On the radio, he is buddies with the libelous, adulterous Charlie Sykes and the drunken brawler Vicki McKenna. He also has found allies in the such as the greedy and amoral Koch Brothers, the Bradley Foundation, a swift boater in Texas and scofflaws like Nicholas Hurtgen and Mark Block.
And who could ever forget his best friends, like Tim Russell, Kelly Rindfleisch and Darlene Wink.
And that's just barely scratching the surface of the miscreants and reprobates Walker is wont to surround himself with.
Now, he's got a new group of "friends" that he is relying on to pull his hide out of trouble.
The people I'm referring to is the King Street Patriots, a teahadist group out of Texas, who are the people behind the "True the Vote" project. Walker is counting on this group to be able to successfully sue the GAB into taking their "findings" into account and they go about certifying the recall petitions. Apparently he couldn't find enough people in Wisconsin, despite having $12 million he could have paid them with, to be willing to stand up for him. That alone should tell you something.
But Walker's reliance on this group will bring about even bigger problems for him.
His first problem is that they're going to make him look like an even bigger fool than he already does. The "True the Vote" group is actually claiming that the recallers don't have enough signatures to trigger a recall of Walker. But the good people at PR Watch is already on top of it and found that this group started out with phony numbers and made some wild and unsubstantiated assumptions:
True the Vote states that volunteers from around the U.S. entered approximately 820,000 of the recall signatures into a database developed by True the Vote, and their analysis showed that only 534,685 recall signatures are eligible, almost 6,000 short of the required 540,000 mark. Their executive summary states they only processed 138,203 of the total 152,508 petitions submitted – meaning over 14,305 pages were never entered. True the Vote boasts in their summary that each signature line was entered an average of 2.67 times. It is not known why they entered names and signatures nearly three times each into the database but failed to input the complete data set.They then go on to examine, parse and fisk some of the names that "True the Vote" is claiming to be invalid. The TtV claims don't hold any water under even the simplest of examinations and only shows how fraudulent Walker's and their claims really are.
The group claims that less than the necessary 540,000 signatures are eligible “based on data available.” According to their summary, out of the nearly 820,000 signatures reviewed, 55,608 were deemed “ineligible” and an additional 228,940 signatures required “further investigation,” leaving only 534,685 eligible.
Their assumption appears to be that every single one of the 228,940 signatures they flagged “for further investigation” will turn out to in fact be ineligible. They are also assuming that the over 55,608 signatures they deemed “ineligible” would not be counted under Wisconsin law. They are further assuming that every signature on the 14,305 pages they never counted is invalid.
But the fraudulent claims from these teahadists might be the least of Walker's problems. His bigger issue is that he should have taken a look at them before hitching his campaign wagon to them.
TtV and its parent group, King Street Patriots, have shown suspicious behavior surrounding a mysterious fire in Houston Texas. When a fire of unknown origin destroyed all the voting machines in a prominently minority area of Houston, this group came out with a distinctly racist video (which they've since taken down) claiming rampant voter fraud, as part of a larger scheme of voter suppression.*
As if that wasn't enough evidence of the groups' racism, they became openly hostile to a Houston-based GOTV group, sending them rants and threatening messages, including this profanity-laden, horribly-misspelled doozy:
“You liberial scumbags should be hung by the neck in public ! We are on to your voter fraud. Keep it up you MOTHER FUCKERS and you will soon be put down for a long dirt nap! Your nothing but a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics! The WAR is comming and we are going to dispose of each and every one of you while we take OUR (White) nation back.”The Democratic Party has a list of even more garbage these bigoted sociopaths have done, including photoshopping a woman's sign from "Don't mess with our vote" to "I only got to vote once." (The phosphorescent purple in comic sans was a dead give away, although I am surprised it was spelled correctly.)
As the saying goes, "One shall be known by the company they keep." If these racist, scurrilous and fraudulent fools are the people that Walker wants to associate with and use for his support, that's fine. But let's make sure everyone in the state know that these are the values and attitudes he is embracing with both arms.
*If the Republicans' agenda and plans were so wonderful, why do they keep trying to keep people from voting?
What a bunch of sleazeballs! I hope to run into some of these harlequin astroturfers and expose them for the labile pricks that they are.
ReplyDeleteWow. Chris, good thing you didn't work closer to the county supervisor or your name and story would need to be included with this giant list.
ReplyDeleteWas this group around La Crosse, WI sometime in spring 2011?
ReplyDeleteSo this King street Patriots calls out Houston votes for vote fraud, and because of that they are responsible for every whack job with email that threatens the same group. maybe those threats were out of anger because the democratic party has recently gave up their support of the KKK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
ReplyDeleteYou dont think you are stretching the facts a bit? Cap?
By that thinking we can hold the unions on account for every death threat sent to Walker and the republican senators. I can see the headlines now, Unions want to bury Walker next to Hoffa, could be organizing with crime bosses again.
Anyway, i can come up with conjecture by misrepresenting the facts too.
Robert Byrd is dead. Given his historical upbringing in a segregated state, his representation was a reflection of the people who he once served...he was no scalawag.
DeleteAnyway, i can come up with conjecture by misrepresenting the facts too.
ReplyDeleteYou usually do.
I don't think there was much more conjecture in that headline than you used.
DeleteAnd you accused me of trolling? lol
DeleteIf you are frightened at the spectre that you've given tacit support for the carpet-TEAbaggers, do not choose the path of projection bias and disdain for the messenger. As a modern day scalawag for corporate interests, the quickest route to absolution of your misdeeds is to admit your transgressions; then you may begin to gain the respect of your fellow Wisconsinites.
DeleteNice, lol. You would have made an excellent catholic priest!
DeleteLo, who sez that I am not ;^)
DeleteMan these teabagging d-bags are grasping at air these days. As their shrill squeals get louder and louder, we are now seeing their true colors ("Baby Shit Yellow" and "Bruise Red" among others).
ReplyDeleteAs they watch their feckless leader, Scat Wanker, spin around the drain before he moves to the sewer, we should all be ready for more antics from their side.
Imustberacist's stupid comment above is simply the latest attempt by these intellectually challenged weenies to grasp at anything they can find to justify their sick ideas and hate-based lives.
Like the Battle of the Bulge (Not the beer belly Tonette carries around), the right-wingnuts will be trying everything they can to stop the recovery of the state. They will lose.
Wanna throw some more personal attacks in there? Feel better?
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