An op-ed in today’s Roll Call cited CCP’s own Stephen Hoersting.
Here is the excerpt:
As Stephen Hoersting of the Center for Competitive Politics wrote in National Review in January, "There is no doubt that the danger of retribution by politicians is real. It is not hard to imagine, for example, why one Jim Crow state might have wanted to know the names of all NAACP members in 1950s Alabama, and why the Supreme Court said in response to Alabama’s desire to learn those names that ‘[i]t is hardly a novel perception that compelled disclosure of affiliation with groups engaged in advocacy may constitute as effective a restraint on freedom of association as [other] forms of governmental action.’"
Click here to read the entire article (free link).
Click here to read "MLK, Grassroots Lobbyist," the source of Hoersting’s quote.
