Ex-Indiana Democratic Governor: Not My Signature on Obama Petition
Published October 12, 2011
| Associated Press
AP
Former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan is just one of dozens of people who say they didn't sign petitions for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to appear on the state's 2008 primary ballot and yet their names were approved by the county registration office.
Former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan is just one of dozens of people who say they didn't sign petitions for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to appear on the state's 2008 primary ballot and yet their names were approved by the county registration office.
Kernan told the South Bend Tribune that neither the print version of his name nor the signature that appear on the suspect document are anything like his own.
"Not at all," Kernan, owner of the South Bend Silver Hawks minor league baseball team.
State Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb has called for a federal investigation into the dubious signatures, which the newspaper reported on Wednesday were approved in part with a rubber stamp.
Yet another document crisis for Barry's administration? I'd like to say I'm surprised but there seems to be a pattern... What does an ex-governor cum minor league baseball team owner stand to gain from making this accusation now? Is he going to return to politics? The timing and motive seem suspect to me, something is stinky in Helsinki...
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The petition itself is not of importance, especially after the fact. What I do find interesting is (if true) it is another example of illegal political manipulation, a common thread we see far too often associated with Obama, or for that matter many other political figures.
