M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about a law enforcement action promoting election integrity.
Democrats are decrying last week’s FBI raid on the headquarters of an Ohio “voting rights” group as a political witch hunt, an “intimidation” investigation by a Trump administration fixated on probing election fraud.
But buried in the breathless corporate media coverage is the fact that the Soros-funded Ohio Organizing Collaborative has a track record of voter registration fraud and ties to a for-profit political canvassing company with a history of suspect voter registration activities.
According to multiple reports, the FBI late last week executed search warrants at the OOC’s Cleveland offices. Agents simultaneously questioned several employees at their homes, OOC board member Prentiss Haney told CBS News. The far-left community organizer, who formerly served as the collaborative’s co-executive director, described the law enforcement operation as a “full-on assault,” insisting that “we haven’t seen anything like this since” the 1965 civil rights battles in Selma, Alabama.
An FBI official did not return The Federalist’s request for comment on Monday. A Department of Justice official in a previous statement to the media declined to comment on the investigation.
“Search warrants are authorized by a judge and anything said by any organization or others in the media is unfounded speculation, as the target of any investigation is not privy to the search warrant affidavit until after the indictment,” the DOJ official wrote in a statement.
Democrats, without a shred of information about the investigation to back their claims, blasted the probe as “another example to suppress voting rights and voter registration.”
“Any attempt to intimidate Ohio voters is wrong, and will not work,” huffed former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who, refusing to take no for an answer from Buckeye State voters, is making another Senate run two years after losing his seat.
What Ohio Democrats didn’t mention in their overheated, ignorant statements is that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative has garnered a “bad reputation” for its actions in pursuit of a leftist mission to “build enough power to advance a shared political agenda in Ohio for racial, economic, and gender justice.”
