Turning Secretaries Of State Into Partisan Political Hacks
May 21, 2009
The Secretary of State Project poses as a reform-minded effort to promote clean elections. But their real agenda is to turn what’s supposed to be a non-political office into a partisan tool to ensure Democrats prevail in any close or contested election (see Minnesota). Take this breathtakingly partisan appeal for funds by SOS Project official Michael Kieshnick in 2008 (emphasis added):
It’s time to act once again to stop the next Katherine Harris.
Who can forget the devastating effect Katherine Harris had on the Florida election in 2000? As Secretary of State, she made crooked decisions about who was registered and who got to vote — decisions that delivered the White House to George W. Bush.
If you are concerned, as I am, about stolen elections this November and beyond, help two women — who are mirror opposites of Katherine Harris — defeat the GOP cronies who oppose them for Secretary of State.
Electing clean Secretaries of State is the least expensive, most surefire way to protect America’s elections. …
Days from now, thanks in part to the 2006 work of the Secretary of State Project, we will have five less GOP cronies running their state’s elections than we did in 2004. We helped elect reform-minded Democrats to the Secretary of State office in Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, New Mexico and Nevada - all pivotal swing states. Imagine the dirty tricks we’d see if the Republicans still controlled those offices.
If you agree that we can’t sit by and continue to let the Katherine Harrises of the world suppress, steal and manipulate our votes, then join me in funding Secretary of State Project candidates today.
You can agree or disagree with the sentiments in that letter. But one thing that’s now beyond dispute: the Secretary of State Project (funded by ultra-liberal billionaire hedge fund tycoon George Soros) has nothing to do with clean elections and everything to do with using ruthless, power politics to tilt elections unfairly toward a single political party.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Secretary of State Watch
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