Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Word Of The Week: CAGING


Caging- To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine

If you haven't read any of the GOP's internal campaign emails (scroll down this page) which were accidentally sent to a leftwing parody site, you missed the ones with "caging lists."

For example:

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Griffin - Research/Communications
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:34 PM
To: kporter@rpof.org ; Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; rkammerdiner@rnchq.org ; sshiver@rpof.org ; bdoster@georgewbush.org
Subject: Re: caging

Thx
Tim Griffin
Research Director and
Deputy Communications Director
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
w 202) 863-8815
f: (202) 863-8744
tgriffin@rnchq.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Porter
> To: Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Tim Griffin - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; rkammerdiner@rnchq.org ; Stephen Shiver ; bdoster@georgewbush.org
> Sent: Thu Aug 26 18:12:49 2004
> Subject: caging
>
> Total as of today is 1834.

>
> Kelly
>
> ATTACHMENT: Caging-1.xls


Well...

Thanks to Greg Palast and BBC News, we now know
what the GOP's "caging lists" are:


New Florida vote scandal revealed


By Greg Palast
Reporting for BBC's Newsnight

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

Election supervisor Ion Sancho believes some voters are being intimidated
Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".

It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida. An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day." --snip--

"Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting." --snip--

Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner.

Rather, she did acknowledge that the party's poll workers will be instructed to challenge voters, "Where it's stated in the law."

There was no explanation as to why such clerical matters would be sent to top officials of the Bush campaign in Florida and Washington. LINK

GAWD! At least they're stupid!

Imagine the evil election crap the GOP would get away with if Republicans were actually smart!


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