Former FL GOP Chair Testifies That Party Met in 2009 to Discuss How to 'Keep Blacks From Voting'

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9438#more-9438


The entire matter echoes back to our initial 2004 exclusive on then Republican software programmer turned whistleblower Clint Curtis who had filed a sworn affidavit charging Florida Republican Tom Feeney had asked his company, Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), to create a vote-rigging software prototype in 2000.

At the time of his alleged meetings with Feeney, Curtis says the Congressman --- who had been Jeb Bush's Lt. Governor running mate in 1998 before becoming Speaker of the FL House and one of the most powerful elected officials in the state by 2000 --- discussed methods that he said the Republican Party had in place to "reduce the black vote" in the 2000 Presidential election.

According to the December 6, 2004 affidavit [PDF] filed by Curtis, just days before he would testify to a U.S. House Judiciary Committee panel...


10. In my role as a technology advisor at YEI, I was present at subsequent meetings between Mr. Feeney and Mrs. Yang [the company's owner]. In several of those meetings, prior to the 2000 election, it became clear to me that Mr. Feeney was well aware that by artificially reducing the margin of victory of the opposition party in areas where they were the strongest, the overall outcome would then favor his candidate. As well, he bragged that he had already implemented "exclusion lists" to reduce the "black vote". He further mentioned that the "proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25%." I didn't know at the time, if Mr. Feeney had meant that as a racial joke or actually part of the plan.
In 2001, The Orlando Sentinel described Feeney as "one of Florida's most powerful elected officials." In 2000, Time Magazine called him "the only man more influential in Florida than football king Bobby Bowden."


Recently someone posted the Curtis testimony before the black caucus... Curtis mentioned a state Republican senator who wanted him to write the software that he says steals elections... ..... this must be the guy....