The American Center for Voting Rights Has Gone Missing

Yesterday I read a post on the Schlozman hearing at Tony's Kansas City, a popular local blog. According to Tony since Claire McCaskill was elected what are Democrats bitching about? All is fair in love and politics. No harm, no foul.

I have read a lot about an apparent Republican voter suppression campaign. It is obvious that the ACORN indictments and the Missouri Voter ID law thrown out just before the 2006 election were part of that Republican voter suppression campaign. The Republican campaign was national in scope and was centered on utterly unsupported Republican charges that Democrats have been engaging in their own voter fraud project. A group called the American Center for Voting Rights carried the voter fraud message across the country. The group was headed by a Missouri lawyer named Mark "Thor" Hearne.

NPR's Morning Edition recently discovered that as the US Attorney scandal has heated up the American Center for Voting Rights has simply gone missing. The link takes you to a wonderful audio overview entitled Voting Rights Group Low Key as Scandal Unfolds. Thorne isn't talking. Neither is nearly everybody else who worked for the Center.

Tony, if you read this, give Peter Overby's report a listen. It will help you understand just what the fuss is all about.

I want to thank Thomas Charles over at FiredUp!Missouri for pointing me to the Morning Edition piece. My wife and I were talking about family stuff on the way to work this morning. I missed it.