Civil Rights Commission hires Hans von Spakovsky.
Civil Rights Commission hires Hans von Spakovsky.
The supposedly bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) has hired former Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky as a “consultant and temporary full-time employee.” TPMMuckraker reports that “Spakovsky’s hiring is at the request of Commissioner Todd Gaziano, who works for the conservative Heritage Foundation on FEC issues,” and that Spakovsky’s appointment demonstrates the further politicization of the commission:
If Spakovsky’s history of backing efforts to make voting more difficult strikes you as a poor fit with the Commission’s mission of defending voter rights, consider that of the eight current commissioners at the agency, only two are registered Democrats, a politicization that the New York Times Charlie Savage brought to light last year.
Among Spakovsky’s duties will be overseeing the USCCR’s report on the Justice Department’s monitoring of the 2008 presidential elections, a source inside the USCCR told TPMmuckraker.
A former Justice Department employee of the Voting Rights section testified last October that the “decline and the myriad other problems that have developed in the section over the past several years are a direct result of the actions of political appointees such as Hans Von Spakovsky.”
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well… ok then…
evidently the fix IS in…
is there ANYthing we can do?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pmThis is a governmental agency. That means that this douchebag is being paid by my tax dollars.
Is there anything that congress can do? Oh, what the hell am I saying…
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm#1 – katy Says:
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“is there ANYthing we can do?”
August 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Get VPres. Cheney to invite the commission’s Republican members to go hunting with him, and hope he’s a good a shot as ever? ;-)
August 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pmGee, I can just see the 2008 election report: There was no fraud except by Democrats who voted multiple times, dug up the names of the dead and even used George Jetson, Scooby Doo, etc.
just like that ACVR hack group that Bradblog exposed…
August 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pmAmong Spakovsky’s duties will be overseeing the USCCR’s report on the Justice Department’s monitoring of the 2008 presidential elections….
Just maybe we should have some other countries monitoring our “rigged” election this year because this sure looks like the “Fix” is in.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pmIt looks like the repugs are gearing up to steal another election. The only problem is, if they win this time the old U.S.A. will be destroyed – it’s close to that now.
Someone close to these people, a relative, a neighbor or an acquaintance needs to take this guy out, put him in the hospital with myriad broken bones or something – blows to the head come to mind – until after the election. Then he can obtain funds from the repugs to rebuild.
There is no more heinous crime than to deprive even one American the opportunity to freely elect his/her representative.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:23 pmi can’t believe there’s only 6 comments here…
wonder how many the NBA thread will get…
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and, democrat soldier, thanks for trying…
August 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pmnot sure what will cheer me up today… and it’s getting deeper…
What we can do is use this to motivate EVERYONE to vote. They can only steal the election if it’s close. Bring people to the polls, educate your friends and families, push these rats back into the sewer.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pmI wonder if our trolls consider stealing an election the same as actually winning the election. Are those two outcomes the same for them, or would they prefer an honest election?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pmKinda like the pope hiring lucifer to be his personal altar boy…
August 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pmOMG the Civil Rights Commission has a LIBERAL BIAS! See, there are 2 Democrats and 8 Republicans…
August 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pmWe really need to pummel the UN with requests for impartial international observers in November. Anybody got a phone #??
August 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pmHans can return the U.S. to its civil rights roots, where the only voters were white, male, land owners.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pmThe fix is in, indeed! As we all know voter suppression has been directed against likely Democrat voters.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pmAny complaints by Democrats in Nov. 2008 will be ignored by the Bush-powered USCCR and any cases that can’t be ignored will be ignored by AG Mukasey.
Any trumped-up charges on the GOP side will be widely publicized. Both the “oversight” and “enforcement” agencies are completely controlled by Bushbots and will serve only GOP interests.
High turn-out is the only solution I can think of at the moment.
And the beat goes on. American people can’t find jobs just the crooks and liars of Bush’s cronies can. Only in Bush’s United Snakes of Moronica.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pmWell fine – add to this the news that Diebold Voting Machines do INDEED have a problem as admitted by the New Diebold shell company and just maybe we see the reason the polls show McCain “so close” in-spite of 70%+ believing America is heading in the WRONG direction . . . . make it easier for a “close win” by McSame to be believable. (God, I’m beginning to think I should buy some tin foil . . .)
So why can Wells Fargo can handle billions of dollars and millions of accounts EACH DAY and give me a printout of my activity going back to opening account day, yet Diebold CAN”T produce a paper trail for a SINGLE voting machine???? Seems a vote should be more valuable than a dollar . . . .
August 21st, 2008 at 10:19 pmWait, just reading the Wikipedia entry for United States Commission on Civil Rights and it states:
So if only 2 are Democrats, what else are the others?
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 pmNevermind, I should have read the linked article:
Critics say Bush in effect installed a fifth and sixth Republican on the panel in December 2004, after two commissioners, both Republicans when appointed, reregistered as independents.
Cocksuckers
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm