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What's bothersome is this: would we have found out Singer's identity if he didn't come forward and "reveal" himself? Would the media have dug deeper into the mysterious TIA? Are there other unnamed financiers aside from Singer behind TIA and the framer of the initiative itself, Californians for Equal Representation? How deep exactly does this wormhole go?

Writer/journalist Hart Williams, who has done extensive research on this dangerous trend, addressed all this at the Democratic Daily and in his interview with NOW in 2006. An excerpt:

NOW: What's your take on the ballot initiative process itself? They're clearly controversial: many people love them for their ability to put the power of lawmaking directly into the hands of citizens, and many others hate them for the very same reason. Where do you come down?

Williams: They were originally a necessary check on the power of a few powerful robber barons to block pieces of legislation that a clear majority of citizens considered necessary and proper. When initiatives are used that way, I think they're a fine thing. But in the past decade or so, we've seen that flipped on its ear: the robber barons use it to block the legislature instead. The whole thing is upside down.

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As Williams pointed out, there has lately been a pattern of big money circumventing the law by using state initiatives. They take their issues "straight to the people" instead of going through the legislative process where the chance of passage is either nil or slim. The problem is, the people of the state are often deceived as to the real purpose of these initiatives and as to who are really behind them.

Unfortunately, attention is often narrowly focused on the initiative alone and wanes after it is voted on, while its wealthy backers go largely unscrutinized and push more self-serving initiatives that will tip the scales of power in their favor.

This has to stop, and the first step to stopping this is to follow the money and demand full disclosure.

The California Electoral Initiative #07-0032, or the Orwellian named Presidential Election Reform Act (pdf) as backers like to call it, was a power grab attempt by Republicans to change the state's winner-take-all system so that 53 of its 55 electoral votes can be divvied up based on how each congressional district votes.

Even if the remaining two of the 55 electoral votes goes to the popular vote winner, this change means that the Republicans can capture as many as 20 electoral votes in California in 2008, big enough to change the outcome of the presidential election.

Now the L.A. Times reports the initiative is all but dead:

A proposed California initiative campaign that could have helped Republicans hold on to the White House in 2008 was a shambles Thursday night, as two of its key consultants quit.

Unable to raise sufficient money and angered over a lack of disclosure by its one large donor, veteran political law attorney Thomas Hiltachk, who drafted the measure, said he was resigning from the committee... Campaign spokesman Kevin Eckery said he was ending his role as well.

There remained a chance that the measure could be revived, but only if a major donor were to come forward to fund the petition drive. However, time is short to gather the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed by the end of November. And backers said Thursday that they believed the measure was all but dead, at least for the 2008 election.

" 'Shambles' is the wrong word," said strategist Marty Wilson, who curtailed his fundraising efforts weeks ago. "The campaign never got off the ground."

This is good news, thanks largely to a grassroots effort to defeat the initiative, but the story doesn't end here. Several things about the initiative smelled fishy, and this may not be their last attempt to steal California's electoral votes and in effect, the 2008 presidential election.

For one thing, Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker reports this about the initiative's drafter, Thomas Hiltachk (emphasis mine):

Nominally, the sponsor of No. 07-0032 is Californians for Equal Representation. But that’s just a letterhead—there’s no such organization. Its address is the office suite of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, the law firm for the California Republican Party, and its covering letter is signed by Thomas W. Hiltachk, the firm’s managing partner and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal lawyer for election matters. Hiltachk and his firm have been involved in many well-financed ballot initiatives before, including the recall that put Arnold in Sacramento. They specialize in initiatives that are the opposite of what they sound like—the Fair Pay Workplace Flexibility Act of 2006, for example. It would have raised the state minimum wage slightly—by a lesser amount than it has since been raised—and, in the fine print, would have made it impossible ever to raise it again except by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the legislature, while, for good measure, eliminating overtime for millions of workers.

Also, the one large donor referred to in the L.A. Times article is a group called Take Initiative America (TIA) which turns out to be based not in California but in Union, Missouri (population: 7,000). Its donation of $175,000 arrived a day after the group was formed by a lawyer named Charles A. Hurth III.

A San Francisco Chronicle article revealed some interesting things about Mr. Hurth (emphasis mine):

It's not the first time Hurth has been part of an effort that Democrats say has been aimed at changing the outcome of a presidential election. In 2004, he was the legal agent behind a GOP-funded group called Choices for America, which solicited donations from Republicans for another controversial signature drive - to help independent candidate Ralph Nader get on the presidential election ballot in key states, documents show...

