With a name like his, he should be a spy -- or at least an actor who plays one on TV. He's wasting a cool name hangin' with bozos like the Busheviks.

Paul, Go over to the Truthout website and listen to Jason Leopold's John McKay internview (link below).

Early on, McKay talks about Schlozman supervising the submittal of a number of voter fraud cases to a grand jury which returned indictments. McKay says that a US district judge threw the indictments out.

McKay on Schlozman's indictments - "Very disturbing" and "very unusual circumstances."

Who did Schlozman target?

As far as Hans von Spakovsky, somebody should ask him about his contact with Mark "Thor" Hearne, Pat Rogers, Jason Torchinsky, Dale Oldham and anyone else associated with the American Center for Voting Rights and the Free Enterprise Coalition.

This guy has been running around wreaking havoc for much too long. I'm sure the MSM will ignore this hearing, too. It's much too complicated an issue for their viewers. Or so they say.

What really pisses me off, though, is that he helped engineer the election fraud in Florida in 2000. And then, as a result of that mess, he was allowed to screw things up even more with HAVA. That's one thing that everyone has a right to be pissed off at the Democrats in Congress for. They completely ignored what was being done to our electoral system under the guise of 'helping America vote'. I'm sure most of them still don't have a clue what happened in the '00 and '04 elections. How can someone be so damned stupid and still think they deserve to hold high public office?

@Mrs. P:

Anne Estrada looks better suited to be a lunch lady rather than a DHS official.

C 92, Take a look at the photo in the August 2005 DOJ Anti-Trafficking News Bulletin. Which is worse? Schlozman dressed up or Schlozman dressed down?

The idea that the obnoxious prick was globetrotting at taxpayer expense in the name of human rights is revolting. A year later, Schlozman was working his ass off to discredit and destroy an organization that helps poor people.

A pox on Schlozman's house!

Everyday, it is a new guy, another agency, another underhanded unethical breach of office by this crowd. Is there even one honest employee in this Administration? For anyone to still support the GOP, you have had to had a labotomy or be truly evil.

I'm really glad you're going to be providing updates to his confirmation hearing 'cuz I suspect that his voice is likely to be even worse than Braaaadley's and I don't think my ears can take another beating like that one. Thanks for your service!!

I hope that someone is prepping the Senators to do a better and more focused job of questioning than I've heard in any of these hearings thus far. They're using way too much time to make pronouncements instead of digging for info and bringing out the hypocrisy, inconsistency, illegality and whatever else is going on.

Lets see if the Democratic Senators have a pair.

I think you can watch the hearing by clicking the RealAudio icon at this web page:

http://rules.senate.gov/hearings/2007/061307hrg.htm

To all the whiners out there in progressive Blogland - including the Republicant Trolls ( 741 Day are you still "out " lurking for Turd Blossom ?) Be still and know that the Democrats in the hearings are asking questions that already have been answered- Donsanto for example has already been deposed by the Dem's Hill Staffers . Do you whiners really believe that Mr Leopold could interview Mr McKay without Mr McKay having been interviewed by the Hill Staffers?
Recall that Griles and several other GOP operatives have appeared for hearings and then later been indicted and pled guilty .
PayBack is coming for the Brook Btothers Brownshirts make no mistake . Do not be "misunderestimating", Leahy & Conyers et al.
And 741 Day you might also be thinking about getting your deposition in too...

For "felon" read "black". These are the same old hardline segregationists -- but dressed in suits and ties because they learned the white robes and pointy hats teneded to alienate the sane.

They, and the Federalist Society, are essentially refighting the Civil War, but this time via stealth within the system. If ever there's an opportunity to attack civil rights laws -- as, for example, "extra rights" and "race-based" -- they do so.

And they have no qualms about undermining the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which they intend to repeal when they have sufficient co-segregationists appointed to the Judiciary.

And repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which is the foundation for an array of civil rights protections.

Their's also the ultimate in class warfare; and they are extremely skilled at divide-and-conquer on racist grounds in advancing their classism.

They are the Tories who lost the "revolution" -- and they haven't forgot that fact either.

If politics were entirely straight in this country, they and ther adherents would be incarcerated in looney bins and prisons.

Hans von Spakovsky - that name is too good to be true--it's got to be made up. Judging from his picture, I'm guessing his real name is Howdy Doody.

I thought his job was to purge felons from the voting roles. I am not an expert on voting laws, but I seem to recall that convicted felons cannot vote.

So is the problem here that he was effective in permittting only legal registered voters cast ballots?

Are you really complaining that some one finally began an effective effort to curtail voter fraud?

Or are you just upset that without fraudulent votes in your pocket its harder to win elections?

As for being a member of the federalist society, the analogue on the left would be the ACLU. Being an attorney for that oranization did not stop Ruth Bader Ginsburg from appointment and confirmation despite what may be viewed as her "out of main stream" views and rulings.

I am not some brown-shirted brooks brothers guy, but really come on save your hate for something that matters like the Yankees.

TexasEllen, unfortunately Whitehouse isn't on the committee, but Patty Murray is and Feinstein's the Chairwoman. Those west coast gals know how to ask them too.

Something that's been nagging me about this whole issue is a glimpse of memory that Chief Justice Roberts was on the Bush Team of lawyers in Florida to contest the 2000 election results. Now I'm seeing Von Spaksky was involved in that too? Am I recalling correctly about Roberts? His wiki bio leaves that out. But was with Hogan & Hartson at the time. Then he was confirmed on the DC Circuit Court in June 2003 before his nomination to the SCOTUS.

Wonder if he's been using any RNC email?

'I am not an expert on voting laws, but I seem to recall that convicted felons cannot vote.'

ONLY IN SOME STATES!

And it wasn't just the felons who were purged, it was anyone of color who might share their name.

As long as you cover up the lie with a bit of truth, you can continue to convince yourself of your delusions.

Weigh the whole truth, not just the pieces you prefer. There are so many holes in your perspective, it reeks of blind loyalty and shameful acquiescence.

Another BushCo apologist, running out of wriggle room and lame excuses...

AH HA another "I don't remember defense"!

Deborah Phillips was the front person for VIP, but Helen Blackwell was behind it. Helen Blackwell, wife of Morton Blackwell, Karl Rove's mentor and predecessor at the College Republicans.

To the extent VIP was involved in the Florida Voter Purge, they were a front organization for Karl Rove. The same scheme was tried (and foiled) in Texas, in 1982 -- a scheme whose intended beneficiary was another Texas Governor, and client of Karl Rove.

The Florida Voter Purge was put in motion no later than the summer of 1998, with the secret insertion of language into a bill by Tom Feeney, then speaker of the Florida House. Tom Feeney, who was the Lt Governor candidate in Jeb Bush's failed 1994 campaign.

See "The Texas Blueprint for the Stolen Election" for additional details.

www.democrats.com/blueprint