Voter ID Voter Caging In Wisconsin, what the public needs to know exposed to in the next 48 hours

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One Wisconsin Now obtained an audio recording from a June 12 meeting of leaders of the state’s Tea Party movement, led by Tim Dake, head of the GrandSons of Liberty, and who serves as a regular spokesperson for Wisconsin’s Tea Party organizations and is widely viewed as the movement’s Wisconsin leader.

In the audio Dake lays out the plans, detailing contact between himself and Reince Preibus, the Republican Party of Wisconsin Chair and Mark Block, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin.

Said Dake: So, what were hoping is that the various groups in the coalition plus Americans for Prosperity and Mark Block, who has been in on this, and the Republican Party, and this is coming all the way from the top Reince Priebus has said, “We’re in.”

Transcript can be found here.
http://www.savewisconsinsvote2010.org/



Wisconsin state Senate President Scott Fitzgerald,

“If we win this battle and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions,” he said last week, “Obama is going to have a much … more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.”


Red state

The Democrats, unions and the progressives in Wisconsin know their time is very, very short and are going to pull out all the dirty tricks. They have to try to get GOP Senators and Stonewall Walker recalled by whatever means (wink-wink) before the inevitable economic improvement and resulting poll numbers that will put them in a minority for at least a generation. Something that shouldn’t be taken lightly is just how important Wisconsin is to Barack Obama’s chances of getting re-elected. Passing the voter ID law will force Barack Obama to campaign heavily in the state on what is traditionally a very reliable blue state for the general election.




Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen .

"There is little doubt the requirement will suppress some turnout -- the turnout of those who vote illegally,"



Republican Senators must vote against Voter ID

[Drale]

1. Are they really that blind?

“If we win this battle and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions,” he said last week, “Obama is going to have a much … more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin"

Republicans are dead in Wisconsin, it will be years before any republican wins anything in Wisconsin.

[ellenfl]

3. i hope you're right. eom

[haele]

6. They aren't blind, they think of it as a holy war for their vision of Amurikkka -

And since they have money to buy media and syncophants who preach that it's "God's will to lie, cheat and steal for a holy cause" they probably can get a bunch of riled up bubbas (apologies to the real Bubbas) to be happy footsoldiers for team GOP - or team Teabag, or whatever they're going to call themselves.

Haele

[nebenaube]

14. Yeah...

I saw one lonely tea-bagger in Madison yesterday. One.

[Doctor_J]

12. Why would you say that?

Who is going to stop them from stealing an election, scrubbing the voter rolls of Dems, locking down Dem districts, etc.?

[mzteris]

2. done & kick. n/t

:kick:

[Scuba]

4. The site at the link doesn't work. Is there some dirt here we can use?

[ellenfl]

5. cannot close the pop-up window at the link, so cannot read the article. eom

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9. I'm going to pull the link... too funky

[Countdown_3_2_1]

7. with the 14 back, they now have a quorum too. nt

[snot]

8. At the risk of stating the obvious,

This post would have been greatly improved if it actually quoted something incriminating.

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10. It's the collusive behavior, you/we may know about Americans for Prosperity...

but most people in Wisconsin did not... till now... nor did they know about the Koch brothers till now.


When you get 5000 people show up in a far-northern rural town with a population of 2200 to protest Scott Walker at a steak house on a Saturday night, when they are normally prone to drink their brandy old fashions the worm has indeed turned.


Now they do know who the boogie man is and the fact that there is a rush to pass Voter ID, to disenfranchise individuals based off their income, age or class in an organized formulaic execution, will piss this state off even more then it is now... and that's the point.

[midnight]

11. The attorney general seems to have an agenda that blocks him from doing is job...

Sounds like it is time for him to be recalled... This is the second time he has been involved in trying to ram this voter impairment bill.


There has been a great deal of tax payer money spent showing their is not wide spread fraud in Democratic rich voter precincts. This is another lie....

[L. Coyote]

13. Time for some good, old-fashioned, state-wide door-to-door voter registration.

The Republicans built the dam that will drown them.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. K&R

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16. Video of the Wasburn Wi Protest... (kick)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMwWtqYODU&feature=player_embedded

[highplainsdem]

17. More info on this. Campus Progress says ALEC is behind this voter ID legislation:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x590917

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18. INFO: Mark Block, Wis.Director AFP and Board Member MacIver Institute, First Freedoms Foundation

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/about/staff/mark-block

http://maciverinstitute.com/

http://firstfreedomsfoundation.org/


Wilcox Controversy

Mark Block managed the 1997 election campaign of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jon P. Wilcox. Wilcox won the election, and Block was later charged with illegal coordination with the political activities of Wisconsin Citizens for Voter Participation. During that period the constitutionality of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was facing a legal challenge. If Wilcox's opponent Walt Kelley had been elected the Milwaukee program might have been ruled unconstitutional.

Block reached a settlement to end litigation by paying a $15,000 fine and agreeing to a three year ban on volunteer or paid political activity. Brent Pickens, a former Assembly Staffer who was running Wisconsin Citizens for Voter Participation, ended related litigation against him by agreeing to pay a $15,000 fine and avoid political activity for five years.


2008 Government Accountability Board Investigation (Cleared)

Mark Block, eleven years removed from the Jon Wilcox controversy faced another Wisconsin Government Accountability Board investigation over whether a mailer sent to Americans for Prosperity members during the 2008 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was legal as the letter sent by Americans for Prosperity was forwarded by the Madison based Law Firm of Godfrey and Kahn as a alleged tip.


In 2007, The West Bend Area School District attempted to pass the largest school refernda in Wisconsin history valuing over $120 million. Americans for Prosperity put a education phone call campaign to educate people on the possible tax ramfications of approving the large Scale Referendum. The district attorney responded to a request from It's Time, a West Bend group supporting passage of the referendum, to investigate whether the message violated state law. The calls were placed Friday before the refrendum in November of 2007. In the West Bend referendum, Americans for Prosperity's telephone message said the building plan would cost "$574,000 for each child" added to the district since a 2001 referendum.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Mark_Block

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