http://rawstory.com/news/2007/RAW_STORY_investigative_reporter_Larisa_Alexandrovna_1209.html'Incestuous' US attorneys downed Democratic governor: reporter
12/10/2007 @ 10:13 am
Filed by Nick Langewis
RAW STORY investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna recently sat down with GoLeft's Mike Papantonio on Air America's Ring of Fire to discuss particulars about the case of imprisoned, White House-targeted former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
"So," starts Papantonio, "Larisa, it seems like everywhere that Karl Rove goes he leaves his ugly, dirty little fingerprints. Same story in Alabama, apparently, huh?"
"That's why he's succeeded," says Alexandrovna. "That's why he's called a 'genius.'"
"Apparently," continues Alexandrovna, "a criminal with unlimited funds is a genius these days."
"Filling in some blanks" on Scott Horton's piece in Harpers Magazine, election fraud was a small, but significant, part of what appears to be a hit job on Siegelman by Republican operatives.Siegelman, then the Democratic incumbent, was running against Republican Bob Riley in the 2002 election, and had by all appearances won the election against Riley, by a margin of roughly 3,000 votes. However, overnight, more ballots for Riley were "found" and counted by an all-Republican panel and subsequently sealed by then-Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor.
A "cabal" of Republicans recounted the votes, determined Riley the winner, and the Attorney General then sealed the ballots. In order for Democrats to even challenge the ballots, they would have to get a court order.
"To this day," says Alexandrovna, "those ballots remain sealed."
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