Reporter Morris was unable to reach Rockford for comment and was not able to confirm that hers was a real name for a real person. When he talked to True The Vote, who trained Rockford, that organization referred him to the Self-for-Judge campaign.
True The Vote Has a Contradictory
Reality
True The Vote is a Houston-based, self-described "citizen-led effort to restore truth, faith, and integrity to our elections," founded in 2009. It joined Facebook in March 2011, where it links to such other sites as Townhall.com, Breitbart.com, and Election Law Center ("more red than the ivory tower") that has just filed a suit against the "Democrat Party" for alleged election law violations, including "a near take-over of a polling location by members of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Incidents were so blatant that the NAACP members were actually moving people forward in line to vote ahead of other voters."
True The Vote calls itself "a non-partisan initiative to educate and train citizens to work within our electoral system to restore honor and integrity to the electoral process," but its website and Facebook page are dominated by partisan Republican, Tea Party, and evangelical voices to the exclusion of others.
The founder and president of True the Vote is Catherine Engelbrecht who married oilman Bryan Engelbrecht in 2008, the same year she launched her Facebook page. The Engelbrechts are two of the three directors of True The Vote,. The organization's 990 filing with the IRS shows that Catherine works 40 hours a week, while each of the other directors works just one hour a week, but all work without compensation. True The Vote reported income of $136,057 and expenses of $224,942 for 2011.
"Iran To Go Nuclear In Less Than A
Month!"
The Engelbrechts are also directors of True The Vote's parent organization, King Street Patriots, which they founded in 2009 and put on Facebook the same year, announcing "nullification" as their first principle. The sites feature the same circle of right wing activists as True The Vote, but with many more attacks on President Obama and posts like this from April 13, 2010: "Iran to go nuclear in less than a month!"
2010 was also the year Catherine Englbrecht "discovered" that the New Black Panther Party was operating in Houston -- only it wasn't. In making that claim, she was accusing a voter registration group, Houston Votes, who later sued her for defamation. At about the same time, Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez was accusing Houston Votes of being "our area's new "ACORN' organization" for submitting more that 5,000 deficient deficient voter registration applications, which Houston Votes emphatically denied.
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