Blogged by Brad from Kansas (which has nothing the matter with it, btw)…
Last Thursday, Sentido.tv did an excellent job of collecting and collating “our story up until now” of Thor Hearne’s vote-suppression GOP front group, “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR). Sentido’s thorough coverage includes well-sourced references, links, collections of information and historical reporting on the rise and fall of the ACVR scam that has slowly occurred since The BRAD BLOG originally broke the story of Rove’s buddy Hearne — the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. — and his mysteriously funded “non-partisan” anti-democracy campaign.
The latest story details the GOP front-group’s appearance, the background of their known key players, up through their recent attempts to scrub all references to themselves across the Internets in the wake of their revealed connections to the U.S. Attorney Purge. Here’s a few sample grafs which tie the ACVR’s disingenuous propaganda efforts to their interest in distracting from real investigations of Ohio 2004 and of the democracy-imperiling dangers of electronic voting…
A telling contradiction in the ACVR’s methods is the discrepancy between its apparent institutional obsession with spurious allegations of ballot fraud and its lack of aggressive pursuit of solution to correct the well-documented and openly demonstrable security flaws in electronic voting technologies.
Indeed, BRAD BLOG readers will remember that Thor’s ACVR first appeared back in March of 2005 in the only official Congressional hearings on problems in the Ohio 2004 Presidential Election. The hearings, led by the now-jailed Ohio Rep. Bob Ney and his House Admin Committee, did a fine job of obscuring the scent away from the very real, and now infamously well-documented, suppression of voters, gaming of paper ballots and various electronic voting, tabulating and rigged-recounting shenanigans carried out by Republicans during the ’04 Election.
We’re glad to see others continue to pursue the matter in which Thor and his cretinous kinsmen are still legally exposed to their eyeballs. If real justice ever returns to the Dept. of Justice, perhaps a legitimate legal investigation will at sometime take place and Thor, Rove and the rest of the criminals involved will finally face the long jail time that they deserve for their attempts to undo democracy in America.
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.
Glad some more are putting this rotten puzzle together
Hope you guys have been keeping up on the Siegelman case also… mighty interesting
From Democracy Now
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Keep on these RNC operatives working on defrauding and
disenfranchise minority and progressive whites from a
real fair election.they must be stoped and put into JAIL to prevent them from harming america from within.
Let’s hope this american journalism catches on and finds its way to the MSM.
Also, did you see this “Freedom’s Watch” group? It’s blasting pro-war ads all over the place. Ari Fleischer is it’s spokesman.
Their donors:
“The donors include Sembler; Anthony Gioia, a Buffalo businessman who was Bush’s ambassador to Malta; Kevin Moley, who was Bush’s ambassador to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva; Howard Leach, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman who was Bush’s ambassador to France; Dr. John Templeton of Pennsylvania, chairman and president of the John Templeton Foundation; Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast Spectacor, the huge Philadelphia sports and entertainment firm; Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and ranked by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest American; and Richard Fox, who is chairman of the Jewish Policy Center and was Pennsylvania State Chairman of the Reagan/Bush campaign in 1980. ”
ANOTHER shill GOP/corporate fascist group! I hear these ads DAILY on my local radio station.
Here’s their ads:
http://www.youtube.com/comment_...%3DTNTWYnPi8yc
They take a tragedy like a maimed vet or a family member who lost someone in 9/11 or the Iraq War, twist it around to call your congressman to keep the war going, give you a number they say is congress and it ISN’T!!! It’s THEIR number!!! And they don’t patch you through to your congressman unless you agree with them!!!
JUST LIKE ACVR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!