Missouri attorney a focus in USA firings = Bradley Schlozman
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Missouri attorney a focus in firings
Senate bypassed in appointment of Schlozman
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | May 6, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/06/missouri_attorney_a_focus_in_firingsWASHINGTON -- Todd Graves brought just four misdemeanor voter fraud indictments during his five years as the US attorney for western Missouri -- even though some of his fellow Republicans in the closely divided state wanted stricter oversight of Democratic efforts to sign up new voters. ...........
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Bush Appointee "Led by Power"
By Paul Kiel - April 26, 2007, 2:27 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003101.phpSo far, Bradley Schlozman has been a minor character in the U.S. attorneys scandal. He ought to be a major one.
To put the case succinctly: Schlozman was the most aggressively political of the political appointees in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
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U. S. ATTORNEYS - 2006 Missouri's election was ground zero for GOP
By Greg Gordon - McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17168096.htmWASHINGTON - Accusations about voter fraud seemed to fly from every direction in Missouri before last fall's elections. State and national Republicans leaders fretted that dead people might vote or that some live people might vote more than once.
The threat to the integrity of the election was seen as so grave that Bradley Schlozman, the acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and later the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, twice wielded the power of the federal government to try to protect the balloting. The Republican-controlled Missouri General Assembly also stepped into action. ...............
Schlozman, while he was acting civil rights chief, authorized a suit accusing the state of failing to eliminate legions of ineligible people from lists of registered voters. A federal judge tossed out the suit this April 13 .............