Hot Air blog is following the arraignment of two high-ranking members of the Michigan Democratic Party in a bogus tea party tea party scheme. The two are Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer.
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They are charged with fraudulently placing several candidates on the ballot without their participation which is illegal. In addition to the election fraud charges and forgery, Bauer is also charged with three counts of notary public violation. He allegedly notarized several of the fake candidate filings. The purpose of running false candidates is to pull votes from the opposition.
The grand jury returned the indictments after a three month investigation.
Both resigned in August after allegations arose. Several months ago, Bauer was suspended from the Oakland Democratic Party after it surfaced that he encouraged interns to write bogus "help me" letters from nonexistent residents in support of a medical program backed by a Democratic commissioner.
The prosecutor in the election fraud case. who is a Democrat, said a scheme was devised by a party leader in Lansing to put people on the ballot on the Tea Party ticket. That in itself isn't illegal.
"A [Detroit} Free Press investigation found that Bauer ultimately notarized petitions for a dozen tea party candidates statewide." (Citizen-Times is a USA Today publication)
Salon reports that McGuinness was a liberal blogger. They point to this announcement of his 2008 appointment as Chairman of the Oakland Democrat party where McGuinness is described as a 23-year-old progressive blogger who had worked on several campaigns. "Before that he was president of Oakland University’s 17,000-person student body. He resigned and left school during his second term as president to work for the Democratic Party."
The blog is at MichiganLiberal.com where McGuinness topped a Victory Together slate to lead young Democrats. While he ran as president, his vice president was an organizer with SEIU.
The BlogProf blogged in 2009 on a hit piece that ran in Detroit Free Press article that lambasted the Oakland County Executive who is a Republican. The article is here. You have to read to the very end of page 2 to see he was chairman of the Oakland Democrat party.
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