On Lin Wood in Georgia
Andrea Widburg of American Thinker has done some research on what might be going on with Lin Wood and the Georgia runoff. Her piece is entitled, “Is Lin Wood trying to destroy Republican control over the Senate?”
Yesterday I wrote a post that was highly critical of the “don’t vote in Georgia” movement, of which Lin Wood is a part. I think it’s incredibly self-destructive, perhaps the most self-destructive thing I’ve ever seen from any political party, and I explain why in that post.
Here’s Widburg on Lin Wood:
Lin Wood, who seems to support Trump, is beginning to show all the signs of a loose cannon or even a spoiler. I’m really not sure what’s going on, so I thought I’d just give you a brief history of the man and what he’s been saying recently, so you can draw your own conclusions.
Widburg talks about Wood’s personal background as well as his long history of giving money to Democrats. Being a changer herself – as I am – she understands full well that a history like that doesn’t mean a person can’t be sincere in his support of the right. But Wood’s campaign contributions to Democrats are relatively recent (one in 2018, for example). Widburg also quotes this Breitbart article, which says:
Wood also has a long history of donating to top Democrats’ presidential, gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional campaigns. While he did shift a little bit during the Trump era and made some donations to Trump and some congressional Republicans and to the Republican National Committee, per Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Wood has long backed Democrats for federal office and especially for Georgia offices. Donations to Democrat Party politicians from Wood over a decade plus total more than $40,000, and span from as far back as 2004 through as recently as 2018…
…He also previously backed Perdue’s 2014 Democrat opponent Michelle Nunn, giving her $100 in Sept. 2014. He gave $500 to Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Jim Martin on Nov. 10, 2008, when Martin had forced a runoff with then-GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) — meaning that there at least two other general elections than this one for U.S. Senate in Georgia where Wood has financially backed Democrats over Republicans.
Like Widburg, I don’t know what to make of it.
Wood’s tweets – quoted by Widburg – seem to indicate he’s saying that unless the Georgia legislature meets and fixes the fraud problems, he won’t vote. Neither Perdue nor Loeffler have control of that, however; Governor Kemp and his Secretary of State Raffensperger do. I’ve watched a few interviews with the rather tepid Kemp, who recently did call for a signature audit, which seems to be a step in the right direction. I don’t believe he’s ruled out calling the legislature back into session, although he certainly doesn’t seem at all eager to order them back.
However, George Secretary of State Raffensperger seems to be the more major sticking point, and as I mentioned in this comment, both Perdue and Loeffler have called for his resignation. As far as I know, it’s Raffensperger who has the authority to order a signature audit. I’m not sure how much more either Perdue or Loeffler can do to force the hand of those in charge, and I don’t think they (or America) should be punished for Kemp and Raffensperger’s failings.
Also, if you take a look at this article, Kemp’s argument about the special session goes like this:
[Kemp] He and Georgia’s two top legislative leaders – Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and House Speaker David Ralston – released a joint statement that threw cold water on the idea that lawmakers could overhaul voting rules this close to the twin runoffs that could determine control of the Senate.
“Any changes to Georgia’s election laws made in a special session will not have any impact on an ongoing election and would only result in endless litigation,” the three Republicans said…
“We share the same concerns many Georgians have about the integrity of our elections. Therefore, we will follow the coming audit and recount closely and will work together to keep Georgia’s elections safe, accessible and fair.”
Is it true that it would be a futile gesture to call the legislature into session? I have no idea.
The problem is that the legislature never should have agreed to the changes in the first place. But I think they were cowed by COVID and accusations of racism from Stacey Abrams and her supporters. At any rate, we can’t go back in time and fix that. But sometimes it seems we can’t even go forward and fix anything, either.
From RedState.com
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/12/05/lin-wood-turns-the-crazy-to-max-gets-caught-in-new-grift-too-n289879
Robert Barnes has been warning about Lin Wood since Wood became attached to the Kenosha incident and Kyle Rittenhouse in the fall IIRC (from Viva Frie-Robert Barnes videos on YouTube). See https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law
Pulling on that red hat and stalking around the stage, trying to imitate the figure Trump cuts, is pure buffoonery. I don’t know what Wood is up to, but he’s a hustler, and hustler’s gotta work the hustle. Barnes has regularly warned about his reputation and the warnings have escalated since Wood became involved with the election dispute.
