WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County's elections chief said Wednesday.
Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case to the state attorney's office by Friday.
Coulter's attorney did not immediately return a call Wednesday. Nor did her publicist at her publisher, Crown Publishing.
Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Anderson's office received a complaint in February that Coulter voted in the wrong precinct during a February 7 Palm Beach town council election.
Anderson said a letter was sent to Coulter on March 27 requesting that she clarify her address for the voting records "or face the possibility of her voter registration being rescinded." Three more letters were sent to Coulter and her attorney, but she has yet to respond with the information requested, Anderson said.
In July, Anderson said, he received a letter from Coulter's attorney, Marcos Daniel Jimenez D'Clouet. The letter said the attorney would only discuss the matter in person or by telephone because, he complained, Anderson had given details to the media. Anderson said the matter had to be discussed in writing.
The right-wing commentator also authored a book that said some September 11 widows were "enjoying their husbands' deaths."
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Are you a lawyer? Ann is. I bet she could show you the definition of plagerism and slander and liabel and stupid in one fell swoop.
"But the longest, apparently stolen passage on page five of Coulter's book, 33 words long, from a 1999 article in the Portland Press [sic]. Again, the four words that were, in fact, changed in Coulter's book, we have highlighted in italics. And in Coulter's Universal Press [Syndicate] columns for the past 12 months, the iThenticate program found her borrowing from an L.A. Times article and the Heritage Foundation."
Yeah, try contradicting republicans who arrogantly believe GOD is on their side.
You know, Democrats scream at Republicans for blowing Kerry's remarks out of proportion. Aren't you guys doing the same thing with this. I mean, she IS a registered voter. I know for a fact that your voting station can change without your knowledge. It happened to me in Brooklyn. So please, get off it.
And Oscar, find a new philosophy bro. That one sucks.
The enjoyed their husband's deaths in the political arena. Please, look up class in the dictionary, ponder its meaning, and then shut up, even if you think it. If they did, it would be no different from any other American that thinks reality shows are the bomb.
On that subject, we'll examine Kerry's ridiculous attempt at antics. It is such a thorough botch job, that one would have to assume someone on his staff really doesn't like him. My first thought was, oh, that's why he couldn't beat that guy, followed by my second, oh, don't worry, they'll screw it up worse themselves.
Prophetic I am.
For the Record: In Dunkin Donuts at 2:00 ordering coffee. I pick up a copy of the Boston Metro. On the cover is seven soldiers in Iraq holding a sign saying the following: "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HEAR N IRAK". I laughed quite loudly, only to look up and see that everyone else waiting in line is staring at me like the crazy man. I didn't care, that's frigging funny.
At least they seem to have some senses of humor over there still.
Ann Coulter is a pandering word whore. No two ways about it, she doesn't say anything that isn't from the RNC, and they are just as retarded (if not moreso) than the DNC. She does not think for herself, she just believes she does, like the majority of this country believes it does.
Do you think those guys made that sign in support of Kerry? If you did, then you're off your damn meds.
I voted for him, but thats just because it wasn't Bush.
I am talking about the philosophy of egoism as espoused by Ms. Rand.
Coulter wrote: "As New Hampshire attorney general in 1977, Souter opposed the repeal of an 1848 state law that made abortion a crime even though Roe v. Wade had made it irrelevant, predicting that if the law were repealed, New Hampshire 'would become the abortion mill of the United States.'"
Original SOurce "In 1977, Souter as state attorney general spoke out against a proposed repeal of an 1848 state law that made abortion a crime -- even though the measure had been largely invalidated by the Supreme Court in Roe. vs. Wade… 'Quite apart from the fact that I don't think unlimited abortions ought to be allowed . . . I presume we would become the abortion mill of the United States[.]'"
Portland Press Herald: The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct.
The History Channel: The only major oil spill on land occurred when an unknown saboteur blew a hole in the pipe near Fairbanks, and 550,000 gallons of oil spilled onto the ground.
Her stuff is so outrageous, she couldn't have plagiarized it?
Go take a logic class, please, then your brainwashing will be less complete.
1) Most people are not Christians in this country, go read my Historical Followers of Jesus
2) I wasn't criticizing you, I was criticizing the abjectly retarded logic used by TJ and echoed by Jason. IE, that because its outrageous it couldn't be plagiarized.
I will paste my original comment regarding ra-ra Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter is a pandering word whore. No two ways about it, she doesn't say anything that isn't from the RNC, and they are just as retarded (if not moreso) than the DNC. She does not think for herself, she just believes she does, like the majority of this country believes it does.
She copied words, phrases, ideas, and statistics that were not her won. What she did was plagiarism. If she were an academic ,she would have been kicked out of school immediately. Fortunately, her audience is as brainless as she is and have no idea what plagiarism actually is.
The bits and pieces you included are not sufficient to conclude that she plagiarized anything.
Laureng; get a spell checker on your elitist site if spelling critic is yur lif ambithun!
Or is cuting and pasting an art form in jurnilism skools now?
-- YOu'd better watch out or you might end up stuck in Iraq, Grateful1
Nanci B, I don't think you are familiar with textbook plagiarism. As I have stated, her writing would have gotten her kicked out of school. You need to footnote. Call it what you want but a rose by any other name is still a rose.
Now where is my good friend TJ...