GET ME REWRITE: GOP show its true colors, sez it's 'inappropriate' to encourage people to vote

 

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 9/15/2022

When Jason Calvi, a political reporter for WITI-TV (FOX6), asked Johnson about possible criticism that could follow the publicly supported GOTV efforts, Johnson replied "There's certainly a role for local government to play" in encouraging residents to get to the polls. [emphasis added]

Republicans are still raising concerns. They are calling it "Zuckerbucks 2.0," a reference to how more than 200 Wisconsin communities cumulatively (and legally) accepted millions of dollars in grants to support election efforts prior to the 2020 presidential election from the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life. CTCL was funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

 

Original 9/15/2022 post, "GOP freaks out over Get Out the Vote efforts, goes all in for voter supression", starts here.

Headline:  Aljazeera, 5/3/2022

Black people voting?  Heaven forbid!

Headline:  News10, 9/14/2022

A new privately funded get-out-the-vote initiative in Wisconsin’s largest and most Democratic city has the support of Milwaukee’s mayor, but Republicans say it’s an attempt by Democrats to improperly bolster turnout in the narrowly divided battleground state. 

The controversy over the Milwaukee Votes 2022 initiative echoes concerns raised by Republicans in 2020 when a Mark Zuckerberg-funded group distributed millions of dollars in grants to support local elections offices in Wisconsin and throughout the country as COVID-19 complicated the presidential election.

Leading the charge:  Janel Brandtjen.