Posted on 04/16/2024 6:25:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Do As We Say, Not As We Do: “I do find it ironic that a group that supposedly promotes ‘free speech for people’ organized a campaign to make sure that the opinions and views of people like me are not heard,” Mitchell told the DCNF.
A federal agency did not reappoint a former Trump advisor to an elections advisory board called the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) after a left-wing activist group threatened to launch a public criticism campaign, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who is now the senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute, was appointed to the advisory board for the Election in November 2021. After months of badgering United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) officials to oust Mitchell from the EAC board of advisors, Free Speech for People president John Bonifaz threatened to launch a “public campaign” criticizing the agency if it did not drop Mitchell at the end of her two-year term, emails obtained by the DCNF via public records request show.
“I am writing as a courtesy to let you know that, unless we hear from you by tomorrow, November 29, at 5 pm ET that the USCCR has decided not to reappoint Cleta Mitchell, we plan to launch a public campaign criticizing the USCCR for this decision, including by publicizing a copy of your 10/5/23 email below to me, which as you know is public record,” Bonifaz wrote on Nov. 28, 2023 to USCCR General Counsel David Ganz.
“I wanted to let you know about this so you’re not surprised if e.g. you or the Commission receive media calls,” Bonifaz added.
The threatening email seems to have worked. The next day, Free Speech for People, the same group that was behind several recent efforts to kick Trump off the ballot, celebrated that Mitchell would not be reappointed. Ganz had said in an Oct. 5 email that Mitchell’s appointment could not be withdrawn during her term, but suggested there may be alternate means of removing her from the board when her term expired.
The duties of the EAC, a federal agency established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, center on the administration of elections, including administering grant programs and offering voluntary voting system guidelines, testing and certification. Its board of advisors, comprised of 35 members appointed from a range of agencies and organizations such as the USCCR, reviews draft guidance and provides input to the EAC commissioners.
Mitchell’s appointment sparked backlash from Democrats and left-wing groups because her volunteer legal work for Trump’s 2020 campaign and her presence on a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call where Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes for him to win the state.
Shows how the Election Assistance Commission will assist democRATs and probably not anyone else.
the champions of diversity will allow no diversity of thought, opinion, or political affiliation.
Weak threat....she should have defied them.
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Message: After months of badgering, the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) ousted Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell from the federal board of advisors. I find it ironic that a group that supposedly promotes ‘free speech for people’ organized a campaign to make sure that the opinions and views of people like Mitchell are not heard.
“Free Speech for People” president John Bonifaz threatened to launch a “public campaign” criticizing the agency if it did not drop Mitchell, emails obtained via a public records request show.
Criticism campaign. Is that what they call extortion these days?
…”The duties of the EAC, a federal agency established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, center on the administration of elections “ …
Right around the time national election results became routinely unbelievable.
Federal Elections Assistance Commission (EAC): 100% Democrat
National Public Radio (NPR): 100% Democrat (87-0)
White House Correspondence Association (White House Press Corp) Board Members: 100% Democrat
Republican Presidential Primary Debates: Overwhelmingly Democrat
The Republicans have been allowing this to happen for decades. When you have one party subservient to the other party, it’s called ‘controlled opposition.’
Correction:
Federal Elections Assistance Commission (EAC): 100% Democrat
National Public Radio (NPR): 100% Democrat (87-0)
White House Correspondence Association (White House Press Corp) Board Members: 100% Democrat
Republican Presidential Primary Debate Moderators: Overwhelmingly Democrat
The Republicans have been allowing this to happen for decades. When you have one party subservient to the other party, it’s called ‘controlled opposition.’
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The Dems have run this country for some decades - they always get 💯% of what they want. Only Americans can put a stop to this oligarchic autocracy. The Leftists have $ billions and a huge powerful corrupt media - either people wake up or you and I will go to a gulag👈🤷♂️
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
"Free Speech For People (FSFP) is a national nonpartisan public education and legal advocacy organization working to ensure all people have an equal voice and an equal vote in our democracy. Since 2010, FSFP has served as a catalyzing and bold leader in the movement to defend and to protect our democracy and our United States Constitution for we, the people. We effect change through our core initiatives to fight for free and fair elections, to challenge big money in politics, to advance political equality for all, and to develop new and innovative legal actions to uphold our fundamental democratic principles."
Uh-huh.
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