True the Vote Can Kiss My Big Blue Butt *UPDATED*
I’m fixing to tell you the damnest thing you’ve ever seen or heard.
Today you get to know why I’ve been chatting about Cathy Engelbrecht and her True the Vote bullies. There’s been a story a’brewin’.
Cathy Engelbretch did not sniff out voter fraud when it was right under her nose smelling like a goat with a three day old catfish on its back. And here’s how I know that.
Like Cathy Engelbrecht, I live in County Commissioner Precinct 1 in Fort Bend County.
Bruce Fleming: Loves to Vote
Bruce Fleming is the Republican nominee for County Commissioner, Precinct 1, in Fort Bend County. He won in a runoff election. Bruce was also named Precinct Chairman of the Year last year by then GOP County Chairman and thug-about-town Rick Miller. Miller then recruited Fleming to run for county commissioner which seemed like a good idea at the time since Fleming is unemployed. Here’s Bruce’s website.
So Ole Bruce is a dandy Republican who loves God and hates government.
Recognizing that rights come from God, not government, and that it should be a servant, not a master, are foundational principles under attack today.
Let me tell you about Bruce’s foundational principles.
In 2006, 2008, and 2010, Bruce voted in person in Fort Bend County and by mail in Pennsylvania in the same general elections. According to his financial disclosure forms, Bruce Fleming also owns a house in Pennsylvania. (He homesteaded a house in Texas and a house in Pennsylvania, but that illegality is a whole ‘nother story.) Bruce felt that owning houses in both states gave him the right to vote in the same elections in both states. That’s a third degree felony in Texas.
Bruce’s Fort Bend County voting record
(Obviously one of those Rush Limbaugh Vote for Hillary in 2008 voters)
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Bruce’s Pennsylvania Voting Record
Yes, it’s the same Bruce Fleming with the same address and the same birth date. And, even though Bruce registered in Fort Bend in 2006, he’s still an eligible voter in Pennsylvania. We’re still checking to see if he’s asked for a ballot by mail in Pennsylvania this election.
Cathy holding a True The Vote Goat Rodeo last night in Bruce's very own precinct
It appears that Bruce’s wife did the same thing in 2010.
So here sits True The Vote and the King Street Patriots out chasing imaginary voter fraud when real voter fraud is happening right here in their own front yard.
Ain’t that just the damnest thing you’ve ever seen?
There’s more to this story and all kinds of ugly Republican twists and splatters but I thought you’d want to chew on the glorious irony of Cathy Engelbrecht’s own Republican county commissioner candidate being a felony chronic serial voter frauder.
My Republican neighbor’s yard. Let’s see which signs come down before the rest of the story breaks.
Bruce Fleming is running against incumbent Democratic County Commissioner Richard Morrison. It is a Republican district but Morrison won it four years ago.
If the spirit moves you, make a donation to help Fort Bend Democrats get word out about this. You know you would love to be part of making fun of True the Vote. You know you would.
UPDATED: Bev Carter has her say – and boy howdy! – in her column and on the front page. To be honest, I had forgotten about the asst. county attorney and voter fraud but I do remember the bathroom thing. So, the only voter fraud in this county has always been Republicans.
And our current governor (Tom Corbett a.k.a. Core Butt) who promoted the VoterID law to cut out vote fraud was Attorney General during that period. I wonder how he missed that one.
1By the way, I think you mis-labeled the 2nd voter record–it says his Florida record. Shouldn’t it be Pennsylvania?
2The ridiculous has become sublimely ridiculous in the GOP.
Ok–I need to vent.
I went to get my mother an absentee ballot—here in Ohio—but could not. In the state of Ohio they will give you a letter of request–then you may get an absentee ballot after they mail it to you. My county is backlogged with twelve thousand requests for ballots less than a month before the election. It makes me damned mad how people are trying to vote and get thwarted—while the real frauds in the GOP seem to be voting their butts off all over the country.
Vent over.
3Oh yeah, what goes around comes around, Karma can be a real nasty thing. These people (republicans in general, tea party in the specific) are genuinely without a doubt a comedy gold mine. Too bad they can cause so much damage.
4Thank you, Star, I fixed it. It’s awfully early in the morning for me. I know I’ve been a tad distracted for the past couple of days but this sucker took some research. It will break in a local newspaper this morning and when it goes online, I will link to it. The Fort bend County Democratic Party is having a press conference at noon at the courthouse about it for the Houston media.
5Great catch! I’ll try to catch the press conference. Way to go FBCDP!
6I’m thinking of an old song:
7“We told that boy ‘fore he left home
To leave them politics alone,
He’s in the jailhouse now!”
IOKYAAR once again.
8JJ, please tell me….. what are we, as Democrats going to do at the polls this year, to keep these bullies from running all over people??
Are there going to be more poll watchers? What’s the plan on this? I have worked elections in the past, and I have seen first hand, what some folks will do to keep other folks from voting.
This has got to be met head on. We cannot let these people from “True the Vote” intimidate people into not casting their votes.
9http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Mail-in_ballot_vote_fraud
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/voter-id-laws-charts-maps
10Don, Core Butt was too busy ignoring Jerry Sandusky to pay attention to such minor oversights as a man confused by his place of proper residence and scamming the tax authorities.
