Thank God that whole voter fraud is nothing more than a myth perpetrated by right-wingers.
Ohio poll worker, Melowese Richardson has already confessed to voting for president Obama twice in November. Now however, authorities say she may have cast a ballot six times overall.
Via the National Review:
Melowese Richardson is the Ohio poll worker who admitted to casting two votes in November for President Obama. Now, Ohio officials are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people as well and cast a total of six ballots in the 2012 election, according to Fox News. The investigation is part of a wider one into a number of cases of alleged voter fraud in Hamilton County, Ohio. Richardson says she filled out and submitted an absentee ballot on her granddaughter’s behalf, and her granddaughter has confirmed that claim, saying, “It wasn’t a big deal.” Furthermore:
Three other absentee ballots in the names of different people were submitted to the Board of Elections from Richardson’s address on Nov. 1. Officials say the handwriting on those ballots is similar and that they were all received together, on the same day that Richardson’s absentee ballot arrived at the office. Richardson maintains that some of the other voters live at her house.
Attempts by Fox News to reach Richardson were unsuccessful, but she claimed to the local station that the votes were “absolutely legal votes.”
But if you’re looking for remorse out of Richardson for having allegedly committed the felony act of voter fraud, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
Richardson justified her actions saying…
“Absolutely. Absolutely, I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.”
Nothing to see here … There is no such thing as voter fraud, didn’t you know?
Except for the 19 cases currently being investigated in the crucial 2012 swing state of Ohio…
Via the National Review:
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is investigating 19 possible cases of alleged voter fraud that occurred when Ohio was a focal point of the 2012 presidential election. A total of 19 voters and nine witnesses are part of the probe.
Democrat Melowese Richardson has been an official poll worker for the last quarter century and registered thousands of people to vote last year. She candidly admitted to Cincinnati’s Channel 9 this week that she voted twice in the last election.
WCPO in Cincinnati reports:
According to county documents, Richardson’s absentee ballot was accepted on Nov. 1, 2012 along with her signature. On Nov. 11, she told an official she also voted at a precinct because she was afraid her absentee ballot would not be counted in time.
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Richardson voted at the Madisonville Recreation Center where she worked as a paid worker on Election Day.
Richardson also admitted to sending an absentee ballot in for her granddaughter, who also subsequently voted in person on election day.
Three additional absentee ballots were also generated from Richardson’s home address, and all bore similar handwriting.
But if you’re looking for remorse out of Richardson for having allegedly committed the felony act of voter fraud, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
Richardson justifies her actions saying…
“Absolutely. Absolutely, I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.”
Fresh off the heels of a report indicating some Wendy’s franchisees are doing the same, several Taco Bell stores are slashing employee hours in an attempt to sidestep the burdensome costs associated with Obamacare.
The same week a Wendy’s franchisee in Nebraska announced it was cutting employee hours to avoid paying for health care coverage mandated by Obamacare, a Taco Bell franchisee based in Missouri is doing the same.
According to News 9, Treadwell Enterprises trimmed its full-time employees’ hours to under 28 hours a week, which is the limit for coverage under the new health insurance mandate.
Employees found out about the cut in December. Thus far, about 20 employees have had their hours reduced.
Under Obamacare, a company that has more than 50 full-time workers falls under the new health insurance mandate.
In 2010, John Boehner warned of this very thing using another Taco Bell franchise owner as an example:
Last week, I was honored to have two small business operators … join me to talk about the destructive effect President Obama’s health care law is having on small business’ ability to create new jobs and help get our economy moving again.
Todd operates a number of Taco Bell and UNOs franchises in the northern Cincinnati area with his wife Becky. At a time when Ohio’s unemployment rate is 11 percent, Todd offers hundreds of local Ohio workers the chance to prove themselves, and work their way up the ladder in the restaurant business…
But Todd says he is very concerned about the impact that the president’s new health care law will have on his ability to retain and hire new employees. Todd estimates his business will likely be facing at least $250,000 in new taxes as a result of ObamaCare, costs that may force Todd and Becky and hundreds of employers like them across Ohio to make job cuts instead of hiring additional workers.
This continues a disturbing trend for restaurant and fast food chains. Employee hours have been cut at Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and Denny’s, along with the aforementioned Wendy’s and Taco Bell stores.
It is disturbing mostly because employees at these stores aren’t exactly making hedge fund manager type money. Managers and higher-ups within the chains, those already with healthcare coverage, are not having their hours scaled back. It is the lower-income earners who are being told ‘not only are you not getting the healthcare coverage you’ve been promised, but we’re also cutting back your earnings to avoid paying penalties for those we do have to cover’.
Take Johnna Davis, a single mother of three children, for example. Davis is a Taco Bell employee in Oklahoma (the third state this has happened) who recently had her hours scaled back. The Huffington Post reported on her ordeal.
