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Since money is speech, it follows that the amount of speech you have a right to is decided not by your fundamental rights, but by your net worth. Since the Koch brothers have more money than me, they are entitled to have more say in their governance than me.
We can never have true democracy in this country until Citizens United is overturned, plain and simple.
One of the groups I'm involved with has been receiving reports that people are being turned away, made to show picture ID, not allowed to register, and various other efforts at stopping them from getting their voices heard.
We're doing everything we can out here to get every possible person to vote and to have their vote count. And our enemies are doing everything they can to confuse or outright block people. It's disgusting.
if everyone votes, they lose.
luckily for them, young and working people are easily distracted by bread lines and for-profit circuses.
Keep up the excuse making…...
The dems should make a HUGE deal about this. There is one party that wants fewer people to vote. Somehow they have let the republicans dominate the debate with their voter fraud hysteria.
Republicans get away with fucking everything though. It's major bullshit, and they only way they are still a competitive national party are through these "lets stop people from voting" measures they pass all the time.
Hey, hey. HEY. Hey. Voter fraud is a big deal, a huge threat. Like, a dozen or so votes in any given election may be fraudulent, and if we need to cut 10,000 people off the rolls to help stamp out those dozen fraudulent votes, then that's just what we'll have to do. The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of patriots, or something like that.
Never mind that the majority of Wisconsin voters have not problem with limits on state unions; I mean Jesus, even the Democrat isn't running to defend the SEIU's right to collectively bribe (sorry 'bargain') politicians. You morons can't even nominate a candidate who supports the so-called reason for the recall.
The Repubs have got nothing on apathy.
I'm all for free speech, but willful lying shouldn't be covered, especially when it's part of a concerted conspiracy. It's sad that it's illegal to defraud people of property, but not their rights of citizenship.
However, I hope your condemnation is consistent. A Walker voter I know here was peeved this week when she got six (6!) visits by canvassers that had her address and a fake name with it as having signed the recall petition. ie, someone fraudulently used her address to sign the petition. You know, a serious crime.
Pissed me off to hear a real example of petition fraud. No matter which side did it.
...and I agree that those responsible for these shameful calls should be prosecuted.
UW employee spent hours web surfing, gets 916 hours of OT
Posted by Katherine Long
A University of Washington fire alarm control supervisor made 5,211 visits to non-work-related websites during a 16-month period, a state auditor’s report has found.
According to the report, the employee made visits to sports, fantasy football, animal rescue, social networking and video websites, and a personal email account, during a 16-month period in 2010 and 2011. The employee made 30 visits a day to non-work-related sites on at least 50 separate dates, and 192 visits to non-work-related sites in a single day.
During an overlapping 13-month time period, the auditor’s office found that the employee was paid 916 hours of overtime, or about 3.3 hours of overtime a day.
But university officials say they do not believe the employee was racking up overtime while surfing the Web.
As part of an $8 million project to replace all the fire alarms on campus, the UW had asked the employee and a second supervisor to work up to 3 hours of overtime a day, for two years, to supervise the project. The two men made about $30,000 a year extra in overtime, said Charles Kennedy, associate vice president of facilities services. Their base salary is about $70,000.
At the same time, informed citizens would end up being informed via the media, and if the media isn't doing its job in reporting stories like this very well, then it's hard to blame people if they become confused (OK, no it isn't, but it's at least a little understandable).
I'd be curious to know, verbatim, what the call said, because if it actually said, "if you signed petition X, your vote has been registered and you needn't report to your designated polling place today/tomorrow/whenever," then it is illegal.
They must have either added something on the end of the call, after most people would have hung up, or worded it very carefully...or, they're in violation of the law and no one is bothering to do anything about it.
It's a case of "me or your lying eyes" in here now.
There is ultimately no replacement for charisma and talkin' good.
I'm all for recalling this son of a bitch. My parents, grandfathers, aunts and uncles were all union workers. But I can't decide which is worse, the fact that dishonest tactics are at play in this election, or the commenters from the link Paul provided.
your public service unions are going down....
bitches.
and beating your asses is a nice way to do it.
EEEEYHAAAUW!!!