The Bush-hating group that the Boston Herald dubbed "Crooks for Kerry" has caved to pressure and now says it won't send violent employees door to door.
The divisive outfit, which comically calls itself "America Coming Together," claimed that since spring (which ended just a few days ago) its "policy has been that we're not going to employ violent felons," said mouthpiece Mo Elliethee. "We're going to conduct this background check to ensure we're not."
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The Associated Press blew the whistle on the group after discovering that it had hired felons - guilty of sex crimes, assault, burglary and other serious offenses - to register Democrat voters.
As AP reported today, the group refused "to define what it considers violent or serious offenses under the new policy." Presumably rapists, at the very least, will no longer be paid to knock on citizens' doors.
"It's a public safety issue," Missouri GOP spokesman Paul Sloca told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "But more importantly, what are the registrations showing that they collected? Are these registrations legitimate, or are they fraudulent?"
The newspaper reported that a fourth of the 12,000 registrations the group collected in St. Louis (one of the worst areas of Democrat vote fraud in 2000) were bogus.
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