Don Surber, who usually is quite critical of the press in such cases, says he thinks the AP deserves a pass on the failure of the AP to include party identification in its story about vote-fraud indictments in Duval County, Texas because the Texas Attorney General's office didn't include party identification in the press release. I suppose one could make that argument -- but does that therefore imply that the AP is nothing more than a press release re-write service rather than an actual journalistic entity? And what of the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News -- and every other news Texas organization -- failing to take the time to add the information about party identification, and you see that there is clearly something wrong with the coverage of the story.

Especially since there appear to be other shenanigans going on in Duval County involving the Democrats, and have been for years. Democrat money-man Mauricio Celis who is charged with falsely claiming to be a lawyer and impersonating a law enforcement officer (and also under investigation for money-laundering involving Mexican drug cartels), had an actual badge issued by the Duval County sheriff that he used to help perpetrate that fraud.

For that matter, Democrat election fraud in Duval County has a long tradition. One of the most celebrated incidents of election fraud in Texas history (indeed, in all of US history) involves the final 202 votes of the 1948 senatorial primary, curiously cast in alphabetical order and signed with the same pen in the same handwriting, that gave Lyndon Johnson the nomination and hence the general election victory.

I know that las example is six decades ago, but it serves to illustrate that such fraud by Democrats in that county is a long-standing and well-documented tradition. As such, the party affiliation of those facing charges of election fraud is highly relevant and should be included by Texas media outlets, if not national ones.

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