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A Madison city panel granted a permit Friday for a protest village near the State Capitol this month.
But the committee told leaders of the so-called “Walkerville” that most tents will have to come down during daytime business hours. That’s so people can visit the nearby shops without the protest village getting in the way.
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"WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) told his home-state paper that he's considering a run for the Senate in 2012, which liberals are urging him to do.
"I am looking at it, but I feel I should take some time to think this through," Feingold told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday. "For me the question right now is whether it’s a good idea for me to go back into this sort of life."
The former three-term senator, ousted by Republican businessman Ron Johnson last November, now helms the advocacy group Progressives United. In recent months Feingold has spoken out against his own party on campaign finance reform, an issue Feingold dedicated himself to as a senator.
"I'm enjoying everything I'm doing … I certainly don’t need to get back into politics,” he said. "I don’t know for sure whether I will, but … I'm certainly not ruling it out permanently and I'm not even ruling it out at this point for the current election cycle."
Two surveys last week found Feingold in strong shape for the race, were he to run. He's dominating among potential Democratic contenders, and comfortably leading all Republican hopefuls by at least ten points.
"I realize I have to come to grips with whether I would be a candidate for Senate in 2012 in the reasonably near future," Feingold told the Sentinel, adding that whether or not he runs his "goal here is to make sure a Democrat wins this seat," one who's a "good representative of the progressive tradition in Wisconsin."
The seat in play is being vacated by retiring Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)."
A true progressive. Having Walker as governor should make this easy for him."WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) told his home-state paper... more
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"It's a huge victory that we succeeded in getting six recall elections against Republicans, but now we need ALL MoveOn members around the country to help us actually win the races and unseat Walker's majority," says MoveOn member Steve Hughes of Madison. We need to raise $185,000 immediately to get started.
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Breaking news—we've now got a chance to beat six Wisconsin Republicans facing recall elections after helping force through infamous legislation taking away bargaining rights from teachers and other public workers. If we win, that would end Gov. Scott Walker's right-wing crusade.
This election is a huge opportunity to turn the tide against tea party Republicans and their attacks on the middle class. But in a last-minute election like this, whoever can mobilize the most voters will win—so we've got to get to work.
We've got an ambitious plan to get thousands more voters to the polls in Wisconsin, taking the technology and organizing tools that we used to help elect Barack Obama and applying them for the first time ever to a state-level election.
MoveOn members contributed $1 million to the huge effort to force these recall elections, and worked tirelessly on the ground.
But with just six weeks to go, we've got to raise $185,000 to get moving on this plan immediately.
Can you chip in $5 to help us mobilize voters to the polls in Wisconsin and stop the tea party Republicans in their tracks?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/win_in_WI.html?bg_id=hpc5&id=27666-17663758-98H1Pnx&t=2
If we win, we may even be able to reverse the anti-collective-bargaining law: A judge blocked the law last week, but Gov. Walker may try to pass it again. If progressives win three seats in the state senate, we can stop it. Furthermore, Republican governors and state legislators across the country are watching what happens in Wisconsin very closely, as are party leaders in Washington, D.C.
Since special elections like these always have very low turnout, whichever side can get people to the polls will have the upper hand. So we've put together an aggressive plan to get thousands more Democrats to the polls in each of these districts. Here's just some of what we'll do:
(Sorry, thats for my eye's only Rethuglicans !!!!!
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The state election oversight board announced yesterday that all the recall elections filed against Republicans will proceed, while all the retaliatory recalls Republicans filed against Democrats are mired in allegations of signature fraud.
These recall elections of right-wing Republicans could send shock waves through the nation, and a clear message: Voters won't stand for the extreme Republican attempts to trample on workers' rights.
But to send that message, we need to win these elections. Can you contribute now to help get out the vote in Wisconsin?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/win_in_WI.html?bg_id=hpc5&id=27666-17663758-98H1Pnx&t=3
Thanks for all you do.
