VelvetRevolution.us<\/a>, of course) to meet this issue with the seriousness that it deserves. For that, they deserve mountains of credit and support in return. Mimi has spoken at most of the CA50 Busby\/Bilbray related Townhall Meetings and Press Conferences and has been organizing nationally to fight for accountability on this matter as well as to ensure the same mess won’t happen around the country this November.<\/p>\nIn other words, they’re fighting for electoral integrity now<\/i> rather than waiting until November. Their efforts should be a model for all<\/i> groups, nationally and locally, who take election integrity seriously. As I’ve tried to stress many times, fighting for accountability in Busby\/Bilbray now<\/i> is about accountability across the nation prior<\/i> to the election.<\/p>\n
If there’s one thing Busby\/Bilbray teaches us, it’s how difficult it is to fight for accountability after<\/i> an election has been held when irresponsible, appointed elections officials like San Diego County Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas are given credibility by the media simply because they have a title before their name. No matter how little they deserve such credibility and no matter how illegally and irresponsibly they administer an election against<\/i> the best interests of the very voters they are supposed to be serving.<\/p>\n
And now…I’m back off the grid. Don’t bother me. I’m trying to notice trees and mountains and the sky. (When the phone’s not ringing…urgh…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blogged on the road by Brad… Mimi Kennedy, chair of Progressive Democrats of America, makes some noise re: the Busby\/Bilbray election fiasco over at Huffington Post yesterday… Lawless Elections: Sleepovers, Voter Vault and San Diego Please note that PDA has been on top of this issue from Day 1, proving to be the only large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,3,6,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-busbybilbray","category-california","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}