Michael Connell DEAD! -First on the scene- Video Key Witness in Ohio Vote Fraud

[sce56]

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From an eye witness to the crash



..We heard the plane go down, called 911, and arrived on the seen within 1-2 minutes to capture this video. Here is a news report that explains the event in detail;

"Mike Connell- A top level Republican IT consultant who was set to testify in a case alleging GOP election tampering in Ohio died in a plane crash late Friday night.

Michael Connell -- founder of Ohio-based New Media Communications, which created campaign Web sites for George W. Bush and John McCain -- died instantly after his single-prop, private aircraft smashed into a vacant home in suburban Lake Township, Ohio.

"The plane was attempting to land around 6 p.m. Friday at Akron-Canton Airport when it crashed about three miles short of the runway," reports the Akron Beacon Journal.

Connell's exploits as a top GOP IT 'guru' have been well documented by RAW STORY's investigative team.

The interest in Mike Connell stems from his association with a firm called GovTech, which he had spun off from his own New Media Communications under his wife Heather Connells name. GovTech was hired by Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to set up an official election website at election.sos.state.oh.us to presented the 2004 presidential returns as they came in.

Connell is a long-time GOP operative, whose New Media Communications provided web services for the Bush-Cheney 04 campaign, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Republican National Committee and many Republican candidates. This in itself might have raised questions about his involvement in creating Ohios official state election website.

However, the alternative media group ePlubibus Media further discovered in November 2006 that election.sos.state.oh.us was hosted on the servers of a company in Chattanooga, TN called SmarTech, which also provided hosting for a long list of Republican Internet domains.

Since early this decade, top Internet gurus in Ohio have been coordinating web services with their GOP counterparts in Chattanooga, wiring up a major hub that in 2004, first served as a conduit for Ohio's live election night results, researchers at ePluribus Media wrote.

A few months after this revelation, when a scandal erupted surrounding the firing of US Attorneys for reasons of White House policy, other researchers found that the gwb43 domain used by members of the White House staff to evade freedom of information laws by sending emails outside of official White House channels was hosted on those same SmarTech servers.

Given that the Bush White House used SmarTech servers to send and receive email, the use of one of those servers in tabulating Ohios election returns has raised eyebrows. Ohio gave Bush the decisive margin in the Electoral College to secure his reelection in 2004.

IT expert Stephen Spoonamore says the SmartTech server could have functioned as a routing point for malicious activity and remains a weakness in electronic voting tabulation.

"...I have reason to believe that the alternate accounts were used to communicate with US Attorneys involved in political prosecutions, like that of Don Siegelman," said RAW STORY's Investigative News Editor, Larisa Alexandrovna, on her personal blog Saturday morning. "This is what I have been working on to prove for over a year. In fact, it was through following the Siegelman-Rove trail that I found evidence leading to Connell. That is how I became aware of him. Mike was getting ready to talk. He was frightened.

"He has flown his private plane for years without incident. I know he was going to DC last night, but I don't know why. He apparently ran out of gas, something I find hard to believe. I am not saying that this was a hit nor am I resigned to this being simply an accident either. I am no expert on aviation and cannot provide an opinion on the matter. What I am saying, however, is that given the context, this event needs to be examined carefully."

"Mr. Connell has confided that he was being threatened, something that his attorneys also told the judge in the Ohio election fraud case," concluded Alexandrovna.

An FAA investigation into the causes of Connell's plane crash is underway, but no results are expected for several weeks."

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. And the moral of the story is, if you sleep with shit like Rove and Cheney....

you could end up murdered.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Media seems very afraid to *opine* about this story

... which is very telling

[stillcool]

3. I'm sure "We'll never know what really happened"

it will go down as another 'conspiracy' theory. Love those government 'investigations'.

[Mist]

4. The media may be afraid to opine, but they're getting the salient points out at least, something

the media has mostly neglected these last few years. Is actual reporting making a come-back?

[jimlup]

5. The Administration has someone in the FAA in their pocket

So they just need to get the investigation all cleaned up by Jan 20. Fortunately, the wreckage will be "burned beyond recognition" so they won't have much to worry about.

The parallels to the Wellstone crash are erie.

[liberaltrucker]

6. An aircraft out of fuel doesn't burst into flames

As initial reports suggested. Given the financial means of the pilot, most likely the aircraft was a turboprop
fueled by Jet-A. Not much different than the Diesel 2 in my tanks. I can carry 300 gallons. A light aircraft
would carry much less. On airport approach, the craft would be at close to my governed speed of 70 MPH or close
to 100. If my rig hits a stationary object at that velocity, fuel would be atomized into a mist and be ignited
by friction sparks into a conflagration to tell your grandkids about.

However, initial reports say the aircraft ran out of fuel. Then, why the burst of flames? That would occur
if the fuel were aviation gasoline, but given this person's financial means, it's highly unlikely.

[jimlup]

7. Wellstone's plane was also on fire on the ground

reports of the crash scene were very similar. He was in a private jet. What would the fuel for that have been?

[foxer]

9. Wellstone was in a Beech Kingair, not a jet, a turbo prop.

[P210pilot]

10. Kingair is a jet of sorts

You are correct a Kingair is a turbo prop. It has a jet engines turning the propellers. A Kingair uses Jet A for fuel which is basically kerosene. This is as opposed to a turbo charged engine which is piston reciprocating and burns 100 Oct. gasoline

Regardless, from everything I've gleaned at the aviation sites it looks like Connell's plane was brought down by ice. A Saratoga has limited icing protection against ice and it is not approved for flight in icing conditions.

It is the same type of plane JFK Jr. was flying. I've always felt it was a shame he didn't turn his auto pilot on. Spacial disorientation (vertigo) led him into a grave yard spiral. Turning on the auto pilot would have prevented those needless deaths.

[foxer]

8. Piper Saratoga has six cylinder Lycoming engine

runs on 100 octane aviation fuel, may be turbo charged, not turbo prop. Same plane as JFK jr. flew.

[Founding Fathers]

11. False Fuel Gauge Reading..............

Whenever I hear about a suspicious plane crash involving "running out of gas," I think about how a perpetrator could pour some kind of non-gas liquid in the gas tank to give a false fuel gauge reading, making the pilot think there was more gas in the tank than there actually was.

Basically, I don't believe in "coincidences."

If it looks, sounds and seems like witness intimidation, it probably is.

This isn't witness intimidation - this is murder.