Clinton Won't Disclose Names of Donors, but He will Sell them

Clinton Won't  Disclose Names of Donors to Americans,  but He will Sell them for the Right Price

Commentary by Albert N. Milliron

The Bush Administration is often described as the  most secretive in history.  But according to David Plouffe, Campaign Manager for the Obama campaign, it is really the Clinton's.

The Obama campaign is returning to the issue of Clinton's secrecy...

"Behind closed doors, they're trying to prevent the American people from evaluating [Clinton's White House] experience," he said. "You have to wonder whether she'll be open and honest with the American people as president."

the most secretive politicians in America today," he said.

 the statements came as a response to a USA Today article reporting that the Clinton library was withholding information about pardons made near the end of President Clinton's tenure:

Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

The archivists' decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides,prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests.

Source: huffingtonpost.com via politisite

Politisite recently wrote an article about The Clinton pardons that included two woman from the Weather Underground making Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers seem comical. Is Obama the only one with a Weather Underground  Connection?

ABC News Blog had this to say about Clinton's Refusal to release donors Names

Former president Bill Clinton said Thursday that he will not reveal the names of donors to the Clinton Presidential Library unless he is required to by law, rebuffing pressure from his wife's rivals for more disclosure.

"We don't believe in one set of rules for us and another set for everybody else," the former president said at a news conference in New York. "The people that have already given me money, I don't think I should disclose it unless there is some conflict of which I am aware -- and there is not -- because a lot of people gave me money with the understanding that they could give anonymously. And if they gave publicly they would be the target for every other politician in America."

At Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said she was "sure [the former president would] be happy to consider" making public the names of donors to the library. But she refused to say whether she had asked him to do so.

"I don't talk about my private conversations with my husband," Clinton said.

Source: blogs.abcnews.com via politisite

When the Clinton Tax forms were disclosed Many bloggers and investigative journalists including a story by this writer that appeared on NowPublic and Politisite revealed that Clinton sold part of his donor lost to a data miner company. See Politisite, The Clinton's Prosper under a Bush Economy

"Bill Clinton received another $800,000 in 2006 and 2007 from  data-mining company infoUSA owned by Vinod Gupta. What did Clinton do for this money?  Maybe sold democratic donors personal information for his own wealth.  You might want to be careful when you send Hillary a check?"

Clinton Library Sells Secret Donor List

Three years after the William J. Clinton Presidential Library opened its doors, the list of donors who helped the former president build his $165 million complex remains a secret from the public.

Yet the Blotter on ABCNews.com has learned that the Clinton Foundation sold portions of the list through a data company headed by a longtime friend and donor. 

"The fact that they've sold the list and then turned around and said that these names must be kept anonymous completely undercuts their argument," said Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C.-based government watchdog group that tracks the influence of money in politics.

Source: blogs.abcnews.com via politisite

Why did we use Left leaning sources in our articles?  Politisite is a right leaning component of Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc.  We think it is important that we provide the readers with a balanced view of this subject matter.   Where you come in is in the comments section, Citizen journalist have the ability to respond to any  aspect of what we have presented.  We this NowPublic offers the the ability to get news from every angle and side of an issue.

Albert N. Milliron, Politisite

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Army: Accident caused Iraqi pipeline fire, 4 Critically Injured

Army: Accident caused Iraqi pipeline fire, 4 Critically Injured

According to the Kuwaiti news agency (KUNA) four of the Iraqis injured in the pipeline fire were in critical condition.

BAGHDAD, April 26 (UPI) -- An accident caused the oil pipeline fire in southern Baghdad this week that left eight Iraqis injured, the U.S. Army said Saturday.

While an initial report blamed the fire on a militant attack, a subsequent statement from the U.S. Army denied there was an attack, saying it was simply an accident, KUNA reported.

The Army's report was confirmed by Maj. Gen. Raed Jawad, head of operations in Karbala.

"The fire was an accident caused by maintenance workers," Jawad said.

Both Jawad and the U.S. Army confirmed the Friday's fire had been controlled by firefighters.

A unidentified medical source told the Kuwaiti news agency four of the Iraqis injured in the pipeline fire were in critical condition.

Source: upi.com via politisite

BAGHDAD (AFP) — An explosion that blew up an Iraqi oil pipeline south of Baghdad was caused accidentally, the US military said on Saturday, adding the firefighters had contained a blaze sparked by the blast.

On Friday, an Iraqi police officer in Babil province said the pipeline had been bombed and 10 guards were wounded in an attack near the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad.

But the American military said the explosion had been an accident.

"The fire was caused accidentally by maintenance personnel," it said in a statement quoting Major General Ra'ad Jawad, commander of Karbala Operations Command.

It said the explosion injured eight Iraqi workers and that the fire was contained at 1:30 am (2230 GMT on Friday).

It was the second time in the past year that the pipeline has been damaged. Last June an explosion damaged it close to the nearby town of Iskandiriyah.

Source: afp.google.com via politisite

 

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Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

What do you want in a presidential candidate?  Does the present slate of candidates lack all of your needs as a part of the electorate?  Well create your own.  I know,  it's like the salad bar  or like those buffetts you go to at lunch time.  So roll your own.  Let NowPublic and Politisite know what your candidate would look like. www.Wikicandidate08.com

WHAT sort of person would you like to see running America for the next four years? A website designed to look like the presidential candidates' sites challenges the public around the world to create the ideal candidate from scratch.

WikiCandidate (www.Wikicandidate08.com) uses collaborative wiki software to give anyone who cares to join in free rein over its content. As with Wikipedia, an entry from one user can be deleted by another. Users can change the make-believe candidate's name, photo and political agenda, as well as their reaction to events in the news. The site's creators hope that the profile of the candidate that eventually emerges will act as a wish list of the characteristics Americans most want to see in their president.

"If it were possible to create a presidential candidate from scratch, rather than having to choose from the people who have nominated themselves for the job,

Source: technology.newscientist.com via politisite

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Political Fact Checking, How it's Done, You can do it

[q url="http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=39759"]The U.S. presidential election is more than a year away, but scrutinizing the claims, statements, debates, and stances of the numerous presidential candidates can feel quite overwhelming. (At last count there were eight Democratic and nine Republican candidates.) How do we keep up with who said what and check to see if it contradicts their earlier statements? Luckily, some sites have emerged that bring fact-checking to the forefront. It’s great to find others with the questioning and skeptical tendencies that librarians are trained to have.

The Washington Post Co. launched a new site in early September called The Fact Checker (www.washingtonpost.com/factchecker) that aims to be "the place to go for impartial refereeing of campaign rhetoric." According to information posted at the site, the purpose of the site and the accompanying column in The Post, "is to ‘truth squad’ the national political debate in the period leading up to the 2008 presidential election. Our goal is to shed as much light as possible on controversial claims and counter-claims involving important national issues, such as the war in Iraq, immigration, health care, social issues, the economy, and the records of the various presidential candidates."

As The Post described it, "A presidential campaign is a war of words, not all of them completely accurate, and trying to sort truth from half-truth has traditionally been our job. But the claims and counterclaims of the 2008 candidates now flow, tsunami-like, on blogs, video, talk radio, and email."

The distinguished Washington Post writer Michael Dobbs is the author of The Fact Checker. The site also calls upon the research expertise of Alice Crites, who has been the "crack researcher" for The Post’s investigative department for the better part of the last decade, where she worked on three Pulitzer-winning series.

The Fact Checker aims to be simple, straightforward, and unbiased. And, it wants to involve readers in the discourse—the fact-checking is designed to be a collaborative effort. Readers are encouraged to get involved in the discussion on the Web and to suggest subjects to fact-check. Significant new fact-check items are also posted on The Trail, The Post’s daily diary of Campaign 2008.

The Fact Checker presents an issue and receives readers’ comments and any responses from the candidates; then Dobbs offers a comprehensive analysis. When there’s a statement that seems at variance with the facts, the site will point it out. When it finds that something is subject to several interpretations, it will point that out.

When it isn’t possible to render a snap judgment because the issue is very complex or there are good arguments on both sides, the site will withhold judgment until it can gather more facts.

Whenever possible, based on research and input, Dobbs makes a judgment and assigns an official "Pinocchio" rating that ranks the candidates’ statements on a scale of one (some shading of the facts) to four (whoppers). The prized Geppetto checkmark is awarded for statements and claims that contain "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." There’s a search facility that allows you to screen by the candidate, the issue, and even the rating. For some interesting and entertaining reading, check out the archive for the three items rated with four Pinocchios.

The Fact Checker said that it also relies on the expertise of other organizations that have established sites, including the Annenberg Political Fact Check project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania (www.factcheck.org) and PolitiFact.com, a project from the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly (www.politifact.com).

The APPC, which was established in 1994, accepts no funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations, or individuals. It is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation. It uses a large team of journalists and researchers. The group recently launched FactCheckEd.org as an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It is designed to help students "learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day."

PolitiFact offers ratings as well. Its "Truth-O-Meter" provides a "scorecard separating fact from fiction," with the most outrageous meter reading called "Pants-on-Fire." It also offers fact-checking for campaign videos, "On the Tube," and "The Attack File," which scores attacks on the candidates. It lets visitors to the site browse by ratings. [/q]

More Useful Political Sites

• OnTheIssues.org: This site offers a very interesting VoteMatch Quiz that asks 20 questions and then matches you with a candidate.
• RealClearPolitics: This site claims to be an independent political site that culls and publishes the best commentary, news, polling data, and links to important resources.
• OpenSecrets.org: This site from the Center for Responsive Politics calls itself "Your Guide to the Money in U.S. elections."

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Semi Truck Crashes Into Chicago CTA Train Station 2 Dead, 19 Injured, 10 Critical

Semi Truck Crashes Into Cermak/Chinatown CTA Station 2 Woman Dead, 19 Injured, 10 in Critical Condition

Update 10:45 pm -  Service on the Red Line was fully restored less than three hours after the accident, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski.

Engineers determined there was no structural damage to the overhead station, but the stairs sustained "very significant damage," said CTA President Ron Huberman. Trains on the Red Line, which runs to the city's far South Side from downtown, will not stop at the station until further notice, he said.

Source: myfoxchicago.com via politisite

Update 9:41 pm - Associated Press Video  added

Update 9:24 pm - Local Hospital reports 10 people in Critical Condition

Update 9:08 pm- Two killed, at least 21 injured after truck crashes into CTA Red Line station in Chinatown

With a loud screech and an enormous collision, a semitrailer truck ran into a CTA Red Line elevated train station near Chinatown shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, killing two people, injuring at least 21 more, and snarling evening rush-hour traffic between downtown and the South Side.

The truck appeared to be coming off the northbound Dan Ryan Expressway exit ramp when it wedged beneath the Red Line train platform on a busy intersection across from the red pagodas that form the gates to Chinatown.

As the truck crashed under the CTA overpass, it pushed "several steps" up the escalator that leads to the train platform above, said Sohail Malik, an attendant in a parking lot across from the exit ramp. Blood and shattered glass littered the sidewalk behind it.

The sound was so loud, Michael McClure was sure an "L" train had derailed. When Malik wheeled around in the parking lot booth a few feet away from him, he saw the truck, people running and smoke pouring off the truck. A CTA security guard, with blood on her face and arm, walked away leading a dog.

