members and even under fraudulent names.
Better order more checks, One Wisconsin Now, because it looks like you’re going to be busy with writing reward checks.
Lena Taylor (signer on #147623), while not being detained for election fraud or moving to Illinois for a couple of weeks to play hooky from her salaried job, was busy circulating petitions. Quite a bit of them as we found out. Here’s the one’s we found so far…
147465 through 147495, 147510-147517, 147519-145523, 147526-147529
Not surprisingly, there’s blatant errors in a number of them. So far we saw 8 with glaring problems.
147471 – Signature doesn’t match name, and two signatures in one box
147479 – Guy writes his address twice but changes it second time
147480 – Missing date
147482 – Missing signature, dates is the day before previous line
147484 – Lady lives in the ‘City of Ozaukee’
147485 – Lists Milwaukee as the municipality of New Berlin
147522 – Missing Signature
147485 – Man signs two signatures from the same circulator in one day
In addition to the blatant fraud on the Walker recall petitions, more fraud has been discovered on the recall petitions for Republican state Senator Van Wanggaard — reported by Media Trackers, 15% of State Senator’s names are duplicate:
On Thursday, Media Trackers reported the plight of Jeff Demet, a Racine native who found his name forged four times on petitions to recall Republican State Senator Van Wanggaard. The story was followed up by TMJ4 who interviewed two more individuals [whose] names were on recall petitions when they never signed, including Jeff’s mother Mary who’s name appears twice.
Ken Brown of CRG Racine first noticed that Jeff Demet’s brother Mark Demet was a circulator for one of the pages that features both Jeff and Mary Demet’s names.
After an examination of Mark Demet’s circulation pages in the Van Wanggaard recall, as many as 15% of the 70 signatures he gathered were duplicates!
The top official at the Government Accountability Board says the GAB decided not to buy software to transfer handwritten recall petitions into a searchable database, because it’s too expensive. However, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported more than two weeks ago that the state already bought the software for $100,000.
The Wisconsin Eye public affairs network asked GAB executive director Kevin Kennedy Wednesday about the decision not to create a searchable database that would be available to the public. Kennedy said they didn’t have the manpower or the money.
“The type of software you would need to convert these PDF files is very expensive,” Kennedy said. “When we do our duplicate review we might have a searchable database but it will be limited only to names.”
So, did they spend money on software that can create a database from scanned handwritten documents?
On January 21, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the GAB will be “relying on newly purchased software that can convert handwritten names into entries in six searchable databases.”
Do they have the software, or not? Are they using it, or not? If the software can read the printed names and signatures, why can’t it convert the addresses as well?
Why has the GAB chosen not to put a searchable database online?
The next fight over recall petitions will center on who can challenge signatures.
Tea party groups are analyzing the petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker and are likely to ask election officials to remove names they find questionable. The director of the state Government Accountability Board said he believes the board cannot accept such challenges, and the board will take up that issue at a meeting Tuesday.
In a memo to board members, the director noted that in the past the board has determined what signatures are valid based on its own reviews, supplemented by challenges made by those targeted for recall.
“There is no recognized process for intervention by non-parties,” director Kevin Kennedy wrote. “Given the unprecedented nature of these recall efforts, it would be improper to change procedures in the midst of our review.”
Recall organizers last month turned in petitions to recall Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four GOP state senators. The accountability board has until March 19 to determine whether enough valid signatures were submitted to hold recall elections.
Tea party groups offered to perform the checks on behalf of the state, according Kennedy’s memo. The board is doing its own checks, but he wrote in his memo that he expects the groups to submit their own challenges as well.
The groups have recruited volunteers to enter the names and addresses from the Walker petitions into a secure, online database. They will then check for the names of deceased people and fictitious people and will look for signatures that are undated or have improper dates.
Campaign laws prevent the tea party groups from share their findings directly with Walker’s campaign.
Jim Troupis, an attorney for the Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty and We the People of the Republic, wrote in a letter to the board that he believes they can submit challenges to the accountability board, much as outside groups can file friend-of-the-court briefs in litigation.
“Allowing the public access to – and the ability to participate in – the petition review process is critical to maintaining the trust and integrity in the electoral process,” his letter says.
The accountability board plans to create its own database but has not decided yet how it will create it.
A must-read infographic at Verum Serum hammering home the facts of how destructive. expensive, and out of control government unions have become:The State of Public Sector Unions.
It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings, and until then, it’s going to get uglier in Wisconsin.