It looks to me like Wood is running out of ideas, and Sydney standing behind him, with her epaulets, is looking both mortified and equally foolish, by association. Charismatic speaking only works when it’s tapped from a genuine place (even if the words are untrue) – and imitation, by definition, is not that.
Back to the question of fool or knave?
At this point, I default to knave until demonstrated otherwise.
I’m flat out of… benefit of the doubt cards…
I’ve forgotten the crazy thing Lin Wood said, when he first emerged in the fraud debate, but I got a bad feeling from it.
I was reminded of when Jim Garrison attempted to try the JFK assassination in New Orleans. At first it seemed he had a case, but his claims got crazier and crazier and the case soon collapsed.
He may be Avenatti lite. But the grain of truth he is riding is that the GOP establishment is too timid and maybe too invested in the current process. That is why he is still being given air time.
Do I think he is a fraud? Maybe.
Do I think he is riding the publicity train for his own benefit? Partially.
Do I think he is pounding people that need to have a good verbal thrashing. Definitely.
His rise and status is the danger of having an unresponsive, dissembling and risk-adverse political class and media. A demagogue who seizes on a truth and beats on it endlessly because of the failure of our “leadership”. Then the demagogue goes off on tangents and has enough uninformed people follow along with him. But he is still useful for the original purpose. He seizes on a resentment and stokes it. We saw the same with Mussolini, Hitler, Father Coughlin, Jim Jones and Huey Lewis. To a lesser degree Lewis Farrakhan.
If the people don’t get their grievances and concerns heard then they will listen to the siren call of the demagogue who at least voices it. That is the danger. Because the demagogue can call for actions that break our civil society. And we have the guns. To Trump’s credit he has always acted in a restrained manner even if the doofus’s don’t realize it.
This should be a clarion call to the corporatist globalists who think that they can impose the Chinese Social Credit system on us. Revolts are breaking out globally. Ultimately it will collapse due to the lack of funds to loot.
This really reminds me how Codevilla’s essay “The Country Class vs. the Ruling Class” is so prescient when I read it. And one of his latest “The People and the Police.” Read them and get a chill. Work hard now to head it off. I believe there is still time.
https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/23/the-police-and-us/
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/15/your-fbi-will-entrap-you/
Anything he writes is required reading my opinion.
Wood’s point is valid, and Trump addressed it yesterday. To vote using the same system as Nov 3, is to invite a repeat of the fraud. However many votes The GOP gets, the dems will just create a greater number out of thin air. If the traitorous secretary of state refuses to correct the systemic flaws in the process, the only thing we can do is provide so much scrutiny that the counterfeit ballots can’t be inserted into the flow of the election. The dominion machine fraud is subtle and can be overcome with good turnout.
Wood is right. GOP is double-crossing President Trump. President Trump is the indispensable man. He is more popular than the GOP except with big donors. If they fight hard for him they can keep the Senate. If they don’t, they won’t.
There’s quite a bit of insight to be gained concerning Mr. Wood from a reading of the complaints filed against him by former partners. Google it if interested. Not a nice fellow.
Stacey Abrams, referenced by Neo, is a big fat slug who happens to be a black. Big black women can be angrily intimidating, unreasoning and extremely offensive in one-on-one encounters, as Stacey is. Many of us have seen it. I surely have, living in the Southland, and prejudice plays no part in my analysis. It is part of “black culture”, likely related to most (80%) black females being unmarried mothers, with no father authority in the home to deal with the developing thugs they have parented.
Here are data from http://www.bestplaces.net:
Atlanta, GA Jersey City, NJ United States
Violent Crime 55.3 26.3 22.7
Property Crime 75.4 27.1 35.4
“The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.” (2020)
Atlanta has become the capital of black America. Demographic data show the % of black Georgians has steadily increased over the past 30 years, and the white % is a bare majority now, at 55%. There exist very prosperous entirely black suburbs outside Atlanta where non-blacks are not welcome.
I have been in Atlanta very many times in the last 40 years and am in no hurry to go back. Ever. Only in transit at the airport on my way to Boston.
So yes, Abrams can intimidate, personally, electorally, and demographically. Even the state’s governor.
exeter: “nice fellows” do not make good litigators.
Beware of Google and its biases.
The legislative coup d main by Senator Lee this week might affect GOP turnout.
There are several versions of this but this sounds accurate.
Utah Senator Mike Lee succeeded in passing legislation in the Senate that would eliminate per-country-caps on recipients of H-1B visas on Wednesday, a policy change that would effectively monopolize the visa system for nationals of large countries such as India.