Source: chicagotribune.com via politisite

The truck driver, a 51-year-old man, and three other people—a 26-year-old woman, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl—were all at Stroger Hospital in stable condition, according to hospital spokesman Sean Howard.

He said all the victims suffered "multiple blunt trauma," but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Howard said the 26-year-old woman might be admitted to the hospital overnight, and it's possible the truck driver and the teens could be released.

Source: chicagotribune.com via politisite

 

Here is call to NP contributors.  If you are in the area and can provide footage to poweer this story i would be appreciated

 
Update 7:46 pm ET -

At least two people are dead and 19 others injured, including two children, after a semi truck crashed into the north stairwell at the Cermak/Chinatown CTA station on the Near South Side during rush hour Friday evening.

Spokesman Larry Langford says the two dead were women who apparently were pedestrians walking near the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station on the city's South Side.

Langford says seven people are critically injured, and it appears about a dozen other people could be injured.

Witnesses say the truck didn't appear to slow down before it plowed into the station.

Chicago police say the accident happened about 5:20 p.m

Source: myfoxchicago.com via politisite

Two people are reportedly dead and several others have been injured, including at least two children, after a semi truck crashed into a CTA station Friday evening on the Near South Side. Red Line service has also been interrupted.

A semi truck crashed into the north stairwell at the Cermak/Chinatown station at 138 W. Cermak Rd., CTA spokeswoman Sheila Gregory said. The accident occurred about 5:20 p.m., according to police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor.

Source: suntimes.com via politisite

Fifteen ambulances were called to the scene for an EMS Plan III, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Richard Rosado.

At least two people have been killed in the accident, while seven others have been seriously injured and at least 10 others sustained injuries, according to Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford.

Rosado said “a lot of injuries" have been reported, but he was only able to confirm that two children have been taken in serious to critical condition to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office had not been notified of any fatalities as of 6:20 p.m.

Dispatch reports said the semi was leaking diesel fuel at the scene, but that could not be confirmed.

Gregory said she did not believe the tracks were affected.

Red Line service has been interrupted between the Grand Avenue and Sox/35th stations. Northbound trains are turning at 35th back towards 95th Street. Southbound trains are turning back towards Howard at Grand. Commuters should use Green and Brown line trains or the No. 29 State bus, according to the CTA.

Source: suntimes.com via politisite

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Train Collides with Tractor-Trailer in Arlington Dozens Injuries

Train Collides with Tractor-Trailer in Arlington

ARLINGTON, Tenn. (WHBQ FOX13 myfoxmemphis.com)  --  Several train freight cars derailed in Arlington near Highway 70 and Jetway. Four injuries have been reported a the scene, emergency crews have transported at least two victims to the hospital.

The CSX train, which was transporting vehicles, collided with a tractor-trailer carrying sugarcane around 3:30pm Friday.

HAZMAT is also on the scene where a significant amount of diesel fuel has been spilled.

Officials have not evacuated the scene, and the extent of the injuries have not been confirmed. The driver of the tractor-trailer suffered only minor injuries, according to Steve Shular with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.

Source: myfoxmemphis.com via politisite

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Gary Coleman and Shannon Price are getting divorced

Gary Coleman and Shannon Price are getting divorced

I am feeling sad for Gary Coleman.  He sat behind me once, at a Braves Game, in Atlanta.  I used to ciover sports a bit and had dugout seats.  Gary came by and sat down, so many people came up to him and tried to talk to him, he was unable to enjoy the game.  Before long he was gone.  His life has been much of the same.  Come on say it one more time, "What you takin bout Willis". 

Now he is in Divorce court after a short (I shoudn't  have said that) marriage.  I wish him the best.  If you ever do see Gary, let him watch the game!

Gary Coleman will do anything to get his mug on TV, even if it means marrying Shannon Price and divorcing her on TV's "Divorce Court."
The 40-year-old actor and 22-year-old Price are set to appear on TV's "Divorce Court" on May 1 and 2. The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy "Church Ball."Among other things, the couple tells Judge Lynn Toler the problems with their marriage stem from Coleman's anger and intimacy issues. Coleman and Price agree they have "ugly" fights on a regular basis."If he doesn't get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old does," Price says, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. "He like stomps the floor and yells, 'Meehhhh,' and starts throwing stuff around. He bashes his head in the wall, too."Coleman says he gets frustrated because "the male is always the bad guy.""When I try to state my case or explain things to her or try to get her to understand my point of view," Coleman says, "my point of view doesn't matter."Price also complains that Coleman has no friends and inexplicably disappears from home in the middle of the night. When Toler presses him, Coleman admits he is negative."I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any," he says. "People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. (They're) only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you."

Source: socialitereport.com via politisite

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Rev. Wright's Pro-Blackness and the Problem with Pro-Whiteness

Rev. Wright's Pro-Blackness and the Problem with Pro-Whiteness

Politisite has added some previews of Rev. Wrights interview  on PBS will Bill Moyers at 9 pm ET  Previews are provided by the Public Broadcasting System.  You may also click on the links provided

Bill Moyers is broadcasting a sitdown with Barack Obama's "controversial" pastor, Jeremiah Wright, this Friday evening.

Now, I'm not going to even try to defend everything that Wright has to say. At least not the four or five loopy sound bites — out of how many thousands of sermons he's given — that have made him quite the YouTube sensation. But there is a particular aspect of the Wright mischaracterization I take exception to: the idea that his pro-black teachings make him some kind of radical separatist. Interviewing Wright in March of last year, for example, Fox's Sean Hannity had this to say about statements appearing on the Web site for Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ:

"It says, 'Commitment to God.' By the way, I'm with you, and I hope you'll pray for me, Reverend. Commitment to the black community, commitment to the black family, adherence to the black work ethic. It goes on, pledge, you know, acquired skills available to the black community, strengthening and supporting black institutions, pledging allegiance to all black leadership who have embraced the black value system, personal commitment to the embracement of the black value system. Now, Reverend, if every time we said black, if there was a church and those words were white, wouldn't we call that church racist?"

My answer to the question: yeah, probably. But that's 'cause there's a difference between being pro-black and pro-white, and the difference is a bad one.

Adherence to pro-black values isn't code for "kill whitey." It's merely how blacks have managed to stay alive and viable in America all these many years since we were first graciously given a ride across the middle passage to get dropped off in Virginia.

"A commitment to the black community" is what got us collectively through slavery, through an abandoned Reconstruction and the ensuing era of Jim Crow. As I'm sure some will recall, because of a pesky little thing called segregation, there was nothing for the black community to rely on but the black community.

Ironically, the community values and focus on the family that Wright preaches are exactly the kind of "don't bother us, do it yourself"-isms conservatives are always hectoring people of color to observe. How convenient for the pundits that they can both wish us off the perceived teat, then get riled by those who encourage us to be self-reliant.

To the contrary of pro-blackness, it's pro-whiteness that has unfortunately produced some awful-to-horrible results: white sheets and nooses and burning crosses and Citizens Councils and redlining and guys nicknamed Brownie doing a "heck of a job."

Source: npr.org via politisite

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Majority Whip Jim Clyburn calls Bill Clinton Behavior a bit Bizarre

SC Congressman Clyburn calls Bill Clinton Bizarre

 During the Primary here in South Carolina Former President Bill Clinton stated that Barrack Obama did well here because other African-American Candidates have done well, speaking of the Rev Jesse Jackson's win.  Then,  SC Rep. Jim Clyburn, said that everyone involved should take a deep breath and relax. Today, in an interview carried by the New York Times, the Third Ranking Democrat in the House, SC Rep. Jim Clyburn is saying something different.  He says that President Clinton's Behavior has become a bit Bizarre.

The third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and one of the country’s most influential African-American leaders sharply criticized former President Bill Clinton this afternoon for what he called Mr. Clinton’s “bizarre” conduct during the Democratic primary campaign.

Representative James E. Clyburn, an undeclared superdelegate from South Carolina who is the Democratic whip in the House, said that “black people are incensed over all of this,” referring to statements that Mr. Clinton had made in the course of the heated race between his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama.

Mr. Clinton was widely criticized by black leaders after he equated the eventual victory of Mr. Obama in South Carolina in January to that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 – a parallel that many took as an attempt to diminish Mr. Obama’s success in the campaign. In a radio interview in Philadelphia on Monday, Mr. Clinton defended his remarks and said the Obama campaign had “played the race card on me” by making an issue of those comments.

In an interview with The New York Times late Thursday, Mr. Clyburn said Mr. Clinton’s conduct in this campaign had caused what might be an irreparable breach between Mr. Clinton and an African-American constituency that once revered him. “When he was going through his impeachment problems, it was the black community that bellied up to the bar,” Mr. Clyburn said. “I think black folks feel strongly that that this is a strange way for President Clinton to show his appreciation.”

Mr. Clyburn added that there appeared to be an almost “unanimous” view among African-Americans that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were “committed to doing everything they possibly can to damage Obama to a point that he could never win.”

Mr. Clyburn was heavily courted by both campaigns before South Carolina’s primary in January. But he stayed neutral, and continues to, vowing that he would not say or do anything that might influence the outcome of the race. He said he remains officially uncommitted as a superdelegate and has no immediate plans to endorse either candidate.

Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com via politisite

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Snipes sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for tax Evasion

Just in:  Snipes sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Tax evasion, Not Filing Tax returns

OCALA - Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday to the maximum term of three years in federal prison on three misdemeanor convictions of failure to file his income taxes.

Snipes was also sentenced to one year of supervised release. He was not taken into custody immediately. Instead, the Bureau of Prisons or the U.S. Marshal's Service will notify him when and where to report.

His lawyer requested a facility not too far from his family's home in New Jersey, and the judge said he would recommend that.

After a day-long hearing, U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges talked of the importance of deterrence in tax cases and noted that, despite Snipes' apology in court, he had a years-long record of defying the tax laws.

No fine was imposed. The judge left that to the civil process.

Source: ocala.com via politisite

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Election 2008: Minnesota Presidential Election Obama 52%, McCain 38%

Election 2008: Minnesota Presidential Election Obama 52%, McCain 38%

While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton still struggle for the nomination, both Democrats have gained ground on John McCain in Minnesota. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows that Barack Obama leads McCain by double-digits, 52% to 38%. A month ago, the Democratic frontrunner’s lead over McCain was just four points. However, the current results for an Obama-McCain match-up are virtually identical to results from February.

Clinton now leads McCain by five percentage points, 47% to 42%. A month ago, they were essentially even. Two months ago, McCain had a five-point lead over Clinton.

Both Democrats lead McCain by more than twenty points among women. Among men, Obama has a slight edge over McCain while Clinton trails the Republican by sixteen. Both Obama and Clinton attract at least 80% of the Democratic vote in Minnesota. That unity has not been found in most other states or nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

Minnesota has cast its Electoral College Votes for the Democratic candidate in eight straight elections dating back to 1976. That’s the longest streak in the nation, but the last couple of Democratic victories have been won with modest margins—three percentage points in Election 2004 and two points in Election 2000

Source: rasmussenreports.com

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Is Obama the only one with a Weather Underground Connection?

