PETITION BACKERS EMBARRASSED; LASH OUT AT HEARING

[Ian David]

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005
From: Tom Lang [e-mail]
Subject: Petition backers embarrassed; Lash out at hearing


please read and forward.


PETITION BACKERS EMBARRASSED; LASH OUT AT HEARING

Evidently, no matter how deceitful and unscrupulous these out-of-state, buck-a-signature petition circulators are in perpetrating fraud, any unsuspecting Massachusetts citizen that falls for their tricks "has the IQ of an eggplant."

That's what Chip Faulkner of Citizens for Limited Taxation said, anyway, as he sat on a panel with Kris Mineau of the The Massachusetts Family Institute at the Joint Committee on Election Laws hearing on Tuesday.

This he exclaimed while only a few eggplants away stood an 18 year old Northeastern freshman who had just finished describing how her first experience as a registered voter had been to be bait-and-switched into signing the anti-gay marriage petition. She was on a panel with eight other bait-and-switch victims...

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[kweerwolf]

1. It never ceases to amaze me ...

... how low these allegedly "christian" folk will stoop to attain their goals.

Lie? Cheat? Use Deception? ... It's all good if you convince yourself you're doing "the Lord's work."

All of which begs the question: Who would Jesus pay a dollar a signature to (and would he care what tactics they use to get those signatures)?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Petition companies - who owns these things?

Here's the one responsible for that bait-n-switch: http://avd93.tripod.com/

[kevinbgoode]

3. Deception is the hallmark of fascism. . .

and another reason why these people clearly do not have claim to the "christian" name.