A reader writes:
I thought you might be interested in a telling incident in the career of Dan Lungren, a powerful Republican congressman running for re-election in a suburban district next to Sacramento. Lungren has been one of the prominent lawmakers accusing the Justice Department of being lax in prosecuting voter fraud – while his campaign contracted with a company that registered voters and changed many of their party affiliations from Democratic to Republican, without their consent or knowledge.
Here's an early story about the fraud (and Lungren claiming no connection) and here's Lungren's flip flop this past weekend.
This has become a rather big story in and around the congressional district. But no national website or periodical has yet covered it. And for fun, what has Lungren been doing on the House floor during this time? He's been trying to stop the Justice Department's attempt to block stronger voter ID laws.
Karen Ocamb is one of the few bloggers we can find covering the story:
The Daily Kos reports that the possibly fraudulent voter registration drive was "led by one Monica Harris, a Republican operative who, it turned out, had a serious criminal record that included embezzlement, theft and prison time." At one time, Lungren was a friend to the Log Cabin Republicans. But he now has a "0 percent" rating on civil rights by the Human Rights Campaign, and is on the progressive group CREDO SuperPAC’s "Top 10 Tea Party" list.
The Dish 