11Awesome…
12The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted. Psalm 12:8
13WTG!!! So thrilled you got this out in the public. Doing my “Amen!” dance.
14Well I’m not surprised. Ever since they started this voter fraud…..um stuff…..it’s reminded me of that old saw that they who protest too much are the ones that are guilty of said actions. I’d say this ‘gotcha’ proves that out.
15GREAT SCOOP!!! Good job you guys in FB county!!!
16Great report! I am anxious to see what the Tea Party/True the Vote crowd does next…this guy doesn’t exactly fit their usual demographics of voter fraud they like to discuss.
17Great story! But I have questions. How many felonies does it take to qualify as a Republican in Fort Bend County? Has he met his quota?
18Its what is known in the shrink trade as projection – accuse your opponent of doing exactly what you are doing. After all if you are doing it, they must be as well.
I think its a side effect of trying to maintain too much cognitive dissonance.
19Oh dear! I’ve checked both Channel 2’s website and Houston Chronicle and see nothing. This is a story that must get out ASAP.
This is how the Republicans know there is voter fraud afoot in the land. They are the perpetrators!
20Randy Nerd – I agree! I’ve often said the GOTP has more projectors than a multiplex!
21Juanita, I put a link to this article in Charles Pierce’s blog just now. That should get some attention.
22@Shortpeople — when Corbett was AG he had 1 of his assistants looking into allegations about Sandusky and at least 12 investigating the legislature to find out if any of the legislators’ staff members were doing campaign work. Of course they were — that’s their day job (working in the Capitol building is just a sideline). And Corbett managed to find a bunch of Democratic members (along with just enough Republicans to make it look like it wasn’t a partisan investigation) and he rode that publicity all the way to the Governor’s office where he immediately discovered that there was a distinct possibility that poor people and Democrats would be allowed to vote in the 2012 general election and took steps to put a stop to it.
As for Bruce Fleming, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he has drivers’ licenses for both states, too. I wonder where the cars are registered and where the insurance company thinks they are kept.
23Has he explained his two homestead exemptions yet?
24How does one go about filing a complaint? (local sheriff?, US Attorney?, couldn’t possibly be Tx Attorney General.) Citizen’s arrest? Referring it to the PA Attorney General? The Tax Assessor/Collectors in both Bucks and Fort Bend Counties?
25I read in the local fishwrap that they’d found four whole cases of voter fraud right here next door. Three of them were Texans with vacation property. All four were Republicans.
No wonder the Republicans are all up in arms about voter fraud. They’ve been doing it for years and are just scared to death Democrats will get the idea and outnumber them for good.
26Show up at the polls and do everything legally possible to make life hell for the TEA Party poll watchers. Ask them why they hate minorities, seniors, and the poor. Ask them how to spell Englebrecht, forwards and backwards. Complain to the election judge if you notice anything untoward in their activities. Write letters to local papers highlighting their activities. In short, be a royal pain-in-the-butt and hinder their effectiveness. I plan to spend several hours after school that day at the polls here in Kyle.
27Ah but your memories are too short and sightlines too low! Reminder that Mitt Romney voted for Scott Brown while ostensibly eating cold beans from the can living in his son’s unfinished Boston basement. Never mind that he had two finished mansions in other states under homestead registration and his driver’s license was from California. Voter fraud thy name is Mitt!
28From the Fort Bend Star article:
“This just in at press time: Bruce Fleming called the Star this morning (instead of last night as promised) and said he really didn’t have an excuse about voting in two states except he was living in both worlds, between Pennsylvania and Fort Bend.”
Well, that’s a new excuse. Maybe I’ll try that one next time I vote on Earth and Vulcan both.
29Honestly, these Republicans with so many houses that they can’t keep track of what planet they’re on…. (or, like McCain, how many they have).
30I think it’s a Republican trait. In Pinal Co AZ we had a candidate drop out of the race for County Board of Supervisors after it was publicized that the woman he lived with at his current address continued to vote by mail-in ballot for four years after her death.
31No, really, I agree with Texas Ellen. Is any legal authority actually going to take this on? Shouldn’t the man be in jail? I really do want to know, clients of the salon. I’m admitting here that I’m naive, but shouldn’t he be in jail? Anybody?
32I quit living in two worlds when I stopped smoking Willie Weed. Hoof advice for him too.
33Good catch Juanita Jean.
And pleased to meet you.
34Another Irony is that none of the voter ID laws would catch this type of fraud. Only the wealthy can afford to keep multiple homes in various states.
btw, the Mittster also committed voter fraud by voting in MA while living in CA (claiming that he was actually living in a son’s basement or some such bull…)
35All those business owners in Fort Bend should be ashamed to have Fleming signs still out, but I am still seeing them everywhere. Miller and Nehls must also be fine with being attached to him cause their signs are still with his all over the place to……..we know what they say about those birds!
36Bruce Fleming bragged of voting twice committing voter fraud, we complained to Republican Fort Bend Count, Texas District Attorney John Healey, what happened? NOTHING. How can you prevent voter fraud and other crimes if the District Attorney John Healey is a criminal conspirator himself prosecuting or not cases based on political winds? Criminal Republican protecting Criminal Republican, just like dogs licking each others’ behinds.
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