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POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Friday, August 5, 2011 14:33
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Friday, August 5, 2011 5:31 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


It's heating up:
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Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the Wisconsin Senate recall elections.

Patch.com reported that Charles Shultz, a Democrat who lives in the 10th Senate District, received an absentee ballot application form last week from AFP that contained incorrect information on it. The form instructed him to mail it back to the wrong location by Aug. 11 -- two days after the recall election in his district between Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R) and Shelly Moore (D) is set to take place, on Aug. 9.

Politico obtained a copy of the AFP mailer, which was also distributed to voters in the 2nd District.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the state's Government Accountability Board over the issue, accusing AFP of "falsely representing the time frame" for the upcoming August 9 recall election. Shultz filed his own complaint with the GAB on Saturday.

AFP may also be getting involved in the increasingly heated ad wars that have been leading up to the recall elections. According to One Wisconsin Now, AFP has reportedly purchased over $150,000 in television ad time in the Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee areas.

A spokesperson for Americans for Prosperity did not respond when asked for comment on the purchase, but One Wisconsin Now, a non-profit statewide progressive communications network, says the ad buy appears to be an effort to help the six Republican state Senators who were challenged by recall elections after supporting Governor Scott Walker's anti-collective bargaining legislation in early 2011. More at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/koch-brothers-americans-for-p
rosperity-wisconsin-recalls_n_913561.html

I hope the union-busting Republicans get what they deserve...OUT!

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Friday, August 5, 2011 11:25 AM

TRAVELER


I live in Wisconsin and this is our politics. Typically you don't hear about it because Chicago gets all the media attention over these issues during national elections. Slashed tires on vans that were meant to take homeless to polling booths. Homeless are a good target for votes in Milwaukee. Fre cartons of cigs for a vote is common. In truth, both side do it. The list is endless on the antics that go on here.


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Friday, August 5, 2011 2:33 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Oh yes, I saw that, didn't mention it here cause I lost the link in the shuffle of doing a whole mess of other paperwork for something local, bleh...

But yeah, it's not like any low they'd stoop to surprises me, and we're fighting that punkass bitch Snyder here as well.

-F

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