ACLU asks Justice Department for investigation into Charlie Webster (Maine GOP Chairman)

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine and the Brennan Center for Justice announced Friday that they have asked the U.S Department of Justice’s civil rights division to investigate outgoing Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster.

The two parties mailed and emailed their request to the Department of Justice on Friday, according to Zachary Heiden, legal director of the ACLU of Maine.

On Nov. 13, Webster told WCSH-TV interviewer Don Carrigan that he planned to investigate claims that “dozens of black people” who were unfamiliar to municipal officials voted Nov. 6 in rural Maine towns. The following day, Webster told the Bangor Daily News that he planned to mail postcards to voters who registered on Election Day to see how many would be returned as undeliverable. Webster said the effort would indicate whether his belief that widespread voter fraud occurs in Maine was credible.

On Nov. 15, Webster issued an apology. In a statement released that day by the Maine Republican Party, Webster said it was “my intention to talk not about race, but about perceived voting irregularities. However, my comments were made without proof of wrongdoing and had the unintended consequence of casting aspersions on an entire group of Americans. For that, I am truly sorry.”

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This is about illegal voter "caging".

[JohnnyRingo]

1. ..."my intention to talk not about race"

That's why he said black people.

My personal intention is not to talk about voter suppression, so I'll just call Webster a racist asshole in general and redundantly point out he's a republican.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. He DID say ...

it was not his INTENTION]/i] not to talk about race. I'm reading that as: "Oops, did I say that out loud?"

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Jail time for voter suppressionists!

[mainer]

3. Maine Civil Liberties Union is always on top of things

You gotta give them credit.

[midnight]

5. Unknown to municipal officials and voting is belief that voter fraud is happening? But hidden

secretive source code is not an indication of election fraud... I think we have our concerns on the wrong area to be investigated....

[hrmjustin]

6. It is about time someone said investigate this bigot. He is an embarrassment to the state, and

the nation.

[kossp]

7. Also an embarrassment to humanity.

He said what he meant and no walking it back is going to change that.

[hrmjustin]

8. Absolutely! He can not walk back what he really meant.

Welcome to DU!

[kossp]

9. Thank you kindly.