An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right

(Update II) When Good Feminists Do Bad Things: WVWV’s Record of Voter Supression

01aahill-feminists_1.jpg

By most accounts, the Washington-based advocacy group Women’s Voices Women’s Vote is a stand-up organization, but in its lust to help Hillary Clinton it has run afoul of the law in a most foul way in yet another state.

WVWV stands accused of waging a high-tech voter suppression campaign in predominantly black, Barack Obama-leaning districts in North Carolina where residents have been receiving robocalls implying that they weren’t properly registered to vote in the May 6 Democratic primary.

The group has been caught red-handed, and WVWV president Page Gardner has apologized for any “confusion” caused by her group’s anonymous calls.

Ah yes, “confusion.” Kind of like the “confusion” that whites sewed in the Jim Crow South and other black voter suppression efforts since then.

Facing South
reports that North Carolina is at least the fifth state where WVWV’s efforts have spurred investigations.

As has been her pattern, Hillary Clinton has not disavowed WVWV’s activities, although her North Carolina campaign chair did harrumph that they had no connection to the group. In fact, WVWV is chockablock with Clinton campaign ties.

No matter how deep the connections are, we certainly can’t say that Hillary approves of the group’s actions because we know that she has refused to stoop (cough) to negative campaigning (cough, cough), be it guilt by association, race baiting or outright character assassination. But this latest revelation certainly doesn’t burnish her already tarnished feminist credentials.

  • vwcat
    Facing South has alot more about the dealings this group has been up to and the connections to the Clintons.
    John Podesta on the board. They are involved with direct mailing for the Clinton campaign
    Also, they have been active in disrupting voting in several states including Wisconsin, Ohio, ect.,
    I'm posting a paragraph from Facing South about the connections to the Clinton campaign and a link to the site so people can read the several posts as the day unfolded and the post this morning.
    This kind of stuff is pure Rovian.

    But one of the most striking connections between WVWV and the Clinton campaign -- and one particularly relevant to a story involving what appear to be voter suppression efforts right before an election -- was pointed out to us by a reader. He notes that the firm in charge of voter outreach for WVWV is MSHC Partners, whose president is Hal Malchow. Sourcewatch.org reports that Malchow was a member of WVWV's leadership team.

    At the same time, MSHC also does direct mail and outreach for the Hillary Clinton campaign. In fact, the campaign owes MSHC $807,000, according to Politico.com

    http://www.southernstudies.org/facingsouth/
  • Holly_in_Cincinnati
    I'm not familiar with this group and don't recall hearing from it during the Ohio primary.
  • Davebo
    It's time they were prosecuted. They sure seem to make a lot of "mistakes" and get away with it.
  • runasim
    I hope it's understood that this has very little to do with feminism , as such.
    It seems to be group of women with a politcial agenda who interpret feminism to serve their politics

    If feminism were ever to come to full fruition, groups like this would become obsolete,and we would be talking about persons, not feminists or misogynists

    Expecting Hillary to be a certain kind of woman (as in the linked criticism) is not an expression of feminism,. It's the oppostie.

    Hillary, of course, is a politician and her choices are her own, as a person, not a feminist.
blog comments powered by Disqus
© 2005-2009 The Moderate Voice | Site design by Elegant Themes | Site customization, hosting, and security by Enxit Group, LLC