Is Obama the only one with a Weather Underground Connection?

By Albert N. Milliron, Politisite.com

Over the last few weeks, if you watch Fox News, Hannity and Colmes,  You will hear a constant rant from Sean Hannity about Senator Barrack Obama's connection with a former leader of  a terrorist group called the Weather Underground. William Ayers. A one time FBIs Mosted wanted, founding member of the Weathermen, gave Obama a $200 in campaign contribution and sat on a Board togther until 2002. Ayers is accused of bombing the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol buildings in the 1970's.

Ayers is now a professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago was interviewed by the New York Times, an article that Ironically appeared on September 11, 2001,  No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives;  a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.

Now he has written a book, ''Fugitive Days'' (Beacon Press, September). Mr. Ayers, who is 56, calls it a memoir, somewhat coyly perhaps, since he also says some of it is fiction. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it.

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

Here further stated in the article

Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,'' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but ''it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,'' he said. ''It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.''

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

In his book Mr. Ayers describes the Weathermen descending into a ''whirlpool of violence.''

''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,'' he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ''Even though I didn't actually bomb the Pentagon -- we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.'' He goes on to provide details about the manufacture of the bomb and how a woman he calls Anna placed the bomb in a restroom. No one was killed or injured, though damage was extensive.

Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

Hannity refers to this story almost every night when he questions Senator Barrack Obama's relationships with the likes of his Paster and mentor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that he had a Friendly relationship with Bill Ayers. 

Both Ayers and Obama sat on the board of the anti-poverty group,  Woods Fund of Chicago from 1999-2002 and Ayers gave a mere $200.00 to the Obama Campaign.

Illinois State Board of Elections

  Contributed By   Amount   Received By   Description   Ayers, William
1329 E. 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615   $200.00
4/2/2001   Individual Contribution
Friends of Barrack Obama    

Source: elections.il.gov via politisite

Has Sean Hannity and other missed something?  Why hasn't Hillary Clinton brought up the Bill Ayers issue?  What about the Weather Underground in general?  If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination you will be sure to find out why she has been silent.

In January 2001 just prior to leaving office President Bill Clinton Pardoned  Susan Rosenburg and Linda Evans of the Weather Underground who In 1985 were arrested following being caught with nearly 740 pounds of explosives  that they intended to use in more bombings. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans was sentenced to 40 years. 

Many folks might say, well this was Hillary's husband, she couldn't be held accountable for the pardons of her Husband.  How about Hillary was the catalyst behind getting these woman pardoned.  In addition, if Hillary says that Obama should have close contact with his Paster.  What about close contact with a husband who condones the use of force to bomb Federal buildings due to an un-popular war.  One should review closely the Clinton Pardons, especially the ones on his last few days of office. 

To be Fair, it appears that the once radical Ayers has changed some of his ways.  He explains that what he meant in the 2001 article was that he didn't regret his anti-war posture not that he didn't regret his bombings.  He also appears to be very active in social issues that don't involve explosives.

Why isn't Ayers in Jail?  The Bottom line here is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had over stepped its bounds with illegal wire-tapping and infiltration tactics that made it nearly impossible to convict the once top 10 most wanted. 

 

 Is Obama  the only one with a Weather Underground Connection?

By Albert N. Milliron, Politisite.com

If you watch Fox News Hannity and Colmes which airs on 9 pm ET over the last few weeks you will hear a constant rant from Sean Hannity about Senator Barrack Obama's connection with a former leader of  a terrorist group called the Weather Underground. William Ayers,  one of the founding members gave Obama $200 in campaign contributions. Ayers is accused of bombing the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol in the 1970's.

Ayers is now a professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago was interviewed by the New York Times, an article that Ironically appeared on September 11, 2001 No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.

Now he has written a book, ''Fugitive Days'' (Beacon Press, September). Mr. Ayers, who is 56, calls it a memoir, somewhat coyly perhaps, since he also says some of it is fiction. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it.

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

Here further stated in the article

Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,'' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but ''it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,'' he said. ''It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.''

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

In his book Mr. Ayers describes the Weathermen descending into a ''whirlpool of violence.''

''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,'' he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ''Even though I didn't actually bomb the Pentagon -- we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.'' He goes on to provide details about the manufacture of the bomb and how a woman he calls Anna placed the bomb in a restroom. No one was killed or injured, though damage was extensive.

Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.

Source: query.nytimes.com via politisite

Hannity refers to this story almost every night when he questions Senator Barrack Obama's relationships with the likes of his Paster and mentor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that he had a Friendly relationship with Bill Ayers. 

Both Ayers and Obama sat on the board of the anti-poverty group,  Woods Fund of Chicago from 1999-2002 and Ayers gave a mere $200.00 to the Obama Campaign.

Illinois State Board of Elections

  Contributed By   Amount   Received By   Description   Ayers, William
1329 E. 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615   $200.00
4/2/2001   Individual Contribution
Friends of Barrack Obama    

Source: elections.il.gov via politisite

Has Sean Hannity and other missed something?  Why hasn't Hillary Clinton brought up the Bill Ayers issue?  What about the Weather Underground in general?  If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination you will be sure to find out why she has been silent.

In January 2001 just prior to leaving office President Bill Clinton Pardoned  Susan Rosenburg and Linda Evans of the Weather Underground who In 1985 were arrested following being caught with nearly 740 pounds of explosives  that they intended to use in more bombings. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans was sentenced to 40 years. 

Many folks might say, well this was Hillary's husband, she couldn't be held accountable for the pardons of her Husband.  How about Hillary was the catalyst behind getting these woman pardoned.  In addition, if Hillary says that Obama should have close contact with his Paster.  What about close contact with a husband who condones the use of force to bomb Federal buildings due to an un-popular war.  One should review closely the Clinton Pardons, especially the ones on his last few days of office. 

To be Fair, it appears that the once radical Ayers has changed some of his ways.  He explains that what he meant in the 2001 article was that he didn't regret his anti-war posture not that he didn't regret his bombings.  He also appears to be very active in social issues that don't involve explosives.

Why isn't Ayers in Jail?  The Bottom line here is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had over stepped its bounds with illegal wire-tapping and infiltration tactics that made it nearly impossible to convict the once top 10 most wanted. 

The Weather Underground Background

WEATHERMAN

 

* Declared "war on Amerikkka"at its Flint War Council in 1969
* Responsible for the deaths of police officers and the wanton destruction of public property
* Some former members are now comfortably ensconced in University professorships

 

Weatherman (known colloquially as The Weathermen) was a political faction elected in 1968 to lead the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The organization took its name from a line in the Bob Dylan song Subterranean Homesick Blues ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"). Emerging in 1969 as the most militant wing of the SDS's Revolutionary Youth Movement, the fledgling Weatherman issued a "manifesto" eschewing nonviolence and calling instead for armed opposition to U.S. policies; advocating the overthrow of capitalism; exhorting white radicals to trigger a worldwide revolution by fighting in the streets of the "mother country"; and proclaiming that the time had come to launch a race war against the "white" United States on behalf of the non-white Third World.

 

Grounded in identity politics, Weatherman ideology and rhetoric rebelled against what later came to be known as America's "white skin privilege." Weatherman opposed the strategy of a rival SDS faction, Progressive Labor, which rejected the sexual and chemical excesses of the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s in favor of a purer, Marxist-Leninist popular front movement aimed at developing student-labor alliances.

 

FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare.

 

At a 1969 "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn (currently a law professor at Northwestern University and a Board member of the ACLU) praised the serial murderer Charles Manson and his accomplices: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach. Wild." She then proclaimed that the time had come to launch a war against "Amerikkka" (Weatherman always spelled "America" this way, to convey the group's belief that the nation was ineradicably racist to its core). Toward this end, Dohrn advocated the formation of an even more radical "Weather Underground" cult to carry out covert terrorist activities rather than public acts of protest. By early 1970, her wish would be realized.

 

Weatherman's first public demonstration was its October 1969 "Days of Rage" protest in Chicago, timed to coincide with the trials of the Chicago Seven (a group of radical leftists led by Tom Hayden), who had fomented a riot at the Democratic Party nominating convention in that city the previous year. Advertised with the slogan "Bring the war home," "Days of Rage" sought to create enough chaos to shock the American public out of its alleged complacency vis a vis the Vietnam War.

Source: freerepublic.com via politisite

Pardons and commutations signed on final day in office

Clinton issued 140 pardons as well as several commutations on his last day of office (January 20, 2001).[13] When a sentence is commuted, the conviction remains intact, but the sentence can be altered in a number of ways. Some controversial actions include the following:

• Peter MacDonald - The day before President Clinton left office,U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy lobbied the White House to commute the sentence of the former leader of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was sentence for 14 years in at a Federal Prison in Texas for fraud, extortion, inciting riots, bribery, and corruption stemming from the Navajo purchase of the Big Boquillas Ranch in Northwestern Arizona. He was commuted after serving 10 years.
• Carlos A. Vignali had his sentence for cocaine trafficking commuted, after serving 6 of 15 years in federal prison.
• Almon Glenn Braswell was pardoned of his mail fraud and perjury convictions, even while a federal investigation was underway regarding additional money laundering and tax evasion charges.[14] Braswell and Carlos Vignali each paid approximately $200,000 to Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, to represent their respective cases for clemency. Hugh Rodham returned the payments after they were disclosed to the public.[15] Braswell would later invoke the Fifth Amendment at a Senate Committee hearing in 2001, when questioned about allegations of his having systematically defrauded senior citizens of millions of dollars.[16]
• Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg were pardoned. Weather Underground members, they were imprisoned on weapons and explosives charges.[17][18]
• Marc Rich, a fugitive, was pardoned of tax evasion, after clemency pleas from Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, among many other international luminaries. He was required to pay a $100 million dollar fine and waive any use of the pardon as a defense against any future civil charges that were filed against him in the same case. Critics complained that Denise Rich, his former wife, had made substantial donations to the Clinton library and to Mrs. Clinton's senate campaign. Emails uncovered during the course of the investigation revealed that her final donation was provided a year before Scooter Libby requested that she approach Clinton for a pardon. According to Paul Volcker's independent investigation of Iraqi Oil-for-Food kickback schemes, Marc Rich was a middleman for several suspect Iraqi oil deals involving over 4 million barrels of oil.[19]

• Susan McDougal, who had already completed her sentence, was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal; McDougal had served 18 months on contempt charges for refusing to testify about Clinton's role.
• Dan Rostenkowski, a former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal. Rostenkowski had served his entire sentence.
• Melvin J. Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, who was convicted of bank fraud, 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography had his sentence commuted on the bank fraud charged and was allowed to serve the final months under the auspices of a half way house. He had served his entire sentence on child sex abuse charges before the commutation of the later convictions.
• Roger Clinton, the president's half-brother, on drug charges after having served the entire sentence more than a decade before. Roger Clinton would be charged with drunk driving and disorderly conduct in an unrelated incident within a year of the pardon.[20] He was also briefly alleged to have been utilized in lobbying for the Braswell pardon, among others. However, no wrongdoing was uncovered.

