GONZALES VOTE GOES TO SENATE FLOOR - VOTING RIGHTS AT ISSUE

[minorjive]

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

PROTECT VOTING RIGHTS:
HELP US STOP APPROVAL OF ALBERTO GONZALES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL

Please call on your own Senators to object to the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General. The Judiciary Committee just voted: 10 yeas and 8 nays on the Gonzales nomination. The votes were on party lines, with 10 Republicans and 8 Democrats on the committee. The recommendation goes to the Senate floor: it could be either today or in the next few days.

Tell your Senators that we need an Attorney General with a commitment to Civil Rights and Voting Rights. Call 1-800-839-5276 or 1-877-762-8762 connecting all offices.

In the last five years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has DECREASED its Civil Rights enforcement dramatically. While the number of civil rights complaints has remained constant, at about 12,000 per year for the last five years, the number of defendants charged with criminal violations of the nation's civil rights laws has dropped by close to 50%, from 159 in 1999 to 84 in 2003.<1>

When it comes to the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section, which has the historic mission of protecting voting rights, it is clear that the Department of Justice

o Has failed to address allegations of voting irregularities and is not properly documenting them;

o Has replaced the protection of voting rights with the potentially discriminatory advancement of so-called "voter integrity"; and

o Has been litigating to limit the private right of action by individual citizens to enforce federal statutes guaranteeing voting rights.

J. Gerald Hebert, a former chief of the DOJ's Voting Section, said "This is the first time in history the Justice Department has gone to court to side AGAINST voters who are trying to enforce their right to vote. I think this law will mean very little if the rights of American voters have to depend on this Justice Department."<2> It is crucial that the new Attorney General demonstrate a strong commitment to fixing the damage done to voting rights under Attorney General Ashcroft. Therefore we call on the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to object to the nomination of Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he has no program to resurrect the DOJ's mission to protect voting rights.

A legitimate candidate for the office of US Attorney General must:

o Present a clear plan to adopt the recommendations of the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, "DOJ Activities To Address Past Voting Irregularities" (GAO-04-1041R).<3>

o Reverse the current Voting Section emphasis on voter "integrity" and focus on voter access.

o Return to its long standing, aggressive support of private suits to fight discrimination.

On October 14, 2004, Representatives John Conyers and Henry Waxman wrote to Attorney General John Ashcroft to express concerns about the GAO findings that:

o"The Voting Section does not have a reliable method to consistently record and document telephone calls received alleging voting irregularities";

o"The Voting Section does not routinely track its election monitoring activities through the Interactive Case Management (ICM) System, the Justice Department's formal process for tracking and managing work activities";

o"The Justice Department, due to its lack of specific information about allegations of voting irregularities, and Justice Department actions taken to address them, is unable to provide the public and Congress with clear information concerning election procedures."<4>

Since 2000, John Ashcroft has changed the original mission of the Voting Section from increasing voter access to limiting voter fraud in the name of "voter integrity." According to Stanford Law Professor Pamela S. Karlan, voter integrity is "one of those great euphemisms . . . By and large, it's been targeted at minority voters." The architects of the current Voting Section voter integrity programs are among the same people who have developed GOP Ballot Security programs since the 1960s to suppress minority voters through intimidation tactics, including voter challenges in polling places. Hans A. von Spakovsky, chief counsel to Assistant Attorney General Acosta, has said "that voting integrity will remain a focus for the Justice Department, and that voter access might best be left to volunteers." <5>

The well developed voter suppression tactics of the GOP have become part of DOJ Civil Rights enforcement.

In court battles, pre-election 2004, over how provisional ballots would be counted and the legalities of voter challenges at the polls, Bush administration lawyers argued that individual voters may not sue over violations of the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act. The DOJ argued, instead, that only the Attorney General has power to bring lawsuits to enforce the provisions of the 2002 law--provisions that include a requirement that states provide "uniform and nondiscriminatory" voting systems, and that they give provisional ballots to those who say they have registered but whose names do not appear on the rolls. In a 1969 US Supreme Court Ruling on enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Justices said "the achievement of the act's laudable goal would be severely hampered ... if each citizen were required to depend solely on litigation instituted at the discretion of the attorney general."<6>

Please let your Senators and the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee know that we hold the protection of voting rights sacred among the duties of the DOJ. Call the Senators and tell them we want an Attorney General who is committed to the original mission of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division.

