Friday, May 24, 2013

Banned from the courthouse..... banned from Northpark.....

WLBT reported:

"A member of the Canton Democratic Municipal Executive Committee was arrested late Tuesday night in the Madison County courthouse when a disagreement about vote counting led to an altercation.

Witnesses told Madison County deputies that 41-year-old Kimberly Readus was involved in an altercation with an elderly woman, when Readus and other committee members attempted to leave the courthouse with unsealed ballot boxes.

Bystanders added that Readus and the other committee members were attempting to leave the courthouse before completing the vote count.

Readus reportedly called the woman a "baboon's ass" during the altercation. She was subsequently charged with disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and providing false information to law enforcement
." Story & video

Hmmm..... leaving the courthouse with unsealed ballot boxes? You don't think anything was going to happen to those boxes while in her possession, do you? The problem is she got into more trouble because she gave the police (allegedly, of course) a false identity when they were booking her. So she got some more charges added to the list. Unfortunately, this is not her first or second scrape with the law.

Court records obtained by this correspondent state Ms. Readus was convicted in Madison County of shoplifting from Northpark Mall in 1996. She was fined $500 and permanently banned from the mall. The court also sentenced her to thirty days in jail but that was suspended. She was also convicted in 1996 of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The court sentenced her to 180 days in jail but suspended the sentence. The court ordered her to pay a $250 fine and court costs. The total amount is $383 but the records state she never paid it. Never paid the fine. Can the judge reinstate the six month sentence? Just a thought.

Just curious. How many times have unsealed ballot boxes left the courthouse in Canton during past elections?

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

This story makes my point. I am convinced that most all local elections (including the mayors race in Jackson) have been corrupted and stolen by thugs. These awful people can do as they please because there is nobody left to stop them.

Anonymous said...

You did read the part where she was arrested, right? Maybe since there's nobody left to stop her she arrested herself? Dumbass.

Anonymous said...

Dumbass? He's no dumbass, 7:12. As shown in the report ~ Detained, arrested, fined, no fine paid. Moved along..........

Detained but never 'stopped'.

There's literally nobody left to stop 'those types'.

Anonymous said...

This type activity runs all the way to the White House. She was only acting like the people who surround the president.

Anonymous said...

how is a person with that record eligible to be handling ballot boxes?

Anonymous said...

... have been corrupted and stolen by thugs.

No one should forget thug Graham's, er, Lt. Robert Graham's (of the Jackson Police Department) poll behaviour during the 2011 election.

20,000 votes for Chokwe said...

There are no real consequences for people who rape the public trust. The trump card of race has been abused to grant a privileged freedom from criticism. White people see obvious election fraud and cry foul, then here come the perpetrators whining about racism and the media follows along like good little lapdogs, promoting the racism line. Officials are either in bed with the perps so they don't act, or they're so afraid of being painted as racist and enduring biased media scrutiny that they let it pass with minimal activity.

People can say that the bad legacy of America's racial past is the human injustice, but this unchecked, unbridled fraud hiding behind "civil rights" is a close second, and I would argue it will have a longer and more damning effect.

bill said...

This is not an election problem - it's a Madison County Democrat Executive Committee problem. Everyone needs to remember that this happened during a Democrat primary election. The county executive committee for the party having the primary is responsible for running the primary elections - everything from recruiting poll workers to counting the ballots and certifying the final results. It's not up to the state or the county to enforce election laws in a primary beyond the obvious ones that apply to all elections. Who knows what the rules are for the Democrats in Madison County? The woman was not arrested for attempting to take an unsealed ballot box out of the building. For all we know that's allowed by the Democrat executive committee in Madison County. Supposedly there were others on the committee with her, so it wasn't just one angry member. The people who elected the caucus members who elected the executive committee are the only ones who can change it, and they'll have to wait until 2015 to try.

bill said...

The same goes for the Jackson mayoral election. It was a Democrat primary, not a general election, although the general election in this case will probably be meaningless. Worried that impropriety occurred? Elect party leaders who will stop it.

Anonymous said...

Interesting that Ms. Readus obviously and earnestly believed that this action was SOP for a Canton municipal elections. Was she on the ballot? To whom are her allegiances owed? Inquiring minds want to know.

JB

Ed McIntyre said...

this is very reminiscent of Lyndon Johnson's election to the U.S. Senate. A couple of days after the election all the votes had been tallied except one county. Mr. Johnson was behind X number of votes, a week went by and finally the last county came in. Amazingly that county had enough votes for Johnson to win the election. seems like an unprecedented turnout of almost 100 percent took place and 80 or 90 percent of the Register Voters voted for Johnson.

Anonymous said...

Bill, you are wrong, state statutes provide standards for handling/counting votes during a primary election and provide a process for dealing with fraud.

Anonymous said...

The State of Mississippi cannot tell any political party who or who not it can choose to lead their elections. While there are certain general laws that govern activity in primary elections, those are, basically, "private parties." ANY party can involve any convict it wants, even if that convict is barred from holding office OR has lost the right to vote.

It's the same reason we'll never get truly open primaries -- "freedom of association."

Anonymous said...

Bill -

It's actually the Canton Municipal Democrat Executive Committee. And that's run by Robert Chinn, the disgraced former Justice Court judge who was removed from the bench by the Supreme Court.

Point Of Order said...

Anon 10:56 Sez: "The State of Mississippi cannot tell any political party who or who not it can choose to lead their elections."

While that may be true, no group or person, however stupidly selected, can commit voter fraud and totally bastardize the election process.

Anonymous said...

Point of Order -- WTF? I never said they COULD.

8:21 asked "how is a person with that record eligible to be handling ballot boxes?" The parties make their own rules about eligibility -- they can take someone convicted of voter fraud and out that person on a county executive committee if they want (see: Brown, Ike). If the Dems want her handling them, she can. Her eligibility to be part of the party process is determined by the PARTY. If they don't care about her previous crimes, they don't HAVE to, and the state can't tell them they have to.

None of that gives her the freedom to do anything else prohibited by law. Freedom of association does not equal freedom from prosecution for criminal acts.

Anonymous said...

heads up, KF. shooting in Madison. Man came out of the house, waving a gun, shot at a lady walking a dog and boy next door. Friend 2 streets down said police there. Info is from her.

Anonymous said...

You asked "Can the judge reinstate the six month sentence?" NO. You cannot revoke a suspended misdemeanor sentence after two (2) years, but if convicted of contempt for failure to make timely payments, she can be sentenced up to a $1,000 fine and up to six (6) months in jail. Same result - different method.

Point of Order (WTF) said...

1:46 why did you waste your time and mine going into that useless diatribe about forming an election committee? The discussion here regards violation of law, not who has what right to put whom on a committee.

Pete said...

Bill, you are basically correct, although some of the disagreements are also correct. Its a matter of timing. The primary was conducted - in its entirety - by the Canton Municipal DEMOCRAT Ex Comm, headed by Robert Chinn (as noted, convicted of bribery while a JCJ and removed by SCOTMS. The county nor the state have any control over the process.

State law does provide statutes for the process. In this case, the CDMEC chose to ignore most of them.

There is remedy, but it occurs after the completion of the count of the ballots, via the state court system.

Redus was not arrested based on violations of the election statutes, although the outcry from many local citizens caused Redus to resort to her usual attitude of cussing out whoever is around her that she doesn't like. Stay tuned to this story - there will be more to come.

And - the PS. Anybody want to take a guess as to Redus's 'contact number'? Hint: a local elected official's law office.

Anonymous said...

Why would a woman be 'walking a dog and a boy'? She OUGHT to be shot at!

Anonymous said...

PENN sucks.


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