FACT CHECK: ‘Non-Citizen’ Voter In James O’Keefe’s Voter Fraud Video Is Actually A Citizen

[kpete]

FACT CHECK: ‘Non-Citizen’ Voter In James O’Keefe’s Voter Fraud Video Is Actually A Citizen
By Scott Keyes posted from ThinkProgress Justice on May 15, 2012 at 5:04 pm


Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released a new video today supposedly exposing voter fraud in North Carolina by highlighting non-citizens like Zbigniew Gorzkowski who have voted in recent elections.

The problem: Gorzkowski is an American citizen.

In fact, if O’Keefe had done a simple Nexis search for “Zbigniew Gorzkowski”, he would have found a single article from the News & Observer in 2008 noting that Gorzkowski and his wife are naturalized citizens:

Customers flock through the red door of Zbigniew “Ziggy” and wife Halina Gorzkowski’s European grocery and flower shop to buy one of the 12 varieties they sell. The pierogis and 400 eastern European food items and flowers are also punching the naturalized citizen couple’s ticket for their version of the American Dream.

GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY HERE:
http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2008/03/08/123401/coming-to-america-bringing-foreign.html

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/15/484462/james-o-keefe-voter-fraud-north-carolina/

ThinkProgress spoke with Gorzkowski this morning. He verified that this information was indeed correct and he had been an American citizen since the late 1980s. Therefore, his votes in the 2008 and 2010 elections were not only perfectly legal, but encouraged as a civic duty.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/confirmation-bias-for-dummies.html

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Mmmm....pierogis.

Oh, I'm sorry, got sidetracked.

James O'Keefe is a douche. Would love a wonderful karma slap for that guy.

[Turbineguy]

2. Since when

are facts an issue for the right wing? They think and believe as they are told to.

[gratuitous]

3. O'Keefe's stock in trade is truthiness, not truth

Since, as noted philosopher Homer Simpson once opined, you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true, trafficking in truthiness is actually a much higher calling. O'Keefe has to carefully determine what it is his audience wants to hear, and tailor his message and video accordingly. So-called documentary film makers have the luxury of pointing a camera at actual events, and the footage just creates itself. O'Keefe has to work doubly and triply hard to create a video depicting the truthiness of a situation. So let's have a little compassion and understanding for the head honcho at the Lie Factory, huh?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. It doesn't matter.

Our piece of shit paid for hack media are gonna keep giving this little fucking mutant credibility. No matter what he does.

[pinboy3niner]

5. This guy?

A fraud and a liar?

[Wait Wut]

6. Why isn't that turd in prison?

Slimey little dweeb needs to run into a steelworker on a bad day. People like him make me sick.

[qb]

7. His name sounds furrin. He must be a furriner.

O'Keefe is an idiot.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Funny...

...he looks to me like a furrier.

[qb]

10. LOL yeah, he's believable

as a moron in a talent show skit

[tanyev]

8. I'm wondering if O'Keefe somehow snagged my husband's and my voter registration cards.

The new ones never arrived and early voting started today.