GOPers are sending out goons to go door to door threatening voters registered as Dems?

[Robbien]

Bojorquez said that her mother yesterday received a visit from a man who asked for her personal information, including an ID, in reference to her eligibility to vote. Bojorquez told TPMmuckraker that according to her mother, at one point the man asked what she would do if immigration authorities contacted her.

After Bojorquez's mother, frightened, refused to let him in the door, the man waited outside her house. Eventually, Bojorquez's brother arrived at the house, emboldening Bojorquez's mother to go outside, call Bojorquez, and put her on the phone with the man.

Bojorquez said the man told her he wanted to make sure her mother knew that she shouldn't be voting, and continued to ask for her mother's personal information. When Bojorquez said that no information would be handed over unless the man revealed who he was employed by, he said he was a private investigator hired by Pat Rogers. He told Bojorquez his name was Al Romero, and left a number at which Bojorquez could contact him.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Marshall's muckraker site lists other examples of this happening in New Mexico by this guy.

These GOPers are really pulling out all the stops in their efforts to suppress the vote.

[Beregond2]

1. They really do want this to become a banana republic.

[babylonsister]

2. It's being handled...already!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4304417&mesg_id=4304417

[Robbien]

7. Sorry, didn't see your thread

Probably was just blinded by the audacity of what was happening.

Glad to see these things are being caught and action being taken.

[babylonsister]

11. Don't be sorry! I just wanted to continue the story. nt

[Tigress DEM]

9. But THIS AG is NOT sympathetic. He is rabid about "illegal aliens" SEE his statement.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nm/pr/2008/c_d_baldwin/baldwin_carl_dean_plea_pr.pdf

STATEMENT OF U.S. ATTORNEY GREG FOURATT
ON GUILTY PLEA OF CARL BALDWIN
UNITED STATES v. CARL DEAN BALDWIN, CR 07-2240 JB


<snip>

This case should send this strong and unmistakable signal to New Mexico employers: if you hire illegal aliens and assist them in possessing bogus identification to give them the air of legitimacy, you will be criminally prosecuted. Employers should consider themselves now on notice that following the path chosen by Mr. Baldwin risks their freedom, their companies’ continued existence, and the livelihoods of the rest of their legitimate employees who have committed no crime at all. Worksite enforcement is a top priority of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is here to stay.

This case was the culmination of a years-long and determined investigation by agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Luis Martinez and Stephen Wong.

[babylonsister]

12. OK, that's troublesome. nt

[Tigress DEM]

18. Is THIS a NM October Surprise? DEM found guilty of corruption... AGAIN?!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1497746

Former NM senator pleads guilty in corruption case
October 15, 2008 - 1:43pm

By TIM KORTE
Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A once powerful New Mexico politician, former Sen. Manny Aragon, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and mail fraud in a corruption case centered on construction of a courthouse



http://www.joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_joemonahansnewmexico_archive.html

Friday, March 30, 2007

Our Beleagured Political Legends: A Lawyered Up Pete And Now An Indicted Manny; Complete Coverage, Plus: Senate Gets To Work, And: Sadie's Lament

Manny Aragon
First, Senator Pete Domenici hires a criminal defense lawyer. Now, former NM Senate leader Manny Aragon is indicted by the feds and charged with stealing $700,000 in connection with the construction of the ABQ Metro Court. Being a political legend just isn't what it used to be.

<SNIP>

THE REACTION

As for the aforementioned political fallout, most observers I talked with did not think the charges, so widely expected, would do much to take the heat off Domenici or ABQ GOP Congresswoman Heather Wilson who are embroiled in the U.S. Attorney scandal because of phone calls they made to then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias; phone calls he said were made to pressure him to speed up the Aragon indictment, but which they say were innocent inquiries.

[Tigress DEM]

3. The TERRORISTS are attacking America AGAIN!

The scum within the border who think the government belongs to only the White Man are the worst terrorists of all. After all they've had 100's of years of practise.

[NeedleCast]

4. Why do they never come to my door ?

[proud patriot]

5. I was just thinking the same thing

:mad: :grr:

[cui bono]

15. They don't like needles?

:shrug:

[NeedleCast]

19. Well, that's understandable

I hate needles. Want to make a 260 pound Army veteran with a combat tour cry?