–Adam R., Laura, Kat, Stephen, Milan,Figgdimension, and the rest of the team"It's a huge victory that we succeeded in getting six recall elections... more
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Oppressive GOPT's stop you from talking, stop you from watching how they work, have you hauled away, then let you go..Oppressive GOPT's stop you from talking, stop you from watching how they work,... more
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The Rachel Maddow Show 9pm EST M-F on MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908 /
Facing Recall, Wisconsin GOP Will Hustle Through Voter ID Bill That Disenfranchises Students, Seniors
The backlash against Wisconsin Republicans is gathering steam. In response to the state GOP’s campaign against workers’ rights, Democrats and labor activists gathered well over the number of signatures needed to file recall petitions against six state Republican senators last month. Should the petitions be certified, officials would call the first election for July 12.
The unprecedented recall effort has set the GOP scrambling to pass their agenda quickly, in case they lose their majority this summer. Not only will they once again target public employees and try to legalize concealed weapons, now state Republicans are rushing through a voter ID bill that would disenfranchise many Wisconsin voters:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/09/wisconsin-voter-bil...
"Folks around the country are counting on you folks in WI to demand Change and get rid of these Miscreants... "The Rachel Maddow Show 9pm EST M-F on MSNBC
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Well, the Lord of Wisconsin is at it again.
May 20, 2011 1:28 p.m.
Madison - Federal officials are threatening to withhold new money and take back previous funds for Wisconsin's food assistance if state officials don't scale back efforts to privatize the program.
The letter from federal officials follows an April visit to Wisconsin by USDA staff and goes a step further than similar past warnings by saying the state FoodShare program is already in violation of federal rules because of the privatization efforts by two governors.
Federal officials are also separately questioning a new privatization proposal put forward by Republican Gov. Scott Walker for FoodShare, the successor program to food stamps.
In a Wednesday letter to state Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith, Ollice Holden, a Midwest administrator for the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, warned that Wisconsin had overstepped boundaries laid out for the state last year. Failing to fix the problem could lead USDA to suspend payments to the state for administering the program and seek to recover money already paid to Wisconsin to run the program, he said.
"In the event that the state does not agree to and implement an FNS-approved corrective action plan in a timely manner, FNS will initiate suspension of funds and establish a claim," Holden wrote.
Alan Shannon, a USDA spokesman in Chicago, declined to give further comment or say how much money for administrative costs the federal government might seek to recover or withhold from the state. In 2010, the state received $20.5 million in federal money for administrative costs for FoodShare and another $2.3 million in one-time federal stimulus money.
State Health Services spokesman Seth Boffeli also had no comment, though in the past state officials have said that they will comply with federal rules.
FoodShare in Wisconsin has more than 800,000 participants and distributes more than $1 billion a year to help low-income residents buy food. The program is largely funded by the federal government but is currently administered by the state and counties, with counties largely doing the work of interviewing applicants to see if they qualify for FoodShare and state health programs such as BadgerCare Plus.
In one major exception to that intake system, however, the Enrollment Services Center begun during the administration of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle handles enrollment statewide for childless adults seeking FoodShare or health care benefits. That center uses private contractor Hewlett-Packard.
According to the USDA, under federal rules only civil servants - public employees - can have direct contact with applicants for and participants in FoodShare. Contractors can do some other tasks such as data entry and document scanning.
Thanks to #wiunion
continued at:http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/122347464.htmlWell, the Lord of Wisconsin is at it again.
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Finally, someone will fight to expose the election fraud that has been plaguing this country for the last 15 years or so. Joanne Kloppenburg, you are my hero.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker isn't steering clear of political flash points: He wants the state to stop defending a law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The Republican governor has asked a judge for permission to stop defending a law put in place under the watch of his Democratic predecessor. He contends it violates the state constitution, which bans gay marriage.
Democrats in 2009 worked in a loophole so same-sex partners could visit each other in the hospital, the Journal Sentinel explains. Couples could register as domestic partners and get some of the rights, including hospital visitation, as married couples. A group called Wisconsin Family Action sued the state last year, and the Walker administration agrees with its view that the law violates a 2006 amendment banning gay marriage. "Governor Walker, in deference to the legal opinion of the attorney general that the domestic partner registry...is unconstitutional, does not believe the public interest requires a continued defense of this law," says a brief filed last week.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker isn't steering clear of political flash points: He... more
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full article at Alternet : http://www.alternet.org/economy/150879/how_wisconsin%27s_war_on_workers_hurts_farmers (used my site for pic)
By' Joel Greeno
In Wisconsin, 80 percent of dairy farmers sell their milk through cooperatives, which use collective bargaining to establish milk prices for their members.
Madison, Wisconsin is truly an amazing scene of beauty — as well as unprecedented political mobilization. Among the throngs of demonstrators, you'll find Democrats, Republicans, independents, progressives, libertarians, and socialists walking together, discussing real solutions while sowing the seeds of solidarity.
I've traveled from France to Malawi to stand with peasants, farmers, and farm workers, but leading the March 12 tractorcade to Madison was one of the most inspiring things I've ever done. Riding to Madison's Capitol Square required a daylong commitment from the 51 farmers on their tractors of every size, color, and make — along with a few manure spreaders, a fire truck, and a self-propelled combine for effect.
I don't know when I've ever felt as welcome as the moment when our tractors drove through the crowd of 100,000-plus people waving caps and flags, yelling, "Thanks for being here, farmers!" The energy and spirit of camaraderie were overwhelming.
This wasn't just about standing up for collective bargaining rights — it also proved that public and private sector workers will stand together to build a sustainable community. Governor Scott Walker's attack on workers' rights will harm rural schools, communities, and churches. Rural communities, like my town of Kendall, Wisconsin, are the true source of this country's wealth. The fate of these communities is tied intricately to the fate of workers everywhere.
Wisconsin is a dairy state — one in five Wisconsinites is employed by the dairy industry — whether that's on a farm, in a cheese factory, at a farm equipment dealership, or driving a milk truck. Today, 80 percent of our dairy farmers sell their milk through cooperatives, which use collective bargaining to establish milk prices for their members.
As it is, dairy farmers are losing money because their cooperatives aren't standing up to the processors buying their milk, such as Kraft and Schreiber Foods. If public-sector workers lose their collective bargaining rights, then we co-op farmers will lose our rights too. We'll be paid even less for our milk. That's bad for Wisconsin, and it's bad for the poor, the elderly, the sick, women and children, and farmers everywhere.
In many industries, workers don't have collective bargaining rights, so they can't demand fair wages. However, since 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act has guaranteed almost all Americans a minimum wage, time-and-a-half for overtime in certain jobs, along with child labor restrictions that help give kids a fair shot at getting a decent education. Corporations, and now governments, are chipping away at these rights and protections. Can this really be happening in the United States? Without fair wages and safe working conditions, what have we accomplished as a nation in the past 200 years?
Classified ads in a recent issue of Agri-View, a Wisconsin farm journal, listed 21 farms for sale, with dairy herds ranging from 20 to 180 cows or goats. It's nothing new: nationwide, the consolidation of dairy farms is dramatic. More than half of them disappeared between 1992, when we had 131,509, and 2010, when only 53,127 were left.
When those 21 farms are sold, at least 21 families will move somewhere else, leaving fewer farmers supporting local businesses and the tax base that funds community schools and infrastructure. As the tax base shrinks, school districts eliminate programs and local businesses close, leaving even fewer places for people to work and to buy goods. Is this really good for America or its bottom line?
State governments need to realize that they're not just hurting civil servants when they eliminate bargaining rights, but everyone: family farmers, fishermen, and farmworkers — the people who provide our food — as well as the communities in which these people live and pay taxes. It's time for all of us to stand together, raise our voices, and demand our rights. The strength of our families, our communities, and our nation depends on it.
Joel Greeno is a dairy farmer in Kendall, Wisconsin, president of American Raw Milk Producers Association, and at-large board representative for the National Family Farm Coalition. used via :Alternetfull article at Alternet :... more
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Uh oh, progressive governor Scott Walker would like to say “thank you” to the men and women who work in public service. That can’t be good. He wants you to send him the names, personal contact information, and places of work of certain state employees. So he’s finally finished those gas chambers he was working on, huh?
