Easy...shine sunlight on the crowd. The one who runs into the shadows is your bloodsucker.
The past few years have spawned a number of political organizations that are overdue for some sunlight therapy.
These are groups that purport to advocate for a popular cause, but their causes are curiously in line with powerful partisan interests.
This by itself isn't such a bad thing - there's certainly no law against being partisan. Any group can organize and freely praise their own or damn the opposition in any forum they can reach.
But isn't it interesting the number of groups who are formed by political operatives who take great pains to hide their affiliations? I am sure this occurs on both sides of the political aisle - but it has been raised to a high art by the current conservative crowd. Remember the Swift Boat Vets? a group of "concerned vets" who just happened to be bankrolled by partisan heavies like Bob J. Perry, the largest single donor to the Texas GOP.
Slate's Richard L. Hasen does a really nice job of shining the light on another bogus group, the American Center for Voting Rights - a group that loudly asserted that voter fraud was a growing national problem. They of course had a solution - rigorous ID and registration hurdles that (oh, by the way) might depress turnout among poor and minority voters - but they assured us they were not trying to depress traditionally democratic voter turnout.
Of course, since the group has tried hard to disappear right after the election was over, its kind of hard to believe they are (or ever were) anything other than just another partisan hit squad.
Read the whole sorry story here.
If they were really doing the work of the angels, why are they so afraid of the light?
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