We knew it was coming. Slimy Republican tactics drawn up to suppress some voters who live in New Mexico. Seems like the voter suppressionists are focusing on voters who have funny sounding Hispanic names...like Bojorquez, Garcia and Griego.
According to The New Mexico Independent and our awesome local blogger NMFBIHOP these Republican scumbags are now officially the dust under the door mat.
Some guy, named Al Romero, showed up at a voter's home.
Guadalupe Bojorquez said a man who identified himself as a private investigator by the name of Al Romero visited the home of her 67-year-old mother on Wednesday.
"She calls me and she’s panicked because there is this man outside and he’s telling her he’s an investigator and he wants to come in to the house," Bojorquez told NMI. She said her mother then put the man on the phone.
"I asked him, but he wouldn’t tell me who he worked for. He just said he wanted to verify that she was a legitimate voter and he wanted to see her documents. I told him ‘No,’ and we argued for a little bit.
Since when does anyone have the right to come into anyone's home without a search warrant? This is starting to smell..really bad.
Who is alleged to have put the strong arm on this woman? Pat Rogers, counsel to the New Mexico GOP. Rogers is no stranger to voter suppression and bogus calls of voter fraud.
Bojorquez said she asked the man several times whom he worked for. Eventually, she said, "He told me he worked for Pat Rogers."
Rogers is the Republican attorney who also made claims of voter fraud in 2004 and 2006. He was cited in the federal Department of Justice report about the firing of U.S. Attorneys, as one of the New Mexico GOP activists who complained to the Department of Justice about U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
I witnessed Pat Rogers doing his dirty work during the Patricia Madrid v. Heather Wilson vote recount. He is a smooth operator but he supervised some of the most obnoxious Wilson staffers I have ever had to deal with. One could say that Pat Rogers is like Guilliani when it comes to his oratory. Just substitute the phrase "voter fraud" for Guiliani's 9/11. A noun, a verb, and "voter fraud."
Sounds like Rogers is setting the stage for more baseless voter fraud allegations on the 5th of November. They didn't just harass one voter:
Jenais Griego told NMI that she too had been visited by a private investigator on Wednesday. Her grandmother, Emily Garcia, was one of the people whom Republicans described last week as an ineligible voter.
See a pattern here? More Hispanic names. Why isn't Rogers going after someone named Smith, or Jones? We've got a high number of Hispanics in this state. Does Rogers really think he can disenfranchise all of us?
Here is some more on Mr. Rogers.
Looks like Mr. Rogers has jumped onto the ACORN bandwagon.
Conyers
noted that the New Mexico GOP last week held a press conference where it publicly named people it said had voted fraudulently in a Democratic primary in June, as part of an ongoing FBI investigation into voter fraud. (ACORN appears to have subsequently shown that those voters were in fact valid.)
Will New Mexico be ground zero for another national scandal?
In other words, one of the very same New Mexico GOP activists who was found in the OIG report to have tried to pressure David Iglesias to bring bogus voter-fraud prosecutions is still on the case, and has now helped to get a new federal investigation launched just weeks before the election.
As if it isn't bad enough that he may be connected to voter intimidation tactics of Hispanics, he is also tied to the termination of Attorney David Iglesias.
Pat Rogers works for the Modrall Law Firm here in Albuquerque.
Here is his contact info. Just in case anyone wants to let him know we won't stand for voter suppression in New Mexico (thanks to la urracca):
Contact Patrick J. Rogers
505.848.1849 (Direct Line)
505.848.1800 (Alternate Phone)
patrogers@modrall.com
We'll be watching this story as it develops.
All the more reason to volunteer on election day. Watch the polls, report illegal voter suppression activities. It is going to get nasty.