Wisconsin: Conservatives ramp up dirty tricks leading up to June 5 recall election

[Scuba]

http://bloggingblue.com/2012/05/30/conservatives-ramp-up-dirty-tricks-leading-up-to-june-5-recall-election/

Just one week before voters head to the polls to cast their votes to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker, conservatives seem to be pulling out all the stops in their attempts to defend Gov. Walker.

This week a spam text message was sent out to thousands of Wisconsinites attacking Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker’s Democratic challenger in the recall election, as a “union puppet.” Here’s a copy of the text message:

Information I’ve received seems to point to the spam text message having been sent by ccAdvertising, a political phone and text-messaging vendor with a history of sending unsolicited messages. According to one report, the parent compant of ccAdvertising is actually FreeEats, a company that according to a report by Daniel Schulman of Mother Jones has operated under different names while engaging in similar voter suppression behaviors in other states across the country.

FreeEats is also known as Advantage Research, ccAdvertising, Data Research, Election Research, fec Research, fecads, Political Research, and Public Research. It has been accused of disguising or “spoofing” its caller IDs; Joseph has reportedly said his company has “thousands” of aliases.

Not surprisingly, FreeEats, one of the companies associated with ccAdvertising, has been fined for breaking anti-robo-calling laws in North Dakota, and a federal judge banned it from phoning Indiana voters under similar statutes.

If this recall election is all sewn up for Gov. Walker – as so many conservatives would have us believe – then why are many of those same conservatives resorting to the kinds of underhanded and dirty tricks I’d expect to find in an election in some third-world country?

When you can't win on policy...

...dirty tricks, voter suppression and election rigging are your strategies. To wit:


...redistrict your opposition out of their districts, strenghten yours

...eliminate the Statewide Voter Registration Deputy Program

...increase residency requirements

...require a picture ID

...shut down ID-providing sites in Dem districts

...use outside money to smear your opponents with falsehoods

...and when all else fails, fall back on the Waukesha County Clerk.

[madashelltoo]

1. The Repugs are doing this because they are LOSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No polls from them tells a lot of the story. Heavy turnout is the Medusa that's killing them right now. They know if they turn and look at her head on . . . it's over. And, it is . . . over.