Holder Employs Obama GOTV Org to Challenge TX Voter ID Law

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Holder Employs Obama GOTV Org to Challenge TX Voter ID Law

 

by Hans von Spakovsky5 Jul 2012, 1:39 PM PDT1post a comment

 

Poor Eric Holder. If it’s not one thing (like contempt for Congress), it’s another.

 

Consider the Justice Department’s challenge to Texas’s new voter ID law. It’s set to be heard on January 9 in federal district court in Washington, D.C. Thursday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent Holder a letter pointing out that DOJ has hired an “explicitly partisan Democratic data company, Catalist, to provide the data by which it is justifying its decision to block implementation of Texas’s voter identification law.”

Catalist, whose website says it is dedicated to “serving the progressive community,” is headed by Harold Ickes (pictured above), formerly Bill Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff. According to Smith, Catalist is “really an agent of the Democratic Party” that “might prefer that Texas’s election laws favor Democratic Party candidates.”

Smith isn’t the only one to identify Catalist as a partisan operation. The Atlantic described the firm as “a big Democratic data warehouse” that was intimately involved with President Barack Obama’s 2008 voter turnout effort. It was, according to The Atlantic, “the conductor for a data-driven symphony of more than 90 liberal groups, like the Service Employees Union – and the DNC – and the Obama campaign.”

Catalist is in the business of partisan advocacy and is “founded, run, and staffed by dedicated Democratic activists,” according Read More http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/05/Holder-Employs-Democrat-Operative-Org-to-Challenge-Texas-Voter-ID-Law