Democrat Voter Fraud Hangs over WI State Senate Race Recount

by Rebel Pundit

 After a massive blowout in the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, State Senator Van Wanggaard still finds himself trailing his challenger John Lehman by 834 votes. This has prompted a recount of the results, which began on Wednesday.

We have reported previously about the electioneering activities by members of the community-organizing group Wisconsin Jobs Now and potential issues with a giant Obama “HOPE” painting hanging above voters as they cast their ballot in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center. Reports of threats were rampant in the Racine area, and in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News an individual reported someone threatened to smash an election observer’s head into the ground. Also, Breitbart News revealed a video of election officials stuffing absentee ballots into ballot boxes with open ballot boxes and ballots laying on the floor at another poling place.

A source is now reporting that he witnessed one of the white vans dispatched by Wisconsin Jobs Now chauffeuring the same eight individuals around to three different polling places and witnessed them entering each polling place. Our source did not see what these individuals were doing inside each polling place, but they presumably happened to be inside long enough to vote. With numerous accounts of an extraordinary number of individuals entering poling places with ineligible post office change of address forms and water bills addressed to “occupant” only, this eyewitness account of a van unloading the same people entering three different poling places is more than alarming.

We now have evidence as well that Voces de la Frontera, an illegal alien rights front group, through their subgroup, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, dispatched over 400 high school students as part of massive and effective get out the vote drive to knock and drag voters to the polls. In the following video taken at a post-election protest in Milwaukee, Joe Shansky and Jorge Maya describe how these students were able to reach and mobilize some 3300 voters during the effort. The effort, of course, took place during school hours, during finals week with students from some of the most underperforming schools in Racine to target the most democrat precincts.



According to another source, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (Y.E.S.) is organized in tax-payer funded Racine Unified Public Schools. The largest chapter is reportedly located in Racine Horlick High School, which is officially classified as a failing school by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Apparently, the teachers at these schools found it more important to help Y.E.S. organize get out the vote efforts for the Democrat party rather than focus on their final exams.

Here is a photo of one group of Y.E.S. members I took after attempting to question their activities after noticing knocking on doors during school hours on Election Day. The students told me they were not allowed to speak to any media, but they did admit to being with Y.E.S. and also consented to being photographed.

These activities and more were not isolated to Racine, and after hearing more accounts continuing to roll in, the likelihood of a fair and legitimate election in Racine is more than doubtful. One account of potential absentee voter fraud was reported earlier today by Breitbart News, while the former Wisconsin resident did not actually have his ballot counted, it was his attempt that constitutes absentee voter fraud. And his public bragging calls into question how many more people attempted to cheat the system in this recall election.

Coincidentally, the individual in question also happens to be the brother of the Joe Shansky from Voces de la Frontera. Meet Daniel J. Shansky, a board member of Community Action Now, newly hired employee of Unite Here Local 11 in California, and former Milwaukee resident.

According the website BallotPedia.org, “Voting or attempting to vote in an election after being disqualified or when the person knows that he or she is not eligible to vote” does constitute absentee voting fraud. And why does that matter? According to information displayed on Shansky’s Facebook page and corroborated with the Wisconsin Voter Public Access site, that is exactly what Shansky did.

The Entitlement Mentality Monitor provides the following timeline, which paints a clearer picture of how Shansky, similar to his brother and the rest of the institutional left in Wisconsin, participate in the “democratic process.”

–3/5/12:  Shansky publicly announces on Facebook that he is moving to Los Angeles from Wisconsin in a few weeks to work for “Unite Here! Local 11″  (see IMAGE 1)

–3/19/12:  Shansky posts that he is in Nebraska en route to Los Angeles  (see IMAGE 2)

–4/17/12:  Shansky mails 1st fraudulent absentee ballot for the 5/8/12 Wisconsin primary election seen below.  The ballot is not accepted.  (IMAGE 3- from Voter Public Access site)

– 4/24/12:  One week after mailing the first absentee ballot Shansky updates “current city” to Los Angeles and employer to  “Unite Now! Locall 11″   (see IMAGE 4)