A Taco Bell employee in Guthrie, Okla., is speaking out after the fast-food franchise cut her hours to avoid costs associated with Obamacare, reports News9.
For Johnna Davis, a single mother of three who saw her hours fall in December to 28 hours a week, the change not only means a smaller paycheck. It also strips her of the right to receive health benefits from Taco Bell, a right that would have kicked in under Obamacare in 2014 had the franchise continued to give Davis a full-time schedule of hours.
Owners of fast-food franchises across the nation are blind-siding hourly employees by cutting their weekly hours — and, in turn, their paychecks — to dodge Obamacare costs.
At a time when a majority of Americans are simply trying to make it to their next paycheck – especially those in the fast food industry – Obamacare is starting to unleash it’s unsustainable destructive costs on businesses.
And it is only going to get worse…
Earlier this month, Obama mega-donor Bill Maher suggested that the President manipulate the current fiscal crisis as a means of implementing a carbon tax to combat global warming. Maher was plotting a rather vengeful plan, claiming “it would be just desserts for the oil and coal industries that went all in for Mitt Romney.”
The notion of such a tax has once again resurfaced while Congress debates an extension of tax cuts, and oversees part of the recovery for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.
And despite the President’s promises to take an ‘all of the above’ approach to energy policy, recent events may prove to embolden him to further implement one of the few campaign promises he has kept since 2008 – to bankrupt the coal industry.
With four years of bureaucracy and crippling regulations already taking their toll, a carbon tax might prove to be the final nail in the coal industry’s coffin.
Sure enough, Bloomberg News reported on the carbon tax being part of some quiet “backroom debate(s)” mere weeks after the election. The tax it was said “could raise an estimated $100 billion in its first year.”
There has also been support from some seemingly unlikely sources. Last month, petroleum giants Exxon, Shell, and BP all voiced support for such a measure.
According to Myron Ebell at GlobalWarming.org:
Exxon Mobil confirmed earlier this month in a Bloomberg Businessweek article that they support a carbon tax. Shell and BP have signed a Climate Price Communiqué that was distributed on 29th November at the eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
So how would titans in the oil industry benefit from supporting a carbon tax? Sure there’s politics involved, along with international perceptions, but even those reasons yield a more simplistic bottom line.
Steve Maley at RedState writes:
Cooperating with a carbon tax would “green” their brands while giving natural gas a decided advantage over coal for power generation.
Ebell phrases it much more succinctly:
The most obvious reason why big oil and gas companies would support a huge new tax … is that it would kill coal first.
Indeed, a carbon tax would double the price of coal-produced electricity, and by extension provide ample reason for utilities to switch to natural gas.
Such a shift would further cripple an entire region of America that is already being crushed in difficult economic times. States such as Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, coal-rich swing states that inexplicably swung towards the coal-loathing President this past election, states which already live in the shadow of new regulations that could spell the elimination of nearly 900,000 jobs annually, would see their economic fates sealed.
But could the notion of a carbon tax fly in a Republican-dominated House? Maley thinks it’s a perfectly reasonable possibility.
How could a carbon tax be passed in a Republican-dominated House? A carbon tax combined with reduced corporate income tax rates may appeal not only to liberals and moderates, but also to some muddle-headed and panicky conservatives. Ken Green, an environmental specialist at the American Enterprise Institute adds that part of the appeal to the House majority may be a chance to “green up the conservative brand.”
We’ve certainly seen muddle-headed Republicans willing to cave on issues such as the debt limit, raising taxes, or balking on spending cuts and entitlement reforms during these fiscal cliff negotiations, that another panicked and unwise decision seems downright likely.
The fact remains, the American economy and the coal industry in particular could not afford such a radical tax when it was proposed back in 2009, and we certainly aren’t in any better shape to absorb one now.
While killing coal is certainly one way for the President to avoid a lump of coal in his stocking this Christmas, the idea of a carbon tax should be enough to put anybody who supports it on the naughty list.
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Cross-posted at FreedomWorks
They’ve been around for most of our lives, but a handful of people at a small community college in Ohio have suddenly feigned outrage over those constructions signs that read “Men Working”.
See, because they only specify men, they’re considered sexist.
The construction crew working at Sinclair Community College were forced to remove the signs before being allowed to continue working.
Via Todd Starnes:
An Ohio community college forced a construction crew to remove its “Men Working” sign after the sign was deemed sexist and non-inclusive by a college administrator.
The construction crew at Sinclair Community College in Dayton was forced to stop working until the sign had been removed.
A spokesman for the college told Fox News that they have a deep commitment to diversity and take it quite seriously…
… The controversy started when a female employee took issue with the “Men at Work” sign. Murka said the employee suggested several alternative phrases to the hard hats – including “construction zone.”
Here’s a news report regarding the issue via MRC…
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