Hans And Franz

Ok.  So this has nothing to do with the characters from Saturday Night Live, but who could resist a headline like that.

Buried in a new McClatchy story today is this tidbit about Hans Von Spakovsky, Bush's nominee to the FEC, and a former senior official in the "Civil Rights" Division of the DOJ:

Von Spakovsky blocked a major suit against a St. Louis suburb and two
other suits against rural governments in South Carolina and Georgia and
halted at least two investigations of election laws that appeared to
suppress minority voting, one of them in Wyoming, said Joseph Rich, the
former voting rights section chief.

Loyal Fired Up! Readers will of course recall that Hans Von Spakovsky played a prominent role in the bogus DOJ lawsuit against Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan that got tossed out of court for being without merit.

One would hope that the the Post Dispatch would kick into high gear to get to the bottom of this--trying to figure out exactly what happened and what Thor Hearne's role in this matter might have been.  However, what we are likely to get instead is a blog post where Thor gets a free forum to put out self-justifying talking points claiming that neither he, nor anyone associated with the Bush Administration, have ever done anything wrong, ever.