AG Van Hollen Promised Voter Fraud Action at GOP Convention, But Never Talked to GOP Officials…Huh?

Voter fraud is big in Wisconsin. It’s everywhere. You can find it in your neighborhoods, around every corner, whispered in the alley ways, permeating city government and on the lips of concerned Americans worried about losing their vote.

It can happen to you if you’re not vigilant, if you’re a Republican and if your afraid too many people will vote Democratic. Thank god we have a non-partisan Republican Attorney General like J.B. Van Hollen. Sure it may look suspicious to some, the way J.B. decided to do exactly what his party leaders wanted him to do, but as the state co-chair for John McCain J.B. would only do what was right. Others tried to insinuate J.B. had other motives, like WisPolitics.com:

Initially after filing the suit on Sept. 10, Van Hollen said he had no contact with GOP officials before it was filed and had no reason to believe anyone on his staff had either. But:

1. A week before he filed suit against the Government Accountability Board to require them to run checks on new voter registrations starting in January 2006 instead of the Aug. 6 date, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen promised Wisconsin delegates at the Republican National Convention they'd be hearing much more from the Department of Justice on targeting those who "illegally and illegitimately registered to vote."

2. various contacts between DOJ staff and the state party officials have come to light since then. That includes GOP attorneys meeting with DOJ staff on several occasions to complain about the GAB’s decision.

3. State GOP Chair Reince Priebus also expressed his frustration with the GAB's decision several times during the GOP convention in St. Paul. Minn., including a delegate breakfast Van Hollen attended.

Here’s another part that many find a little hard to believe: Republicans have steadfastly defended the contacts, saying it was appropriate to complain about what they believed to be a violation of the law to the state Department of Justice.

These are just concerned citizens worried about the law, so you can’t count that as “contacting” the Justice Department. Even if you tell the AG who is in the same room what should be done, that’s not considered “contact” because…well, because it isn’t. And wouldn’t you know it, the law breaking, paling around with terrorist Democrats didn’t miss a chance to pull the old switcheroo on the now victimized Republican voters, by pointing their crooked little fingers at somebody else.

Dems seized on the comments to again raise questions about whether Van Hollen and DOJ have been telling the truth about their contacts with state Republicans about the suit, which is now pending in Dane County court.

In the speech to delegates at the RNC on Sept. 4, Van Hollen promised DOJ would make sure "that we maintain the liberty and the freedom and the right to have one person, one vote."
"We are going to do our best as the lawyers for the state

Transcript: "Wisconsin, as the defenders and protectors of the law of the state of Wisconsin, of the people who are there to defend your right to have your vote matter," Van Hollen said. "We are out there front and center every day, and you’ll be hearing much more from the Department of Justice in the coming months about doing what we can to make sure that those people who have illegally and illegitimately registered to vote don’t have the opportunity on Election Day to show up and take away your vote by casting one that is not legal.”

Dem Party Chairman Joe Wineke again suggested that Van Hollen has not been upfront about his contacts with GOP officials before the suit was filed. “It is unconscionable that the chief law enforcement officer of the state would conduct backroom deals at the Republican National Convention and then use his state office to carry out the bidding of his GOP bosses,"

Wineke said. “If JB Van Hollen is claiming that this lawsuit isn’t political, then why did he discuss it with the RPW chair at a partisan political convention and send signals to fellow Republicans that he was mobilizing the Department of Justice to take action?"

DOJ spokesman Kevin St. John said nothing in the speech indicates the AG had a conversation with anyone prior to filing the suit.

Oh my god your right, he did not mention any conversations.
That should be proof enough that we've been so wrong.