Part Two: The Secretary of State Project

In Part One of this series titled Control the Process, Control the Results we looked at what appears to most Americans to be a foolish and irrelvent group: the USA Communist Party.  Having been discredited around the globe, optimistic Communists obvioulsy see in Barack Obama the opportunity to further their agenda.  So far, through the massive, pork-laden and foolish “stimulus” bill that became law we saw step one.  There are other proposals on the board for taxing even more things in our lives such as the Value Added Tax, Cap and Trade, and taxpayer support for wasteful things such as solar power.  It appears as though support for these things, even with 60 Democrats in the Senate, might not be enough.  Rest assured that Democratic activists are working very hard to change this… it is called The Secretary of State Project.  Here are two pictures from one of the ads running on their site:

How, you may ask, does the USA Communist Party have anything to do with the Secretary of State Project?  This line from their National Chair, Sam Webb, sums it up:

The upside of this new means of communication, education, organization, and fund raising is that it is nearly limitless.

I think it is going to make a huge difference in our ability to reach, influence, and interact with a mass audience – something that we haven’t ever been able to do in a systematic way so far.

He is speaking about the internet, blogs, sites like The Daily Kos, and other venues of communication.  These ideas have taken root in The Secretary of State Project.

Control the Process, control the results?

We look most recently at the razor thin victory of Al Franken (D) over Norm Coleman (R) for the Senate race in Minnesota, a victory that, if the Democrats stick together in the Senate, gives them a filibuster-proof majority.  This is what Investor’s Business Daily has to say:

Incumbent Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat in the mother of all recounts in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race after the state’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit.

Arguably, his seat may have been lost the day in 2006 when Democrat Mark Ritchie defeated two-term incumbent Republican Mary Kiffmeyer to become Minnesota secretary of state.

It was Ritchie who orchestrated the recount that gave Democratic challenger Franken a lead some six weeks after Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day. Ritchie has extensive ties to the Acorn organization now under federal investigation for vote fraud and was endorsed by the community activist group in 2006.

Also contributing to Ritchie was James Rucker, the former director of grass-roots mobilization at MoveOn.org and reportedly a co-founder of the Secretary of State Project that played a critical role in this and other elections and will do so in the future.

Ritchie gave partial credit for his 2006 election to the liberal 527 political organization, the stated goal of which is to replace conservative secretaries of state with liberal Democrats.

So what is The Secretary of State Project?  It’s not the latest movie starring Will Smith, it is a plan to elect Democrats to the position of Secretary of State in all 50 states.  For it is the Secretaries of State who help to shape the election process in their state.  All rivers flow through them and if you can take control of the process, you can take control of the results.

This story is Part Two of a series – Control the Process, Control the Results – Read Part Three on Friday

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