Last Sunday, the Cincinnati Enquirer told us what everyone already knew — that the First District rematch between Steve Driehaus, D-Pelosi, and Steve Chabot, R-Reagan, is a diorama that shows the whole national picture. It has attracted national attention as a proxy for everything voters are angry about this year — Obamacare, runaway spending, crushing debt, Pelosi radicalism, abortion, you-name-it.
So allegations of voter fraud in the contest would be pretty big news, right? Not in the Enquirer.
The accusations could not be more serious. Tom Brinkman and Chris Finney of COAST have filed a lawsuit alleging that students at Hughes High School were bused to the polls and given sample ballots listing Democrats only — then, after voting, they were taken out for ice cream.
Cincinnati Public Schools officials denied they were involved — but the kids were allegedly taken to the polls during school hours, so it’s pretty hard to believe CPS was not somehow involved. And this is far worse than the typical ACORN voter fraud of bribing homeless vagrants with cigarettes and Whoppers. In this case, high school students have been exploited to corrupt an election. That means that their first experience with voting was cynically manipulated by Democrats and their supporters to rig an election.
Anyone who would do that deserves to be prosecuted and fired.
Who is involved? The teachers union? CPS? The Driehaus campaign? Why was this story buried on B5, near the back of the Local section, at the bottom of the page?
And why does CPS approve of taking students out of class so they can vote? Since when is it OK to waste public money and classroom time to “get out the vote”? Are we supposed to believe teachers and their union do NOT provide instruction on the way those kids should vote?
After working for 18 years in the newsroom at the Enquirer, I can guarantee this much: If similar voter allegations had been made against the Republican, it would have been on Page One.
voter fraud among the dumbocrats is as common as the bullets that fly thru their neigborhoods-thus b5 coverage.slightly past the daily murders.voter fraud among republicans is as common as murders in mt lookout.worthy of front page news.
Bronson unplugged.I love it.
The Enq.is the poorest colection of full and half page ads in Cincinnati. Wait its the ONLY one.
My Lab loves to bring it in the AM.He loves it but then he can’t read it can he?
I was totally amazed by some of the folks who left comments and saw nothing wrong with CPS doing that. What are they thinking? It is wrong, period, and would be no matter what political party were to do it. Somebody needs to stay on this story until the public receives a satisfactory answer. Just my opinion Pete
QUESTION: How old were these kids
Were they old enough to vote
Why has this not been all over the TV news
What is going to happen to the people at
Hughes High School who miss used these kids
Are you really trying to accuse (or mislabel) the Enquirer of being (gasp) a liberal leaning publication?
Good points. Maybe it’s not big news anymore when Democrats cheat. Some people apparently see nothing wrong with it. But this is the hottest discussion topic today on the Enquirer web site. Also made headlines at Drudge and Lucianne.com, plus mention on Rush Limbaugh’s show. Yet the Enquirer buried the story in the print edition and can’t even make room for a headline on their web site. Go figure. Is someone asleep at the switch or are they deliberately hiding it?
It is no wonder that readers are leaving the Enquirer in droves. I no longer subscribe because of the shoddy reporting.
I “found” this story and couldn’t believe it. So I did what everyone should do when they discover corruption that is being swept under the rug. I forwarded it on to Drudge, and a bunch of other sites…
Today the story blew up, even though the enquirer is trying to hide it, just look at the comments, and it isn’t on the list of most commented articles… when it has over 220 comments…
Americans need to wake up and stop supporting union backed “public” education. Their goal is indoctrination, not education.
Home School is a great alternative.
Almost as bad was WCPO this morning. They had reporter Bill Price reporting from Avondale, where buses (I think from churches) were going to pick up people and give them rides to the Board of Elections for early voting. I believe he called it a “public service”. Oh yea. There are polling locations in every precinct They are all accessible. Anyone can get an absentee ballot, they even mail you the form and it may even be postage paid to return. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The Board of Elections bends over backwards to maker certain no one is “disenfranchised”. Wake up people. This kind of thing needs to stop. Peter Bronson needs to run for something. And, I agree, the Enquirer is worthless. Were the Post still around, this story would have been front page news, above the fold.
Denny: My lab brings the paper in every morning too. It’s the only thing she does all day. She always chooses the Enquirer. So much lighter to carry than the Wall Street Journal.
So, looks like our local media are among the ethically disabled who see nothing wrong with busing kids to the polls during school hours and giving them only Democrats to vote for. Loved this morning’s story, too. It’s alright everyone. CPS EMPLOYEES did not hand out names of Democrats to vote for — it was just a former CPS principal. How do you suppose that looked to kids on their first voting experience?
Free Enterprise: Way to go on the Drudge posting. This story has legs like a track star no matter how the Enquirer and others are trying to put it in a wheelchair.
Anyone else notice that the Enquirer has disabled reader’s comments on various online articles?
For example: Comment on the Bengal’s loss but let’s not discuss the rabid shootings, rapes and robberies in the same tiresome neighborhoods.
Anytime there is a Muslim shooter like in Texas or bomber like in NY Times Square they cut the comments off.
Politics not getting smarter just sleezier. Though I am not a Hamilton county resident (Clermont Co.) Things are out of control. So sick of the backbitting, don’t tell me what you don’t like about the opponent. Tell me what you are going to do or at least want to do. Thank you.
Sounds like the Enquirer has the same policy as NPR, which fired Juan Williams for daring to criticize Muslims. I just put a blog post up on that topic.
Voter Fraud – This is the beginning of the end if our vote does not count for anything. These children participated in an activity that destroys the integrity of my vote and their vote. Without the vote we have all lost the power needed to keep us free. How sad to think a school could allow or participate in such an exercise in child manipulation by any political party.