Letter Writer Says Verify List Stirs Memories Of Nazi Germany

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Last week, a letter writer to the Janesville Gazette thanked another letter writer for supplying names of local residents running for public office who signed the Scott Walker recall petition. The letter writer who I'll refer to only as P.R. of Janesville apparently does not believe U.S. citizens, particularly candidates for public office and media individuals, have the right to redress or petition our government. P.R. went on to say she's "had enough" and will notify sponsors of their programs that these individuals signed the petition.

Another letter writer responded a few days later...

JG Letter Excerpt:
I have seen quite a few of these letters trying to intimidate people who have signed recall petitions. These bring back memories from when I was a child. In Germany, the Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothes so when walking down the street they could be identified.

Maybe the governor could create a similar law that would force all who signed the recall to wear an "I signed the recall" badge. That way it could save you and all the others a lot of time identifying who signed - such as your neighbors, police officers, firefighters, teachers, nurses, people running for office and maybe even some of your friends... -- T.C. Janesville

Hat tip to T.C.

Note: The letters are not available on the web. I used only their initials out of courtesy to keep their identities private.

ADDITIONAL:

Blogging Blue - Verify The Recall: Another Success Story

Police Report - News Anchor Threatened By Walker Supporter

Media Outlets Apply Double Standard For Their Own Political Activity

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TMJ4 Excerpt:
We expect anyone involved in the production of news to avoid situations that could compromise our integrity. We don't allow news employees to sign nomination papers for candidates, display yard signs or take part in a political campaign.

The Janesville Gazette, like many Wisconsin newspapers, regularly writes political action editorials and endorsements for candidates, referendums and on state and local issues. These might be considered little pet projects to newspaper editors and their owners, but for subscribers the newspaper's finished product is in many ways the equivalent of having a partisan's front yard full of political posters rolled up, and thrown at the foot of your doorstep. Whether you agree with or even bother to read their editorials or policy statements really doesn't matter because if you're subscribing to get the local news, you're still paying for the paper's broadcast distribution and entire political agenda.

"I write editorials--opinions--on behalf of the Gazette Editorial Board. That's my role; no one else in the newsroom, except for Editor Scott Angus, ever writes editorials. The policy against yard signs covers all of us collectively." -- Greg Peck, Gazette Opinion Editor

Their paycheck ethics policy prevents newspaper employees from participating in political activity as private citizens while at the same time, their ethics policy paycheck pays them to write and distribute political propaganda. It's their job!

This blatant hypocrisy now sits at the core of a fear and smear witchhunt in Wisconsin against political candidates, media employees and private citizens involving the Scott Walker Recall Petition data bases, so it comes as no surprise that it's conducted by the most professionally partisan and activist institutions in America - mainstream media news outlets. But woe onto those who seek to pull the mask off of secret campaign cash donors and boycott their businesses - why that's greasy union thuggery that has no place in a civil democratic society.

Nevertheless, the hypocrisy continues.

Uppity Wisconsin Excerpt:
According to Editor John Smalley, when you are in the newspaper biz, you "keep your politics to yourself" and maintain "strict neutrality in all things political." "It’s a common policy," Smalley says and "in place at nearly all credible news organizations."

Additional:

Blogging Blue - What a bunch of grade A hypocrites at WTMJ

Blue Cheddar - Wisconsin recall witch hunt hits Milwaukee’s right wing

Crawford's Take - Charlie Sykes, CRG, Ament, Walker and the WTMJ Hypocrisy

Uppity Wisconsin - Owners of Wisconsin State Journal are Big Donors to GOP and Union Busters

Janesville Gazette Publishes Letter Targeting Petition Signers

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Today's Janesville Gazette contains a letter to the editor listing the names of Janesville City Council and Janesville school board members and candidates for non-partisan office who signed the Scott Walker Recall Petition. The letter was written by none other than Janesville's hyper-partisan crank, Ed James. The Gazette, famous for their institutionalized anti-union Republicanism and black hole journalism have chosen the cowardly way to "out" our local civic-minded citizens. The Gazette not only lets someone else do the dirty work of combing the petitions for them, but they are more than happy to politicize and broadcast the poisonous message through their newspaper.

