Even the DNC seems to finally have taken notice of the vote caging as mentioned in last week’s testimony by Monica Goodling (and subsequently covered in some detail here — most recently in this late-breaker last night — if almost nowhere else, until yesterday’s excellent Slate article by Dahlia Lithwick).
Describing her piece as a “MUST READ,” the DNC issued an alert this morning linking to and quoting several excerpts from her piece. The alert begins this way…
Washington, DC — Little attention has been paid to Monica Goodling’s revelation of Republican “vote caging” in her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Goodling identified former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and former interim US Attorney Tim Griffin, a former deputy to Karl Rove who was among the replacements for eight federal prosecutors fired by the Bush Administration and put in place without going through the Senate confirmation process, are believed to have been involved in the illegal practice of attempting to derail the voting rights of thousands of Americans. As Slate noted, “Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren’t living at (because they are, say, at college or at war).”
No new information here really, other than the fact that the DNC itself is at least partially getting into the game. They have, of course, notoriously stayed far far away from aggressively contesting or questioning election fraud issues — including even this vote caging business, which was first reported back in 2004 — until (perhaps?) now. Even this much took them more than a week, since Goodling’s bombshell admissions during her testimony occurred a week ago last Wednesday.
But now that a Republican has acknowledged it, we guess it’s safe waters for the DNC to wade into.
What, us snarky? Anyway, we’ll take what we can get, and are happy to see them finally on it. A little. Let’s hope they continue…
UPDATE: Dems issue scathing release, ‘Bush Administration Owes Apology Over Assault on Voting Rights.” Good for them. Details here…
It is incredible how the Democrats are too cowardly to defend the integrity of America’s democracy. Where do these spineless milquetoast wimps hail from? The only way to fix this problem is the flush corporate pimp-ship of politicians, so that docile whores are no longer serving in public office.
Great. Now if they would just acknowledge the voting machine fraud and the need to go back to hand counted ballots everything would be looking a lot more optimistic!
Hello, Howard????
“they owe the american people an apology”
is that all they are asking for? these DNC people are horrible….what will it take them to say, “impeachment might be necessary” or these criminals need to be held accountable…oh just apologize and we will forgive you..(hug, kiss, laugh)
a$$wholes