READER COMMENTS ON
"New 'Non-Partisan' 'Voting Rights' Org Appears Little More than Republican Front Group!"
(39 Responses so far...)
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Peter Newcome
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:18 pm PT...
Right-On Brad!
You're on the story as usual. These guys are even worse than the "Swift-Boat" Crew.
I think there's an old saying - "don't beat a dead horse." Any allegations about phony voters like Mary Poppins or Dick Tracy - are so pathetic & futile, it just reinforces the fact that the Repubs have absolutely no case of their own for the gross voting rights irregularities in Ohio this past November.
Every county in Ohio had a gross violation in one way or another. Ohio stinks to high heaven. Ohio is the complete opposite of how the election was conducted in neighboring state to the north - MICHIGAN - where there was virtually no reports of voting irregularities - @ least no where near the scale of Ohio, Florida - or any other state for that matter.
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big dan
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:23 pm PT...
How come whenever these "new groups" that have Republican roots get formed, they have immediate access to congressional hearing? Was someone like Bev Harris from blackboxvoting.org there? Someone who has a track record? It's just like when "new group" Talon news suddenly gets shoved ahead of other veteran reporters for the White House press corps. How come only "new groups" with Republican ties get immediate legitimacy as witnesses? Brad, you should investigate how a group formed a week ago, gets qualification as a witness in an important hearing. Who made that decision??? Track it down. You're the best investigative reporter on the net. This reeks of Talon News/GOPUSA, etc... There's a pattern that newly formed "groups", but only with Republican ties, get immediate access and legitimacy, over other groups with long track records. Bev Harris is "truely" non-partisan, when it comes to being a voter irregularity witness. I think they create these groups on the fly and give them a forum to spread propoganda. It's got to stop!
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Ron Brynaert
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:47 pm PT...
Great work, Brad.
Speaking of Talon News, I've think I've seen this web site design with the picture and the "you have a voice" "we make sure you are heard" slogans somewhere in my digging.
but there is a slight mistake...there is a link on the homepage for the group called "thor biography" lol:
http://www.ac4vr.com/news/biography.html
"Prior to joining ACVR, Hearne served as National Election Counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04 and Missouri counsel to Bush-Cheney ‘00. Hearne has also served as General Counsel to Missouri Governor Blunt, and was appointed by then Secretary of State Blunt as an advisor for the implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hearne testified before the Missouri commission established by Blunt to investigate the 2000 Missouri general election and voter fraud in the city of St. Louis. Hearne also served as General Counsel to the re-election campaigns of Congressman Kenny Hulshof and Congressman Todd Akin."
so they're not completely unscrupulous slimeballs...but just not completely
Why Are We Back In Iraq?
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el toro
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:51 pm PT...
I think that they think this is all a game, and they want to win. Voting rights appeals to all Americans, and they want a piece of our pie.
but if you break it all down, we're not dems or republicans. Come on, they were once THE SAME PARTY around the eras of the first few presidents. This is all about the "haves" and "have nots".
how freakin' ridiculous. I want off of this ride.
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Peggy
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:56 pm PT...
NEW REPUBLICAN DICTIONARY:
voting reform - reforms that ensure Republicans retain power
voting rights - voting rights for Republicans only
non partisan - to describe opposition party members who vote with Republicans due to bribery, blackmail, laziness, stupidity or because they are actually Republicans
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Ron Brynaert
said on 3/22/2005 @ 7:58 pm PT...
oh my...
cache link
"From September through the election, Hearne traveled to every battleground state and oversaw more than 65 different lawsuits that concerned the conduct of the election. Every case was favorably resolved and included matters before various state supreme courts, several emergency appeals to the 6th circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and writs to the U.S. Supreme Court as well as litigation in multiple federal district and state trial courts."
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Ron Brynaert
said on 3/22/2005 @ 8:02 pm PT...
I am not making this up...from the same link above:
"I was asked by President Bush’s uncle, Bucky Bush, to be the general counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaign in Missouri in the fall of 2003. (I had worked with the Bush campaign in 2000 and successfully represented the campaign in the City of St. Louis poll closing litigation and in Florida in 2000 in Broward County.)"
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Ron Brynaert
said on 3/22/2005 @ 8:13 pm PT...
whoops...now i see no listing on Ney's website
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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Peggy
said on 3/22/2005 @ 8:23 pm PT...
NEW REPUBLICAN DICTIONARY:
truth - is whatever Republicans say it is
lies - the truth invented by Republicans
war - spreading Republican democracy
democracy - rigged Republican elections
social security - security for the very social and affluent financial sector (Republican corporate contributors)
THIS IS SO EASY TO DO!
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Peggy
said on 3/22/2005 @ 8:34 pm PT...
A complete history of Mr. Hearne's "non partisan" activities and associations should be compiled and sent to all members of this "hearing", while it is in progress, and after to everyone who is provided with a report on the hearing. WHAT A FARCE!
