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AMERICAblog: Progressive DC group's robo-calls causing "confusing and potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters" in North Carolina

  • TimRusso · 1 year ago
    ohio blogger was pimping WVWV for weeks to be their top female blogger.

    http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/04/group-jil...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    I'm sure "Friends of Hillary" will pay their legal costs.

    Criminals....all of them.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    racism, gay bashing, vote caging all in a day's work for the Clinton camp and their proxies
  • JayR · 1 year ago
    Is Lamont Williams perhaps related to Maggie Williams, who was on the board of WVWV and is not Clinton's campaign manager?
  • JayR · 1 year ago
    *NOW Clinton's campaign manager
  • paul94611 · 1 year ago
    "Smart, savvy organizations know better than to distribute any information that will potentially confuse voters. This is very disturbing -- and it doesn't make sense".

    You are joking. Right?
    Team Clinton, their sponsors & surrogates are no more progressive than John McCain or Grover Nordquist.
    This appears to yet another; Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson, Terry McAulffie smear job.
    After all the folks that are being targeted appear to be the same folks that have dared to support someone other that Hillary Clinton.
    Hillary & Bill Clinton through their surrogates & associates appear to be showing folks who's who and reminding super delegates what will happen to them if they do not get on board.
    Obama funds and promotes a 50 state voter registration effort.
    Hillary Clinton & her associates appear to be funding a 50 state voter suppression effort.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    If they are working for Hillary, why in the world do you think they are progressive?
    Hillary is as progressive as Lieberman.
    She has always been a "soft to the right" Democrat.

    There is nothing progressive about that.
  • MikeinSanJo · 1 year ago
    Funny, no one thought the 2008 elections would be stolen by Hillary Clinton (R-NY).

    I think everyone assumed the repugs would send their moles to help McCain win, not Clinton. I remember in the olden times when Clinton was a Democrat!
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    My first thought was...GOOD it's about time that the left starts playing filthy against the right. Then I thought...jesus fuck me sideways in traffic what the fuck is wrong with this stupid fucking country?
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Joy says, "Smart, savvy organizations know better than to distribute any information that will potentially confuse voters." True enough, but there's old saying that applies here: "If you can't convince them, confuse them."
  • PhoenixWoman · 1 year ago
    Joy says, "Smart, savvy organizations know better than to distribute any information that will potentially confuse voters." True enough, but there's old saying that applies here: "If you can't convince them, confuse them."


    That's exactly it.

    One good thing: This will almost certainly make Donna Brazile break with the Clintons once and for all and lead any remaining uncommitted African-American supers straight to Obama.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Indigo

    LOL Harry Truman! I said a few weeks ago that should have been Clinton's battle cry, instead of "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the Kitchen">
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    The Clinton camp will now describe these people as "grass roots supporters."

    So cold and calculated, and in complete defiance of the rules. Just like the missus.
  • TimRusso · 1 year ago
    maggie williams should resign over this. she's probably in legal trouble.
  • djonan · 1 year ago
    Didn't Digby just write up how great this group was?? Has she commented, yet??
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Great plan...establish your group's bona fides as a progressive, up-front, GOTV organization....then pull crap nobody wil believe came from you....
  • mdg650hawk · 1 year ago
    I don't know why anymore, but I am stunned by this. Hillary is Lieberman/McCain/Rove all rolled into one. I did notice huge kudos to Digby on the WVWV home page. Are they trying to advertise or steal or misrepresent some kind of endorsement FROM Digby?
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    And the very worst part of this is that no one cares anymore. No one cares that our democracy is in a sewer now. We are too fucking busy watching crap like "Yo Mama Don't Dance"
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    Mission Accomplished: Al-Qaeda 'greatest threat' to US
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7376233.stm

  • dad · 1 year ago
  • PhoenixWoman · 1 year ago
    This group has garnered complaints in a dozen states now that we know of, counting North Carolina, for doing garbage like this -- and refusing to stop when asked to by state authorities.

    Once is an accident. Twice, coincidence. Three times, incompetence.

    But TWELVE times? TWELVE?

    No 527 "pro-voter" group has a record this bad. None that are acting in good faith.

    Either these people are so dumb they make Doug Feith look good, or they're deliberately engaging in suppressing votes.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    This part kills me: "While [Democracy North Carolina's Bob] Hall says his group has "begged" the group to stop the mailings, Women's Voices has refused to do so..."

    "Begged"?? How about slapping them with court orders to cease and desist? At least force them to turn off that stupid robot for at least a few minutes while they call their lawyers.
  • GrahamCrackerDC · 1 year ago
    Sad that this trouble is being caused by a progressive organization with no conneciton to the GOP. WVWV clearly supports Democratic causes, and its sad that Democrats are now playing dirty tricks on each other.
  • GrahamCrackerDC · 1 year ago
    PhoenixWoman

    "One good thing: This will almost certainly make Donna Brazile break with the Clintons once and for all and lead any remaining uncommitted African-American supers straight to Obama"

    So you're saying that blacks support Obama because he's black. I thought Obama transcended race?
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    gcrackerdc-
    'WVWV clearly supports Democrat causes, and its sad that Democrats are now playing dirty tricks on each other.'

    your concern is so very moving. oh, and i fixed your typo.
  • CJramsey · 1 year ago
    Isn't voter supression a criminal act? I hope federal investigators get involved in this because Clinton should not be able to get away with it.
  • gustavmahler · 1 year ago
    Maggie Williams involved? The name Lamont Williams? How stupid. I agree, having this happen 12 times in 12 states is beyond belief. Who benefits from this tactic? Obama or Hillary? It is obvious.
    Their excuse is that they were trying to register people for the general election and got the dates confused. Who tries to register people for a general election a week before primaries in 12 states???????????? This is not sloppy, this is well thought out and well planned.
  • tomjuarez · 1 year ago
    LIke I said yesterday -this is classic voter caging. They were going to use the forms as evidence to challenge the ballots that didn't correspond to a form. It's been happening for decades and it's illegal but no one cares.

    Bets on w/r this ends up on any of the major networks tonight? Maybe Olberman but that's it.
  • ericgoldman · 1 year ago
    The latest news is that they've stopped the calls and are trying to pull the mailings.
  • mmedefarge · 1 year ago
    I have wondered for years how the carpetbagger senator from ny even got any votes there, let alone be allowed to run for the office--- she would not even have qualified for in state tuition rates in terms of residency,

    But with every day of this campaign, and with every new outrage, I get a clearer idea of how she operates. And it is so horribly depressing and unbelievable to me. How can anyone be so twisted as to even think of these things?

    I have had a glimpse now of how things could be, of how a real decent person conducts himself in a campaign, as her kitchen-sink throwing becomes more crazed all of the time. (She really must be comfortable in the kitchen---she hasn't left the sink for a second since February).

    There is no going back. If she finds a way to actually bamboozle or disenfranchise enough voters, I will never consider myself a Democrat again if the party allows her to do this and gives her ANY legitimacy.
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