Pull out a syringe and watch me pass out.

[lonestarnot]

16. Or mine? Motherfuckers!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Yikes.

[man4allcats]

8. Boy I'd love to get that knock on MY door!

They'd be wishing they hadn't!

[Greybnk48]

10. That was my first thought. I can have my front garden hose up

and squirting within seconds, so bring it on.

[lonestarnot]

17. OMG RMAOTFLIO (ROLL MY ASS ON THE FLOOR AND LAUGH IT OFF!

TOO DAMN FUNNY!

[man4allcats]

25. I like it.

Just drown the fools! :thumbsup:

[Tigress DEM]

13. He does have the "verbage" and life lines for disenfranchised too.

http://www.scsun-news.com/news/ci_10790683

un-News Report
Article Launched: 10/23/2008 12:38:55 AM MDT


LAS CRUCES — Stephen R. Kotz, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico, was appointed Tuesday to serve as the district election officer for the Nov. 4 general elections.


<snip>

"Election fraud and voting rights abuses dilute the worth of votes honestly cast," U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Fouratt said. "They also corrupt the essence of our representative form of government. As crimes against both the individual and government, they will be dealt with promptly and aggressively. Anyone who has information concerning electoral corruption or voting rights abuses should make that information available immediately to my office, the FBI, or the Civil Rights Division."

Kotz will be on duty in the New Mexico district while the polls are open. He can be reached by telephone at [phone].

Also, the Federal Bureau of Investigations will have special agents from its Albuquerque field office available to receive allegations of election fraud, intimidation, suppression and other election abuses.

The FBI's election complaint coordinator can be reached at [phone].

Complaints about ballot access problems, or discrimination, can be made to the Civil Rights Division at [phone], or at [phone].

Allegations of voter intimidation or suppression tactics based on race, color, religion, or national origin can be made by calling [phone].

[Tigress DEM]

22. Allegations of voter intimidation or suppression tactics [phone].

[Juche]

14. Please come to my door

And please try to force your way in w/o my consent. Scummy fascist fucks.

[starroute]

20. Pat Rogers? He was part of the US Attorney scandal -- and more

I posted about him the other day -- can't find that post now, so here's a reprise. The American Center for Voting Reform was the first of the "voter fraud" astroturf groups, founded immediately after the 2004 election by former RNC communications director Jim Dyke (whose deputy at the RNC, Tim Griffin, was also knee-deep in Rove plots and the attorney scandal.) If Rogers is hiring goons in New Mexico now, that's getting *really* creepy.

http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/2007/05/lead_story_in_l.html

Rogers and Barnett Work the Rove Strategy

Now evidence is mounting that local Repub political operatives Pat Rogers and Mickey Barnett were, in essence, part of an organized effort in New Mexico to pressure Iglesias to help carry out Rove's strategy. ...

Albuquerque attorney Patrick Rogers served on the board of the American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund, which has ties to The Donatelli group involved in the Swiftboat plot during the 2004 election. He testified about "voter fraud" and the need for voter ID at a U.S House Administration Committee hearing organized by fromer Repub Rep. Bob Ney, who later was jailed for crimes connected with the Abramoff scandal.


http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/19/meeting-with-monica/

“I had a bad feeling about that lunch,” said Iglesias, describing his meeting at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen with Patrick Rogers, a lawyer who provided occasional counsel to the New Mexico Republican Party.

When the voter fraud issue came up, Iglesias said, he explained to Rogers that in reviewing more than 100 complaints, he hadn’t found any solid enough to justify criminal charges. . . .

Unbeknownst to Iglesias, a few months before that lunch, Rogers and another Republican attorney from New Mexico, Mickey Barnett, had complained about Iglesias at the Justice Department in Washington. The session was arranged with the assistance of the department’s then-White House liaison, Monica M. Goodling, and an aide to White House political strategist Karl Rove, according to e-mails released recently by congressional investigators.

