The author is Fred Lucas.
The group was co-founded in July 2006 by James Rucker,
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formerly director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action. “Any serious commitment to wrestling control of the country from the Republican Party must include removing their political operatives from deciding who can vote and whose votes will count,” said another co-founder, Becky Bond,
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to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2006.