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BREAKING: Daughter of deceased GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller has posted on http://thehofellerfiles.com files copied from hard drives Republicans in North Carolina tried to keep sealed. @SHofeller tells @NPR the files are “the property of the people”
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea …
2. LISTEN: The political redistricting work of the late Republican operative Thomas Hofeller "is really having a profound effect and has had long before anybody really noticed on a broader level," Hofeller's daughter @SHofeller tells @NPRpic.twitter.com/MkGPgWqGM4
3. Some of the previously released Hofeller files have been cited as evidence of gerrymandering that got political maps thrown out in North Carolina, & they have raised questions about Hofeller's role in the Trump admin's failed push for a citizenship question on the #2020Census.
4. Copies of the files @SHofeller has uploaded document the wide reach of Thomas Hofeller's work on political maps in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee & Virginia, plus NY's Nassau County & Texas' Galveston and Nueces counties.
5. In a document last saved in 2015, Thomas Hofeller warned against changing the Census Bureau's policy of including prisoners in the population counts of the areas where they're incarceratedhttps://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/12/31/761932806/your-body-being-used-where-prisoners-who-can-t-vote-fill-voting-districts …
6. As a longtime strategist for the Republican National Committee, Thomas Hofeller was known for warnings to keep redistricting work under wraps: "Treat every statement and document as if it was going to appear on the FRONT PAGE of your local newspaper"https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1135662132266246149?s=20 …
pic.twitter.com/GQqqfC5vvZ7. @SHofeller says the irony that some of her father's work files are now out in public is not lost on her.
"I don't think he cared all that much to protect these people after he was gone," Stephanie Hofeller tells @NPR.
8. @SHofeller says her father's goal was to use gerrymandering to "create a system wherein the Republican nominee would win."
"State legislature, it doesn't matter who votes for what. Congress, it doesn't matter who votes for what. And president, it doesn't matter," she says.
9. During @SHofeller's deposition in May, she testified there may be more files to uncover. His business partner, Dale Oldham, took a laptop and a desktop computer with Hofeller's work files, Stephanie said her mother told her
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6570547-May-17-2019-Deposition-of-Stephanie-Hofeller.html#document/p19/a538965 …pic.twitter.com/1GH5qOn21m
10. Dale Oldham has not responded to @NPR's requests for comment.
In court filings, Oldham has argued the "computer, various files, and numerous backups in Dr. Hofeller's possession" belonged to his and Thomas Hofeller's company and their clients, which include the RNC.
11. In November 2019, the Republican National Committee paid Dale Oldham more than $420,000 for "legal and compliance services" — part of a total of more than $658,000 Oldham has collected from the RNC since May 2019, according to @FEC filings
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00003418/1367597/sb/29 …
12. I'm watching to see if a federal judge in NY allows @ACLU, @NYCLU, @arnoldporter attorneys to serve Oldham a subpoena for files from the computers Oldham allegedly took from Thomas Hofeller's apartmenthttps://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1136077618011414529?s=20 …
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