Sign a Walker recall petition, get your name in the paper. Give him money and he'll keep it secret.
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-politics-of-privacy.html
If you remember, in 2011, every person who signed the Scott Waker recall petition (and only the Scott Walker recall petition, despite there being many others - hmmmm), names and addresses were put online for everyone who supported Scott Walker to see and use for harassment, bullying and hiring processes. For exercising their Constitutional Rights, as written in the Wisconsin Constitution, their names, addresses and phone numbers were there for the whole State of WI to do with as they may.
In 2012, the far right wing MacIver Instutute sued Senator Erpenbach to get the names of everyone who emailed him about the ACT10 Protests. Senator Erpenbach turned over all the emails, but blacked out the identifying information of his constituents. That was not enough for the Mcgyver crew so they sued again and surprisingly won. Senator Erpenbach was then forced to turnover all names, email addresses etc of people who took five minutes out of their day to let their elected representatives know how they feel about the events of the day. MacIver needed full contact information to make sure that anyone who advocated positions they disagreed with, would now live in fear for their safety and jobs.
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It is incredibly ironic, that many of the same people who are whining the loudest about money being speech and how asking for donors records was an assault on free speech rights, are the same people requesting these records and making them public.
The hypocrisy does not end there. The Scott Walker administration keeps finding new ways to avoid Open records request and destroy documents. Scott Walker will not even allow us to know who visits him at the Governor's mansion, mostly because they are big donors and the moneyed base. Their privacy must be protected at all costs.
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