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KARE 11: “KIFFMEYER SEEKS VOTER FRAUD CHARGES FOR SARA JANE OLSON”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 24, 2009
This is great work by Representative Mary Kiffmeyer.
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“State Representative Mary Kiffmeyer, a former Secretary of State, wants to see long-time fugitive Sara Jane Olson prosecuted for voter fraud.
In a letter to Ramsey County attorney Susan Gaertner, Kiffmeyer wrote, ‘I’m am writing to follow up on a conversation that you and I had several years ago regarding apparent fraudulent voting by Kathleen Soliah (alias Sara Jane Olson) in numerous elections in Saint Paul.’
Rep. Kiffmeyer said she told Gaertner at the time of Olson’s arrest in 1999 that she was concerned that Soliah had voted multiple times under her alias, which would be a felony.
‘At the time, you said you would be waiting to learn the disposition of the court case in California before deciding how and whether to move forward with investigation and prosecution of Soliah here in Minnesota,’ Kiffmeyer wrote, ‘Obviously we now know the disposition of the case.’
Olson returned to Minnesota last week after serving seven years in a California prison for her role in a fatal bank robbery in Sacramento, and an unsuccessful conspiracy to plant pipe bombs in Los Angeles police cars in 1975.  Both crimes were carried out on behalf of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a domestic terror group which captivated the nation’s attention with the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
In Kiffmeyer’s letter to Gaertner, dated March 20th, she implies the Ramsey County prosecutor downplayed the seriousness of Olson voting under an assumed name.
‘I know that when we spoke before you indicated that your office was busy with many other criminal cases that you deemed to be more important,’ Kiffmeyer wrote, ‘And you admonished me for contacting you about this case, saying, ‘Come on, Mary, it’s only one vote’.”
Kiffmeyer told KARE Tuesday that she met personally with Gaertner and an assistant at the Secretary of State’s office in Saint Paul shortly after Olson was exposed as Soliah, an SLA member who had been in hiding since 1976.
‘Cleary for every time Soliah voted fraudulently, she stole the vote of a legitimate Minnesota voter,’ Kiffmeyer said.” Source: KARE 11, March 24, 2008
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28 Responses to “KARE 11: “KIFFMEYER SEEKS VOTER FRAUD CHARGES FOR SARA JANE OLSON””
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March 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
So, combining three counties that have jurisdiction over one rather large rural city is a waste of time, but having a legislator spend her time freelance investigating a voter fraud case is time well spent?
WOW. The only thing clear about the republicans these days is their lack of focus.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
“SOLID USE OF TIME AND RESOURCES”
March 24th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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March 24th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Good lord. If Kiffmeyer is that hard up for something to occupy her time in the minority perhaps she should resurrect her husband’s dormant (or is it flaccid?) Ban-the-Dildo bill.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
And the arguments that she didn`t commit a felony-0. Sort of like illegal immigrants- we`ll just overlook that you`re breaking the law.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Once again the Democrats come out for letting a known terrorist get away with voting illegally.
I guess it is because they know that all terrorists vote Democrat.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
She belongs in jail.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Democrats would defend this terrorist. Democrats sympathize with terrorists more than law abiding citizens. It’s the Democrats that want to assign constitutional rights to the terrorists residing in Guantanomo Country Club.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Come on everyone … take a deep breathe! We all know that there is no voter fraud here in Minnesota!
Hold it, I just guess that the actions of a dfl activist don’t rise to the level of fraud, especially if you’re planning to run for higher office and need her vote. Wait a minute, wasn’t there that case (down in Coates) where a strip club owner didn’t like the response he was getting from the local officials — so he had a number of “friends” vote in the election with the strip club as their home address (all 80 people). Thankfully they only voted for (presumably against) the local officials … and did not cast a vote in any other race on the ballot! [If you believe that, the Governor of Illinois has a seat in the US Senate that he wouldn't dream of selling to you ... unless, of course, Burris met his prioe.]
March 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I agree that she probably voted fraudulently. I also agree that people who do so should be punished.
But I feel compelled to remind republicans that this is the world you asked for. When you slash budgets for the judiciary to the marrow of the bone, I don’t think you retain the right to be angry when ten year old voter fraud cases are not expediently investigated every time a state senator wants to use a prosecutor to score some political points.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Has anybody heard anything from Former Senator Coleman?
March 24th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
She’s a cop killer who should have got death, I don’t care if it’s jaywalking or littering she should be prosecuted for every crime she commits. She needs to die in jail.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I saw Former Senator Coleman on a late-night cable infomercial hawking Blo-n-Go.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Mike..
Your compassion is astonishing!
March 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Minny..
How do they market that thing with a straight face?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:36 am
danbrome: “The Human Blo-n-Go”
March 25th, 2009 at 8:13 am
And using Pete’s logic in post #6, all child molester’s must therefore vote for Coleman. After all, we know one did, so therefor they all must.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Leroy-the-jackass not only supports terrorists and voter fraud, he supports terrorists who commit voter fraud.
If we find out that Sara Jane has sexually molested her kids, Leroy will have found his soulmate.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:30 am
quicksand-
Are you saying that danbrome is willing to come to my house and hold my hair dryer while I comb my hair??
March 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I’m gonna bust me a woman out of prison, marry her, change her name, and make her vote for the candidates of my choice in Ramsey County!
March 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Hasn’t every media outlet now proven Kiffmeyer’s accusations not only completely baseless (she legally changed her name in 1980 so she wasn’t voting under a false name and zero fraud) and but redundant (she was told this very fact years ago).
March 25th, 2009 at 11:04 am
If she legally changed her name in 1980, why did she do it again in 1999?
March 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
When one changes their name, don’t most states require them to confirm under oath, that the purpose is not to defraud or mislead?
March 25th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Sara Jane Olson is no longer a terrorist. According to the Department of Homeland Security, terrorism no longer exists. It’s now called “man made disasters.” So Sara Jane Olson (aka Kathleen Ann Soliah) is the cause of a man made disaster.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Are the 19 highjackers and the 20th highjackers no longer terrorists?
I wonder if Greenpeace will confuse Sara Jane with global warming and terrorize her?
March 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Chile,
The 19th and 20th hijackers are also the cause of a manmade disaster as is Osama bin Laden.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
AC, do you have proof that a child molester voted for Coleman or just believe a convicted child molester’s word? We all know Democrats believe (and endorse) all sexual deviants. Leroy has actually spoke out in support of molesting children.
Tell me AC do you support molesting children? Would you believe anything that a child molester said?
Why do liberals hate children?
March 25th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Let’s let sleeping dogs lie. Contesting the right of this felon to vote could have the deleterious, domino effect of disenfranchising a whole host of my party’s most faithful constituencies: the deceased, the illegal, and the serial voters.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) will order up a pardon and transmit the orders to his lacky in three….two….one….