Now, the watchdog has got somebody watching it.
Rep. Elijah Cummings has launched a probe into True the Vote, a Tea Party group that is under fire for attempting to prevent thousands of registered voters from casting ballots ahead of Election Day, Cummings told Rev. Al Sharpton on PoliticsNation Monday.
"Voting is a fundamental right...It is not to be limited to a few as a privilege," said Cummings, who is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
"This is clearly a case of voter suppression," Cummings added, noting the Texas-based group is zeroing in on students, African-Americans and Hispanics—groups that tend to vote Democratic.
In a letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, president of True the Vote, Cummings wrote that True the Vote's "volunteers, and its affiliated groups have a horrendous record of filing inaccurate voter registration challenges, causing legitimate voters—through no fault of their own—to receive letters from local election officials notifying them that their registrations have been challenged and requiring them to take steps to remedy false accusations against them."
Sharpton called the organization, which has been accused in the past of hovering over voters, getting into election workers' faces and blocking lines of voters, "offensive" and "maybe illegal."
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It is about time!! These silly vigilantes are "called out" in the name of Our Democracy. Otherwise. we are no better than former 3rd world nations--who have gotten their acts together--now we are beginning to look like a tyrannical government--and the Repub regime espouses--NOTHING!! Are these people stupid or what and with the "social media" close by? Probably simply so arrogant that nothing can be seen as the difference between right or wrong. Taking the country back to the pre-colonial times or as was in Medieval Europe in the name of our history--sorry, does not compute!
Were there two black guys out there with clubs in front of a polling place? Oh, wait a second, I got caught in a time warp. That was the 2008 Presidential Election. My guess was they were Democrats. No intimidation there according to Holder.
Comunist tactics,or what ???
Every week - maybe daily - we see and hear about another Republican-based group working covertly to suppress votes by any means (illegally mostly) possible. They must be exposed and hopefully prosecuted under federal voting statutes. Again we see the desperate measures being used as the Republican party slowly devolves into myriad groups of haters and fear-mongers whose only purpose is to prevent Democrats from winning.
Wikipedia Martin Moeller, Lutheran pastor jailed by the Nazis in 1937 for not supporting them. "First they came for ... When they came for me there was no one left to speak for me."
Write your senators and representatives; write Brian Williams and Charlie Rose: ask them; Does anyone know someone Sen. Santorum, any of the Bushes, either of the Grahams or Sen. McCain would listen to who would be willing to ask them, "How can you still support the leader of a Republican party that is actively trying to disenfranchise millions of Americans?"
BREAKING NEWS:
Obama campaign under investigation for illegal overseas campaign donations.
Total Hype by the Tea-party conspiracy groups..
"Fox [news] has seized on a conservative group's report to suggest President Obama's reelection campaign is receiving millions of dollars in illegal donations from foreign donors. In fact, the report provides no evidence to support this claim
and the group's co-founder has himself acknowledged that it possesses no such
evidence."
The Republicans have to make up infractions about the Democrats.. While
there is a smorgasbord of which to pick from what the Right wing is doing.. It just proves where the scum lies.
Wikipedia Martin Niemoeller, Lutheran pastor jailed 1937 by the Nazis for not supporting them. "First they came for ...When they came for me there was no one left to speak for me."
Write your senator and representative; write Brian Williams and Charlie Rose; Ask them does anyone know someone who can ask Sen. Santorum, either of the Grahams, any of the Bushes or Sen. McCain, "How can you continue to support the leader of a Republican party that is actively trying to disenfranchise millions of American citizens?"
If they believe it, they are not Americans and should leave.
Sorry. I just gave my Mac hiccups.