Election - Abramoff - Phony Non-partisan Organization - more dirt

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If anyone still wonders what is happening to our elections, and what happened in our recent past just read up on this article:

Right-Wing Organization in Focus

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The Plainly Partisan Operatives at ACVR’s Helm

A look at the principals of the Center show their allegiances and strong ties to the Republican Party, GOP lobbyists, and to religious and political right-wing groups.

Chairman Brian A. Lunde is a former Democratic National Committee official who abandoned party loyalties in 2000 and went to work on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in order “to gather support from Democrats and Independents.” Following the election, he served on the Presidential Transition Task Force. In 2004, Lunde co-chaired Democrats for Bush with Senator Zell Miller which resulted in the recruitment of over 5,000 state and local Democratic elected officials, activists and rank-and-file party members who publicly endorsed the President's re-election. The records of Lunde and his consulting partner, George Burger, were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in a criminal investigation of corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff. <9>

Mark F. (Thor) Hearne is ACVR’s legal counsel. According to his biography: “Hearne served as National Election Counsel to President Bush's reelection campaign and in 2000 was Missouri counsel to the Bush campaign. Hearne was on the Bush campaign recount team in Broward county Florida in 2000 served as chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association ('RNLA') National Election Law School in 2003 and 2004 an attorney and law clerk in the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights during the Reagan Administration.”

Co-founder and spokesman Jim Dyke is a former Republican National Committee Communications Director worked for the Bush White House to help shepherd the short-lived nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court through the Senate.<10>

ACVR’s executive director is Robin DeJarnette. DeJarnette was the Government Relations Director for the right-wing Virginia Family Foundation for 10 years. DeJarnette is also the founder and executive director of the Virginia Conservative Action PAC, known for taking donations from Republican politicians in Virginia, and then turning around and targeting five GOP lawmakers for defeat in the 2005 primaries, saying the delegates had sided with then Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) by supporting tax increases. Several contributors said that “they had no indication the group … would seek to oust their colleagues” and that “they would hesitate before financially supporting the organization” in the future.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21014

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1. And a few more dots get connected.

It seems that each fraud they commit is connected to every other fraud they commit.

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2. Yes, here is what they are actively engaged in:

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Thanks to efforts like ACVR’s, calls for stricter – and in some cases nearly impossible - identification requirements for voters are being advocated across the country. However, these tougher requirements are not justified by any serious or widespread problem.<6> Rather, restrictive voter identification policies threaten to exclude millions of eligible voters and fall hardest on people who have traditionally faced barriers at the polls. A report by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU notes that as many as 20 million voting-age Americans do not currently have state identification cards – especially among “the elderly, students, people with disabilities, urban residents, low-income individuals, and people of color.” <7>

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ACVR officials promote their right-wing “reform” agenda by testifying before state and federal panels supporting restrictive election reform. The group actively participates in “voter education initiatives concerning election reforms” and also sponsors symposiums and conferences with “prominent legal scholars and election officials to address ways to improve and reform the election process and increase public confidence in fair and honest elections.”<8>

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<2> See: “UnAmerican Center For Against Voting Rights,” “Fake voting rights activists and groups linked to White House,” TomPaine.com’s “The GOP's Attack on Voting Rights,” “The truth about "the American Center for Voting Rights,” and Democrats.org’s “Who is The American Center for Voting Rights?”]

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3. More Cronies? no thank you. . . . . K n R