AUDIO: New Mexico Republican Vote-Buying Scandal Covered on Peter B. Collins Show

Guests Include Myself, Former NM Republican Governor, Former KKOB Anchor Who Broke Story

UPDATED: Full Hour Now Online...

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[Updated Post-Show. Audio now available below…]

During my regular weekly Friday guest appearance on the syndicated Peter B. Collins Show at 5pm PT tonight (that’s 6pm in Albuquerque), we were joined by guests…

  • Laura MacCallum (now-resigned KKOB reporter who broke the Heather Wilson Vote-Buying stories before they were spiked by her own station after complaints from Wilson)
  • Gov. David Cargo (former Republican NM Governor, one of several officials who made the initial allegations)
  • David Iglesias (the former US Attorney from NM who was fired in the U.S. Attorney Purge after receiving inappropriate phone-calls from Heather Wilson, and Pete Domenici was not able to make it after all)

As you may have guessed, there continues to be much developing on this story. The trick will be continuing to cover it all as I must head out to the road again beginning tomorrow, for a couple of weeks. As always, I’ll do our best, even from there, to continue coverage. Your help is much appreciated! (See bottom of this post for one way you can help us immediately!)


POST-SHOW UPDATE: Was a great hour, I think. Both MacCallum and Cargo did a great job of covering the meat and potatoes of it all, along with the always top-notch PBC. I was on live from the California State Ronald Reagan building downtown where I just finished attending and testifying at a hearing on the L.A. County “Double Bubble” ballot debacle. More on that when I can catch my breath (which you’ll see I’m quite out of, at the beginning of the hour).

Here’s the full hour, which is actually 42 minutes with commercials removed (courtesy of Green960’s podcast archive.) Download MP3, or listen online right here…

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  1. 5)
    Dredd said on 3/7/2008 @ 6:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    OT

    MicroSoft, AT&T and others are:

    The admission comes amidst US email and Internet companies moving some of their servers overseas. According to a piece in March’s edition of Harper’s Magazine, AT&T, Microsoft and Google all have or plan overseas data centers in an effort by the companies to cut costs.

    “Microsoft has announced plans for a data center in Siberia, AT&T has built two in Shanghai, and Dublin has attracted Google and Microsoft,” Harper’s notes.

    Americans’ personal data isn’t just email. More and more computer users are storing personal word processing, photographs and other files online through document sharing programs like Google Documents.

    “As the functions long performed by personal computers come to be executed by these far-flung data centers,” the magazine writes, “the technology industry has rapturously rebranded the Internet as ‘the cloud.'”

    (Raw Story). Evidently hat means, according to NSA, that they can read email without a warrant.

    American flag waived, Amurkan flag waved. That is where fascists put their “i” … move the “i”!

  2. 6)
    Dredd said on 3/7/2008 @ 6:09pm PT: [Permalink]

    I am listening at central time. Brad and Peter are loud and clear tonight … said he had testified in a joint legislative hearing in LA about the 12,000 votes not counted there …

  3. 7)
    Dredd said on 3/7/2008 @ 6:25pm PT: [Permalink]

    Laura MacCallum is talking about a 4th Degree felony, so I looked it up:

    1-20-11. Offering a bribe. (1969)

    Offering a bribe consists of willfully advancing, paying, or causing to be paid, or promising, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable consideration, office or employment, to any person for the following purposes connected with or incidental to any election:
    A. to induce such person, if a voter, to vote or refrain from voting for or against any candidate, proposition, question or constitutional amendment;
    B. to induce such person, if a precinct board member or other election official, to mark, alter, suppress or otherwise change any ballot that has been cast, any election return, or any certificate of election; or
    C. to induce such person to use such payment or promise to bribe others for the purposes specified in this section.
    Whoever offers a bribe is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

    (New Mexico Law, Elections 1-20-11, emphasis added). Bingo.

  4. 9)
    socrates said on 3/8/2008 @ 2:21am PT: [Permalink]

    #8 Soul Rebel

    the ad there right now is:

    The Hillary Dance: See how one young voter shows his support in this funny video

    Those ads might rotate.

    Anyone else notice that the Election Science Institute scrubbed their website?

    http://www.electionscience.org/

    Here’s something I screenshot months back. ESI, run by a Steven Hertzberg with a bizarre internet history, put out this report whitewashing the absurd exit poll discrepancies in Ohio, 2004.

    Steven Hertzberg Versus a Professor: On Exit Polls

    ESI Brief – Analysis of the 2004 Ohio Exit Polls and Election Results
    http://allaircraftarenotinvolve...78-10.html#866

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