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ROLLING STONE: It's Already Stolen

Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today

Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election.  According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.

- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

By Kim Hutchison

The tour began in 2004 when an FCC employee in Ontario drove an open-cab tractor and trailer through the Listowel area for eight days. Camping along the way, he collected food and donations for local food banks. Since then, the tour has grown bigger and better rolling through communities in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Quebec and raising an impressive total of nearly one million pounds of food.

This year the tour will be taking place in Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Alberta. The goal is to raise 100,000 pounds of food.

The central leg of the tour will begin when one of two tractors and trailers driven by FCC employees and supporters departs from the FCC office in Red Deer at 10 a.m. It will then head at to the Ponoka Vold, Jones, Vold Auction from 1:30-3:30 p.m. and Ponoka Agro from 4-4:30 p.m. before departing for various locations in Lacombe, Clive, Alix, Stettler and Bashaw. The fundraiser will conclude when both tractors and trailers meet at the Edgeworth Centre grounds in Camrose from 5-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17.

The report, by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, does not even include the salaries of the 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan, and is still much higher than the $8 billion estimated cost provided by the Conservative government, which even included salaries.

I attended the report’s press conference yesterday in Ottawa, and during the announcement of the investigation, Page noted that this study is incomplete because he did not receive full co-operation from government departments, including the military. Even worse, those departments may not realize how much they are spending on the war because of sloppy accounting.