While there are plenty of individual Democrats who are perfectly fine human beings, the simple fact remains that the Democratic Farmer Labor Party values power first and foremost; integrity, to them, is a luxury that you can fuss with once you get the power.\u00a0 The only thing that separates the DFL from the Illinois Democratic Party is geography.<\/p>\n
They will fight like hell for every vote they can get; they will fight like hell to deny every vote they think might be against them; if playing by the rules won’t work, they will cheat.\u00a0 The DFL in Minnesota, at its upper levels, is a group of deeply depraved people who would throw The Rights Of Man<\/em> on the bonfire if it’d get Tarryl Clark into office.<\/p>\n If it’s not close, Hugh Hewitt says, they can’t cheat – but this election is going to be close.\u00a0 No two ways about it.<\/p>\n One of the ways the GOP gets screwed on elections is via the DFL’s stranglehold on the administration of elections.\u00a0 From Secretary of State down to the myriad election judges, counters, poll watchers and challengers that keep “order” (of whatever type) at the polling stations and in the counting process, the DFL has its fingers on your ballots from the moment they slip out of your hands.\u00a0 And while the majority of them are, no doubt, honest, the one-party control of the electoral machinery is a temptation that, I suspect, the MNDFL can not resist.<\/p>\n Janet Beihoffer – former CD2 GOP chair – has been running the effort to recruit and train more GOP election judges, poll watchers and challengers.<\/p>\n And she needs help:<\/p>\n