The Severe Beating Of A Newspaper Editor
There are days when I wish Charlie Sykes, conservative talker, and O. Ricardo P, liberal editor, worked in the same building. Today, Charlie completely blasted Ricardo on todays editorial calling JB Van Hollen a partisan hack for suing the G.A.B. on voter registration.
Here’s the story from JSOnline:
Madison – Officials and interest groups clashed Thursday over the meaning of Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s lawsuit against the state’s election authority, with some saying it would force thousands off the voter rolls and others arguing it would protect the rights of legitimate voters.
Also Thursday, an election official said the lawsuit could force clerks to check data on about 1 million voters. And critics accused Van Hollen — a Republican serving as the state co-chair of John McCain’s presidential campaign — of filing the suit for partisan gain.
Van Hollen sued the state Government Accountability Board Wednesday, saying it must crosscheck voter names with driver’s license records for some voters who registered to vote or changed their addresses since Jan. 1, 2006.
Such checks were required under federal law as of that date, but the board didn’t start performing them until last month because of technical problems.
A hearing has been set for Sept. 19 before Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle — who was co-chair of Barack Obama’s primary campaign in Wisconsin — hired Madison attorney Lester Pines on Thursday at the board’s request.
Here’s a bit of the Editorial titled Partisanship at work?
There is a strong whiff of partisan politics from state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s lawsuit on the Wisconsin’s voter list.
He sued the Government Accountability Board Wednesday, asking a court to force the state agency to check the names of those who registered or changed their addresses since Jan. 1, 2006, against driver records. He says the check is required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002. The board has been checking those entered Aug. 6 or later.
HAVA does require states to prepare central voting lists that can be compared with other lists. But the law mostly doesn’t dictate what states should do with non-matches – which can occur for any number of benign reasons, including typos.
HAVA does require an ID at the polls in the event of non-matches for first-time registrants who register by mail, said J. Adam Skaggs, counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Well lets talk partisanship Ricardo. The only hack here is you. Lets look at this statement in editorial:
He sued the Government Accountability Board Wednesday, asking a court to force the state agency to check the names of those who registered or changed their addresses since Jan. 1, 2006, against driver records. He says the check is required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002. The board has been checking those entered Aug. 6 or later.
HAVA does require states to prepare central voting lists that can be compared with other lists.
RICKY!!! It’s required by LAW!!!! It’s confirmed in the editorial. He’s doing his job. The fact that you chastise him for doing his job really seems to point out the only reason dems don’t want him to do his job is because of what he may find. Fraud perpetrated by democrats.
Very telling.
Sykes also called Ricky out. He’s asking for 5 names of people who would be disenfranchised by being required to show an ID.
You won’t find anybody…..
grumps said,
September 12, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Sykes is required to defend AG Goodhair when someone call him a Hack. The rules of their Hack Club require it.
silent e said,
September 12, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Van Hollen is doing his job Grumps…. Ricky is the hack here for complaining and calling JB partisan when it’s part of his job requirement.
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