On Feb. 18, 2001, Clinton wrote a New York Times column defending the 140 pardons

Source: en.wikipedia.org via politisite

Photos included:

Bill Ayers Mug Shot

Hillary and Bill Clinton with Tony Rezko

ABC Debate where Hillary questions Obama's sitting on a board with William Ayers

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Paul vs. Clinton Fraud Case, Let the Dispositions Begin

Peter Paul vs. Hillary Clinton Election Fraud Case stuffed in a California Court,  Maybe Hillary is not Fully Vetted

Clinton Allowed to Testify following the Election? Depositions to begin in Paul vs. Clinton

Hillary will not be deposed until after the election. Don't panic, it will be okay. Yes, of course, it was a political consideration. Disney did not release THE PATH TO 911 on DVD to protect Hillary.

Judge Aurelio Munoz, who appears rather friendly with Clinton attorney David Kendall, requested that Kendall say hello to a friend named Bill at Kendall's firm, Connolly and Williams. Munoz went to law school with him. Isn't that nice.

Even though Hillary will be delayed, there will be numerous witnesses who have important things to say. They include defendants former President Bill Clinton and Jim Levin, Chelsea Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Gov. Ed Rendell, Gray Davis, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Andrew Grossman, Patti Solis Doyle, Larry King, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Diana Ross, John Travolta, Brad Pitt, Stan Lee, Haim Saban, and many others.

Even before her testimony, the voters will learn about her obstruction of justice and the false FEC reporting. Perhaps a sitting federal judge and an assistant US Attorney will be subpoeaned. Are you listening Clinton-appointed Judge A. Howard Matz, you who pulled off the legal equivalent of the 1919 Black Sox in the David Rosen trial?

Source: hillaryproject.com via politisite

Special thanks to nowPublic Contributer:  Lonnie  from San Jose, California  for assistance with this article

Hillary’s biggest lie of all - Her campaign will take no money from Peter Paul

By: Doug Cogan 

Yes, Hillary Clinton has been caught in a big lie that seems to keep getting worse as she tries to lie her way out of it. No, it was not sleep deprivation. No, she doesn't speak millions of words per week. No, she didn't just misspeak. SHE LIED about the supposed sniper fire in Bosnia.

When will the press finally be willing to talk about the biggest lie of all? In 2000, Peter F. Paul spent approximately $1.6 million on her campaign with the promise that the President would join Stan Lee Media for one year when he left the White House.

When Ed Rendell, then chair of the DNC, was alerted that Lloyd Grove of the WASHINGTON POST was writing a story about Peter's felony past from two decades earlier for his involvement in the CUBAN COFFEE CAPER (that was really a good thing, ripping of Castro), Rendell advised Peter that he and the rest of the gang were going to lie.

Hillary trotted out her lying weasel campaign spokesman, Howard Wolfson, who told the Post that the campaign would take no money from Peter Paul. Through four false FEC reports and a massive conspiracy, she has continued to lie to this day.

April 25, 2008 is the next Paul v Clinton status conference, and we expect that the judge will finally set the trial date and open the way for discovery. We are hoping that Hillary will finally be under oath in August during the Congressional recess and just before the convention

Source: hillaryproject.com via politisite

 Bill Clinton's Peter Paul Court Date April 25, 2008 Hillary Clinton also named in the case!

Peter Paul says this photo shows him, and his wife, Andrea, celebrating his business deal with President Clinton (Courtesy Hillcap.org)

A judge in Los Angeles yesterday allowed Hollywood mogul Peter F. Paul to begin taking sworn testimony in his $17 million fraud suit against former President Bill Clinton, but a technicality delayed establishment of a trial date.

 

California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz ruled Paul's legal team can begin seeking depositions from a host of big names – including Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton – that allegedly were witnesses to an effort by the Clintons and top Democratic leaders to extract millions of dollars from Paul in illegal donations and then cover it up.

 

Munoz is expected to set the trial date at an April 25 hearing. He said yesterday in court he could not set the date, because defendant Jim Levin, an aide to President Clinton, must be served notice again. Levin did not respond to the original complaint, and Paul's legal counsel at the time – the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch – did not file a notice of default to verify that fact before filing an amended complaint.

The complaint says Bill Clinton promised to promote Paul's Internet entertainment company, Stan Lee Media, in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 Senate campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to produce, pay for and then join them in lying about footing the bill for an August 2000 Hollywood gala and fundraiser.

Paul attorney Colette Wilson told WND she has 30 days to service notice to Levin, and he will have 30 days to respond.

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Levin is a key figure in the case, Wilson said, because he helped conceive the Hollywood event then contacted Paul to underwrite the costs. Paul claims Levin later was directed by President Clinton to sabotage Stan Lee Media by convincing Paul's Japanese partner – in violation of a confidentiality agreement – to incorporate a new company instead of investing another $5 million with Paul. The loss of that badly needed capital ultimately caused Stan Lee Media to fold, Paul maintains.

Wilson said she had a brief discussion yesterday with Hillary Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, outside the courtroom and came away with the impression Kendall was not going to make it easy for Paul's team to depose the senator.

Paul said he is working on securing one of the country's top lawyers to lead the discovery process.

Kendall, who was traveling back to Washington yesterday, has not replied to a request for comment. Los Angeles-based Clinton co-counsel Jan Norman also did not reply.

Sen. Clinton was dismissed from the case as a defendant, but Munoz already has made it clear he won't accept any attempts to block Sen. Clinton from serving as a material witness.

In court April 7, 2006, a Paul attorney told Munoz he "anticipated opposition to taking the deposition of Senator Clinton. I assume we'll be back to court on motions of that."

The judge replied: "Well, any opposition is probably going to be dead on arrival, if that will – if you understand what I'm saying, Mr. Kendall."

Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com via politisite

The Peter Paul vs Hillary and Bill Clinton Album[q url="http://hillarytruth.blogspot.com/"]Clintons, Pauls and Jim Levin sit together at the Hollywood Gala Farewell Concert Salute to President Clinton , August 12, 2000.

It was the largest event ever produced for a US President in Hollywood, it was the largest private concert produced closed to the public and it was the largest fundraising event ever produced for a Senator. It also became a federal crime when Hillary Clinton's campaign hid the source and amount of Peter Paul's $1.2 million plus expenditures for Hillary Clinton's campaign.[/q]

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   Paul v. Clinton: Motion to admit documentary evidence in Paul v. Clinton case   Posted by: Admin on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 03:22 PM PST
     IN THE COURT OF APPEAL, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION 7

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION 7

PETER F. PAUL,

Plaintiff and Appellant,

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WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON,

Defendant,

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FOR U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE, INC.,

Defendants and Respondents.

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Appeal No. B191066

(Superior Court
No. BC 304174)

(Honorable Aurelio N. Munoz, Judge)

MOTION TO ADMIT NEW DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
(Code Civ. Proc., § 909; C.R.C. Rule 8.252)

Gary G. Kreep (SBN 066482)
D. Colette Wilson (SBN 123112)
UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION
932 D St., Suite 3
Ramona, CA 92065
Tel. (760) 788-6624
Fax (760) 788-6414

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Appellant

Appellant, Peter F. Paul (Paul), through his attorneys of record, requests that this Court admit new documentary evidence pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 909 and California Rules of Court, Rule 8.252, subdivision (c). The evidence sought to be admitted consists of a five-minute, videotaped recording of a July 17, 2000, telephone call between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC), on the one hand, and Paul, Stan Lee and Aaron Tonken (Tonken) on the other, jointly chatting with her by speakerphone (the July 17 DVD). The July 17 DVD is labeled “July 2000 Conference Call – Hillary Clinton & Peter Paul, Stan Lee & Aaron Tonken” and is being submitted with this motion.
GROUNDS FOR THE MOTION
The grounds for this motion are as follows: (1) Paul has exercised due diligence and could not have presented this evidence in the trial court or at any time earlier in these appellate proceedings, (2) the evidence contained on the July 17 DVD is extraordinary, (3) the July 17 DVD is conclusive evidence of the issues to be considered, and (4) admission of this evidence would serve the ends of justice.
ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED
Paul requests that this Court admit the July 17 DVD into the record on appeal for consideration as to two issues: First, the issue of whether HRC personally solicited, coordinated and accepted Paul’s expenditures for the Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton (Tribute), and second, the issue of whether HRC had sufficient knowledge of Paul’s business enterprise and the President’s involvement with Paul that it would not have been a “fishing expedition” to depose her to obtain the evidence necessary for a prima facie case.
DUE DILIGENCE
As described in detail in the accompanying declarations of Peter Paul and D. Colette Wilson, the five-minute videoclip contained on the July 17 DVD just came into Paul’s hands two months ago. Although Paul participated in and personally filmed the telephone conversation captured by this videoclip, Paul has not had possession of the original or any copy of the VHS tape containing it since December 2000. That VHS tape, along with 81 other original videotapes Paul filmed during and prior to 2000, has been in the possession of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York pursuant to a search warrant served on Stan Lee Media, Inc. After years of trying to obtain copies of these videotapes, Paul was finally able to get the necessary authorization on April 11, 2007. This motion is therefore the earliest Paul could have presented this evidence to any court.
REASONS FOR GRANTING THE MOTION
1. None of the Reasons for Denying a § 909 Motion Applies Here.
An appellate court can take additional evidence of facts at any time prior to the decision on appeal, for the purpose of making independent factual determinations “or for any other purpose in the interests of justice." (Code Civ. Proc. § 909) Whether or not to grant a section 909 motion to consider additional evidence lies entirely within the appellate court’s discretion. This power is rarely used, primarily because “reviewing courts are not equipped to undertake any appreciable amount of evidence-taking on appeal.” (9 Witkin, Cal.Proc. 4th (1997) Appeal § 798, p. 830) In this instance, however, the Court is not being asked to conduct a hearing to take oral testimony. In fact, the evidence is a mere five-minute videoclip that can be watched on any DVD player.
The power is never invoked (1) where the evidence existed at the time of trial, (2) where the evidence is cumulative of contradictory evidence, or (3) where the evidence is not conclusive on the question for which its admission is sought. In re L.B. (2003) 110 Cal.App.4th 1420, 1423, fn.1. Nor is the power invoked where substantial evidence supports the trial court’s findings. Philippine Export & Foreign Loan Guar. Corp. v. Chuidian (1990) 218 Cal.App. 3d 1058, 1090. None of those conditions exists here.
This motion also meets the requirement that it concern an appeal that did not involve a trial by jury. (Code Civ. Proc. § 909)
Additionally, this evidence is not being submitted for the purpose of reversing a factual finding by the trial court, since, as to the first issue, the lower court never considered the question of whether HRC solicited, coordinated and accepted Paul’s expenditures for the Tribute. As to the second issue for which this evidence is being offered, the trial court’s denial of Paul’s motion for limited discovery was premised on a lack of evidence, not on a finding of fact.
2. This Is an Extraordinary Circumstance.
Although section 909 motions are concededly rarely granted, where there are extraordinary circumstances, an appellate court will, in the interests of justice, admit new evidence. Conservatorship of Hart (1990) 228 Cal.App.3d 1244, 1257 (reviewing cases and admitting federal income tax return showing, contrary to what trial court found, that gifts from conservatorship estate would incur substantial tax liability ); In re Marriage of Rhoades (1984) 157 Cal.App.3d 169, 172-173 (new evidence admitted on showing of near impossibility of obtaining evidence previously and on strong showing of equity and interests of justice).
This is such an extraordinary circumstance. The evidence is of that rare type that captures the very commission of a crime, namely, that of knowingly soliciting, coordinating and accepting federal campaign contributions far in excess of the legal limit of $2,000. The elements of this crime are explained in detail in the Reply Brief filed herewith.
3. The July 17 DVD Is Determinative As To the Issues Presented.
a) Whether HRC solicited, coordinated and accepted Paul’s contributions.