*References*
<1> "Civil Rights Enforcement By Bush Administration Lags," Transactional Records Clearinghouse, 2004,
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/civright/106/
<2> David G. Savage and Richard B. Schmitt, "Bush Seeks Limit to Suits Over Voting Rights," Los Angeles Times, 29 October 2004,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/103004U.shtml
<3> http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041014092633-82277.pdf
<4> http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041014092559-26084.pdf
<5> Jeffrey Toobin, "Poll Position," The New Yorker, 20 September 2004,
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040920fa_fact.
Chandler Davidson, Tanya Dunlap, Gale Kenny, and Benjamin Wise, REPUBLICAN BALLOT SECURITY PROGRAMS: VOTE PROTECTION OR MINORITY VOTE SUPPRESSION OR BOTH? A REPORT TO THE CENTER FOR VOTING RIGHTS PROTECTION, SEPTEMBER 2004,
http://www.votelaw.com/blog/blogdocs/GOP_Ballot_Security_Programs.pdf (476kb)
<6> Savage and Schmitt, "Bush Seeks Limit to Suits Over Voting Rights".

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[understandinglife]

1. Done; here's my email:

Dear Senator ________________,

I urge you to vote against the appointment of Mr Alberto Gonzales to AG.

Apart from his keen support for torture, I am particularly concerned with the attack on civil liberties and voter's rights that have come to characterize Bush's Justice Department and its AG and that Mr Gonzales gives every reason to suspect he will continue, if not expand.

Particularly, when it comes to the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section, which has the historic mission of protecting voting rights, it is clear that the Department of Justice:

o Has failed to address allegations of voting irregularities and is not properly documenting them;

o Has replaced the protection of voting rights with the potentially discriminatory advancement of so-called "voter integrity"; and

o Has been litigating to limit the private right of action by individual citizens to enforce federal statutes guaranteeing voting rights.

J. Gerald Hebert, a former chief of the DOJ's Voting Section, said "This is the first time in history the Justice Department has gone to court to side AGAINST voters who are trying to enforce their right to vote. I think this law will mean very little if the rights of American voters have to depend on this Justice Department."

It is crucial that the new Attorney General demonstrate a strong commitment to fixing the damage done to voting rights under Attorney General Ashcroft.

Alberto Gonzales has no program to resurrect the DOJ's mission to protect voting rights.

A legitimate candidate for the office of US Attorney General must (for starters):

o Present a clear plan to adopt the recommendations of the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, "DOJ Activities To Address Past Voting Irregularities" (GAO-04-1041R).

o Reverse the current Voting Section emphasis on voter "integrity" and focus on voter access.

o Return to its long standing, aggressive support of private suits to fight discrimination.

Thank you.
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TBO;24/7

[RaulVB]

2. Can we use both of your letters?

The one concerning Rice and this one for Gonzales?

[understandinglife]

4. Of course. Everything I post here is for anyone to use as they consider...

...helpful.


Peace.

TBO;24/7

[minorjive]

3. excellent--please call, too

thanks for putting our text to use like that. I would encourage phone calls, first and foremost. The Senators get daily tallies of their calls and what they were for. Written correspondance, even email and faxes, can have a slow turn around, even when it's coming from constituents. The discussion may hit the Senate floor before anyone sees a letter.

Also, I encourage folks to send this call to action around as an email to non DUers. Aside from getting them to call, you can help raise awareness about voting issues.

