Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Posted on 10/22/2012 4:50:50 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings has demanded that a group planning to challenge voter access to the polls on Election Day provide him with details of its planned operations.
Cummings targeted the organization True the Vote, saying the group planned to deploy hundreds of thousands of personnel across the country on Election Day to challenge the status of citizens who they believe may be ineligible to vote.
“There have been reports from multiple states during the past two years that your organization is targeting predominantly minority communities and coordinating with the Republican Party in an attempt to intimidate legitimate voters,” Cummings wrote in his letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, True the Vote’s president and founder.
Cummings first contacted the group in early October seeking specifics of its plans. In his most recent letter, he set a deadline of Oct. 31 for the group to turn over its plans.
The congressman pointed to a recent report documenting True the Vote’s plans to deploy personnel to predominantly African-American and Hispanic communities in North Carolina. Following the report’s release, Cummings said True the Vote shut down access to its Web site which detailed where its workers will be located on Election Day.
Cummings also said the group had been connected to voter suppression allegations in Texas in 2010. According to Cummings, officials in Harris County, Texas told his staff that “King Street Patriots and True the Vote volunteers were not fully exonerated for acts of intimidation while serving as poll watchers in 2010,” saying that True the Vote members were the subject of complaints from voters who said the members stood too close while the citizens voted.
Cumming said “mounting evidence” shows the group is coordinating with Republican political interests to further that party’s agenda.
“If you are truly committed to transparency in our nation’s voting process—and if you continue to deny that your organization is challenging thousands of legitimate voters across the country for partisan political purposes—then you should have no reason to withhold documents from Congress about your activities,” Cummings wrote in the letter.
Their best response to him should be to crank out dozens of pages of meaningless gobbledegook as their official “response” to him, punctuated with a few bits of information already given that they can refer to in the future.
Alexander Haig was a master of such things, once giving extended testimony before congress that said *nothing*. He even invented new words to obfuscate the empty chatter he was making.
Of course Cummings would not read such drivel, but every time he opened his yap in the future they could refer to it as “answering his questions”, and act puzzled why he did not understand it.
Doing this, they can both run out the clock, and make him sound like a simpleton.
I remember Haig very well.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
When I first moved here we had Rosco Bartlet as our rep. He was super conservative and I loved voting for him.
Thanks to massive immigration, the housing bubble and massive development of open and heavily wooded land (yes, millions of trees killed) and Dem redistricting we now have liberal hero Elijah E. Cummings in the same job as Rosco had for our same area.
Our taxes go up and up and up and we have O Malley as governor leading it.
Fortunately, I get to vote for Rosco Bartlett on Election Day.
I missed that connection. I’m sure he likes the Ravens in his district.
“Standing too close” = intimidation.
“Standing at doorway with nightsticks dressed like a militant hood” = OK.
(cue the Philly NBP pix.)
I’m sorry but Congressman Cummings has what authority to demand details of True the Vote planned operations?
Is he also demanding getails of the New Black Panther Party’s planned operations on election day?
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