Democrats want feds to investigate electoral college ballot effort (California)

Democrats want feds to investigate electoral college ballot effort
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Monday, October 1, 2007


(10-01) 16:50 PDT San Francisco -- Democratic Party activists said Monday that they have filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission charging connections between backers of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and a GOP-supported ballot measure that could have changed California's winner-take-all electoral college system to benefit Republican candidates.

James Harrison, an attorney for Californians for Fair Election Reform, the Democratic group, said the organization asked the commission to refer the matter to the Department of Justice to investigate possible criminal violations of federal election law.

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With Democrats calling for an investigation, allies of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who had backed the proposed ballot measure - including the author, Sacramento attorney Tom Hiltachk - dropped their support.

Then Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund executive and major New York fundraiser for Giuliani, admitted he was the sole source of funding behind the measure.

Giuliani's campaign aides said Monday, as they had last week, that they had no connection to the proposed ballot effort.

Democrats said they are pursuing the complaint with the Federal Election Commission to send a message to any Republicans who might consider reviving the measure.

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/01/MND2SHTNQ.DTL&tsp=1

And Rudy is a big rat bastard.

We want to make sure that this slimy effort does not get resurrected down the road someplace else, or back in California again...