Hurth also chaired First Class Funding, a 2005 educational reform campaign supported by conservatives and another big political donor, Patrick Byrne, the chief executive officer of the Internet shopping site Overstock.com based in Salt Lake City. Byrne has donated to candidates of both parties as well as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort against 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts...

The article also notes a 1990 lawsuit that shows what a class act Mr. Hurth is:

Hurth, then a third-year law student at St. Louis University, was taken to court by a young woman who said he grabbed her in a bar and bit her on the buttocks so hard she required medical attention - then laughed and high-fived his friends.

Hurth testified that he had told her she should take it as a compliment.

The female attorney sued him and took something else instead - a jury's award of $27,500 for damages.

There's also this bit from the article:

Hurth donated $2,000 in March to the Giuliani campaign, and his fundraising associate in Choices for America, Nevada-based conservative strategist Steve Wark, has been a major donor and fundraiser for Giuliani.

Hiltachk's partner Charles Bell, a deputy treasurer for the proposed initiative, has given $1,300 to Giuliani, and another Hiltachk law firm partner, Charlotte McAndrews, has donated $2,300 to the former New York mayor's campaign.

Hurth and Hiltachk. Donor and organizer. Both veterans of political shenanigans. Both supporters -- or connected to supporters -- of Giuliani. Both connected to an initiative that can possibly make Giuliani the next President of the United States. Coincidence?

Giuliani's camp denies having anything to do with the initiative, but it's obvious that the major players pushing this measure aren't as interested in "equal representation" of voters as much as they're interested in rigging the system in favor of the GOP.

Hurth and TIA are now being investigated by the Fair Political Practices Commission of California after Democrats charged that the group is hiding the source of its money. This nondisclosure was also cited by Hiltachk as one of the reasons he resigned, although considering that he didn't return TIA's $175,000, I suspect the committee's inability to attract support and not the source of TIA's funds was the more compelling reason for his resignation.

I am all for changing our electoral college system to a system that more accurately reflects the popular vote. However, it should be done nationwide or not at all. Doing it only in California, the biggest electoral prize in the union, and not in the red states where urban areas lean towards the Democrats benefits only the Republican party and not the electorate.

For now, the initiative is dead, but there's no reason to think they won't try again:

"We want to to make sure this is not the Freddy Krueger of initiatives," [Democratic consultant Chris] Lehane said today, "that comes back to life. We'll continue to monitor it."

Rudy Giuliani: No Crime Being An Illegal Immigrant

BY CRAIG GORDON

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Sept 8, 2007  BOSTON - Rudy Giuliani said Friday that being an illegal immigrant isn't a crime, and it shouldn't be one in the future either -- comments likely to anger conservatives already leery about his liberal immigration policies as New York mayor.

"It's not a crime. I know that's very hard for people to understand, but it's not a federal crime," he said. And, he continued, President Giuliani wouldn't try to make it one either.

"No, it shouldn't be, because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people," he said, referring to estimates of illegal immigrants now here. "We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country."

A Giuliani aide said Friday night that the ex-mayor misspoke in the radio interview with CNN Headline News personality Glenn Beck -- noting that people can be prosecuted only immediately after they cross the border but that it is not a crime to be in the United States without legal status.

"When you throw an immigrant out of the country, it's not a criminal proceeding. It's a civil proceeding," Giuliani added, saying he would fight the problem by securing borders.

But Giuliani's comments won't sit well with conservatives who have made stopping illegal immigration a top issue. Anti-immigration hard-liners in Congress sought unsuccessfully last year to make it a felony or misdemeanor to be here illegally.

Mitt Romney's campaign Friday jumped on Giuliani's comments, with spokesman Matt Rhoades saying, "His troubling lack of interest in making enforcement of our nation's immigration laws a priority puts him at odds with those who want to secure our borders and end illegal immigration."

But Giuliani spokeswoman Katie Levinson shot back that it was Romney who didn't take law enforcement seriously by failing to punish pro-immigration sanctuary cities while Massachusetts governor.

"Mitt Romney's position of the hour probably shouldn't be taken seriously," she said, a reference to charges that Romney has flip-flopped on issues.

Staff writer Tom Brune contributed to this story.

Alfonse M. D’Amato Reveals the Real Giuliani

In his autobiography, Alfonse M. D’Amato, the former senator from New York, wrote with what may have been unintended irony that the day two decades ago on which he and Rudolph W. Giuliani donned undercover disguises to expose drug dealing was “the high point of our alliance.”

