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Re: Public Interest Legal Foundation: 82,766 Wisconsin 2020 Mail Ballots ‘Went Missing or Undeliverable’

folkbum — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:07:59 -0000

This is completely wrong. Nearly 2m absentee ballots were completed in Wisconsin in Nov, 2020, and fewer than 10,000 were returned as "undeliverable." Nearly 3.3 total votes were cast in the election. You can read the full report from the Wisconsin Elections Commission here; see page 12. https://www.wispolitics.com...

Re: Definitive Proof That PolitiFact Wisconsin is Politicizing Truth

folkbum — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:33:41 -0000

Dan, is it possible this isn't bias and is instead--and hear me out on this--just that Republicans are more likely to lie?

Re: A Democratic State Senator Proves Election Fraud Took Place in Wisconsin…Because She Committed it

folkbum — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:33:43 -0000

First, I am sorry that something has happened to make you angry like this. But can I ask how you know your vote was changed? There is no way that I am aware of for anyone to know this, nor is there any way I am aware of for any votes on a paper ballot to be counted as for another candidate or choice.

Re: A Democratic State Senator Proves Election Fraud Took Place in Wisconsin…Because She Committed it

folkbum — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:28:35 -0000

The court said no such thing in Jefferson v Dane (linked from the comment you replied to; I recommend you read it). In fact, in Trump v Biden, released the same day, all seven justices indicated that they would not invalidate any votes based on "indefinite confinement" status.

Re: A Democratic State Senator Proves Election Fraud Took Place in Wisconsin…Because She Committed it

folkbum — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:50:24 -0000

Exactly. The person who cast Sen Schactner's vote may have been an imposter illegal Mexican socialist CCP sleeper agent who works for Dominion Voting Systems because WE DIDN'T GET TO LOOK AT THE ID!!!!!!

Re: DHS Counts 54 More COVID-19 Deaths in Milwaukee County Than County Officials

folkbum — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:40:09 -0000

This was discussed back in April, with the County concluding that, especially early in the pandemic, some death certificates were being filed directly with the state, not the county. If you had asked the county or the state for comment, or, you know, Googled, you would have learned that. See the 4/13 and 4/14 updates in this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story. https://www.jsonline.com/st...

Re: Evers Pretends to Turn the Dial

folkbum — Wed, 13 May 2020 09:57:48 -0000

The "flu-like illness" item in the gating criteria is there and separate from test results because the two things provide different data. Presenting symptoms is a LEADING indicator, while test results are a LAGGING indicator, especially considering it still takes 48-72 hours for most test results. Watching when and where there's a spike in symptoms is the best--and really, only--way to identify a potential outbreak and contain it as quickly as possible.

Re: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court Must Strike Down the ‘Safer at Home’ Order

folkbum — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:49:27 -0000

I would argue the big difference in Illinois is the density of Chicago. Something like half their cases are in or around Cook County. Like how in Wisconsin, it's the Milwaukee metro that has the most cases. But Iowa lacks that density--indeed, most of Iowa is like the non-Milwaukee/Madison parts of Wisconsin, and if people in Iowa-dense parts of this state think an Iowa-style policy is fine ......

Re: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court Must Strike Down the ‘Safer at Home’ Order

folkbum — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:55:52 -0000

Maybe we should be open, like Iowa. You know, the state with a population about half that of Wisconsin but that has more cases of the virus than we do? Yeah, that sounds great.

Re: Iron Fist offers extra cheese with its cheesy action showdown

folkbum — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:14:05 -0000

That ambulance driver was one of the "orderlies" who took the chemist away--not so innocent.

Re: Ghost Rider’s origin is revealed as a new villain threatens Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

folkbum — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:41:26 -0000

I understood the situation to be that Eli, as the electrical engineer, was also the one who could get the Roxxon power station back online. So he was a twofer: he could read the book *and* power-up the equipment to bring her back to corporeal form.

Re: Apple’s new GIF keyboard keeps pulling up sexy My Little Ponies and hardcore porn

folkbum — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:33:18 -0000

Apple just wants to give us the power to take things into our own hand.

Re: Hannibal Buress just made the Spider-Man: Homecoming court

folkbum — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:38:38 -0000

I assume he'll be playing the same homeless guy he did in 30 Rock. Him and Moonvest.

Re: ABC cancels Agent Carter

folkbum — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:41:09 -0000

I was in my basement room with a needle and a spoon.

Oh, and another girl to take my pain away.

Re: Did DA who launched political John Doe probe break campaign finance laws?

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:21:03 -0000

Not to be pedantic, but are you aware of what JDII was actually investigating? It wasn't direct v indirect issue advocacy; it was that there was strong evidence campaigns were not counting the coordination on issue ads as in-kind contributions as required explicitly by Wisconsin law.

