The dirty tricks are in full effect in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin voters are reporting receiving robocalls that claim voters who signed recall petitions or voted to recall Governor Scott Walker are not required to vote again tomorrow, June 5th. This is incorrect information.
Regardless of whether you signed petitions or voted previously, you still need to vote tomorrow in the June 5th recall election.
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Must be important to set the stage in case your side loses, then you can point back to the "cause" as predicted...
Ed and team are already beginning to start their "excuses machine" as they see the writing on the wall for a Barrett LOSS! In fact, Tom Barrett has a relationship with ACORN, which is already documented in the press. So if there is any voter fraud; it will be attempted by the left (again). Only a dozen people showed up to see Ed in Wisconsin. "Least Influential in 2011"
Yes those dirty tricks they are ways up to.......Tell me something new. Typical right wing behavior......
hey, TM, haven't seen you post for awhile.
missed you.
Love you Ed and I reject the politics of demagoguery so often practiced by the GOP. But trumpetting Jesse Jackson's comments on your show equating Scott Walker to George Wallace is equally counter-productive. Promoting shallow ad hominem attacks says more about us than them. I also thought the shout-down you exposed your guest to on the voter fraud issue was less than dignified. You are arguing from a better position and you are an outstanding progressive advocate. You can do better than this. Not your best night.
That is typical Ed Schultz. A bully. This is why GQ voted Ed "The Least Influential in 2011"! He has a tiny show, with tiny rating, watched by tiny people with tiny thoughts. For a 'big' guy, he's actually quite tiny.
@Occupy Wacko, RE:
Gov. Walker is the one who started the "excuse machine" when he forewarned that 2% to 3% of the vote could be attributed to voter fraud.
However, the biggest potential for causing voter fraud would be whoever is behind the robocalls that claim voters who signed recall petitions or voted to recall Governor Scott Walker are not required to vote again tomorrow, through an underhanded attempt to mislead registered voters into believing that signing the petition to have Walker recalled and/or voting to have him recalled is sufficient to vote for Barrett tomorrow without having to vote tomorrow - and that is so blatantly false that no one should fall for that trick. Unfortunately, given the sorry state of Education we have I'm not confident that there isn't anyone ignorant to fall for that trick. Ergo, that is an attempt to fraudulently suppress the vote, and if the perpetrator is caught, whoever he/she happens to be should be charged with one count of voter fraud for each robocall.
Best wishes to We the People, especially the Wisconsinites, that the city of Milwaukee will need a new Mayor to replace Barrett. As to Walker, maybe he'll get hired by the Koch Brothers so he can get paychecks instead of bribes from them.
I am a Milwaukee Police Dispatcher. Myself and the 911 operators do not share the same union as the police officers and fire department. I am still working at 2006 wages, and our union was in arbitration for us to at least get wage pay up to 2010 cost of living wages, right before Scott Walker took office as governor. Since he took away my union collective bargaining rights....they cancelled the arbitration and we never got our cost of living wage increase and for three years they even froze a step increase pay we got every year for the first 8 years of employment (not even dollar per hour). While I see police officers, sergeants, lieutenants, etc....they got their cost of living increase...and back pay. One sergeant I know got over $25.000 worth of 2 years of back pay. He still has his union.
Teachers in my children's schools are losing their jobs, getting pink slips due to Walker's cuts. The classrooms are already over crowded.
I saw many friends and family loose their houses due to the housing collapse in 2008. I live in a middle to upper middle class neighborhood...I still see many more houses going up for sale....foreclosures. The State Attorney General and Governor Scott Walker took $25 million of the state's foreclosure settlement funds -funds that should be directed to neighborhoods-and paid down the unbalanced budget , robbing Milwaukee residence that were foreclosed on of this money.
TOO MANY REASONS WHY *NOT* TO VOTE FOR SCOTT WALKER...HE WILL RUN WISCONSIN INTO THE GROUND...LIKE REPUBLICANS DID TO MICHIGAN!!!
-Governor Walker Eliminated The Historic $3.6 Billion Deficit Without Raising Taxes.
