{"id":8136,"date":"2010-10-19T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2010-11-05T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T02:45:03","slug":"rnc-vote-caging-by-tim-griffin-ar-2-gop-congressional-candidate-covered-by-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=8136","title":{"rendered":"RNC ‘Vote Caging’ by Tim Griffin, AR-2 GOP Congressional Candidate, Covered by Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

And, also<\/i> speaking of the long-waged Republican War on Democracy<\/a>, it’s nice to see a bit of in-depth coverage of issues that actually matter from local news reporters for a change. Here’s Melissa Sims of KARK 4 News in Arkansas<\/a> last night, on the vote caging<\/a> of Tim Griffin, the Karl Rove protege installed as U.S. Attorney without Senate confirmation by the Bush Administration during their infamous U.S. Attorney purge.<\/p>\n

Griffin, notoriously, was discovered to have sent caging emails to RNC colleagues during the 2004 election in Ohio. He denies any wrong-doing, though BBC investigative journalist and author [and occasional BRAD BLOG<\/a> guest blogger] Greg Palast who first reported on the caging emails in Griffin’s name, believes otherwise<\/a>. Several other independent reporters similarly confirmed<\/a> his involvement in the scheme. Griffin has never been held legally accountable, in any case, despite being forced to tearfully resign<\/a> as USA during the Attorney Purge investigation. He is now, incredibly, the GOP’s nominee for Arkansas’ 2nd District U.S. Congressional seat, proving — yet again — that IOKIYR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

KARK’s Simas took the time to cover the matter in some detail — a 7-minute report is extraordinary<\/i> for local news — even as it’s been largely ignored by…well, just about everybody, certainly in Arkansas, until now…<\/p>\n

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Note: Simas’ written report published on KARK’s ArkansasMatters.com<\/a> website along with the video report, is very good as well.<\/p>\n[Much thanks to RAW REPLAY’S David Edwards<\/a> for the video embed!<\/i>]\n

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UPDATE 10\/20\/10:<\/strong><\/em> Palast picks up on this same story and writes over at Truthout<\/a> that attorney Robert Kennedy Jr., having looked at the Griffin caging emails, believes that what the SarahPAC-endorsed candidate Griffin did “was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail.”<\/p>\n

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And, also speaking of the long-waged Republican War on Democracy, it’s nice to see a bit of in-depth coverage of issues that actually matter from local news reporters for a change. Here’s Melissa Sims of KARK 4 News in Arkansas last night, on the vote caging of Tim Griffin, the Karl Rove protege installed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-election-2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}