Down The Slippery Slope

On March 31 there is a special Congressional Election in the 20th District of New York. This district includes Albany and the area just north of New York City. Voter registration shows that the district leans Republican. The race pits conservative Jim Tedisco against liberal Steve Murphy. They are vying for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand. She resigned from her congressional seat to be appointed to the U.S. Senate from New York.

The Republican candidate is Jim Tedisco, a solid conservative on both fiscal and social issues. Jim Tedisco led the fight against Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to issue New York State driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

Steve Murphy is the Democratic candidate. He was a Wall Street executive who allegedly made millions by shipping U.S. jobs to India. President Obama and the Democrats are pouring everything they have into this race to keep this seat Democratic. The fact that Steve Murphy and the Democrats are spending a lot of money on this race does not bother me, that is part of the political game and the Republicans do that also. My intent here is not discuss the evils of big money in our elections.

New York Gov. David Paterson called the election for March 31 in the hopes that Republicans can’t get organized in time to compete with the well-oiled political machinery of the unions and the notorious left-wing community group ACORN in turning out votes for Murphy.

The possibility of vote fraud in this election is what really worries me. Vote fraud is becoming a disturbing trend in our elections. ACORN and other left-wing special interest groups are manipulating elections. It appears they are at work again in New York in the race between Tedisco and Murphy.

The Working Families Party (WFP), which has endorsed Murphy, is directly affiliated with ACORN, the left-wing community organization charged with voter-fraud in the 2008presidential election. ACORN has a history of procuring phony voter registrations, multiple voting, and other voter fraud tactics. Left-wing organizer Bertha Lewis, who is directing the field effort by the WFP to elect Murphy, sits on the ACORN board. ACORN and the WFP are funded by the exact same left-wing unions. ACORN falsely claims it is a non-partisan organization and is receiving our taxpayer dollars. In my opinion that should be illegal. Taxpayers should not be paying involuntary and indirectly for any political party. Republicans claim millions of dollars are being spent on behalf of Murphy by ultra-liberal special interest groups.

This type of electioneering is common in communist, fascist and totalitarian countries. If this trend continues it seems to me that free and impartial elections in the United States are in grave danger. I hope and pray the election in New York is fair and square but I have serious doubts. This is not the type of election process our founding fathers envisioned or instituted and once again we are a on the precipice of a slippery slope.