-Governor Walker Signed A True Property Tax Freeze And Reduced The Property Tax Bill For The Median Valued Homeowner For The First Time In 12 Years.
-School property taxes also went down by $47 million, the first reduction in six years.
-Taxpayers Have Saved Over A Billion Dollars Due To Governor Walker Fundamental Reforms.-Wisconsin Added 23,321 Jobs In 2011.
*Wisconsin Has Created 10,100 Private Sector Jobs In 2012 Under Governor Walker.
*Wisconsin Has Created 13,400 Manufacturing Jobs Since Governor Walker Took Office.
-Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Is 6.7 Percent In April of 2012, The Lowest Since 2008.
-The Number Of New Businesses Entities Formed In Wisconsin Was 13,006. This is an increase of 11.9 percent.
Run it into the ground? That's what I call moving Wisconsin in the right direction.
Regurgitating talking points never impresses anyone. You lost me at 3.6 billion... Please identify your sources, state of residence, and level of education.
Governor Walker was elected by a majority of the people in Wisconsin. The Democrats have a history of trashing the Constitution and decided they know better than the majority. Today the citizens will be forced to vote AGAIN. Today the majority will speak AGAIN.
Everyone who signed the recall should have to pay for this wasted election. Thanks for wasting time and money.
Happily, Eric.
Thanks for wasting time and money.
The funny thing about it is that liberals don't pay enough in taxes to cover the costs of their own shenanigans.
It's just another case of the liberal's "let someone else pay for what I want" attitude.
Isint it obvious both sides do this? Everyone in here saying Dem. or Rep. is right. Same with trashing the Constitution, same with raising taxes. They both don't have the majority of the People's interests at heart. Has been that way for a long time. We should all pick third parties that match our true beliefs. There is a big spectrum, and many are not corrupt! Don't get that with Dem/Rep.
This is much ado about nothing. If any potential voter believes this stuff and as a result stays home, then that would be prima facie evidence, that voter is too dumb to vote.
Lighten up folks. :-0
Does anyone remember when Democrats and Republicans used too represent both the "Winners and Losers?" Now politics is a "My side won, so suck on that", mentality, why? And more importantly, what can we do too change it back?
Yo! WeNeedRonPaul! DITTO-HEAD! Get it through your thick scull --- t h e r e w a s n o DEFICIT! IT WAS A LIE! you've been HOOD-WINKED, BAMBOOZLED, TAKEN FOR THE FOOL YOU ARE! (why do i think this is not the first time.)
The Republicans are always using lies and deceptions to cover up their poor records, hideous policies and to find a way to steal elections. Why have we not removed them from our political arena??
Because then there would be only one party left "using lies and deceptions to cover up their poor records, hideous policies and to find a way to steal elections"
And then their good little robots come onto left blogs trying to either deny or like the future leader of Fox news misinformation try to make it appear like sour grapes, why to cover up their tendencies to whine and cry when elections don't go the way they want. You know the good old if we do it you must do it to defense. Except good rusty proves just how far a tea bagging republican will go in the false hood department.
we are for the most part cowards & lazy not me or you of course
Rusty...I thought that the small amount of fraud that happened in elections really isn't significant. Why are the libs so worried?
It is pretty sad if someone is that stupid to believe a line about not having to vote again. That is almost as funny as telling them that Republicans vote tomorrow and Democrats vote on Wednesday.
And then right on cue out comes a sock puppet.
Storm- I do seem to remember libs on here declaring there was no reason for election law changes- no fraud of any import, etc. Funny as to how before the election even occurs, they are setting up a "just in case" defense.
I believe it was a republican that lost the ballot in their SC election. That has NOTHING to do with voter fraud and everything to do with crooked republicans.
Nice map Larry...
OK Larry- we will just have to paste and save this set of entries for when allegations are against Democrats- and the fleas come out of the woodwork saying how elections are fair, etc. I'm just getting a kick out of how the Left is preparing their excuses before the election even happens. Heck- if I've read the headlines and sites many have posted, I would have thought a win was a shoo-in.
Right yet who is it already saying that voter fraud will be a problem tomorrow, oh yeah thats right its Walker only he is making the claim for the type of fraud that doesn't happen at the voter level.
