The Director of Communication for the Attorney General sent this out yesterday.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Brian Gottstein, Director of Communication bgottstein@oag.state.va.us(best contact method) 804-786-5874Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s statement on the conclusion of the investigation of Patrick Moran for election offense allegations
RICHMOND (February 1, 2013) – Today, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the following statement regarding the conclusion of the investigation of election offense allegations against Patrick Moran.
“After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that, while Mr. Moran’s behavior was inappropriate, it was not criminal,” said the attorney general. “However, election fraud is a serious matter. Securing our elections and protecting against voter fraud are critical components in preserving our representative democracy and the election process as a whole. My office will continue its work to allow all voters to feel secure that their votes count and are not diluted by others committing fraud.”
As a result of the investigation, there will be no charges brought against Moran and the investigation is now closed.
The attorney general’s office had worked in collaboration with the Arlington County Police Department and the Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney to investigate this matter. A criminal investigation was initiated by the Arlington County Police Department in late October 2012 after a video was released allegedly depicting Patrick Moran, former director of field operations for the Jim Moran for Congress campaign organization, assisting another to vote illegally.
Patrick Moran and the Jim Moran for Congress campaign provided full cooperation throughout the investigation. Despite repeated attempts to involve the party responsible for producing the video, he failed to provide any assistance.
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Since I posted the video in question, and the video accuses Patrick Moran of dishonesty, I decided it was only fair to post the note above.
Here (below) is the video in question. Did Attorney General vindicate Patrick Moran’s innocence or simply decide the video did not show Moran actually breaking the law?
Why didn’t the maker of the video work with the Attorney General’s office? Did he just understand that Moran only crossed the moral threshold, not the legal threshold of law-breaking? I am no lawyer, but it appears to me that the video just shows Moran giving someone advice about how to break the law. That is morally damning, but would what Moran is shown doing on the video provide grounds for prosecution? I doubt it.
What is the point of the video? Moran did not immediately condemn any attempt at voter fraud. Instead, he provided suggestions on how to get away with it.
Anyway, this is one of those things where you have to view the evidence and decide for yourself.
Knowing very little about the case, I would probably not support the candidate since it appears his advisors are dishonest and capable of premeditation.
I agree. Unfortunately, Congressman Jim Moran is still in Congress. I am not sure why people vote for the guy, but the fact they do worries me. What are they thinking?
Quick google tells me that Moran is a Democrat in a state that is purple, but historically dominated by Democrats. So my first guess is that people just pull the lever for their political party without thinking about it. As a non-partisan, I find that puzzling, but it is reality. My second guess would be that he brings home the bacon and essentially buys his votes.
Why is Lisa Murkowski still one of Alaska’s senators? She got in through nepotism — Daddy was the governor. She’s a nominal Republican, votes with the party when we’re watching, but with the Democrats when she can get away with it (think Olympia Snow). She won her first real election because the Democrats ran a former governor against her who had betrayed Alaska in his final days in office. (I voted third-party on that one). When she lost the GOP primary to a conservative in 2010, we thought we were done with her. The Dems nominated a weak candidate. Lisa came back as a write-in with a coalition of labor unions, oil companies and Native corporations and squeaked out a three-way win. And, so we’re stuck with her for four more years.
Maybe we’ll have better luck getting rid of the Democrat Mark Begich, but I’d bet money we won’t. He’s bought and paid for and not by the people of Alaska.
So why does Moran keep winning? You know.
aurorawatcherak – Bring home the bacon, …buy votes. Politicians buy our votes with our own money. They try to make us feel like it is someone else’s money, but in the long run, we harm ourselves. The rich get rich because they know how to work the system. The
politicians want to be rich. They know how to work the system.
Social Security and Medicare (and now Obamacare) are Ponzi schemes. With these programs each successive generation robs the next. What is sad is we know these programs are bad for us, and we still vote for the politicians who promise to keep them going.
With our own greed we give greedy politicians the tools they need to enslave us. That worries me. It is not that hard to understand. When people willingly give such crooks power, what are people thinking?
Yup!