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Sounds like they ran negative campaign ads? Hardly voter suppression and trivializes it by trying to equate the two.

byproxy 8y ago
Well, I wish I was able to fit the entire title in the submission. If anything, I feel that the bribery aspect is more damning. >"You can spend $10 million on an election. Or we can send one of our guys in to go offer the leader of the opposition a bribe, you know, three weeks before polling. It's a very good way to win an election.”
- unityByFreedom 8y ago
  IANAL, is this enough to prosecute? It seems like enough to get a warrant.
- m0zg 8y ago
  I wonder if that's what happened to Bernie Sanders. Immediately after his defeat in the primary he bought yet another house, his third. The timing is just too suspicious to be coincidental. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summe...
  - dsmithn 8y ago
    From the article: "Jane told Seven Days that they had recently sold a house in Maine that had belonged to her family since the 1900s, and used the proceeds to purchase the new property, which is located in North Hero (population 803, as of the 2010 census)." Why would he have bought a house when he was planning on moving to the White House?
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  - solarkraft 8y ago
    I doubt it. He's the most principled seeming american politican and he sold another house for this one. I would think that he bought the house not for a new excess of money, but time.
    - masonic 8y ago
      He "sold another house" yet showed no such activity in that year's tax return?
- dwd 8y ago
  I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop regarding how Peter Thiel became Trump's biggest fan and to what extent Palantir was involved with CA.
makomk 8y ago
What gets me is that when there was a really blatant attempt at voter suppression last US election using Facebook ads falsely warning North Dakota hunters they'd lose their hunting licenses if they voted, by the official North Dakota Democratic state affiliate no less, only a few really right-wing outlets called that voter suppression. Hell, I don't think most of the mainstream news outlets even covered it.
- quasse 8y ago
  Wow, that is so astonishingly scummy [1] [1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov/02/north-dakota-NPL/voting-will-not-cost-hunting-license-north-dakota/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...
- creaghpatr 8y ago
  It did get covered but it materialized, got called, out and disappeared in the span of like a few days.

Well, I wish I was able to fit the entire title in the submission. If anything, I feel that the bribery aspect is more damning. >"You can spend $10 million on an election. Or we can send one of our guys in to go offer the leader of the opposition a bribe, you know, three weeks before polling. It's a very good way to win an election.”

unityByFreedom 8y ago
IANAL, is this enough to prosecute? It seems like enough to get a warrant.
m0zg 8y ago
I wonder if that's what happened to Bernie Sanders. Immediately after his defeat in the primary he bought yet another house, his third. The timing is just too suspicious to be coincidental. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summe...
- dsmithn 8y ago
  From the article: "Jane told Seven Days that they had recently sold a house in Maine that had belonged to her family since the 1900s, and used the proceeds to purchase the new property, which is located in North Hero (population 803, as of the 2010 census)." Why would he have bought a house when he was planning on moving to the White House?
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- solarkraft 8y ago
  I doubt it. He's the most principled seeming american politican and he sold another house for this one. I would think that he bought the house not for a new excess of money, but time.
  - masonic 8y ago
    He "sold another house" yet showed no such activity in that year's tax return?
dwd 8y ago
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop regarding how Peter Thiel became Trump's biggest fan and to what extent Palantir was involved with CA.

makomk 8y ago

What gets me is that when there was a really blatant attempt at voter suppression last US election using Facebook ads falsely warning North Dakota hunters they'd lose their hunting licenses if they voted, by the official North Dakota Democratic state affiliate no less, only a few really right-wing outlets called that voter suppression. Hell, I don't think most of the mainstream news outlets even covered it.

quasse 8y ago
Wow, that is so astonishingly scummy [1] [1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov/02/north-dakota-NPL/voting-will-not-cost-hunting-license-north-dakota/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...
creaghpatr 8y ago
It did get covered but it materialized, got called, out and disappeared in the span of like a few days.