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Will this man split Republican vote?
Mysteriously funded 'independent' party tied to Obama
WND
Aaron Klein
2/29/2012
Excerpt:
"Former Louisiana Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer has said he hopes to become the independent candidate to run for president as part of a group calling itself Americans Elect.
The mysteriously funded, highly organized Americans Elect effort to put a third-party candidate on this year’s election ballot has ties to President Obama and top Democrats, as WND previously documented.
After dropping out of the GOP nomination race, Roemer said he is now seeking the presidency as an independent with Americans Elect.
“The Americans Elect think the country ought to come first, and I agree,” he said.
While Americans Elect requires each presidential candidate to choose a vice presidential candidate from another party, Roemer said he plans to select an independent candidate to run alongside him.
Roemer told a local Louisiana newspaper he hasn’t yet endorsed Americans Elect’s platform and he is also considering becoming the Reform Party’s candidate.
Earlier this week, David Boren, a former Democrat senator and governor from Oklahoma who backed Obama in 2008, told the New York Times that Americans Elect could provide “electric shock therapy” to the political system.
“The country is going to really be in deep trouble if we don’t act soon,” said Boren, who is now president of the University of Oklahoma. “I think this is really a cry from many of us who are really concerned for the future of the country.”
The Times noted that names being floated for possible Americans Elect candidacy include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Erskine Bowles, who served as White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton.
Is this how Obama win will be guaranteed?
Americans Elect, or AE, seems designed to appear like a massive, grassroots effort involving millions of citizens acting to draft a third-party candidate.
However, the organization’s voting process has been called into question. There are concerns AE’s bylaws may allow its own board members to bypass votes and nominate their own candidate.
AE describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded by Americans from across the political spectrum who are worried that our nation’s deep political divisions keep big problems from being solved.”
AE plans to hold its own nominating convention on the Internet this June to select an independent presidential and vice-presidential candidate. The group says any registered voter can sign up to participate in the June convention.
AE reportedly has raised more than $22 million so far and has already been certified to be placed on the ballot in all 50 states.
To get on state ballots, AE demonstrated mass organizing skills. The group says it collected more than 2 million signatures nationwide in its effort to get on state ballots.
WND found that two AE board members, Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, were paid by the group to help run the massive signature-gathering drive through their firm, Arno Political Consultants.
The Arnos’ firm, APC, reportedly has been accused of forging signatures and collecting signatures using fraud.
In 2004, APC was accused of forging signatures on a petition to legalize slot machines in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
The next year, Boston’s Fox television affiliate, WFXT, ran a feature interviewing paid signature collectors hired by APC through subcontractors. The interviewees said they were trained on how to trick people into signing a petition using fraud, including by switching the petition text after each signature was collected."
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/will-this...publican-vote/
Mysteriously funded 'independent' party tied to Obama
WND
Aaron Klein
2/29/2012
Excerpt:
"Former Louisiana Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer has said he hopes to become the independent candidate to run for president as part of a group calling itself Americans Elect.
The mysteriously funded, highly organized Americans Elect effort to put a third-party candidate on this year’s election ballot has ties to President Obama and top Democrats, as WND previously documented.
After dropping out of the GOP nomination race, Roemer said he is now seeking the presidency as an independent with Americans Elect.
“The Americans Elect think the country ought to come first, and I agree,” he said.
While Americans Elect requires each presidential candidate to choose a vice presidential candidate from another party, Roemer said he plans to select an independent candidate to run alongside him.
Roemer told a local Louisiana newspaper he hasn’t yet endorsed Americans Elect’s platform and he is also considering becoming the Reform Party’s candidate.
Earlier this week, David Boren, a former Democrat senator and governor from Oklahoma who backed Obama in 2008, told the New York Times that Americans Elect could provide “electric shock therapy” to the political system.
“The country is going to really be in deep trouble if we don’t act soon,” said Boren, who is now president of the University of Oklahoma. “I think this is really a cry from many of us who are really concerned for the future of the country.”
The Times noted that names being floated for possible Americans Elect candidacy include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Erskine Bowles, who served as White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton.
Is this how Obama win will be guaranteed?
Americans Elect, or AE, seems designed to appear like a massive, grassroots effort involving millions of citizens acting to draft a third-party candidate.
However, the organization’s voting process has been called into question. There are concerns AE’s bylaws may allow its own board members to bypass votes and nominate their own candidate.
AE describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded by Americans from across the political spectrum who are worried that our nation’s deep political divisions keep big problems from being solved.”
AE plans to hold its own nominating convention on the Internet this June to select an independent presidential and vice-presidential candidate. The group says any registered voter can sign up to participate in the June convention.
AE reportedly has raised more than $22 million so far and has already been certified to be placed on the ballot in all 50 states.
To get on state ballots, AE demonstrated mass organizing skills. The group says it collected more than 2 million signatures nationwide in its effort to get on state ballots.
WND found that two AE board members, Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, were paid by the group to help run the massive signature-gathering drive through their firm, Arno Political Consultants.
The Arnos’ firm, APC, reportedly has been accused of forging signatures and collecting signatures using fraud.
In 2004, APC was accused of forging signatures on a petition to legalize slot machines in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
The next year, Boston’s Fox television affiliate, WFXT, ran a feature interviewing paid signature collectors hired by APC through subcontractors. The interviewees said they were trained on how to trick people into signing a petition using fraud, including by switching the petition text after each signature was collected."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/will-this...publican-vote/
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