Posted on 01/10/2006 1:29:50 PM PST by johnny7
I think you're on to something.
Thanks, Thunder90! I was just looking for this article; it's not posted yet to either of my locals, but Vicki McKenna covered it in the first hour of her show today on WIBA AM 1310 today. :)
"Chances of this being covered by MSM: 0.0% "
Take heart. It's being covered locally...the evening on-line postings just aren't out yet for the local papers. You're probably right that this won't be on the alphabet channels tonight, but I'm certain one of our local channels will cover it. (Channel 3, WISC TV)
Vicki McKenna covered it in depth on her show today. She had the key witness for the Prosecution on today. You can listen here if you want:
http://www.wiba.com ('Up Front' is her show.)
Besides...what would Thunder90 & I (and others) have to do if the MSM did their job? LOL!
The AP is running it, but OMG! Gwen Moore is claiming her son's being FRAMED for Bush's loss in our state! UN-FRICKEN-BELIEVEABLE!
Five Democratic campaign workers on trial in criminal damage case
By GRETCHEN EHLKE
Associated Press Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Five Democratic presidential campaign workers, including the sons of a congresswoman and a former mayor, were wrongly implicated in Election Day vandalism by national political operatives, defense attorneys argued at their trial Tuesday.
Prosecutors accused the five of slashing 40 tires on get-out-the-vote vans at a Republican campaign office in the early hours before the Nov. 2, 2004, election, causing more than $5,000 in damage.
Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney David Feiss argued that although there were no eyewitnesses, fingerprints or DNA, testimony from the national campaign workers will show the five bragged about the vandalism when they returned to the Democratic campaign office early on Election Day.
"What you will find is that the five gentlemen acted together. ... It was done pursuant to a single plan," Feiss said.
But Robin Shellow, the attorney for Sowande A. Omokunde, the son of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, said campaign violence had occurred in an "orchestrated way" across the country in the weeks leading up to the presidential election.
Shellow said a group of "national professional operatives" sent to the battleground state of Wisconsin wrongly accused Omokunde and the four others in the tire slashings.
"The violence that they're trying to put on these kids from Wisconsin had been happening in an organized way across the country," Shellow told jurors.
The five face up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted of criminal damage to property.
Rodney Cubbie, the attorney for Michael Pratt, son of former Acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt, said the national John Kerry workers, including campaign supervisor Opel Simmons, were the ones who came up with a plan, called Operation Elephant Takeover, to harass Republicans by plastering the GOP office and property with Kerry-Edwards signs and bumper stickers.
Cubbie told jurors the stories from the out-of-state campaign staffers, who he said "have their own motive to lie," have changed during the course of interviews by local and federal investigators.
Also charged were Lewis Caldwell and Lavelle Mohammad, both from Milwaukee, and Justin Howell of Racine.
The state Republican Party rented more than 100 vehicles that were parked in a lot next to the George Bush campaign office to give rides to voters and poll monitors on Election Day.
The five were charged criminally because damage exceeded the threshold of $2,500, prosecutors said.
Moore said prosecutors had turned a criminal damage case into "the crime of the century" because she won election to Congress that Nov. 2.
"It's hard to believe it's not revenge for my being elected," Moore said outside the courtroom.
Moore said after she visited the White House following her election, President Bush shook his finger in her face and blamed her for his loss in Wisconsin.
Oops. Link for above AP story:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/WISCONSINHEADS?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=STATE
BTTT
The trial will be shown live on the Web at Court TV Extra. [30-day supposedly "free" trial offered.]
Why are they just being charged with property damage charges? They were PAID democrat operatives who attempted to affect the presidential election through their illegal actions. Are there no election related charges that apply?
I don't believe it. Or, if it did happen, President Bush was making one of his good natured jests. He's very witty and sharp with off the cuff remarks. If he really did say it, it would demonstrate just how "up" he is on current events. God Bless our President!
We have a Dem DA, that's why.
Mohammed and Supreme Allah. I wonder if they could be brought up on terrorism charges.... oh, my, I guess I just profiled the religion of peace.
Milwaukee city officials admitted in January 2005 that around 10,000 same-day registrations could not be verified, leaving open the possibility of fraud.Registering at the polls was instituted in order to ensure fraud by the Dhimmicrats. I'm in favor of a nationwide system for national elections, using secure socket layer link to verify the identification, and to avoid duplication. Naturally, some sort of documentation would also be required.
Live goons and dead voters. That's what it takes for a dem to win an election.
The problem with a name like Supreme Solar Allah is that you cannot fit it onto a license plate. You could use SSA, or more appropriately SSA backwards, ASS. The state, probably, wouldn't let that go through as a plate number.
"Milwaukee city officials admitted in January 2005 that around 10,000 same-day registrations could not be verified, leaving open the possibility of fraud.
An investigation by the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel reported another 1,200 Milwaukeeans voted using invalid addresses. Another article revealed in late January 2005 that there were 7,000 more votes than voters in Milwaukee, suggesting ballot-stuffing in the Democrat-controlled city."
Just the fact that we are reading this is an improvement.
HAVA the Help America Vote Act will slowly but certainly cut off the rat's voter fraud. You know the Louisiana and Wisconsin GOP will be watching closely. Other state organizations will as well.
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