Monthly Archives: September 2011

‘Every Single One’ Fallout: Justice Dept. in Turmoil

Amazing story at the Link focusing on the hiring spree of left wing attorneys into the Civil Rights Division.  And it is only the end of the beginning.  “Every Single One” is only half the story and much more is to come.

The evidence shows that the AAG for Civil Rights Thomas Perez introduced the Civil Rights Division to the “victor owns the spoils” system.  The blatant patronage hiring would have made Andrew Jackson blush.  Whatever the denials, the evidence clearly shows that Perez and his bloated leadership team rigged the hiring process from the very beginning to produce skewed hiring results and pack the Department of Justice with ideologues.  

With no oversight from the Democratic controlled Congress and little mainstream media interest, the Civil Rights Divsion leadership simply thought they could get away with ignoring civil service and budgetary laws and pay the exorbitant cost of additional hirings later.  Expect people to sweat as “later” finally arrives and you see a marked increase in the number of resignations, retirements, and unusually early and handsome buyouts.  The big question is where in the world did the money come from to hire all the new recipients of the Obama spoils system while the rest of the federal government was in a deep hiring freeze? 

Ooops, did someone forgot to check the credit limit of the cash card.  No overdraft protection?  The account on the overdrawn check:  The U.S. Congress.  Expected congressional oversight might get a bit heated and the soothing emails from Perez to all his new hires won’t be able to make it all better. 

New York asks for waiver for military voter protections, Part 2

The Department of Justice granted a conference call with New York regarding their application to be exempt from military voting protections passed in 2009 for the 2012 election.  Namely, New York has not changed laws to ensure that military voters serving overseas get their ballots in time to be counted.  This is deeply unfortunate and military families from New York should be urging the Department of Justice and Defense to reject the waiver, now, without further delay.

After the conference call with DOJ, New York submitted this supplemental letter, and supplemental material.  Albany is notorious for passing all manner of laws, but apparently military voting protections take a back seat to same sex marriage and transit lock boxes.

“Operation Vote” 2012: a base appeal

Perhaps this is the former Project Vote Part 2, the ill chosen campaign name from a few weeks ago.  More from the Washington Post.


“President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.


The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition that helped elect the country’s first black president.


Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.


Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.”

Arizona Redistricting: “The fix is in”

“This week, two members of the Gila County Board of Supervisors signaled their willingness to play politics behind a smokescreen of lawyers. Specifically, the board rejected a redistricting map that would reflect population shifts in favor of a lopsided gerrymander.

But thanks to the tortured rationalizations of the county’s hired consultants, the board majority hopes to blame it all on the Voting Rights Act.


Nonsense.”  Full op ed here.

Texas voter ID moves closer to DOJ objection

The Justice Department has made a “more information” request regarding the Texas voter ID bill. More here. Make no mistake, this is a sign that an objection may be coming from Justice.  The more information request reveals the Voting Section is willing to use disparate impact on language minorities to justify an objection in Texas.  Politicians in Texas has previously made assurances that the voter ID bill would be sent to the federal court for approval.  That didn’t happen, and now supporters of Texas voter ID are likely to soon learn what a mistake that was.  There were suggestions from every corner of Texas to include a provision in the bill, sponsored by Senator Troy Fraser from Horseshoe Bay, to require the law to be submitted to federal court for approval, and not to DOJ.  That also didn’t happen.  Look for the real possibility that DOJ will object at the end of the 60 day period (renewed by the more information request). 

If Texans really want voter ID to become law, they will ask their elected officials to withdraw the submission (which can be done with a fax machine) and submit the law to District Court on Monday for approval.  Otherwise, odds are against the law being in place in Texas anytime soon.