According to 365Gay.com, Fidel Castro and Cincinnati Reds owner Bob Castellini were among the signees.  Maybe Castro gave Phil Burress a box of his best Cohibas while he was there…

Phil Burress, chairman of the group behind the referendum, said he referred to Deters the name of the signature gatherer who he thinks committed fraud. Burress said his staff alerted him to the 18 questionable signatures, and he didn’t look at any beyond that because it was clear they wouldn’t have enough signatures to force a referendum.

"No one else from staff has said anything about (other) signatures that are corrupt," Burress said.

"Why would I be required to check that out, when it’s the homosexual activists making the claims (of massive fraud)."

They pulled the petitions because they went a little too far this time, and Phil has somehow sensed this.  The election process in Ohio has been corrupt for so long now under republican rule that the kook pews figured they could get away with anything now and threw caution to the wind.  Citizens To Restore Fairness had only just started looking at the signatures and they found Fidel’s name in there and that was too much, even by Ohio standards.  And true to form, Phil is looking for a scapegoat.  Oh yes…it was that guy we paid to collect signatures.  You sure it isn’t the gays Phil?  Isn’t it always the gays?

No Phil, it’s you.  Someone who feels utterly no compunction about lying through their teeth to incite the mob cannot possibly have any moral brakes when it comes to a little thing like election fraud.  Your kind will lie, cheat and steal any election you come anywhere near and not feel the slightest twinge of guilt or remorse about it either, because you’re on a mission from God and God doesn’t mind it when people lie and cheat and steal for Him.  God is that big mafia boss in the sky…right Phil?  He likes it when you bring Him bling.

This is the republican party in a nutshell.  I wander the liberal and progressive blogs and constantly I see amazement over how completely amoral the republicans have become.  There’s Bush wiretapping Americans right and left at will as though he can do as he damn well pleases a fuck the rule of law.  There’s the bogus rationals for the war in Iraq, in-your-face lies like Saddam was involved in 9-11 that have been debunked over and over again and yet the Bush administration keeps repeating them.  There’s the whining petulant sense of entitlement and bitter resentment towards everyone who isn’t One Of Us.  I’ve been seeing it for decades in the anti-gay kook pews: That Fuck The Constitution, Fuck Democracy, Fuck The Rule Of Law we’ll do to you as we damn well please attitude…that ritualistic waving around of one damn stupidly transparent lie after another, long after the lie has stopped convincing anyone, because as long as the lie can still incite the mob it’s still useful…that whining, petulant sense of entitlement by virtue of heterosexuality, and bitter resentment toward gay people who stubbornly refuse to hate themselves like they hate us.  I’ve had to face that open sewer of arrogance and hate and resentment ever since I left puberty behind.  And then I watched as the republican party became that.