Some of Mr. D’Amato’s previous observations about the former mayor:

“Rudy was first a Democrat who became a Republican just to get a job in a Republican administration, and he’s not done yet,” Mr. D’Amato complained in one of their off-again periods. “There is no philosophical underpinning to him. There is one of a total amoral philosophy.”

At another point he said, referring to Mr. Giuliani, “Just because you studied for the priesthood doesn’t mean you tell the whole truth.”

Mr. D’Amato sponsored Mr. Giuliani for appointment as the federal prosecutor in New York in 1983 — he later called it “the biggest mistake I ever made” — but they split publicly over Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to name his own successor.

In 1989, Mr. D’Amato encouraged a Republican primary challenge against Mr. Giuliani in the New York City mayoral race that Mr. Giuliani blamed for his narrow loss in the general election.

In 1994, Mr. Giuliani endorsed Mr. Cuomo over Mr. D’Amato’s candidate for governor, George E. Pataki, warning that “ethics will be trashed” if the “D’Amato-Pataki crew ever get control.”

Asked then whether Mr. Giuliani might be angling for the governorship himself in 1998, Mr. D’Amato replied presciently: “Rudy wants to be more than that.”

Former Mayor Edward I. Koch, Mr. D’Amato’s weekly debate partner on the cable news channel NY1 and a frequent critic of Mr. Giuliani, said Mr. Thompson had chosen wisely in selecting Mr. D’Amato as a stand-in.

“He knows him well and is able to bring out the worst that Thompson would have to confront,” Mr. Koch, a Democrat, said. “All you have to do is convey Rudy as Rudy is and you bring out the worst.”

MoveOn Takes a Whack at Rudy Over 'Dropout' Status

Having drawn attention with his help to its controversial message whacking Gen. David Petraeus, MoveOn is moving on to tweak Giuliani over his having fallen out of the Iraq Study Group (first reported nearly 3 months ago in Newsday) where he "had the chance to actually do something about the war."

"Rudy Giuliani has become an uncritical cheerleader for George Bush's war in Iraq. Yet when he had the chance to actually do something about the war, he went AWOL. He was thrown off the Iraq Study Group for missing too many meetings. Where was he? Out making huge sums of money giving speeches. When Rudy had the chance to support our troops, he left them high and dry. Now that's a true betrayal of trust," said Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action's executive director. Posted by Admin, web@newsday.com, on September 14, 2007 11:08 PM

(The Religious Coalition of the Southeast and the First Amendment Coalition of Georgia will print evidence of Hypocrisy and Dishonesty whatever its source.)

After 9/11, Rudy wasn't a rescue worker! He watched Yankee Baseball Games instead!!!!

Giuliani claimed to have spent as much time at ground zero as many rescue workers. Where was he really? Much of the time, at Yankee baseball games.

Excerpts from an article in salon.com by Alex Koppelman

Aug. 18, 2007 | On Friday, a New York Times story examined Rudy Giuliani's schedule in the months after 9/11 to verify his controversial claim that, like rescue workers, he'd spent long hours at ground zero, and so was "in that sense ... one of them." In fact, the Times found, he only spent 29 hours at the terror site between Sept. 17 and Dec. 16.

What was he doing instead? Giuliani's beloved New York Yankees made it to the World Series in 2001. We decided to compare the time he spent on baseball to the time he spent at the ruins of the World Trade Center.

The results were, considering the mayor's long-standing devotion to the Bronx Bombers, unsurprising. By our count, Giuliani spent about 58 hours at Yankees games or flying to them in the 40 days between Sept. 25 and Nov. 4, roughly twice as long as he spent at ground zero in the 60 days between Sept. 17 and Dec. 16. By his own standard, Giuliani was one of the Yankees more than he was one of the rescue workers.

During three post-season playoff series that began Oct. 10, 2001, and ended Nov. 4, 2001, Giuliani attended every one of the team's home games, with the possible exception of the third game of the American League Championship Series, for which Salon could not confirm his attendance. According to Salon's arithmetic, Giuliani spent about 33 hours in stadiums -- this includes two World Series games he watched in Phoenix -- during the Yankees' 2001 post-season run, four hours more than he spent at ground zero. (We do not know if he stayed for every pitch, but famed baseball writer Roger Angell described Giuliani in the the New Yorker as a "devout Yankee fan, a guy who stays on until the end of the game.")

