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.

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