{"id":4647,"date":"2007-06-06T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2007-06-07T06:46:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T13:46:34","slug":"npr-covers-the-american-center-for-voting-rights-acvr-voter-fraud-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4647","title":{"rendered":"NPR Covers the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) ‘Voter Fraud’ Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much more rolling still as the story continues to build on Thor Hearne and the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) scam that we’ve been covering since March of 2005 here at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today NPR finally jumped into the game on the heels of last week’s superb and detailed expos\u00e9 of Hearne by Murray Waas<\/a> at National Journal<\/em>. (We’ve yet to cover that report, and some other ACVR items of late in detail, but we hope to soon).<\/p>\n

I was contacted last week by NPR’s Peter Overby and spoke to him on the record for about 30 minutes. Part of that interview was used in a report today<\/a> on NPR’s Morning Edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“One of the administration’s staunchest advocates in the voter-fraud debate has simply disappeared,” begins the report that details the ACVR’s “short but busy life” and includes an interview with “Liberal blogger Brad Friedman [who] has been following the center since March 2005.”<\/p>\n

Overby was unable to get any of ACVR’s formerly media-friendly spokesmen to speak to them on the record, and they report how the group seems to have scurried back underground since the U.S. Attorney purge scandal began to shine a spotlight on their vote-suppression activities and direct connections to the White House. NPR also notes purged NM US Attotrney David Iglesias’s claims that ACVR “worked with the White House to forward allegations of voter fraud” and quotes Loyola election law professor Rick Hasen,<\/a> who picked up on much of our reporting for his own widely-noted recent article<\/a> on “The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights” as published last month by Slate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Click below to listen to the NPR report in full, which is just over 4 minutes…<\/em><\/p>

[audio:http:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/NPR_ACVR_060607.mp3]<\/p>

And again, we’ll have much more on ACVR and Thor soon, as I was contacted today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>, which ran a story on them today<\/a> with references to “Some of Hearne’s most vocal critics also are Web-based liberal blog sites, which several months ago began pointing to his ties to Blunt and a link to one of the fired U.S. attorneys “\u201d Bud Cummins of Arkansas.”<\/p>\n

Can’t imagine which “Web-based liberal blog sites” they may be referring to, but, oh, wait…yes, we can. Post<\/em> reporter Jo Mannies says Hearne complained about us by name, and though she wasn’t able to contact me for comment before today’s report, she hopes to have more on all of this tomorrow. And, most likely, so will we.<\/p>\n

Until then, here’s one of our initial reports connecting Thor to the Bud Cummins slice of the U.S. Attorney purge<\/a>. It hardly takes a “Web-based liberal blog site” to connect the dots. But whatever they need to say is fine by us, as long as they bother to report it. At least it hasn’t taken two and a half years this time.<\/p>\n

<\/a>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<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much more rolling still as the story continues to build on Thor Hearne and the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) scam that we’ve been covering since March of 2005 here at The BRAD BLOG. Today NPR finally jumped into the game on the heels of last week’s superb and detailed expos\u00e9 of Hearne by […]<\/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":[192,91,26,89,223,106,276],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acvr","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-dept-of-justice","category-election-fraud","category-npr","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","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=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}