the plot thickens

very few papers and news organizations are reporting the truth. well the FULL truth (as they can find it of course). mcclatchy seems to be a notch above just about everyone


there are so many weasels out there (no offense to the actual animal of course) it's unbelievable. how can they call themselves americans? i just don't get it

Was campaigning against voter fraud a Republican ploy? (hint: THE ANSWER IS YES)

By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A New Mexico lawyer who pressed to oust U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was an officer of a nonprofit group that aided Republican candidates in 2006 by pushing for tougher voter identification laws.
Iglesias, who was one of nine U.S. attorneys the administration fired last year, said that Albuquerque lawyer Patrick Rogers pressured him several times to bring voter fraud prosecutions where little evidence existed. Iglesias believes that he was fired in part because he failed to pursue such cases.
He described Rogers, who declined to discuss the exchanges, as “obsessed . . . convinced there was massive voter fraud going on in this state, and I needed to do something to stop it."
Iglesias said he only recently learned of Rogers’ involvement as secretary of the non-profit American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund - an activist group that defended tighter voter identification requirements in court against charges that they were designed to hamper voting by poor minorities.......