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Started 3 years ago by lazyfish
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lazyfish

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Karl_Roves_IT_guru_Mike_Connell_1220.html
A top level Republican IT consultant who was set to testify in a case alleging GOP election tampering in Ohio died in a plane crash late Friday night.
Michael Connell -- founder of Ohio-based New Media Communications, which created campaign Web sites for George W. Bush and John McCain -- died instantly after his single-prop, private aircraft smashed into a vacant home in suburban Lake Township, Ohio.
"The plane was attempting to land around 6 p.m. Friday at Akron-Canton Airport when it crashed about three miles short of the runway," reports the Akron Beacon Journal.
Connell's exploits as a top GOP IT 'guru' have been well documented by RAW STORY's investigative team.

Posted 3 years ago #
lifeontwowheels
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Cue the conspiracy theories...

Posted 3 years ago #
lazyfish

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lifeontwowheels wrote Cue the conspiracy theories...
strange how this mode of death often benefits the republican power abusers....
more on the story from Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3320
The suspicious, disturbing death of election rigger Michael Connell
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 20, 2008
Michael Connell, the crucial techno- lynch pin in the theft of the 2004 election, and much more, is dead at the age of 45. His unnatural, suspicious death raises serious questions about the corruption of the American electoral process that now may never be answered.
Connell died Friday, December 19 when his Piper Saratoga plane crashed near his northern Ohio home. He was flying himself home from the College Park, Maryland airport. An accomplished pilot, flying in unremarkable weather, his death cuts off a critical path to much of what may never be known about how the 2004 election was shifted from John Kerry to George W. Bush in the wee hours of November 2. His plane crashed between two houses in an upscale neighborhood, one vacant, just 2.5 miles from the Akron-Canton airport.
A long-time, outspokenly loyal associate of the Bush family, Connell created the Bush-Cheney website for their 2000 presidential campaign. Connell may have played a role in various computer malfunctions that helped the GOP claim the presidency in 2000. As a chief IT consultant and operative for Karl Rove, Connell was a devout Catholic and the father of four children. In various interviews and a deposition Connell cited his belief that abortion is murder as a primary motivating factor in his work for the Republican Party.
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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman have co-authored four books on election protection, including AS GOES OHIO and HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICAS 2004 ELECTION..., available at http://www.freepress.org, where this article first appeared. They are attorney and plaintiff in the King- Lincoln-Bronzeville civil rights lawsuit which subpoenaed and was deposing Michael Connell.
looking for more? see the youtube video...at about 4 minutes in references Connell
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6765#more-6765

Posted 3 years ago #
chaptal
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Maybe Thurman Munson's ghost plane knocked him out of the sky.

Posted 3 years ago #
gramarye
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lazyfish wrote
lifeontwowheels wrote Cue the conspiracy theories...
[conspiracy theory]
Ask and ye shall receive ...

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Coremodels
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:lol:
Don't you miss this guy...
http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/11/michael-connell-ohio-election-testimony.html

Posted 3 years ago #
Cyclist
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They are talking about this right now on WCRS 98.3 FM. Pretty dubious.

Posted 3 years ago #
lazyfish

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Cyclist wrote They are talking about this right now on WCRS 98.3 FM. Pretty dubious.
dubious? WCRS= Conspiracy Radio Service? :D

Posted 3 years ago #
UncommonSense
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From a Press Release on MarketWatch:
"A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed. "
There should be a thorough investigation. This does sound suspicious.

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Cookie
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UncommonSense wrote From a Press Release on MarketWatch:
"A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed. "
There should be a thorough investigation. This does sound suspicious.
A press release? It must be true!

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:lol:
In case you are wondering who VR is...they operate the website http://www.rovecybergate.com

Posted 3 years ago #
UncommonSense
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Cookie wrote
UncommonSense wrote From a Press Release on MarketWatch:
"A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed. "
There should be a thorough investigation. This does sound suspicious.
A press release? It must be true!
Didn't say anything was true, but that it should be investigated. FAA would do that anyway. FBI should look into rumors of threats, and any circumstances surrounding previous problems with his plane. Wouldn't you like to know whether he was killed for what he knew?

