NEW: Woman Claims She Was Part of Voter Fraud Scheme in 2002
Friday, August 31, 2012
A woman claiming she was paid under the table to work for Congressman David Cicilline during his 2002 Mayoral campaign accused Cicilline of committing voter fraud during a radio interview on WPRO this afternoon.
Cicilline won a four-way primary with just over 50 percent of the vote.
Cicilline campaign manager Eric Hyers said the claims are “part of an ongoing and desperate smear campaign” by Congressional candidate Anthony Gemma.
“After 2 weeks of witnessing a string of unsubstantiated claims, absolutely nothing that comes out of the Gemma campaign is remotely credible,” Hyers said. “In five hours, the Republicans will nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, both of whom Brendan Doherty enthusiastically supports, to lead the most radical and extreme agenda in recent memory, and this circus is distracting from the harm this agenda will do to Rhode Island's middle class, women, and seniors. Voters deserve a substantive discussion of the issues.”
Separately, a paid campaign worker for Gemma took to the John DePetro Show this morning to clam she was the woman hiding in her attic because she was in fair of the Providence Police. The Providence Journal later reported that she was arrested in 2010.
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Comments:
Joseph Davis
9:22pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Unsubstantiated claims? What do you can affidavits and witnesses that described the scheme?
Eric were you there in 2002? There should be plenty of video tape. Oh, yeah, we are talking women, you like to tape men, esp. young male gemma volunteers.
Jayme Phelps
12:01am on Friday, August 31, 2012
Joseph Davis...your comments are despicable and extremeley off base. First of all Eric Hyers is a STRAIGHT MARRIED MALE! You people are totally off your rockers. Get back to the issues and talk about what is wrong in Rhode Island and this country. There are far too many right wing attacks on women and minorities. Lets get back to business.
robert phellps
6:43am on Friday, August 31, 2012
Joe..its over..move on to hating someone else
Team Gemma sunk itself
Joseph Davis
7:17am on Friday, August 31, 2012
Touchy, touchy. Did I hit a nerve?
Did not Eric secretly tape a college age male?
Is he not obsessed with video taping all things Gemma?
I don't care if he's married or not, he seems like a pervert to me.
And a liar.
And I am not a member of Team Gemma, I am a member of ABC, (Anyone but Cicilline).
Charles Drago
9:06am on Friday, August 31, 2012
Enerolisa Escobar told the truth not only about crimes committed by David Cicilline and some of his closest associates.
She knowingly admitted to her own participation in some of those crimes.
Why would Ms. Escobar have done so other than as a genuine expression of remorse? She could have told her highly credible stories of the Cicilline Gang's criminality without indicting herself.
There's no way she acted out of fear of exposure. David Cicilline could not have sent out one of his surrogates to claim that Ms. Escobar committed crimes and thus is not a credible witness. Why? Because the crimes they would have been referencing also were committed by David Cicilline.
Ms. Escobar exhibited the personal integrity and, indeed, heroism that are the antitheses of David Cicilline's vile character.
Because of her willingness to face the music for her own behavior, Ms. Escobar's story is unimpeachable.
Ms. Escobar witnessed David Cicilline engage in voter fraud and tax fraud.
She has given sworn testimony to that effect.
She has told her story to the Rhode Island State Police.
David Cicilline, Chris Bizzaco, and the rest of the Cicilline Gang had better lawyer up. Fast.
Ms. Escobar's testimony alone will be enough to send them to prison for years and years and years.
And Ms. Escobar's testimony is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ms. Escobar is telling the truth. And that truth will set us free.
Enerolisa Escobar is a hero for our time.
Charles Drago
9:12am on Friday, August 31, 2012
AN OPEN CHALLENGE TO MYRTH YORK, FEMINIST
Ms. York,
Are you prepared to honor the integrity and courage of Enerolisa Escobar -- a woman of humble means who did what she had to do in 2002 to support her family, and who did what she had to do in 2012 to defend the truth?
Are you, Ms. York, prepared at the very least to meet Ms. Escobar, hear her story, and render an impartial judgment?
I can make that happen, Ms. York.
Do you have the courage of your convictions as a feminist and an American patriot, Ms. York?
Or are you just another David Cicilline hack?
Todd B
10:43am on Friday, August 31, 2012
After the Projo videotape and this woman admitting that she camped out in the attic (as crazy as that sounds) just about everyone who is not affiliated with or supportive of the Cicilline campaign believes the allegations.
I suppose part of Gemma's strategy is to gradually release supporting evidence from the time of the press conference until election day to keep the story in the news and to further discredit Cicilline's denials.