Republican paid voter registration operation linked to fraud

An effort by Republicans to register voters with paid workers is underway in North Carolina and across the nation. In the past month various ads have appeared on Craigslist, Facebook and other online job listings offering amounts from $11 to $13 per hour (and in some cases internship credit) to help Republicans and Mitt Romney win in North Carolina in November by identifying conservatives and registering them as voters. The operation is linked to an Arizona company with a history of fraud allegations including the destruction of Democratic registration cards.

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Art Pope’s Money for Nothing

Art Pope spends a lot of money to complain about the government taking money away from him. It would seem odd then that when the government is taking good care of his money and wants to give it back to him he doesn’t seem to want it back.

Rainmaker stirs teacup, Civitas sees storm.

A swarm of securities class action law firms have been bad mouthing each other and their clients as they jostle for position of lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit related to the lackluster Facebook IPO. Civitas has taken the spurious claims of pugilistic legal underdogs, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, as evidence of “a sordid affair” that “underscores the need for North Carolina to convert to a 401(k) style retirement plan”. Hardly.

Shrink Government, Grow Private Sector? It’s Obama

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