Marathon Pundit: Grand jury investigation of Dems' fake "Tea Party"

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Grand jury investigation of Dems' fake "Tea Party"

In a story that is getting minimal coverage outside Michigan, a phony Tea Party was allegedly created by at least one official of Oakland County in Michigan. Candidates were slated to run in competitive Michigan congressional and legislative districts. Last week the state Supreme Court tossed the fake Tea Party off the fall ballot.

But the story isn't over, as the Detroit Free Press tells us:

A one-man grand jury will investigate allegations of election fraud in Oakland County stemming from a controversial effort involving Democratic leaders to get Tea Party candidates on the November ballot.

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, a Republican, made the request for the grand jury after it was discovered that a county Democratic official notarized affidavits for 13 Tea Party candidates -- including one who didn't live in the state and said he hadn't signed the document.

Since then, a Free Press investigation found two other candidates who said they hadn't signed affidavits notarized by recently resigned party official Jason Bauer. A second official, recently resigned Oakland County Democratic Party Chairman Mike McGuiness, recruited his former stepmother as a Tea Party candidate, the Free Press found.

The Circuit Court judges voted by secret ballot Wednesday to authorize the grand jury and appoint their colleague Edward Sosnick to lead the investigation.