Michelle Obama and Election Integrity
The laws are supposed to apply equally to everyone, or so we thought most of our lives. Today Michelle Obama did something that was never tolerated during any of the many elections which I monitored: she politicked inside the polling place. This is the latest example of the Obama administration not believing in equality before law.
Today, when Michelle Obama voted early in Chicago, she reportedly told a voter that he needed to vote to keep her husband’s legislative agenda alive. This took place in an area where such electioneering is prohibited by Illinois law. The law has criminal consequences.
Like the New Black Panther case, photographs exist of the lawbreaking. And like the dismissal of the New Black Panther case, the administration has swung into action to abet lawbreaking. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the first lady supports her husband’s agenda.
Like so much about the New Black Panther case, that isn’t the point. The point is the rule of law, that precious institution that makes America thrive and, in her darker hours, survive. Laws should apply equally to everyone, whether a president or a prisoner. That is the revolutionary idea that drove our revolution.
People like Pete Rose and Richard Nixon learned that America has little tolerance for those who think they are above the law.
It was cutesy little scofflaw stunts like this that caused her to lose her Illinois law license back in 1993…just 4 yrs after she passed the state bar exsm
Do link.
Michelle Obama’s inactive status seems to have been voluntary. As much as I want there to be dirt here, I don’t think Michelle did anything wrong.
http://24ahead.com/michelle-obama-court-ordered-inactive-status
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
Nope… Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) of the Supreme Court of Illinois. The form says that Michelle Obama is “Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law.”
It appears that the “Finality of Orders and Effective Date of Discipline” was separated from “Types of Discipline.”
Rule 756 is titled “Registration and Fees.” Rule 756 became effective February 1, 1973. The short story is that an attorney can go inactive and pay an annual fee of $105.00. However, if you are “voluntarily inactive,” pursuant to former Rule 770, (see Rule 756 (7)), a “petition for restoration” must be filed.
This is a very different procedure from coming out of a normal inactive status. Rule 756(7) then pertains to Rule 759 titled “Restoration to Active Status.” Rule 759 pertains to those inactive due to “disability,” “hearing and review (Rule 753)” which appears to be first step before disciplinary action. Rule 759 says that if an attorney is restored to active status under Rule 759, which is not the normal route to restoration, any “disciplinary proceedings pending against the attorney may be resumed.
So, this indicates that an attorney who has gotten into some hot water and will be “disciplined,” can go inactive and stop the laundering of dirty linen. If the attorney later wants to go active, the disciplinary action and review goes forward.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2157638/posts?page=1
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/12/wtf-michelle-ob.html
All the links to the record have been ‘scrubbed’ at ARDC
More on michele:
Princeton has taken down access
to this thesis until after the election.
You might want to save these PDFs
when you log onto the site that is
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Enjoy.
Thesis Part 1 -
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M…esis_1-251.pdf
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http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M…sis_26-501.pdf
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http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M…sis_51-751.pdf
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http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_M…sis_76-981.pdf
I cannot find the links… seems a lot of the old records and ‘writings’ have been redacted or removed.
However, I do remember reading a piece in 08 saying that she had been caught working as a ‘bag man’ involving money laundering for the Chi town Daley machine.
Silly boy, our “big boned” first lady is above the law.
I don’t know, Christian…maybe she was just pointing out that the candidate for Governor listed as “Rich Whitey” was a typo….which cannot and will not be fixed prior to November 3rd.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
And sometimes, the “truth” is a fiction.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/2801976,CST-NWS-whitney14.article
Nobody, but nobody is going to investigate voting issues in certain communities, that has become clear. The most egregious violations will be pooh-poohed. It’s a shame. Had Republicans done ANY of these things, or had they been done AGAINST a minority, we all know it would not be dismissed out of hand and the cumulative effect would be the stuff of a thousand stories in the Pocket Media.
Such is the current status of our elections. From ACORN to state rolls with more voters than eligibles, to thugs at polling places, to very strange typos, to the White House itself …there is a double standard and we are forced to watch it, take it and we can’t do a damn thing about it.
