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BradBlog

(2,938 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 01:09 PM Sep 2014

GOP Operative Threatens BRAD BLOG w/ Suit After FL Probe Confirms Our 2012 Reg Fraud Reporting...

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GOP Operative Threatens BRAD BLOG With Legal Action After FL Probe Confirms Our 2012 Reports on Deceptive Voter Registration Scheme, Fraud
Another Nathan Sproul worker arrested after 2-year investigation of 2012 GOP voter registration fraud scandal in Sunshine State...

Well, this is an interesting turn of events. It includes a bizarre twist that even we would not have foreseen, involving a Republican operative who is now threatening legal action against us for reporting (accurately) on his companies' relationship to voter registration fraud and deceptive voter registration practices during the 2012 election and in previous cycles.

Remember that massive, multi-state GOP voter registration fraud scandal just before the 2012 election? The one that started in Palm Beach, Florida, spread to several different counties, then several different states? The scandal resulted in the Republican National Committee firing the Arizona firm they had secretly hired for millions of dollars to carry out voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts in a bunch of key swing-states, including Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado in advance of the Presidential Election.

The firm at the center of the RNC scandal was named Strategic Allied Consulting. It was created and run by Nathan Sproul, a notorious Arizona-based Republican operative with a checkered past, who ran Republican voter registration drives and other on-the-ground GOP activist campaigns...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10824

Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10824

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GOP Operative Threatens BRAD BLOG w/ Suit After FL Probe Confirms Our 2012 Reg Fraud Reporting... (Original Post) BradBlog Sep 2014 OP
Thank you, Brad. I'm sure I haven't said it enough. blm Sep 2014 #1
No one has ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #3
Thanks ALL for the support, and... BradBlog Sep 2014 #18
BradBlog Rules billhicks76 Sep 2014 #21
Thank you Brad, for your continued focus on these issues. drm604 Sep 2014 #2
You gonna force him to follow throuh on his threat? Prisoner_Number_Six Sep 2014 #4
Eagerly awaiting discovery. Orsino Sep 2014 #6
As I quote in exact words; TRoN33 Sep 2014 #5
Deserving of being The Wizard Sep 2014 #23
You are a treasure, Brad! Melissa G Sep 2014 #7
k and r -- bookmarking for later too :) nashville_brook Sep 2014 #8
Thank you Brad!!! Scuba Sep 2014 #9
Keep given 'em hell Brad! They wouldn't be mad at ya..... chknltl Sep 2014 #10
Keep it coming, Brad! Shine a bright light on these cockroaches! calimary Sep 2014 #11
"Where do I go to get back my reputation?" Hilarious! Go back to well before 2004, Bush campaign. Judi Lynn Sep 2014 #12
Nathan Sproul I know that mother f****r from Ohio 2004 Botany Sep 2014 #13
K & R !!! WillyT Sep 2014 #14
the republican rats squeal jonjensen Sep 2014 #15
Rigging elections since 2000. (NT) The Wizard Sep 2014 #24
K & R nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #16
Wonder if the GOP has a judge lined up for this. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #17
Good point. These fuckers network. nt wolfie001 Sep 2014 #19
Thank you, BradBlog n/t Duval Sep 2014 #20
You can always tell that a Repub nerve is being hit... elzenmahn Sep 2014 #22
K & R freshwest Sep 2014 #25
Ugh. I remember this guy. And this video DirkGently Sep 2014 #26
Brad, you're our election watchdog hero! valerief Sep 2014 #27
Yeah, many of us remember this dirtbag Iwillnevergiveup Sep 2014 #28
Did they cash their check, Nathan? MrMickeysMom Sep 2014 #29
GOP, laws don't apply to GOP sammy750 Sep 2014 #30
Nothing to worry about. Octafish Sep 2014 #31
YEAH turbinetree Sep 2014 #32
Just sent a small donation. Keep up the good work! bbgrunt Sep 2014 #33

BradBlog

(2,938 posts)
18. Thanks ALL for the support, and...
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 04:26 PM
Sep 2014

Much appreciate everyone's kind words and support here. It means a great deal!

FWIW, I will be speaking about this case (and more on the Judge Mark Fuller wife-beating case) today on my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show at 6p ET/3p PT.

You can listen live here: http://kpfk.org/index.php/listen-live

Or on the KPFK channel on the TuneIn app, if ya like.

And thanks again for all!!!

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
21. BradBlog Rules
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:25 PM
Sep 2014

It always has and is one of my favorite sites. Reporting on McConnell plane crash was refreshing. Sproul looks like another republican scumbag.

Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)
4. You gonna force him to follow throuh on his threat?
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 01:39 PM
Sep 2014

The moran MUST know nothing about this will end up favoring him....

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
5. As I quote in exact words;
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 01:46 PM
Sep 2014

Patrick Murray: "Just so you are aware, I will not report Republicans. Only Democrats."

This is armed douche Wisconsin voter police who are dying to use force to suppress and bully likely Democrat voters in Milwaukee project areas.

