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A political aide to Maryland’s former Republican governor was sentenced to 30 days of home detention Thursday for an Election Day robocall conspiracy that prosecutors cast as an effort to keep black voters away from the polls.
Prosecutors said the automated calls went out to 110,000 people in areas with high percentages of black voters, who tend to vote reliably Democratic. The calls implied that voters did not need to head to the polls because Democrat Martin O’Malley had already defeated Republican Robert Ehrlich.
Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill called the scheme an offense that strikes at the heart of the nation’s most important values.
The judge also gave Paul Schurick a one-year suspended jail sentence and ordered him to serve 500 hours of community service in Prince George’s County and Baltimore city, where the calls were directed, over four years of his probation. A fine was not imposed.
“This needs to send a message to anyone who would interfere with anyone’s opportunity to vote that it’s absolutely unacceptable,” Fletcher-Hill told Schurick.
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PJ
February 20, 2012 at 6:26 pm
David, I agree with you 100%. This was the time to make and example out of the clown, and to let others that are doing the same thing that this could happen to them as well. This is like a slap in the face for that sentence.
radar-dreamer
February 19, 2012 at 5:59 pm
where are all those white republican naysayers that oftentimes stalk our forums??….no where to be found they aint got a d**n sing to say about this one…cant even accuse us of “playing the race card”.
David2001
February 19, 2012 at 12:59 am
This judge is full of sh*t. If he wanted to send a message about how important voter suppression is he would have sent his azz to jail with a stiff fine instead of home detention.
Rita
February 21, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Your RIGHT DAVID!! what he got wasn’t BUT a SLAP ON THE HAND. He should have gotten jail time/a HUGE FINE. THOSE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME AND JIM CROW!! Although it never died as far as I’m concern. This is what we should be talking about on this blog.