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Ärende: Coulter the ditz
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"TIM RICHARDSON -> ROSS SAUER" <1:123/140> wrote in
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 RS>> Just how stupid can Ann Coulter get?


 RS>> The unindicted felon wants to take away the vote from *ALL* women.


 TR> *Unindicted felon*?

Yup.

She asked one of her former boyfiends, an FBI supervisor, to run
interference for her, and the statute of limitations ran out.

But you know how it goes... The rules are for the little people.


Ann Coulter Says She Won't Cooperate in Voting Probe

Published: November 01, 2006 5:00 PM ET

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to
cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong
precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm
Beach County's elections chief said Wednesday.

Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct is a felony punishable by up to
five years in prison.

Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking
into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case
to the state attorney's office by Friday.

Anderson added that Coulter, since the allegations surfaced, made
"efforts to distract and divert focus on the process regarding this
complaint. ... I did express my frustration to the state attorney in a
recent meeting and warned him I may need his services," according to an
article in the Palm Beach Post.

But Anderson said Coulter's voting rights would not be rescinded for
next week's election.

Coulter's TV comments and newspaper columns routinely spark outrage, an
effect that she cultivates. The columnist has bashed widows of the Sept.
11, 2001, terrorist attack victims as pro-Democrat propagandists, and
has repeatedly ridiculed Islam and Muslims.

Coulter's attorney did not immediately return a call Wednesday. Nor did
her publicist at her publisher, Crown Publishing.

Anderson's office received a complaint in February that Coulter voted in
the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 Palm Beach town council election.

Anderson, a Democrat, said a letter was sent to Coulter on March 27
requesting that she clarify her address for the voting records "or face
the possibility of her voter registration being rescinded." Three more
letters were sent to Coulter and her attorney, but she has yet to
respond with the information requested, Anderson said.

In July, Anderson said, he received a letter from Coulter's attorney,
Marcos Daniel Jimenez D'Clouet. The letter said the attorney would only
discuss the matter in person or by telephone because, he complained,
Anderson had given details to the media. Anderson said the matter had to
be discussed in writing.

(c) 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc

Voting Fraud, Ann Coulter, and the FBI
By Scott Horton

For the past two months, we've seen in various reports how under acting
Attorney General Karl Rove, the Department of Justice pressured U.S.
attorneys across the country to commence frivolous prosecutions of
voting fraud cases. The cases were generally aggregated in close
proximity to elections, in violation of the Department's published
policies, with two objectives. The first was to suppress voter
registration efforts focused on traditionally Democratic constituencies,
such as inner-city Blacks and Hispanics, and the second, to create a
false impression in the mind of the public that the Democrats were
engaged in voter fraud. As the New York Times discovered in its study,
most of the voting fraud cases failed because there was no basis to
pursue them, and even the cases which succeeded generally showed bona
fide mistakes or misunderstandings, not any sort of fraud.

So, what happens when a prominent Republican figure is caught red-handed
engaging in voter fraud? Über-Republican Ann Coulter was discovered to
have falsified a voter registration in Palm Beach County, Florida, and
to have voted. This perfectly tracks the factual pattern of a series of
criminal prosecutions brought by Steven Biskupic, one of the originally
targeted U.S. attorneys - in Milwaukee - who subsequently redeemed
himself through political skullduggery.

However, in the Coulter case, the U.S. attorney's office showed no
interest in the case. State law enforcement officials did, however. And
today we learn that the criminal investigation was closed--as a result of
a direct intervention by federal officials supporting Coulter. The Palm
Beach Post reports:

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has been cleared of allegations that she
falsified her Palm Beach County voter's registration and voted illegally
-- this, after a high-level FBI agent made unsolicited phone calls to the
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to vouch for Coulter.

But wait, it gets still better:

County Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson, meanwhile, decried what
he called "FBI intrusion." He referred the Coulter case to PBSO after
poll worker Jim Whited originally reported the incident. "This doesn't
bode well in terms of the public's impression that celebrities receive
preferential treatment," Anderson said. "I'm curious about how anyone
can justify the FBI's intrusion."

First-year Detective Kristine Villa in December was assigned the job of
investigating whether Coulter committed a felony in February 2006, when
she cast her ballot in the wrong precinct in a Palm Beach election after
registering to an address that wasn't hers.Villa's report leaves the
clear impression that Coulter's attorney, Miami's Marcos Jimenez,
stonewalled Villa for five months--at times agreeing to make Coulter
available, at others reneging, often not returning calls promptly or
claiming not to be able to reach his client.

So there you have the Gonzales/Rove Justice Department at work. Voting
fraud involving someone suspected of voting as a Democrat--throw the book
at them and best do it right in the midst of an election campaign for
maximum benefit to the Party. Voting fraud involving a Republican
activist--support efforts to stonewall local law enforcement and then
intervene to shut things down. Welcome to Bushworld.

(c) The Harper's Magazine Foundation

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