Reply #11: What are they doing firing somebody because he was CHARGED with

[Peace Patriot]

something? ANYBODY can be charged with breaking a law! That's ridiculous! And an insurance claim? Come on.

I'm inclined to agree with Bluestateguy. This smells like COINTELPRO. This is very similar to how they got rid of CA Sec of State Kevin Shelley, who had sued Diebold and decertified the worst of their election theft machines prior to the 2004 election. He was soon hit with a bunch of phony and substanceless charges, in a foul campaign led by the SF Chronicle. One of the charges was "misuse of HAVA (federal election) funds." What was really going on? He withheld the funds from counties where corrupt election officials had committed to buy crap-ass voting machines. He has been completely cleared of all charges (including campaign violations) by the CA Attorney General. Upshot: Shelley had no personal money (tells you something about Shelley), and no legal defense fund. The cowardly new Dem state leadership in the legislature abandoned him. And Bush Feds at the EAC (Fed electronic voting boondoggle commission) were threatening a long, drawn out fishing expedition, looking for any dirt they could find--so he resigned. I suspect that the "campaign violations" part was black ops. Shelley was clean as a whistle. He forbade "revolving door" employment in his office (election officials going to work for electronic voting companies), and was a tough, vigilant protector of the voters' rights.

The whole thing stank to high heaven. I haven't seen anything this dirty in California since the fascists took down CA Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Byrd in the 1970s (she was anti-capital punishment). We lost one of the last honest election officials in the country. They took Shelley down because he sued Diebold (electronic voting company whose CEO Wally O'Dell is a big Bushite, chair of Bush/Cheney campaign in Ohio*).

And THIS stinks to high heaven. I hope Mike Webb fights back!

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*(Yup, that's whose counting all our votes with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls. The other is ES&S, brethren to Diebold, initially funded by far rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson. These two Bushite corporations tabulated 80% of the votes in 2004.)