{"id":4386,"date":"2007-04-10T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2007-04-12T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T01:50:56","slug":"us-attorney-purge-and-now-the-gops-milwaukee-voter-fraud-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Attorney Purge: And Now the GOP’s Milwaukee ‘Voter Fraud’ Connection…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> is doing some good digging into the Milwaukee connection to the phony “voter fraud” claims used to help push U.S. Attorneys out of their job in the Bush Administration’s political purge\/disassembly of the now-ironically named Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

As well, a recent, and unusual, overturned case in Wisconsin’s Seventh Court of Appeals is similarly adding fresh fuel to the insidious GOP “voter fraud” scam at the heart of the outrageous abuse of power by the current Executive Branch. And today, Senators on the hill are asking new questions about it to Alberto Gonzales.<\/p>\n

We’ve covered various elements of the invidious and baseless GOP “voter fraud” scheme in New Mexico (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, for just a few examples) and touched on Washington State as well. But Bice jumps in with new details on the same scam in Milwaukee, which has now led to an official Congressional letter of inquiry<\/a> on the matter sent today to Gonzales from Senators Leahy, Schumer, Kohl, Feingold, Feinstein, and Whitehouse.<\/p>\n

As Bice reported yesterday…<\/a><\/p>\n

The mystery is solved.<\/p>\n

For weeks, it was unclear who whined to the White House last year that not enough voter fraud cases were being prosecuted in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Now we know.<\/p>\n

The state Republican Party went straight to the top in its efforts to make voter fraud an issue in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Sources tell No Quarter that Rick Wiley, then the executive director of the state GOP, directed a staffer in 2005 to prepare a 30-page report on election abuses in Wisconsin so Wiley could pass it along to a top White House official.<\/p>\n

That document, entitled “Fraud in Wisconsin 2004: A Timeline\/Summary,” turned up last week in the horde of White House and U.S. Justice Department records released by the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys
\n…
\nIn late 2005, U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic, a Bush appointee, announced that his probe found no evidence of a conspiracy to steal the 2004 election here.<\/p>\n

Was Wiley – or his boss at the time, then-Chairman Rick Graber – hoping the Bush team would ax Biskupic, as it did the other top federal prosecutors last year? .<\/p><\/div>\n

Read on for more<\/a> and see the letter from Leahy<\/a> for more details on the heels of a surprise Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that issued an order immediately overturning a case brought by Biskupic against Georgia Thompson, an aide to Wisconsin’s Democratic governor, Jim Doyle. Just in time for the ’06 election we might add. (It didn’t help; Doyle won anyway.)<\/p>\n

The basis for the unusual appellate court decision was that the evidence used to convict Thompson on charges related to voting irregularities was virtually non-existent — leading the senators to question what sort of pressure was brought on Biskupic to bring the charges in the first place.<\/p>\n

This is your government. On steroids. In the form of the Bush Administration Gone Wild. And it’s got to not only be stopped, it needs to be: Pushed. Back. Down. <\/p>\n

If serious<\/em> accountability is not brought (and we mean more than simply pushing out a pawn like Gonzales) the bar will have been forever lowered as far as what sort of outrageous, un-American Executive Branch overreach is tolerable in this country.<\/p>\n

I hope to hell that somewhere in the bowels of Congress someone<\/i> is preparing Articles of Impeachment.<\/p>\n

(Hat-tip to BRAD BLOG Commenter “Dredd”<\/a> for the Leahy letter.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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