He intentionally turned blind to obviously frauds by Republican-licking voters.

chknltl

(10,558 posts)
10. Keep given 'em hell Brad! They wouldn't be mad at ya.....
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 02:22 PM
Sep 2014

...if your efforts were not having an impact. Thank you and please don't ever let up!

calimary

(81,283 posts)
11. Keep it coming, Brad! Shine a bright light on these cockroaches!
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 02:40 PM
Sep 2014

Keep 'em scattered. Keep 'em on defense. Keep 'em on the run! And KEEP BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON 'EM!!!!!

And remember, it's only "Voter" Fraud if a GOPer does it. Otherwise, it's more properly referred to as "Election Fraud." And the GOP does THAT, too. SPECIALIZES in it, as a matter of fact.

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
12. "Where do I go to get back my reputation?" Hilarious! Go back to well before 2004, Bush campaign.
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 02:47 PM
Sep 2014

He has probably been trying harder since he got in trouble in 2004, to keep a lower profile.

Brad Blog has done amazing work to ferret out these twisted cretins. We would still be clueless if not for your efforts. Can't imagine how much work it took.

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A younger Nathan Sproul! [/center]

Botany

(70,508 posts)
13. Nathan Sproul I know that mother f****r from Ohio 2004
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 03:01 PM
Sep 2014

Brad,

If you can don't give that son of bitch a minute of peace. I live in Columbus, OH
and what I saw and heard in 2004 still haunts me. Sproul had his people go around
dressed up as "America Coming Together" workers but they worked under the name
"Move America Forward" and they took voter registrations at OSU and pitched
all of the democratic ones later. I am just about sure he was working w/Ken Blackwell
too in 2004.

In 2012 in Akron, OH some group set up tables in the city and around college campuses
and took voter registrations like my son's but when he went to check if he was registered
he wasn't.

If i remember Sproul was kicked out of South Dakota but still came and worked in OH in 2004.

Brad

 

jonjensen

(168 posts)
15. the republican rats squeal
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 03:45 PM
Sep 2014

The republican rats no where the cheese is! All of their efforts are in controlling voting. Democrats are all over the place from climate change to police shootings like ferguson. If democrats vote these problems are solved, if their votes are neutralized by the republican vote sabotage they go on. If you care about other issues then care about republican voter suppression and vote sabotage or your efforts on these other issue will be meaningless!

elzenmahn

(904 posts)
22. You can always tell that a Repub nerve is being hit...
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 09:21 PM
Sep 2014

...when they start bringing out their legal guns.

They tried it with Maddow. No dice.

They'll try it with Brad Friedman. Probably the same result.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
26. Ugh. I remember this guy. And this video
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:50 PM
Sep 2014

The young woman said she was working "with the County Clerk's Office," but registering "only Romney voters." She was reportedly with Sproul's outfit. Then she tries to block the camera phone and squirm away.

(Sorry the link is Fox -- local Colorado station where it happened -- didn't readily find it elsewhere):

http://kdvr.com/2012/09/28/colorado-gop-dumps-firm-with-ties-to-voter-fraud/

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
28. Yeah, many of us remember this dirtbag
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 12:47 AM
Sep 2014

Thanks for stopping by and reporting this. If a lawsuit shines light on what this guy is up to, I say "Bring it!" Especially if it results in jail time for Sproul.

K&R

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
29. Did they cash their check, Nathan?
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 07:06 AM
Sep 2014

Yeah? Unbelievable … isn't it? They did?

Then, I think all those GOP hunters didn't commit these acts of voter registration FRAUD independently, you fucking fool… they acted in concert with YOU.

I absolutely laugh in the face of the stupid GOP, who gets fuck-face Limbaugh to spit in his microphone about ACORN, but ignores who actually broke the law.

They couldn't possibly get the vote out any other way.

So, I wonder who wanted to get the vote out in a democratic way after the civil rights movement in the South? I believe that was the function of ACORN.

Regardless…. THANK YOU, BRAD BLOG!

sammy750

(165 posts)
30. GOP, laws don't apply to GOP
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 08:37 AM
Sep 2014

Republicans think that laws don't apply to them. We just need to look at Gov. R. Scott of FL, 14 time felon in TX and elected the next year as governor of FL, In Idaho, a 2 time rapist elected to the state senate. He did resign in January after much reporting from the new media. Republicans are a fraud, but they are supported by ALEC, a non profit, tax exempt organization and the billionaire Koch brothers. Republican candidates run in states not to help the people, but to support the big money who pays them. We see that in the Boehner lead Congress, in recess or on vacation 70% of the year and yet they get paid.

Changes will happen when the voters realize what the Republicans are up too. The destruction of our governments and the people. We just need to look at Republican controlled states and see what the future would be if Republicans controlled our federal Government. ISIL would be nothing, if Republicans get control.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
32. YEAH
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:48 AM
Sep 2014

It is absolutely wonderful that we liberals have true investigative journalists like Brad showing the hypocrisy of the right wing violating the laws just like Ann Coulter (registered in Florida and New York) and other zealots of the ilk spreading there fear of more deceit and deception.
If this individual has knowledge and will full account of what is happening well guess what this zippy two tone should be thrown in jail and I for one would send money to BRADBLOG to defend himself.
This Sproul character should know that intimidating a voter is against the law, but I and others have not forgotten, we have five sitting supreme court right wing injustices that think the voters have no rights, just like Roberts when he was working in Arizona

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