Conyers Issue Statement on DoJ/John Tanner's 2004 Ohio 'Investigation' & Upcoming Hearings...

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A quick, but important, update on our earlier story posted today (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5158) on the continuing heat building on the DoJ's John Tanner... -- Brad

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Conyers Issues Statement on News Reports Questioning DoJ's 2004 Presidential Election 'Investigation' in Ohio
Chairman of House Judiciary Committee is Troubled by Voting Chief John Tanner's 'Justification' for Inequal Treatment of Black Voters in Buckeye State
Plans to Address Matter 'Head On' in Upcoming Hearings...

Following up our earlier story today, the Chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers (D-MI) has now released a statement in response to TPM Muckraker's story today with on-the-record comments from former DoJ officials questioning the seriousness (or lack thereof) of the "investigation" by the Department's chief Voting official, John Tanner, into the reported racial disparities at polling places during the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio.

In Conyers' statement (posted in full at the link below) he says he's "concerned about the extreme lengths Mr. Tanner went to in order to justify the reasons African-Americans were not treated equally in the 2004 Ohio election," and charges that "The Department of Justice – since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – has a responsibility to thoroughly investigate allegations of voter suppression and discrimination, like those made in Ohio in 2004."

MUCH MORE MORE: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5159


Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5159

[Roland99]

1. Go Conyers!

And link the bastards to Blackwell and B/C!

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

[McCamy Taylor]

3. It is never to late to uncover the election theft that happened in Ohio 2004.

[lyonn]

4. Fosho, we have another election coming up

And how about a paper trail. I know, quaint.

[MasonJar]

5. I went up to Cincy several times with a group of Louisville volunteers.

Many of us were there on election day 2004. The situation was so unbelievably crooked. Even I, knowing full well the extent of chichanery in 2000 and 2002, was totally unprepared for the debacle that was Ohio Election Day 2004.

[defendandprotect]

8. Interesting report . . .. but, somehow, they are having to come out into the open more and more ....

to work the steals. Think of how noisy 2000 was!!! Had to go to Supreme Court Gang of 5 to do it!

2004 was also noisy in Ohio --

Are they overconfident in their steals and getting sloppy or just so damn sure that Bush DOJ will cover up for them????

Or, are the steals just getting harder? I don't see that??


And, Howard Dean was just commenting on C-span yesterday that we are going into 2008 with this same equipment -- !!!!

They never got to correcting the situation for 2008 -- !!!!

Not too smart . . . !!!



To tell you the truth, I don't believe the Nixon win over Humphrey either -- !!!!

[L. Coyote]

6. MORE here: Conyers: Why Did DoJer Justify Bad Ohio Vote?

GD Thread by babylonsister Fri Oct-12-07 05:07 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2034962

Conyers: Why Did DoJer Justify Bad Ohio Vote?

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004452.php

Conyers Has More Questions For DOJ's Tanner
By David Kurtz - October 12, 2007, 5:54PM

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has issued a statement in in response to Paul Kiel's reporting earlier today on the unprecedented written public assurance that DOJ voting rights chief John Tanner gave to election officials in Ohio that the Justice Department had found no evidence of intentional African-American voter disenfranchisement in the 2004 election.

As Paul reported, Tanner wrote a June 2005 letter to election officials in Columbus, Ohio, offering a lengthy explanation for why the Department had not discovered sufficient evidence of discrimination ...........

[Botany]

7. Bring it home John

Make the press pay attention .... shine a light on on the crimes.

From 11/2/04 & 11/3/04 when I saw and heard the theft first
hand I have felt a burden of knowing the crime and watching
them get away with it.

No way bush won Ohio in 2004 .... no fucking way.

[defendandprotect]

9. Has Conyers expanded his staff at all--? How many investigations are going on--????

[Ellipsis]

10. Thanks Brad

K&R

Go get em John!