As both our Opening Brief and our Reply Brief point out, criminal conduct is not protected by the First Amendment, nor by Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (the anti-SLAPP law). Consequently, a determination that HRC knowingly and willfully solicited, coordinated, and accepted Paul’s expenditures for the Tribute would be determinative of the issue of whether HRC was entitled to bring an anti-SLAPP motion in the first instance. The telephone conversation captured on the July 17 DVD is conclusive of the fact that HRC did engage in that activity.
The conversation in question took place the Monday following a large conference call on July 11, in which David Rosen, James Levin, Tonken, Paul, fundraising consultant Terri New, members of Gary Smith’s production staff, and others, participating from Paul’s office, strategized with members of HRC’s campaign committee in New York (including HRC’s campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson), as they worked out the details of the exact nature, size and anticipated cost of the Tribute. (1CT022:16-023:9; 5CT981:13-982:5) By the time HRC called Paul in his office on July 17, Paul had already entered into what he believed was a solid agreement with President Clinton that Paul would underwrite half the anticipated $1 million cost of the Tribute as part of President Clinton’s compensation package for working as a “rainmaker” for Stan Lee Media, Inc. when the President left office in January 2001. (1CT023:20-024:5)
The July 17 DVD evinces seven key facts, all showing conclusively that HRC was directly and personally involved in soliciting Paul’s contributions and coordinating his expenditures for the concert portion of the Tribute, which was that portion of the event designed to generate federal (“hard”-money) contributions for her campaign.
First, the July 17 DVD records a candidate (HRC) talking directly with a donor (Paul) on the subject of preparations being made for a large campaign fundraiser.
Second, HRC includes herself as among those who are working on organizing the Tribute.
Third, HRC admits to having intimate knowledge about what Paul and Tonken are doing for her, based on reports being made to her by Kelly Craighead, HRC’s senior staff official (4CT790:9).
Fourth, HRC implies that because Kelly, her highest staff member, has been and will continue to be involved with the organization of this event, she herself will continuously be keeping tabs on the preparations.
Fifth, HRC promises to make herself available to assist them.
Sixth, HRC admits that she “closed the sale” in calling and convincing Cher to perform at the event, after Tonken had apparently paved the way. Obtaining a commitment from a big name like Cher had a direct bearing on potential guests’ willingness to pay $1,000 to attend HRC’s private concert, especially given the short notice for such a major event.
Seventh, HRC effusively thanks all three -- Paul, Stan Lee and Tonken -- and encourages them to keep up their efforts. This constituted both an acceptance of Paul’s contributions thus far and a solicitation for Paul’s future expenditures.
b) Whether HRC had sufficient personal knowledge of Paul’s business enterprise and the President’s involvement with Paul that it would not have been a “fishing expedition” to depose her to obtain the evidence necessary for a prima facie case.

The July 17 DVD provides direct evidence of HRC’s knowledge of Paul’s business enterprise, which existed to market Stan Lee’s comic book creations, such as the X-Men. Throughout the conversation, HRC made numerous comments that demonstrated a familiarity with Stan Lee’s comic book characters. Ordinarily, a candidate is not that knowledgeable about contributors’ business enterprises.
These comments may have also been made for Paul’s benefit, as seeming to acknowledge Paul’s supposed future business relationship with the President and to suggest to Paul a willingness on her part to share in that relationship. Additionally, towards the end of their conversation, HRC states that what Paul, Tonken and Stan Lee are doing is going to “mean a lot to the President, too.” (DVD Transcript 8:13-14) This comment implies she knew of the President’s role in arranging for Paul to underwrite the Tribute.
At a minimum, then, the July 17 DVD demonstrates that HRC had sufficient personal knowledge of Paul’s business enterprise and the President’s dealings with Paul that it would not have been a “fishing expedition” for Paul to depose her in order to obtain the evidence necessary to establish a prima facie case.
4. Admission of This Evidence Would Serve the Ends of Justice.
In Flatley v. Mauro (2006) 39 Cal.4th 299, the California Supreme Court noted (quoting from the Attorney General’s amicus curiae brief):
“If the courts rule that a defendant who has engaged in indisputably illegal behavior ... has met the first step of the motion to strike, the defendant can then shift the burden to the plaintiff and force his victim to [marshal] and present evidence early in the litigation before the commencement of full discovery...[I]f the plaintiff/victim is unable to show a probability of prevailing, he will have to pay the defendant’s attorneys fees. (See § 425.16, subd. (c).) These are ...grossly unfair burdens to impose on a plaintiff who is himself the victim of the defendant’s criminal activity.” (Id. at 318) (brackets and ellipses in Court’s opinion)

In light of this videoclip – which clearly demonstrates HRC’s willingness to illegally solicit and accept excessive campaign contributions – it is obvious that HRC would not have had any interest in defrauding Paul but for her intent to engage in illegal conduct in order to finance her Senate campaign. Paul was clearly a victim of her criminal activity.
For the reasons just noted in Flatley, therefore, it serves the ends of justice to admit this videoclip into evidence because it is direct and conclusive evidence of HRC’s commission of a crime. The anti-SLAPP statute does not exist to protect criminal conduct. Hence, the July 17 DVD is also conclusive as to the ultimate issue on this appeal, which is whether the judgment granting the anti-SLAPP motion must be reversed.
Even if this Court determines that HRC’s conduct was statutorily protected, fundamental fairness dictates that Paul be permitted to depose HRC based on this proof of her direct knowledge of issues necessary to establishing Paul’s prima facie case. Therefore, for that reason as well, it would serve the interests of justice for the Court to admit this evidence.
CONCLUSION
Based on the foregoing, the Court should grant this motion.
Dated: June 20, 2007

Respectfully submitted,
UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION

D. COLETTE WILSON
Attorneys for Plaintiff/Appellant

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Paul vs. Clinton website launched

Paul vs. Clinton website launchedBy Kathy Miller | The Hillary ProjectPeter F. Paul has launched a new website to expose and inform the public of the upcoming landmark civil trial of Paul vs. Clinton.  The case is pending in a California court against former President Bill Clinton, with Senator Hillary Clinton as a material witness.

A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008, and a trial date is expected to be announced soon.

Discovery in the case is expected to begin in May, 2008 as it proceeds to trial.

The discovery will expose an ongoing cover-up of the campaign finance crimes and the obstructions of justice directed by Hillary Clinton with the help of Bill Clinton and former DNC Chair Ed Rendell. The cover-up rivals Watergate in its corruption of each branch of government and the media.

Since the media still refuses to cover Senator Clinton's involvement in the largest campaign finance fraud case in U.S. history, Paul will report on much of the news himself in this historic landmark case.

For news and information on this case, you can visit PaulvClinton.com

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DNC Attacks, "the Real McCain", with new ad Today

DNC Attacks, "the Real McCain",  with new ad Today

Expose the Real McCain

John McCain thinks we are better off economically than we were eight years ago. The American people know that is just not true. In fact, the economy is a top issue to most voters, but John McCain simply doesn't get it. So this week, we're releasing our first national television ad of the presidential cycle highlighting how little John McCain understands the economy.

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Barbara Walters at the Atlaanta Press Club May 19

MONDAY, MAY 19 - BARBARA WALTERS TALKS ABOUT HER CAREER AT THE ATLANTA PRESS CLUBNEWSMAKER LUNCHEON Barbara Walters, the most important woman in thehistory of broadcast journalism, will appear at the Atlanta Press ClubNewsmaker Luncheon on Monday, May 19, as part of her nation-wide booktour for her new memoir, Audition. The presenting sponsor forthis event is WSB-TV, Channel 2. Please click here for more information and to register forevent

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Pennsylvania, Politisite Exit Polls, Real Time Election Results, Breaking News & Commentary

 Politisite Exit Polls, Real Time Election Results, Breaking News & Commentary from Pennsylvania

by Albert N. Milliron, Chief Political Correspondent Iron Mill Interactive Media Inc. & Politisite.com

Hello all you pundits, politicos, politstes, pollsters, politisites, political junkies, and casual political readers. Your at the right place for exit polling data that is beginning to leak from Pennsylvania.  We will start with brining you that coverage first. 

Later, tonight when the polls close we will bring you real time election results right from the Pennsylvania election department of the Secretary of States offices.

We often receive chatter from the campaigns, sometimes called leaks to the press.  Politisite has sources in both campaigns so you will be sure to hear some of those stories here first.  We suggest you check back several times during the night as we will be providing updates every few minutes following the close of the polls.

If there is any problems at any of the polling stations, those reports are a matter of public record.  if any legal action takes place, you will hear that here as well.

Our extensive satellite equipment is on line for this primary. We will provide video as it unfolds from on scene

The Politisite Bottom line is that you should keep NowPublic and Politisite Blogs in Que for updates throughout the night until all of the results are in. You are at the Nets HOT SPOT for all of Pennsylvania's election coverage

This is our last report from the Pennsylvania Primary. [q url=http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/]

 

Candidate	Votes	Percent
CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)	1,153,164	54.8%
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)	952,692	45.2%

Republican Primary

Candidate	Votes	Percent
HUCKABEE, MIKE (REP)	82,200	11.5%
MCCAIN, JOHN (REP)	520,152	72.5%
PAUL, RON (REP)	114,955	16.0%
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We Wanted to show our Politisite Political Projections from last night. We correctly called the race and the Percentage spread

Conclusion: 

Polls track Senator Clinton Lower than she produces in final results.  Senator Obama tracks higher than he produces in final results.  Real Clear Politics has Hillary Clinton winning by 5.7% .  Obama has produced some real negitives during this campaign cycle.  Politisite projects Senator Clinton to win by 8-12 percentage points.  Hilliary Clinton will not drop out of the race and will win by 54%-46% on the high side which is most probable 56%- 44%

Source: nowpublic.com via politisite

11:34 pm - 97% Reporting, Clinton 55%, Obama 45%

10:32 Pm - 74% Reporting, Clinton 54% Delegates = 37, Obama 46% Delegates = 31, Clinton Net Gain 6 Delegates

10:13 pm - Here comes Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea.  " its a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania ave and it runs through Pennsylvannia" 

10:03 pm - Gov. Ed Randell will Announce Senator Clinton, Mayor is speaking first

9:57 pm - Expect a Rocky Song prior to her arrival

9:56 pm - 45% percent reporting, Clinton 54%, Obama 46%

9:53 pm - Looks like they are going to try for the 10 pm news as they have two speakers

9:49 pm - The speakers who will precede the Clinton speech are on the stage now.  The speech will include statements that Obama can't close the deal and super delegates should rethink there endorcements of Obama.

