Former Colorado GOP State Chairman Guilty
Steve Curtis, hate radio talker and former chair of the Colorado state GOP, regularly accuses Democrats of all kinds of malfeasance, including voter fraud. Welp, this week, in a clear case of Karma is a Bitch, Curtis was convicted of…wait for it…voter fraud. In 2016, ol’ Steve somehow thought it was a good idea to forge his ex-wife’s signature on a mail-in ballot and send it in. Said ex-wife had moved to South Carolina and discovered the fraud when, upon requesting a mail in ballot for that state, was informed that she had already voted – in Colorado.
Steve’s defense? He forged her name during a diabetic episode, and then accidentally mailed it in the next day. The jury didn’t buy the story. I wonder; why is it that the guys who scream the loudest about wrongdoing and voter fraud are generally the ones guilty of just that?
Bidness as usual.
1I can almost forgive the crime more easily than I can the pathetic, transparent damn lies he and his ilk offer as excuses. Just how stupid can these people be? Not to mention that the stupid so often overestimate their own intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of everybody else.
2Couldn’t be a bigger case of projection, even if he sat in the back of the room wearing nerd glasses…
3I hope the judge takes away his photo I.D. and sentences him to take a bus 200 miles to get it reinstated.
4What a vengeful SOB! Good for the ex-wofe for standing up on her hind legs and yelling! As for Steve, his ilk just cannot help themselves. They were somehow taught along the way that they are the creme de la creme of the earth and can do no wrong even if they commit genocide and all the “little people” are their play toys in their sadistic games. Sorry about the hyperbole a little bit but I have just had my fill of these specimens after so many years of their free-wheeling **ap!
5Teh Gerg, it’s the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is appropriate because they are calling Trump the Dunning-Kruger President.
I am going to try that diabetic episode excuse for when I want to try and rob a bank by gunpoint. Or maybe I won’t, it didn’t work so well.
6Rick, love it. But when he gets to the registration office, he’s told he has to go back and get his birth certificate, which he won’t be able to find. And he has to risk losing his job and try to find child care for all these trips back and forth.
7I.Hate.snacilbupeR.
8I love it “how the hypocritical l have fallen” forgive misquote. I too hope he does some jail time.
9“I wonder; why is it that the guys who scream the loudest about wrongdoing and voter fraud are generally the ones guilty of just that?”
It is called protective coloration.
10It happens frequently, and not just about voter fraud.
Those who are quick to accuse others are quite often the guilty.
11Watch the narrative people. The incidence of voter fraud is statistically non-existent. Because this dolt is Republican does not change that fact.
12I am willing to bet next month’s Social Security check this case will not be in the report of the president’s commission on vote fraud.
Also, it is kinda nice to see a rightwinger blaming something other than brown people when things go wrong, but pointing at diabetics is akin to saying wimmens can’t be legislators ’cause they can’t think straight 4 days out of each month.
13HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING ALERT!!!
14A story in The Daily Beast:
“Fascism Runs in My American Family”
A lot of things in this piece have been said before. But the writer puts things in perspective really well towards our current situation.
A case that clearly proves that no, karma isn’t a bitch. It’s a mirror.
Good on the jury for seeing through this hypocrite’s lies.
And to Lless —
What you say is statistically true about voter fraud generally. Now I wonder what the statistics are when it comes to that minuscule number of crimes being committed by those who scream the loudest about it? Inquiring minds want to know!
Right now, if memory serves, we’re at 2 for 2: this guy and Steve Bannon.
15Voter fraud is 0 to nil. The real crime is the fraud perpetuated against voters from gerrymandering to the wiping of eligible voters from registration rolls. State legislatures and those who perpetuate these crimes should be investigated and tried for un-American activities; at the least. One person, one vote and each vote carefully counted is the democratic way.
Voter ID laws, then the DMVs which would issue the IDs suddenly disappear from certain (minority) precincts. Republicans only think they are stealthy. When they’ve been called into court for their crimes the violations have been patently obvious.
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in its decision last week, held that the North Carolina state legislature acted to entrench itself and “it did so by targeting voters who, based on race, were unlikely to vote for the majority party. Even if done for partisan ends, that constituted racial discrimination.”
The court called this strategy what it is: racist. The panel wrote that “using race as a proxy for party may be an effective way to win an election. But intentionally targeting a particular race’s access to the franchise because its members vote for a particular party, in a predictable manner, constitutes discriminatory purpose. This is so even absent any evidence of race-based hatred and despite the obvious political dynamics.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/03/courts-are-finally-pointing-out-the-racism-behind-voter-id-laws/?utm_term=.9be4a66e9a68
16“Protective coloration”
I like that.
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