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act has been called the greatest corporate welfare program for Big Tech in recent memory. Lee has persistently sought to pass the corporate giveaway, with previous attempts to eliminate per-country-caps being blocked by Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Rick Scott. Neither Senator objected to the unanimous passage of the modified S386 legislation on Wednesday afternoon.
Big Tech monopolies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft have fervently lobbied in favor of eliminating per-country caps, seeking to replace their American workforces with de facto indentured workers who accept lower wages and worse working conditions. The pervasive use of the H-1B visa in the American technology industry has displaced countless American workers from their careers.
Lee’s giveaway doesn’t specifically raise annual H-1B visa rates, although an increase in numbers of visa workers would be a likely consequence of its enactment. It’s expected that the program will be dominated by Indian nationals in the event that Lee’s HR1044/S386 is signed into law, providing massive corporations with a considerable labor pool willing to work for less in return for an American visa.
Trump can veto it. Biden would not, of course.
LAURENCE JARVIK:
So, if “Lin Wood is right,” and if “Trump is the indispensable man,” it is undoubtedly true that voters should follow Trump’s stated and repeated impassioned plea that voters in Georgia come out and vote for Perdue and Loeffler in such great numbers that the results will be a Republican win whatever the Democrats try to do in terms of fraud. Trump has been very very clear about this.
Scott Nichols:
That’s not “Lin’s point” that anyone is objecting to. Of course things need to be changed to make it harder for fraud to occur. That’s a given. Whether it will happen or not, and whether it will happen to the extent necessary, remains to be seen. But that’s not some arcane point Lin Wood is making – nearly everyone on the right agrees with him on that score.
The point Wood is making that is destructive and that I and others strongly object to is the idea of not voting if the voting rules aren’t fixed to one’s liking. Voting is of the essence, and Trump has also made that crystal clear. Whatever ends up being fixed or not fixed prior to the runoff election, there is zero reason to hand Democrats a victory on a silver platter by not showing up at the polls, which would be the most stupid and suicidal action of the GOP that I’ve ever seen.
This has ALL the hallmarks of a Venezuelan/Cuban style operation to divide the Opposition. I have seen it happen… and work.
What can be done is to recruit and train poll watchers who are more than just observers.
Experienced programmers and operators from the financial industry should be watching every piece of Dominion gear and what every Dominion operator is doing. Dominion operators should be known to everyone and their names and job descriptions should be published and available to poll watchers.
The technical observers should be using a script developed well in advance that would provide for recording of critical events and what happened that is totally separate from the Dominion system, but should refer to logs and reports created by the Dominion software.
If a system of poll and system watchers is not being created someone is not doing their job. It should be publicly demanded starting now.
News outside of Georgia is breaking. Twitter post from Sunday (sourced via Telegram):
Disclose.tv ?
@disclosetv
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JUST IN – #Arizona federal agents raided a house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County. The agents confiscated eight hard drives, three computers, and a bag of USB sticks in relation to a cyberattack and stolen voter data.
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FORBES has a story on the raid (this above?) in Arizona; the items reported seized appear similar:
“On the morning of November 5, as the 2020 election hung in the balance, Arizona federal agents raided a two-story house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County, a county that had become a key battleground in the presidential race. The agents were looking for evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data. They left with eight hard drives, three computers and a bag of USB sticks. The resident of the property, a 56-year-old IT expert named Elliot Kerwin, was served the warrant. He is not yet facing charges and was unreachable for comment at the time of publication. There is no indication that anything other than voters’ information, which can be acquired for a few hundred dollars in Arizona counties, was taken from the affected office.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/12/04/exclusive-the-fbi-is-investigating-voter-data-theft-in-this-key-2020-election-battleground/?sh=affa45c34a47
Is the law enforcement drought on the Great Steal beginning to break? Is this story dropping now, just before the AZ legislature meets to address election fraud?
Cicero writes “So yes, Abrams can intimidate, personally, electorally, and demographically. Even the state’s governor.”
Sure. But another motive is popular online: Gov. Kemp is owned by the Chinese. There is a web site in China and in Chinese hawking Georgia for foreign investment.
And Dominion seems to be owned by the Chinese. For example, UBS Securities, which is around 70% Chinese owned, injected $400 million into Dominion at the beginning of October (via loan or capital documents posted to this effect on Twitter last week).
This sure looks like a good enough motive for Kemp to resist investigating Dominion.
Spartacus:
Mussolini, Hitler, Father Coughlin, Jim Jones and . . . Huey Lewis??
