By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--May 16, 2010
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The petition was mailed to known paid circulators in the metro Detroit area earlier this week and based on conclusions of proprietary knowledge to Zarko Research, the petition is being operated by a liberal-leaning petition management firm with ties to the Democratic Party. The petition claims to seek access to the ballot for an entirely new party - the “Tea Party”…Chetly Zarko tried to call around to the various Tea Party movement folks in Michigan and none of them seemed to know anything about this supposed new “Tea Party” petition drive. Zarko quotes Tea Party operative Wendy Day of Howell, Michigan, as saying that this petition drive for a fake Tea Party (does one say a Tea Party Party?) is evidence that the Democrats are taking them very seriously, seriously enough to try this new dirty tricks campaign. Zarko has discovered that the petition is being passed by the Michigan lefty campaign company named Progressive Campaigns, Inc. and the company is being paid $1 for each signature it can gather. Progressive Campaigns, Inc., as Mr. Zarko reports, is “funded by Soros, the Michigan Democratic Party, and is most recently known for the crude attempt to re-game the Michigan Constitution for the Democratic Party in 2008 through the Reform Michigan Government Now petition.” So, once again, we find a Democrat dirty trick in the making. As the left’s “logic” goes, if you can’t win, cheat. If you can’t get people to accept your political ideas straight on, lie. If you can’t get people to sign on to your efforts legitimately, try to fool them into thinking you are doing something else. No surprise, but sunlight on these sort of things is always a good antidote for Fascism, Socialism, Communism and Democratism.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.