ALLEN WEST PATRICK MURPHY RECOUNT SUPERVISOR IS A BIT OF A LEFTY.

I’m sure Allen West has nothing to worry about in this tightly contested congressional race. Gertrude Walker’s only dedicated towards the leftist causes and candidates.

Earlier this week, Mrs. Walker said her office would only count early votes from Nov. 1 - 3, not all early voting ballots. Oh, that’s fair! CLICK HERE.

(THE BLAZE) - Rep. Allen West’s campaign has singled out a controversial St. Lucie County elections supervisor for special condemnation in one of the closest congressional races in the country. West’s campaign has pointed to a number of irregularities coming from the office of Gertrude Walker. But while the focus is on current irregularities, The Blaze has discovered her past is even more intriguing.

Walker, 63, has spent her entire career involved in electoral politics and activism. The Democrat election supervisor serves on the board of directors of a number of left-wing organizations, and causes, including The League of Women Voters, Head Start, and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Committee. She writes on her election profile:

“I was instrumental in the following accomplishments: Renaming North 25th Street as Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., establishing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday for St. Lucie County, City of Fort Pierce and the City of Pt. St. Lucie, and the renaming of Dreamland Park to Martin Luther King Jr. Dreamland Park.”
While supporting a civil rights icon is hardly radical, it’s clear from her record that King’s dream of a color blind society isn’t what Walker has in mind. Is it too much to think, then, that she would oppose West’s bid for re-election because his politics and hers differ?

She was elected the state’s first black elections supervisor in 1980. Throughout her career, Walker has made much of her color and black activism. Pointing to her own successes, she noted in 1990 (according to an article viewed by the author), “Blacks have certainly made gains politically. I think it’s a greater acceptance by the voting public of black officials and of black candidates.”

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In May 2012, Walker and Palm Beach County Supervisor Susan Bucher defied state orders and delayed sending out letters to noncitizens that had been identified by the Florida Department of State as being on the voter rolls. Said Walker (according to an article viewed by the author): “We don’t have confidence in the validity of the information.”

Walker has insisted that West’s request for a recount of early ballots is “unusual” (despite the odd 4,000 vote swing in an unauthorized recount of early ballots.) There are a lot of “unusual” instances of voting irregularities during Walker’s tenure. In 1990, she fired a subordinate for taking voting machines to the wrong precincts. The Palm Beach Post described Walker in 1992 as having a “refreshingly candid attitude, which allows her to acknowledge that sometimes ‘equipment will malfunction, and individuals will mess up.’” (Palm Beach Post, October 20, 1992).

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Despite this history of irregularities, Walker has reluctantly admitted wrongdoing in that early tabulation—a week after the election. “I’m not perfect, neither is my staff,” she admitted during a Tuesday evening press conference. Out of 94 precincts, the first forty weren’t counted at all and the last 54 were counted twice, which explains why city votes increased and county votes decreased after the Nov. 11 retabulation of the votes from Nov. 1-3.

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Given everything here, is it too much to think that Walker would oppose West’s bid for re-election because his politics and hers differ?

Quote via: The Blaze.