Posted 3 years ago #
ChrisSunami
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After reading this here, I checked to see if there were any reputable news sources reporting the story. Here is from CBS news
Michael Connell,45, of Akron died Friday when his plane crashed near a vacant house in Uniontown while attempting to land at nearby Akron-Canton Airport.
But the fatal accident is also raising questions about Connell and his work for key political figures and lobbyists, which has targeted him in investigations over missing White House e-mails and a lawsuit alleging electronic voting fraud.
Following Last Friday's fatal accident, CBS Affiliate WOIO reported that Connell, who had recently been subpoenaed to testify in relation to a lawsuit alleging vote rigging in the 2004 Ohio election, was warned at least twice about flying his plane because his plane might be sabotaged.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23/cbsnews_investigates/main4684431.shtml

Posted 3 years ago #
Manatee
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Cookie wrote
UncommonSense wrote From a Press Release on MarketWatch:
"A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed. "
There should be a thorough investigation. This does sound suspicious.
A press release? It must be true!
Hold it there, Sydney Falco!

Posted 3 years ago #
gramarye
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UncommonSense wrote
Cookie wrote
UncommonSense wrote From a Press Release on MarketWatch:
"A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed. "
There should be a thorough investigation. This does sound suspicious.
A press release? It must be true!
Didn't say anything was true, but that it should be investigated. FAA would do that anyway. FBI should look into rumors of threats, and any circumstances surrounding previous problems with his plane. Wouldn't you like to know whether he was killed for what he knew?
I'd like to know, yes.
I'd also like to avoid conspiratorial rumormongering and reflexive presumptions of guilt, which seem to be the norm du jour where Karl Rove is concerned.

Posted 3 years ago #
joev
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gramarye wrote
I'd like to know, yes.
I'd also like to avoid conspiratorial rumormongering and reflexive presumptions of guilt, which seem to be the norm du jour where Karl Rove is concerned.
You remember that this is the Internet, right? This thing was founded on conspiratorial rumormongering.

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gramarye
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joev wrote
gramarye wrote
I'd like to know, yes.
I'd also like to avoid conspiratorial rumormongering and reflexive presumptions of guilt, which seem to be the norm du jour where Karl Rove is concerned.
You remember that this is the Internet, right? This thing was founded on conspiratorial rumormongering.
Wait, I thought it was founded by Al Gore?
Or was that just a conspiratorial rumor?

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While I really don't think murder is in Rove's repertoire, he certainly brings some of the conspiracy theories on himself because of his long history of dirty tricks and schemes.
p.s. In other words, I have no problem believing that Rove did employ this guy for electronic manipulation of the election in one form or another...I have no belief at all that he had his plane sabotaged and killed him to shut him up.

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Coremodels wrote In case you are wondering who VR is...they operate the website http://www.rovecybergate.com
Right. And note that in their update prior to his death, about his deposition on 11/3, they write,
The first deposition of Michael Connell took place yesterday in Cleveland. Connell was put on notice that he was being questioned about election fraud. Connell quickly adopted the posture of many Bush staffers who have been questioned about wrongdoing, such as Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Stephen Hadley, Donald Rumsfeld and others. Attorney Cliff Arnebeck said that Connell is a classic "Bush/Rove Team player" who was schooled on how to not answer. ...
Mr. Arnebeck said that Connell denied that there were "any" problems at all with any voting systems and he never heard of any fraud. He said he did not "know of any vulnerabilities" to voting systems in Ohio. In other words, he said that everythingâ€™s fine, no one did anything wrong, and everyone should trust people like him to count their votes.
They'd better update their website if they're going to start portraying him as a guy who was going to take his first (whoops, second... okay, maybe third?) opportunity to rat out Rove et al. for their dirty tricks.

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Rockmastermike
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joev wrote
You remember that this is the Internet, right? This thing was founded on conspiratorial rumormongering.
And porn.
Mostly porn. Twisted disturbing Japanese furry tranny porn.

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