Civil Rights Commission Hires Spakovsky to Work on Voting Rights

[L. Coyote]

Civil Rights Commission Hires Spakovsky to Work on Voting Rights
By Kate Klonick - August 21, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/civil_rights_commission_hires.php


It looks like Hans von Spakovsky, an old TPM favorite, is back in business. The former Justice Department official, whose nomination to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was thwarted when Democrats objected to his long record of support for restrictions on voting rights, has been hired as a "consultant and temporary full-time employee" at the ostensibly bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) the agency confirmed to TPMmuckraker.

If Spakovsky's history of backing efforts to make voting more difficult strikes you as a poor fit with the Commission's mission of defending voter rights, consider that of the eight current commissioners at the agency, only two are registered Democrats, a politicization that the New York Times Charlie Savage brought to light last year.

Among Spakovsky's duties will be overseeing the USCCR's report on the Justice Department's monitoring of the 2008 presidential elections, a source inside the USCCR told TPMmuckraker.

Spakovsky's hiring is at the request of Commissioner Todd Gaziano, who works for the conservative Heritage Foundation ................

[L. Coyote]

1. Obama Camp Responds to Spakovsky's Hiring at Civil Rights Commission

Obama Camp Responds to Spakovsky's Hiring at Civil Rights Commission
By Kate Klonick - August 22, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/obama_camp_responds_to_spakovs.php

The Obama camp has issued a statement calling the hiring of voter suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which we first reported yesterday, "unbelievable."

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[Hubert Flottz]

2. "unbelievable."

Did we not try to tell them that the GOP would try every dirty trick in the book to steal another election?

[Kurovski]

3. SOUNDS good, don't it?

:mad: K&R