They have lots and lots of back-up
by digby
ALEC may have abandoned its “voter fraud” project, but never fear, there are dozens of right wing organizations already working on vote suppression that can step into the breach. The “National Center for Public Policy Research” is particularly unsavory, with its history of funneling money to corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and sending scare letters to senior citizens. It is run by a longtime conservative hit woman associated with Norquist and Rove from old days named Amy Ridenour. Here’s what they had to say in their announcement that’s they’d be taking up where ALEC left off:
“Unlike the Center for American Progress, the National Center for Public Policy Research eschews the use of violent references such as ‘War Room.’ We are, however, inspired by a particular passage in the 1987 movie The Untouchables: ‘They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way.’ Indeed.”
Nice folks, huh?
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