Because They Cheat Vol. 2
During these last two weeks before the election I may have to start a new series called “Because They Cheat”. I posted the first example a couple of days ag o, and as I said at that time we have to beat the Dems with as big a margin as possible because they cheat. Another entry : Some 6,400 staffers and students at Winston-Salem State University received e-mail exhortations Monday to take advantage of early voting and help the Democratic Party, setting off local Republicans. After a complaint by Nathan Tabor, the chairman of the Forsyth County GOP, university officials acknowledged that the e-mail — sent from the student-affairs division — was improper. The university cited a state law that prohibits the use of a state employee’s authority or state property to support or oppose a person or an issue in any election. “We regret it,” said Nancy Young, the director of public relations at WSSU. “We sent out a retraction and said to disregard the earlier e-mail.” That wasn’t the end of it, though. Yesterday, the university sent out what Tabor called an “equal time” e-mail inviting all the same recipients to work for Republicans during early voting. That message was to be retracted by the university last night once it had been out six hours — the same amount of time the Democrat message was out before being retracted. Tabor said he’s upset that he had to call the university and complain. “That is a tax-funded school,” Tabor said, calling the original e-mail “highly illegal and unethical.” The university said it would try to discover who sent out the e-mail and whether it was sent intentionally or accidentally in a partisan form. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to investigate and find out this was a partisan effort, intentionally sent out to promote Democrats. It could be that panic is now really setting in as early voting numbers in many areas show the GOP with significant turnout.
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