Minnesota Secy of State Not Happy with 'Premature' Franken Claim

Stealing elections is safer for the thieves if it’s done away from the glare of publicity. The Minnesota Secretary of State is unhappy that his efforts are being viewed by the rest of the country.

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie didn't quite care for Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken's comment that "it looks like we’re on track to win. ...

Said Ritchie, after I read him Franken's statement and asked him if it was premature, "No human being can predict the future ...

Actually, when you can manufacture ballots in a close election, the future is fairly easy to predict.

I read Mr. Ritchie part of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that described him as having been "endorsed by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- Acorn -- a group under investigation in several states for suspected voter registration chicanery," and noting that Ritchie's "election campaign in 2006 was funded in part by something called 'The Secretary of State Project.' This latter group, founded by MoveOn.org's former grass-roots director, exists solely to install far-left candidates as secretaries of state in swing states."

What did Ritchie -- who talked a lot about the State Canvassing Board being non-partisan -- think of such a description?

"I haven't seen it," he said, "I never respond to personal attacks or that kind of, you know, shenanigans in newspapers like that ... I think people are very proud of the way we do elections in Minnesota and that pride and that trust is reflected in the fact that we are always number 1 voting in the nation and we're 5 percentage points above the state that is number 2. People trust our elections in Minnesota because they're run on a fair and non partisan basis and because they trust that they turn out and vote."

You will note that Richie did not respond to any of the questions being asked, simply assumed a hurt expression and opined that he was the victim.

And Tapper asks the poor victim how he’s bearing the weight of all this “unfair” criticism. It turns into a "poor pitiful me..."

"The thing that's been unfortunate has been the kind of abuse that staff and especially local election officials have had to suffer," he said. "And when some editorial in, say, a national newspaper that comes out and makes a partisan kind of attack or makes a claim then we might get up to thousand emails from people all over the country or they generate death threats ...

Crooks are NEVER guilty, always the victim, always the champions of justice. Kind of stomach churning.