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Another one!! @$#%#@! Republicans! Obama Campaign Pushes Back Against Possible Voter Suppression in Michigan
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I posted a thread about this last week.
Dayum them.
Obama Campaign Pushes Back Against Possible Voter Suppression
September 16, 2008 3:13 PM
ABC News' Karen Travers and Arnab Datta report: The Obama campaign and DNC have filed an injunction in federal court as an effort to challenge what they deem as illegal voter suppression of people whose houses are in foreclosure.
The injunction is in response to the comments last week from the Macomb County (MI) Republican Party chairman, James Carabelli, who allegedly said: "We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses."
On a conference call with reporters, Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, said this practice is illegal and would be used to intimidate and prevent people from going to the polls.
Bauer said that one out of every 285 households in Macomb County have been foreclosed on and MI Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer said that in July 2008 alone, over 11,000 households in Michigan received foreclosures notices.
Bauer and Brewer could not cite specific examples of this already happening in Michigan this cycle. ABC News' Chris Bury reports that Carabelli denies ever saying the statements that were attributed to him in the Michigan Messenger.
Joe Biden addressed this yesterday at an event in Michigan, stating "ladies and gentlemen, I heard, I was told yesterday that there's a Republican County Chairman right here in your state, in Michigan, that said that they're keeping a list of foreclosed homes, suggesting that anyone who lost their home in foreclosure should also lose their right to vote." He added, "if you're worried about losing your home, you should vote, you should vote for the guys who are going to help you keep your home, not those who take it away."
UPDATE: In a paper statement today, Carabelli pushes back hard against the Messenger's reporting.
“This story is not true. The Michigan Messenger made it up,” Carabelli said. “Because of reckless and fabricated reporting by the Michigan Messenger, my good name has been besmirched on the Internet and across the mainstream media and my reputation irrevocably harmed. I never said what the Michigan Messenger quoted me as saying. It’s not true, and I want a full and complete retraction of the quote, and I am taking legal action to get it. Let me state, again and unequivocally, there is no such plan to use foreclosure lists to challenger voters, and I never said there was. This is a story line being pushed by one liberal blog, the Obama campaign, and their friends and operatives on the Left.”
[link to blogs.abcnews.com]
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