The Election Results You Pay For

Cookie Jill posting at Skippy talks about the kind of election fraud that most people suspect, but which rarely makes the radar of anyone outside of independent media and blogtopia.

Here's a taste to whet your appetite:

experienced federal investigators, acting independently, have discovered a covert funding channel used by the 2000 and 2004 bush-cheney campaigns and the administrations of jeb bush in florida and bob taft in ohio to illegally funnel foreign and other questionable money into republican coffers.

ever since the brutal death of florida department of transportation (fdot) investigator ray lemme in july 2003, the focus of investigators in florida and georgia has been on the political scandal lemme was uncovering. after his official investigation of contract fraud, money laundering, illegal immigration, and election fraud was shut down on orders of jeb bush, lemme continued to investigate the use of fdot to launder cash for the bush brothers and their allies. lemme's focus was on the use of the florida turnpike system to launder cash for the jeb and george w. bush campaigns. it was an investigation that would ultimately lead to lemme's body being discovered in a motel room bathtub in valdosta, georgia. a two-state police cover-up of lemme's death, threats directed at florida and georgia investigators, and a virtual media blackout indicates that the gop administrations of jeb bush and georgia's sonny perdue wanted the lemme story to go away—and fast.

the reason for the cover-up of lemme's reported "suicide" is simple. investigators have now discovered that foreign cash, including chinese, saudi, and nigerian money, was laundered via the biggest state-run cash cow in florida—the florida turnpike system. because most of the transactions involving florida's toll roads involve cash and huge amounts of it, it was easy for foreign and other questionable money to be laundered via fdot.

....now comes word that "coingate" in ohio is tied to the same criminal elements in the gop that were responsible for turnpike toll money laundering in florida. durden's counterpart in ohio, tommy noe, a bush "pioneer" contributor whom gov. taft appointed to the ohio turnpike commission, is in the center of a major scandal involving missing state funds invested in rare coins and baseball cards. shortly after the toledo blade began reporting on the ohio coin scandal, noe resigned from the turnpike commission.