Working on several items, so we’ll defer to RAW STORY’s coverage of the story.
Suffice to say, Karl Rove spoke to Republican lawyers this weekend (carried on C-SPAN) and thanked them for their work ensuring “clean elections” in 2000 and 2004.
He singled out Mark F. “Thor” Hearne by name. Hearne was the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. who, along with RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, created the so-called non-partisan “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR) just three days before being called to testify before Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-OH) U.S. House Administrative Committee hearing in March of 2005 on the Ohio Election. The front group, which declared tax-exempt 501(c)3 status, has still failed, to our knowledge, to disclose any information of it’s funders or proof of their 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan status. They operate out of a PO Box in Houston, TX, though neither of their founders live in Texas.
ACVR was the only “Voting Rights” group called by Ney to testify at the hearings, and identified himself only as a “longtime advocate of voter rights” in his testimony. He failed to mention his connections to Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc.
Hearne and ACVR have done little more since they opened shop beyond creating propaganda reports to suggest that their is an epidemic of Democratic voter fraud in the country to encourage state legislatures around the country to implement Democratic voter disenfranchising “Photo ID requirements” at the polls. Their charges of a voter fraud epidemic has been roundly disproven in various court cases around the country. (Though it does appear that at least one voter, Ann Coulter, seems to have engaged in voter fraud lately.)
The “non-partisan” Dyke went on to work for the White House to flak for John Roberts during his Supreme Court nomination, and now works out Dick Cheney’s office.
Ney, who pushed the so-called “Help America Vote Act” (HAVA) through Congress in 2002 — the bill which urges all States and Counties in the country to impliment hackable electronic voting machines by 2006 — recently stepped down from his chairmanship of the House Admin Committee after being named in the on-going Jack Abramoff investigations. His former chief of staff, David DiStefano is Diebold’s main lobbyist in congress, as BRAD BLOG reported in January, and Diebold has made thousands of dollars in so-far unexplained payments to Abramoff’s old firm, Greeburg Traurig.
See RAW’s story for Rove’s comments about Hearne and the other “non-partisan” GOP attorneys over the weekend.
For more information on the “non-partisan” tax-exempt ACVR 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.
Once more creating their own reality.
P.S. The plural of attorney is attorneys. I used to work at the U.S. Attorneys’ Office.
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House
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Un F***ing Real!
"huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh… uhhhh…. huh huh huh huh huh huh huh…. what a dork… huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh" – Butt-head
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When they are too wide they muck things up.
A "clean" election for Karl Rove is one where they did not get caught.
He does not know that we know?
Rove: Clean Elections=Ken Lay: Employee Benefits
Real TV news is here, right now. Here’s the Apr 7 INN Report, 30 minute real news on TV, featuring an extensive interview with Mark Crispin Miller on the Stolen presidential election. The INN Report is on FSTV DISH 9415 @ 6pm daily.
The fight is over for real news on TV, you just have to watch it. Dump cable & get DISH. I haven’t seen LINK-TV or FSTV on cable. Funny…our local cable company Adelphia…they’re all in jail for skimming billions like the Enron big-wigs.
Watch this, at least for the Mark Crispin Miller Interview…
INN Report Apr 7 featuring Mark Crispin Miller Interview On Stolen Election
Can someone stick an apple in his mouth a start turning him over the fire.
My bad. I wasn’t even paying attention.
When RepubliCONs say "clean elections", that’s a code work for "RIGGED elections"
Champagne, caviar & more stocked for when this FAT KKKarl Rove is indicted. And he will! 😛
rove looks like a nazi . . . . . " It’s been said that politics is show business for ugly people.". . .
I don’t seem to recall Dems disenfranchising voters, only Republicans (phone jamming, e-vote machines, lack of voting machines in Dem areas). The Republicans have the monopoly on disenfranchising voters.
Ironically, Rove puts out this "clean elections" comment, and the article above this in bradblog, is "GOP operatives involved in phone jamming scam traced to White House." What a F***ing liar Rove is!!! Rove’s speech claiming "clean elections" is like Osama putting out a video with key words meaning to "strike". His "clean elections" comment is probably "the word" for Republican operatives to get a move on disenfranchising more voters in 2006. It’s like a Bin Laden video!
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I’m afraid that would be a waste of good firewood and not worth the pollution it would create.
The arrogance of these people is beyond belief. And the peolpe who still fall for their bullshit must have their heads so far up that there’s nothing left but butt cheeks and legs.
The looks on their faces when Harry spoke the truth the other day was classic!
Last week Brad ran the Sunday comic Non Sequitur and it’s take on the elections. This weeks continuation is worth a look also.
Shows our fearless leader in all his clueless glory!
JUDGE OF JUDGES said
" It’s been said that politics is show business for ugly people."
Dredd re: #8 – Sure he knows that we know – he just doesn’t CARE that we know.
Arrogance causes carelessness – just keep giving them rope.
Why do all the Republican leaders have beedy, inset eyes and huge foreheads??? Santorum, Bush, Thor, I can go on and on. I’m thinking, there’s some good ole inbreeding going on within the Republican elites. If you didn’t know who they were, you might mistake them for some mentally-challenged people. Even Bill Maher said that if Bush is being pictured with an autistic kid, they should have name tags so you can tell them apart.
Monday April 10 INN Report FSTV
…featuring interview with war tax resistor…now THAT is something the government definitely doesn’t want you to see!!!!
Rove looks a lot like Porky Pig.
That’s my in-depth & thoughtful comment.
Hey BD.
The INN report. I get sound but no picture. What’s up with that? Maybe they really DON’T want us to see it.
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