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Carnahan Blog Now Signals End of an Era

With both Russ Carnahan and Robin Carnahan leaving elected office last January, the time has come to wind down their family blog: FiredUp! Missouri. And so they have:

Here at 24thState.com we have followed the hollow work of FiredUpMissouri (FUM) for years. Now seems a fitting time to remind our readers of the racist lies the Carnahans trumped up against Roy Blunt (R-MO). That was during Robin's failed bid for US Senate in 2010. We caught them red-handed manufacturing political "news" on multiple occassions in that campaign. Of course, FiredUp used similar tactics to go after Ed Martin when he was running against Russ. And who can forget our satrical press release about FiredUp merging with the Missouri Democratic Party?

With Russ Carnahan's loss to Lacy Clay in the MO-1 Democrat primary and Robin Carnahan's stint as Secretary of State coming to an end earlier this year, a glorious new day has dawned on the Show Me State. We have entered the era of Carnahan-free government. May it ever remain thus!

 

Ron Berry Testifies Before Missouri House, But 24thState Remembers His Role As Project Vote Mole

Ron Berry testified in front of a Missouri House committee this week against Voter ID.  Berry, a staff member of Secretary of State Carnahan, was hired because of his experience with Missouri Pro-Vote, whose close ties with SEIU and ACORN have been repeatedly aired on this site.

Ron Berry was also a very important player in the suing of the state of Missouri by Project Vote and ACORN.  In an email forwarded by Jeff Ordower (formerly of ACORN, now of MORE), Project Vote Lawyers express concern that if Robin Carnahan isn't on board, they won't be able to sue.

     

This is Nicole Kovite, of Project Vote:

   "If the SOS does not answer my questions about this procedure, we may not have enough information to bring a lawsuit at all right now. I am very concerned that if this press release goes out with the paragraph that mentions litigation, that the SOS will not return my calls and we will be cut off from some very important information.

Simply stated, a press release leak about litigation may prevent us from bringing a lawsuit at this point."

 

 

To keep her on board, they forwarded a copy of a press release to Ron Berry's Blackberry and instruct him not to forward the email.

Jeff Ordower:

"Here is our release.  Do not reply to this email"

The instruction is clear.  Ordower believed falsely that an email on Berry's smartphone couldn't be discovered. They wanted the Secretary of State to know what they were doing, but didn't want the information to be made public.

A staffmember of the Missouri Secretary of State was directly contacted by ACORN to secretly coordinate a press strategy for the suing of the state of Missouri.

This email thread is the clearest proof that Robin Carnahan was not only aware of, but her staff colluded with Project Vote to sue the state of Missouri, without harming Robin Carnahan.

That suit would provide $500,000 to the left-wing lawyers at ACORN and Project Vote (sister organizations) from the state of Missouri.

So as the Missouri House listens to Ron Berry, keep in mind that his loyalties do not lie with his job.  They lie with the left-wing extremists who worked hand-in-hand with Robin Carnahan to weaken the voting process in the state of Missouri.

And let's not forget Laura Egerdal's role in the Voter ID fight.  Working with ACORN, SEIU and AFCSME, she helped organize resistance to the bill in 2007, and was then rewarded with a job in the Secretary of State's office as well.

Secretary Of State Database Down

The Secretary of State's database has been down all day, slowing the voting process.

Every Republican in Missouri knows this will be an excuse that a Democratic judge uses to keep select polls open in the Kansas City and St Louis. 

Robin Carnahan needs to be defeated today, and then driven from office in 2012.

From voter rolls to hiring extreme left wing activists into her staff, she is a danger to honest voting.

Former SEIU employee Laura Egerdal is the one speaking to the press, the unqualified astroturfer who the campaign against Voter ID before getting hired by Carnahan.

This will likely cause a significant increase in provisional ballots.  If that is the case in Jefferson County, boy do we have a doozy of a story for you.

 

Highlights From Blunt-Carnahan Senate Debate

The highlights from the Blunt/Carnahan Senate debate.

This is from the Roy Blunt You Tube Channel.

 

Carnahan seemed pretty aggressive, but she seems to not understand that people are more concerned about her probable voting record than FiredUpMissouri's smear campaign. 

Though it was fun to hear Robin say, "we have video."  Do you think she meant, .Sean has video, and he's pretty much an employee of the MDP?

Carnahan Lawsuit Strategy: Delay To Stay In The News, Appear Busy

The latest in the Carnahan/Fox News lawsuit is pretty silly. As Robin Carnahan's poll numbers solidify in the low 40's and attention goes elsewhere, the campaign continues to go through the motions to give themselves something to do between now and Election Day.

