Still Under Fire for Ohio Election Tricks, Kenneth Blackwell Regroups (FRC?)

[babylonsister]

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Still Under Fire for Ohio Election Tricks, Kenneth Blackwell Regroups
by Bill Berkowitz | May 3 2007 - 8:53am

Landslide Republican gubernatorial loser signs on with Tony Perkins' Family Research Council

Over the years he’s carried enough water for the GOP to fill up a good part of Lake Erie. He’s done enough dirty work to pave the Interstate from Cleveland to Columbus. He is credited with being part of the team that helped double President George W. Bush’s vote count among Blacks in Ohio in 2004, and is charged, by critics, of having tampered with that vote. So despite his humiliating defeat in the state’s gubernatorial election last November, he remains a darling of both religious and economic conservatives.

J. Kenneth Blackwell, the former undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and, most recently, that state’s secretary of state, has landed on his feet in the nation’s capital.

In mid-March, the Family Research Council (FRC) announced that Blackwell had been hired on as a Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at Washington’s premiere right wing religious lobbying outfit. “Over the years, we have known and worked with Ken Blackwell on the toughest issues facing families and our country,” said FRC President Tony Perkins in a news release dated March 14. “We have witnessed Ken’s willingness to stand and fight for preserving marriage and defending the unborn. His unwavering commitment to tax relief and conservative fiscal policies has supported family enterprise.”

Blackwell speaks out against the Fairness Doctrine

In one of his first public appearances as an FRCer, Blackwell spoke out against congressional efforts to reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) lapsed Fairness Doctrine, at a forum sponsored by Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation (FCF). “If it passes radio stations that air conservative talk shows to also air liberal shows, regardless of their listener interest or sponsor support,” he explained. “It is a strategy that intends to silence … voices with whom the left disagrees.”

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[MrModerate]

1. Right -- those who use the public airwaves as a gift from the government . . .

couldn't possibly subject themselves to any restriction on their ability to make money or to cater to a small subset of the public from whom they derive that gift. That would "silence voices."

[Botany]

2. Blackwell was big in getting Progressive Radio killed in Ohio ...

.... after the election of 06. Progressive radio went along way to
beating back "election scams" such as phone jamming & robo calls.