The Indian Road mansion in Palm Beach formerly owned by Ann Coulter's realtor has sold to new owners. Coulter used this house's address on her Palm Beach voter registration in order to keep her true address a secret for personal security reasons. From a recent Palm Beach Post article:
The sellers are Suzanne and David Frisbie. She's the one who told the truth about Coulter. ("No, she doesn't live here.")
Despite Coulter's past protestations in print and on television that she lives in New York City (then why did she vote in Palm Beach?), her lawyer, former South Florida federal prosecutor Marcos Jimenez, confirmed to Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson that Coulter resides in Palm Beach.
Still, charges have yet to be filed against Coulter for voter fraud; since it was turned over to State Attorney Barry Krischer, the case has virtually disappeared. Sheriff Ric Bradshaw — whose office is supposedly non-partisan and supposedly has a deputy investigating the case — turned up to watch Coulter at a recent Lincoln Day Gala for the Republican Party in Palm Beach.
When asked about the investigation into Coulter's voter registration irregularities, Bradshaw said, "I don't know anything about that."
About Bradshaw's presence at the Republican event, an unidentified former Bradshaw staffer commented, "In a county with such an overwhelming majority of Dems, this wasn't the smartest thing to do."
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March 11th, 2007
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Residents of Palm Beach County, Florida, continue to express their dismay that Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson failed to put together a case against Ann Coulter for voter fraud, despite having ample time in which to do so. Anderson cited Coulter's unwillingness to cooperate as the main reason. He instead fobbed the case off to the state attorney's office for investigation. In an editorial published on Election Day, the Palm Beach Post noted:
In contrast to what she writes and brays, Ms. Coulter's behavior as a suspect has been annoyingly coy. Her defense is that she's above the laws that everyone else is supposed to follow. She voted in the wrong precinct to avoid publicly acknowledging her true Palm Beach address. Her privacy is a matter of personal safety, not law.
Dr. Anderson had ample time to document the case against Ms. Coulter. Such documentation would have included her voter registration, her signature on the voter roll at the precinct where she cast her ballot and her attorney's responses to requests for her address. Instead, Dr. Anderson last week sent the state attorney a letter citing his "exhaustive efforts to bring closure to the allegation," and the conclusion that his office is not suited to "undertake this investigatory challenge." To his request for guidance, State Attorney Barry Krischer suggests that he call the police — and, this time, turn in names of witnesses to the alleged crime.
Jose Lambiet of The Post broke this story nearly nine months ago. If Dr. Anderson wants voters to have faith in his office — and these days, that's in short supply — he should put together the case he should have been building. No one is supposed to care more about election law than the elections supervisor.
United Press International noted that, along with disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, Coulter apparently did not vote in last week's mid-term election. Of course, to do so would certainly have stirred up the quicksand with which she's surrounded herself. If she tried to vote in New York, where she told Hannity & Colmes she actually lives, she would have to explain why she cast a ballot in Florida just nine months ago.
If she tried to vote in that same precinct where she cast her ballot in February, she would need to explain why — again — she didn't vote in the precinct where she's registered. And the reverse is equally problematic; voting in the Palm Beach precinct where she's registered — her current registration lists not her Seabreeze Avenue residence but her realtor's house — would have proven conclusively that she committed a felony in February.
It will be interesting to see if Coulter ever coherently and publicly addresses this issue.
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November 11th, 2006
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During the February 7, 2006 Palm Beach town council election, Ann Coulter allegedly voted in the wrong district, even after being alerted by poll workers that her voter information was incorrect. According to the Voter Fraud Incident Report filed on March 7, 2006 by James D. Whited and addressed to Susan A. Eichorn, Town Clerk,
…I said that she had a problem as her home address did not match the address which was in the election computer rolls. Ms. Coulter then said, "What was the problem?" It was explained that she needed to fill out a change of address form in order to vote in Precinct 1198. She countered with, "Where would I vote with the address that I have?" I advised her that it would be at St. Edward's Church. She said "thank you" and hurriedly went out the door and down the driveway. I followed her to the edge of the driveway trying to get her to return but to no avail.
Ann Coulter was a registered voter within the town of Palm Beach and evidently she did cast a ballot within another precinct in the town.
