Globe: Only in Massachsuetts did Elizabeth Warren's daughter push for mailed registration forms

Another overlooked detail...... (0.00 / 0)

Demos had secured the services of Ropes and Grey to help represent them in the suit against the commonwealth.  And guess who works for Ropes and Gray?  The wife of the man in the photo above - Diane Patrick.....

And look at this little tidbit from the website of project Vote regarding the matter of Demos suit against the commonwealth of Massachusetts:

"As we experience a national wave of attempts to keep low-income citizens off the rolls and out of the voting booth, we simply cannot accept any state's failure to meet its responsibilities," said Robert Kengle, co-director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Plaintiffs' initial goal is to obtain a preliminary injunction ordering defendants to develop and implement remedial practices and policies in time to get tens of thousands of low-income voters on the voter rolls for this fall's election.

"With the voter registration deadline for the 2012 election rapidly approaching, we don't have a moment to lose," said Rahsaan Hall, deputy director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.  "Now is the time to help low-income citizens make their voices heard in our democracy."

Isn't the above quote in bold an admission that they (Demos) were attempting to influence the upcoming election, which involved the mother of the plaintiff in the matter?  Clearly this is unethical.....

The Governor's wife's lawfirm works on the lawsuit filed against the state by a plaintiff whose mother is running for US Seante....All Democrats....Nothing to see here folks.....

Ed Markey is now the official 'cheapest' man on earth.  1.5 percent to charity while the average American gave 3 times as much...

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by: Vote3rdpartynow @ Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 15:25:03 PM UTC

And yet another... (0.00 / 0)

Who represented the defendants in this lawsuit?  The Attorney General's Office, under the leadership of Martha Coakley.  That's right, the "defense" of the Commonwealth rested in the hands of the candidate who lost to Brown in the last election and has a vested interest in seeing him defeated.  

Once again, Warren and her allies have displayed their firm belief that the voters are stupid.  Is there one reasonable person who honestly believes that this was a fair process?  Is there not a single person in state government we can trust to look out for the taxpayer?  

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by: Bravehaht @ Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 22:24:41 PM UTC

I don't get it. (0.00 / 0)

This fact that this law hasn't been followed for years and years has been an undeserved benefit to Republicans for as long as it has been unenforced.  Ending an undeserved benefit, even if inopportunely timed, is necessary and proper.

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"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)

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by: Patrick @ Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 22:46:42 PM UTC

Do you buy the coincidence? (0.00 / 0)

The state should have followed the law once it was enacted.

But do you really buy for a second that the lawsuit had nothing to do with Warren's campaign?

The law has been unenforced since 1993, with no lawsuit for 19 years.

Warren's daughter has been the head of Demos since 2006, with no lawsuit for six years.

Warren announces for Senate, and three months later there is a letter demanding enforcement of the law.  Still, Demos waits until May of the election year to file suit, then cries about the lack of time before the election.  

No other state needed to run a direct mail campaign to comply with the law, and Massachusetts didn't either.  We'll never know how a court would have ruled, because there was no defense.  No one made an argument for Massachusetts, because Patrick (whose two deputies are defendants in the suit) and Coakley (whose office defended the Commonwealth) wanted to lose.        

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by: Bravehaht @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 00:12:28 AM UTC

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It doesn't matter. (0.00 / 0)

The fact is that the state wasn't following the law.  It doesn't matter who or what group called them on it.  It also doesn't matter for how long the law was unenforced.  Of course the state didn't defend it in court, the state was clearly in the wrong.

As someone mentioned over at BMG, this is a lot like the issue of military ballots from 2008:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/...

Did it matter that enforcing that law helped Republicans?  Did it matter that it hadn't been enforced for X number of years?  Of course not.  It's totally irrelevant.

Demos actually had an answer as to why the MA settlement was different than other states:

But Demos says it pushed Massachusetts to mail the voter registration forms to thousands of welfare recipients because the lawsuit here was filed so close to the election that simply allowing recipients to register the next time they went to a public assistance office was not practical.

Has anyone even bothered to confirm if that is true?

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"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)

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by: Patrick @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 01:42:19 AM UTC

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Demos chose the timing of the suit (0.00 / 0)

Demos chose to wait to file suit until 6 months before the chair's mother's election.  Demos wanted to limit the number of options.

Defense of a lawsuit involves questions of liability and remedy.  A proper defense would have called into question the need to spend hundreds thousands of taxpayer money to come into compliance.

To answer your rhetorical question, it looks like the governor and the attorney general did not bother to confirm if Demos's claim is true.

If the Patrick administration was so interested in following the law, why didn't it begin in January of 2007?  Why didn't they fix the problem in November of last year, when Demos first put them on notice?  

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by: Bravehaht @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 02:50:10 AM UTC

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The conspiracy to help Warren goes back to November of last year? (0.00 / 0)

When did she become a candidate?

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"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)

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by: Patrick @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 03:06:29 AM UTC

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September of last year (5.00 / 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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by: Bravehaht @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 11:34:23 AM UTC

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Insane (0.00 / 0)

at what point do we just hang up the party and call it quits?

Warren is narrowing against Brown and this is what we focus on, meanwhile Romney is calling on Obama, in public, to play nice?

And we think these are good ideas?  WTF is going on?

Voters are more keyed into issues than ever, and we're playing children games.  This isn't going to end well.  

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