[understandinglife]

10. I always follow my letters/emails with a call (nt)

BE THE BUSH OPPOSITION;24/7

[Peace Patriot]

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Rockefeller, John - (D - WV)
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Jeffords, James - (I - VT)
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[minorjive]

6. if you've got Republican Senators call them, too

If the Senate votes on party lines, with every Dem voting against Gonzales, he still gets confirmed. It's also a chance to bug Republican Senators about voting rights. See what their aides say when you ask them if the Senator supports voting rights...

[Peace Patriot]

7. We could do some combo letters here, too...

---if they voted NO on Condi Rice today (see list below), give them a big thanks for that, then go into why they should vote against Gonzales

--if they voted YES on Condi Rice (everybody else), say you disagree, and here's a chance to redeem yourself: vote NO on Gonzales!

--say that both the Rice and Gonzales nominations are in-your-face BushCon moves to assert a "mandate" that Bush does not have, and to assault and destroy the progressive majority in this country.

--and the country IS progressive, and we ARE the majority! (nearly 60% of Americans oppose the Iraq war now, today; only 50% or less of Americans give Bush a favorable approval rating--the poorest showing of any recently "elected" second term president in the last century. This. Is. Not. A. Mandate!

--massive election irregularites (including 3 million black votes suppressed nationwide--according to Greg Palast; and 57,000 complaints to Congress of vote suppression or voting difficult, virtually all hurting Kerry), and suspected massive election fraud across the board, indicate that this electon was not valid.

--This. Is. Not. A. Mandate! --for extremist appointments, such as nominating a known and notorious liar (Condi Rice), and torture-supporter (Gonzales)

--THE most critical issue of this phase of the American Revolution is to recover our right to vote--the A.G. is vital to this purpose; i.e., enforcement of existing laws such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and ANY FUTURE ELECTION REFORMS that the Dems might get through the BushCon blockade in Congress (or that are enacted by the states) DEPEND ON ENFORCEMENT.


SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAINST RICE TODAY

Democrats

Boxer
Kennedy
Levin
Byrd
Kerry
Reed (RI)
Durbin
Dayton
Akaka
Bayh

Jeffords (Independent)

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I think we have a chance to get even more Dem votes against Gonzales (than against Rice). Pro-war senators like Biden are against him (and may vote against--if his remarks today mean something). It gives them an opportunity to join the Boxer Rebellion on at least one vote--because the torture policy that Gonzales supported was so anti-military (very bad for soldiers in the field--wrong message sent to them--and horrible for captured soldiers), and because it is just an unbelievable outrage to have the man who wrote the torture memos IN CHARGE OF DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Jeez. If Democrats don't vote against THIS, en masse, what good are they? Really. We should do really special targeting for removal from office of any who vote for.

I think I'm gonna go throw up. I really can't believe this is happening in the United States of America.

A liar, and lawless mass murderer for Secretary of State.

A pro-torture ass-kissing BushCon for Attorney General.

The one, an African American woman.

The other, an Hispanic man.

[RaulVB]

9. Gonzales is considered a disgrace by most of the Hispanics living here

You can be sure of it.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Republican Senators' Contact Information:

Senate REPUBLICANS of the 109th Congress


(NOTE: Area code 202 is Washington DC; all other tel/fax nos. are the Senator's state offices.)


Alexander, Lamar - (R - TN)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: alexander.senate.gov/contact.cfm


Allard, Wayne - (R - CO)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm
Web Form: allard.senate.gov/contactme


Allen, George - (R - VA)
[phone]
[phone] fax
Richmond [phone]
[phone] fax
Virginia Beach [phone]
[phone] fax
Roanoke [phone]
[phone] fax
Abingdon [phone]
[phone] fax
Herndon [phone]
[phone] fax
Southside [phone]
Web Form: allen.senate.gov/index.cfm?c=email
http://allen.senate.gov/?c=email


Bennett, Robert - (R - UT)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://bennett.senate.gov/contact/email_opinion.cfm
Web Form: bennett.senate.gov/contact/emailmain.html


Bond, Christopher - (R - MO)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: bond.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm


Brownback, Sam - (R - KS)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: brownback.senate.gov/CMEmailMe.htm


