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Perhapse you are right about

Larry Geater — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:53 +0000

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Perhapse you are right about the board or part of it. But who ever was actualy running this operation is accountable even if it was incompetence.

At least two. And, yes,

acanuck — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:48:02 +0000

In reply to Lamontgate: blessing in disguise

At least two. And, yes, they're defending WVWV as good people who've done lots of good work, etc.
Standard CYA procedure if they now realize the board was asleep at the switch.
I'm not suggesting directors knew that WVWV robocalls would be used for voter suppression; just that, even if they now suspect the horrible truth, their instinct is still to circle the wagons and try to keep the scandal in-house.
And I am suggesting there might be a quid-pro-quo here. Team Obama could have chosen to go ballistic on this, embarrassing the whole party establishment, or let it die a quiet death -- as long as the party elders finally act to put an end to Hillary's water-torture campaign.
I think Joe Andrew's defection is a sign the Dem establishment has finally decided this scandal was the final straw, and enough is enough.
One last thing: the voter suppression doesn't have to trace directly back to Hillary or her campaign staff.
It's sufficient that some of her diehard supporters took it on themselves to freelance for her in what clearly appears to be illegal fashion.
The circunstantial evidence points to that.

I could be wrong, but I

BH — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:59:15 +0000

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I could be wrong, but I thought that one of the board members was an Obama supporter.

I agree, fellow Canuck. I

scofflaw — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:56:40 +0000

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I agree, fellow Canuck. I hardly think this story is going to inspire any wavering supers to choose Clinton over Obama.

Suppressing African-American or other Democratic votes helps the GOP. We're Democrats. We don't believe in vote suppression. Also, from a political perspective, vote suppression hurts us. To the extent that WVWV's lapses in judgment are designed to help Clinton win NC so she can win the GE, the strategy seems extraordinarily short-sighted.

As I said elsewhere, WVWV should adopt this slogan: "Cut nose, spite face."

What makes you think not?

Larry Geater — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:30:37 +0000

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What makes you think not? They seem to have been doing exactly what they intended to.

...its board of directors --

Liberal_Elite — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:51:55 +0000

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...its board of directors -- the group that has oversight responsibility for its actions.

Obviously there wasn't a whole lot of oversightin' going on, was there.