Last week we ran an item on fraudulent Voter Registration Forms submitted by a group reportedly tied to the RNC down in Tennessee where there’s a tight U.S. Senate race in play to replace the outgoing Bill Frist.
More information on those dirty tricks, and the ties to long-time Arizona-based GOP operative, Nathan Sproul & Associates, are now being reported by AP.
Sproul & Associates, and their various shadowy front groups, were linked to the shredding of Democratic Voter Registration Forms in Nevada, West Virginia, Oregon and elsewhere in 2004 as reported by Max Blumenthal in October of 2004 and again recently in Bobby Kennedy’s Rolling Stone exposé asking “Was The 2004 Election Stolen?” More details about Sproul and the millions of dollars he seems to have received from Team Bush ’04, and their attempts to hide those costs, were reported by Mark Crispin Miller in June of 2005.
Regular readers of The BRAD BLOG will recall that Sproul & Associates were given buckets of unreported RNC cash before, during and after the 2004 election. For some reason or another. Sproul is also reported to be an organizer for the Christian Coalition. Natch.
And now, AP is reporting the RNC hired a group down in Tennessee calling themselves Liberty Consultants to register (Republican) voters. Even if they had to make them up to do so. And whaddaya know? Liberty Consultants are funded by our old friend Nathan Sproul…
The group, funded by Arizona GOP and Christian Coalition operative Nathan Sproul, was banned from Wal-Mart stores in Tennessee in August for failing to meet the retailer’s standards of nonpartisanship.
In a different TN county where Liberty/Sproul was operating, the Election Director said that she “fielded calls from residents who complained that the group made them sign a petition before” allowing them to register to vote.
The state and national GOP parties are both in denial, natch, and can’t seem to get their stories straight. As reported by AP, it seems that no two GOP spokesholes are able to agree about what they know or who they know.
After the Sproul & Associates issue was otherwise largely ignored by both the media and the DNC attorneys before, during and after ’04, it’ll be interesting to see if they give a damn about it this time around. Not holding our breath.
Can you say, “Bill Moyers: Capitol Crimes”? Can you say “Abramoff”???
OT sorta
I remember when people were in denial about the Ohio vote being stolen in ’04, one of their rationalizations was that Ken Blackwell, being black, would never think of disenfranchising black people across the state. I mean, he’s black! He wouldn’t have any reason to do that, right?
Riiight… [ link ]
Good to see Iraqi style democracy at work here in the United Snakes of Amerikkka.
A little catch phrase like ‘Nathan Sproul is on the prowl’, might get some attention
Nathan Sproul fits my personal definition of a traitor to Democracy.
Would somebody please remind me what the maximum penalty for being convicted of treason is?
I surely hope some day to see justice delivered to the likes of Sproul. If he has family, they can look on and see what happens to evil people who do evil work against Democracy in the name of money.
Excuse me? But why isn’t this guy in jail right now???
This Nazi/Fascist has been at this suppression/disenfranchisement of as many Demo voters as you can each election cycle,.. and being paid millions and millions by the Republican Party and the Christian Fundamentalists/Dominionists for years. The only way to bring halt to these anti-democracy activities is to lock these election thieves up in jail along with those who fund/pay/encourage them to tamper with the election process to this extent. THESE PEOPLE ARE HUMAN TRASH AND POND SCUM.
Link example of this done in 2004
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Election Fraud: Team Bush Paid $8 Million for Dirty Tricks to Suppress Votes – and Tried to Hide It
By Mark Crispin Miller and Jared Irmas
The Baltimore Chronicle
Wednesday 13 July 2005
In the months before the 2004 presidential election, a firm called Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states. The group – run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona Republican Party – had been hired by the Republican National Committee
Source Link to above.
Attorney General Abu-Gitmo Gonzales turns the law upside down and accuses blacks of suppressing whites from voting,..
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/...hutchinson1013
Hmmmm. Seems Nathan was an intern for gay-R Kyle. Hmmmm. I wonder if it was before, or after, Sproul got on the anti-sex bandwagon.
Sproul is now responsible for 12 charges of voter registration fraud in California. He’s dirtied us just like he’s done all across the country. Sad thing, the CRP knew the warning but proceeded to hire him.