http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/the_man_behind_the_voter_fraud_myth/
Spakovsky, a Republican lawyer who worked in the Bush administration and is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is a key supporter of True the Vote, the Houston-based group that has been pushing for these new laws. “Although the group has a spontaneous grassroots aura,” Mayer writes, “it was founded by a local Tea Party activist, Catherine Engelbrecht, and from the start it has received guidance from intensely partisan election lawyers and political operatives, who have spent years stoking fear about election fraud.”
Here are the five most scathing parts of the article:John Lewis, D-Ga., an activist during the civil rights era, on von Spakovsky:“He’s been the moving force behind photo I.D.s. I don’t know if it’s something in the water he’s been drinking . . . but over the years he’s been hellbent to make it more difficult—always, always—for people to vote. It’s like he goes to bed dreaming about this, and gets up in the morning wondering, What can I do today to make it moredifficult for people to vote? When you pull back the covers, peel back the onion, he’s the one who’s gotten the Republican legislatures, and the Republican Party, to go along with this—even though there is no voter fraud to speak of. He’s trying to create a cure where there is no sickness.”
this should sicken every "real american", and question the future under this kind of mindset. you have never heard Romney or anyone else rebut the voter suppression agenda by that org. nor any racist quips directed at the Pres. in fact he participates, "no one's ask me for mt birth cert." how long before they start using the "N" word out loud, what do you think they use behind those closed door billionare boyz clubs?
From Joe Rich, who worked in the voting section of the Department of Justice, and went up against von Spakovsky and other voter fraud fearmongerers during his tenure:
"I worked at the Justice Department for thirty-six years, twenty-four of them under Republican Administrations," Rich told Mayer. "The disdain and antagonism that they had for the experience, expertise, and dedication of career civil-rights attorneys was something I had never experienced before. It was just awful."
some are just not able to continue the facade of the right wing political party and telling the truth about them. kudo's