Giuliani also attended the first regular season game the Yankees played in New York after the attacks; that game lasted almost three hours. (We do not know if he was present for any of the Yankees' other seven post-9/11 home games.) And he spent one of the away World Series games in a specially reserved box with his son at the ESPN Zone in Times Square, London's Daily Mail reported. The Daily Mail said he did that, in fact, for every away game of the American League Championship Series and the Yankees' first-round Division Series against the Oakland A's, but Salon could not independently verify that report. (Giuliani watched the first game of the World Series from his City Hall office.)

Then there's the whirlwind tour Giuliani made traveling back and forth to Arizona for games six and seven of the World Series. Granted, he and his now-estranged children were traveling with a small entourage composed of the families of some of 9/11's victims; Major League Baseball had chipped in free tickets, Continental Airlines had donated a charter jet, and hotel rooms were comp'd as well. Still, once those families were in Arizona, Giuliani -- who had been predicting that game six would bring a Yankees victory and an end to the series -- made an extraordinary effort to ensure that he could attend to his responsibilities in New York and still make it back for game seven.

Giuliani left game six midway through, the Associated Press reported at the time, so that he could make his 12:30 a.m. flight back to New York, where he needed to spend some time discussing the U.S. anthrax attacks, which by then had touched New York's City Hall. The mayor was in Staten Island by 9:30 a.m. to kick off the New York City Marathon. Then it was back to the airport a few hours later, and on to Arizona for game seven. That, in total, meant 22 hours in the air.

But Giuliani's involvement with the team went far beyond a time commitment. He was, in fact, a visible, constant presence at the post-season games and, more than once, a participant in the team's victory celebrations. Dave Johnson, executive sports editor of the Evansville Courier & Press, even wrote a column at the time bemoaning Giuliani's omnipresence and saying, "If I didn't already dislike the New York Yankees, I'd root against them just because of Rudolph Giuliani ... Who anointed Rudy baseball's new Super Fan?" The mayor was pulled on the field after the Yankees clinched both the American League Division Series and Championship Series, and spent time in the clubhouse after those victories as well.

Nor did Giuliani's involvement start as some attempt to boost the city's spirits after the tragedy it experienced. As the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett has previously reported, Giuliani has four Yankees World Series rings from the time he was mayor; by contrast, Barrett reported, no mayor in any other city that's won a championship since 1995 has any Series ring at all. Barrett also reported that Giuliani attended at least 20 of the Yankees regular season games each year he was mayor.

Giuliani also found time during the period studied by the Times to, for example, make a call to slugger Jason Giambi exhorting him to leave the A's and sign with the Yankees. Giambi did, on Dec. 13. A day later, Giuliani introduced Giambi at City Hall, where, according to the Associated Press, Giambi said, "[Giuliani] was going to help me find somewhere to live, so I'm going to take him up on it."

And though the final budget he submitted as mayor called for serious belt-tightening around the city -- cuts as high as 15 percent for most agencies -- in the wake of the attacks and the $40 billion debt New York faced, Giuliani wasn't quite prepared to subject the Yankees or their counterpart Mets to the same penny-pinching. In fact, though nearly everyone expected 9/11 to cause the city to abandon the plans for new stadiums for the teams -- Long Island's Newsday reported that "since Sept. 11, several city officials, including [then-Mayor-elect Michael] Bloomberg, have said the projects were on the back burner because of the city's other pressing needs" -- Giuliani wanted to push forward. The stadiums were projected to have cost $1.6 billion in city, state and private funds.

Giuliani did need a place to play, after all. Though rumors were swirling at the time about what his future held after the end of his final term as mayor, Giuliani was generally unwilling to give specifics. He was willing, however, to jokingly suggest one possibility -- "right field for the Yankees," the Associated Press quoted him as saying while swinging an imaginary bat.

A spokeswoman for Giuliani did not return a voice-mail message left seeking comment.

Giuliani Family Values

Rudy Wants You To Forget That His Kids Hate Him & Are Voting For Obama

Nothing says Family like marrying your cousin, getting your pedophile priest friend to annul it, marrying somebody else, carrying on public affairs with various floozies while your shamed wife is in the New York mayors mansion, holding a press conference to announce your divorcing your wife and mother of your children, enraging your kids to the point that they never speak to you again, and then marrying some nutty woman and running for the president of terrorism.

But with Loathsome Rudy Giuliani, there's an added bonus, because his daughter is also vocally supporting the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama.