At first, we thought, nah, Scott Walker doesn’t want a list of all the best public employees in the state so he can put them under surveillance and fire them. He’s just doing this to make himself look less evil. When you go to the website, his website, that he mentions, there’s the video, but the nomination form is nowhere to be found.
But eventually we tracked the form down. Here’s what it looks like, after you’re supposed to give your contact information so he can put you down on an “in league with the workers” hit list or whatever:
Who would know the residential address and phone number of a state employee they randomly come across? Nobody. And look at the amount of space they give you for the “why does this person deserve to be recognized” box. That’s not enough for more than a word or two. This is being used for NEFARIOUS MEANS. Nice try, Scott Walker! We should all “nominate” Scott Walker for this “State Employee Who Isn’t a Corrosive Marxist Agent” award, and then his goons will mistakenly throw him in jail with the rest of the other “excellent” state employees when he declares martial law and suspends habeas corpus in approximately a month. [YouTube/Scott Walker]Uh oh, progressive governor Scott Walker would like to say “thank you” to... more
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Wisconsin voters are on the verge of making history, with a recall vote of epic proportions, never seen in this country before.
Organizers targeted every one of the 16 eligible senators (meaning they’ve been in office for at least one year) — eight Democratic and eight Republican — for their votes and behavior pertaining to Act 10, also known as the budget repair bill.
Republicans are targeted for their votes in favor of Act 10, which would restrict collective bargaining rights among public employees, as well as a perceived subversion of the democratic process with a hasty committee vote on an altered form of the bill; Democrats are on the block for opposing Gov. Walker’s reforms or their 3-week flight to Illinois to stall the vote.
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Looks like the voters of Wisconsin are making their opinions known via the booth. Eight Wisconsin lawmakers are facing recall, the Government Accountability Board says—as part of the backlash against the state’s anti-union bill that passed in March. Petitions to recall four state senators were filed on Friday alone. With the deadline for petitions in mid-May, the GAB office said they expect even more to be filed. “It’s supposed to be slacking off now, but it isn’t,” said GAB spokesman Reid Magney. “Not this year.” The office has never faced more than one recall petition at a time, so officials are unsure how long it will take to prepare for the votes. And it’s not a budget-saver either: The GAB has requested an additional $40,800 from the State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to pay for additional supplies and temporary workers to handle the workload.Looks like the voters of Wisconsin are making their opinions known via the booth.... more
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Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election has been the subject of editorials across the state and nation. It has been denounced as ugly and expensive. Some offer it as proof that elections open the door to undue influence by special interests in our judicial system and that judicial elections should be replaced with a merit selection system.
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin takes a different view. We would rather work to improve elections than take the power to elect judges and justices away from the voters.
Almost 1.5 million citizens voted in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, nearly double the usual number in a high court contest. We believe the state’s investigation of irregularities in Waukesha County and now a statewide recount of ballots will help increase public confidence in Wisconsin’s electoral system overall.
The April 5 Supreme Court election benefited from the state’s new Impartial Justice law, which provided public funding for the candidates and allowed them to spend their campaign time connecting with voters rather than raising money. By setting a $1,000 limit on campaign contributions for participating candidates, the law addresses the league’s concerns about whether a judge or justice should be disqualified from cases involving major campaign contributors.
However, the new system is threatened by a proposal to cut its funding in the state budget. Also, there is still a problem with the influence of independent groups that pay for so-called “issue ads,” which circumvent the system and out-shout the messages of the candidates themselves.
Courts have ruled that independent groups have the right to spend unlimited dollars on mass communications as long as they are not coordinated with candidate campaigns. Yet courts also have upheld the right of states to require disclosure of the sources of funds for the ads. This was reaffirmed just last year by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Citizens United case.
The league believes groups running ads that are clearly intended to influence the outcome of an election should be held to the same reporting requirements and contribution limits as the campaigns themselves. This would help return our elections to the candidates and the voters.
