Judicial Watch: “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009

Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, just posted their list of the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" of 2009.

Here's the list.

1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
   
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
   
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
   
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner
   
5. Attorney General Eric Holder
   
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) Tied for 6th Place
   
7. President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House...
   
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
   
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven Kinda lame to put John Murtha and a bunch of everyone else in #9 slot, but oh well.
   
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Please visit Judicial Watch's posting to read the specifics of why they were nominated.

Also check out some of the previous years nominees.
“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2008
“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007
“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2006

2009 Municipal Election

Tomorrow's election day, and I though you'd all benefit by knowing a little about the candidates that will be on the ballot tomorrow.

You can find the on going election results here: http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?FunctionID=12&ElectionID=33

The positions up for election and/or retention this year include:

• Justice of the Supreme Court
• Superior Court Judge (chose 4)
• Judge of the Commonwealth Court
• Superior Court Judge (Retention)
• Judge of the Commonwealth Court (retention)
• Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
• District Attorney
• Sheriff
• Prothonotary
• Recorder of Deeds
• County Controller
• Jury Commissioner
• And a whole slew of others.
  

I'll give you my recommendations for my county (Bucks County) to the best of my ability. I'm primarily using three voter's guides and minor research for my recommendations. I'll be using the FOAC's (Pennsylvania's offical 2nd Amendment PAC) endorsements; the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation PAC's endorsements; and the League of Women Voters (just understand that the LWV is not impartial) election guide.

Justice of the Supreme Court
Joan Orie Melvin - Joan Orie Melvin is recommended by both FOAC and the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. The endorsement by these two organizations indictates that Joan Melvin would be a good candidate because she will defend the innocent and stand up for our rights. Joan Melvin also was quick to speak out about the Luzerne Co. judicial corruption scandal.

Superior Court Judge (Pick 4)

• Temp Smith - Endorsed by both PA Pro-Life Fed & FOAC.
• Judy Olson - Endorsed by both PA Pro-Life Fed & FOAC.
• Sally Mundy - Endorsed by the PA Pro-Life Fed, but not by the FOAC.
• Paula Ott - Endorsed by the FOAC, but not by the Pro-Life Federation.
• Kevin McCarthy - Endorsed by the FOAC, but not by the Pro-Life Federation.
• Marakay J. Rogers - She's the only Libertarian candidate on the ballot for Superior Court Judge. Since there'll be some compromise on at least two of the candidates, she might be a good wild card especially for Libertarian leaning voters. However, she was previously a Green Party candidate, so take that into account because she obviously isn't "hopelessly devoted" to the Libertarian Party. By this I mean, she doesn't believe in the LP principles so strongly that she wouldn't dream of changing her party membership to be elected. In her race for Attorney General her priorities were: "Stop prosecution of victimless crime, Put moratorium on death penalty, Protect citizens' rights from government abuse." Sounds all pretty good except for her position on the death penalty, but the fact that she changed party membership to get on the ballot for at least one election should be an indicator that she may value the possibility of being elected over her party values. Therefore, one could conclude or make the assumption that the party is more a vehicle to her political career than political party that describes her personal beliefs and priorities.
  

I haven't read anything good about these candidates. It may mean they'd be horrible choices, but it might just mean that they're neither pro-life nor pro-rights nor pro liberty.
Not Recommended: Robert J. Colville; Anne E. Lazarus; Teresa Sarmina

Judge of Commonwealth Court:
Kevin Brobson - Endorsed by the FOAC & The PA Pro-Life Federation
Patricia McCullough - Endorsed by the FOAC & The PA Pro-Life Federation

Judges for Retention
Kate Ford Elliot - Endorsed by The PA Pro-Life Federation for retention.
Dan Pellegrini - Endorsed by The PA Pro-Life Federation for retention.

District Attorney
David W. Heckler - Endorsed by the FOAC.

Sheriff
Not enough information present to make a recommendation.

The rest of the positions are iffy (School Board, county controller, recorder of deeds, prothonotary, jury commissioner, and the rest) as I don't have any real information about them.

You can do your typical very sophisticated "eeny-meeny-miney-moe" and "my mother hit your mother in the nose--What color was the blood?" methods of deduction for the best candidate or check your local (think very local i.e. Souderton Independent, News Herald-Oct28&Nov3rd edition) newspaper for information on these smaller local elections.

We The People: "Liberty Itself May Be Lost"

I got this in an email. I'm not entirely sure how, since I'm fairly sure I'm not a subscriber to their newsletter. However, the founder of the We The People Foundation has some strong words for our government.

PENNSYLVANIAREVOLUTION.COM PRESS RELEASE:

We The People Foundation

For Constitutional Education, Inc.



www.WeThePeopleFoundation.org


CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009: 

Delegates of the People to convene in Philadelphia

to address constitutional crisis



Public Information meeting to be held in

Harrisburg, PA on Sunday, Jan 25

On Sunday, JAN. 25th at 1:00 pm, the We The People Foundation will hold a public meeting to promote local awareness of the People’s historic initiative to address our nation’s escalating constitutional crisis. The meeting will be held at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone at 110 Limekiln Road, New Cumberland, PA 17070 (717 920 5653).
...
“It is no secret that for decades, the U.S. Government has operated well outside the relatively straight forward language and original intent of the provisions of our Constitution,” said Bob Schulz, Chairman of the WTP Foundation. “Unfortunately, these acts of the Government are deliberate violations of fundamental Law and have resulted in the destruction of the Liberty of the People.” 


The People have documented and confronted many of the Government’s constitutional violations including the war powers, privacy, 2nd Amendment and immigration abuses, as well as the banking and money violations that are the root cause of the current financial system meltdown. The People have also recently challenged the legal authority of the apparently bottomless Fed and Treasury economic bailouts. To date, the Government has refused to be held accountable. 



“We have reached a point where the People, much like our Founders, must carefully consider the course of current events and take actions to defend our unalienable Rights and interests, or Liberty itself may be irretrievably lost,” Schulz added. “The most disturbing of all the violations is our Government’s refusal to be held accountable in any manner. Not only has the federal Judiciary refused to wrestle with the underlying constitutional wrongs, the Supreme Court has refused to declare the authority of the People to directly procure relief under the First Amendment’s accountability clause. This is the essence of the constitutional crisis that must be addressed, and time is of the essence.”

For more information on this meeting visit Pennsylvaniarevolution.com.

While I'm not very aware of this foundation, I completely agree with them in their main points. We've lost a great many freedoms in the name of 'security'. I want those freedoms back. Security can never be guaranteed, but freedoms can be.

This is why our founding fathers were very explicit in our constitution about liberty and used very harsh words in The Declaration of Independence.

If the Declaration of Independence were addressed to the United States would it fit?

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness... The history of the present Federal Government of The United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

...

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

...

The Government is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny... (remember Blackwater in New Orleans?)

Certainly, some things hold true when held against our government but we're nowhere near the tipping point.

Will the tipping point come before reform starts? I hope not.

Pay attention though because this could be an interesting 4 years.