Actually, from what I have heard, Ed has already been doing some whining of his own...
Kim G- remove them from the political arena - are suggest firing squads or what?
rusty,
and you don't see the repubs as doing the same thing?
talking about voter fraud, if they lose, they want to blame it on voter fraud.
that must be OK with you.
The Republicans don't practice voter fraud. They practice vote suppression. It's a different technique, and far more effective.
Firing squads? I didn't know Bane Capital was involved in this.....ha zinger......
but in all seriousness the entire GOP backed voter fraud scare agenda is the same sore loser-ness they accuse the dems of on WI having a recall in the first place.
Voter fraud is only happening when dems are winning to mainstream republicans notice how they talk about '08 had so much voter fraud(4 yrs ago) that was so huge and systemic yet in '10(2 yrs ago) no talk of fraud.....and remember we didn't have those benevolent you now must show id you've never before had to show to vote laws which we of course needed so much because of all the terrible fraud(gasp)
Next time these gop freshman governors want to talk about voter fraud clearly happening in '08 which is why just had to have these new laws ask them how we know the election they were voted in on was far. After all we didn't have those laws then, right and if it happend 4 years ago why wouldn't it have happend 2 years ago. Ha Ha
watch them chase their tale on that one
Why do Black Americans vote Democratic? Learn more here - history is important and the truth doesn't have an agenda:
youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZpD34Xk3M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZpD34Xk3M
Suzette- you crack me up. I think it is about even across the board. Both sides do things that the other side finds reprehensible. I would suggest that by-and-large- with the notable exception of the Chicago Machine in 1960- that it pretty much evens out. And I guess I'm fine with how 1960 turned out because JFK was one of my favorites, and Nixon was a pos. Now where did you ever get the notions you get. You don't stereotype people to fit your beliefs, do you?
Oh that's easy because they're too stupid to know who's really on their side right righties........and you wonder why we vote for democrats.....
have you ever considered that the notion that people of color are decieved or can't decide on their own who they support or not based on their own intelligence is a bit condescending?
If it's so clear democrats have always been and are still really racist wouldn't that mean people would have to be too dumb to figure that out for themselves like apparently white republicans can? If it's so obvious wouldn't people have to be idiots to not see it? Perhaps now you can the problem.
Nothing is more insulting than telling someone that they in fact do not think or feel the way they do. So black people don't know what they actually think? Madness.
You can bring up whatever history you want from the civil war however this is over a century later, and guess what..... times change. 'cuz people can't change of course. Fact is the racists, the white supremacists or today support the GOP this is undeniable. Say whatever you want but the anti-black racists of 2012 vote republican. Sorry but a guy named Barry Goldwater screwed that up for you, but he did. Funny how the south which supported slavery in the civil war so naturally all southerns must still support it according to your logic....votes republican and stopped voting democrat because they weren't racist enough anymore.
The majority of colored people vote democrat because of this condescending bull$hit the neo-conservatives push while trying to say the party that has the most non-white vote hates non-white people. You do realize they are part of the party too right so their opinions count when talking about the party as a whole right? I mean really do you people think this $hit out? Really? Really? Put down the bottle, put down the crack pipe and join us in the really F------- world. Guess if the democratic party is white nationalist they'll not be voting for their candidate in the election...you know the mixed race president.........
Keep this $hit up and you'll keep losing minority voters because of this. Keep denying other people's feelings and they'll keep not voting for you. Keep denying the birther crap has no racial elements, keep denying the fact that all these abortions laws and attacks on women's health or fair pay would affect any women, keep thinking the language around immigration doesn't in any way affect what latino voters might think.
If you people would for five seconds actually listen to the other side and think about what they are saying and then give your own opinion it would make a huge difference. It's just that simple. Say "I acknowledge your view now here's mine..."
How hard would that be, you don't have to change anything you think, you don't have to compromise just act like you're actually listening when other people speak instead of denying or ignoring it like other opinions don't matter.
If the People of Cheese Head land let this hunk of @!$%# stay in office. they will get what they surly deserves a ( good old boy @!$%#ING ) for 100 years union members that vote for him should be out of there jobs June 6th ---but then again your all going to be out of a job
Beth has great hair !
Beth I have to ask if you really know they different between a good old boys party and the good ole boys party? It just kills me when people think that repub are just good old boys. Some of the biggest "good ole boys" were democrats. Another thing do you know how many states, county or city union retirements aren't solvent right now and how many more won't be in 5 years? Do you know who pay's those funds all of the good old people.
Beth- I'm sure you are meaning Cheese Head in a slur fashion. It is actually a term of endearment.
Just goes to show how out-of-touch the Liberals are (like Beth) that don't even understand the citizens of Wisconsin. They are all against Voter ID and efforts to eliminate fraud; now they're working on their list of excuses for a Barrett loss tomorrow. How priceless is that?!? LMAO! Wisconsin will continue to prosper under a Walker administration, which other states will see and work to emulate. All eyes on Wisconsin: Tea Party! Save the WI tax payers!
Yeah wacko all 7 of them in the last election. Or for you simple minded righties 0.0002%. The voter fraud is out of control huh wacko? Throw some more lies out as everything you have posted for weeks is lies why stop now?
wacker,
please.
the repubs are doing the same thing. getting their base all worked over a lie. preparing repubs for their excuse that if they lose, it will be because of voter fraud.
hatred and bigotry are powerful motivators. this is what keeps the repubs on message.
they know how to stay on message.
one trick pony.
Next time you think about racism, hatred and bigotry: Watch this video and learn something from a black American:
youtube.com/watch?v=xryXpK042pQ
Just watched it...poor choice Wacko. You have derailed.
I think it's an excellent choice and right on the mark to help educate people like those in Milwaukee. Thank you!
trust me, Whatsright, that particular, slick-little-snake NEEDED to be shouted down! i have problems digesting Ed's style, too, but not at THAT moment!
5 Facts About The Massachusetts Economy Under Mitt Romney
By Travis Waldron on Jun 4, 2012 at 9:35 am
Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign whipped out a new number over the weekend to dispute federal government data that ranked Massachusetts 47th in job creation during Romney’s time as governor there. Three separate campaign advisers used the Sunday morning news circuit to claim that the state was actually 30th in job growth in Romney’s final year in office.
Of course, moving the state to 30th would still mean it was in the bottom half of the nation, a fact that would seem to fit assertions from local experts that the state’s economy was “below average and often near the bottom” while Romney was governor. Here are five facts about the Massachusetts economy from Romney’s 2003-2007 tenure:
1) Its job growth was poor: Despite Romney’s professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job growth during his time as governor. The state’s total job growth was just 0.9 percent, well behind other high-wage, high-skill economies in New York (2.7), California (4.7), and North Carolina (7.6). The national average, meanwhile, was better than 5 percent.
2) Its labor force declined: Only Louisiana, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saw a bigger decline in its labor force than Massachusetts during Romney’s tenure as governor. That decline largely explains the state’s decreasing unemployment rate (from 5.6 to 4.7 percent) while Romney was in office, according to Northeastern University economics professor Andrew Sum. At the same time, the nation as a whole added 8 million people to the labor force.
3) It lost manufacturing jobs at twice the national rate: Massachusetts lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs during Romney’s time in office, according to Sum. The loss was double the rate that the nation as a whole lost manufacturing jobs. In 2004, Romney vetoed legislation that would have banned companies doing business with the state from outsourcing jobs to other countries.
4) It was “below average,” “often near the bottom”: “There was not one measure where the state did well under his term in office. We were below average and often near the bottom,” Sum told the Washington Post in February. As a result, the state was more comparable to Rust Belt states like Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio than it was to other high-tech economies it typically competes with.
5) It piled on more debt than any state: Romney left Massachusetts residents with $10,504 in per capita bond debt, the highest of any state in the nation when he left office in 2007. The state ranked second in debt as a percentage of personal income. Romney regularly omits those statistics from his Massachusetts record, instead touting the fact that he balanced the state’s budget (he was constitutionally required to do so). He wouldn’t be much different as president: his proposed tax plan adds more than $10 trillion to the national debt.
Romney bleeds jobs just like Bush
I only have one thing too say! If the People of Wisconsin don't get out and Vote, at least better than 67% you deserve what you get! Get out and Vote this guy out for the Countries sake of,not just the State! We have too take these Republicans out of Politic! All they do is lie to the People?
I can answer Ed's question, right for the Horses' Mouth:
PollDateSampleWalker (R)Barrett (D)Spread
RCP Average
5/17 - 6/3
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51.5
44.8
Walker +6.7
WeAskAmerica
6/3 - 6/3
1570 LV
54
42
Walker +12
PPP (D)
6/2 - 6/3
1226 LV
50
47
Walker +3
Marquette University
5/23 - 5/26
600 LV
52
45
Walker +7
WPR/St. Norbert
5/17 - 5/22
406 LV
50
45
Walker +5
See All Wisconsin Governor Recall Election - Walker vs. Barrett Polling Data
I think Eddy will be a worse loser than he is a winner............Has he ever won anything? Oh, what about his MSNBC ratings.....Ya, that's right, O'Reily beats Eddy 3.5 to 1. What about the Zimmerman case.......Eeesh, that was a loss, too.
Well, Eddy, at least you have a lot of experience at losing, which will come in handy tomorrow.
luv
dmb
Dee-Bobbity-du...........du!
100% Ed viewer everyday - 2 times a day even!
Get out the Vote Democrats!!!
Barrett for Governor!
............And you are one of the sharper ones. I luv this site.
"Thank you" "Thank you very much"
Elizabeth's hair is not as nice as Beth's hair
IF YOU ARE A WI. VOTER PLEASE NOTE:
FB page from unitewomen.org:
ANOTHER NUMBER TO TAKE TO THE POLLS WITH YOU IN CASE OF ANY POSSIBLE INCIDENTS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION/FRAUD:
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Originally posted to Olympia on Mon Jun 04, 2012 at 11:37 AM PDT.
I can sense the desperation coming from Beth and her friends on this blog. I can just smell the fear from the Liberals as they see their fantasies crumbling around them. Time to put on your big boy pants and be a real American vs. an entitlement parasite looking for your next 'wealth redistribution' check from Uncle Sam.
Awwwwwwwwwww, how sweet!
Vote Barrett for Governor!
Obama/Biden 2012
Yes, please: Double Icing on that Cake:
Wall Street Journal: Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment. Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year
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Ed is still overweight... maybe Mayor Bloomberg can help him ?
And steve just has to insult. A true sign of lack of information. Air between the ears.
Air between the ears.
Didn't you just get your wings clipped by the mods for making those types of statements?
Stu
I've been trying to convince him to change his ways but he just won't. I'd hate to see anything negative happen. The libs here need all the horsepower they can get.
Today will be a great day for Conservatism. Win it for the gipper.
maybe Bloomberg can help chris christie, too.
Jerry. Why would I listen to thief and liar Such as yourself.
Jerry. Why would I listen to thief and liar Such as yourself.
Thief? And just what did I steal?
David Shuster: "(Scott Walker) is, in fact, a target in a federal investigation."
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The Isthmus, a weekly newspaper in Madison, is reporting on a media conference call held last evening where it was alleged that Scott Walker is a target of federal investigators in addition to being a target of the Milwaukee County District Attorney.
During the call organized by state Democrats, reporter David Shuster expanded on comments he made earlier this week and said that he now has independent verification that Walker "... is, in fact, a target in a federal investigation."
Former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager and former district attorney Bob Jambois also participated in the call.
Whoever is responsible and instituted those robocalls needs to be arrested and charged with vote tampering - plain and simple. That is just yellow politics, and unconscionable.
AIG CEO Benmosche Endorses Wall Street's "Work-'til-You're-Dead" (80 yrs old) Economic "Solution"
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Robert Benmosche, the CEO of AIG--a company that has received over $180 billion in federal bailouts and is still 62% owned by U.S. taxpayers—has gone on record today, in an interview at Bloomberg, stating that a major part of the financial solution for Greece, and for countries such as the United States, is the reality that the 99% people just need to understand that they’re going to have work longer…until they’re “70, 80 years old.”
