Wednesday, August 3, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: If you want a packed house, book a small room

You won't find many people of color in the frame.  (No, that white guy standing along the wall on the left has a cancerous suntan.)


8/2/2022 update, "Rebecca Kleefisch gets out the vote at Rock County Fair", starts here

Keep up with Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm @RebeccaforReal


7/8/2022 update, "More white folks out for Rebecca Kleefisch", starts here.



7/3/2022 update starts here

Reaching out to the 80.6%





Original 6/12/2022 post starts here


1/18/2022 update, "Plutocrats for Wisconsin:  Ultra-conservative billionaire Liz Uihlein underwrites Rebecca Kleefisch Clown Show" starts here


The donation to Freedom Wisconsin PAC came after Uihlein donated $20,000 to Kleefisch's campaign in September — the maximum individual contribution allowed under state law. 
Uihlein and her husband, Richard, who live in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, are two of the top GOP donors in the nation and have individually donated nearly $150 million to elect Republicans since the 1990s, with much of that money spent since 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. 

 

10/28/2021 update, "Rebecca Kleefisch leads the 2022 Wisconsin GOP Gubernatorial Clown Show", starts here.

Republicans call it "ballot harvesting".  Democrats call it "Get Out the Vote".

In reality, "ballot harvesting" is simply a GOP voter suppression dog whistle.
 


"Ballot harvesting in Wisconsin is not technically illegal," Kleefisch said. "Democrats do it non-stop and they go hard. Republicans must go harder."

And then there's the usual GOP hypocrisy


Original 10/26/2021 post starts here


GET ME REWRITE!!
Rebecca Kleefisch over the weekend told Republicans they needed to "hire mercenaries" and engage in "ballot harvesting" to help her win next year's race for governor — a practice she has said she wants to ban. 
In a Saturday speech to Republicans in Door County, Kleefisch said the methods she needs to use to win bother her so much she will need to wash herself with steel wool. If her campaign strategy works, she said she would quickly sign legislation overhauling how elections are conducted that further advances Repubicans' voter-suppression agenda.


Related reading:

The Wisconsin Senate approved Republican-backed bills Wednesday that would create new hurdles for the elderly and disabled to cast absentee ballots, limit the number and location of ballot drop boxes and impose new penalties for violating election law. 
All of the measures are almost certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has said he opposes anything that makes it more difficult to vote


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