Rove’s Vote Trickster: Caging Explained by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
1 November, 2010

On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He’s favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here’s a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team’s investigations for BBC Television and Democracy Now. … Continue reading

Was Tim Griffin merely a “Rove-bot”? Did Karl Rove write the memos that dunked candidate Griffin in hot water? by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
Special to the Arkansas Times
25 October, 2010

Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida (“caging”), has communicated with me further following an e-mail I passed along this morning. He has a theory on Republican congressional candidate Tim Griffin’s involvement in the scheme.

Palast’s report:

When Tim Griffin resigned his post as interim federal prosecutor a day after the BBC broadcast linking him to illegal “voter caging,” Griffin insisted he did not know what “caging” was.

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SarahPAC Candidate “Should Be in Jail” by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
crossposted at Truthout/Buzzflash
20 October, 2010

NBC TV airs vote “caging” exposé on Tim Griffin

“What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail.”

That’s hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after digging into the evidence of Congressional candidate Tim Griffin’s role in directing the Republican National Committee’s racially biased attack on voters known as “caging.” Continue reading