How desperate are Louisiana Democrats to save the Senate seat of incumbent Mary Landrieu in Saturday’s runoff? Desperate enough to publicly call on crowds to commit voter fraud.
Don Cravins Sr., a former state senator who is now mayor of Opelousas, was caught on videotape last month just before the first round of voting in the Senate race: “If you early-voted, go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.” Just in case anyone doubted that Cravins was serious, he told the crowd they had an insurance policy — the local prosecutor would look the other way: “Tomorrow we’re gonna elect Earl Taylor as the D.A. so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice.” The crowd on the tape laughs uproariously at Cravins’s remarks and then bursts into wild cheering.
But the Cravins family isn’t stopping at urging voter fraud to get out the vote. Don Cravins Jr., the mayor’s son and current chief-of-staff to Senator Landrieu, can be seen on a separate videotape telling a crowd: “I’m asking you tomorrow to go out and vote for Senator Landrieu. She will go on to support Barack Obama 97 percent of the time!”
As David Weigel of Bloomberg notes, the reference is to Republican attack ads that slam Landrieu for marching in lockstep with Obama. She responded by telling Louisiana voters that she was independent and had often bucked the Obama White House. Now her chief of staff is claiming that she and Obama are joined at the hip. As Weigel sardonically notes: “Whatever works.” Except in this case, neither voter fraud nor political manipulation are likely to save Mary Landrieu. She trails in the latest polls by double digits.
I, for one, believe it is despicable that the left continues to suppress attempts to inform the public about criminal voting, and uses its activist judges and the Justice Department to restrict states and communities from even trying to preserve the legitimacy of their elections. Despite the numerous cases of voter fraud, the left continues to claim that asking people to prove their citizenship in order to vote is somehow unfair to the poor, despite the fact that India, a democracy vastly poorer than the United States of America, has a far stricter system in place.
I must wonder why the Democrats so fear an informed and legitimate electorate, throwing every buzzword, attack, and claim of racism that they can at any measure that might ensure that only Americans can vote in American elections.
Additional information on voter fraud and the delegitimization of the electoral process:
http://www.cato.org/publications/congre ... oter-fraud
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... -john-fund
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... ter-fraud/
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/29/missi ... ter-fraud/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie- ... her-shame/