9:46 pm 35% reporting, Clinton 54%, Obama 46%

9:44 pm - Stations are standing by.  Will will be downlinking the satellite feed and will post it following the speech

9:39 pm - Sources relate that Hilliary Clinton will speak at 9:45 pm ET

9:33 pm - 22% reporting, Clinton 53, Obama 47

9:39 pm - Sources relate that Hilliary Clinton will speak at 9:45 pm ET

9:33 pm - 21% reporting, Clinton 53, Obama 47

9:31 pm - 19% Reporting, Clinton 53, Obama 47%

9:27 pm - 17% reporting, Clinton 53, Obama 47%

 

Politisite Note:  Obama is doing well in Pittsburg, Philly, Harrisburg, and Union County.  Clinton has a command on most other sections of PA

9:23 pm - 14% Reporting, Clinton 53%, Obama 47% - Stats are begining to smooth.  I would expect this to be near where the final results will end up tonight

9:19 pm - 12% Reporting, Clinton 54%, Obama 46%

9:15 pm - 11% Reporting Clinton 55%, Obama 45%

9:10 pm - 10% Reporting Clinton 54%, Obama 46%

9:06 pm - 8% Reporting Clinton 53%, Obama 47%

9:04 pm CNN Projects Clinton Winner

8:54 pm - 6% reporting, Clinton 53, Obama 47%

8:52 pm - 3% reporting Clinton 55, Obama 45

8:47 pm - 1% reporting Clinton 60, Obama 40

8:45 pm - 1% reporting Clinton 65, Obama 35

8:37 pm - Clnton 67%, Obama 33%

Republican; McCain 77%, Huckabee 12%, and Paul 11% - we will report Republican data at final results

8:21 pm - Stand by for video upload from Clinton Campaign

8:11 pm only 10% of voters are 18-29 bad signal for Obama, 17% 30-44, 35% 45-59, and 38% 60+ good sign for Clinton

8:09 pm - No results from SOS office please stand by

For fun I have CNN teleprompter on downlink.  Turn on CNN and exactly at 8 PM you will hear the the following: Reggie Reads, Good Evening from CNN worlds headquarters in Atlanta, I am Reggie

7:53 pm - 7 minutes until polls close in PA

7:31 pm -

The exit polls show a smaller percentage of late deciders -- 23% -- than in previous states. The economy mattered most to 54% of voters. (TV news reports say that Clinton won these folks.)

The change versus experience question has been settled: 49% said change was their top vote-generating quality, versus 26 percent who said experience was.

About 15% of the electorate was made up of new voters. 37% are gun owners.

Still petulant: more than 60% of Clinton voters say they wouldn't be happy if Obama were the nominee; about half of Obama voters say the same. 25% of Clinton supporters say they'd vote for McCain in the general election; 17% of Obama supporters say they'd vote for McCain in the general election.

 

Still, 57% of Pennsylvanians believed that Sen. Clinton "attacked" unfairly compared to 49% who thought Obama did.

Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com via politisite

7:24 pm -

Early Pennsylvania exit poll results

Highlights of preliminary exit poll data in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary Tuesday:

FINALLY, THE MAIN EVENT

After a six-week lull since the last Democratic primary, Pennsylvania voters were so eager to participate in the hotly contested battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama that one in 10 changed their party registration since the start of 2008 so they could vote Tuesday. The contest was open only to registered Democrats. About half the party-switchers had been registered Republicans, while the rest had been unaffiliated with either party. Another roughly 3 percent were voting for the first time in Pennsylvania.

WHO SHOWED UP

As expected, Pennsylvania's Democratic voters were overwhelmingly white and — as usual in Democratic contests — there were more women than men. About three in 10 were age 65 or over. Nearly half were from families that earned less than $50,000 last year. A quarter had household income of more than $100,000 and about as many reported having a postgraduate degree.

Three in 10 Pennsylvania Democratic voters were union members or had one in their household. And four in 10 had a gun owner in the household.

LOOKS MATTER

About one in five voters said the race of the candidates was among the top factors in their vote. About as many said that about the candidates' gender.

MAKING UP THEIR MINDS

One in five voters said they chose their candidate within the final week of the Pennsylvania campaign. About one in 10 said they made up their mind Tuesday.

ECONOMIC GLOOM

Pennsylvania Democrats had a sour view of the economy — four in 10 said the country is in a serious recession and at least as many called it a moderate recession. Only about one in 10 said the economy is not in recession.

As in earlier primaries, at least half of voters said the economy was the most important issue facing the country. About half as many said Iraq was the top issue. Health care trailed in importance.

From a partial sample of 1,421 Democratic primary voters conducted in 40 precincts across Pennsylvania by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and television networks.

Source: ap.google.com via politisite

colleenfc
5 hours ago

Seniors victims of pro-Clinton voter fraud in NW Philly

While working the phone banks at the NW Philly (Mt. Airy) Obama office, there were 2 separate complaints of poll worker fraud at a community center. Wheelchair bound seniors who were to be "assisted" in voting by poll workers claimed that they asked to vote for Obama & the poll workers voted for Clinton on their behalf. The voting machines are sufficiently high off the ground to make it impossible for those who cannot stand to vote by themselves. The nursing home staff who were responsible for bringing the seniors to the came by the office themselves, outraged that despite their protestations the votes were not invalidated or redone. Very disturbing!

Source: nowpublic.com via politisite

Polls will close in 51 minutes at 8 pm ET. John Melloncamp is doing a sound check in IN

7:05 pm - Politisite will be providing numbers directly from the Secratary of States office in Harrisburg PA.  The first numbers will be early voters and the numbers will not reflect the outcome.

7;02 pm - Obama is in Evansville IN Where John Melloncamp will perform this evening.  We will bring some video of that concert as we have a downlink on satellite

7:01 pm - Politisite will project Clinton a winnner in Pennsylvania ahead of the networks

6:54pm -   CNN: "Sen. Barack Obama scored big with new Democrats in Pennsylvania, early exit polls show. One out of every seven Democratic party voters was not registered as a Democrat at the beginning of the year, and 60 percent of them cast their ballot for Obama, according to the exit polls." Sounds like Operation Chaos may have been overwhelmed. - TOM BEVAN

6:46 pm -

Hold on to your hats. I've gotten the usual word of the exit poll results from one of my usual reliable sources. He notes that Obama traditionally over-performs in the earliest exit polls, and that he expects the numbers to change as the night wears on - perhaps a reversal.

 

But right now, the exits are saying Obama 52 percent, Clinton 47 percent.

Take these results with the usual grains of salt and skepticism. I'm told that Obama is carrying blue collar workers two to one, and he's winning Philadelphia in the neighborhood of three to one.

As usual, if you're a Pennsylvanian and haven't voted yet, don't let these or any other numbers discourage you.

 

Looks like some potential good news for Obama from fladem over at Open Left as well:

 

CNN (via Markos) has some Exit Poll numbers:

 

Seniors: 61C, 38O
White male: 55C, 45O
Blacks: 8C, 92O

Source: mydd.com via politisite

6:35 pm - I also noticed that there is a NowPublic Election going on as well.  Running the Numbers: Is A Leaderboard a Good Idea? (Opinion, Survey)  I will see if I can find any exit polls or PR firms spindoctoring.  Looks like I won't be president of NP unless they devide the numbers by time as a contributer.

6:22 pm - Exit polls are showing  gender gap as Women go for Clinton 55% Obama 44, Men go for Obama 53% to 47% Drudge is reporting Clinton winning by 52% to Obama 48%

6:21 pm- Drudge has leaked exit polls EXIT POLLS: Negative Tone Tarnishes Dems

Despite all the down-to-the-wire campaigning, preliminary exit poll results indicate that nearly eight in 10 Pennsylvania voters made up their minds at least a week ago, and six in 10 decided on their candidate more than a month ago -- a higher number of early deciders than the norm in Democratic primaries to date.

As far as campaigning, many discern a negative tone — and more blame it on Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., than on Barack Obama, D-Ill. Two-thirds of Pennsylvania voters in preliminary exit poll results say Clinton attacked Obama unfairly; fewer, but still about half, also say Obama unfairly attacked Clinton.

In other primaries to date, similarly, more saw Clinton than Obama as having attacked unfairly. The difference in Pennsylvania, these preliminary results suggest, is that voters there are more critical of both candidates.

Source: abcnews.go.com via politisite

5:30 pm - Politisite is uploading a test video from our satellite down link.  Please let us know if it is of good quality

5:08 pm - Scott Rasmussen just stated that Clinton 51% Obama 49%.  Politisite sees Clinton up by 8-11 %  Late decider's are breaking toward Hilliary as we reported earlier today.  They are saying 6-4 for Clinton, same numbers we reported.  Late decider's are those who made up their mind 48 hours prior to election

4:07 pm - Voter Machine Problems in West Philly

With record numbers of new registrants for a primary election, voter-protection groups have reported some glitches at polling places around the region.

More than 100 complaints - several about malfunctioning machines - have been lodged so far, according to Watch the Vote 2008, a Washington-based coalition of voter groups.

Relative to other primary elections in the nation, "my sense is that the machine problems are high," said Kathryn Bookvar, an attorney with the Advancement Project, also in Washington.

She said that voters at a polling place in the 49th Ward near the Fern Rock station had to wait two hours because of machine malfunctions. Machine problems also were reported in West Oak Lane; Elkins Park, Montgomery County; and Upper Darby, Delaware County.

In addition, "numerous" registration snafus were reported to the Committee of Seventy, the Philadelphia election-watchdog organization, said John David, the election coordinator.

The bulk of those complaints have come from voters who switched parties and whose names did not appear on the rolls of the new party. The city has been inundated with calls, said David, adding: "It's swamping the voter-registration office."

Source: philly.com via politisite

4:04 pm - Politisite does NOT have confirmation on this

I just spent a few hours on the phone bank at Obama HQ. Some voters in PA have called in stating that Barack’s name is missing from the ballots in their polling places. Two calls came in letting us know that a radio station in the area has picked up this story as well. If you know anything about it, please contact Obama HQ and ask for the legal staff. This is a priority, so they will transfer you over to a legal volunteer right away.

Source: electionjournal.org via politisite

3:28 pm - Due to Black polling stations turning away Hispanics who can't speak English the USDJ will monitor these polling stations that had problems last voting cycle.  The Clinton campaign made this request as she gets more of the Hispanic vote

Justice Department to Monitor Election in Pennsylvania

The Justice Department announced today that on April 22, 2008, it will monitor the presidential primary election in the Philadelphia, Pa., to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws. In April 2007, the Justice Department reached a settlement agreement with Philadelphia related to allegations that the city had violated the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). (Read more)

Source: usdoj.gov via politisite

3:20 pm - Our source in Philadelphia says that undecided voters who made a decision within the last 24 hours are splitting 6-4 For Clinton

Pennsylvania Political History

In the 1980s, prosperous eastern Pennsylvania trended Republican and ailing western Pennsylvania trended Democratic. In the 1990s, culturally liberal eastern Pennsylvania trended Democratic and culturally conservative western Pennsylvania trended Republican. The east is larger--metro Philadelphia cast 33% of the state's votes in 2004 and metro Pittsburgh 20%--and the state has mostly gone its way:

Pennsylvania voted Republican for president in 1980, 1984 and 1988 and Democratic in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Metro Philadelphia, which voted 50%-49% for Michael Dukakis in 1988, voted 59%-41% for John Kerry in 2004. Metro Pittsburgh, which voted 59%-40% for Dukakis, gave Kerry only a 52%-48% margin. In 1988, the senior George Bush carried Pennsylvania east of the first mountain ridge by 53%-46%, but lost the state west of the first ridge 48%-51%. In 2004, the regions were the other way around.

