Meet Your Modern-day Missouri Republican Operative, Chep Hurth

Submitted by Howard Beale on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 10:34am.

Via PrimeBuzz, we get a sneak peek at Chep Hurth, the Missouri Republican who's in the midst of a national plan to skew the 2008 presidential election by rejiggering the assignment of California's electoral votes.  Behold, the prototype of the 21st Century GOP superlawyer and operative:

Hurth, then a third-year law student at St. Louis University, was taken to court by a young woman who said he grabbed her in a bar and bit her on the buttocks so hard she required medical attention - then laughed and high-fived his friends.

Hurth testified that he had told her she should take it as a compliment.

Sexual degradation and assault: high five!  Had he just mixed in an illicit homosexual rendezvous in the public toilet he would have hit the GOP Trifecta.

And you just had to know that this dude is tight with some of Matt Blunt's fave cronies.  How about this familiar name...

Hurth also chaired First Class Funding, a 2005 educational reform campaign supported by conservatives and another big political donor, Patrick Byrne, the chief executive officer of the Internet shopping site Overstock.com based in Salt Lake City.

Longtime FiredUp! readers will no doubt remember Patrick Byrne as Matt Blunt's partner in the failed 65% Education Illusion.  Turns out Chep was a partner in Byrne's scam as well.

How wonderful that the party which controls Missouri state government can rely on the help of Chep Hurth.  The place would probably fall to pieces without the contributions of butt-biters and education de-funders to their cause.   


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$$ were linked to Rudy

Submitted by Glic on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 2:50pm.

 

A major New York fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been revealed as the money man behind a proposed ballot measure that would have changed California's winner-take-all Electoral College vote system - and likely benefited Republicans.

Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund executive and Giuliani policy adviser, acknowledged his role to the New York Daily News on Friday just a day after GOP organizers in California said they were folding their effort to collect signatures for the group called Californians for Equal Representation.

The Chronicle reported earlier this week that Missouri attorney Charles Hurtt III was the legal agent for a tax-exempt corporation called "Take Initiative America," which provided the sole donation - $175,000 - to the effort to qualify the measure for the California ballot.

But Hurtt and his organization would not reveal the source of their money - even as Democrats in California threatened legal action and charged that the GOP-backed effort smacked of money laundering. They suggested there were numerous links between the ballot effort and the Giuliani campaign, and challenged the former New York mayor's campaign aides to reveal where the money came from. Giuliani spokesman Jarrod Agen told The Chronicle, "This is completely independent from our campaign, and frankly, it's not an initiative that serves our campaign's best interests."

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looks like this is D.O.A.

Submitted by Glic on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:45pm.

 

 LA Times:


Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California's 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort.

In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight and in Friday's print editions, The Times' Dan Morain reports that the proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds.

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Nice find, Glic.

Submitted by Howard Beale on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 4:34pm.

That right there is what we call a "value-added" comment.

Thanks.

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Continued vigilance is required, though

Submitted by Glic on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 7:39pm.
As much as I hope this is true, it bears watching.
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