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Friday, October 29, 2010

Rendell Accuses Corbett of Urging Illegal Voter Suppression

Gov. Ed Rendell today accused Republican governor candidate Tom Corbett of urging illegal voter suppression and suggested he should not be running for governor.

Rendell was speaking at the Black Clergy endorsement of Democrat Dan Onorato. His evidence was a video of Corbett telling the Delaware County GOP to keep the Philadelphia Democratic vote below 50 percent during next Tuesday's general election.

Rendell and Onorato could not say how the Delco GOP could suppress the local vote.

“He urged people to break the law," Rendell said after the event. "Voter suppression is against the law. And he clearly urged them to break the law. Now does he have a plan? How would we know? You’d have to ask him."

Onorato said he didn't want to "put words in his mouth" when asked what Corbett might have meant. "I think it's pretty powerful," Onorato said. "I think it's very clear what he's implying."

Here's an Associated Press story about that video. According to the AP, Corbett's people say his remarks were taken out of context.

UPDATE, 1:45 pm: Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley just e-mailed to call Onorato's complaint a "last-minute desperate attack."

"As usual, Dan Onorato isn’t interested in the whole truth. In the same breath as the only sentence that Dan Onorato would have you see, Tom Corbett said that he hopes for 100 percent turnout across Pennsylvania," Harley's e-mail continues. "Tom also expressed his hope that his campaign would receive support from Democrats, Republicans and Independents."

Posted by Catherine Lucey and Chris Brennan @ 11:37 AM Permalink | 24 comments

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3 like this / 1 don't • Posted 12:44 PM, 10/29/2010

Maybe Corbert will use the Black Panthers. Oh wait, that's the Democracts.

— ALJ

2 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:05 PM, 10/29/2010

At least make an effort to cite the actual group responsible, which would be the "New" Black Panthers. Yes, there's a difference and yes, most anyone in Philly that you ask about this ragtag group of whoopdeedoos would simply laugh at anything that has to do with them and find them to be a non-credible group of crazies. And that includes liberals and Democrats as well as sane Republicans who are educated and know who the group is.

— phillybits

3 like this / 2 don't • Posted 12:49 PM, 10/29/2010

Of course if the Republicans tried to deter voters Atty General Holder would prosecute them, unlike the Black Panthers!

— bluebellious

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:43 PM, 10/29/2010

Democrats are the real pros when it comes to cheating. Bob Brady has his Masters Degree in voter fraud

— Kaiser Sosa

3 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:52 PM, 10/29/2010

Maybe Corbett will suppress the illegal immigrants from voting. That could be a significant percentage of democrats, since citizenship proof is not necessary to register.

— frankfj

1 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:13 PM, 10/29/2010

typical dems and rendell playing the race card with his good friends the black clergy.i hope the white voters of nephilly and south philly finally wake up and see these dems for what they are,and stat looking out for your own good.you betcha

— john carey

1 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:17 PM, 10/29/2010

Tough call. If you read the whole quote from AP it seems to indicate they want to keep Onorato below "50% of the vote" and not keep 50% of the voters away--they said they wanted Democrats and Republicans to vote for him. Still, that was a poor choice of words because it isn't clear what he really means.

— MASTERNC

1 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:17 PM, 10/29/2010

from meriam-webseter.com suppression Antonyms: disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint. So there are two choices. illegal voter suppression and unconstraint illegal voter. I'll take first choice.

— kicas

3 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:40 PM, 10/29/2010

It was just a few years back when Rendell had all of the prisoners vote but didn't want the absentee ballots from our soldiers overseas to count. Now he's got a problem with Corbett?

— BobbyD

3 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:43 PM, 10/29/2010

Lol...Fast Eddy and the rediculous Dems are really desparate. Guess Eddy's gotten so used to the spotlight that now he needs to make stuff up just to stay in the limelight.

— Citizenc92

1 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:50 PM, 10/29/2010

agrees with "typical dems and rendell playing the race card with his good friends the black clergy." Very poor choice of words that opened the door for the dems to make a big tadoo about. Politics at it's best here

— citigirl

2 like this / 1 don't • Posted 1:51 PM, 10/29/2010

Why make this a story when you even quoted Fast Eddie and Fast Eddie Jr as saying they do not know how Coebett can suppress the vote. This rag is fast to bring up something that could be damaging to the Repulicans, but ignore the democrats offering jobs to get people out of the race or supporting bogus candidates. Philly Clout, thy name is hyprocrisy.

— junethe4th

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