Posted on 09/27/2007 7:45:50 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee took the unprecedented step Wednesday of sending four Federal Election Commission nominations to the Senate floor without recommendation after the committee's chairwoman, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, refused to back a controversial former Justice Department official.
Feinstein told colleagues on the Senate Rules Committee that Hans von Spakovsky's record in the department's Civil Rights Division demonstrated that he's too partisan to serve on the FEC.
Former career Justice Department voting-rights lawyers have charged that von Spakovsky, while a division counsel from 2003 to 2005, served as the administration's "point man" in a campaign to adopt policies that suppress voting by Democratic-leaning minorities.
Feinstein pointed especially to von Spakovsky's support for a Georgia law requiring voters to produce photo IDs, which a federal judge later blocked as akin to a Jim Crow-era poll tax.
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Feinstein pointed especially to von Spakovsky's support for a Georgia law requiring voters to produce photo IDs
Just a partisan politician who favors vote fraud that helps her party.
I guess he must be a Republican with a spine. They want Republicans who roll over for them on the Commission.
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