Giuliani And The GOP Trying To Rig California Elections
This plan to deceive was conjured up by supporters and heavy fund raiser for Rudy Giuliani. So you really have to wonder how much involvement does the Giuliani campaign or Rudy himself have in it and how much do they know? Since, California generally goes to democrats the GOP and Giuliani believe the only way to win California is to steal it.
As each election year passes it becomes crystal clear that the Republican party with all their Christian values and moral BS, they can not do anything without lying, cheating and stealing.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 — Republican donors are pumping new life into a proposed ballot initiative, considered all but dead by Democrats a month ago, that would alter the way electoral votes are apportioned in California to the benefit of Republican presidential candidates.
The effort, begun in the summer by a prominent Republican lawyer, lay in peril in October after its top proponents quit over questions about its financing.Last week, a new organization began raising the roughly $2 million thought to be needed to get the initiative on the ballot. The new effort is being spearheaded by David Gilliard, a Republican consultant in Sacramento, aided by Anne Dunsmore, a prolific fund-raiser who recently resigned from the presidential campaign of Rudolph W. Giuliani
The initiative would ask voters to replace California’s winner-take-all system of allocating its 55 electoral college votes with one that parses the votes by Congressional district. It has attracted strong opposition from Democrats because it would transform California from a reliably Democratic state in presidential elections by handing the Republican nominee roughly 20 votes from safe Republican districts.
If the initiative qualifies for the ballot, Art Torres, the head of the California Democratic Party, has promised a constitutional challenge, arguing that only state legislatures can determine how electoral votes are allocated.
The initiative began under the aegis of Thomas W. Hiltachk, a lawyer and a Republican. Mr. Hiltachk quit in September after it was revealed that the effort’s only donation at the time had come from a top fund-raiser for Mr. Giuliani, Paul E. Singer, via a remote group in Missouri run by a lawyer, Charles A. Hurth III, who had also donated to Mr. Giuliani’s presidential campaign.
Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant, helped by Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman, and some elected officials, steamrolled the earlier effort with a relentless campaign that included complaints to federal agencies about the connections between the Giuliani donors and the initiative.
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