George W. Bush lost Pennsylvania east of the first mountain ridge 44%-56% but carried west of the first ridge 53%-46%. These countervailing trends can best be explained by attitudes on cultural issues. Metro Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania are like the rest of the Northeast, liberal on issues like gun control and abortion; content with the economy, voters here moved toward Clinton-Gore Democrats in the 1990s. Pennsylvania west of the first mountain ridge, however, is full of strong-belief Catholics and Protestants and hunters who do not want their guns taken away. Relieved of economic stress, voters here moved toward Republicans in the 1990s.

Source: election.nationaljournal.com via politisite

 

President of the United States
Democratic Primary

 

Candidate	Votes	Percent
CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)	0	0.0%
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)	0	0.0%

Republican Primary

 

Candidate	Votes	Percent
HUCKABEE, MIKE (REP)	0	0.0%
MCCAIN, JOHN (REP)	0	0.0%
PAUL, RON (REP)	0	0.0%
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Source: electionreturns.state.pa.us via politisite

1:58 pm -some turned away due to language barrier

Voter was turned away from polling place in Chinatown and told to go to another polling place which he does not think has a Chinese language interpreter. Poll monitor calling this in said that two other voters have been turned away from the same polling place.

Source: supertuesdayblog.wordpress.com via politisite

1:52 pm - Bill Clinton on WHYY interview uses foul language as he hangs up.  Listen closely to the end of the interview.  We have all heard of the Clinton Foul Mouths.  In many books on Hillary and secret service workers she would say things like, you stay the !@#$ back 10 feet!  Bill must have the potty mouth as well as he gets heated AGAIN over his statements in SC.

1:44 pm - Politisite - you will see the MSM talk about Hillary's fate today.  That PA could be her stopping point.  Understand this is media hype to grab the audience into the stories.  You ever watch deal or no deal?  The big answer will come... when we come back.  Same idea.  The word in the Clinton Camp is that she is going no where no matter the outcome.  She is putting her bets on the Dean 25 in the credentials committee at the convention.  Politisite will be at the DNCC to report live the results of that issue.

1:41 pm -

The Numbers Game
2 million voters expected
300,000 new voters, 80% are college kids and Urban/Suburban Philly (AA vote)

SUSA Poll 750 voters polled factoring in media expectations
Clinton 50
Obama 44
102,000 undecided

2 million expected
If undecideds go 60/40 to Clinton
If new voters go 60/40 Obama (conservative estimate)
Clinton 52% (wins by 62,400 votes)
Obama 48%
Margin 4%

2 million expected
If undecideds split 50/50
If new Voters go 60/40 Obama (conservative estimate)
Clinton 51% (wins by 42,000 votes)
Obama 49%
Margin 2%

2 million expected
If undecideds go 60/40 to Obama
If new voters go 60/40 Obama (conservative estimate)
Clinton 51% (wins by 21,600 votes)
Obama 49%
Margin 2%

Average
Clinton: 51% (wins by 42,000 votes)
Obama: 49%
Margin: 3%

NOW if there is historic turnout Obama will win PA. Alright folks, that’s the story.

Source: rightpundits.com via politisite

Here is our first Exit poll data from Philadelphia

1:37 pm -

Pennsylvania exit poll data (Democrat):

(Updated throughout the day)

Update: Latest information trending slightly in Clinton’s direction, not withstanding the bogus PPP poll, which is a biased Democrat poll with unknown intentions. Hillary appears to be coming on strong on election day.

My source just confirmed their belief that HRC will win today by 7 to 9 points. He believes that the new voter registration issue is being over played in Obama’s favor. They claim to have signed up many new voters although I am not certain if I believe him on this point. Here is a good article from KYW News Radio explaining why PPP’s polling was so favorable towards Obama.

Source: rightpundits.com via politisite

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Politisite Political Projections: Pennsylvania is key

Politisite Political Projections : Pennsylvania

Web Posted on April 21, 2008

By Albert N. Milliron, Chief Political Correspondent,

Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc / Politisite.com

Politisite uses a Trending / Momentum Model in determining possible outcomes of elections.

Trends: One or two data points doesn’t make a trend. The trend is your Friend and should always be used in analysis of possible outcomes. Had pollsters considered trending in New Hampshire, they probably would have had the numbers correctly. The problem is that they use data that is a day or two old and they give percentages based on the numbers. Trend lines are not used. Real Clear Politics has trend lines below the polls so one can see how the candidates are moving. You can also use these graphs to gauge where a candidate will be on election day. When I invest in the stock market trend lines are part of what I use. I like momentum. It is very difficult to stop a rolling train. When things are in motion, they will continue to stay in motion unless there is proper resistance. This can be immediate resistance which takes more power (a Major News Story) or gradient resistance which causes things to stop, like a rolling ball.

The Polls Trends  from Pennsylvannia

 

Figure 1. Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Polling / Graphs by Politisite.com

 

03/12 - 03/12	697 LV	51	38	Clinton +13.0
02/26 - 02/26	820 LV	46	42	Clinton +4.0
03/05 - 03/05	690 LV	52	37	Clinton +15.0
04/20 - 04/20	722 LV	49	44	Clinton +5.0
04/17 - 04/17	730 LV	47	44	Clinton +3.0
04/14 - 04/14	741 LV	50	41	Clinton +9.0
03/31 - 03/31	730 LV	47	42	Clinton +5.0
03/24 - 03/24	690 LV	49	39	Clinton +10.0
04/07 - 04/07	695 LV	48	43	Clinton +5.0

 

Figure 2. Rasmussen Pennsylvania Polling / Graphs by Politisite.com

 

03/07 - 03/09	600 LV	56	38	Clinton +18.0
07/06 - 07/08	LV	36	25	Clinton +11.0
03/28 - 03/31	504 LV	49	41	Clinton +8.0
09/28 - 09/30	LV	42	24	Clinton +18.0
03/16 - 03/18	LV	35	25	Clinton +10.0
04/13 - 04/15	LV	33	23	Clinton +10.0
04/18 - 04/20	LV	48	41	Clinton +7.0
04/11 - 04/13	576 LV	49	40	Clinton +9.0
04/04 - 04/06	LV	47	42	Clinton +5.0

 

 Figure 3. Stategic Vision Pennsylvania Polling / Graphs by Politisite.com

 

04/18 - 04/20	710 LV	50	44	Clinton +6.0
03/29 - 03/31	588 LV	53	41	Clinton +12.0
04/05 - 04/07	597 LV	56	38	Clinton +18.0
03/08 - 03/10	608 LV	55	36	Clinton +19.0
04/12 - 04/14	638 LV	54	40	Clinton +14.0

 

Figure 4. SurvetUSA Pennsylvania Polling

 

04/09 - 04/10	1,002 LV	47	43	Clinton +4.0
04/19 - 04/20	602 LV	48	42	Clinton +6.0
04/17 - 04/18	608 LV	47	42	Clinton +5.0
04/16 - 04/17	602 LV	47	43	Clinton +4.0
04/18 - 04/19	607 LV	46	43	Clinton +3.0
04/15 - 04/16	601 LV	45	44	Clinton +1.0

                                       Figure 5. Zogby Pennsylvania Polling 

 

  Conclusion: 

Polls track Senator Clinton Lower than she produces in final results.  Senator Obama tracks higher than he produces in final results.  Real Clear Politics has Hillary Clinton winning by 5.7% .  Obama has produced some real negitives during this campaign cycle.  Politisite projects Senator Clinton to win by 8-12 percentage points.  Hilliary Clinton will not drop out of the race and will win by 54%-46% on the high side which is most probable 56%- 44%

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Pennsylvania Primary Prediction Time!

 The day Fixistas around the country -- if not the world -- have been waiting for has finally come.

No, not the Pennsylvania primary -- although that is today. We're talking about the arrival of the official Fix t-shirt at the offices of washingtonpost.com. If you've already won one of our primary (or caucus) prediction contests, look for the t-shirt in your mailbox over the next few days. If you want to buy one of the coveted shirts, stay tuned as we are still figuring out how to make that happen.

If you are neither a past winner nor the kind of person who pays for t-shirts -- even those as devastatingly cool as this one -- then this post is for you.

We're looking for the candidates' order of finish and percentage of the vote from today's Pennsylvania Democratic primary election between  Barack Obama and  Hillary Rodham Clinton. And, we also want a prediction on the dominant storyline coming out of the contest.

We'll award a Fix t-shirt to the person (or persons) who comes closest to predicting the final outcome and to the individual who most accurately describes the post-Pennsylvania media narrative.

For your pick to count, you MUST register it in the comments section by 8 p.m., when polls officially close in Pennsylvania. Picks e-mailed to The Fix will not be eligible.

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com via politisite

Obama - 45%
Clinton - 54%
Other - 1%

"Senator Clinton Wins, Feels Need to Torture Us Further"

Posted by: Kev | April 22, 2008 11:49 AM

Clinton 58
Obama 42

Clinton blows out Obama, but still quite far behind in the delegate count.

Posted by: Brian Adams | April 22, 2008 11:50 AM

Obama - 51%
HRC - 49%

Pressure For HRC to End Run.
Obama Over The Top w/ Superdelegates!

Let us pray...

Posted by: steve nc | April 22, 2008 11:50 AM

yes steve..Let us pray...god certainly is on Obama's side..

Posted by: | April 22, 2008 11:53 AM

Clinton - 55
Obama - 44

Storyline: Big Victory for Clinton, but it probably won't be enough. Campaign moves onto last stand in Indiana.

Posted by: Kristin | April 22, 2008 11:55 AM

PA:

Clintn 49.7%
Obama 49.2%

Clinton edges out Obama, but the race is written up as an essential draw. Pundits argue that Clinton's window of opportunity is closed, and the calls for her to drop out begin.

Posted by: faberman.jason | April 22, 2008 11:59 AM

Politisite Political Projections

Polls track Senator Clinton Lower than she produces in final results. Senator Obama tracks higher than he produces in final results. Real Clear Politics has Hillary Clinton winning by 5.7% . Obama has produced some real negitives during this campaign cycle. Politisite projects Senator Clinton to win by 8-12 percentage points. Hilliary Clinton wins by 54-56% to Obama's 42-44%

Posted by: Albert N. Milliron | April 22, 2008 12:01 PM

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com via politisite

April 21, 2008

Final Update: Pennsylvania by Race, Education & Gender

On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, here is one last update on the results by race, education and gender and measured by the Quinnipiac University surveys (and kindly shared with us courtesy of Quinnipiac polling director Doug Schwartz).

I have followed these results over the last several weeks for the same reason that ABC News polling director Gary Langer lists education at the top of his column today on "groups to watch" in Pennsylvania:

It’s hard see a single factor more compelling than socioeconomic status, particularly as defined by education. It’s split the Democratic electorate nearly all year, and as with her past victories, it’s what Hillary Clinton will be counting on tomorrow.