One of those they met with was Matthew Friedrich, a senior counselor to Gonzales. Friedrich would meet again with Rogers and Barnett in New Mexico, where, he told congressional investigators, the pair complained about Iglesias. They made it clear “that they did not want him to be the U.S. attorney…. They mentioned that they had communicated that with Sen. Domenici, and they also mentioned Karl Rove,” Friedrich said, according to a transcript provided by congressional investigators.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17532.html

July 1, 2007

A New Mexico lawyer who pressed to oust U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was an officer of a nonprofit group that aided Republican candidates in 2006 by pressing for tougher voter identification laws.

Iglesias, who was one of nine U.S. attorneys the administration fired last year, said that Albuquerque lawyer Patrick Rogers pressured him several times to bring voter fraud prosecutions where little evidence existed. Iglesias believes that he was fired in part because he failed to pursue such cases.

He described Rogers, who declined to discuss the exchanges, as “obsessed . . . convinced there was massive voter fraud going on in this state, and I needed to do something to stop it."

Iglesias said he only recently learned of Rogers’ involvement as secretary of the non-profit American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund - an activist group that defended tighter voter identification requirements in court against charges that they were designed to hamper voting by poor minorities.

[starroute]

23. BradBlod has more of the scoop on Rogers

Brad is probably the best source on ACVR and all things related. This is what we ought to be focusing on, guys, the slimeballs behind this -- not just saying, "I wish they'd come to my door, I'd pulverize 'em." If anybody is interested, follow the link below and then follow Brad's own links to his earlier reporting on this creep and his partners in crime.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5783

3/10/2008

The insidious nexus between phony GOP charges of "voter fraud" and the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal will finally be explored in a Senate Hearing on "In-Person Voter Fraud: Myth and Trigger for Disenfranchisement?" this Wednesday in Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) Rules Committee. The complete witness list and press release from Feinstein's office, announcing the hearings, is posted at the end of this article.

Witnesses will include, among others, former NM U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, believed to have been fired for his unwillingness to bring phony voter fraud charges in the state despite pressure from folks such as Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), and a representative of Republican operative Thor Hearne's now-defunct "American Center for Voting Rights," (ACVR) which The BRAD BLOG originally outed as a White House/GOP front group in a long series of investigative reports dating back to 2005, which began just after the supposedly non-partisan group (co-founded by two very high level White House/GOP operatives) first appeared on the scene...

It should also be noted that Pat Rogers, a still-high-ranking GOP muckety-muck in NM, was said to have been working for the now-discredited ACVR at the time he was applying political pressure to Iglesias' office to bring the fraudulent "voter fraud" charges. Leopold covers that aspect in some detail in his report today.

Rogers has again appeared as the face of the NM GOP recently, forwarding still another fraud himself in the recent "vote-buying" allegations that have surfaced over the last week, as covered in some detail by The BRAD BLOG. Late last week, reporter Dennis Domrzalski highlighted a phony invoice produced by Rogers in an attempt to swiftboat the former Republican Governor who is one of several state officials who have alleged "vote-buying" took place at a recent NM GOP Delegate Nominating Convention.


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5789

3/11/2008

On Sunday, Eye on New Mexico, co-hosted by Domrzalski on Albuquerque's NBC affiliate, featured both NM's former Republican David Cargo ... and GOP operative Pat Rogers. ...

Rogers continued his work over the weekend as an unapologetic operative/stooge by making an ass out of himself on the show, attempting to run interference as swiftboater-in-chief hoping to deflect the damage of the Vote-Buying Scandal. On the show he attempted to distract from the actual charges in the case, by producing what Cargo has now called a "magical invoice," from four years ago, alleging someone in the party had previously paid the former Governor's registration fee to a past GOP event. Oddly enough, the invoice was dated last week! Clearly, the GOP swiftboaters are losing their touch.

[Robbien]

24. GOPer/Swiftboaters aren't losing their touch

I believe they have always been this sloppy because they believed they had the justice department in their pocket and the DC Dems cowering in a corner afraid to confront them.

This time around it is a bit different. Dems are confronting them.

[cliffordu]

21. i wish they'd come to my fucking house. They are more than welcome.

Getting out, however, could be problematic.....