TIS Investigates

CASE #1  ————————————————————————————————————-

TIS has filed a complaint with the FEC against Transfund PAC.  This is a Leadership PAC established by Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI).   TIS discovered Transfund PAC wasn’t eligible for Multi-Candiate PAC status in 2008, and subsequent contributions to federal candidates exceeded the legal limit by thousands of dollars.  Track TIS news links and scroll down to view formal complaint;

TIS BREAKING NEWS Story

UPDATE #1 (FEC Follow up w/ FEC >>> AUDIO)

UPDATE #2 Here (TIS Files Complaint)

——————— CASE # 2 ——————–

TIS is looking into the case of Arthur Blackwell II.   Criminal charges were filed on 7 October claiming he pilfered hundreds of thousands of dollars while acting as Highland Park’s state-appointed emergency financial manager.  Blackwell was appointed by the Governor in 2005 and volunteered  to work for $1.00 a year. Charges include embezzlement of $100,000 or more, embezzlement by a public official, misconduct in office, being a public officer refusing to turn over books or money, and taking public money for his own use.

TIS is investigating how Blackwell paid for $9,800 in campaign contributions during the 2008 election cycle to determine if any embezzled funds were used.

In addition TIS is checking into the legality of $6500 in contributions to Kilpatrick’s 2008 election cycle.   More updates to follow in the coming week.

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Calling Out Sam Stein of The Huffington Post / Palins Health Care in Canada

Sam Stein (Huffington Post) is a far-left radical liberal who practices sloppy tabloid journalism. And here is the proof.

Stein wrote an article titled ‘Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care‘. In it, Stein asserts the following as fact,

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
… she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.

The first misstatement of fact is that Canada wasn’t under a single payer system when Palin was six years old. The Canada Health Act wasn’t passed until 1984. Prior to that, Canadian Medicare only covered 50% of medical costs which wasn’t passed into law until 1966.

Stein hasn’t the courage to explain why the Palin family crossed over into Canada. The Palin family lived in the rural southeast Alaska town of Skagway. Their town had no Doctor and the closest medical facilities were located in neighboring Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The time period was in the 60’s, and according to Palin’s father they had little choice, given their location in Skagway. “There was no road out of there at that time,” said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. “The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not.”

And they only went twice for emergency treatment. According to Palin’s father, his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice – once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.

So Stein is a liar, the Palin family did not find Canada ‘more alluring’. They found it necessary in times of emergency.

Stein illustrates the problem with amateur journalism on the far left. They do absolutely no reporting of their own, instead they troll the internet for articles, steal the information and regurgitate the parts they like in a pathetic attempt to twist the story in order to dumb down their readers.

And here I sit, a novice journalist with an English 1A class under my belt, who with five minutes to spare on conducting my own credible research (Courtesy AP), has called out a cheap shot rookie who is a total discredit to the values that journalism requires. Because anything else is just sloppy tabloid journalism.