Bill Shaheen Quits Clinton Campaign

[SoxFan]

Source: New Hampshire Union Leader

Bill Shaheen quits Clinton campaign
By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter
4 minutes ago


Bill Shaheen has resigned as a co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s national campaign, UnionLeader.com has learned.

Shaheen last night apologized for telling a reporter that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, Republicans will use his admitted past drug use against him. Clinton this morning personally apologized to Obama in Shaheen’s remarks. The two candidates reportedly met at Reagan National Airport in Washington.



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Good riddance.

[bigworld]

1. Isn 't his wife running for congress?

Wonder if this will affect that.

[MADem]

3. Ha! I wondered the same thing, below. Yes, she is taking a crack at the seat

that was STOLEN from her by that little putz of an asshole, Pudgy Sununu. The only thing that jerk has going for him is he hasn't had time yet to be as horrible as his creepy old man.

Remember that 'scandal' about phone jamming in NH a few years back? That's why a lot of elderly couldn't get their rides to the polls--because the phone bank they had set up to go get these folks was being called repeatedly by GOP fuckers. That's how Sununu cheated and won.

[SoxFan]

4. Nobody "stole" that seat.

The entire phone jam lasted about an hour to an hour and a half. Shaheen lost by 20,000 votes. The loss of the phone lines did not have a decisive impact on the outcome of the race.

The real reason Shaheen lost was her foolish call to enact a general sales tax.

[MADem]

9. I wouldn't be so sure....what kind of voting machines does NH have?

As Bartcop noted, that DIEBOLD MAGIC was EVERYWHERE during that election cycle...

http://www.bartcop.com/111102fraud.htm

****Poll by Concord, NH Monitor on Nov. 3 for New Hampshire Senate

Jeanne Shaheen (D) 47% up 1
John E. Sununu (R) 46%

**"Official Results"

Jeanne Shaheen (D) 47%
John E. Sununu (R) 51% up 4 that's a 5-point pro-Bush swing - was it magic?


Isn't it amazing that all six surprises went to the Republicans?
Did they let Hutchison lose Arkansas because he was dead meat, anyway?

[SoxFan]

11. Varies by community

Some use optical scan ballots (OptiScan or AccuVote), others (mainly rural towns) use paper ballots.

There wasn't any nonsense with the machines. There were several recounts for down-ballot offices, and the hand counts of the scanner ballots matched up with the electronic numbers.

If anything, the scanner ballots have reduced fraud. It's difficult for a poll worker to "accidentally" mark a ballot with a piece of pencil lead under his or her fingr, and the electronic counting process has eliminated some of the problems that arise when 75 year old women named Myrtle try to tally up columns of numbers after working at the polls for 14 hours.

[MADem]

13. If you're not counting the votes, though, how do you really know who won?

I wouldn't rule out a ghostly elephant in the machine, especially when that putz Sununu did that much of a leap, outside the MOE. The way Rove plays it is to game it from all sides--voter caging, the phones, the dirty tricks, voter suppression, the machines...hey, you pull enough of that crap, and you pull it off.

And then, there's this:

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070815/OPINION/708150302/1028/OPINION02

August 15. 2007 12:15AM



New Hampshire's voting system tallied votes in last year's elections, but is it constitutional? Nope, says attorney Paul Twomey.

"In the New Hampshire constitution, there's about four or five separate places where they indicate how voting is to occur, and they all say in a slightly different form that an election official is to count and sort in an open fashion," said Twomey, who represented the Democratic Party in the Election Day 2002 phone-jamming lawsuit. But with the state's optical scan voting machines, "the counting is outsourced to Diebold," the voting machine manufacturer.

There are ways to use computers to count votes and still be in compliance with the constitution, Twomey said. If state officials had more oversight of the voting machines, if they knew how the system was programmed, then the system could work, he said. "You can utilize outside people, but you should know what they're doing."

Twomey said that his complaints could drive him to file a lawsuit, although he prefers that the Ballot Law Commission, the Legislature and Secretary of State Bill Gardner sort out the issue. Twomey warned about the system last year, before the commission approved new Diebold voting software.

But the time is ripe for another look at New Hampshire's voting system, Twomey and other voting activists say. Earlier this summer, California researchers uncovered security vulnerabilities in several of that state's voting systems, one of which is similar to New Hampshire's. Although state officials say election fraud in New Hampshire is unlikely (they've put in place some safeguards), Twomey and others want the commission to revisit the issue.

"The shortcomings revealed by the California testing are a function of it not being an open, public process," Twomey said. "Ultimately it could come to a suit and I think it's a valid suit. I don't want it to come that way."

[SoxFan]

7. She's running for senate

There's another candidate on the Democratic side, med school professor/former astronaut Jay Buckey, who is running a grassroots race and impressing a lot of Democratic activists. A lot of us have Shaheen Fatigue.

[MADem]

2. Well, good for Bill. That was the smart thing to do. How interesting that

his quote has been modified, though--I'd heard the context of those remarks in very different form, and that isn't as bad as what I'd heard.

Here's the bad bit, though--his wife is swell; I hope this doesn't fuck up her chances:

The husband of former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Bill Shaheen is also a well-known attorney and a former district court judge. He is a founder and shareholder/director of the Dover-based Shaheen and Gordon law firm.

[SoxFan]

5. She has a primary opponent

Dr. Jay Buckey, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School and an astronaut who was a payload specialist on a space shuttle mission, is also seeking Sununu's senate seat. He's smart, articulate, and a refreshing new face.

[MADem]

8. I gather you're supporting him.

I like Jeanne. But my view doesn't matter, I'm not from your fair state.

[SoxFan]

10. I'm supporting Buckey

I have a severe case of "Shaheen Fatigue", and I think we need a new, fresh voice in the Democratic Party, someone more committed to change than to protecting the status quo. The old gang has run its course.

[FREEWILL56]

6. That was very stupid on his part seeing as how

1 former president that is married to hillary didn't inhale.:smoke:

[creeksneakers2]

12. Its good that he's gone

That's what should have happened. Hillary should learn from this and get her campaign back on the right track.