TPM Muck: Obama Camp Responds to Spakovsky's Hiring at Civil Rights Commission

[mod mom]

Obama Camp Responds to Spakovsky's Hiring at Civil Rights Commission

By Kate Klonick - August 22, 2008, 3:44PM
The Obama camp has issued a statement calling the hiring of voter suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which we first reported yesterday, "unbelievable."

From Obama spokesman Michael Ortiz:

"Given Hans Von Spakovsky's controversial record on voting rights, it's unbelievable that he would now be offered a staff position with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a federal entity charged with ensuring that voting rights are not violated. This is yet the latest indication that the Bush Administration is not serious about protecting the most fundamental right that protects all others - the right to vote."

This might be something that deserves looking into, oh, before November.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/obama_camp_responds_to_spakovs.php

[bluestateguy]

1. We need to bring back Mary Frances Barry

and clean house and fire the whole Commission.

[mod mom]

2. before November as TPM suggests! The whole DNC should be screaming about this

because it goes back to the partisan hirings that Mukasey is failing to prosecute or even remedy.

[tbyg52]

3. Yep. nt

[Kurovski]

4. Kick. (nt)