Years of education also split the Democratic electorate in past elections, such as 2000, 1992 and 1984, and survey researchers have known for decades that it has been one of the strongest predictors of racial tolerance. Yet amazingly, as per my post earlier today, at least seven of the Pennsylvania pollsters have released surveys that fail to ask or report any measure of income or education. Consider that omission when thinking about which polls to trust.

But I digress. Back to Langer's point about education:

Across primaries to date Obama’s won college graduates by 52-43 percent, while Clinton’s won less-educated voters by a very similar 52-42. The picture sharpens among whites only (there’s no difference by education among blacks): White college graduates have split 47-47 percent, while those with no college degree have gone 2-1 for Clinton, 60-31 percent.

The proportion of college-to-non-college voters isn’t always critical – Obama cruised among both groups in Wisconsin – but it’s mattered more often than not. Last month, in economically stressed Ohio, less-educated voters were in great supply (just 38 percent of white voters were college graduates, compared with an average of 52 percent across all primaries to date) and that helped Clinton immeasurably: She won less-educated whites by 71-27 percent, while her edge among white college graduates was just 52-45 percent.

The numbers that Langer cites above are from exit polls. In Ohio, the final Quinnipiac poll before the primary showed Clinton leading by a six-point margin (50% to 44%) among college educated whites and by more than 30 points (63% to 31%0 among non-college educated whites. Compare that to the numbers below, which include results from the latest Quinnipiac Pennsylvania survey released this morning.

Source: pollster.com via politisite

Democratic Presidential Primary

Obama: Obama made a serious misstep with his remark that small-town voters in Pennsylvania "cling" to guns, protectionism, bigotry, and religion "as a way to explain their frustrations."

1. The comment damages Obama because it so perfectly fits the Obama stereotype. Obama is a Harvard-educated liberal with a mostly wealthy liberal base. The candidate of Jackson Hole, Boulder, Fairfax, and Connecticut, he has struggled to connect with working-class voters. The venue-- a fundraiser in San Francisco--is icing on the cake.

2. Clinton's attack on this line has been fair on the point that this perpetuates the perception of Democrats as anti-gun, anti-religion, wealthy elites. The loss of the God and guns vote explains the GOP takeover of the South in the past decade.

3. His inclusion of immigration and trade in the comments are also telling. Elites in both parties have long favored open borders and free trade (globalization), while popular sentiment tends to favor immigration and trade restrictions (protectionism). Obama and Clinton have both been trying to walk fine lines on these issues, and Obama's comments stir the pot.

4. Obama's comments, while reflecting condescension and poor political sense, also reflect some truth. NAFTA and Mexican immigrants are the culprits of first resort for laid-off Midwest workers, who also tend to be negative about the economy. Tying their gun-ownership and faith to this "bitterness" and "frustration" is simply ignorant and offensive.

5. Hillary's aggressive exploitation of this comment contrasts her passive response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright videos, letting Republicans and the news media do the attacking for her. The Wright flap damaged Obama, but he seemed to recover, as far as the race for President is concerned. This time, she is attacking, airing television ads in Pennsylvania about the comments.

6. The more acute question is whether this could help swing the nomination to Clinton. It could. The comments hurt Obama in Pennsylvania, and could pad Clinton's margin of victory there.

7. The incident, by contrast, brings to light how skilled a politician Obama is. To get to this point--the brink of the nomination--he has had to walk a very fine line. Obama has appealed to hard-core liberals without sounding the bitter tones of the anti-war, anti-Bush protestors, and (until now) not showing disdain for middle-Americans.

 

Clinton: Clinton is still the underdog, but she shows no signs of giving up. As long as she has a small chance of winning the nomination, she will keep fighting.

1. Her strongest chance is to win the nation-wide popular vote--a difficult feat that requires a big victory in Pennsylvania next week. If she gets more votes nationwide than Obama, she has as strong an argument to super-delegates as Obama does.

2. On the score of persuading super-delegates, Clinton has some serious advantages over Obama. First, being a former first-lady and professional dealer in patronage, she will be stronger at offering sweet deals and making believable threats. Second, the Wright and "bitter" flaps have strengthened her case that Obama is less electable than she.

3. Her "firing" of strategist Mark Penn was no such thing, it appears. The campaign has spread word that pollster Geoff Garin, renowned among Democrats as an ethical operator, is now the chief strategist. Garin's role may certainly be overemphasized as a mask for Penn's continued involvement, which the campaign wants to downplay after his active involvement in the Colombia Free Trade Agreement was revealed.

4. Central to this situation is the huge debts her campaign owes Penn's polling firm. One close source posits she owes the firm $10 million. If the debt is not repaid, is this an illegal campaign contribution? Because the firm is ultimately owned by a British company, is this an illegal foreign contribution? March campaign reports show that she owes nearly 2.5 million to Penn's company.

5. In the Gallup tracking poll, Clinton hit her all-time low Tuesday, posting 40% support to Obama's 51%. This is a national poll, and so it has little direct bearing on the nomination battle, but it makes a Clinton comeback looks still not difficult.

6. The talk of an Obama comeback in Pennsylvania is premature. The only poll showing the race close (Bloomberg/LA Times) is of registered voters. The likely voter polls show 9-to-14 point leads for Hillary.

7. It's a similar story in Indiana: Clinton leads by double digits in a poll of 571 likely voters, while Obama leads in the Bloomberg/LA Times of registered voters. Clinton is still the heavy favorite in both of these states

Source Evans-Novak

 

Pennsylvania Pollster Comparison Update

Judge for yourself.

Cross posted at PoliticalArithmetik.com. See also previous pollster comparison post for Pennsylvania.

-- Charles Franklin

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Day Before Pennsylvania Sensitivity Update

The Pennsylvania race has turned slightly toward Clinton over the weekend, with her lead now at an even 6 points in our standard trend estimate. If you believe in taking more chances with random noise, the sensitive estimator has a 6.4 point Clinton lead.

In the rush of new polling over the weekend, it is also good to check how much any of them may be affecting our estimates.

Dropping any single pollster makes only a bit of different to our estimates. The Clinton trend ranges from 48.5% to 49.6%, while Obama ranges from 42.6% to 43.5%. So dropping your least favorite pollster can, at most, account for the difference in a 5 point race and a 7 point one.

And note that we still have about 9 percent undecided. I wonder what they will do?

-- Charles Franklin

POLL: Rasmussen Pennsylvania Dems 4/20

Rasmussen Reports

Pennsylvania
n=722 likely Democratic primary voters, fielded 4/20
Clinton 49%, Obama 44%

-- Mark Blumenthal

POLL: SurveyUSA Pennsylvania Dems

SurveyUSA - WCAU-TV Philadelphia, KDKA-TV Pittsburgh, WHP-TV Harrisburg, and WNEP-TV Scranton.

Pennsylvania 4/18 through 4/20, n=1,800 adults, n=710 likely Democratic primary voters
Clinton 50, Obama 44

Source: pollster.com via politisite

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'Convention 101' Goes Online at DemConvention.com

'Convention 101' Goes Online at DemConvention.com

April 21, 2008

New Online Content Detailing Rules and Mechanics of the Nomination Process to Serve as Go-To Resource for Information on Party Business at Core of Convention

DENVER - The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today launched "Convention 101," a series of new web pages at DemConvention.com detailing the rules and mechanics governing the Democratic Party's nomination process. The extensive online content also includes an inside look at much of the Party business conducted at each and every Democratic National Convention. The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held August 25-28, 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo.

"Not only will our Convention be technically flawless, but the rules and Party business conducted in the lead-up to and during Convention week will be open, orderly and credible," said Leah D. Daughtry, CEO of the DNCC. "DemConvention.com will be a tremendous resource for those interested in the significant amount of Party business that sits at the core of every Convention. I think this new content makes clear our goal is to run this Convention as a well-oiled machine, while producing an engaging celebration of the strength of the Democratic Party, the diversity we embrace, the values we share and the change we will accomplish on behalf of the American people."

Laid out as a series of educational lessons, "Convention 101" includes information on the extensive planning process that takes place in advance of the Convention and what happens and when during the four-day event.

The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be the culmination of more than two years of formal planning by the Democratic Party to structure a nominating cycle and nominating Convention representing the Party's principles, values and diversity. The planning process, including the role of the prestigious Standing Committees, is now outlined in detail under "Lesson 1: Convention Lead-Up"  on the site. As Convention participants are certified by Alice Germond, Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, the names of each participant to the 2008 Convention will be posted to this section of the site. This section will also indicate the presidential candidate to whom pledged delegates are pledged.

Convention week itself is explained under "Lesson 2: At the Convention"  and includes a typical day in the life of a delegate, how and when pledged and unpledged delegates cast their votes and the role alternate delegates play in the event. The section also outlines the requirements necessary to secure the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Additional features, listed under "Extra Credit,"   include a glossary, a "Convention by the Numbers" fact sheet and an interactive feature, "Ask Phil." There, users can submit inquiries on the mechanics, rules and processes governing the Convention. Each week, Phil McNamara, Director of Party Affairs and Delegate Selection, will select one question to answer and post on the site.

The Democratic National Convention is expected to pump an estimated $160 million into the Denver area's economy and draw as many as of 50,000 visitors to the region.

Source: demconvention.com via politisite

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WWE `Monday Night Raw Politics' Clinton, Obama and McCain Tonight

A smackdown among presidential candidates?

Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain will appear on World Wrestling Entertainment's live "Monday Night Raw" (8-11 p.m. EST on cable's USA network) but instead of smacking each other down, they separately will deliver some wrestling-themed stumping in taped messages before Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.

"Tonight, in honor of the WWE, you can call me Hillrod," Clinton says in her message. "This election is starting to feel a lot like `King of the Ring.' The only difference? The last man standing may just be a woman."

Obama borrows The Rock's famous catchphrase during his appearance.

"To the special interests who've been setting the agenda in Washington for too long and to all the forces of division and distraction that has stopped us from making progress, for the American people, I've got one question: Do you smell what Barack is cooking?" Obama says before flashing a smile.

McCain, meanwhile, looked to Hulkamania for inspiration for his message.

"Looks like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to celebrate their differences in the ring," McCain says. "Well, that's fine with me, but let me tell you: If you want to be the man, you have to beat the man. Come November, it'll be game over. And whatcha gonna do when John McCain and all his McCainiacs run wild on you?"

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Ryan Schallenberger, 18, called his plot "Columbine III" and laid out details in a "bomb summary" that described the different types of explosives he would use in the suicide attack. He even recorded his expenses.

"I think he was more concerned about a high body count than killing anyone in particular," Chesterfield Police Chief Randall Lear told ABC News.

Schallenberger's "summary" contained details for a nail bomb.

"Inside a school, with confined concrete walls, just a little bit of nails, nuts and bolts, ball bearings and some of these explosives devices, it would devastate the student body," Lear said.

Authorities arrested Schallenberger on Saturday after a package arrived at his family's rural South Carolina home and his parents opened it to find 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a substance that can be used as an explosive when combined with diesel fuel or another accelerant.

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