Colorado Dems: We Caught James O'Keefe and His Friends Trying to Bait Us Into Approving Voter Fraud

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Colorado Dems: We Caught James O'Keefe and His Friends Trying to Bait Us Into Approving Voter Fraud

By Andy Kroll at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/colorado-dems-james-okeefe?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article

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James O'Keefe, the conservative provocateur, has been on the prowl in Colorado, the setting of a close Senate race between Democratic incumbent Mark Udall and GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, as well as a nip-and-tuck governor's contest. Last week, O'Keefe and two of his collaborators tried to bait Democratic field staffers into approving voter fraud involving Colorado's universal vote-by-mail program, according to three Democratic staffers who interacted with O'Keefe or his colleagues.

Democratic staffers in Colorado recently came to believe they were the subject of an O'Keefe operation after campaign workers became suspicious about would-be volunteers who had asked about filling out and submitting mail-in ballots for others. Recently, the 30-year-old O'Keefe has targeted the Senate campaigns of Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor and Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes by filming undercover videos of staffers or the candidate.

Last Tuesday, a man who appeared to be in his 20s showed up at a Democratic field office in Boulder wanting to volunteer to help elect Udall and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), according to a Democratic staffer who met with him and asked not to be identified. The man introduced himself as "Nick Davis," and he said he was a University of Colorado-Boulder student and LGBT activist involved with a student group called Rocky Mountain Vote Pride. Davis mentioned polls showing the race between Udall and Gardner was tight, and he asked the staffer if he should fill out and mail in ballots for other college students who had moved away but still received mail on campus. The Democratic staffer says he told Davis that doing this would be voter fraud and that he should not do it.

On Friday, Udall campaigned with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus. After the event, a woman calling herself "Bonnie" approached a different staffer and, according to this staffer's boss, asked whether she could fill out and submit blank ballots found in a garbage can. The staffer, according to her boss, said that she told her no.




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[PumpkinAle]

1. O'Keefe should realize Democrats

have ethics - he should try doing this with republicans after all they are the ones that have been caught lying and cheating.

[Lint Head]

2. I want to shake that cowards hand in a dark deserted

alley.

[applegrove]

3. What a grifter. When the grifters are on your 'side' you should take notice and reform

your party.

[ffr]

6. That's the way I see it. n/t

[freshwest]

8. Grifting Obfuscating Patricians (GOP) have no sides. Just the desire to own government.

[Blue Owl]

4. What a sleazy little scoundrel

Karl Rove's amateur flunkie strikes out again...

[Takket]

5. When will he be arrested and prosecuted?

[alp227]

7. What a desperate one-hit wonder.

And geez, there were really CU students desperate enough to work for a discredited felon and grifter like O'Keefe? Really?

[davidpdx]

9. Maybe or maybe not

I suppose it could be possible if he offered a substantial amount of money. Who are his sugardaddies? I am sure he's getting money hand over fist to put into his schemes from the right. If someone were desperate enough to pay expenses and he offered a few hundred dollars.

What I would be telling the staffers all over Colorado in campaigns and the party offices is, if anyone approaches you like that to first say:

1) Can you wait a second?
2) take out their cell phone and quickly snap a picture of them
3) Tell them if they ever contact the campaign again with questions about doing something fraudulent that they will be reported to the police immediately.
4) Lastly I would tell them to distribute the photos to other offices to make them aware that people are doing this.

Even if they fail, this should be taken as deadly serious.

[brewens]

10. O'Queef will probably edit any footage to show he pulled it off and all the half-wits will

be up in arms over it!

[Cha]

11. James O'Keefe needs to learn a hard lesson about not messing with Dems.. and I mean one that

makes him wanna find a new line of work.

Mahalo apple~

[SeattleVet]

12. A perfect 'new line of work' for him would be...

making little rocks out of big rocks, or stamping out license plates.

And I would't mind my tax dollars supporting him in these new ventures.

[Cha]

13. Sounds like it would be right up JO'Ks alley, SeattleVet!

[Onlooker]

14. I like James O'Keefe

What he is doing is good Alinsky-style politics. I can't believe we don't have someone like him on the left. We need someone like him very badly.

[ncjustice80]

15. I despise him for the same reason, though I agree we need someone like him in the left.

[Sheldon Cooper]

16. Really? You like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/

"The plans appeared so outlandish and so juvenile in tone, I questioned whether it was part of a second attempted punk," Boudreau said.

But in a phone conversation, Santa confirmed the document was authentic. Listed under "equipment needed," is "hidden cams on the boat," and a "tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine."

Among the props listed were a "condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs" and a blindfold.

According to the document, O'Keefe was to record a video of the following script before Boudreau arrived: "My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I've been approached by CNN for an interview where I know what their angle is: they want to portray me and my friends as crazies, as non-journalists, as unprofessional and likely as homophobes, racists or bigots of some sort....

You have very strange tastes. No, "we" don't need anyone like him at all.

[onethatcares]

17. take pictures

of these volunteers for the wall of "shame" or fame if you want to frame it that way. Who could possibly not want their work to go unrewarded or un acknowledged?

[tridim]

18. Sounds like he's phoning in his ratfucking these days.

When you fail at being a complete dick, maybe it's time to stop.

[kentuck]

19. Souns to me like he is encouraging breaking the law?

Which is also illegal. He should be arrested.

[Enthusiast]

20. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! James O'Keefe is engaging in election fraud.