Some people believe judges and justices should be chosen through a merit selection process, rather than by the voters. They say that would somehow protect the judiciary from political interests. Yet there are political decisions to be made in determining how they would be appointed and who would have the power to nominate and approve them.
Once appointed, judges in most merit selection states must face retention elections in order to stay in office, giving voters an opportunity to weigh in. However the judge does not run against an opponent in a retention election, making it difficult to wage a campaign. Special interest groups can launch ad campaigns at the last minute to defeat the retention. Iowa voters last November ousted three justices for their votes in a unanimous ruling that permitted same-sex marriage. The effort to remove the justices was funded largely by out-of-state organizations. That will surely lead more special interest groups to insert themselves into retention elections for appointed judges.
Finally, it is important to preserve the balance of powers the framers of our national and state constitutions so carefully crafted. In Wisconsin we have seen a move toward consolidation of power in the executive branch, specifically the governor’s office, and to a lesser extent the legislative branch. For an independent judiciary, we should maintain the power of the voters to elect judges and justices.
The high turnout and extremely close vote in our Supreme Court election indicate that Wisconsinites of diverse political views are participating actively in the process. Democracy can be messy, but citizen engagement is something to celebrate!Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election has been the subject of editorials... more
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Charging that voting “anomalies” were “widespread,” the liberal challenger in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race filed papers Wednesday afternoon requesting a recount in the close election that has her trailing a conservative incumbent by less than 0.5 percent.
JoAnne Kloppenburg arrived at the state Government Accountability Board’s office in Madison barely an hour before the 5 p.m. local time deadline by which she had to ask for a recount or concede defeat. According to the vote count finalized by the state last week, she trails Justice David Prosser by 7,316 votes out of nearly 1.5 million cast in the April 5 election.
“Today, my campaign is asking the Government Accountability Board to conduct a statewide recount,” Kloppenburg said at a news conference. The announcement was met with applause and cheers of “thank you.” She’s requesting the recount “in part to determine what the proper outcome of the election will be and to ensure that elections form this point forward will be fair.
“I do not make this decision lightly ... I have weighed the options and I have considered the facts,” Kloppenburg, currently an assistant state attorney general, said. The tight margin — small enough to trigger a provision allowing the state to pay for the recount process — means that “the importance of every vote is magnified and doubts about every vote are magnified as well,” she said.
The race was hard fought as both candidates drew activists who used the race as a proxy for the debate over Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial law restricting the collective bargaining rights of most unionized public-sector workers.
Kloppenburg declared victory in the race less than 24 hours after polls closed, but as final canvassing efforts went on for several more days, the lead shifted back and forth, sometimes by just a few dozen votes. But Prosser took the lead after the Waukesha County clerk admitted that a “human error” had left thousands of votes out of the Republican-leaning county’s totals. Once those votes were added, Prosser took the 7,000-plus vote lead he has since maintained.
Kloppenburg also said Wednesday that she has asked the state to appoint a special investigator to investigate the “actions and words of the Waukesha County clerk.”
After the state finalized the totals on Friday, Prosser declared victory, and, at a Monday news conference, he urged Kloppenburg to bow out without requesting a recount. “The result of the election is not in doubt,” he said Monday. One of his aides said that Prosser had scored “a strong enough win” that Kloppenburg ought to drop out, adding to that “to ask for a recount in any form will be enormously costly to the voters of this state.”
The board’s director and general counsel said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the recount process will begin next week.
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Not everyone at Saturday’s tea party gathering in Madison, Wisconsin were fans of Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin.
The two popular conservatives had to talk over the boos of about 3,000 pro-labor supporters at the Capitol.
“Shame, shame, shame!” the crowd chanted, according to The Progressive.
“Tax, tax, tax the rich!” was another chant heard there.
“Go to hell!” Breitbart shouted back at the protesters.
Watch this video, uploaded to YouTube April 17, 2011.Not everyone at Saturday’s tea party gathering in Madison, Wisconsin were fans... more
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The state's investigation into vote irregularities in Waukesha County will stretch back at least five years, the head of the Government Accountability Board said Thursday.
Questions over vote totals in Waukesha have lingered over the past week after County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she failed to report more than 14,000 votes from the city of Brookfield in initial vote totals.
