Jason Bauer

Judge: Fake Michigan Tea Party Scheme As 'Heinous' As Attempted Murder

Jillian Rayfield | January 12, 2012, 2:22PM

At the sentencing hearing for a former official in the Oakland County Democratic Party in Michigan, the judge said that the official's scheme to put fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot was "as heinous as someone who tries to kill somebody else."

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Jason Bauer

Michigan Dem Gets Probation For Fake Tea Party Scheme

Jillian Rayfield | December 7, 2011, 5:03PM

A former official in the Oakland County Democratic Party in Michigan was sentenced to one year probation for his part in a scheme last fall to split the Republican vote by putting fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot.

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Michigan Tea Party

Second Michigan Dem Pleads No Contest In Fake Tea Party Scheme

Jillian Rayfield | November 22, 2011, 10:29AM

A former operations director of the Oakland County Democratic Party pleaded no contest to charges that he committed election fraud when he attempted to get fake Tea Party candidates on the Michigan ballot.

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Michigan Tea Party

Probe Sought For Possible Sham Tea Party In Michigan

Jillian Rayfield | August 26, 2010, 2:27PM

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is calling for a probe into the Oakland County Democratic Party in connection with allegedly fraudulent candidate filings by the mysterious Tea Party there.

Tea Partiers in Michigan claim that the Michigan Tea Party -- which had aimed to get 23 candidates on the ballot this fall -- was set up by Democrats in an effort to split the Republican vote. And the conservative Patterson is calling for a one-man grand jury to investigate whether Jason Bauer, former political director of the Oakland County Dems, committed a crime when he notarized and filed papers for those Tea Party candidates.

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