Got a robo-call from the "Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty" last night

[Viking12]

Originating from the phone of one Wendy Anderson of the Little Rock, Arkansas area.

WTF?

[HereSince1628]

1. She can't vote today, I doubt she made any difference yesterday

As you know, we've been highly polarized on the issues for months.

They had to bring in another phoney organization to do their gotv, and only Diebold would be able to count her vote.

[goddess40]

2. Who are these jerks?

The Grandsons have a web site but it doesn't reveal who funds them. Any one know?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

3. I couldn't find a direct reference but perhaps this is a clue?

We know the Kock Brothers are behind Americans for Prosperity -

The Tea Party, WIS GOP, Americans for Prosperity, and Grandsons of Liberty all were involved in voter caging plans to disenfranchise tens or hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters in 2008 - focusing on students and people in the lower income bracket.

I would not be surprised if the kocks are behind this too.

Here is a link for further reading...(figures it comes from DU!!)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x240105
"To the casual political observer, Reince Priebus, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, seemed to come out of nowhere. But to Wisconsin progressives, Priebus is known as the state Republican Party operative who allegedly tried to suppress the votes of minorities and students in both the recent midterm congressional elections and the 2008 presidential election -- in apparent coordination with David Koch's Americans For Prosperity.

...On the eve of the election for RNC chair, Mark Block, who just stepped down from his post as state director for the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity, lauded Priebus in a Daily Caller op-ed for having supplied AFP with bus transportation and GOP staff support "for the movement of an enormous number of Tea Party activists from the outskirts of Madison to the rally site on the steps of the State Capitol, where over 8,000 people gathered" for a 2009 AFP rally.

But the collegiality of the two involves logistical planning of another kind. Priebus was allegedly involved in an alleged voter suppression scheme launched by a Wisconsin Tea Party group, GrandSons of Liberty, with the assistance of Americans for Prosperity.

[mascarax]

4. Wisconsin Grandsons of LIberty affiliated w/Koch-funded Freedom Works

Found a ThinkProgress article...also various references to this group's Tea Party activities on Google.

<b>Tea Party Groups</b>
While the role of various Koch-funded entities in establishing the tea party movement writ large is beyond dispute, several of the groups involved in the alleged voter suppression plot are linked directly to Koch-funded groups. While it’s unclear exactly how many local Wisconsin tea party groups are involved in the so-called “Election Observer Program,” emails, audio recordings, and other documents point to at least three: the Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty, the Eau Claire Tea Party, and the Racine Tea Party. All three are affiliated with the national Tea Party Patriots, which is linked to Koch-funded FreedomWorks. The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty and the Eau Claire Tea Party are also listed as AFP Wisconsin coalition members.

More at:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/22/koch-voter-suppression/

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. Good find...

Koch is like an Octopus...

[dragonlady]

6. We got that too but it sort of broke up at the end

Did they ever get around to telling you who to vote for?