Texas Democrats ask for federal probe of AG Abbott's raid that targeted voter sign-up group

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN – Democratic congressmen from Texas have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a raid by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office that targeted a nonprofit voter registration group.

The Dallas Morning News reported Aug. 31 on the attorney general’s criminal investigation of Houston Votes, which was accused of election fraud. The probe was closed one year later, with no charges filed.

Following the armed raid in 2010, the funding for Houston Votes dried up. Its efforts to register more low-income voters in the state’s most populous county, Harris, ended. The group’s records and office equipment were destroyed under a court order obtained by Abbott’s office last year.

In a Sept. 10 letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the 12 Democratic House members from Texas asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into the matter.

Read more: http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/texas-democrats-ask-for-federal-probe-of-ag-raid-that-targeted-voter-sign-up-group.html/

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Abbott’s Houston raid didn’t end with arrests, but shut down voter drive
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107820475

[BlueCaliDem]

1. "I don't want everybody to vote," said Paul Weyrich said in Dallas, Texas in 1980

Paul Michael Weyrich (October 7, 1942 – December 18, 2008)[1][2][3][4] was an American religious conservative political activist and commentator, most notable as a figurehead of the New Right. He co-founded the conservative think tanks, the Heritage Foundation,[5] the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). He coined the term "moral majority", the name of the political action group Moral Majority that he co-founded in 1979 with Jerry Falwell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich

Paul Weyrich, "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Abbot is just keeping the Conservative Dream alive...

[DhhD]

5. Reenactment of Paul Weyrich's words can be seen as Abbott rolls upward in a car garage while

driving the populous down behind him.

In my opinion, this is a way for a sociopath to have an orgasm (sorry if offensive) or some kind of relief.

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd!! Good! nt

[Gothmog]

3. Greg is a bad attorney

[Gothmog]

4. There needs to be an investigation of Greg's campaign against letting non-whites vote

This raid was really a dumb idea and needs to be investigated