I think you mean Huey Long.
I think it’s incredibly self-destructive, perhaps the most self-destructive thing I’ve ever seen from any political party, and I explain why in that post.
And I think this position is born out of fear and Stockholme Syndrome trauma (mind control).
It is like that 9/11 scenario in 2015. You have to vote for X, because Y will tear you a new one.
Okay… that’s basically the same thing used by Leftist Demoncrats to put blacks on the plantation and keep them voting Demoncrat.
Are you people voters or slaves? There’s a difference.
If you are a slave, then you vote X, because massa tells you to or else you gonna get it good and hard.
If you are a voter, then they work for you. You can vote them into power and take them out of power.
If you want to disagree with Ymar, America, then stop acting like slaves.
This whole trauma based Stockholme Syndrome of attacking Lin Wood, is also per expected. He is upsetting your trauma/rape/marriage bond! Let’s attack the liberator of the captives/hostages, because the captors are too “scary” to talk back to.
As for Lin Wood, he’s just blowing up the GOP in Georgia because I promised Grim, another long time Demoncrat voter in GA, that I would destroy the GOP (cause traitors in it) right after I got done with Leftists (treason firing squads).
This just came a little bit early, as a christmas preview gift.
The Word of a Son of God is considered administrative law in the universe ruled still by the Godhead.
As a Demoncrat himself in years past, Trump knows this. These donations are really peanuts or “hedging your bet” given how much money these trial lawyers and real estate moguls have.
Lucian Lincoln “Lin” Wood, Jr. (born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is a high-profile American attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia. He represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. Wood’s representation of Richard Jewell propelled Wood from a personal injury lawyer to be known as one of the top libel, defamation and First Amendment lawyers in the U. S. earning him the title of “Attorney for the Damned”.
BIOGRAPHY
Early years
Lin Wood was raised in Georgia after moving to Macon, Georgia, at age 3. Wood has stated in news accounts that his family struggled financially with frequent episodes of domestic abuse involving his parents. He has one sibling, Diane Wood Stern born February 1951 and a half sister, Linda Martin born in 1946. After a school dance, the then 16-year-old Wood returned home to find his father had beaten his mother to death. L. Lin Wood Sr. pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a charge reduced from first-degree murder. He served a little over two years in prison. Wood has stated that it was this experience that solidified his earlier decision to become a lawyer.
Wood lived with friends and graduated from Mark Smith High School in Macon, Georgia in 1970. Per his profile from Powell Goldstein LLC he graduated from Mercer University cum laude in 1974 and graduated from Walter F. George School of Law cum laude in 1977.
For the next nineteen years from 1977 to 1996 Wood established a reputation in the State of Georgia as someone who could win large settlements—and—judgments primarily in medical malpractice cases.
Defamation and libel lawsuits
Wood’s first libel and defamation client was Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996.
Jewell was quickly followed by other high-profile cases the next being John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, had several defamation lawsuits ensued since JonBenét’s murder. L. Lin Wood. was the plaintiff’s lead attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son Burke, and has prosecuted defamation claims on their behalf against St. Martin’s Press, Time Inc., The Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star, The Globe, Court TV and The New York Post. John and Patsy Ramsey were also sued in two separate defamation lawsuits arising from the publication of their book, The Death of Innocence, brought by two individuals named in the book as having been investigated by Boulder police as suspects in JonBenét’s murder. The Ramseys were defended in those lawsuits by Lin Wood and three other Atlanta attorneys, James C. Rawls, Eric P. Schroeder, and S. Derek Bauer, who obtained dismissal of both lawsuits including an in-depth decision by U.S. District Court Judge Julie Carnes that “abundant evidence” in the murder case pointed to an intruder having committed the crime.
In November 2006, Rod Westmoreland, a friend of JonBenét Ramsey’s father, filed a defamation suit against Keith Greer, who posted a message on an Internet forum using the pseudonym “undertheradar”. Greer had accused Westmoreland of participating in the kidnapping and murder. Greer has defended his statement.
Wood went on to represent former U.S. Congressman Gary Condit, and the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant case. He has also represented fellow attorney Howard K. Stern in defamation lawsuits against John O’Quinn, lawyer for Virgie Arthur, the mother of Anna Nicole Smith and against Rita Cosby, the author of Blonde Ambition, The Untold Story of Anna Nicole Smith.
Wood more recently was hired by presidential candidate Herman Cain, in his efforts to fight off sexual harassment charges.
