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Joe Donnelly (D, IN-02; D-CAND, IN-SEN) curiously quiet on Indiana voter fraud.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 18th, 2011 at 11:30 AM  | 

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OK, this needs a little background: it recently came out that Indiana Democrats had forged multiple signatures on the 2008 primary nominating petitions for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The situation was sufficiently bad that former Democratic governor (and Clinton supporter) Joe Kernan had to come out and announce that no, that wasn’t his signature on the Obama petition; in other words, it’s bad enough that the Democrats are having to do damage control right now. The designated fall guy is apparently going to be St. Joseph County Democratic Chair Butch Morgan; he resigned last night. Morgan is claiming that he did nothing wrong, but he’s resigning anyway.

Now, why this is kind of interesting is because Morgan was also the Democratic chair for Indiana’s second Congressional district. Which is – oddly enough! – a Red district with a Blue Congressman. One who is running for Congress.

IN-02 is currently held by Joe Donnelly, who defeated (current Club For Growth President) Chris Chocola in 2006, apparently mostly from elevated Democratic turnout from… St. Joseph County (Butch Morgan had both positions for quite some time). In 2010 Donnelly came extremely close to losing his seat to Jackie Walorski; sufficiently close, in fact, that the final results were well within the 1% or so that I would personally call the true “margin of fraud*.” Given Morgan’s resignation, perhaps this election should be re-examined?

Anyway: Donnelly is now running for Senate, most likely because recent redistricting has made the seat somewhat untenable; admittedly, it’s not much more viable for a Democrat to be running for a Senate seat in 2012, but you play the cards that you’ve drawn. Since Donnelly and Morgan are long-time political allies, it’s no surprise that Morgan had been an early supporter of Donnelly’s Senate run; which makes Joe Donnelly’s silence on this matter somewhat… suspect. After all, Butch Morgan absolutely insists that he did nothing wrong: does Representative Donnelly not believe his old friend and reliable ally?

And if Donnelly doesn’t believe Morgan, doesn’t he have an obligation to say so? What’s more important to Joe: Indiana, or the Democratic party of Indiana?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Most people say five percent; personally, I’d move the decimal point one to the left.

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  • NeoKong

    Right after they find a way to sue Alabama for enforcing immigration laws.

    As we all know. Nothing gets Democrats upset more than a seat that might have been one through voter fraud.

  • eddiethegeek

    Donnelly was one of the only “Stupak Dems” who caved on Obamacare in exchange for a worthless “Presidential Order” to retain their seat last year. Hmmm. Now we know how.

    Thanks for nothin, Joe. And thanks, Father Hesburgh, for that little arm-twisting you gave your boy Joe to vote “aye” on Obamacare.

  • YnotNOW

    is exactly why voter fraud (and voter registration fraud) is so important. We need to educate the public that voter ID and other measures are not going to “disenfranchise” anyone, but instead that one vote cast illegally (and cancelling out their vote) is eactly the same as preventing THEM from voting.

    That’s why I support groups like www.truethevote.org

  • marke

    It’s interesting to note that a few days prior to the 2010 election the Indiana Democratic party sent out a letter endorsing Liberterian candidate Mark Vogel. Since the election was so close this very well may have been enough to taint the results. The question is, whether the aforementioned Butch Morgan was responsible for this?