Posted on 11/05/2004 4:30:03 AM PST by the crow
Police are planning to question the adult children of two prominent Democrats as early as today in the wide-ranging probe into who, early on election day, slashed the tires of 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party.
The investigation has already led to the Tuesday arrest of Opel E. Simmons III, a veteran party activist from Virginia in town to work on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Simmons, 33, was released Thursday afternoon without being charged.
Sources told us that police, who are being assisted by the FBI, plan to speak to Michael Pratt, son of former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, and Supreme Solar Allah, the son of state Sen. Gwen Moore, who won a seat in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. Allah's given name is Sowande Omokunde, and he lives in Moore's north side home, according to her campaign finance reports.
Officials declined to say what role the two sons might have played in the incident or what they might know about it. But numerous police sources made it clear that detectives from the police intelligence division want to quiz them soon.
"They will be talked to," one insider said Thursday evening. "Most likely probably tomorrow."
Even though authorities have not talked to his son, sources said, Marvin Pratt has contacted the Police Department to inquire about the case.
The senior Pratt - the chairman of Kerry's Milwaukee campaign - also popped up on the scene Tuesday night when police arrived to arrest Simmons on a vandalism charge. Also witnessing the arrest, sources said, was someone videotaping the bust.
Neither Marvin nor Michael Pratt returned a call or responded to a message left at Marvin Pratt's house. Moore and her son did not respond to repeated calls.
Because of the sensitive nature of the investigation and the possible involvement of the children of two of the area's best-known politicians, sources said, Police Chief Nannette Hegerty called Mayor Tom Barrett on Wednesday to tell him police would be speaking to Pratt and Allah. Barrett defeated Pratt in April.
A spokesman for the mayor's office confirmed Thursday that "the chief has briefed the mayor on the situation." It's standard for the police chief to keep the mayor in the loop when investigating a politically sensitive case.
Milwaukee police are looking to talk with many more people than just the two sons of the prominent pols.
"They'd like to talk to at least five people," said one source familiar with the investigation.
"Oh, it's more than that," said another source. "The list is about 10 names."
On Tuesday morning, the tires of 20 cars and vans rented by Republican Party officials to carry voters to the polls were sliced. The discovery was made at 6:30 a.m.
The rental cars were parked near a GOP office in the 7100 block of W. Capitol Drive. Police originally said a guard saw a man running from the Republican offices around 6:45 a.m.
Records show Simmons was booked into the police holding facility at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday on an allegation of less than $2,500 worth of property damage. He was released Thursday afternoon, at the direction of the district attorney's office, without being charged.
Sources said his arrest was directly tied to the tire-slashing incident. According to those sources, Simmons is cooperating with investigators.
Simmons runs a consulting business for non-profit and private businesses in Richmond, Va., and was previously a community outreach director for the Richmond Symphony.
For the past 14 years, he's also been active in Democratic politics, working as a community organizer on two previous presidential campaigns. In September, he was named the "base voter director" for the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Soon afterward, Simmons was dispatched to Wisconsin to oversee a corps of 250 volunteers canvassing Milwaukee's north side for Kerry's campaign, according to a story last week in the Hartford Courant.
"His army has knocked on 94,000 doors on Milwaukee's predominantly black north side and will finish knocking on all 125,000 by Friday," the Courant story said. "Then they'll spend the weekend going back to selected homes."
Milwaukee police were led to Simmons because a campaign car linked to the incident had been assigned to him, according to sources. Simmons could not be reached for comment.
Milwaukee police are leading the investigation, and the DA's office will decide whether to level charges. Depending on the total amount of damages, the perpetrators could face felonies.
The U.S. attorney's office is also keeping an eye on the matter. Federal prosecutors could get directly involved later because the slashing involved a political campaign.
From the Nov. 5, 2004, editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sorry, I don't know the answer to that.
It has piqued my curiosity though.
If you do a simple general google search on the solar name, you will be surprised, and I assumed they were muslim, when they talked about the Quran.
Not the kind of folks I need to know.
See, now that kind of thing can't just be thrown out there. It needs to be substantiated (if not in public, then to the Milwaukee PD).
Which would mean leaving your personal vehicle parked there overnight. Not a tough choice in my mind.
A sample of the google search for:
supreme Solar Allah
Web
Results 11 - 20 of about 1,900 for Supreme Solar Allah. (0.36 seconds)
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This is the Title/Header
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They aren't children, period! The article states they are adults.
This spin as "children of..." is an old Liberal Media Trick. Don't fall for it!
I'm NOT falling for it!
they are in their 30s if I recall.
Over 18 and accountable.
You can Google yourself cross-eyed, but your "evidence" leaves me no more convinced that these creatures are Muslim than that they are Freemasons.
Unless your wife, or your friend drove it home for you! I presume that a crew of drivers delivered those vans -- they could have delivered them to homes and then caught a ride back just as easily as they delivered them all to one place.
Oooooh! Who thought that up? Wait a minute, let me guess. The BC04 hired gun from DC?
Good point.
Thanks again. Really appreciate your work.
Check out sbMKE's comment at 119. I'm revising my opinion. We had attempted infiltrations i Oxaukee too.
so you have a 357 in your jacket holster, go to your van, and a minority punk, dressed in black with his face covered lunges up quickly as your foot falls come around the front of the van.
He has a knife, is looking like he might be ready to jump you.. what do you do?
if folks responded in kind to such obvious threats to life and limb... two or three corpses would change the atmosphere of this nation.
nixon's guardsmen killed a couple of kids rioting (no, no they were innocent I tell ya...) and threatening mayhem on the kent state campus.
at the time inner city minorities were rioting and burning EVERY major city in the USA. the riots ended in about 72 hours as other national guardsmen were called out, and government officials read protestors and rioters, the 'riot act'.
end of protests.
and john kerry and his supporters NEVER got over it.
it's time for some SERIOUS law and order.
Bush aint gettin' re elected, this is go or give up time.
and they are all itching for a civil war, and their buddies the greenie terrorists and the islamists... are willing to pitch in to help.
Bush's win this time is even more offensive to them, as his election is decidedly 'legitimate'. And that means the majority of this nation has REJECTED them and their dumb as an ass, agenda.
they are hurt.
they are bitter.
they want to revolt.
they need some SERIOUS discipline.
they wanted to win or die (vote or die).
and they lost.
it's going to be hell.
I think they're too in shock to do anything now, post defeat. Just punks, trash.
Yeah, well, my sports car which has Bush/Cheney stickers and a Arnold "Don't Be A Girlie Man! Vote For Bush!" got keyed and I live in Texas! Lemme catch the Lib who did it and they'll be taking a trip to the hospital!
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