Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Strictly a local problem?

A candidate for Congress drops out the race because of a scandal and the story goes no further than the local section of the Washington Post.   I suppose it's an improvement that the Democrat is labeled as such in both the headline and the lead paragraph but notice this. Her  wrongdoing is something the media insists is not a real problem - vote fraud.
A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections.
Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that "with great regret, and much sorrow" she was resigning from the contest.
"Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make," Rosen said
Rosen's announcement came the same day the state Democratic party released a letter to state Attorney General Douglas Gansler and state prosecutors reporting the allegations against Rosen.
"The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008," wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair.

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