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Ärende: Fake GOP petition
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 WC> You're in W By Gawd Virginia.

 WC> You've read the acutual document?

 WC> How long have you been in California?

Apparently this is a carry-over from a 2006 scam that seems to have worked then
and is maybe working now. The 2006 scam used a ballot initiative petition as a
prop.

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Legalizing Marijuana - A New Republican Strategy?
By Mike Rhodes

The attractive young woman says to me, "would you sign our petition to legalize
marijuana?" I don't have to think twice and say "sure, where do I sign?" That
is when it got interesting. She says, "Do you have your ID with you?" "Well,
yes I do, but what does that have to do with..." I say as she responds with
"oh, we just have to verify your ID." Thinking that this has something to do
with making sure they have valid names for a ballot initiative I comply.

As I'm filling out my name and address on the petition I notice that the young
lady is filling out a very official looking form. Probably just the ballot
initiative form, I think to myself. Then, she says "is it OK if I register you
as a Republican?" "What?!?" I say "yes, I do mind! What are you doing?" She
says that if I register Republican she will get an extra 10 cents. But, I
complain, "I don't want to re-register." She explains that this is just to
update the records for the County Clerks office. I repeat that "I do not want
or need to update my records." I am repeatedly told that it is OK and that they
just want to update my voter registration records. She also tells me that she
is working for the Republican party, being paid hourly, and that the ploy about
the "10 cent bonus" was not accurate.

This Republican party employee goes on to tell me that she is there to attract
people to the table that is set up in Fresno's Courthouse Park, and that the
legalize marijuana petition is just a prop. She confirmed that there is no
ballot initiative to legalize marijuana. She said that the petition will be
given to an elected official in Sacramento. I have my doubts about that.

At this point in the conversation, she called over her "boss" who was talking
with someone a short distance away. I introduced myself as the editor of the
Community Alliance newspaper and said I was interested in writing a story about
the petition campaign and their registering people with the Republican party. I
guess that wasn't the right approach to get him to open up to me. The "boss"
gave me no information. He even refused to give me a copy of the marijuana
legalization petition I had just signed.

Later that day I called Victor Salazar, the Fresno County Clerk. Salazar said
that the process sounded deceptive and that I might want to call the Secretary
of State fraud investigation unit. I called the number for the fraud
investigation unit repeatedly today. Apparently, nobody was in the office today
and all I got was an answering machine. I will continue to call.

I also went back to Courthouse Park today to see the Republican Party project
was again in full operation. They seemed to have different approaches to
different groups. To white men that looked like they might be attorneys, they
asked if they were registered to vote. When Latinos walked by they would throw
out the legalize marijuana angle."

http://tinyurl.com/GOP-SCAM

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You tell poor Timmy, I haven't the heart for it.   Bv)=

ENJOY!!!

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