BRAD BLOG: Blackwell Testifies & New 'Voters Rights' Group Appears!Blackwell Finally Testifies in OH as a New 'Voters Rights' Group Appears 'Talon News-style' out of Nowhere...Director of New Group Called as Expert Witness along with Blackwell in U.S. House Hearings Yesterday.
Yesterday, in Columbus, OH, the U.S. House Committee on House Administration held a hearing on the mess otherwise known as the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio.
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, tasked with running a free and fair election in the Buckeye state last November --even while he was tasked with being the OH Co-Chair for the Bush/Cheney Re-Elect Committee -- finally decided to show up and take some questions.
As well, a Republican operative by the name of Mark F. (Thor) Hearne was also called as a "Witness" to discuss Election Reform issues despite fronting an organization, the so-called "American Center for Voting Rights" which suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the web just last Thursday.
FULL STORY:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001275.htm=======
BRAD BLOG: Interview w/ GOPers from new 'Non-Partisan' 'Voting Rights' OrgHigh-Level Republicans from the New 'Non-Partisan' 'American Center for Voting Rights' Explain Themselves...
Um...Sort of.
Today we attempted to get some more information about the "American Center for Voting Rights" (ACVR), a group who, as we reported yesterday, suddenly appeared on the Internet last Thursday. On Monday, they gave testimony to U.S. Congressman Bob Ney's (R-OH) House Administrative Committee during hearings held in Columbus, OH on the 2004 Election mess in the state.
The discussion with the "non-partisan" group-leader and Bush/Cheney '04 National Counsel Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II didn't last very long.
However "non-partisan" ACVR press contact Jim Dyke (also Communications Director for the Republican National Committee in the 2004 Election) was willing to explain a bit more about this tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization which seems to have sprung up, Talon News-like, from nowhere...
STORY/INTERVIEWS:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001279.htm