Earth to Michael James: Shut Up

Lots of street talk that the 49th Ward Democratic Machine (I know, that's an oxymoron) is scared. Frightened. Worried. Michael James, co-owner of the shitty, overrated, infrequently inspected, hate-driven Heartland Cafe and bootlicker to Alderman Joe Moore, is spreading an interesting lie. The lie: The Democratic Party has ordered Don Gordon to drop his legal challenge of the April 17 election, in which Moore won but just under 250 votes. (Read the Gordon complaint here.) This is absurd for a couple of obvious reasons: (1) No political party in the United States has the legal authority to order anybody to do anything. As much as Howard Dean wishes he had the same powers as an old Soviet Communist Party boss, he has zero authority, and (2) The Moore campaign put considerable effort and expense out to spread the lie that Gordon is not a Democrat. Now, suddenly, they say he is and has been ordered to withdraw. Bizarre, but typical behavior for the Moore sycophants and propagandists. The why: The local machine Dems are soiling their panties and hope to erode support for Don Gordon's legal challenge. Not just for the obvious reason of wanting to retain the alderman's office, either. There are plenty of bigger reasons for them to be nervous. The what: Fraud. Massive fraud. Conspiracy to commit fraud. Folks, I am not exaggerating when I write that serious criminal charges will come out of this process. It would not be hyperbole to say that we may well see some people escorted out of the neighborhood in handcuffs. There are people who could go to prison for what is alleged to have been committed and this would (a) greatly embarrass Democrats locally and nationally (i.e., Jan Schakowsky, Howard Dean); (b) cost the local Dems an aldermanic seat that is not occupied by a puppet; (c) destroy local voter's faith in the Party for many years to come; (d) greatly upset an intricate and far-reaching network of funneling money into and out of the 49th Ward, reaching to heights that I have reason to suspect but am still gathering information about. Count One, paragraph 13 of Gordon's complaint says, "The grounds for this election contest include mistakes, fraud, and irregularities that occurred in the conduct, counting, and return of the votes, in the precincts described herein." There are a lot of individuals who will be named as helping to commit the alleged fraud. Paragraph 17 states, "The mistakes, fraud, and irregularities occurring in the Election were made by persons who were not registered in the precinct to vote or were registered but had become disqualified under law or who voted in the name of another or who voted more than once or who were permitted to vote by the judges of election without having signed an application for ballot or a proper affidavit or were wrongfully assisted in casting their vote by a judge of election or other person or who otherwise failed to comply with the law by casting an unlawful ballot or by causing lawful votes cast for Gordon to be not counted or for other reasons as specified herein by precinct. " There are individuals who will be named as helping to commit these alleged illegal acts. Paragraph 18 states, "The mistakes, fraud, and irregularities that occurred are set forth in the 49th ward precincts following:" and then lists "unqualified and fraudulent voters that voted in 22 precincts.