The new total gave incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a lead of about 7,000 votes over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race. Official results in that race have not yet been announced.
Now questions have emerged over Nickolaus' published vote counts from as far back as the fall of 2006, when there were key statewide elections including races for governor and attorney general.
"This is part of what we're looking into. We have a lot of complaints," said Kevin Kennedy, the director and general counsel for GAB. "It's part of our investigation."
Kennedy said the board's current priority is determining the integrity of numbers reported in this spring's election but added investigators are reviewing broader questions about Nickolaus and vote counting.
GAB staff members have been in Waukesha County much of the week, and they were there again Thursday, staff attorney Mike Haas said.
‘Hand-entered results'
Additional questions surfaced after bloggers raised questions and Nickolaus posted a note to the clerk's website this week explaining discrepancies between the total ballots cast in several elections and the votes for particular offices.
In many cases, the number of votes totaled more than the number of ballots cast.
The results for the 2006 attorney general's race, for example, show 174,047 votes for either Democrat Kathleen Falk, Republican J.B. Van Hollen or write-in candidates, a total that is 17,243 votes higher than the total ballots cast recorded elsewhere in the results.
In her note, Nickolaus said the reference to ballots cast "is the number of ballots that were fed through the election machines at the polling places and the results were collected using a modem in the office" but does not include "any hand-entered results."
It was unclear what Nickolaus meant by "hand-entered results," and she was unavailable for comment Wednesday and Thursday.
Democrats seek answers
Calls for investigations into Waukesha County's vote count controversy have grown. Mike Tate, chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said in a letter to Kennedy on Wednesday that "these apparent repeated problems from the Waukesha County clerk undermine the public's confidence in elections."
Also Wednesday, a group of Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter urging joint Assembly-Senate hearings to investigate the results and conduct of election officials in Waukesha County. Others, including U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the matter.
Haas said investigators have spoken with Nickolaus and want to make sure "we understand her explanation."
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_46644a68-6704-11e0-907e-001cc4c03286.htmlThe state's investigation into vote irregularities in Waukesha County will... more
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A Colorado man with a felony record is accused of swiping a backpack from Lambeau Field while collecting signatures to recall Democratic Sen. Dave Hansen of Green Bay.
The man was working for the Republican Party on March 17 when he took a backpack and coat containing keys and cell phones belonging to a couple who had been taking pictures at Lambeau Field, according to a Green Bay Police Department report.
Using security camera footage taken the day of the theft, authorities recognized the man when he was back at Lambeau Field a few days later. The man admitted to the crime and returned most of the property. He was cited with theft and police consider the case closed.
According to Colorado records, the man has been charged with a number of crimes in his home state, including driving under the influence, domestic violence and felony assault and was found guilty of drugging a victim in 2008.
The man told police he was staying at the Road Star Inn in Ashwaubenon with several other out-of-town canvassers.
"When it was brought to our attention last month that a circulator had been cited for an incident in the Green Bay area, we immediately insisted that individual have no further role in the effort, and it is our understanding that he has had no involvement since," Mark Jefferson, Republican Party of Wisconsin executive director, said in a statement released this week to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
"Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated in this important citizen mobilization effort."
Chad Fradette, a Republican who ran against Hansen in 2008, has been working with both recall groups to unseat the Green Bay Democrat. Fradette said he was disappointed the Republican Party did not properly vet people helping collect petition signatures.
"It's fine that the Republican Party is involved. It is a partisan race," said Fradette, who is listed as the treasurer for the Committee to Recall Dave Hansen. "I know there are people that (canvass) for a living. He may be one of those folks. But if he has a rap sheet from another state, avoid them. There's a lot of good people that have worked for this effort locally. This is not what we needed."
Two groups working to recall Hansen have collected about 15,000 signatures, which they plan to submit together, Fradette said Tuesday. That's more than the 13,852 needed to recall the veteran lawmaker. The committees are checking for duplicate names and gathering extra signatures for insurance.http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20110414/GPG0101/104140697/Wisconsin...... more
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