Yesterday during the House Judiciary Committee Hearing at which I testified, Rep. Jerrold Nadler cried crocodile tears about the fact that Hans von Spakovsky and I have published inside information about matters such as the South Carolina voter ID preclearance recommendation.
Nadler was outraged that we had the audacity to exercise first amendment rights and publish information about decisions which wasted $3.5 million in South Carolina taxpayer money and sent electronic surveillance into Louisiana welfare offices.
Nadler asked us why we would publish such scandal. He bemoaned the effect on morale these revelations had.
Von Spakovsky answered the question but time ran out before I could. Too bad.
I was prepared to take Mr. Nadler on a trip down memory lane – a trip which once saw him signing the praises of Dan Eggen at the Washington Post.
Read one here on Texas redistricting.
Read another on Georgia Voter ID.
Nadler really doesn’t like that it’s not 2006 anymore, where his side of the Judiciary Committee is the only one armed with information. His side of the hearing room is no longer the only one with any fight in them. And the Washington Post is no longer as relevant as it once was when internet media outlets are getting 25 to 50 million hits a month.
Yesterday the Republicans greatly outnumbered the Democrats in both attendees as well as information. Only John Conyers and Mr. Nadler asked any questions of substance – a far cry from 2006 where a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the voting section was a firing line from the Democrat side with GOP who couldn’t get out of first gear. Those days are over and aren’t coming back.