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November 18, 2012

It's over: Murphy actually gained 274 votes, West 34

from Twitter:

They said after all info was uploaded that Murphy was the winner with the new tapes after everything was all uploaded. I am listening live with Gary. They will be posting this information soon for the public. West only gained 34 and Murphy gained 274
November 18, 2012

The Murphy/West St.Lucie recount resumes

Have to be done by 12 noon today.
The 37,379 St. Lucie County ballots have to be recounted on or before Sunday at noon because that is when the election results are slated to be certified to the state election's office.

From Twitter:

Just pulling a lot of cars in the parking lot, West attorneys on deck and a LOT of media with their satellite's up in the air. SOE has her attorney there. Everyone inside.

Okay sit down for this one and strap yourself in the two machines they are using for this last account one is now broke!

Still not counting, they can't make up their minds on how they will count these 304 votes.2 hours 45 minutes left

November 18, 2012

Murphy/West St. Lucie recount will resume in the morning

they shut down for the night, resume 8 am.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/recount-begins/nS8pG/

West-Murphy recount continues in St. Lucie County

Fort Pierce —


Dozens of Allen West supporters abandoned their daylong vigil of watching ballots being counted at 10 p.m. on Saturday but vowed to return this morning, when the controversial recount will end and a winner will be decided in the hotly contested House District 18 race.

St. Lucie Canvassing Board member Tod Mowery told observers that they would have to clear out of the deserted shopping mall where the ballots were being counted because the mall’s security system would be triggered after 10:30 p.m.

November 17, 2012

Jill Kelley: Petraeus, Allen asked me to help silence 'Bubba the Love Sponge'

(Not "The Onion", seriously. Wish it was. These Hostess Ho Ho's actually believe two 4 star generals requested their assistance in a security threat.)

Jill Kelley emails: Petraeus, Allen asked me to help silence 'Bubba the Love Sponge'
By Michael Isikoff
NBC News
When a Florida shock jock threatened to "deep fat fry" a Quran earlier this year, Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and CIA Director David Petraeus both reached out to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley to help tamp down what they saw as a potential threat to the safety of U.S. troops, according to emails released by the city of Tampa.

In the emails, Kelly -- indicating she was acting at the behest of the high level U.S. government officials -- asked Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to intervene and get the radio disc jockey to stand down.
"I have Petraeus & Allen both emailing me about getting this dealt with," Kelley wrote to Buckhorn in a March 7 email. The day before, Kelley mentioned similar requests to Buckhorn from both Allen and Vice Adm. Robert Harward, deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command in Tampa. "I just got off the phone with Gen. Allen & Adm Harward," she wrote. "I'm going to need your assistance, vice versa with the potential crises we'll be dealing with."
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/16/15224380-jill-kelley-emails-petraeus-allen-asked-me-to-help-silence-bubba-the-love-sponge?lite

November 16, 2012

Mitch McConnell: "we are prepared to put revenue on the table"

Boehner, Pelosi and McConnell just stepped up to mic on MSNBC.
Mitch is like the 8 year old bully marched over to neighbors house by his mother and forced to apologize with her pulling on his ear "go on Billy, tell Mrs. Watson you sorry for what you did to her flowers, go on, tell her!"

November 14, 2012

NYT: "Shirtless" identified

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/us/frederick-humphries-fbi-agent-in-petraeus-case.html?hp&_r=1&

Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry

The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley, the Tampa, Fla., hostess who was socially active in military circles there, about e-mails she found disturbing that accused her of inappropriately flirtatious behavior toward Mr. Petraeus
November 14, 2012

Grayson Wolfe and the Valley of the Neocons

Grayson Wolfe is ex-husband of Jill Kelley's unstable sister, Natalie. Grayson Wolfe is founding partner Akkadian Private Ventures, LLC, and was a Bush appointee in Iraq reconsruction.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/graysonwolfe

When Reuters reporter went to Akkadian Private Ventures office to speak to them, lo and behold, it was not there.

Wolfe could not be immediately located for comment.
His LinkedIn profile identifies him as a founding partner of Akkadian Private Ventures, but when a Reuters reporter went to a Washington address listed for the firm, it was occupied by an unrelated private residence.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/us-usa-generals-custody-idUSBRE8AC13R20121113

Who is Managing Director of Akkadian Private Ventures? Ross J. Connelly. Connelly was CEO of Bechtel Energy Resources Corp. from 1991 to 1995, overseeing the start up of the company and various developmental efforts in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. In 1998 he ran for U.S. Congress in Maine’s 1st Congressional District and subsequently served as Maine State Chairman for “Bush for President” campaign.
http://www.akkadianpv.com/readsenior.php?id=2

Bechtel, a company with longstanding ties to the Republican party, was awarded contracts for rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure, worth up to $680 million.
November 14, 2012

officially freaked out now

not only about Grayson P. Wolfe (ex-husband of Jill Kelley's sister)
but now his father Paul G. Wolfe (homeland security, electronic surviellance, WAY over my spinning head)

Electronic Warfare Associates Inc
ST-ISAC Surface Transportation Information Sharing & Analysis Center
http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=179426614&targetid=profile

http://www.ewa-iit.com/content.asp?sectionID=48&contentID=153

Ms. Marple?@Oenissem
Jill Kelley sis Natalie Khawam ex husband Grayson Wolfe. Check out his father..Paul Grayson Wolfe http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=179426614&targetid=profilehttp://www.ewa-iit.com/content.asp?sectionID=48&contentID=153

November 14, 2012

Jill Kelley's grifter sister was married to Bush appointee

Natalie Khawam's ex-husband is Grayson Wolfe.

Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He was appointed to the bank by President Bush in June 2002. Between January and August 2004, Grayson served as Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. In this capacity he was directly responsible for implementing a wide range of initiatives to attract foreign direct investment and provide financing to Iraqi companies. During this time, Grayson worked extensively on the ground with senior Iraqi and Kurdish officials, and with the Ministries of Finance, Trade and Oil.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/graysonwolfe

(sorry, but all i could think of was those missing millions in Iraq)
November 13, 2012

Oddball Updates in Spies Gone Wild

file under....oh hell, I don't know anymore...

Paula Broadwell-Petraeus Affair Was Briefly on Wikipedia in January

As bizarre new details emerge in the scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus, an anonymous Wikipedia edit back in January is raising eyebrows.
Blogger Milo Wendt noted that Paula Broadwell, the biographer who allegedly had an affair with Petraeus, earned a Wikipedia entry after she appeared on The Daily Show to promote her book on the former general. An hour later, an anonymous editor logged on to note that "Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests."
The edit was quickly flagged as libel and deleted, but a search of the IP address where it originated didn't turn up the author
.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/11/13/paula_broadwell_on_wikipedia_petraeus_affair_alleged_on_wikipedia_in_january.html

Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park

Police notify FBI -- Broadwell's attorney mum on her whereabouts

The woman revealed to have been carrying on an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus lost her driver's license in a Washington, D.C., park recently, sources tell U.S. News.

A Maryland National Capital Park Police spokesman confirmed that a jogger found a North Carolina license in Rock Creek Park belonging to Paula Broadwell. Park Police planned to hold it for 90 days, per policy, and then send it back to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/13/paula-broadwell-driver-license-found-in-dc-park

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