Thursday, June 30, 2005

Team Bush paid MILLIONS to Nathan Sproul-and tried to hide it!: $8.3 million for dirty tricks in order to suppress the Democratic vote ?

News From Underground: Team Bush paid MILLIONS to Nathan Sproul-and tried to hide it!: "June 30, 2005 | A News from Underground Exclusive! | by Mark Crispin Miller and Jared Irmas

A huge expense

In the months before the presidential election, a firm called Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states. The group-run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona Republican Party-had been hired by the Republican National Committee.

Sproul got into a bit of trouble last fall when, in certain states, it came out that the firm was playing dirty tricks in order to suppress the Democratic vote: concealing their partisan agenda, tricking Democrats into registering as Republicans, surreptitiously re-registering Democrats and Independents as Republicans, and shredding Democratic registration forms.
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In fact, the RNC paid Sproul a great deal more than that. From an independent study of the original data filed by the Republicans with the Federal Election Commission, it is clear that Sproul was paid a staggering $8.3 million for its work against the Democrats.
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... It turned out that the RNC paid Sproul not only for their pre-election work, but also paid them for work after the election. According to their Year-End Report, filed on Jan. 28, 2005, the RNC paid Sproul for "Political Consulting" in December-long after all the voter registration drives had ended.

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