Connie Mack Decries United Nations Involvement in U.S. Elections


Republican U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack, the congressman who chairs the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, strongly condemned reports on Monday that the United Nations is preparing to monitor the upcoming U.S. election. That's a service U.S. citizens traditionally perform for fledgling and shaky democracies, he said.

“The very idea that the United Nations – the world body dedicated to diminishing America’s role in the world -- would be allowed, if not encouraged, to install foreigners sympathetic to the likes of Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and Putin to oversee our elections is nothing short of disgusting."

What Mack doesn't mention in his afternoon press release is how the U.N. came to be involved. This is how:

A handful of all-American liberal organizations -- the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU -- sent a letter to the U.N.-affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which warned of  “a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities.”

Said Mack, “Every American should be outraged by this news." He called for the U.S. to defund the United Nations and kick it off of American soil once and for all.

"The only ones who should ever oversee American elections are Americans," he said.

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Comments (4)

Anthony Tucci
11:56PM OCT 24TH 2012
Agenda 21, Americans need to anything to do with the UN involving itself in our affairs, before our country is their country
Kevin
9:17AM OCT 23RD 2012
Looks like conservatives are terrified that a third party will monitor the election. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, and conservatives should look forward to vindication. The closer you look at American elections, the more you see how fair and democratic the American system is. UNLESS, you are hiding something, in which case, the UN involvement can only help us identify problems and improve our democracy.
ArnoldLayne
10:26AM OCT 23RD 2012
Kevin, what conservatives don't like is the UN monitoring US elections, not the monitoring itself.
And it is funny having the NAACP behind this, given the Black Panther cases from the last election.
Frank
7:54PM OCT 23RD 2012
Then I guess it's too bad that Connie Mack is once again lying - the UN is NOT involved.

OSCE is NOT the UN.

Despite that lie, why should anyone in a democratically free country ever object to foreign observers OBSERVING a free election. . . . . especially by an organziation that has been doing this over the past few elections, starting under G. W. Bush.

Oh, yes, and the Black Panthers are connected with the NAACP in the same way the Nazi Party is related to the RPOF.

Stop being a racist.

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