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This is a public service announcement.

Did you register to vote recently near Albuquerque? If so, you might have given your Social Security number, indeed all the information necessary to commit identity theft, to a child rapist. In particular, this guy.

You see, New Mexico ACORN hired this guy, along with a bunch of other criminals to register voters. In New Mexico, according to the Bernallilo County Clerk, where this happened, this is the infromation needed:

Name, gender, birth date, social security number, residence address, mailing address (if different from your residence) party affiliation, telephone number (optional), date and signature.  

Would you trust this information with a child rapist or any other kind of felon? No.

Then why does ACORN pay them? What the story on the evening news last night:

Note that one of these guys has actually been convicted on two counts of credit card fraud. Shouldn’t there be some sort of background check for people who are paid to collect this information?

H/T to Election Journal.

What about a convicted identity thief?

This is a public service announcement.

Did
you register to vote recently near Albuquerque? If so, you might
have given your Social Security number, indeed all the information
necessary to commit identity theft, to a child rapist. In
particular, this guy.

You see, New Mexico ACORN hired this guy, along with a bunch of
other criminals to register voters. In New Mexico, according to the

Bernallilo County Clerk, where this happened, this is the
infromation needed:

Name, gender, birth date, social security number, residence
address, mailing address (if different from your residence) party
affiliation, telephone number (optional), date and
signature.  

Would you trust this information with a child rapist or any
other kind of felon? No.

Then why does ACORN pay them? What the story on the evening news
last night:

Note that one of these guys has actually been convicted on two
counts of credit card fraud. Shouldn’t there be some sort of
background check for people who are paid to collect this
information?

H/T to
Election Journal.

Cross-posted from,
The Next Right

For your Kansas results, I recommend the Secretary of State’s site. With 373/819 in, Jenkins is up by 4%, Topeka is not in.

In Missouri, I recommend the Secretary of State’s office also. In MO-09, it looks like Luetkemeyer won going away. It looks like the Governor’s office primary is closer, but it looks like Kenny Hulshof is pulling it off.

In Michigan, it is not as easy. In the MI-07 primary, State Sen. Mark Schauer, the DCCC’s recruit, won the primary. In MI-13, it looks like Kilpatrick will survive, but be a squeaker. FreeP has the details.

What else?

UPDATE at 11:52EST:

MO-GOV has been called for Kenny Hulshof. Congrats to Congressman Hulshof.

KS-02 is looking very close, but currently with 644/819 in, Jenkins is up over Ryun by 2000. Don’t know which precincts and/or counties are not in yet.

Did he learn nothing from Germany?

Kudos to
Newsbusters for tracking this down.

John McCain and Barack Obama have been invited to participate in

a townhall with the active duty military and their families on
August 11. According to the organizers, only McCain has agreed to
attend. What’s Obama’s excuse? Scheduling conflict:

Obama campaign spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said that while the
senator has a scheduling conflict on Aug. 11, he “strongly
supports” veterans and military families, and he has worked hard on
their behalf in the Senate.

What’s he doing?
Vacation in Hawaii August 8-15, with an “astounding”
fundraiser on the 12th which is supposed to raise $500,000.

Did he learn nothing in Germany? Could he send a clearer signal
to the troops about what he thinks about them?

There are primaries today in Kansas, Missouri, and MIchigan. Election Journal will be on the scene in Michigan and Missouri to find election irregularities.

The key primaries, to my mind, are:

• KS-02: Former Congressman and conservative Jim Ryun faces State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, a moderate. Ryun lost in 2006 and, while most conservative groups are supporting him very aggressively against Jenkins, there are concerns that he can’t win a general election.
• MO-09. Kenny Hulshof is running for Governor and so Bob Onder and Blaine Luetkemeyer. The primary has focused on immigration. MO RTL has endorsed Luetkemeyer even though Onder was a leader in the cloning debate, and Onder has been endorsed by the Club for Growth.
• MO-GOV. Kenny Hulshof is in a primary against Michelle Steeleman. Ruffini has taken a position on this.
• MI-07. The question here is how well the DCCC’s candidate Mark Schauer does against 2004 and 2006 nominee Sharon Reiner, an organic farmer. Republicans in the district and around Michigan tell me that Schauer can beat Rep. Tim Walhberg (R).
• MI-13. Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D) is in a 3-way primary. Her son is the mayor of Detroit who is facing perjury charges for lying in testimony about an affair that he was having and that he had used city tax-dollars to pay a settlement with a whistle-blower over. In addition, Kilpatrick and her son endorsed Hillary Clinton, which is undoubtedly a good issue on the ground.

I assume that there are good primaries at the state level. Please share in the comments.

Last Monday, Mark Udall promised he would vote against adjournment to force Congress to deal with gas prices and the energy issue. The thing is, he didn’t. He missed the vote and got totally slammed by his opponent Bob Schaffer. From the Denver Post:

"While Coloradans are paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, I guess it wasn’t important enough for (Udall) to show up for work this week," said Dick Wadhams, the campaign manager for Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. "He made a commitment Monday, he didn’t even show up for work Tuesday and then he missed the vote today."

The Democrats won that vote 213-212. If Udall had been there, it would have been 213-213 and failed, because a tie-vote loses in the House.

In other words, Mark Udall broke his word. When it came down to him versus Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, he chose Nancy. Now Udall, will tell you he didn’t break his word. Read on to see the machinations that he and Steny Hoyer went through to give Udall cover.

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So what happens? Steny Hoyer comes to the rescue to give Udall cover. He gets another roll call vote. Go check out the Congressional Record:

Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 398, 110th Congress, I move that the House do now adjourn.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to adjourn. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.

In other words, on a voice vote, the adjournment motion passed. But there was a recorded vote. I did a partial survey of the 110th Congress, and this was on the only time that there was a recorded vote on both the adjournment resolution and motion.

And you might think that the vote was called by the Republicans. After all, they wanted to stay. Right? Nope:

Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.

Steny did it. (note that the Majority gets right of recognition in this situation and, furthermore,  the person in the Chair is a Democrat) To provide CYA to his member who broke his word and didn’t show up to work.

Mark Udall only seems to keep his promise when it doesn’t matter. And where was he really when the vote was happening?

There has been plenty of attention given to the House Republicans storming the floor and protesting the refusal of House Democrats to vote on legislation increasing the domestic supply of oil.

Aside from the great theatrics of it, something struck me: for the first time, I really saw John Boehner as a solid minority leader, not just of the House Republicans, but of the GOP overall.

Now, Boehner and the House Republicans had done a great job wrapping Nancy Pelosi around an axle with motions to recommit and other parliamentary maneuvers. Similarly Mitch McConnell schools Harry Reid day in and day out on parliamentary procedure, although it is probably a lot easier to be Senate Minority Leader than Majority Leader. But I don’t think that I had ever really seen him clearly define both the Republicans and the Democrats on an issue with anything like the clarity or flair that we saw on Friday.

I have heard a lot of chatter about the leadership races after the elections, especially if John McCain were to lose. Who would be the symbol or the leader of the GOP?

After Friday, and continuing this week, one could actually imagine John Boehner in that role.

Hopefully John McCain will beat Barack Obama — and you all need to work to make sure that happens –, and it won’t come to that. But if he doesn’t, I feel a lot better about our leadership than I had before.