Comments on: Hans von Spakovsky

By: just6dollars

just6dollars — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:49:47 +0000

Great job putting all of this together. There are so many stories like this, but they don’t get told to many Americans because they’re not easily pared down to a sound bite.

We’ll probably never see the $40 million owed by the Bush campaign, but if we can get real campaign finance reform and public funding of elections on the table, perhaps that price tag will be worth it.

By: Zeus

Zeus — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:23:10 +0000

For those who were not already aware of this issue, it will be just one more scandal to add to an ever-growing list. Those who don’t tune out immediately will just yawn and say, ‘here we go again’, and then tune out. Let’s face it, voter fraud is not ’sexy’. But this is probably the biggest scandal of them all. If Spakovsky etal (all those that attended the Rove School of Politics) had been sucessful, their grand scheme of having a one party system would render any and all of the other scandals moot.

By: Think Progress » Von Spakovsky and the ‘vote-suppression agenda.’

Tue, 22 May 2007 03:39:36 +0000

[...] Von Spakovsky, who was recess-appointed to the Federal Election Commission in December 2005, is scheduled to appear at a June 13 Senate confirmation hearing. Much more on his record at Mahablog, TPMMuckraker, and Hullabaloo. 11:36 pm | Comment (0) [...]

By: kid oakland

kid oakland — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:30:02 +0000

Good work maha.

Von Spakovsky and Schlozman are up to absolutely no good in the civil rights division. What’s galling is that von Spakovsky/Publius had no business speeding the approval on the Georgia ID rule given his past and yet he completely got away with it. What are these guys doing working on civil rights?

For another set of links and angles on this, including Jeffrey Toobin’s break down of von Spakovsky’s role in the 2000 election visit k/o.

Von Sapovsky’s role in the disenfranshisement of voters in Florida in 2000 is something that would have come up in a hearing. Toobin writes that he was the man behind the idea of “purging the voter rolls of felons.” Important to note.

By: No More Mr. Nice Guy!

No More Mr. Nice Guy! — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:59:36 +0000

Oh gawd, Jan Brewer… a witch with a capital B. Arizona’s answer to Katherine Harris, and the biggest self-aggrandizer in the state (with the possible exception of Joe Arpaio). Every document that comes out of the Secretary of State’s office, however routine, has to have her photo splashed all over it. She was Bush/Cheney ‘04 state chairman at the same time that she was, as Sec. of State, forcing black-box voting machines on the counties over the objections of almost every elections commissioner. Before the midterms she was blanketing the airwaves with “public service” ads, ostensibly to explain Arizona’s photo ID voting requirements but in reality to plaster her face over everyone’s TV screens yet again. She has ridden roughshod over civil rights concerns – Arizona is subject to DOJ oversight over any changes to its voting laws due to its racist history (William Rehnquist oversaw “Operation Eagle Eye” for Nixon during the 60’s in Phoenix, to intimidate Hispanic voters) but she just blows off her obligations, with the connivance of Junior’s hired guns. When the Bushies finally go down I really hope they take her with them.

By: Monday Afternoon News Roundup « Mercury Rising 鳯女

Monday Afternoon News Roundup « Mercury Rising 鳯女 — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:22:43 +0000

[...] – Suhpraiiiz, Suhpraiiiz, Suhpraiiiz! In finest fox-guarding-henhouse tradition (h/t Mahablog), the Bush Junta stacked the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division with people like Bradley Schlotzman and Hans von Spakovsky, who not only worked to suppress minority voter turnout, but helped Bush get out of paying the Federal Elections Commission the $40 million he owes for going massively over the spending limits in the 2004 campaign. [...]

By: biggerbox

biggerbox — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:47:04 +0000

Is it just that I’m overwhelmed by the melodramatic quality of the administration’s mischief, or does the name Hans von Spakovsky sound like a Bond villain?

By: Sachem

Sachem — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:50:43 +0000

This story is expanding as we write.

TPMmuckraker is covering this also. It is posted over there that an actual confirmation hearing is scheduled for June 13th.

Also, an anonymous comment posted this morning says “Von Spakovsky was also running his own “personal?” propaganda/disinformation campaign under the non-de-plume “Publius.” Apparently “Publius” was running his propaganda campaign while he was still at DOJ.”

http://www.votelaw.com/blog/archives/003980.html

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003255.php