Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Yesterday The BRAD BLOG interviewed Byron DeLear who is running for Congress in Missouri’s 2nd District. The current holder of the seat is the ultra-conservative war supporter and Bush crony, Todd Akin (R-MO), who last year infamously argued to keep sending reinforcements to Iraq by invoking Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
We found the intellectual DeLear, who supports the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq and the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, extremely knowledgeable on a wide range of issues including election integrity. DeLear even goes so far as to call for the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution to secure the vote.
Says DeLear during our exclusive interview…
“I talk about the necessity for the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution to be securing the most sacrosanct institution of our Republic which is the vote — the cornerstone of our democracy. And how is it that we can allow corporations to own the source code that instructs voting machines how to count the vote? How is it that in our supposedly popular and public owned electoral system can we have privatization occurring where the basic functions of our elections are in secret and are not available to the scrutiny of the American people?
“So I think the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution should be securing the vote, providing for independent verification of ballot results and I think we should explore the idea of perhaps standardizing the American voting experience. Because when you have 13,000 different methods of counting the vote littered across the landscape of our Republic — that essentially violates the essence of equal protection under the law. And I don’t think it’s fair that you can have African Americans waiting six hours in the rain in Ohio and then other people in other parts of the country just walk in and get their votes cast and there is no problem whatsoever.
“So we got to end this kind of unequal, unfair playing field that is occurring in regards to counting our votes and getting our voice heard.”
Our complete interview (appx 4 mins), shot Sunday during a fund raising even here in Los Angeles, follows below. You can find out more about DeLear at his DeLear for Congress website…
The neoTurd in Lousiana, where neoTurds had held the district for 33 years, lost to a democrat yesterday.
Today is the 38th Anniversary of Kent State. I remember that day when Amurkan Nixon turned the guns against American college kids. It was the first Tiananmen Square.
I hope DeLear honors the people and that they honor him and take out another neoTurd.
Listen to this ballad about the neoTurds.
Good luck, Byron DeLear! Does C&L know you’re running? They always support reasonable candidates, like you, over the extreme right-wing fringe-types that have dominated US politics for too long now.
Now there’s a guy I could vote for. I just don’t get that people don’t get that our voting integrity is directly connected to the kind of people we’re forced to vote for. 🙁
Cant find it anywhere on his site but the way he talks and what he says he is clearly GREEN PARTY.
I have only voted Green Party the past 8 years and will never vote Rethug/Democrat again.
Do the country & yourself a favor and vote GREEN
Just out of curiosity how many readers of Brad Blog (which are WAY better informed than the average American voter) even know that we have a 3rd Presidential candidate?
And the BEST candidate BY FAR.
The hell with Obama & Clinton, McKinney is BOTH Black AND a Woman plus is the only one that is capable of telling the truth.
How could anyone in their right mind vote for anyone else than McKinney?
These speeches she gives here cover more facts & tells more truth, discusses more important issues than what ALL of the other candidates combined have spewed in countless “Faux Debates” the past year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cOM9r51Nw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtoNvpT-s0
Could you even imagine in your wildest dreams hearing Obama, Clinton, McCain speak like this, actually answer questions with honesty?
The MSM have already rigged this S-election by swaying the vote & more likely just down right lying about it taking both Kucinich & Paul which were without question the REAL front runners from the very beginning out of the running.
And they wont even mention McKinney’s name because they simply can not afford to let a REAL candidate get airtime that would force real change onto this Fascist regime.
It can not be a secret to anyone on this blog that the Democrats are clearly complicit in the crimes & cover ups of the past 8 years.
“We the People” have got to stop voting for known criminals that are complicit in Treason & War crimes and out right theft of Trillions of dollars from American tax payers.
How many here even knew that every port on the entire West Coast was shut down on May 1st to protest the War & the Treason committed by this administration & the entire Congress?
Were Obama, Clinton or *gag* McCain at any of these rallies to show support for ending this war or investigating the war crimes committed?
Who was the only Presidential Candidate there to show support? Got one guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspANxukBgg
Stop this madness, WTFU!