Coulter, who owns a home on Seabreeze Avenue in Palm Beach, allegedly cast her ballot in Precinct 1196 at St. Edward Catholic Church. However, official elections documents show Coulter registered as living at the Indian Road home of her realtor.
On March 27, 2006, Dr. Arthur W. Anderson, Supervisor of Elections, notified Coulter via letter, "It has come to our attention that the address we have on record for you may not be your legal residence address," and asked that she complete an attached statement "to determine the accuracy of the information underlying your potential ineligibility" to vote. The letter also advised Coulter she had the right to request a hearing to determine her eligibility, and that "Failure to respond within thirty (30) days … may result in a determination of ineligibility and in removal… from the statewide voter registration system."
In June, 2006, Coulter skirted the issue on Fox News's Hannity and Colmes show during the following exchange:
Alan Colmes: You're talking about godless liberals not having values, not being values people. In light of that you've been in the news a little bit lately, accused by election supervisor Arthur Anderson in Palm Beach of voting in the wrong district and not answering a registered letter that they sent to you. And they say that you might have committed a felony. So could you address those charges and tell us what happened?
Ann Coulter: I think the syphilis has gone to their brains.
Colmes: Is that what it is?
Coulter: Yes.
Colmes: Did you knowingly vote in the wrong district?
Coulter: No….. No. I live in New York. And I'm not going to tell you anymore about where I live, Alan. ….
Colmes: You didn't knowingly walk into the wrong district?
Coulter: Correct.
Colmes: And did you — is there a reason you didn't respond to the authorities when they sent you a registered letter?
Coulter: This is all false, I'm telling you. You've got — I mean, the "Treason Times" may hate America, but they're at least accurate. When you go to the bush-league newspapers, you get all the venom of the New York Times, but they're all retarded.
To date Coulter has failed to address the question of why, if she does indeed "live in New York," she attempted to vote in Florida, and why her voter registration shows the Florida address of her realtor (a woman who has publicly stated Coulter does not live with her).
In July — at least ninety days later after Anderson's first letter — Coulter's attorney, Marcos Daniel Jimenez D'Clouet, informed Anderson that he would discuss the matter over the phone or in person, but not in writing, in retaliation for Anderson allegedly providing details of the matter to the media. Anderson responded that the matter had to be settled in writing.
After Coulter and D'Clouet failed to respond to subsequent letters requesting information and clarification, Anderson announced on November 1, 2006, that he would turn over the matter to Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer's office for investigation and possible prosecution.
Knowingly casting a vote in the wrong precinct is a felony carrying a punishment of up to five years in prison.
Sources:
- "Media finally picks up Coulter story", Midtopia. June 12, 2006
- "Coulter Voting Case to Prosecutors?", New York Times. November 5, 2006.
- "Coulter probe to be sent to state", Palm Beach Daily News. November 2, 2006.
- "Paper: Ann Coulter might face voter-fraud charges", OnDeadline. November 2, 2006.
- "State attorney to probe Coulter's alleged voting violation", Palm Beach Post. November 1, 2006.
- Voter Fraud Incident Report
- Palm Beach County letter to Ann Coulter
November 6th, 2006
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In Chapter 1 of Godless, Coulter lays out many of the themes she will repeatedly hammer throughout the book, one of which is the evils of environmentalism and that worrying about how humans affect our planet is inconvenient for conservatives. "The various weeds and vermin liberals are always trying to save are no more distinguishable than individual styles of rap music."
While mocking conservationists' efforts to keep our planet healthy by incongruously equating its importance to that of rap music — both of which apparently annoy her — we find Godless' first instance of possible plagiarism… and we're only on page 5.
The sentence Coulter uses to follow the one quoted above is remarkably similar to an item contained in a January 1, 2000 article that appeared at MaineToday.com. The article, "Maine stories of the century: The results," contains the results of a poll to determine which events in Maine's history readers felt were the most important. Number 38 reads:
38. 1976: 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.
On page 5 of Godless, Coulter writes:
"The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct."
By inserting "in Maine," changing "is" to "was," and adding "previously," Coulter apparently feels she changed the MaineToday.com item sufficiently that it no longer warrants credit or attribution in the book's footnotes. In the context of the paragraph, she presents this example of conservationists intervening on behalf of nature as her own, but it's clearly material copyrighted six years earlier by Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
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MaineToday.com, "Maine stories of the century: The results"
September 23rd, 2006
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Chapter 7 of Godless tries to make a case against "the left's war on science." Coulter endeavors to counter the claim that there have been no successes in treating diseases with adult stem cell (as opposed to embryonic stem cells).
