Posted on 01/24/2005 9:05:11 AM PST by UB355
The insurance companies WILL proceed to obtain civil judgments.
Nope. It was cigarettes-for-votes.
Also, with same-day-registration, at LEAST 1200 voters registered/voted--with addresses in parks, bridges, and vacant lots.
Further, there are 8300 more votes cast in the City of Milwaukee than there are registrations.
GWB lost Wisconsin by about 14K votes--and we don't have numbers on Racine, Kenosha, Burlington, Beloit, or Madison yet.
Wanna speculate?
As to our District Attorney, the Lollipop King:
From Jessica McBride we get this:
After the 2000 presidential election, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found that at least 361 felons on supervision had voted illegally in Milwaukee (I reported the story along with journalist Dave Umhoefer). McCann charged three felons. But the charges were tossed after McCann’s office said it couldn’t prove the allegations—including one involving a former attorney who presumably would have known the law.
When local television nabbed an out-of-state Democratic operative offering cigarettes to homeless people in Milwaukee to encourage them to vote in 2000, McCann decided against criminal charges and instead charged her with a civil small claims complaint. She paid a fine, even though it’s a felony to entice someone to vote by giving them something worth more than $1.
McCann’s office issued civil, not criminal, charges against acting Mayor Pratt, when serious problems were found in Pratt’s campaign finance papers for mayor.
McCann’s office did not file charges after then-Milwaukee County Election Commission chairman James Heidenreich signed the fictitious name “Humphrey Pushcart” on a petition to recall then-County Executive F. Thomas Ament.
It was left to the state Republican Party to investigate thousands of Milwaukee voter registration addresses in this November’s presidential election because no one else was doing it. The party announced it had found numerous nonexistent addresses. The reaction from the system? Pretty much nothing.
After a municipal judge candidate (who was a former head of the state Elections Board) sent a form that allegedly sought financial contributions to government offices, including to the head of McCann’s white-collar crime unit, another prosecutor initially said he couldn’t act because he could not obtain a copy of the form. It had been reprinted in the newspaper.
When a Marquette University student went on television and said he voted four times in the 2000 presidential election, McCann scolded him but did not charge him with elections violations after the student recanted. He was charged with selling fraudulent identification cards.
McCann’s office criminally charged eight workers with the African-American Coalition for Empowerment voting drive in connection with a county board recall election. He held a news conference to announce the filing of 92 felony charges. But his office later reduced almost all the charges after losing a case in court.
Would any of these things happen if he hadn’t made it known that he has no interest in aggressively prosecuting election law violations?
not that I am bucking for a tinfoil hat,or anything.
Wisconsin, specifically the City of Milwaukee, was STOLEN from GWB in the 2000 election. The Dim won Wisconsin by 5,000 or so votes that year.
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