Asked about his Family Values in New Hampshire today, Rudy lashed out at the voter who wondered if anyone should really trust someone who so viciously screws over his own wives and children.

There are complexities in every family in America, Giuliani said calmly and quietly. The best thing I can say is kind of, leave my family alone, just like Ill leave your family alone.

So there you have it, America. Rudy has gone from threatening all your cities with a million 9/11s to threatening to destroy your families like he destroyed his own.

Rudy Says 9/11 a Million Times

Did you get your new issue of Foreign Affairs? No? Check the recycling pile, because sometimes it ends up in there. Look under the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog, or maybe under the Wall Street Journal. Its kind of small. There! Now, take a look at the cover and feel your pulse rise, because this issue holds long boring essays by John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani.

Oh, do you not subscribe to Foreign Affairs? Never even heard of it? Well, its a little bimonthly guidebook published by the Illuminati, and if you read it carefully you can pretty much figure out what wars are coming up and whatever economic/political disasters are in the works. Also, horoscopes!

But as the new issue and our entire political process proves, there are often family disagreements within the Illuminati, just like in the Godfather movies.

Pretty much everybody in charge of everything has decided its time for a political change because who the hell knew when they put Bush Junior in there that the previously sane Cheney would lose his mind? And that's why they're putting Hillary & Bill back in the White House.

For sport, however, the other candidates are invited to have their smartest staffers write up a foreign policy proposal to be published in Foreign Affairs.

Whatever campaign writes the best one might get a chance at the vice presidency, or maybe the State Department.

So what does Rudy have to offer?

Giuliani, mentions 9/11 in the first sentence and goes on to repeat it and reference it another hundred times (really), with every paragraph filled with mouth-breathing terror porn.  Is there an actual foreign policy proposal in there, anywhere?  There's something about how he wants to be fascist dictator of the Entire World so he can defeat the invisible ghosts of the guys who killed themselves flying planes into buildings a half-dozen years ago, but that's about it.  Anyway, its a good chance for the Global Elite to shake their collective head and say, "Thank You Satan that psychopath won't be getting anywhere near the White House."

Everyone Loves Giuliani, especially the Gays

The Democrat Gay debate isn't the only gay presidential action going on. The popular Gays For Giuliani group has announced plans to buy lots and lots of TV time in South Carolina to show a commercial, which lovingly details Rudys long love affair with the love affairs of gay lovers. It is exactly this kind of opera-loving cross-dressing Big City tolerance that experts say will make South Carolina GOP primary voters cozy up to Giuliani's campaign. You can donate to the cause and make sure South Carolina Republicans know that Rudys not one of those run-of-the-mill Republican closet cases " he actually stands by his beliefs and vocally supports civil unions for Americas gay couples."

Also, if any of you South Carolina Republicans need an abortion for your daughter or whatever, Rudy can probably help.

Oh yeah, and if your dog is kind of a pain, Rudys latest wife will torture it to death for you!

Who Said It?

"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be.  Freedom is about authority.   Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."

If you answered Rudy Giuliani, give yourself a jaunty Soviet cap and report to Siberian Work Camp #207. Thanks for playing!

Rudy Baffled By His Own Religion's Theology

Rudy Giuliani was asked a relatively straightforward question at a Town Hall meeting in Iowa: Is he a practicing Catholic? Americas straight-talking mayor punted: My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not so good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests.

Yes, with the accretion of two millennia of dogma and canon law, not even a smart guy like Rudy, who ran the biggest city in America, can figure out whether he's actually a Catholic in good standing or not! Fortunately, unlike the Protestants, who require everyone to have a personal relationship with Jesus that you have to maintain at all times, Catholicism comes with a professional priestly class who are paid to keep track of these things. All you have to do is file an information request at your local diocesan office, and you should be able to find out whether or not your are a good Catholic in the six to eight weeks it takes to process at the appropriate office in Rome. The thrice-married pro-choice candidate has an inside track, though.

Carolina Giuliani Loves Barack Obama

The nation shrugged at the news that Rudy offspring Caroline Giuliani was on Facebook and might support Barack Obama.  Slate broke the story in a prize-worthy feat of investigative social network searching.  But we wanted more: as everyone knows, Facebook is designed to aid in the hooking-up process and also to document totally bitchin parties.  Anyone with access to her profile should have a window into her partying ways. Thankfully, one commenter came through, and provided the now-requisite pictures of a candidates child drinking underage.  Uh Oh.   Shades of Dubyas daughters!!!

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