Head of Help America Vote Office has colorful past huh?

[MSgt213]

The trouble with Drew T. Durham
Posted by Alan - October 18, 2004 03:22 PM
Colorado's HAVA compliance director. You would expect this guy to be a rock, somebody who will ensure fair, equal access for all voters without favor or prejudice.

You therefore expect him to not be a stone-cold racist, right? Check out these excerpts from an article that appeared in the Texas Lawyer in October of 1994:

Shortly after Drew T. Durham joined the Texas attorney general's office in September 1991, he and another assistant AG, Ray Buvia, met for a beer after work.
Buvia says as they chatted, a young black lawyer, also new to the AG's office, walked past them.

Durham, says Buvia, asked, "How do you like our newest Sambo?"

Buvia's experience with Durham -- who in three years with AG Dan Morales' office has risen to criminal justice division chief and the lawyer in charge of the state's death-penalty litigation -- wasn't an isolated incident, according to five other lawyers who have worked with Durham inside and outside the agency. They say Durham, a former president of the Texas District & County Attorneys Association who came to Morales' office after 12 years as a county attorney in West Texas, has a history of racist and sexist comments.

Former Travis County Commissioner Jimmy Snell, a non-lawyer who worked for Durham in the AG's intergovernmental affairs division, said Durham routinely told "nigger jokes." Snell, who is black, said Durham has a widespread reputation in the agency for racist comments.

http://www.rmpn.org/weblog/archives3/permalink/003004.cfm

[Zero Division]

1. Just posted this in GD: Campaign 2004. Extremely disturbing would be an

understatement.

[OutsourceBush]

2. Another piece of sh*t from Texas

must be something in the water.