Religious Right Recruits Bush Loyalist

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7463

Religious Right Recruits Bush Loyalist
by Bill Berkowitz | May 15 2007


In mid-March, the Family Research Council (FRC), Washington's premiere right-wing religious lobbying outfit, announced that J. Kenneth Blackwell had been hired on as a "senior fellow for family empowerment".

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In November 2004, he played a pivotal role bringing the state of Ohio into George W. Bush's column. To some, he was the Katherine Harris of the 2004 election cycle. (Harris came to national prominence during the 2000 presidential election when, as Florida's secretary of state, she authorised the pre-election purging from the state's voting lists of tens of thousands of African-American voters, and later, after the votes were in, she ruled that Bush had won more votes than his Democratic opponent Al Gore.)

During the run-up to the November 2004 presidential election, Blackwell played two roles: as secretary of state of Ohio, he acted as the chief elections official of the state, and he also served as the honourary co-chair of the Committee to Re-elect George W. Bush.

In a recent article, Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis raised questions about whether "Blackwell or other GOP operatives inflate the president's vote totals to secure George W. Bush's margin of victory?"

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Despite his defeat, Blackwell is still highly thought of by the right. The blog of Ned Ryun -- the son of former Kansas Republican congressman Jim Ryun, and a former presidential writer for George W. Bush -- claimed that the "Word on the street is that... Blackwell is thinking about running for Senate... or Governor" in the future.

Now that he has a steady platform at the Family Research Council, expect to hear a lot more from Blackwell in the coming months and years.
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[hobbit709]

1. Religious right=bush loyalist

[YOY]

2. Sweet Jesus, the asshole who wouldn't leave poor suffering Ohio alone

n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. How could dude possibly think about running for Senate or Gov again, after he got TROUNCED in a

statewide election? Has he got some kind of Alan Keyes thing going on? :shrug:

Funny how the shrub's tools of electoral fraud like Harris and Blackwell don't win their own elections, or even come close.