{"id":198940,"date":"2007-09-26T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/senator-ben-nelson-dino-ne-can-go-cheney-himself\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:45:00","slug":"senator-ben-nelson-dino-ne-can-go-cheney-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/senator-ben-nelson-dino-ne-can-go-cheney-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ben Nelson (DINO-NE) Can Go Cheney Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Nelson told the committee chair that he would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004299.php\">vote to approve Hans von Spakovsky for the Federal Elections Commission<\/a>, so he was passed to the senate for a full vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clever Hans&#8221; is the Bush Administration&#8217;s minority voter suppression guru.  Specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>attempted to intimidate Justice Department employees<\/li>\n<li>stifle their appeals<\/li>\n<li>single-handedly disenfranchise thousands of Arizonans<\/li>\n<li>Overrode his staff to approve the Tom Delay redistricting.<\/li>\n<li>Overrode his staff to approve the Georgia <strike>Poll Tax<\/strike> voter ID plan<\/li>\n<li>Gave false testimony (later modified in written answers) to the committee about it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/09\/26\/spakovsky-primer\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2174680\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Nelson told the committee chair that he would vote to approve Hans von Spakovsky for the Federal Elections Commission, so he was passed to the senate for a full vote. &#8220;Clever Hans&#8221; is the Bush Administration&#8217;s minority voter suppression guru. Specifically: attempted to intimidate Justice Department employees stifle their appeals single-handedly disenfranchise thousands of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1000,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-elections","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}