Bunning, Jim - (R - KY)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: bunning.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email


Burns, Conrad - (R - MT)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: burns.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Contact


Burr, Richard - (R - NC)
Fax [phone]
Fax [phone]


Chafee, Lincoln - (R - RI)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm


Chambliss, Saxby - (R - GA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: chambliss.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm?pagemode=1


Coburn, Tom - (R - OK)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
(no email available)


Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: cochran.senate.gov/contact.htm


Coleman, Norm - (R - MN)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm


Collins, Susan - (R - ME)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://collins.senate.gov/low/contactemail.htm
Web Form: collins.senate.gov/low/contactemail.htm


Cornyn, John - (R - TX)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index.html


Corzine, Jon - (D - NJ)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: corzine.senate.gov/contact.cfm


Craig, Larry - (R - ID)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://craig.senate.gov/fp.htm?autoemail.htm
Web Form: craig.senate.gov/webform.html


Crapo, Michael - (R - ID)
9 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.htm
Web Form: crapo.senate.gov


DeMint, Jim - (R - SC)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://demint.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home


DeWine, Mike - (R - OH)
[phone]
Fax: [phone]
TDD: [phone]
Casework Office - Columbus
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Casework Hotline: [phone]-OHIO
Xenia, Ohio [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Cincinnati [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Cleveland [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Columbus [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Marietta [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Toledo [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web Form: dewine.senate.gov


Dole, Elizabeth - (R - NC)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm


Domenici, Pete - (R - NM)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm
Web Form: domenici.senate.gov/resources/contactform.cfm


Ensign, John - (R - NV)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: ensign.senate.gov/forms/email_form.cfm


Enzi, Michael - (R - WY)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://enzi.senate.gov/contact.htm
Web Form: enzi.senate.gov/email.htm


Frist, Bill - (R - TN)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm


Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contactform
Web Form: lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contact


Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: grassley.senate.gov/webform.htm


Gregg, Judd - (R - NH)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


Hagel, Chuck - (R - NE)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: hagel.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact


Hatch, Orrin - (R - UT)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact


Hutchison, Kay - (R - TX)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm


Inhofe, James - (R - OK)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: inhofe.senate.gov/contactus.htm


Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
No email Currently Available


Kyl, Jon - (R - AZ)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm


Lott, Trent - (R - MS)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://lott.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email
E-mail: [e-mail]


Lugar, Richard - (R - IN)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


Martinez, Mel - (R - FL)
[phone]
Fax [phone]


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.Home


McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm


Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: murkowski.senate.gov/contact.html


Roberts, Pat - (R - KS)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: roberts.senate.gov/e-mail_pat.html


Santorum, Rick - (R - PA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: santorum.senate.gov/emailrjs.html


Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://sessions.senate.gov/e-mail.html
Web Form: sessions.senate.gov/contact.htm#form


Shelby, Richard - (R - AL)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://shelby.senate.gov/resources/contact.htm
E-mail: [e-mail]


Smith, Gordon - (R - OR)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: gsmith.senate.gov/webform.htm


Snowe, Olympia - (R - ME)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


Specter, Arlen - (R - PA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


Stevens, Ted - (R - AK)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: stevens.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm


Sununu, John - (R - NH)
[phone]
202-228-4131
[e-mail]
Web Form: www.sununu.senate.gov/webform.html


Talent, James - (R - MO)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: talent.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm?pagemode=1


Thomas, Craig - (R - WY)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://thomas.senate.gov/html/body_email.html
Web Form: thomas.senate.gov/html/contact.html


Thune, John - (R - SD)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
(no email avoidable)


Vitter, David - (R - LA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: vitter.senate.gov/contact.cfm


Voinovich, George - (R - OH)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
http://voinovich.senate.gov/contact/index.htm
Web Form: voinovich.senate.gov/


Warner, John - (R - VA)
[phone]
Fax [phone]
Web Form: warner.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

[DearAbby]

11. Done

:kick:

[minorjive]

12. thanks. you rock... n/t