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Bush Justice Department appointee hired 65 of 63 "right-thinking Americans"...not "mold spores" or "commies" for civil rights and voting sections

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justice appointee wanted to purge liberals By AP Wire Created 01/14/2009 WASHINGTON - To Bradley Schlozman, they were "mold spores," "commies" and "crazy libs." He was referring to the career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights and voting rights sections. From 2003 to 2006, Schlozman was a Bush appointee who supervised them. Along with several others, he came to symbolize the mid-level political appointees who brought a hard-edged ideology to the day-to-day workings of the Justice Department. "My tentative plans are to gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the section," he said in an e-mail in 2003. "I too get to work with mold spores, but here in Civil Rights, we call them Voting Section attorneys," he confided to another friend...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).