Don Siegelman Speaks! Part 1

[orleans]

Run time: 09:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqcU5zOPSg   Posted on YouTube: December 17, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 18, 2007 By DU Member: orleans Views on DU: 1056

 

Here is some amazing video: a very candid interview with Don Siegelman, who spoke to Julie Sigwart of Take Back the Media on Sept. 13, 2004--months before the Governor was finally put away on trumped-up charges by the Alabama GOP.

As he himself makes clear, Siegelman's ordeal began back in 2000, when he came out early on, and publicly, against the presidential bid of his fellow governor, George W. Bush, and backed Al Gore instead. It was a move that Karl Rove never did forget, and never would forgive, says Siegelman.

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[lovuian]

1. this is an amazing tale

[demobabe]

2. This is half of the video

There is a part II... don't know if anybody has posted yet.

[diva77]

3. knr #5 What is latest with Siegelman?

[demobabe]

8. He's in prison, working as a janitor

They won't let him be interviewed by the media. That's why I released this video interview I did in 2004.

[diva77]

5. Part II at this link

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2007/12/siegelman-speaks-ex-gov-calls-02.html

[orleans]

6. link to part 2--i just put it up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x76995

[diva77]

4. ES&S tabulator used in Baldwin County in Nov. 2002 race

http://www.votersunite.org/info/content/mess-up_082304.asp

Voting Machine Mess-up Du Jour (Displayed 08/23/04)
Baldwin County, Alabama. November, 2002. ES&S.
Optical scan data packs malfunction.
Tabulation machine initially handed the gubernatorial election to the wrong candidate.*

Initial, unofficial results from Baldwin County showed that Democrat Don Siegelman garnered about 19,070 votes in the county, enough to give him a razor-thin victory over Republican challenger Bob Riley. The next morning, however, officials said those totals were inaccurate and certified returns giving Siegelman about 6,300 fewer votes -- enough to swing the election to Riley.
... Officials have traced the problem to a data pack from the Magnolia Springs voting location. They said the vote-counting machine there printed out accurate results when the polls closed at 7 p.m. But they said the cartridge, which resembles an eight-track cassette, gave bogus figures when it was plugged into the computer in Bay Minette.

... Kelley said a power surge at the precinct, static electricity or something else may have caused the glitch. He said technical experts at the company's computer lab in Rockford, Ill., may be able to determine the reason.

...He noted that at least three other counties experienced similar glitches on election night. But officials in Madison, Etowah and Barbour counties discovered and corrected the errors, in some cases by manually typing in vote totals.

* Voting snafu answers elusive. The Mobile Register. 28 Jan 2003. by Brendan Kirby, staff writer. Confirmed by VotersUnite! with Sharon Jerkins in the Baldwin County Elections office.

[rusty quoin]

7. Siegelman: "Come back and fight another day."

The Justice Department took care of him. The corruption saturates one so much, that you don't know what direction to fight. I believe that was planned.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. How incredibly bold these crooked Republifuck election officials are...

...Until this sort of shit starts resulting in indictments, convictions, and lengthy prison sentences it is NOT going to stop.

[wundermaus]

10. Thank You!

Thank you so much for Posting this! A Very Important Interview.

[jph wacheski]

11. whats good for the goose,. !

if the repugs can get away with this,. then why can't the dems prosecute the current crimes of the Cheney Junta? Seven years in prison for questionably doing things that the Cheney Repugs do as a matter of course, out in the open, publicly,. where is the justice?

Well at least this proves that what they do IS criminal and can lead to jail time,. so lets see some prosecutions of these bastards for they too many crimes to list,. election rigging, torture, lies to wars, fraud, theft, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, . . . .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. I don;t get this. If they broke to Ala election laws - isn't there something

the federal judiciary or FEC or FBI can do?????

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. 60 Minutes (the version I grew up with) Where are YOU????nt