To subscribe to Capitol Fax, click here. Creamer bails after O’Keefe video published, Lasonde calls for Schakowsky resignation Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016 * These sorts of posts have been all over my social media feed this week…

Extremely well-known IL political operative has resigned amid vote fraud and violence allegations and sleepy IL media still hasn't covered. — Dan Curry (@dancurry) October 18, 2016 * Here’s Illinois Review’s story… If you think accusations of corruption and election rigging are “loser hysteria,” you need to take a few minutes and watch James O’Keefe’s latest undercover video released Monday morning. The video features the escapades of Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s check-kiting husband Bob Creamer, who, according to one of his operatives, is a key instigator of Trump rally violence. At about 3:30 in O’Keefe’s latest 16 minute video, the subject turns to Bob Creamer, starting with an undercover interview with Creamer. “Wherever Trump and Pence are going to be, we have events,” Creamer tells the undercover reporter. “And we have a whole team across the country that does that. Both consultants and people from the Democratic Party apparatus and people from the campaign, the Clinton campaign. And my role in the campaign is to manage all that.” If you watch the video, what they’re actually talking about is egging Trump supporters on so that they react violently. * Since then, another video has emerged. And the Tribune published the Washington Post’s look at the controversy… Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Scott Foval — two little-known but influential Democratic political operatives — have left their jobs after video investigations by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections. Foval was laid off on Monday by Americans United for Change, where he had been national field director. Creamer announced Tuesday night that he was “stepping back” from the work he was doing for the unified Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton. The moves came after 36 hours of coverage, led by conservative and social media, for O’Keefe’s video series “Rigging the Election.” In them, Foval is filmed telling hidden-camera toting journalists about how they’ve disrupted Republican events; Foval also goes on at length about how an organization might cover up in-person voter fraud. In another Tuesday night statement, the Creamer-founded Democracy Partners, which used Foval as a contractor, denounced both Project Veritas and the statements caught on camera. […] The result of all that was that the “Rigging the Election” videos got a skeptical reception — at first. But the video of Foval, a Wisconsin-based politico with a long résumé, had him bragging about a litany of political dirty tricks. In the first video, he boasts of “conflict engagement in the lines of Trump rallies,” takes credit for the violence that canceled a Trump rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago, admits he has paid “mentally ill” people to start trouble and says there’s a “Pony Express” that keeps Democratic operatives in touch, regardless of whether they work for super PACs or the campaigns not permitted to coordinate with super PACs. In the second video, Foval spends five minutes discussing how voters might be brought from outside Wisconsin to commit voter fraud, buying cars with Wisconsin plates to avoid looking suspicious. “We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f—kin’ a–holes for 50 years, and we’re not going to stop now,” he says. * From Schakowsky’s Republican opponent… Republican Ninth District Congressional candidate Joan McCarthy Lasonde of Wilmette today released the following statement in reaction to video released Monday by Project Veritas, linked here. “Today, I am delivering to Rep. Schakowsky a letter demanding her resignation. She must be held responsible for what’s on that video. “Millions of voters across America, in both parties, are expressing horror over conduct described in the video. Their consciences have been shocked — as they should be — because nothing less than the sanctity of functioning democracy is threatened by that conduct. “Rep. Schakowsky likely participated in those activities and, in any event, must have known about them and could have stopped them “The video, along with a second one just released, unquestionably prove a widespread, concerted effort to disrupt political events with violence. Most sickening, those efforts include use of mentally ill and homeless people as pawns to provoke violence. Lives were put at risk. “Violations of federal campaign laws prohibiting coordination between campaigns and independent political organizations are also clearly indicated.” - Posted by Rich Miller

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