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Let's knock off the childish blasts at Chicago. It's a great city with all of its flaws, and lots of people who live and work there did NOT vote for Obama. Chicago is no better and no worse than any other big city.
It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card.
That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.
AVS stands for Address Verification System. It's the software that checks whether the name of the cardholder matches his or her address.
If a campaign doesn't use AVS, it can wind up accepting contributions from phony names or accepting contributions from foreigners, both of which are illegal.
The 2008 Obama campaign pocketed money from "John Galt, 1957 Ayn Rand...
Let me start out by saying that I love Chicago. But to ignore its corruption, which is almost genetic, is absurd.
My brother lived in the city. He had a nice apartment in a good neighborhood where there was never any trouble, like vandalism. That was until he went to a polling place and asked for a republican primary ballot. At first, they couldn't even find one. After a search and much tittering to the "precinct captain" (read: Ward Heeler), one was produced. Two days later, the back glass of my brother's car was broken out. He had it fixed, and within 2 days again it was broken. Coincidence? Maybe....