We should be better than this.
“Today, when Michelle Obama voted early in Chicago, she reportedly told a voter that he needed to vote to keep her husband’s legislative agenda alive. This took place in an area where such electioneering is prohibited by Illinois law.”
There are two issues at play here: 1. what was said, and 2. location of alleged speech. I note you use “reportedly” for 1.- has 2. been confirmed?
When somebody remarks:
“Don’t sweat the petty things…”
I respond:
“…and don’t pet the sweaty things!”
“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost…..”
Once again for the MSM and this administration…it’s a matter of whose ox is getting gored….
Don’t sweat the petty things
But don’t pet the sweaty things….
For the want of a horseshoe nail……..
I would like to know how long it would take Eric Holder to be on this it it were Sarah Palin that did this. Double standards seem to be the norm today, where Democrats are concerned. If she doesn’t know this is wrong, she’s stupid and if she knows it is wrong and still does it she’s arrogant. Either way she just thumbed her nose at the law.
I am glad it wasn’t Angle or O’Donnell. They would have been immediately arrested and jailed ruining any political future. Michelle can do whatever she pleases. She and her husband are above us. His agenda is proof of that.
Michelle Obama should step up and admit a mistake, and talk about the importance of laws ensuring election integrity.
yeah. what happened to her law license again?
I’m shocked, shocked!
If the voter that Michelle electioneered was black, then she did nothing wrong because he must already be an Obama supporter because of the extent of pigmentation in his skin.
Of course AG Holder will pursue this with all the vigor of the Black Panther voter intimidation case. Let’s face it,certain people are above the law and you have to get used to it.
This is just one more example that the Obamas and most of their cronies just don’t “get” America. I honestly think she was too dumb and too self-absorbed to imagine how patriotic Americans would feel about such a clear violation of the world-revered sanctity of the American voting place. To reverse Michelle’s pre-FLOTUS words to voice my sentiments: In the past two years, “I am finally NOT proud of my country” and am watching it become a “mean” country of increased racial polarization.
Who wants to help stop voter fraud? It’s time to get off the couch and quit bitching.
I, for the first time, volunteered to be a poll watcher. I can do it anywhere in my county as long I’m a registered voter. I’ve chosen for the early voting in the most likely precincts to have voter fraud and illegal activity.
I would encourage others to do so as well. The number of poll watchers in our county alone will be at least 400% higher than what it was during the last cycle. People in our area aren’t going to tolerate fraud and illegal activity at the polls.
Gosh maybe she can share a cell with Ann Coulter who actually ILLEGALLY VOTED.
Saying that is easy. Prove it.
Right on, Lolly. But liberals believe conservatives should be guilty until proven innocent, as one “respected” liberal said on a recent news show: “What evidence do you have that it’s NOT true?”
Yes.. it’s one of the lib ‘plays’ from talking points.. reverse the question and ask ‘them’ to prove the negative.
…and above: “I am finally NOT proud of my country” We know from her college writings, she bad mouthed America and Americans a few times. Beyond her words, are her deeds and ‘in our faces’ waste of our money from elaborate shopping spree’s around the world, to her highly paid 32+ ‘assistants’. Whilst we’re being told these are tuff times and Americans need to knuckle down. The real issue is.. are we, proud of our First Lady? Sad thing is, for the first time, I’m not.
“I, for the first time, volunteered to be a poll watcher….I’ve chosen…the most likely precincts to have voter fraud and illegal activity.
I would encourage others to do so as well.”
If I chose to do this in downtown Philly, I would at a MINIMUM, have my A#%% beat, my car vandilized (or stolen)and would ultimately risk being KILLED. While the police look the other way.
Just like Muslims, Democrats in the cities rely on the silent specter of potential violence to intimidate you.
“Best not to provoke them” is the mindset they seek to imprint on us, and guess what?
IT WORKS!!!!
Who would (does?) walk to a downtown voting place, and assert themselves when the “obvious” occurs? Not many at all.
How many “letters to the editor” do you see where the author recites the evil barbarous nature of Mohammed as proof that islam is inherently violent?
