U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Secretly Hires Vote Suppressor Von Spakovsky to Oversee ’08 Election
Blogged by Brad Friedman from Boulder, CO… Just as I went off the grid late last week, this news came in, so some of you may be ahead of me on this one. In either case, it’s still worth noting that GOP/DoJ vote suppressor, Hans von Spakovsky was secretly hired by Bush’s bad joke of […]
Blackwell, Von Spakovsky Set to Testify in House on ‘Lessons Learned from 2004 Election’
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will be holding a hearing this Thursday on “Lessons Learned from the 2004 Presidential Election.” Though no press release has yet been sent out by the Committee, and the link to the hearing’s page at the Judiciary website is currently broken, […]
SEVERAL BIG VOTING RIGHTS VICTORIES ON FRIDAY!
In case you missed it, tremendous news for democracy lovers everywhere late yesterday, as the week ended up being a very good one for the voters, for a change… In Missouri, GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne lost one, and the voters won one for a change, as the attempt by Republican legislators in the state house […]
Voter Advocate Rush Limbaugh Applauds Supreme Court’s ‘Huge, Huge, Huge Move to Undercut Democrat Voter Fraud’
As the great voting rights advocate, Rush Limbaugh, trumpeted at the beginning of his radio show this morning, today’s 6 to 3 Supreme Court ruling allowing new, modern restrictions regarding which citizens may or may not cast votes at American polling places on Election Day, is “a huge, huge, huge move forward to undercut Democrat […]
Bizarre: GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Zealot Von Spakovsky ‘Cleared’ by Inspector General’s Report, Says WaPo
We admit to being perplexed enough by Matthew Mosk’s Sunday article in WaPo, claiming that GOP “voter fraud” zealot Hans von Spakovsky, formerly of the DoJ Civil Rights voting unit, was “cleared” by a U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) inspector general’s report, to poke around for a few minutes trying to figure out who this […]
Hugh Hewitt Blog Slimes Obama, Lies About FEC Shutdown
Some guy named Patrick Ruffini, at the right-wing Townhall blog of right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, is using the space to disinform readers as to the reasons for the current shutdown of the FEC. And he’s dishonestly misrepresenting a BRAD BLOG article from last year (we’re the “left-wing blogger” he links to in his comments […]
GOP Obstructs Vote on FEC Nominations; ‘Vote Fraud’ Zealot Von Spakovsky Likely History
Republicans in the Senate are refusing to allow an up-or-down vote on nominations to the FEC, which means that at the end of the year when the terms of four current appointees end — including previously recess-appointed GOP “vote fraud” zealot Hans von Spakovsy — there will not be enough commissioners to even hold a […]
New York Times: DoJ Voting Chief, John ‘Minorities Die First’ Tanner, Should be Fired for ‘Offensive’ and ‘Bigoted’ Comments
Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer The NY Times calls for the firing of John Tanner, the chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights voting section, because of the “offensive†and “bigoted†comments originally captured and reported by The BRAD BLOG: A House Judiciary subcommittee was the site of a sad spectacle the other day: John […]
EXCLUSIVE: DoJ Voting Rights Section Staffer Says John Tanner’s Sworn Testimony ‘Not Credible’
During yesterday morning’s contentious hearings in the House Judiciary subcommittee, featuring DoJ Voting Chief, John “Minorities Die First” Tanner, a staffer in that division who we’ve come to know contacted The BRAD BLOG to say “Tanner is lying through his teeth.” We asked the staffer — who has requested to remain “anonymous” for obvious reasons […]
The Final GOP Throes for ‘Voter Fraud’ Zealot Hans von Spakovsky’s FEC Nomination
A “Game of Chicken” is how Washington Post describes the current standoff in the Senate concerning the FEC nomination of GOP “voter fraud” zealot/operative Hans von Spakovsky. The nomination is currently at a standstill, along with three other FEC nominations that Senate Republicans insist be voted on along with him, in the wake of a […]
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: DoJ Voting Rights Chief Says ‘It’s a Shame’ Elderly May be Disenfranchised by Photo ID Laws, But Minority Voters ‘Don’t Become Elderly, They Die First’
Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer with additional reporting by Brad Friedman Unbelievably, the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John Tanner, contends that while it’s “a shame” that elderly voters may be disenfranchised by new Photo ID restrictions at the polls because many don’t have driver’s licenses, […]
Update on the Von Spakovsky Nomination Hold in the Senate…
Paul Kiel at TPM has an interesting late update on the Senate hold, by Obama and Feingold, on Hans von Spakovsky’s nomination to the FEC, which we reported yesterday. New details/analysis on the “game of chicken” now in play in the Senate, along with the ramifications for the FEC in 2008 if a stalemate continues…and […]
Duncan Hunter: We’ve Seen Illegal Aliens Herded into the Polls, Voting Illegally in California
At last Thursday’s Republican Debate — the one which the four Republican front-runners refused to attend — sponsored by PBS and hosted by (egad!) African-American broadcaster Tavis Smiley, the question of Photo ID restrictions on voters was raised by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker. California Rep. Duncan Hunter’s answer was interesting. And it’s no small […]
Obama Blocks Vote on Von Spakovsky in Senate!
[2/25/08: Welcome to Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall blog readers! You should know that you are being misled by Patrick Ruffini’s disinformational blog item today. Please see our response to it here so that you get the full story on what is actually going on with the FEC nominations in the Senate, which are currently being blocked […]
Democrats Pass the Buck to Full Senate on GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Zealots FEC Nomination
We’re getting really tired of picking on Democrats. But with clueless Senators like Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, it seems like we continue to have little choice. Picking up from where we left off yesterday regarding this morning’s vote in the Senate Rules Committee on whether or not to send a recommendation for approval on the FEC […]