That law has now changed. But until this past summer, that was the law here. It is still the law in federal elections.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:16:51 -0000

Do you want evidence or do you want to live in your paranoid fantasy? I mean, your call. But think hard about the decision.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:51:32 -0000

But Wisconsin law did require that coordination on issue ads be counted as in-kind contributions to the campaign, and prohibited candidate from directing donors to outside groups as a way of evading contribution limits. Those were the things declared unconstitutional (for the first time ever) but SCOWIS this past summer. JDII was pursuing strong evidence that these laws, still in effect right up until the SCOWIS ruling, were being violated, as agreed to not only by Chisholm, but a number of Republicans and and the special prosecutor who had voted for Walker in the very election under investigation. The SCOWIS ruling was novel and required the legislature to re-write campaign finance laws to match the theory advanced first not by a court or even by legislators but by 3rd-party advocacy groups that had been caught breaking what was, at the time, the law as understood by everybody else. (It is still the law in federal elections.)

A federal judge advanced the theory that Wisconsin's laws violated the US Constitution but he was overruled by conservative appellate appointees who said that was not in any way true. The 7th C's words were, in fact, “No opinion issued by the Supreme Court, or by any court of appeals, establishes (‘clearly’ or otherwise) that the First Amendment forbids regulation of coordination between campaign committees and issue-advocacy groups——let alone that the First Amendment forbids even an inquiry into that topic.” Randa was just wrong on the law, and nothing, literally nothing, that he wrote stands as law or precedent.

The one other ruling that went against JDII was that some of the search warrants were overbroad, not that the prosecutors' theory of the case (or the law) was wrong or even that the evidence already in hand was weak.

So the only standing court ruling against JDII was the SCOWIS one this summer. Just that one.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:50:43 -0000

It's reported on GAB's online database. It took me fourteen seconds of internetting to find it yesterday.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:43:07 -0000

Charges for what? Schimel said there's no there there on the loan, and Chisholm returned the excess donation.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:16:07 -0000

Um, since forever? Have you never donated to a candidate before?

Re: Did DA who launched political John Doe probe break campaign finance laws?

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:48:05 -0000

I don't see how a single excess contribution is even remotely close enough to the massive coordination scheme involving dozens of players and intentional ducking of what was, until this summer's SCOWIS ruling, everyone's understanding of Wisconsin campaign finance laws to generate a charge of "apparent hypocrisy."

Re: Did DA who launched political John Doe probe break campaign finance laws?

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:39:53 -0000

So Chisholm returned the excess contribution and Brad Schimel explained to you that your wild allegations about the loan were unfounded. There is now literally nothing left to this story. But keep hyping the smears!

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:25:38 -0000

Now we're just waiting for Kittle to update his story to reflect the Chisholm campaign's return of money donated in excess of the limits.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:22:48 -0000

The answer to your first question--did Chisholm return the extra $3000 from Greenwald--is actually yes. After being told of the violation by GAB, and given time to fix it, the Chisholm campaign returned the $3000 earlier this week and filed an amended report with the GAB (it's online; you can google it just as easily as I did). I blame neither Chisholm nor Greenwald for not commenting to Kittle or this site given its years-long smear campaign.

For the next question, yes, the Walker campaign for governor in 2014 failed to collect or report employer information on almost 6,000 donors it should have. Here's just one of the many news stories about it:
http://www.twincities.com/l...

As with the Greenwald donation--and as with the vast majority of minor errors or violations by candidates of any (or in non-partisan elections, no) party--the GAB told the Walker campaign about it and gave them time to fix it.

The dishonesty here, in this particular story by Kittle, is that he's trying to compare Chisholm's campaign, which accepted a donation it shouldn't have and returned it when that donation was pointed out to them, and the deliberate felonious evasion of very different campaign finance laws by Gardner. The Does--especially not the first one, which caught Gardner--were not "confirmed to be [illegal] in various courts time and time again." JDII was found so by one court, SCOWIS, after the federal court system made clear that federal law and federal court precedent, including the US Supreme Courts rulings, did not conflict with Schmitz's theory of the case. Indeed, the Walker for President campaign would have violated clear and established federal law by doing what his recall campaign committee did in Wisconsin and was allowed to do so by the SCOWIS and subsequent GOP changes to Wisconsin campaign finance laws.

None of which has any relation to Gardner, who admitted he broke the law and whose investigation in JDI has never been subject to any court's censure.

Re: Attorney General: John Chisholm broke campaign finance law

folkbum — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:51:41 -0000

You realize, of course, that Gardner was charged with a completely different crime than the alleged violations in the Chisholm campaign. Gardner was charged with laundering contributions through other people (among other things), a significantly different crime that carries much harsher maximum penalties than simply contributing above the limit in your own name.

Indeed, if you were being honest in your parallel between the Gardner situation and this one, you would be suggesting that Greenwald be the one in trouble with the law, not Chisholm.

The better parallel is all the other times GAB has offered candidates chances to correct errors and return overages in recent cycles, including literally thousands of violations committed by the last Walker for Governor campaign that GAB did not prosecute but gave Walker and company time to correct and rectify.

But your John Doe-related reporting has never been about being fair and honest, has it?

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