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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 12:38 PM
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Demand that US Attorney and Republican Hack Griffin step down now (behind voter supression)
Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 12:39 PM by MidwestTransplant
TPM Muckraker has a story about Griffin saying he will not go through the Senate Confirmation process but will stay on until Bush appoints somebody else. I would imagine that will be in, oh I don't know, 2 years.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002585.php

Aside from taking partisan swipes at Senators, Mr. Griffin was also DIRECTLY involved in VOTER SUPPRESSION of service members in Florida in 2004.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation unearthed e-mail messages Griffin sent from the RNC in 2004 containing spreadsheet information on thousands of Florida voters. The spreadsheets were titled “caging,” which, according to the BBC, alludes to a voter suppression tactic.

Griffin's caging scheme was a particularly noxious. It seems that it was aimed directly at black sericemembers. According to Greg Palast of Democracy Now! the RNC mailed voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as "undeliverable." The party could then challenge the voters' registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballot being counted.
(the above summary taken from poster Ron Byers on tpmmuckraker.com)

The link to the story is below. This story is actually from June 2006 and specifically references emails from Griffin.

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=4263
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 12:41 PM
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1. Was this only done with black service members?
How about anyone they determined would more likely NOT vote for Bush?
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 12:44 PM
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2. I think it was Dem (read black) zip codes.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 03:33 PM
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3. They probably ran a match against the DMV records using the Texas company
that Jeb Bush used in Florida
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