Other Significant lawsuits
On November 30, 2012, CNN covered the DaVita Inc. Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit pending in which Wood is a lead attorney for the plaintiffs. That lawsuit settlement in 2015 was nearly $500 Million plus attorneys fees.
Personal life
Wood lives in Atlanta Georgia and has four children, two are attorneys. Wood and Mercer University announced a one million dollar fund set up by Wood at his Alma Mater to be called the “L. Lin Wood Fund for the Enhancement of Mercer Law School”.
COVERAGE IN NEWSPAPERS AND BOOKS
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that “Wood has 28 years of experience as a trial lawyer focusing on civil litigation, representing individuals and corporations as plaintiffs and defendants in tort and business cases involving claims of significant damage. He also has extensive experience in First Amendment litigation and management of the media in high-profile cases. He was the lead civil attorney for Richard Jewell related to reporting about Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta; the attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colo.; the attorney for former U. S. Congressman Gary Condit over the May 2001 abduction and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington; co-counsel in the civil action in Colorado against NBA star Kobe Bryant; lead counsel for MedQuest Associates Inc. and J.P. Morgan Partners LLC in a class action in Atlanta dealing with health-care issues; and lead counsel for AirTran in defamation litigation against the Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper The Plain Dealer.”
Dary Matera described Wood’s successes in the Richard Jewell case: “Richard Jewell hired himself some crack libel attorneys, and they’ve been hammering the media ever since. So far, Atlanta lawyers L. Lin Wood and Wayne Grant have torched NBC, CNN, a community college where Jewell once worked, and other media outlets for more than $2 million and counting. And that doesn’t include the undisclosed “six figure” fee they secured for the movie story. The biggest lawsuits – against the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and some other major media outlets – are still pending.”
A 2008 book by Jim Fisher described Wood’s role in the Ramsey case, which led to the couple’s exoneration: “In 1999, after absorbing an enormous amount of abuse from the media, the Ramseys went on the offensive. They hired a more aggressive attorney, L. Lin Wood, and published a book, The Death of Innocence: JonBenét’s Parents Tell Their Story.”
I am in Georgia. I know how Georgian Demoncrats are. It’s just how it is.
Simply put…
In this already tightly counted election….
All the Don’t Vote pushers may have to do is convince a few 1000 not to vote.
Mussolini, Hitler, Father Coughlin, Jim Jones and . . . Huey Lewis??
I think you mean Huey Long.
bof: Oh, I don’t know — Huey Lewis was tight with the SDS (Students for Democratic Society) back in the day and SDS spawned the Weather Underground.
But bless you and Spartacus for remembering Father Coughlin and Huey Long, two interesting, though cautionary figures in American history, sadly forgotten today by Democrats bleating about racism and fascism.
huxley:
Progressives of the 1930s (FDR and others) didn’t have too many problems with “isms” when it came to their “experts” solving problems that just required applying power of the state. Ends and means? Individual rights and constitutional process be damned. They still don’t have a problem with that approach.
om:
They sure didn’t have problems with “isms” and top-down solutions. Woodrow Wilson too.
Jonah Goldberg may have burned a ton of his credibility, but his “Suicide of the West” outlining the history of progressivism, is still a brilliant, necessary book, and readable by both sides.
I recommended SoW to an old commune friend who remains quite progressive. He read it and liked it.
LOL you hear that Republicans, just keep voting for “not Democrat” and everything will be fine! Anytime now…
Sam:
Burn it all down in Georgia and see if the left cries. Any other helpful advice to offer? As they say, it is best not to be an “example” for others. You must live in a blue state to have such wisdom to share.
Sam:
Nobody thinks “everything will be fine.” Who the hell ever said that?
You shouldn’t premise a vote for anyone, ever, on the expectation that, if they win, “everything will be fine.”
No, you should vote for the least-leftist likely-to-win candidate in every election, because things will be marginally less bad that way.
I’m not surprised that people get outraged or dismayed by the vote-theft of this year’s election. That’s entirely appropriate. But I’m often astonished that otherwise-competent grown-ups are unable to distinguish between “perfect” and “less evil than it could otherwise have been.” And I’m puzzled that anyone older than a teenager would expect anything better than “less evil than it could otherwise have been” to emerge from a system as imperfect as the ballot-box.
Was there ever any better reason to vote for Trump than that the outcome was less evil than it otherwise would have been? I’m unaware of any.
So too, with Loeffler and Perdue.