She writes, "In the August 24, 2004, New York Times, science writer Gina Kolata claimed that no one had succeeded in using adult stem cells 'to treat diseases.'" Coulter says Kolata is wrong, and lists what she says are sixteen "successful treatments achieved by adult stem cell research." It's interesting how similar (read: almost identical) Coulter's list is to a list of sixteen items that appeared on the Illinois Right to Life's website in 2003 (Godless was published in 2006).
Coulter gives no credit to the Illinois Right to Life's website for providing either the information or the wording for "her" list. Even the order of the items is remarkably similar, differing only in the first items listed. Here are the items in Coulter's list, and the comparable Illinois Right to Life website's item. Notice how, with only minor spelling or punctuation changes, Coulter makes the information her own:
Illinois Right To Life: Spinal cord injury repair (using stem cells from nasal and sinus regions)
Coulter: Repairing spinal cord injuries by using stem cells from nasal and sinus regions.
Illinois Right To Life: Complete reversal of juvenile diabetes in mice using adult spleen cells
Coulter: Completely reversing Type 1 diabetes in mice using adult spleen cells
Illinois Right To Life: Crohn’s Disease put into remission (using patient’s blood stem cells)
Coulter: Putting Crohn's disease into remission with the patient's own blood stem cells
Illinois Right To Life: Lupus put into remission (using stem cells from patient’s bloodstream)
Coulter: Putting lupus into remission using stem cells from the patient's bloodstream
Illinois Right To Life: Repair heart muscle in cases of congestive heart failure (using stem cells from bone marrow)
Coulter: Repairing the heart muscles in patients with congestive heart failure using adult stem cells from bone marrow.
Illinois Right To Life: Repair heart attack damage (using the patient’s own blood stem cells)
Coulter: Repairing heart attack damage with the patient’s own blood stem cells
Illinois Right To Life: Restore bone marrow in cancer patients (using stem cells from umbilical cord blood)
Coulter: Restoring bone marrow in cancer patients using stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
Illinois Right To Life: Restore weak heart muscles (using immature skeletal muscle cells)
Coulter: Restoring weak heart muscles using immature skeletal muscle cells
Illinois Right To Life: Put leukemia into remission (using umbilical cord blood)
Coulter: Putting leukemia into remission using umbilical cord blood
Illinois Right To Life: Heal bone fractures (using bone marrow cells)
Coulter: Healing bone fractures with bone marrow cells.
Illinois Right To Life: Restore a blind man’s sight (using an ocular surface stem-cell transplant & a cornea transplant)
Coulter: Restoring sight in blind people using an ocular surface stem-cell transplant and a cornea transplant
Illinois Right To Life: Treat urinary incontinence (using under arm muscle stem cells)
Coulter: Treating urinary incontinence using stem cells from underarm muscle
Illinois Right To Life: Reverse severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) (using genetically modified adult stem cells)
Coulter: Reversing severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) with genetically modified adult cells.
Illinois Right To Life: Restore blood circulation in legs (using bone marrow stem cells)
Coulter: Restoring blood circulation in legs with bone marrow stem cells.
Illinois Right To Life: Treat sickle-cell anemia (using stem cells from unbilical cord blood)
Coulter: Treating sickle-cell anemia using stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
"Plagiarism" is addressed and defined on the websites for both of Coulter's alma maters, the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Cornell University's definition, for example, is as follows:
Plagiarism is misrepresenting somebody else's intellectual work - ideas, information, writing, thinking - as your own. In other words, it is a misuse of source material. Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism is a serious violation of Cornell's Code of Academic Integrity.
Even if one could somehow manage to overlook the obvious lifting of material (we wonder if Cornell would), one would have to admit that at the very least the repetition and order of items in both lists makes it clear Coulter used the Illinois Right to Life list as a reference, one she somehow forgot to credit properly in her voluminous footnotes.
Sources:
The Raw Story
Illinois Right to Life
University of Michigan
Cornell University
September 20th, 2006
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