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In a letter sent yesterday by Congressman John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, to former-President Jimmy Carter, Conyers has expressed his “strong opposition” to the “conflicting interest” of having Bush\/Cheney loyalist, James A. Baker, III serve as the Co-Chair of a recently seated blue-ribbon commission set to investigate Election 2004!<\/p>\n
Carter has been named as Co-Chair, along with Baker, on the secretly convened and recently announced commission to investigate problems in Election 2004 and to make recommendations on changes needed to improve accuracy, confidence, transparency and inclusion<\/i> in the American Electoral System.<\/p>\n
From Conyers’ letter to Carter [PDF]<\/a>…<\/p>\n In the letter, Conyers also calls upon Carter to include true<\/i> Voting Rights and Election Reform advocacy groups such as Velvet Revolution<\/a> on the commission which is currently staffed instead by politicos and Bush\/Cheney\/RNC cronies.<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/b> The BRAD BLOG<\/a> can now confirm that Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II, the National Attorney for Bush\/Cheney ’04 Inc. and leader of the recently invented, phony GOP front group calling themselves the “non-partisan” American Center for Voting Rights<\/a> (ACVR) has been seated on the Academic Advisory board for this commission!<\/p>\n The fix, as we’ve been warning for some time, is clearly — and dangerously — in with this commission! <\/p>\n For more on the Bush\/Cheney\/RNC-run ACVR and how they are tied directly to the Baker\/Carter Commission, please see the BRAD BLOG Special Coverage page on the developing ACVR scam<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> The letter from Conyers to Carter is now posted here [PDF]<\/a>. As well, Conyers has just blogged on the topic, and added even stronger language for his concern of Baker on this commission. From the just posted item at ConyersBlog:<\/p>\n This is of great concern to me and should be of great concern to every single person who cares about this important issue. Online activists<\/a> have been taking a close look at this issue. Please keep an eye on it.<\/div>\n …MORE WILL BE COMING ON BRAD BLOG CONCERNING THE BLUE-RIBBON COMMISSION, ITS MAKE-UP, AND THE INSIDIOUS GAMING OF ITS MANDATE…STAY TUNED…<\/i><\/p>\n In a letter sent yesterday by Congressman John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, to former-President Jimmy Carter, Conyers has expressed his “strong opposition” to the “conflicting interest” of having Bush\/Cheney loyalist, James A. Baker, III serve as the Co-Chair of a recently seated blue-ribbon commission set to investigate Election […]<\/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":[91,8,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acvr","category-election-2004","category-election-irregularities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}For many of us, Mr. Baker will be forever remembered for his ultimately successful efforts to shut down the counting of votes in the 2000 Florida election and I am concerned that his involvement in that election may present a conflict with the goals and initiatives of your Commission.<\/div>\nHow can an individual who played a critical role in the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of Floridians now co-chair a Commission which should have as its mission ensuring that every vote counts?<\/p>\n![](\"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":"