The Tinfoil Standard
By Mitch Berg
There are quite a few fake Minnesota IDs out there:
23,705 cases of possible fraud to be exact.
People like Pedro Chavez, aka Jose Cisneros, or Carlos Santiago, or Antonia Ledesma — four separate Minnesota driver’s licenses.
Detectives say the Albert Lea man was illegally collecting welfare for a decade, using real Minnesota driver’s licenses obtained with phony documents. He was convicted of forgery, and deported.
“Is it a fraudulent birth certificate, is it a fake DL from another state?” Neville said. “Yes in all those cases as well as taking someone else’s documentation and presenting it as their own.”
And who, pray tell,m is on the case? (Emphasis added):
Of these 24,000 driver’s licenses, about 10,000 have been canceled. Beyond that, not much else has been done. Not a single name has been given yet to the Department of Human Services to check for welfare or food stamp fraud, and no names have been given or the Secretary of State to check against the voter rolls.
Make sure you brought quarters for the meter. Mark Ritchie’s office is too busy editing the legislature’s copy.
Leave aside the obvious conspiracy theory – that Ritchie wants to debase the driver’s license as a standard for identification in the run-up to a probable victory for the Voter ID amendment; while the vast majority of the fake IDs were no doubt taken out in the interest of some sort of personal or financial fraud, you can bet that nine out of ten of the criminals who vote, vote DFL.
And that’s the last thing Mark Ritchie wants to upset.
July 17th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
I am shocked that Doggy Doo hasn’t posted one of her “there is no fraud” posts yet!
July 17th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Hey, give the guy in Albert Lea credit. It took him time and criminal intent to fraudelently apply for, and receive, welfare. He should be rewarded for his efforts. His hard work and perserverance at perpetrating his fraud is HIS “American Dream.” Who are we to demeanr American ingenuity and entrepreneurship?
July 17th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
No, TBS, it was Mexican ingenuity and entrepreneurship: the guy was deported for his trouble. Were I as big an idiot as Doggie Doo or AC, I’d opine that this proves that there are jobs Americans won’t do that we need to fill with illegal aliens.
July 17th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
I picked up my Xfinity self-install cable TV kit today. Had to present a valid Photo ID. Mark Ritchie was nowhere in sight.
July 17th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
TBS: The guy in Albert Lea didn’t do that. Someone else made that happen.
July 18th, 2012 at 7:24 am
Hey the St Paul Pioneer Press yesterday reported that the ACT/SAT organizations are going to start requiring photo ID to take their tests. No comment from Mark Richie was noted.
On a side note, while it has been decades, I seem to remember having to produce ID when I sat for the SAT.
July 18th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Yea, the State SC is listening to the oral arguments about the wording on the ballots suit launched by the twits at the League of Women Libidiots.
Another hypocritical action from the lefties, occurred during the NAACP meetings last week in Houston. Anyone that was coming in to hear Liar General of the US, Eric Holder, had to present a government issued photo ID! Classic!