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The Blog for Monday, April 25, 2005

Dyer

    Regarding, the Dyer affair:
    Politics was an issue in this case, .... The Republican opponent of Mayor Dyer, a Democrat, sued after the election. Gov. Bush, a Republican, assigned a Republican as special prosecutor and suspended Mayor Dyer after the indictments. The mayor's supporters, though, were looking forward to the testimony of Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, and other Republicans for whom Mr. Thomas also had been a campaign worker in local elections.
    And remember how the investigation was conducted, and how most media - particularly the Orlando media (even the so-called progessive media (also see this)) - defended the FDLE's investigation, which lingered for months and clearly had the effect of intimidating black voters in the November 2004 election. Well,
    [t]he fact that politicians from both parties long have paid Mr. Thomas to get out the vote also makes it harder to explain away FDLE investigators' alleged intimidation of elderly African-American residents in the runup to last year's election. For those residents, the governor's dismissal of complaints that his administration was trying to suppress the key city's black vote before the presidential election probably rings hollow.
    "Enforce ballot integrity".

    When is the media going to take a hard look at how the FDLE conducted itself in this matter? Some of the following issues need to be explored:

    Why did they jump upon spurious allegations of fraud? Why did the "investigation" last so long (into the 2004 election cycle)? What communications did the FDLE have with local and statewide GOP political figures? What was "Jeb!"'s role in all of this?

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