The Rev. Al Sharpton denounced me on his “PoliticsNation” show on MSNBC on March 2, 2012.

He criticized a good-government group called King Street Patriots for hosting me.

Here is what Sharpton said:

They have held a book party for writer Matthew Vadum who wrote this. This is who they had a book party, he wrote, “The poor can be
counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools
to criminals.” This is what they give a book party for this guy Vadum that wrote. So, clearly, when you say they are there, it seems to prevent
voting. They have a — their own opinion of who ought to be voting and who ought to be participating in the democratic process.

Guest Judith Brown-Dianis joined in, responding to Sharpton by saying:

That`s right. It`s important to understand who they are following and listening to. And people like Matthew Vadum clearly do not
believe that we should have a robust democracy. Instead, he would rather that we cut off participation of American citizens. And so they are
listening to this guy and then they are going out and training their folks to be at the polls. But really what`s really scary about this is that
apparently they are not only training people to be poll watchers, to work for candidates and for the parties, but they also are training people to be
poll workers. So we`re concerned that they are going to be on both sides of the equation. And if they target minority precincts, we know that in
2010, that it was an intimidation factor for many of the people who encountered them.