{"id":15050,"date":"2012-08-09T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:01:54","slug":"using-taxpayer-money-to-support-democrat-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15050","title":{"rendered":"Using Taxpayer Money To Support Democrat Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Howie Carr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howiecarr.com\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Howie Carr<\/a> posted a story today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/columnists\/view\/20220809whats_well_or_fair_about_this_one_liz\/srvc=home&amp;position=1\">Boston Herald<\/a> about the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter registration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_registration\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">voter registration<\/a> forms that are being sent out with welfare checks in Massachusetts. What is being done in Massachusetts may be technically legal, but it definitely does not pass the smell test.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view\/20220808elizabeth_warrens_daughter_chairs_group_that_filed_welfare_vote_suit\/srvc=home&amp;position=also\">Boston Herald<\/a> reported yesterday that the group behind the plan to send out voter registration forms with welfare checks is headed by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/index.html?id=82\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a>&#8216;s daughter. Elizabeth Warren is the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat<\/a> candidate running against <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republican<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scott Brown\" href=\"http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Scott Brown<\/a>. This little exercise in democracy will cost the Massachusetts taxpayers $275,844. A letter and a voter registration form is being sent with every welfare check issued in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The article in yesterday&#8217;s Boston Herald reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Demos, a group founded in the late 1990s to counter conservative think tanks, also counts <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> as a founding board member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Herald reported today that the group recently forced the Bay State to send out nearly 500,000 voter registration cards to those on welfare at a cost of $276,000. Demos also has sued nine states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Louisiana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.3,-71.8&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=42.3,-71.8%20%28Massachusetts%29&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">The Bay State<\/a> lawsuit, filed in conjunction with the ACORN offshoot New England United for Justice, comes as Warren faces a tight battle with Brown in a nationally-watched battle that could decide which Party controls the Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Brown said he supports allowing all legal voters to register, but said officials shouldn\u2019t do so with taxpayer dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note the ACORN connection. Unless all of us learn to fight for the integrity of our elections, these people are not going to go away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7018a17f-a374-42fa-b52b-6c9d32952bfc\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Carr posted a story today in the Boston Herald about the voter registration forms that are being sent out with welfare checks in Massachusetts. What is being done in Massachusetts may be technically legal, but it definitely does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,97,295,583,296,142,365,582,3568],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acorn","tag-barack-obama","tag-boston-herald","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-howie-carr","tag-massachusetts","tag-republicans","tag-scott-brown","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}