Berman Claims He Will Ask AG To Respond To Allegations Of “Partisan Favoritism”
By Vince Leibowitz on Jan 31, 2008 in 80th Legislature ![[Post to Twitter]](/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter.png){kind=icon}
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We’ll file this under “Waiting with bated breath for it to happen:”
House Elections Chairman Leo Berman, R-Tyler said he plans to ask Attorney General Greg Abbott to respond to allegations of partisan favoritism presented to his committee by Gerald Hebert, head of litigation at the Campaign Legal Center.
Gerry Hebert gave great testimony before the House Elections Committee last Friday as the Committee held hearings on its interim charges related to Voter ID:
Hebert complained to Berman’s committee last week that Abbott has prosecuted Texans “who appear to have done little more than mistakenly help senior citizens by delivering already completed and sealed ballots to the post office or an elections administrative office.”
Of 13 voter fraud-related indictments, virtually all are African Americans or Hispanic senior citizens, Hebert noted.
He told the committee: “What is especially troubling is that while Greg Abbott’s office has prosecuted minority seniors for simply mailing ballots, he has not prosecuted anyone on the other side of the aisle for what appear to be open and shut cases of real voter fraud.”
Hebert told the committee about alleged voter fraud in heavily Republican Highland Park involving the mishandling of over 100 ballots and a memo from local prosecutors calling on Abbott to investigate the 2005 complaint. He explained that the attorney general’s office handed off the complaint to the Texas secretary of state “for evaluation of as potential criminal prosecution.”
He called that “a stalling tactic” because it is the AG’s office that evaluates criminal prosecution.
Of course, as of yesterday, the AG’s office hadn’t received any request from Berman’s office to actually act upon (no surprise). If the AG ever gets the Berman request, and assuming they respond (they claim they will, when they get the request), I’m sure the AG’s office will simply deny the charges.
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