Hearne didn’t bother to mention that he worked for Bush\/Cheney ’04 as their top attorney in his testimony<\/a>. We’re not positive, but fairly certain that no high-level Kerry\/Edwards employees were invited to testify, whether they represented a phony “non-partisan” group like the ACVR or not.<\/p>\n Despite the claims of tax-exempt non-partisan status by this Talon News-like outta-nowhere GOP front group, the two known ring-leaders (that we’ve been able to identify so far) of this phony “Voters Rights” organization masquerading as if they are not<\/i>-an-insult-to-real<\/i>-Voters-Rights-groups-everwhere, are both currently<\/i> very<\/i>active partisans.<\/p>\n Jim Dyke, the group’s press spokesman and website administrative and technical contact who, as well as being the 2004 Communications Director for the Republican National Committee, is also a current<\/i> Fox News GOP Analyst according to Joseph Cannon (though he mentioned to us that, so far, he was unable to confirm that information). He does, however, offer a fine analysis<\/a> of just one<\/i> of the likely true<\/i> missions for this group, and why they have suddenly appeared. And for the record, Cannon made note of this nascient and suspicious ACVR popping up the day before we did!<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ron Brynaert, a frequent BRAD BLOG<\/a> commenter, and editor of Why Are We Back in Iraq?<\/a> has been digging into more on our friend Thor (here<\/a> and then here<\/a>) and has uncovered, amongst other chestnuts, Hearne’s featured speaking engagement at the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) shindig down at the Florida Chapter’s 2005 kick-off on April 14th!<\/p>\n According to the Republican Party-sponsored RNLA’s website<\/a>…<\/p>\n The Coral Gables reception — where they will no doubt continue the fiction that it was voters not lawyers who who decided the election — is said to be “free” on the RNLA website! Wanna go and say hello to the non-partisan Thor and his Republican National Lawyers Association friends? The website says, “Please RSVP by emailing despain@republicanlawyer.net<\/a> or calling 703-719-6335 by April 12th”<\/p>\n We might suggest you actually call or email prior<\/i> to April 12th, as we have a feeling this “free” event is about to become a very closed-to-the-public<\/i> event.<\/p>\n The National General Counsel for Bush\/Cheney ’04 Inc., Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II gave testimony on behalf of his three-day old “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR) last Monday at a U.S. Congressional Hearing. He represented the only “Voting Rights” group at the hearing — called by Republican Bob Ney (R-FL), Chairman of the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,40,8,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acvr","category-bob-ney","category-election-2004","category-ohio","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AC4VR_Logo_Against_small.gif\"){kind=logo}
<\/a>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<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"