Behold! Your Public Sector Unions at Work
youtube.com/watch?v=su4PwZCWUdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4PwZCWUdg
Watch out for voter irregularities in Republican strong holds in Wisconsin. I'd be willing to bet there won't be a clear winner and this will end up decided by the courts.
Labor Union Fraud in Wisconsin
Recall Petition Campaign?
What started with a man noticing his friend’s signature four times on recall petitions could result in felony charges.
The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate possible fraudulent recall signatures collected by Mark Demet, a Racine man whose brother’s signature was found four times on petitions to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine). His mother’s signature was also found twice.
But both say they didn’t sign, said Capt. Thomas Lamke of the Racine County Sheriff’s Office. Lamke said he has also heard reports of other possibly fraudulent signatures on petitions circulated by Mark Demet and investigators are talking to people who signed those petitions.
“It’s ongoing,” Lamke said about the investigation.
At the bottom of the recall petitions, circulators must sign below a statement that says, “I am aware that falsifying this certification is punishable under statute 12.13 (3)(a).” That is a portion of state law pertaining to election fraud.
Lamke said if anyone is convicted of election fraud, it would be a Class I felony and is punishable with up to a $10,000 fine and three years in prison.
The Journal Times called more than a dozen people listed on recall petitions that Mark Demet is listed as circulating. Most did not answer when contacted Monday. But at least one man contacted Monday who is listed on a recall petition circulated by Mark Demet said he didn’t sign.
Dennis Sargent, of Racine, who is listed on a petition circulated by Mark Demet, said he didn’t sign when contacted by The Journal Times.
“Capital N-O,” said Sargent, who is retired from SC Johnson and said he knows Mark Demet. He also said the address listed on the petition is his brother’s address, not his. Also, the name “Oscar Sargent” is signed on a petition, listed at Dennis Sargent’s brother’s address, and Dennis Sargent said he did not know of anyone named “Oscar Sargent” living at his brother’s address or anywhere else...
We have to make sure Waukesha County doesn't rig the vote in favor of Walker. They have had in the past a tendency to be very slow with the voter count and surprise, surprise if the republican is losing Waukesha County gives them the lead. Waukesha County is a stronghold in Wisconsin for republicans.
Watch our for Liberal/ACORN activists attempt to create fraudulent votes and their use of absentee voting.
Do you want to rethink your position?
A number of people here are confusing two separate issues, voter fraud and voter suppression tactics. There is virtually no voter fraud (i.e., trying to vote more than once, etc.) -- it's hard enough to get people to vote at all. The Republicans make unfounded accusations of "widespread voter fraud" fairly routinely now, even though no one can find it. Voter suppression is the implementation of new rules that make voting harder for a targeted portion of the population, as well as a wide range of such tactics as intentionally misinforming people, moving the DMV (needed for photo IDs) away from towns/cities, making them impossible for many (the elderly, disabled, poor) to access, etc.
Go BADGERS!!... No MERCY for WALKER!!... RECALL is a DISH, that's best when SERVED COLD!!!
Liberalism is in it's last throes ! Liberalism caused the melt down in the banking industry, and liberalism is about to sink Europe. No, austerity has not been tried in Europe, only higher taxes. Sound familiar ? That's right, Obama wants to do the same thing, increase taxes to quench his insatiable appetite for profligate spending!
State employee unions have sent California into debt, and naturally the liberal Jerry Brown has gone to the tax payers to prop up union pensions that cannot be sustained. Walker must win in order to help other states see the light. The liberal mentality of entitlement must be reversed in this country, and in Europe before all the economies of the world are destroyed for generations.
Again, liberalism is in it's last throes, but can the world survive liberalism's last throes ? Liberalism is all about too many people riding, and not enough pushing the wagon.
California..... Poster State For Obama's Second Term.
They say they are already living in Obama's second term in California.
All the other msnbc obama propaganda shows have been playing down this election,they are setting themselves up for a loss. The last several months this election had great significance, now that a lose is possible it has none.