Yup, since your NAME and the TOWN YOU LIVE IN are required by most editorial page rules, not many are willing are to risk (for the rest of their lives) a “van goh” style attack by some righteous Mohamadeen.
Soft “family types” with more to stake and at risk than their own lives cant afford to confront them, and they know it.
Your ignorance is breathtaking, on several different levels.
First, you display your ignorance of basic Philadelphia geography: where is “downtown” Philly, exactly? West Philly? North Philly? South Philly? Center City? You apparently live close enough to a city to identify it as the most logical place for you to poll watch (like that would ever happen), yet you cannot even identify the most basic divisions of the city, which suggests that you have never even been there. How does one live so close to a major American city without even attempting to avail oneself of what it has to offer? That incuriosity is its own form of ignorance.
At the same time, you assert with authority that if you poll-watched in this place you have apparently never been, you would “at a MINIMUM, have my ]A#%% beat, my car vandilized (or stolen)and would ultimately risk being KILLED. While the police look the other way.”
Claiming to know with some certainty what will happen to your person and property in a place you’ve never been is pretty ignorant, as is your assumption that police officers you’ve never met in the place you’ve never been would sit idly by as you were beaten by the unkown assailants.
Probably just as well that you don’t volunteer to poll watch in Philly (as I do). You don’t sound up to the task.
I too have finally put my time where my mouth is and have volunteered for True the Vote. We all need to do this.
Michelle (“Pray for my Barack…Keep the spirits clean around us”) is out there stumping for some some of the slimiest of the slime, including but not limited to that young crook in Chicago running for Barack’s old Senate seat.
Something as mundane and tedious as laws restricting campaigning in and around voting places wouldn’t be applicable to the Primadonna-in-Chief,
The tendency towards arrogant preachiness was apparent in both Obamas during the campaign.
…. Michelle-Antoinette Obama’s lawbreaking is authentic small potatoes. But someone “in her position” has a higher obligation to the institutions ….
In “her position,” I suppose, as the patently self-and-own-culture-loathing spouse of a the modified-Marxist/Alinskyist rabble-rouser street agitator presently pretending to an office about a score of levels, in Professor Peter’s scheme of things, beyond his abilities?
And then there is a first “lady?”
Not that you’d notice.
including but not limited to that young crook in Chicago running for Barack’s old Senate seat.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_publicblog/2010/10/is_the_tony_rezko-alexi_gianno.html
Heck, I’m surprised Rezco himself isn’t running for the seat.
But tanstaafl, this is a town where the entire election process is so corrupt, they think its funny to take the Green Candidate (yeah, I know…who cares), Rich Whitney and put his name on the ballot for Governor as “Rich Whitey”…and then pass those ballots out in predominantly African American neighborhoods.
Illinois politics is a cosmic joke. There’s a special wing for governors in the prison system. Before Greylord, you could get a lawsuit fixed faster than a pothole.
You don’t really expect a fair election there do you? With ACORN in bed with the Democratic Party, the SEIU snuggled under the covers with them, and the Pocket Media doing all the cover up work for them…elections the “Chicago Way” has gone national.
We live in a rapidly forming banana republic, tanstaafl. The PRESIDENT has little or no respect for the Constitution, why should any of his constituents?
You don’t really expect a fair election there do you?
No, just pointing out the irony of the Clean Spirit Lady stumping for Giannoulias.
As your article starts out, why the heck hasn’t Rezko been sentenced yet ? Supposedly, he was used during the inquiry into the Blagojevich travesty, but the lack of a sentence is truly weird, even within the context of the Chicago Way.
cfbleachers: I agree with everything you said and want to add one thing: our Commander-in-Thief not only doesn’t respect the Constitution, I’m sure he doesn’t understand it, not in that “deep down in your gut” way that all Americans, conservative or liberal, understand it; Despite our differences, most Americans have a feeling of pride that America has set a high standard, has always been different and gone first. We have a proud history, and our innovative Constitution se that up. Whether or not Obama was born in this country, he admittedly wasn’t raised in it and doesn’t have that pride in America that is natural to most of us. Hence, his selection of an unproud-of-America wife.
