I listen to Mark Belling here in Chicago. Half of his program is devoted to local issues, half to nationwide. IMO, his style is similar to Roger Hedgecock's, maybe a little more biting.
Right before the election, groups in Milwaukee were using public money to "get out the vote". All well and good, BUT they were focusing on the South side of Milwaukee, highly Democratic.
"Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president."
"The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state."
-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, 10-26-04
Belling went ballistic. He was really po'd. I can see why he might have slipped up with the "wetback" comment.
Liberals were indeed planning on cheating here .. probably did. They were signing up nonexistent people at nonexistent addresses (vacant lots), people voting multiple times, other assorted fraudulent registrations that the the corrupt head of the City Election Commission refused to investigate, even when the fraud was committed right in her office in front of a witness. The head of the Election Commission called the witness and told her that she didn't see what she claimed she saw and that she was interfering with getting people to vote. I am convinced that if they did a recount, President Bush would have carried Wisconsin instead of The Poodle. Fortunately, it didn't give the French-looking candidate the White House.