Good article on the GOP "recalls"

[mzteris]

Wisconsin Democrats Laugh Off "Republican Recall Racket"

Today, a bit less than a week before the deadline, recall petitions are being filed against three Wisconsin Democratic senators. State Democratic party spokesman Graeme Zielinski has given me the party's response to the petitions, which can be summed up as "ha, ha."

Let's call it what it is: The Republican effort to recall Democratic senators who stood up to Scott Walker is RACKET, run from afar, fraudulently pursued, deliberately hidden and dangerously unethical. We therefore doubt the integrity of the signatures filed and the methods used to collect the signatures. The practices underlying the Republican recall racket are rotten at their core and taint the entire process. We have been collecting actionable evidence to support our claims, some of which we will release, and which all will be released by our legal team to the Government Accountability Board.

At the end of the day, the sloppy, disorganized, dispirited and fraudulent efforts of the Republican recall racket and its corporate sponsors means a very high likelihood that the challenges will fail. Ultimately, however, the senators they seek to challenge stood up to Scott Walker instead of endorsing his anti-Wisconsin agenda and will prevail in any recall election.

Here's how the Democrats back this up.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/04/21/wisconsin-democrats-laugh-off-republican-recall-racket.aspx

[AllyCat]

1. I've been called to work on the verification of these sigs. Should be fun...

...right after I :puke: at how disgusting these people who are not really citizens of our state. We worked LEGALLY to collect signatures. No payment. No shots at the bar. No coercion. We stood on street corners and knocked on doors and people signed because they agreed with what they were doing. These morans have no scruples. I will work to make them fail in their phony, foreign efforts.

[AllyCat]

2. Just read the whole link...they told people they were signing something else?

ARRRRRGGGHHH!!! Why do they get away with this stuff? We worked our tails off to the letter of the law and these people can't get Wisconsinites to do it right so they get Coloradans (and a felon) to do it by any means necessary? Jail time. Nothing short of jail time and throwing out their entire recall effort will suffice.

:mad:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

3. And Utahans, too. "The American Recall Coalition"

The American Recall Coalition, which is affiliated with the group Americans Against Immigration Amnesty and which is also known as the American Patriot Recall Coalition (APRC), is based in Utah and started efforts in February, 2011 to recall the Democratic Wisconsin state senators...The group's board and advisors are listed on the APRC's Web site with only their photos and first names.

Good Luck and thank you for your hard work! :yourock: