A questionable hire for 'election integrity'
North Carolina Republicans never made much pretense about why they had moved control over North Carolina’s elections from the office of the governor to the Republican state auditor. There was no credible logic to the reform. No one in the auditor’s office had any experience in administering statewide elections, nor does the office’s constitutional role involve anything of the sort. The auditor’s qualification was that he was Dave Boliek, uber-partisan.
The GOP has now made its partisan intentions explicit. Personnel is policy, says Sen. Elizabeth Warren. And by hiring Dallas Woodhouse of Art Pope’s newsweekly Carolina Journal to oversee “election integrity,” Boliek and his legislative allies have announced a policy of stringent voter suppression. Woodhouse, like Boliek, has few qualifications to oversee elections. But in the eyes of the Republican panjandrums, he has a saving grace: He is the fiercest and most determined voter-suppressor in North Carolina.
“I’m an unabashed partisan,” Woodhouse explained, when queried about why he had called for Republicans to “make party-line changes” to local election policies to enhance the McCrory-Trump ticket and kneecap Roy Cooper.
Rhetorical subtlety is not something Woodhouse possesses in abundance. His juices flow over when it’s time to screw the Democrats and seize the most dominant share of power he can for the GOP. He’s not a rebel; the Tea Party-infused Daily Haymaker regularly pillories him. What Woodhouse is, is an ultra-partisan with the instincts of a raw political brawler.
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