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Peggy
said on 3/22/2005 @ 9:01 pm PT...
They'll produce a report lying about the hearing, wherein there was lying about the election, where there was lying about voting, following a compaign full of lies, after a war based on lies, preceded by lying to allies and the world, lying about CIA agents, lying to the American people, lying about military service in the air force, lies, lies, lies - I guess one lie does lead to another. Eventually, they will run out of lies and their heads will fall off due to all the toxic cancerous lying
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vdres
said on 3/22/2005 @ 9:14 pm PT...
Plug in names and find out who they are. Is R. Patrick DeWine of Cincinnati related to senator Mike DeWine? I bet.
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Shirley Chisholm's Ghost
said on 3/22/2005 @ 9:46 pm PT...
Republicans are allowed to call themselves non-partisan because only Democrats are partisan. :angry:
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Jeff
said on 3/22/2005 @ 10:46 pm PT...
I want my country back. Wait a sec. did I ever have it?
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Mike
said on 3/22/2005 @ 11:01 pm PT...
Brad, your blog is the best.
Folks, stop buying all the crap you don't need. The best quote I've ever known (cause I made it up) is as follows: A middle class man who saves his money is a Republican's worst nightmare.
Think about it. You bitch all day about greedy corporations as you drive your SUV to Starbucks, then stop at Shell to get gas before you pick up a six pack of Coke.
Put your money in the bank (FDIC insured....for now). With interest rates on the rise, you'll do better than if you give it to the Walton family.
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Bejammin075
said on 3/23/2005 @ 3:55 am PT...
Holy cow. Imagine how many TENS of votes you could muster up by bribing crack heads with crack! That's far more threatening than the totally vulnerable Diebold central vote tabulators that 40,000,000 votes are tabulated on! Give me an F-ing break. Blackboxvoting.org just demonstated on 3/8/05 that Diebold central vote tabulators setup just like they were on 112/04 were/are WIDE OPEN TO REMOTE MANIPULATION. What's unknown is if a conspiracy-of-one had the balls to try to hack into Diebold tabulators across the country.
How convenient that the concerns of this voting rights group are things that could only affect a few votes.
I bet those voter registration issues, like the "infamous Jive F. Turkey", are fake! Oh please Brad, dig into those claims a little more. My crystal ball says that all or nearly all of those claims are made up, with no basis in fact!
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bill
said on 3/23/2005 @ 4:16 am PT...
Hello out there...doesn't this sound like a play
from the Karl Rove fascist playbook. We need boots on the ground in Ohio tracking these people down. We need to confront them and make them uncomfortable
with thier choice of whoring for Rove/Cheney/Bush.
Rove---the brain
Cheney--the money man
Bush--the trained front chimp.
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Dredd
said on 3/23/2005 @ 4:24 am PT...
Big Dan #2 Excellent comment.
Peggy #5 Love those definitions.
This is just another Gannon thong thang ...
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Teresa
said on 3/23/2005 @ 4:56 am PT...
The Gannon Thong Gang rides again.
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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Nana
said on 3/23/2005 @ 5:14 am PT...
It might be a "damage control thang", mabe feeling the heat of VR and Brads letter to e-vote machine companies? Damn copycats.
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carsick
said on 3/23/2005 @ 6:47 am PT...
The Cincinnati crew:
Pat Dewine is indeed the son of the congressman and is also a republican Cincinnati City Council member.
Chip Gerhardt is the co-chair of the Hamilton County Republican party and also owns a political marketting firm.
The rest are members of a law firm who fought with (not against) Ken Blackwell to have appointed "challengers" at polling places to challenge voters identification in the supposed assumption of massive voter fraud in Ohio re: intimidate folks in predominantly democratic neighborhoods.
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KestrelBrighteyes
said on 3/23/2005 @ 8:49 am PT...
Have Conyers and Tubbs been made aware of all of the connections?
If so, what is their response?
I'd like to see them get Blackwell's reaction to this on video tape. Won't do much good right now but when it all falls down, would be nice to have when they do the documentaries for public television about the election of 2004.
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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carsick
said on 3/23/2005 @ 10:30 am PT...
Blackwell is running for Governor of Ohio by the way.
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Peg C
said on 3/23/2005 @ 11:33 am PT...
Carsick #24 -
From your remarks, I'll bet you live in Ohio. I'm with you! If I'd lived in Ohio, I'd be actively carsick too. It's nauseating enough living anywhere in the U.S. right now.
How can anything so transparently contrived have ANY influence on the courts and public policy? Has BushCo managed to castrate the entire judicial system of this country? Don't answer. I don't think I want to hear what you have to say.
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Peggy
said on 3/23/2005 @ 12:08 pm PT...
I think the Republican criminals are finally losing it. They are going to get throttled 'big time' with this damage control "thong" (inept attempt to cover their backsides). This one will be easy to use to expose their dishonesty and stupidity. Get this story published anywhere and everywhere - every last tidbit. Thanks, Brad and everyone. Keep hitting them with their own trash. There are MILLIONS of decent Americans who want this bunch (numbering in the HUNDREDS at most) thrown out of office and into jail. They are OUTNUMBERED. They can't win. They are just holding on by their "thongs"!
COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
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deland (221.226.192.97)
said on 3/23/2005 @ 12:37 pm PT...
{ed note: Deleted. Marketing spam.}
COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
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Jive F. Turkey, Sr
said on 3/23/2005 @ 1:00 pm PT...
Here's the thing: registering phony voters is NOT VOTER FRAUD!!! Unless someone claiming to be Mary Poppins shows up and demands to cast a ballot, the only fraud was committed against the group paying crack-heads to register voters. This is the only damn example the Rebublicans ever bring up and they always quote the names as if the funnier they are, the more outraged some unthinking, braindead Rebub will be.
Filling out a voter registration form under a fake name has absolutely no impact on anyone's ability to vote nor the results of any vote. This is NOT VOTER FRAUD!!!
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Peg C
said on 3/23/2005 @ 2:05 pm PT...
You're right, Jive. Largescale fraud has large-scale consequences. It's like comparing Enron's massive thievery with Lipstick slipped into the handbag of a teenage shoplifter.
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 3/23/2005 @ 7:22 pm PT...
Brad. Here's why I think this organization was formed. The House hearings about vote fraud were a week away, and the Republicans have no interest whatsoever in voter's rights. They have no groups, they didn't have thousands of complaints like the Dems did. So, they fabricated this group on the fly, to have at least some representation at these hearings. Otherwise, they couldn't drive the hearings away from the real issues. Keep up on this one, Brad, because if you discredit this group, the GOP will have NO representation at these hearings, and they will look bad for trying another Jeff Gannon:male-prostitute fake news sham. It's a sham, but we take to long to uncover it. EXCEPT FOR YOU!!!
COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 3/23/2005 @ 9:28 pm PT...
Brad - Please remove Deland #29. SPAM!!!!
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czaragorn
said on 3/24/2005 @ 7:43 am PT...
Hi All!
This one could be huge. Seems like a "little thang," but it betrays the entire pattern. We've all gotta make a joyful noise unto the heavens on this one. They have no defense against us if we push hard here, and it's wonderfully convenient that this is the number one issue facing us, because if changes aren't made in the way votes are cast, counted, and tabulated, the good guys will never win another "election." I'm sure we all agree that the status quo is unacceptable, to say the least. And Peg C. (and anyone who might be thinking about leaving the country for greener pastures), things are bad in Ohio, and they're bad everywhere else in the US, but they're also bad all over the world as a result of the policies of this repugnacon admin. Americans are still well loved around the world, and most of the people I've met in my travels have had nothing but sympathy for us. They've always been mystified by Americans' feeble acceptance of the Warren Commission, they saw what we couldn't see about Viet Nam long before we Americans could, and right to the present, they scratch their heads over the "re-election" of him who must not be named under any circumstances. Their one weak spot is that they still can't believe that a few money-grubbers could rig the election and get away with it. Let's show them the way this time! This is an excellent place to start the offensive. (On a personal note, my heart will be going kerthumpity thump the next time I go through customs when entering the States, wondering if there might already be a watch list for blog posters... We have to change this vile atmosphere!))
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Peg C
said on 3/24/2005 @ 10:55 am PT...
Czaragorn #32 -
"We have to change this vile atmosphere!" Do we ever!! I feel like a hostage in my own country. As "Patch" Adams said at the beginning of the doculentary "Clowns in Kabul," we need to stop this "stupid, dangerous man who is leading our country." (Or close enough, the quote, that is)
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Peg C
said on 3/24/2005 @ 10:56 am PT...
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Kira
said on 3/24/2005 @ 6:59 pm PT...
Czaragorn #32 - "On a personal note, my heart will be going kerthumpity thump the next time I go through customs when entering the States, wondering if there might already be a watch list for blog posters... We have to change this vile atmosphere!"
Mine too (if leaving the US) ...
Blogger interrogated, strip searched, banned from United States
These times remind me of the '60s & '70s only WORSE, much worse.
COMMENT #35 [Permalink]
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herbonzness
said on 3/26/2005 @ 10:07 pm PT...
:crazy:
Would just like to remind everyone that they can put their money where their mouth is and buy blue.
There are a couple of websites out there telling you which companies donated to the republican election campaign. google it. BuyBlue.org is one of them.
This may ultimately be more important than voting.
COMMENT #36 [Permalink]
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Joe
said on 8/4/2005 @ 1:04 pm PT...
Next time I go to vote I will be packing!
(hear that union thug?)
COMMENT #37 [Permalink]
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andy
said on 8/19/2005 @ 6:58 am PT...
Hello,
Thank you for your articles which help me in my work
Bye
Andy
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John
said on 12/5/2005 @ 8:30 am PT...
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Christina
said on 5/19/2006 @ 1:03 pm PT...