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North Carolina voters have a choice this November. They can continue voting for big government republicans like Richard Burr and big government democrats like Elaine Marshall, or they can vote for the solution, vote for Freedom, vote for Dr Mike Beitler who is on the ballot in NC. From crony corporatism, to war, to personal freedoms, to taxation,......only the Libertarian Party will defend your Freedom in the voting booth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb8AlR1ztcNorth Carolina voters have a choice this November. They can continue voting for big... more
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6/24/2010 Dr Mike Beitler participated in the North Carolina U.S. Senate Candidate Forum in Wilmington, NC along side Richard Burr and Elaine Marshall
http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=36376/24/2010 Dr Mike Beitler participated in the North Carolina U.S. Senate Candidate... more
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Three judges soundly rejected Norm Coleman's attempt to reverse Al Franken's lead in the U.S. Senate election late Monday, sweeping away the Republican's claims in a blunt ruling Coleman promised to appeal.
After a trial spanning nearly three months, the judicial panel dismissed Coleman's central argument that the election and its aftermath were fraught with systemic errors that made the results invalid.
"The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the Nov. 4, 2008, election was conducted fairly, impartially and accurately," the panel said in its unanimous decision.
The panel concluded that Franken "received the highest number of votes legally cast" in the election. Franken emerged from the trial with a 312-vote lead, the court ruled, and "is therefore entitled to receive the certificate of election."
Speaking to reporters outside his downtown Minneapolis condominium, Franken, flanked by his wife, Franni, said he had "no control" over what Coleman does next but said he would urge his opponent not to appeal, which would delay his certification. "I am honored and humbled by this close victory," he said. "And it's long past time we got to work."
In an interview earlier in the day, Coleman said he believes "thousands" of rejected votes should have been counted.
Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg said the ruling denies many valid votes by applying a stricter standard to determining eligible ballots than local officials applied during the recount.
"This order ignores the reality of what happened in the counties and cities on Election Day in terms of counting the votes," Ginsberg said, asserting that Coleman must appeal to assure that valid votes are counted. Coleman's lawyers have 10 days to file an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court.
But experts who read the panel's 68-page ruling say it effectively attacks some of the very arguments that Coleman would use on appeal.Three judges soundly rejected Norm Coleman's attempt to reverse Al Franken's... more
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Strategists Whisper Fears of More Losses
With the party already struggling to generate enthusiasm for its brand, Republican strategists fear that an outpouring of public anger generated by Congress's struggle to pass a rescue package for the financial industry may contribute to a disaster at the polls for the GOP in November.
"The crisis has affected the entire ticket," said Jan van Lohuizen, a Republican consultant who handled the polling for President Bush's reelection campaign. "The worse the state's economy, the greater the impact."
Republicans are trying to defend at least 18 House seats in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, economic trouble spots that double as election battlegrounds. Rising unemployment, the meltdown in the housing market, and a credit crunch besieging consumers and manufacturers alike were factors in Sen. John McCain's decision Thursday to pull campaign resources out of Michigan. The McCain campaign's exit from the state leaves a pair of vulnerable Republicans, Reps. Tim Walberg and Joe Knollenberg, with a weakened party infrastructure heading into Nov. 4. Attempting to sound optimistic, Knollenberg, who opposed the bailout bill on Monday but supported a revised version yesterday, said simply, "I am going to fight harder."
In the Senate, where Democrats have been on offense all year as they try to attain a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority, Republican incumbents are suddenly teetering in North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia because of the economic crisis, according to several GOP strategists closely tracking the contests.
The pessimism in the GOP ranks reflects a striking shift in momentum in the four weeks since the Republican National Convention, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made her national debut and rallied conservatives, helping to fuel the perception that longer-shot Democratic targets were drifting out of reach.
"If you turn the clock back two or two and half weeks, you could make a plausible argument that if a couple of things go our way we will lose three to four Senate races," said one Republican strategist. "Now we will lose six to eight." Polling in most Senate races over the past 14 days has shown a five-point decline for the Republican candidate, the strategist said.
More at the linkStrategists Whisper Fears of More Losses
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...Another dramatic leap from the traditional Republican stance – and frankly a dramatic leap from anything endorsed by any other American politician I am aware of – is his advocacy of a “nonviolent revolution” to overthrow the foundation of American government, replacing our legislative and executive branches of government with a parliamentary system.
Kelleher believes that true government accountability can only be achieved when politicians stop “passing the buck,” stating that we would be better served with a parliamentary system like that of the United Kingdom, with one party in power, headed by a Prime Minister (not to be confused with the other popular parliamentary system in Europe, that of proportional representation).
As we have all observed, with separate legislative and executive branches the President and Congress continually fight each other to pass legislation, forcing compromises and causing each to blame the other for what was or wasn’t accomplished during their respective tenures...
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