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Mark "Thor" Hearne
GOP Vote Suppression Expert Now Handling Anti-HCR Lawsuit
Zachary Roth | April 22, 2010, 9:37AM
Mark Hearne
A Republican operative who was behind a sophisticated effort to make it harder for poor people and minorities to vote is back in the news. He's handling Missouri's lawsuit against the health-care reform law.
Mark "Thor" Hearne has been hired by Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder to challenge the law's constitutionality. Several other states are bringing similar claims. Kinder is mounting a fundraising effort -- even launching a website -- to pay for the challenge to the law because the state's Democratic attorney general has declined to get involved.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (10) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: American Center for Voting Rights, Health Care Reform, Justice Department, Mark "Thor" Hearne, Peter Kinder, Todd Graves, U.S. Attorneys, Voting, voter fraud
Jill Hotlzman
Shadowy GOP-Linked Group Plans Barrage Of 2010 Robo-Calls
Zachary Roth | November 23, 2009, 1:10PM
A shadowy conservative group with ties to the operatives behind a host of GOP dirty tricks is working to undermine state restrictions on political robo-calls, as it gears up to unleash a barrage of such calls in 2010 races.
Last month, American Future Fund Political Action (AFFPA) informed the FEC that it's planning robo-calls in congressional races. Jason Torchinsky, a lawyer for AFFPA, wrote that the group "wishes to distribute pre-recorded telephone calls ... as part of a nationwide program of political outreach." The calls, wrote Torchinsky, "will expressly advocate the election or defeat of one or more clearly identified candidates for Federal office."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (6) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Alex Vogel, American Center for Voting Rights, American Future Fund, Jason Torchinsky, Jill Holtzman Vogel, Jill Hotlzman, Voting, voter fraud
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