Seriously.  The ad isn't running much, and it's not moving the needle.  Why would the Carnahan campaign keep it going? Especially with these arguments.

1) Fox New didn't own the copyright until after they filed the lawsuit.

Fox News owned the copyright from the moment they created it.  The specific filing isn't applicable - it's a way of strengthening the case, but there's no question Fox News owns the work product.

Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is cre­ated in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who cre­ated the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

While Carnahan's lawyers are certainly within their rights to argue this, it's a novel way to spend time and money.  They aren't arguing that they stole the content. They're arguing that Fox News didn't file the $35 copyright that would allow them to sue.  The courts may or may not agree, but the money to argue this line comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is the Carnahan campaign coffers.  Even if they were to win, they'd still have to pay their lawyers.  How exactly will that help Robin's polling numbers?  Lawyers get paid before GOTV operations do.  But lawsuits can take time, and give Robin something to talk about in fundraising pitches.  Well, that and cardboard cut-outs of Roy Blunt.

2) Fair Use applies because they only used a short portion of the entire program.

"Indeed, it is highly relevant, in the opinion of the Carnahan Campaign, not only that it used a very small portion of the copyrighted program (about 24 seconds from an hour-long program, less than 1% of the program).

This is hysterical, and there's not a chance it stands.  If this were the case, then all those YouTube videos pulled down for copyright infringement are going to be reinstated, because you used less than 1% of the two hour movie.  Think of it.  You could run 1 minute of a 120 hour movie as a campaign commercial because it is less than 1% of the total output of the movie.

At stake is the problem of the commercial not using the video portion accurately.  The, ahem, highly edited video, is intended to convey a message separate from that of the original news broadcast, and without the protection of satire or a substantial change from the original product.  It's simply stolen, played out of context, and forms the main portion of the commercial.  If the courts agreed with that, they'd be breaking new ground, ground that Hollywood, the music industry, and other news stations would never allow to stand.

But it buys time, doesn't it?  The Fox News lawsuit has been going on for a couple of weeks.  It makes Robin look busy.  It's repeated in the news.  But it has no impact on the race. It's not intended to.  

It's intended to injure Fox News and protect Robin, claiming she lost because of right wing media.  You will hear that after the election.  They'll take a shot at Fox News, instead of blaming Robin for doing what all campaigns do, which is to pull the ad, but complain loudly.

Amateur hour.  I hope the Democrats in Missouri take a long hard look at themselves and start asking the tough questions about why the let Robin step into the race, avoid running for a year, and end the campaign with a series of 3rd grade videos put out by a hungry-for-camera time campaign manager.  Robin's polling numbers look like Art Hill in the winter.  Good for sledding, but not so great for "a Missouri political dynasty." 

 

 

I AM NOT A FARMER

Jake Wagman has to be really scraping the bottom of the barrel for material.  Today he posts a picture the Robin Carnahan campaign put out of a cardboard cutout of Roy Blunt with a sign saying, I Am Not A Witch.  I guess that's better than calling Meg Whitman a whore, but it shows the amateurism of the Robin Carnahan campaign, and their desperate attempts to be relevant as they run out the clock.

But let me show you what the message should be, using the Post Dispatch Political Fix front page as an example. 

 

 

Now that's some high quality humor, and a great response.  So let me ask - is this the "approved" picture for Robin Carnahan at the Post Dispatch?  Considering that it accompanies a story about the DSCC pulling out funding of television commercials, and has nothing to do with her family "farm," or her current job as Secretary of State. 

Don't get me wrong. If I were her campaign manager, I wouldn't be bragging on her accomplishments either, but this is the proper response both to Carnahan and the PD's policies for pictures.

 

Puppy Cruelty Has Nothing To Do With Prop B

Prop B: The Planned Puppy Euthanasia Bill.  Maybe we should just call it the Puppy Murder bill and run around throwing puppy slobber and red paint on Prop B supporters.  Wait - that would be too sane for a group that gets accused of throwing molotov cocktails through campaign windows. 

Have you ever in your life seen so many adults completely incapable of discussing a proposed law without invoking such hatred?  Functioning on an emotional high is the trademark of liberals, but if you want a reason to vote against Prop B, the supporters and their stated belief that all opponents hate dogs and love cruelty is a good start.

Prop B bypasses the state legislature to create a new law on the books concerning puppy mills.  For a side-by-side comparison of the Prop B language and the current laws on the books, download this brochure.  Notice that while Prop B adds language to the statutes, it procures no money for enforcement or to care for the displaced dogs.

