Democrat Richard Blumenthal now holds just a five-point lead over Republican Linda McMahon in Connecticut’s race for the U.S. Senate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds Blumenthal with 50% support and McMahon with 45% when leaners are included. One percent (1%) favor some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. To see survey questions, click here.
The race remains Leans Democrat in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings.
This is the closest the race has been since May when the New York Times detailed in an article how Blumenthal has been embellishing his military record in public statements over the years.
This statewide telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters in Connecticut was conducted on September 9, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Bishop Eddie Long Scandal Could Grow Outside Of Spencer And Legrande
The Bishop Eddie Long scandal (photos below) added Spencer LeGrande as a new plaintiff on Friday; but by all indications, the scandal could add more possible plaintiffs next week. While the Bishop Eddie Long scandal may have started with the assertion of only two men, that quickly changed, adding a third by midweek. That prompted the counsel for all three men to indicate she had received phone calls of multiple alleged victims that may still come forward. Within forty eight hours of those assertions, counsel added yet another plaintiff: Spencer LeGrande.
With all four complaints detailing an inner order of alleged coercion and deception, the Spiritual Sons, the question remains how many men were in the order from which this scandal is developing. Multiple plaintiffs’ complaints have indicated that Spiritual Sons each learned they weren’t the only alleged victims. Plaintiffs spoke to other men allegedly traumatized by the conduct of Bishop Eddie Long.
With a case growing from two to four plaintiffs in just two days, that could very much change next week.
And yet, when you line up all the complaints next to each other, they indicate a certain type of male that Bishop Eddie Long would allegedly target. His alleged conduct would start by introductions to males at roughly at age 15. When they were 16 or 17, Bishop Eddie Long would allegedly be already kissing them on the lips. And by age 18, he was already allegedly succeeding in getting them in bed for relations.
The type of men coming forward for the most part all shared similarities as teens. They came from homes without father figures, without a car for them to drive, without great amounts of money. All the items that the plaintiffs claimed they lacked, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of inserting himself into. Free cars, free cash, free room and board were among the items Bishop Eddie Long is accused of using to create a stronghold over the boys.
Plaintiffs: Jamal Parris, Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg
But emotionally, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of terrorizing the men by portraying himself as their replacement father. “Defendant Long held on to Plaintiff LeGrande and assured him “I got you”, “I will be your dad” ” says the LeGrande complaint. “Defendant Long demanded Plaintiff LeGande call him often”.
But unlike any normal father, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of getting his “sons” into bed for his personal gratification, stalking them, controlling their lives, even changing their lives. “Defendant Long would become angry if Plaintiff LeGrande failed to call Plaintiff Long on a frequent basis.” “Defendant Long told Plaintiff LeGrande to call him “Dad” “.
For LeGrande, Bishop Eddie Long was making alleged advances by age 17. And yet, the stronghold allegedly didn’t stop there. The plaintiffs accuse Bishop Eddie Long of not fostering their lives but changing them so that he could get what he wanted. Spencer LeGrande, like the other boys, claims he had girlfriends, or possible girlfriends, and that Bishop Eddie Long told him to get rid of them, blocked him from seeing girls.
Bishop Eddie Long is accused of also not letting his “sons” go to college and pursue athlete careers at the institutions of their choice so that he could house them at a facility and continue his alleged conduct in their beds.
“Defendant Long told Plaintiff LeGrande that he expected Plaintiff LeGrande to go to school … and have no girlfriends….Plaintiff LeGrande abandoned his plans to pursue a collegiate basketball career and applied to Beluah [to prepare to enter the ministry]. …Defendant LeGrande would engage in intimate … contact with Plaintff LeGrande at the Harvell House.”
Bishop Eddie Long has denied any wrongdoing.
With all four complaints detailing an inner order of alleged coercion and deception, the Spiritual Sons, the question remains how many men were in the order from which this scandal is developing. Multiple plaintiffs’ complaints have indicated that Spiritual Sons each learned they weren’t the only alleged victims. Plaintiffs spoke to other men allegedly traumatized by the conduct of Bishop Eddie Long.
With a case growing from two to four plaintiffs in just two days, that could very much change next week.
And yet, when you line up all the complaints next to each other, they indicate a certain type of male that Bishop Eddie Long would allegedly target. His alleged conduct would start by introductions to males at roughly at age 15. When they were 16 or 17, Bishop Eddie Long would allegedly be already kissing them on the lips. And by age 18, he was already allegedly succeeding in getting them in bed for relations.
The type of men coming forward for the most part all shared similarities as teens. They came from homes without father figures, without a car for them to drive, without great amounts of money. All the items that the plaintiffs claimed they lacked, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of inserting himself into. Free cars, free cash, free room and board were among the items Bishop Eddie Long is accused of using to create a stronghold over the boys.
Plaintiffs: Jamal Parris, Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg
But emotionally, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of terrorizing the men by portraying himself as their replacement father. “Defendant Long held on to Plaintiff LeGrande and assured him “I got you”, “I will be your dad” ” says the LeGrande complaint. “Defendant Long demanded Plaintiff LeGande call him often”.
But unlike any normal father, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of getting his “sons” into bed for his personal gratification, stalking them, controlling their lives, even changing their lives. “Defendant Long would become angry if Plaintiff LeGrande failed to call Plaintiff Long on a frequent basis.” “Defendant Long told Plaintiff LeGrande to call him “Dad” “.
For LeGrande, Bishop Eddie Long was making alleged advances by age 17. And yet, the stronghold allegedly didn’t stop there. The plaintiffs accuse Bishop Eddie Long of not fostering their lives but changing them so that he could get what he wanted. Spencer LeGrande, like the other boys, claims he had girlfriends, or possible girlfriends, and that Bishop Eddie Long told him to get rid of them, blocked him from seeing girls.
Bishop Eddie Long is accused of also not letting his “sons” go to college and pursue athlete careers at the institutions of their choice so that he could house them at a facility and continue his alleged conduct in their beds.
“Defendant Long told Plaintiff LeGrande that he expected Plaintiff LeGrande to go to school … and have no girlfriends….Plaintiff LeGrande abandoned his plans to pursue a collegiate basketball career and applied to Beluah [to prepare to enter the ministry]. …Defendant LeGrande would engage in intimate … contact with Plaintff LeGrande at the Harvell House.”
Bishop Eddie Long has denied any wrongdoing.
ACORN Affiliate SEIU Found Helping Rampant Voter Fraud
Doug Ross Journal - A group of concerned Texas citizens unwittingly discovered rampant vote fraud during the 2008 election, apparently orchestrated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic... But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."
It was Houston's poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, "It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”
...“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."
Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures...
I find it almost stupefying to have discovered that some of my neighbors support the modern Democrat Party, seeing as how it's mostly funded by public sector union bosses, illegal immigration front groups, trial lawyers, and George Soros-style America-haters.
“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic... But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."
It was Houston's poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, "It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”
...“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."
Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures...
I find it almost stupefying to have discovered that some of my neighbors support the modern Democrat Party, seeing as how it's mostly funded by public sector union bosses, illegal immigration front groups, trial lawyers, and George Soros-style America-haters.
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