Crashing The Party - By The Lone Star Iconoclast - Crawford Texas

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Crashing The Party?
Mystery Surrounds ‘American Center For Voting Rights’ Group
The Lone Star Iconoclast
03/30/05

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new voting rights group appeared last week, just in time to testify at U.S. Congressman Bob Ney’s (R-Ohio) House Administrative Committee hearings on the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. That state was fraught with voting inconsistencies, as documented by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in reports to Congress earlier this year.

Investigator Brad Friedman, who sponsors a website at BradBlog.com, last week interviewed Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II, who provided testimony at the Ohio hearings from the upstart American Center For Voting Rights when it was learned that the speaker had been the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. and that hundreds of other, more well established, voting rights groups were not invited to testify.

Friedman, who is propelling an initiative known as the Velvet Revolution, Divestiture for Democracy (VelvetRevolution.us), noted on his website that during the hearings, Hearne failed to mention his “high-level connections to Bush/Cheney and his long history of working with other powerful Republican officials all the way back to his time working for the Reagan Administration.”

Friedman says that the ACVR group claims on its website to champion “voter education and outreach” programs as one of its activities, but when he asked Hearne specifics about the programs, the response was “We certainly anticipate those.”

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[Selteri]

1. Just another case of shifting the focus to decieve the public

When they won't let established groups testify, this needs to be shouted about outside where the hearings are being done!