Posted on 07/26/2013 10:08:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Justice Department will seek to recapture Texas and return it to federal oversight for approval of all election law changes such as photo voter identification. Holder’s move comes after the Supreme Court in June freed Texas and other states from the requirement that all state election laws be approved in Washington, D.C. Holder’s move prompted outrage from Texas Senators Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and Governor Rick Perry.
The three should also be angry with the Republican National Committee. PJ Tatler has learned that staff at the RNC have been spending RNC donations plotting to do exactly what Eric Holder is seeking to do – return Texas and other states to federal oversight.
According to RNC sources frustrated with the race-based effort, paid RNC consultant Tom Hofeller (thofeller@rnchq.org) is spending RNC donations to develop race-based criteria to grab Texas and other states and place them back into federal receivership. The sources tell Tatler that nearly all of the members of the actual committee have been kept in the dark about this effort, and no mention is ever made in RNC fundraising efforts — for good reason, because GOP donors would be furious.
Hofeller, a long-time RNC consultant on redistricting, has devised ways to force several states back into federal receivership by amending the Voting Rights Act to grab states and force them to obtain Washington, D.C. approval. He is hopeful that Congressional Republicans will use his RNC-generated ideas to accomplish this goal.
So far, the Republicans in Congress have shown more sense than the Republicans paid by the RNC, and are cool to the idea of returning states to federal receivership.
According to congressional sources, Hofeller has also been misrepresenting the importance of the law struck down by the Supreme Court. Hofeller has told Hill sources the federal election oversight law is essential to elect Republicans, something most Republicans on the Hill no longer believe is true. Hofeller has spread this message while being paid by the RNC.
RNC fundraising is down this year. If the rank and file learn that donations are being used to place states back under Eric Holder’s boot, to attack voter ID, and pay race-obsessed consultants like Hofeller, expect RNC fundraising to suffer further. Why should donors pay the RNC to help Eric Holder attack Texas?
The bigger question: why is the RNC paying anyone like Tom Hofeller one red cent to do something that the overwhelming majority of Republicans oppose?
Well according to the piece some at RNC wouldn’t know...hmmm..
“There is literally not one piece of its that is in any way even close to being factual or true. The RNC is demanding a full retraction and apology.”
And Mr. Spicer went on to say that he was shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here!
Surreal!
“Well... the sooner the $$$ pipeline to the GOP is choked off, the better!”
At this point, those who are contributing are those who are fine and dandy with the status quo.
That better be the truth, because this is insanity at it’s best.
The GOP aristocracy wants to purchase Hispanics in the same way that Democrats have purchased blacks.
“That better be the truth, because this is insanity at it’s best.”
Would you really expect the gop wing of the uniparty to admit that it was the truth?
We’ve gotta get people out to state conventions to put conservatives on the RNC.
We put tea party backed Dave Agema on the RNC from Michigan and he’s given the GOPe fits since then. 6 or 8 months back they were trying to force him to resign for being a big meanie to gays.
...Because there is only one party...The Progressive party. Until we realize this we are wasting our time and resources.
“The GOP aristocracy wants to purchase Hispanics in the same way that Democrats have purchased blacks.”
And they can tell everyone how much better massa boehner’s plantation is than massa owebama’s.
People donating to the RNC after the last 6 yers are low information suckers.
Yep. Stinks of Rove.
Freedom Party bump.
LOL
I guess at that level, just below the veneer, they are all interchangable
Setting aside the distinct possibility that someone had a revenge motivation for dropping a story fingering this guy by name ...
Story says that he’s a targeting/demographics guy. IOW an egghead statistician. They generally aren’t people who do things out of ideological motivation. I’d actually like to hear his rationale for this, even though wrong from a legal/Constitutional perspective it might shed some light onto political environmental trends analysis for the next 20-30 years.
Right... ‘fine and dandy’ with losing Presidential elections.
Sounds like a plan!
“We’ve gotta get people out to state conventions to put conservatives on the RNC.”
Why? The gop is dead as an opposition political party. It is not “pining for the fjords.” It’s passed on. This political party is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet it’s maker.
It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It’s metabolic processes are now history. It’s off the twig, it’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off it’s mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.
The. gop. Is. A. Dead. Opposition. Political. Party.
I think the Republicans in Washington love things the way they are.....they get all the perks, with none of the responsibility......nice work if you can get it.
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