Send Karl Rove to Jail
The Secretary of State Project was founded to protect our elections from dirty Republican tricks. So today, we've launched a public petition against Karl Rove. The GOP's master trickster has his fingerprints all over a dirty scheme to suppress progressive votes. And now we have a unique chance to hold him accountable.
Click here to sign our petition calling for Congress to hold Rove in contempt and send him to jail.
Some background:
In 2004, Justice Department lawyers started getting strange instructions from Washington -- crack down on voter registration drives in urban areas. The idea was to harass progressive organizations and keep poor and minority citizens from getting to the polls.
Many Justice Department lawyers, Republicans and Democrats alike, balked at these unscrupulous orders. They refused to carry out a partisan witch hunt. In return for their disobedience, Washington started cracking down on THEM -- firing a host of them and passing up others for promotion, in what came to be known as the U.S. Attorneys Scandal.
And who gave the vote-suppression orders in the first place? A long trail of evidence indicates that Karl Rove cooked up and executed the whole scheme. To uncover the truth, the House of Representatives launched an investigation, and asked Rove to testify. He has repeatedly disobeyed Congress's subpoenas, in violation of the law.
The House is now considering a measure to hold Rove in contempt of Congress. If found guilty, he could go to jail. By holding Rove in contempt, we'll send a loud and clear signal to all Bush's cronies -- America's elections must be free and fair. Voter suppression will not be tolerated.
Join the hundreds of thousands who are calling on the House to take a stand against Rove and his dirty tricks.
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Comments
Karl Rove has done criminal activity. He should be held accountable as any other person.
Posted by: Don Timmerman and Roberta Thurstin | August 6, 2008 12:40 PM
Karl Rove was recently accosted in Ohio by citizens of the United States, doing the job the congress is supposed to do, which is to arrest Karl. I think this is the essence of the Constitution. It so happened that the police arrested these citizens instead of Karl Rove. Aren't we kinda backwards here? If he were in my view, I too would attempt a citizens arrest. Come Karl, come. I got sompen fer ye.
Posted by: Jimmy Porter | August 8, 2008 08:31 AM