| This is too much. The first two GOP witnesses at the House Elections Committee identified their great threat to democracy: 12 Catholic nuns in Indiana who were not allowed to vote in 2008 because they lacked the proper, bureaucracy-approved, identification papers.
One of those two witnesses was John Fund, a partisan hack posing as a journalist. He's a fantasist and fabricator. Fund said, "I interviewed two of the nuns. One admitted to me it was a stunt intended to discredit the [Indiana voter restriction] law." He didn't mention a name. Maybe the "interview" was in Fund's private confession booth, protected by clergy confidentiality. Claiming he had to "catch a plane," Fund left before members could question him about ridiculous and documented errors in his partisan book on voter suppression, I mean voter fraud.
Anyway, a dozen nuns were turned away from the polls. It made all the news, as they say. Questioned about how bureaucratic restrictions disenfranchised, Fund said, "I interviewed two of those nuns. One of them admitted to me it was a stunt."
Nun stunts?
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita also blamed the nuns for the voting debacle that embarrassed Indiana backers of the new identification restrictions. "Those nuns weren't disenfranchised, they just didn't want to follow the law."
Oh, I bet these guys wouldn't say that to the faces of these spiritual leaders.Rulers, anyone? Back of the knuckles? Ring a bell? |
