D. Brazile: "(Dems) Dumb as Shit" For Not Doing More to Protect the Vote [View All]

[AtomicKitten]

Donna Brazile, a familiar pinata here at DU often pilloried in that oh so special DU scorched earth fashion, gets it and deserves some recognition.

In the current Rolling Stone Magazine (a link to which I cannot find - (help!)) ...

The Battle for Ohio
by Tim Dickinson

excerpt:

"Nobody gives a damn," says Donna Brazile, the former campaign manager for Al Gore. "I don't want to talk about it after Election Day, when people have been screwed over. It's our moral responsibility as Americans to protect the right to vote."

As chair of the Voting Rights Institute at the Democratic National Committee, Brazile is trying to raise $3 million for a comprehensive national effort to prevent vote rigging this fall. The DNC campaign - to be unveiled at the party convention on August 18th - will create a national hot line to report problems at the polls, sue states that impose unfair restrictions on voting, beef up watchdog efforts at the state level, and assemble a national panel of lawyers to combat voter fraud on Election Day.

Brazile is trying to recruit Al Gore and John Kerry to the effort, but neither has yet signed on. She also faults Emanuel, who is feuding with party chief Howard Dean over strategy, for not doing enough to support the party's effort. "They don't get it - they're as dumb as shit," she says. "It makes me want to smash something. I want to go and have a conversation with Rahm: 'You want to take back the House? So what are going to do to protect people's right to vote?' If you want to win, it has to be part of your campaign plan. Period."

excerpt:

Two hundred and six House members have signed on in support of a bill that would require all voting machines to create a verifiable paper trail that can be recounted, but the measure is being held hostage by the Republican leadership.


link to Voting Rights Institute @ DNC
http://www.democrats.org/a/national/election_reform/voting_rights/vri/