{"id":5450,"date":"2007-12-17T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2007-12-17T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:50:05","slug":"thor-hearne-back-on-the-speaking-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5450","title":{"rendered":"Thor Hearne Back on the Speaking Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by Howard Beale of Fired Up! Missouri<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n

In an irony of ironies, the man famous for fabricating –and then suddenly disappearing<\/a>— an organization expressly for purposes of spreading misinformation about "voter fraud" in order to suppress Democratic vote counts, is now hitting classrooms to teach Missouri lawyers about campaign finance laws and lobbyist disclosure.<\/p>\n

Thor Hearne is apparently set to headline an event next week sponsored by the Missouri Bar<\/a> which is titled "Then and Now: Update on Campaign Finance and Lobbying Laws."<\/p>\n

Perhaps Hearne will lovingly detail all the steps that one can take —hypothetically, of course<\/a>— to concoct front organizations that serve as proxies for partisan interests<\/a> and then lobby legislatures for needless statutory changes that will strip away rights from legal voters and provide their party with structural electoral advantages.<\/p>\n

This appearance by Hearne seems to be the latest in a series of contrived efforts to re-enter the public sphere after several months in hiding. Hearne largely disappeared from the scene after he became a touchstone of the actions of a corrupt and politically motivated Department of Justice — who brought “voter fraud” prosecutions timed to coincide with elections, in violation of written DoJ procedures, etc. — and suffered well-deserved beatings at the hands of Congressional investigators.<\/p>\n

Hearne has recently surfaced, comically, as an election "expert" in a silly piece from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s<\/em> Jo Mannies<\/a> and as the author of an amicus curiae<\/em> brief on behalf of 41 Congressional supporters<\/a>, including Missouri GOP nuts Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt, of Indiana’s anti-voter voter identification law which is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Presumably, Hearne believes that people have somehow forgotten that he was proven to be a charlatan and laughingstock just a few months ago. Neither FiredUp! Missouri<\/a> nor The BRAD BLOG<\/a> has forgotten.<\/p>\n

The one saving grace of the Missouri Bar’s seminar may be that Hearne’s anti-rights ranting will be balanced out by one of his co-presenters, attorney Rob Heggie, who possesses a long record of standing up in favor of protecting the rights of Missouri voters.<\/p>\n

<\/a>For more information on the “non-partisan” tax-exempt ACVR “Voter Fraud” scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush\/Cheney ’04 National General Counsel Mark F. “Thor” Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG’s full Special Coverage of the “American Center for Voting Rights” at https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ACVR<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by Howard Beale of Fired Up! Missouri… In an irony of ironies, the man famous for fabricating –and then suddenly disappearing— an organization expressly for purposes of spreading misinformation about "voter fraud" in order to suppress Democratic vote counts, is now hitting classrooms to teach Missouri lawyers about campaign finance laws and lobbyist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}