Michael Finnegan of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Tea party groups work to remove names from Ohio voter rolls.
In his article he writes:
CINCINNATI — Lori Monroe, a 40-year-old Democrat who lives in central Ohio, was startled a few weeks ago to open a letter that said a stranger was challenging her right to vote in the presidential election ... A local tea party leader was trying to strike Monroe from the voter rolls for a reason that made no sense: Her apartment building in Lancaster was listed as a commercial property.
Monroe's is one of at least 2,100 names that tea party groups have sought to remove from Ohio's voter rosters.
Lori Monroe is recovering from cancer and has lived in the same apartment for seven years and is startled that her voter registration address is being challenged by a Tea Party person.
Cincinnati Rev. Rousseau A. O'Neal, described the tea party project as nothing more than bigotry.
"bigotry of the highest order. Who ever thought we'd be fighting for the right to vote in 2012?"
~Rev. Rousseau A. O'Neal
The Ohio tea party are working under the banner of the Ohio Voter Integrity Project which is a subsidiary of
True the Vote, or rather
Screw the Voter, which is an organization affiliated with the Koch brothers' super PAC Americans for Prosperity.
Four days ago, Lee Fang with The Nation Magazine wrote:
The Koch network, which is actively training Tea Partiers, via a partnership with True the Vote, to harass and intimidate voters, may tip the scales in this election. And you won’t see their work on television, or through FEC disclosures (they refuse to register their grassroots electioneering as independent expenditures). Like Wisconsin, liberals might see the ground shifting beneath them, and wonder what happened.
I'm pretty sure we all agree that the Koch Brothers are repugnant ... I just wonder though, what will the Tea Party people when their members are not allowed to vote because they don't have proper Voter ID? hmmm .... poetic justice?