Hey Ed, the unions called and they want their $200,000 back that they paid you to stump for them in Wisconsin. They realized you were a bad investment and should have heeded the vote last year in GQ magazine when you were selected as the LEAST INFLUENTIAL in 2011 in cable news programs.
Walker Challenger Tom Barrett’s ACORN Connection
Posted by Matthew Vadum Bio ↓ on May 29th, 2012
Long before Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Democratic opponent in the approaching recall election decided to throw his hat in the gubernatorial ring he was busy collaborating with the street thugs of America’s largest radical organization.
Yet another big city mayor feeding at the trough, Milwaukee’s corrupt mayor Tom Barrett has been working with the boulevard Bolsheviks of ACORN for years to fleece taxpayers. Like ACORN, Barrett has been willing to jettison his so-called social justice credentials when there’s big money involved. When serving in Congress, Barrett sold his soul years ago, siding with wealthy Indian casino interests against poorer tribes.
Various far-left groups, including the recently re-branded affiliates of ACORN, have been promoting the recall of Walker, fomenting unrest, and encouraging street violence inside and outside Wisconsin. The Occupy Wall Street protests, for example, are part of what ACORN’s sociopathic Marxist founder Wade Rathke calls an “anti-banking jihad.” The Working Families Party, another ACORN front group, participated in the protests by raising money and paying for rent-a-mobs in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
In 2010 Barrett launched “Take Root Milwaukee,” which grew out of his Milwaukee Foreclosure Partnership Initiative (MFPI). According to Barrett that useless feel-good program has “assisted thousands of families in Milwaukee [to obtain] housing counseling, engage in mediation to prevent foreclosure, and purchase and renovate foreclosed properties.”
As Milwaukee commentator Charlie Sykes quipped at the time, “Maybe Barrett simply wanted to give a shout out to ACORN as a way to make President Obama feel more at home when he visits…”
Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA), which used to be called ACORN Housing, was one of the Barrett-endorsed groups participating in Take Root Milwaukee.
AHCOA was showered with at least $729,849 in taxpayer funding by the Obama administration last year despite powerful evidence of corruption and massive accounting irregularities at the longtime affiliate of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
ACORN Housing was the largest affiliate of ACORN, the notorious group brought down by undercover videos showing its employees facilitating child prostitution in 2009. ACORN Housing changed its name two years ago to AHCOA to escape the stigma of being associated with ACORN, the former employer and legal client of President Obama. ACORN’s state chapters have restructured themselves and now go by names such as New York Communities for Change and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, both of which have been heavily involved in organizing and financing the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Some of the other ACORN front groups across America are: Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE); Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ) (New Mexico); Action United (Pennsylvania); Organize Now (Florida), Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change; and New England United for Justice (Massachusetts).
ACORN, which used to employ President Obama, has a long, inglorious history of fraud that I document in my book Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers. At least 54 employees and individuals associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud and ACORN itself was convicted of a type of voter fraud in Nevada last year. The Obama administration has ignored a nearly $1 million embezzlement within ACORN and multiple apparent counts of pension fraud.
Take Root Milwaukee and the hundreds of futile government initiatives dreamt up by the socialists and statists who run many of the nation’s big city political machines were built on the demonstrably false premise that only the bankers of Wall Street were to blame for problems in the housing market. Such programs typically gloss over the role that dunderheaded government bureaucrats, policy makers, and left-of-center politicians like Barrett played in inflating the bubble.
Wisconsin voters, beware of dirty tricks
Like a MSLSD TV show host bumping his chops about who to vote for!!!!!
So ed after walkers wins, how would you like your crow prepared?
"The complete and utter disregard for Wisconsin's election law by individuals associated with the recall of Governor Walker is increasing by the day. These repeated online communications are being posted by individuals who claim to have signed the same petition multiple times, signed on behalf of family members, and even under fraudulent names.
"These shameful tactics on the part of Wisconsin Democrats only highlight the fact that this baseless recall of Governor Walker is nothing more than an attempted power grab on the part of liberal special interests. The incidents were brought to our attention by citizens throughout Wisconsin who are concerned with a process fraught with repeated allegations of recall petition fraud on the part of Wisconsin Democrats."