David Koch's Americans for Prosperity Plays Dirty Trick In WI: Mails Absentee Ballots To Dems With Wrong Election Date

The Koch group just shrugs its collective shoulders and gives a sh!t-eating grin.

Hmmm ?? Sounds like the AFP should be charged with a crime in the very least and disbanded for fraudulent practices.

The devil is at home with people like that, they are one of his own.

Could the Koch Bros' (loot) be the source of all the Republican's dirty tricks. Seems they have more dirty tricks than the Koch's have money...

Vote them out of your lives people, everywhere, every chance you get;LOCAL STATE and FEDERAL... treat them like the PLAGUE...

But by golly we all need to have picture IDs to prevent voter fraud.

This breaks the day before the election.

The Koch Brothers have cooked their own goose.

Maybe the GOP and right wingers in Wisconsin will finally wise up and beg the Koch Brothers to NOT "help" them again. This stunt is like offering a cup of salt water to a castaway sailor.

ops, my bad, the election is NOT tomorrow, but next week.

Still, the point is the same .... the Koch Brothers have become the proverbial skunk at a garden party.

"...picture IDs to prevent voter fraud"

And if that doesn't get the "suppression" job done, Poll Taxes and Grandfather Clauses will soon follow... Jim Crow USA is back...Thanks Republicans!

To the rest of the nation, there's a fungus among us, and IT prefers TEA rather than coffee!

They must have found a loophole which makes it not exactly illegal. Amazing how laws need to be written basically to tell people to at least practice some decent morals/ethics. Unbelievable.

Surely there's some oversight entity that can come in and take care of this situation. How ironic that the GOP passed the voter ID laws to 'prevent voter fraud', then turned around and did this.

Are the Dems going to to media and are they putting up ads letting the public know about this? They should hammer on this all week.

I wonder if my dad had the GOP in mind when he told me "You have to teach people to be good, they already know how to be bad!" This appears to be another attempt by the GOP to lie, cheat or steal an election. I wonder if there will be as much outrage from conservatives over this blatant trickery from the Koch Brothers as there was over the perceived voter registration fraud by ACORN? Some how I seriously doubt it.

They should hammer on this all week.

with freaking jack hammers

Follow this link for excellent information of the political involvement of the koch bros. Its short and worth the read.

http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/alec-exposed-koch-connection

We need to do something about this kind of negative involvement in our American way of life.

Money talks,and so does BS ...in the immoral(just plain wrong) koch reality. For you righties,it is NOT the same as immortal(never die).

Isn't this a form of voting fraud?

GIL-2076580, stop posting this link everywhere please.

Well., it was the first time I'd seen it, and I appreciated the link. Maybe you should lighten up a little.

GIL-2076580, stop posting this link everywhere please.

Um I went through some of his posts. He's posting links but they are NOT the same and is no worse than what I've seen routinely.

This has to be illeagal, I would say it is voter fraud and there should be a hearing in congress to disband the AFP. The very least they could do would be to make a public case so people can hear about these dirty tricks.

This is indeed illegal and a violation of civil rights which should be referred to the DOJ civil rights division immediately for prosecution. Voter disenfranchisement on a large scale is a serious crime.

All I can say is that they must be pretty scared to resort to this kind of nonsense.

GIL-2076580, stop posting this link everywhere please.

-- I had not seen this particular story either and I also appreciated the link.

Thx Gil for the link; my first see and thx Sally for making that link something important to read!

Gil thanks for the link, Salley should not try to hide the truth. The Koch Bros. have tried to change the entire state of Wis. for their own profit and greed. By any dirty trick they can.

time to lock those @!$%#s up... isnt that an attempt at defrauding an election?

Proving tht there was intent and not a printer's error will be the hard part. It would be nice if this story got legs but Fox certainly won't be pounding on it.

even if there is a printing error... they should still be responsible for the material they release whether the error was accidental or not.

I thought the government was responsible for mailing absentee ballots, I didnt know the AFP was responsible.

Any attempt to claim there was a printing error is moot. They had no business sending out absentee ballots in the first place.

RobWI

Liberals do it all the time too, just in other ways.

This is fun. You made a comment, you do the homework and show me.

Wisconsin, like some other states, allows groups to mail them out.

I didn't know that. It doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.

Looking at the mailer, it wasn't an actual ballot but an application for one. The nefarious things about them are the fact that they are to be returned to a AFP processing center rather than the clerk's office and the wrong date.

Come on Rob, prove your statement.

GIL-2076580, stop posting this link everywhere please.

You are suspended for a day for violating rule # 4 of the Code of Honor.

WTH is this?

The link GIL provided was on topic to this discussion, not advertising, and not offensive. I did some checking on GIL's column and found no other instances of him posting this link. (as if that's a violation of #4 anyway).

Please point were GIL violated anything in CoH#4-

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Sorry Sally, I know you have a hard job, but I just don't get it. Explaining this would be most instructive to us all.

If you take a look at the actual piece they sent out, it's not an absentee ballot at all. It's an application to get one.

There's irony for you.

... and they're worried about voter fraud. What is this and why isn't this illegal?

Have at it, Americans for Justice; no quarter:

Americans For Prosperity
2111 Wilson Blvd, Ste. 350
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: (703)-224-3200
Toll Free: (866)-730-0150

info@AFPhq.org

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/

Wonderful.

Now the GOP/TP AND the Koch Brothers are left with NO CHOICE but to commit ELECTION AND VOTER FRAUD. Why? Because they know that on August 9th, those 6 seats that have been warming the backsides of the Republican State Senators are going to be un-assed, stripped, re-upholstered, and learning to adjust to the "sweet spot" for their Democrat replacements.

Once that happens, they can get to work RE-PEALING those horrendous policies that Governor Scott Walker put in place; AND THEN the REAL nightmare begins for him because it is going to be a long, slow, and painful road leading to 2012.

they just got sent apicture of the present my dog left during my lunch break...

Did the moderator just violate rule #3 ?

Did the moderator just violate rule #3 ?

I believe so.

I just had a moderator chastise me for supposedly insulting someone because I made a joke, even though it was just a joke.

Just replied, if you feel that was in insult, then please feel free to delete ALL my messages for that story.

I don't want to be a part of a thread where the moderator can't be bothered to read.

If I wanted to create drama I would have mentioned you by name, but hey, whatever.