Topic category:  Corruption in Government

Lois Lerner's critical email isn't hiding in plain sight, but the October 2012 Obama Biden memorandum by former Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer is readily available online at http://secure.assets.bostatic.com/pdfs/BauerMemo/BauerMemo.pdf,

In that memorandum Bauer charged that there was a "Republican assault on voting rights....with deep roots in the party's history and politics" led by the Republican National Committee "aided by organizations closely associated with the party and its goals, such as True the Vote."

That's right, Bauer singled out True the Vote, headed by Catherine Engelbrecht, target of multiple federal agencies since she took an active role in the pursuit of election integrity.

Engelbrecht did not name Engelbrecht by name, but he demonized True the Vote in his partisan six-page, single-spaced memorandum.

According to Bauer, True the Vote was "assisting the effort [to disrupt] the voter registration process" by purporting to train and deploy to polling places around the country 'poll watchers' on the watch for 'fraud'...."

Section IV of Bauer's memorandum, devoted to True the Vote, begins, "Since the 2010-midterm elections, Texas-based True the Vote (TTV) has been an outspoken member of the voter fraud community and is the social group focused on ending 'vote fraud.' It is the first group since the Karl Rove inspired American Center for Voting Rights was discovered to be a Republican front in 2007."

WOW!

Are we supposed to believe that the harassment of True the Vote and refusal to approve its tax exempt status application before Election Day 2012 and until the Internal Revenue Service was required to answer a legal complaint by True the Vote in a federal court and the sudden interest in Engelbrecht's personal taxes and business by the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Occupation Health & Safety agency were all in the regular course of business?

Are we supposed to believe that Bauer gave a pass to True the Vote, which he apparently considered the greatest threat to Democrat election prospects since Karl Rove's Americam Center for Voting Rights, until he wrote that memorandum?

Only people who believe that then presidential candidate candidly and completely described his relationship to ACORN in the last 2008 presidential debate could be so gullible or brainwashed to believe that!

Michael J. Gaynor

Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.