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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:31 PM
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Wisconsin GOP Faithful Stoop To New Lows In Tampering With Recalls
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/28/breaking-news-wisconsin-gop-faithful-stoop-to-new-lows-in-tampering-with-recalls/


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So what do people do when they are used to having control over everything and they see that control slipping? They cheat, that is what they are good at. Realizing that this was democracy in action and the people were about to take control, again, the GOP faithful, the few who still stand by and swear allegiance to Scott Walker, concocted a plan to try to derail the recalls. It started with complaining about how much it cost. Keep in mind this is the same party that ran fake Democrats in the previous recalls just to force an extra election. The majority of people saw this as hypocritical, as it was. Only the select few still use this argument and pretend it is valid. The will of the people should not have a price at which it no longer becomes worth finding out. If someone gets elected and goes against what they were elected to do, the people should be able to legally remove them. They are supposed to serve us and we must remember this.

They then created a page and a campaign to encourage the burning of recall petitions. I will note, although I only take it at face value, I have to be fair and say that both the Republican and Tea Party of Wisconsin have denied any involvement in this. One thing is for certain, the Facebook page titled “Operation Burn Notice” in which they encourage and talk about burning recall petitions or not turning them in, was not created by someone opposed to Scott Walker.

These stories all broke last week, but today we have a new development. It started a few days ago when a new site went live. This site was http://occupy-madison.com/ (on a side note the right seems to love creating sites, they created a hate site for me personally with a music video and video game at www.segwayboy.com). The official site for Occupy Madison is http://occupy-madison.org. But this teaches us all a valuable lesson. When registering occupy web pages be sure to register the .org, .com, and .net. It is not very expensive and you only need to host one of them, you can forward the rest. This website was registered by a company called Occupy, Inc, a fake right-wing company run by John C. Ward and located at 7725 NW 192nd Street in Edmond Oklahoma. This is registered as a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization with a listed phone number of 405-341-9086. So why is this so important? Because today this web site made a post with the direct intent on interfering with the recalls. The post said that the DPW (Democratic Party of Wisconsin) and United Wisconsin, two of the many recall organizations, announced we had enough signatures to recall both Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. It said that no more petitions would be collected and people should just dispose of any remaining petitions. This would seem like wonderful news, but it’s fake.

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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:34 PM
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1. Scum.
I wonder if Occupy, Inc. can be prosecuted for encouraging people to tamper with petitions?
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:38 PM
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4. It was NOT an Occupy site. It was a fake. Occupy here includes a lot of recall effort
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:49 PM
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9. I KNOW. That's why I carefully wrote "Occupy, Inc."
from the OP: "Occupy, Inc, a fake right-wing company...."
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:51 PM
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11. ah. GAB is investigating and the site was shut down by ISP
So there's that
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:58 PM
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15. Good to hear. For the "morals and values" party, the GOP sure
isn't afraid to lie, cheat and steal to get their way. WWJS? Who Would Jesus Scam?

Glad they are getting called on it in this instance. :applause:
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:35 PM
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2. And I heard here today that Walkers supporters now want to have
the recall petitions notarized before they would be accepted.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:36 PM
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3. K&R. What is the total of sigs? They must be getting concerned...
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:44 PM
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I heard they have over 1/2 the signaures required already. n/t
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:45 PM
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6. That, too was a false report
Edited on Mon Nov-28-11 06:47 PM by PeaceNikki
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2391626

United Wisconsin had not released numbers since the first 105k.
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:48 PM
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7. Ok, Interesting and I think it came from a resident of WI. n/t
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:49 PM
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8. It is false per DPW, United Wisconsin and everyone who is involved.
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:50 PM
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10. I didn't understand why it would be lied about, but now I get it. Thanks for correcting my post. n
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:52 PM
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12. So people would relax, slow down, stay home.
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:54 PM
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13. Yep I got it. Thanks! n/t
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:44 PM
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5. When this is over
send the GOP the bill.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 06:54 PM
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14. Wire Fraud
Carries a high fine, IRRC.
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Dont call me Shirley Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 07:05 PM
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16. When are these criminals going to be charged using RICO laws?
Racketeering, that's the only way the gop knows how to be.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 07:14 PM
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17. I believe they are an Organized Crime Party.
They've engineered a multi-trillion dollar heist of the US economy. At some point, when do Americans wake up and see that they aren't doing public service, but private service?
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