The letter was posted next to a regurgitated editorial written by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram describing a L-T article proudly reporting on and also identifying Eau Claire's city council and school board member recall petition signers. Believe it or not, the message behind the misguided L-T editorial labels all signers of the petition as "partisans."

Below is an excerpt from the L-T editorial written word-for-word except where I took the liberty to substitute a few words with my own. They are in bold.

As citizens and voters, these newspaper media institutions are, of course, free to endorse politicians and attack the opposition or otherwise broadcast their partisan affiliations. But is doing so really a good idea? The deeper they wade into partisan politics, the more politicized - and partisan - their own institution becomes. Voters who traditionally have viewed newspapers as civic minded volunteers who have the best interests of the community at heart may instead begin to suspect they are simply partisan hacks. And such impressions - accurate or not - may undermine public trust in our most accessible democratic institutions.

Additional:

Rock - Smear and Fear Merchants Targeting Signers Of Recall Petitions

Rock - Anti-Partisan Crusader's Selective Rage Targets Labor Unions

Rock - Gazette's Anonymous Column: A Place To Offend

Reuters - Free The Gannett 25

Another Recall Petitioner Assaulted

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Walker thugs, known for their might-makes-right assaults on those they disagree with, struck yet again. This time a Brookfield woman throws a left uppercut on a recall petitioner for ...well, for no reason.

Scolding the man afterwards with, "You can't video tape me without my permission, what is wrong with you." This coming after she gets out of her VW and walks up to the man operating her own camera while saying, "I want a picture (of us) together." It's scary to think what the Walker supporter could have alleged to police had he not had his camera on.

Watch it:



Additional story at Democurmudgeon.

Recall Patriots: Beware Of Hostile, Delusional Walker Supporters

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I know, I know. "Hostile delusional Walker supporters" really doesn't help to draw much of a distinction from other Walker supporters.

Now yet another Waukesha man lost his hinge pins and went crazy train on a couple of diligent, peaceful recall petition patriots. This time the incident ocurred at the Brookfield Fashion center this past Saturday morning where a man identified as 59 year-old Fred Frisby of Brookfield got out of his pick-up truck and went on the attack.

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Remember, no hugs for these clowns when they become this combative.

Additional Stories:

Democurmudgeon - Another Walker Thug Attacks Recall Petitioners with Cliche's and Physical Force

Brookfield Patch - Man cited for disorderly conduct

Walker Supporter Verifies Recall Signature With Creepy Phone Call

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Wow. It seems Walker's supporters lay awake at night thinking of new ways to stalk, frighten and intimidate the good people of Wisconsin. One of them, Kevin Stoll from Waukesha County (no surprise), went so far as to extract a phone number from a recall petition making a cameo appearance on a news program, and then made it his business to give the person a call.

Democurmudgeon Excerpt:
Take Kevin Stoll in Hartland, who decided to ask a few petition signers why they wanted to recall Scott Walker...at 10:30 at night to complete strangers. He tried to come across "undecided," but cliche'd talking points are hard to ignore. WKOW 27's Tony Galli has this stunning story of what could be illegal political intimidation.

According to Galli, Stoll later offered that he will be involved in the Verify Recall campaign which would now, thanks to Stoll's admission, appear to be little more than a phone number and ID collection data base for Tea Party and GOP operatives to mull over and target for harassment. These creeps are hoping they can creep us out.

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Related Stories:

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WQOW - Petition Stalker Cited In Madison

Blogging Blue - Unhinged I tell you ...they're coming unhinged!

Walker Thugs Plan To Crash Democratic Candidate's Fund Raiser

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Janesville resident Yuri Rashkin will be holding a fund raiser on October 16th to bolster his efforts to win the democratic nomination for the 44th Assembly District to face Walker/Koch rubber stamp Joe Knilans. The We love Wisconsin Governor Walker Facebookers (Note: Interesting that it's Walker's and not Knilans love group) posted the following message hoping to intimidate supporters and disrupt the event.

From "We Love Governor Walker" Facebook

To think this is how they react only to a fundraiser for the primary. Wow. Yuri must be doing something right!

From Yuri Rashkin for State Assembly Fundraiser Facebook