Why Is This Dem Fixture Giving Cover To Trump's Bogus Voter Fraud Panel?

[DonViejo]

By CAMERON JOSEPH and TIERNEY SNEED Published AUGUST 31, 2017 6:00 AM

For four decades, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D) has earned bipartisan reverence for keeping his state’s primaries first in the nation. So why is he spending that hard-earned capital giving bipartisan cover to President Trump’s controversial voter fraud panel?

Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity after claiming that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 — an assertion that’s been knocked down by numerous state elections officials, including Gardner.

The commission’s acting head, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), is known for making overblown claims of widespread voting fraud and pushing restrictive voting laws. Other members of the commission have similar reputations. Civil rights groups fear its work will be used not only to justify Trump’s baseless allegations but as a pretext to advocate for restrictive laws like nationwide voter ID and state laws purging voter rolls.

Gardner, the nation’s longest-serving secretary of state, is by far the most prominent Democrat on the commission. On Sept. 12 he will host its second meeting, in New Hampshire. Those moves have frustrated Democrats and even some Republicans back home.

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1. "earned bipartisan reverence"

That.
That right there.
That says it all.

That is the end goal of far too many Democrats in positions of power.
They are more concerned with getting nice things said about them by David Brooks or Tom Friedman or Morning Joe or whoever the fuck else is the Belle of the Beltway ball.

When are our elected fucking Democrats going to realize that is not the goal. That is not why they get elected. They don't get elected to be revered for their goddamned fucking sensible demeanor and approach to politics. They get elected to do what is fucking right.

[geek tragedy]

2. He's a bipartisan fetishist. nt