Ezzie Thomas simply helps older African Americans vote - Dyer's statement

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From Buddy Dyer's statement:

The voter fraud portion of the investigation has been concluded and the results were negative and that should end the Mulvaney election contest.

That is the good news.

The bad news is that during the course of their investigation the FDLE switched their focus to a vague Florida statute that has never been applied in this state. They contend that the work of one political consultant and citizen of our city, Ezzie Thomas, constituted a violation of state statute. Mr. Thomas has worked in this community as a political activist and consultant for years and his clients have included the chief elections officer of this state, former Mayor Glenda Hood, our newest United States Senator Mel Martinez, City Council members, County Commission members, the Change 4 Kids campaign and the Mobility 20/20 campaign and members of the state Legislature. Yet this investigation was apparently focused on only my campaign and the campaign of one judge. And what does Ezzie Thomas do? He simply helps older African Americans participate in the voting process.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1304052#


Oh isn't Ezzie nice guy. All he is doing is helping these poor old black Americans participate in the voting process.

Hey Dyer, you left out one word in that sentence. He simply helps older ILLITERATE African Americans participate in the voting process. That way Ezzie can fill their ballots out for them and they have no way to know who they voted for.

Yep, all the ballots were valid but that doesn't mean that there wasn't any fraud.

Before working for Buddy Dyer, Ezzie worked for Mel Martinez and Glenda Hood. So if he did 'ballot collecting' for Dyer, you can be sure he did for the Repugs too. As a matter of fact, the whole story recks of Repug set up but that's a different issue.

Understand, the real problem with ballot collecting is not collecting the ballots. It's how guys like Ezzie go about collecting the ballots. Here's the scam. These guys focus on elderly and preferably illiterate, black people. They go into their homes and 'help' them fill out their ballots. Then the nice man takes care of everything and even delivers the ballot for them. In the meantime the nice man, votes for whoever is paying him. That's how it works in FL.

They did the same thing in Micanopy. A guy named Remzey Samarrai did the ballot collecting around there.



Politics and Sleaze Envelop Orlando
By Andrew Gumbel
The Independent, 27 October 2004

http://www.virtualboricua.org/Docs/ti01.htm



FDLE Accused Of Intimidating Black Voters
Associated Press
July 17, 2004

http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/us/2004/intimidateeth.htm

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2. I think Dyer was set up

I don't think he knows what was really going on.

The Repugs have used Ezzie's services for years. They knew how Ezzie worked. You deliver the election for whoever is paying you. It was easy then to go after Dyer, even though he probably didn't have a clue.

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4. Oops, did I push

someone's button?