If the puppy mill bill (the word itself is a creation of animal activists, looking for something that sounds horrible so they can rail against it), was passed through the legislature, debate on the positive and negative aspects, as well as legislation addressing the implementation and funding mechanisms for the effects of the bill could have been addressed.  That didn't happen, because HSUS failed to get it through the Missouri legislature. Instead, they decided on an emotionally manipulative proposition campaign that cost millions of dollars to sneak in legislation behind the spectre of PUPPY CRUELTY.  And backed by Robin Carnahan, a judge ruled that PUPPY MILL CRUELTY ACT was a reasonable title for the bill. 

But the bill doesn't discuss animal abuse or animal torture. There's nothing in the bill that addresses the issue of Puppy Cruelty.  The bill addresses breeding puppy care and limits on the number of breeding animals one licensed breeder can own.

If you are a licensed breeder who treated your dogs with the best care any dog had received, employed 100 people, but own 51 dogs for breeding, you will be considered a criminal.

If you are a licensed breeder with ten dogs who treats your dogs with the best care, but their enclosures are 48" by 35," you're a criminal.  

If you own 9 dogs, and you stack them one on top of another 9 high, and deliberately put feces in their food and water, and leave them in the snow and heat, the bill doesn't speak to you at all.

If you are the HSUS, and you take in 1000 dogs, and keep them in deplorable conditions before killing all of them with rat poison, you are not affected by the bill.

So how exactly does the bill deserve the title of Puppy Mill Cruelty?  It doesn't.  The terms "puppy mill" and "cruelty" aren't relevant.  The bill is aimed solely at licensed dog breeders who have yet to break the law.  This is a restriction on their ability to raise dogs, not an animal cruelty law put into place to stop animal cruelty.

But as we've pointed out - passing a law limiting the number of dogs a breeder has doesn't have the emotional appeal of "puppy mill cruelty."

 

 

 

Connecting The Dots Between Carnahan Lobbyists And Stimulus Dollars

This video from the GOP helps you understand what you already know - when politicians vote for massive amounts of money to be distributed, political families are always in the mix.

 

Hall Of Social Justice: The Demise Of Green Jobs Man

Many of you will recall the blockbuster exploits of the team from the Hall of Social Justice in ACORN Man: Seed of Destiny, and ACORN Man: Clean Up Detail, as well as the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful ACORN Man: Origins, and The Mazur Files: Dirty Hands.

ACORN Man and his pal, SEI-Ultra have fallen on hard times. SEI-Ultra is now Part-Time Telemarketer Guy, while ACORN Man had to go underground and re-emerge as Green Jobs Man, working on giving out grants for the stimulus plan.

Things were going swimmingly, with a $107 million grant for Missouri wind farms, but all is not as is seems.

Is this the end of the Costumed Crusader for Social Justice?

 

James Carville Mistakenly Calls Robin Carnahan A Rat

What else are we supposed to think? James Carville, one of the nastiest people in Washington and known as an attack dog, sent out a fundraising email in support of Robin Carnahan.

In the piece, Carville writes.

"If I had to pick either the rat or Congressman Blunt to represent me in the US Senate, I'd take the rat seven days a week and twice on Sunday."

Well that's not a very nice thing to say.  Carville knows that Robin Carnahan is running against Roy Blunt.  If you have a choice between Roy Blunt and a rat in the Missouri race, doesn't imply that Carnahan is a rat?

There are couple of ways to look at it

1) Carville thinks Carnahan is a rat, but prefers her over Blunt

2) Carville meant to write:

"If I had to pick either the [Democ]rat or Congressman Blunt to represent me in the US Senate, I'd take the [Democ]rat seven days a week and twice on Sunday."

     Someone spell check or an editor made a mistake, and only the rat part came out, with the "Democ" twice being deleted.

3) Carville isn't anti-Blunt, he's pro-rat.  Many people get down on rats, not realizing there are good rats and bad rats. For example, many people know the fleas from black rats were a major contributor to the Black Plague, but few know it was the noble brown rat, migrating west from Northern China, that eventually drove out and killed off the black rat population with its larger size.  In cooler climes, brown rats are the dominant species (after humans).  Without them, it's possible the plague would still be a problem today. 

4) James Carville is just a nasty, partisan, long-term Washington insider who will say or do anything to inject life into a failed Missouri Senate campaign.

While most people are focusing on the rat remarks, it's Carville's other words that have me worried.  "I'd take the [Democ]rat seven days a week and twice on Sunday."  While absentee voting would allow you to vote on any day of the week, the idea tha you could vote twice on Sundays is disturbing considering Carnahan is Secretary of State.  What is James trying to tell us?  Is he warning us of vote fraud?  Or is it just more stupid talk from a man that was forced to lie to protect his boss on a regular basis?

hattip:  Gateway Pundit