{"id":10821,"date":"2014-09-22T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2014-09-23T00:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:04:35","slug":"report-armed-scott-walker-supporters-in-wi-planto-follow-dem-voters-home-from-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10821","title":{"rendered":"Report: Armed Scott Walker Supporters In WI Plan to Follow Dem Voters Home from Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ScottWalker_WinkPoint.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Working on an unrelated in-depth story at the moment, hopefully for publication tomorrow. So, in the meantime, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/wisconsin-militia-intimidate-polls\">this report from TPM<\/a> about disturbing allegations (yet again) of Scott Walker supporters&#8217; plans for intimidation of Democratic voters in Wisconsin&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">An armed militia group in Wisconsin plans to confront people who signed the petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) at the polls on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia&#8221; will check the names of those on the petition and will then seek out the Democrats on that list, according to Facebook exchanges viewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2014\/09\/18\/militia-group-plans-target-african-american-democrats-polling-places-wisconsin.html\">Politicus USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericaVotes\">@AmericaVotes<\/a> We need your help here in WI! Walker supporters discussing ways to intimidate voters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wiunion?src=hash\">#wiunion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4OwQKKPCnq\">pic.twitter.com\/4OwQKKPCnq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Meg Gorski (@MegGorski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MegGorski\/status\/512610493760929792\">September 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wisconsinpollwatchers\/timeline\">Facebook page<\/a> for the militia has since been scrubbed.<\/p>\n<p>The group plans to follow people from polling locations to their homes, according to a Facebook post viewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/news\/local\/writers\/steven_elbow\/wisconsin-poll-watcher-militia-plans-to-confront-scott-walker-recall\/article_062df082-5fea-5363-b498-c0c51aa5fa30.html\">The Capital Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please private message us names of people you know are active voters and wanted on warrants. We can get our agents to watch their polling location, identify the individual, and then follow them to their residence. A call the police and they will be picked up for processing,&#8221; the Facebook message read.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in 2011 and 2012, some Walker supporters had <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8998\">violently assaulted those attempting to collect recall signatures<\/a>; were <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8916\">caught planning to destroy recall petitions<\/a>; were <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8989\">arrested and charged for actually doing so<\/a>; were said to have <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8939\">made overnight death threats by telephone<\/a> to supporters of the Recall Walker effort, among other attempts at voter intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Walker is up for re-election in November and his race with Democratic challenger Mary Burke is currently characterized by Real Clear Politics&#8217; polling average as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2014\/governor\/wi\/wisconsin_governor_walker_vs_burke-4099.html\">a &#8220;toss-up&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><b>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">help support The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> fiercely independent, award-winning coverage of your electoral system &#8212; <i>now in our ELEVENTH YEAR!<\/i> &#8212;  as available from no other media outlet in the nation&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/Bradblog.com\/Donate\" method=\"post\" style=\"margin-top:.75em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"LCH965NHAJ5ES\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"Make a safe, fast, secure donation to The BRAD BLOG!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on an unrelated in-depth story at the moment, hopefully for publication tomorrow. So, in the meantime, please see this report from TPM about disturbing allegations (yet again) of Scott Walker supporters&#8217; plans for intimidation of Democratic voters in Wisconsin&#8230; An armed militia group in Wisconsin plans to confront people who signed the petition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,596,6,300,126,523,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012","category-election-2014","category-election-irregularities","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-scott-walker","category-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}