B-I-N-G-O
Michelle Obama displays arrogance and ignorance simultaneously, breaking Illinois law with impunity.
Michelle was caught electioneering while voting; breaking state law. The way Obama and Holder look the other way at voting irregularities would suggest again there’s one set of laws for the Obamas and the leftists and the labor union pukes while there’s another set of laws for the rest of it. Well, here’s my legal decision. When voting (in Illinois), I’m going to electioneer from one end of the place to the other. And let them know if it’s good enough for monkeyarms, it’s good enough for me.
To me, there’s another side to this. Obama and Michelle should be sensitive to voting irregularities, especially considering all the votes they’ve helped ACORN steal, and considering how they let the Panthers intimidate voters ad nauseum.
Consequently, maybe the Obamas were sending the message that committing voter fraud and crimes is okay on November 2. In other words, it’s open season on voter law.
Any part of America the Obamas can sully, muddy and turn to their own advantage, they do. If they have a sense of decency, I haven’t seen it.
If any President and first lady are led out of the White House in handcuffs, it’s gotta be the Obamas. And since 70% of America is onto them, it just may happen. The jig is up. They deserve to go from less than a term serving in the White House to a term of about thirty years serving in a federal penitentiary.
“..term of about thirty years…” …treason in time of war commands a quite different punishment.
Please don’t use “FLOTUS.” It sounds even stupider than “POTUS.”
I wouldn’t have thought anything could sound more pompous and stupid than “POTUS,” but “FLOTUS” manages to do so.
We witness every day the constant blurring of the “rule of law” and who does it apply too? I am really angry that this President and FLOTUS can fluff off things and mock that do make a difference to the common folk. IF they can poo poo the little stuff where does it end and how far do they push the envelope?! I say she should be charged. A blantant stick to the eye of law abiding citizens. She knew better regardless of how they spin it.
and she knew she could get away with it- just like all the lawbreaking thats been going on the last 18 mos
When I heard about first lady Michelle Obama’s voting violation in Chicago, it did not surprise me. The Obama are infected with a disease of arrogance and depraved indifference to our Constitution and rule of law and order. Why is it that most law abiding citizens and lawful voters understand the l00ft ban on campaigning near a polling center. It is elementary and every election, primary or general a violation duly noted. Madam Michelle doesn’t sweat the small stuff , one term in the white house is a gurantee pass. Democrats have created this “monster” and we the people will have to pay two more years of their irresponsible actions. God Save the USA, please!
The failure of the Senate to convict Clinton of very real crimes set the precedent that Liberal Democrat setting Presidents and their spouses are above the law. As soon as Clinton was let off I said that the next Democrat President would commit even worse crimes knowing that the Congress wouldn’t remove him.
The difference between Flotus and Flatus is but a single letter. Quite possibly this might account for Michelle’s gaffe?
The mere mention of Integrity and Michelle Obama in the same sentence was the tip off to me….
You can take a thug out of Chicago but you won’t get the Chicago out of the thug..
And to think I have to PAY this person and her lame assed husband for the rest of my life, how disgusting…
She and Barry can do and say anything-if anyone dares to suggest that they are flouting the rule of law-they are automatically called ‘racist.’ Nothing will get better until he is out of office-impeach him now for his treasonous apologizing, schmoozing with dictators and his rape of the economy.
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle you obnoxious , ignorant excuse for a first lady . The perfect match for the unqualified , ignorant excuse of a president.
Sad how hatred is so imbedded into someone.
Our country is so embedded with hatred for others who are different. We look for fault in everything a person does.Find me someone who is perfect!!
The main thing is to keep THE main thing, the MAIN thing. She violated the law and so…
nothing will happen just like when the liar-in-chief opens his mouth…remember-”the health care bill will not be one dime of deficit spending” yeah right. So, your CBO director quits, most of the staff bails for other pursuits, why? The lies are stacking against the usurper. Flee man, flee the truth is coming. Run the facts are coming…