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Problematic FEC Nominee Withdraws Name... Finally

Hans von Spakovsky, the major hold-up in seating the FEC and the GOP's point man in disenfranchising minority voters, may finally exit the national stage.

President Bush's contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission removed his name from consideration Friday, potentially ending a lengthy stalemate that had paralyzed the work of the agency.
Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who never had Democratic support to win confirmation, withdrew his nomination, saying it was time for the protracted deadlock to end....
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., welcomed von Spakovsky's withdrawal. Democrats have charged that von Spakovsky tried to suppress voter participation through new restrictions such as voter identification laws and voter roll purges.
"Democrats stood united in their opposition to von Spakovsky because of his long and well-documented history of working to suppress the rights of minorities and the elderly to vote," Reid said. "He was not qualified to hold any position of trust in our government."

Progress has already been made on the FEC. This may seal the deal. Next step: Get to work.






Comments

About time!! Some people just don't know when they are not wanted!

Posted by: Robert on 05/17/08 at 3:28 PM  Respond

Let's give some credit. We in the grassroots complain loud and long (and rightly, IMO) about congressional Decmorats caving in repeatedly to Bush and the right, but this time they stood firm, at least longer than Spakovsky could go without a paycheck. Sens. Feingold and Obama were the ones who did most to stop the nominations. Did Obama do it just for campaign purposes? Sure --- senators are always standing by Feingold just for politcal purposes (irony alert: Feingold actually stands alone far too often).

The president's endorsement of an individual for any public office say's alot about the nominee, mainly to steer clear.

Posted by: AAnderson on 05/18/08 at 10:27 AM  Respond

EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!

I'm in HOG HEAVEN!!!!

Yes, it's time to stand behind your WHITE PICKET FENCE and WAVE YOUR FLAG..., because..., finally..., someone had the courage to publicly come clean with his startling agenda...--namely, LET'S SIMPLY DISENFRANCHISE MINORITY VOTERS...!!!!

Actualll, knowing these people's predilection (and capacity) for dancing circles around the panty-waist liberals, this entire issue was precisely designed to draw attention away from the fact that all the electronic voting machines are currently in the hands of nefarious election-rigging programmers, who're busily helping to create a tyrannical, imperialistic, democracy-smashing hegemony to be reckoned with (putting it mildly...).

On the other hand, one can simply listen to Bush, then interpret it as the opposite of what he's saying... For example, where earlier today he said that, "We are a much younger nation, but we made our mark by advancing ideas as old as the pyramids. Those ideals of liberty and justice...," what he really meant was IRAQ IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BURG...

WHAT?????????????????

Or, MO, MO, MO--THIS IS WHERE WE STRIKE A DEAL FOR A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF THAT BIG OLD PIE--MO, MO, MO...

Posted by: Michael L. Wagner on 05/18/08 at 11:37 AM  Respond

Michael L. Wagner:

I'm happy that von Spakovsky is out of the way too. However, please stop using so much capitalization. It makes reading your comments very painful.

Posted by: JP on 05/18/08 at 3:20 PM  Respond

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