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Democrat pleads no contest in ‘fake’ tea party scheme
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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 904832" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><span style="color: #0000CD">Shhhh...nothing to see here....move along:</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span><span style="color: #000000">Former Oakland County Democratic party official Jason Bauer pleaded no contest Monday to five felony charges related to an alleged 2010 plan to place "</span><span style="color: #000000">fake" tea party candidates on multiple election ballots</span><span style="color: #000000"> in Michigan, </span><span style="color: #000000">the Detroit Free Press reports</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span><span style="color: #000000">Under the alleged scheme, dummy third-party tea party candidates would help siphon conservative votes away from Republican candidates. The resulting split in the conservative vote would, according to the plan, boost the candidate on the Democratic ballot. Several of the people listed as tea party candidates said they didn't even know that they had been listed on the ballots, the newspaper reports.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Bauer, the former operations director for the Oakland County Democrats, was </span><span style="color: #000000">charged in March with corruption</span><span style="color: #000000"> in the tea party case, together with the county Democratic chairman, Mike McGuinness. Other related charges in the case included forging signatures on candidate affidavits and perjury. Bauer drew an additional charge of notary fraud in his indictment. McGuinness pleaded no contest to two felony charges last month.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Adding insult to felony for the two defendants, the alleged Oakland County scheme wasn't even successful. The state Supreme Court disqualified the phony local tea-party slate prior to the elections.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">With the rise of the tea party in 2010, similar accusations of scheming Democratic officials backing bogus tea party candidates cropped up across the country.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">In addition to the Oakland County case in Michigan, another corruption case involving a dummy tea-party organization came before the courts in Florida. In that case, then-Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson was </span><span style="color: #000000">accused of propping up Democrats posing as members</span><span style="color: #000000"> of the Florida TEA Party. Several of the cases against the TEA Party-- including one federal suit--were dismissed.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 904832, member: 25159"] [COLOR=#0000CD]Shhhh...nothing to see here....move along: [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Former Oakland County Democratic party official Jason Bauer pleaded no contest Monday to five felony charges related to an alleged 2010 plan to place "[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]fake" tea party candidates on multiple election ballots[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] in Michigan, [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]the Detroit Free Press reports[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Under the alleged scheme, dummy third-party tea party candidates would help siphon conservative votes away from Republican candidates. The resulting split in the conservative vote would, according to the plan, boost the candidate on the Democratic ballot. Several of the people listed as tea party candidates said they didn't even know that they had been listed on the ballots, the newspaper reports.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Bauer, the former operations director for the Oakland County Democrats, was [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]charged in March with corruption[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] in the tea party case, together with the county Democratic chairman, Mike McGuinness. Other related charges in the case included forging signatures on candidate affidavits and perjury. Bauer drew an additional charge of notary fraud in his indictment. McGuinness pleaded no contest to two felony charges last month.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Adding insult to felony for the two defendants, the alleged Oakland County scheme wasn't even successful. The state Supreme Court disqualified the phony local tea-party slate prior to the elections.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]With the rise of the tea party in 2010, similar accusations of scheming Democratic officials backing bogus tea party candidates cropped up across the country.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]In addition to the Oakland County case in Michigan, another corruption case involving a dummy tea-party organization came before the courts in Florida. In that case, then-Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson was [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]accused of propping up Democrats posing as members[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] of the Florida TEA Party. Several of the cases against the TEA Party-- including one federal suit--were dismissed.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000CD][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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