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Voter suppression in North Carolina?
Allegations have been flying about robo-calls supposedly intended to suppress votes for Obama, but the incident appears to be about incompentence, not malice.
Alex Koppelman [2008-05-02]

  • This is an apologist version of events

    The more we learn, the worse this looks, and I take issue with your opinion. In fact, this has been a problem for five months now, in which WVWV make these illegal (yes, they're illegal) robocalls and then repeatedly apologize for the confusion.

    You can view the organizations ties to Clinton here:

    http://www.npr.org/news/images/2008/may/01/wvwvchart.html

    And although you correctly note that Lux now supports Obama, you for whatever reason decided not to reveal that he used to support Clinton, and switched his allegiance.

    The aggregated evidence from several sources now (NPR included), not just TPM, are in fact suggesting exactly the opposite of what you're arguing. WVWV has very strong ties to Hillary Clinton, is made up of several former political appointees of Bill Clinton's administration, and has recklessly, repeatedly, and (in the case of NC) knowingly placed misleading and illegal robocalls in several states.

    See also this DailyKos diary which picks up some of the group's cronyism and possible financial mismanagement, as the group hired relatives of its board members (in one case the company of its founder's husband) to produce mailings and other collateral. One of their board members's firms has done $1,000,000 of work for Clinton's campaign.

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/64733/51431/906/507604

    You do great work, Alex, but you're no JMM.

    -- AngryMonkey
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    Friday, May 2, 2008 02:04 PM
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