It seems that Battleground Texas may have some battles other than changing Texas blue. James O’Keefe’s videos have spawned some legal problems for the movement.
If you haven’t seen the video in question, here it is:
It shows BT workers violating election laws by illegally copying personal information from voter registration forms. They are prohibited from doing this – but since when have election laws ever stopped a Democrat?
Maybe now…Dewhurst is demanding action, and BT is now under legal scrutiny.
Shortly after Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst demanded action by the Texas Secretary of State and Attorney General’s offices, Bexar County District Attorney Susan D. Reed was handed three official voter registration complaints as a result of Battleground Texas’ (BGTX) campaign activities late Friday.
And Abbott is being a class act, and following ethics laws.
Given the statistical likelihood that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott will face State Senator Wendy Davis in the 2014 General Election, the sitting AG opted to recuse himself from any official investigation into potentially illegal campaign tactics carried out by his opponent’s field support team.
So Battleground Texas is facing legal issues. Not that they care much. They’d rather blame their problems on the messenger. Kind of like crying “Look over there! SQUIRREL!”
Since the initial revelation of San Antonio-based field operatives for BGTX were caught on camera allegedly conspiring to commit violations of the Texas Election Code by harvesting “confidential” voter data, Battleground Texas’ tone and response has hardly changed. A spokesperson for the political outfit continued to personally attack Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe without direct refutation of the charges.
“The allegations are based on footage by admitted criminal James O’Keefe whose partisan Republican antics of doctoring videos are well known,” Ellis Brachman, claimed. Brachman added that Battleground Texas’ legal team was currently working on a response to “expos[ing] these claims as utterly without foundation in Texas law.”
This could get fun, folks. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen anyone hoisted on their own petard.