– 5/17/12:  Shansky mails 2nd fraudulent ballot for the 6/5/12 Wisconsin recall election.  The ballot was rejected and mailed back 6/1/12.    (Refer back to the absentee ballot status photo above indicating this ballot was returned to Shansky)

–5/26/12:  Seemingly naware his second attempt to vote was being denied, Shansky posts the following public boasting on Facebook  – “Well no photo proof, but absentee ballot is in the mail- Up yours Walker! (Thanks Matthew Finnell for keeping me out of jail)”   (see IMAGE 5)

So Shansky made two very clear attempts to vote in the election despite the fact that he had already moved out of Wisconsin. I especially like Shansky’s associate Matthew Finnell’s response to Shansky’s arrogant pride, “Already forwarded to Media Trackers.” I wonder if he learned that humor during his training for his current position as Wisconsin Jobs Now New Media Coordinator. As you know, Media Trackers has been instrumental in tracking the left during the recall effort. Finnell’s sarcasm is more than poetic in this case, indicating Media Trackers has been a thorn in the side of his and his closely aligned organizations.

Perhaps after the recount, which can continue up until July 2^nd and potential for appeal until July 10th, the integrity of the initial results will be appropriately scrutinized. After all the accounts of what has been going on behind the scenes in Racine and elsewhere in Wisconsin, there is more than enough evidence to suspect and potentially prove the integrity of this election was deliberately sabotaged. And with the ever-impressing intelligence of the radical left, who knows; a few more Daniel J. Shansky’s may come out of the woodwork, or Facebook, or some other hole in the wall in the Internet. And new media will continue to peel back the layers of corruption and dishonesty that went down in Racine.

If this is indeed an election stolen by the institutional left and the results stand, then they will proudly claim victory, but not without having left their playbooks wide open. The light now shines brightly on just how low they stoop and what tactics they will employ over the course of an election. But they are not invincible. Their ignorance of morality and arrogant personalities continue to be exposed, and if we pay attention to how they may successfully steal Racine, they will have a much harder battle in the upcoming elections.

Big Government

Lessons from the Wisconsin Recall

by David A. Bego 

 Big Labor took a roundhouse to the chin despite the millions of dollars in member dues spent in an attempt to recall Wisconsin Governor Walker. Conservatives and practical-minded Americans, however, cannot become complacent with this victory.  Big Labor showed how desperate it was in orchestrating the offensive recall. Big Labor thumbed its nose at the citizens of Wisconsin and America because it could not win the original election legitimately. In doing so, it resorted to a campaign of misinformation, coercion, propaganda, and intimidation to bully its way to victory. Thankfully, Americans are waking up and drawing a line in the sand with Big Labor and all who endorse or utilize such tactics -- tactics which are uncalled for in modern America.

Interestingly, nearly a third of union members who cast votes in the recall election did so for Governor Walker, as did 48 % of voters who live with union members. Additionally, teachers in Wisconsin have been showing their disdain for union tactics, as polls of active teachers show that Wisconsin teachers' positive view of the teachers unions has declined from 58% to 43%, while negative views of the unions doubled from 16% to 32%. Furthermore, Wisconsin unions's ranks dropping ahead of the recall vote is another indicator that rank and file members continue to question Big Labor policies and voted ahead of time with their feet.

Wisconsin membership in AFSCME fell from 62,818 to 28,745 over the past year. Apparently, they don't like their union dues and credit card fees (see Big Labor: credit card profiteers) and interest utilized for political purposes, especially for an unnecessary recall election.

Ultimately what Wisconsin means is that there is opportunity for a major conservative victory in November.

However, a few critical lessons must be remembered and implemented.

1.) It is the economy and we are not stupid! Fiscal responsibility trumped union power in Wisconsin. Fiscal responsibility must be trumpeted nationwide.

2.) Complacency will end in defeat. Big Labors’ gasping dinosaurs are headed toward extinction. Remember, desperate people do desperate things. Expect a down and dirty fight to the finish, which must be countered with professionalism, character, and ethics.

3.) The conservatives and Tea Party countered the union foot soldiers with an effective ground game. Now it must be done nationwide.

4.) Don't be afraid to expose the misinformation, propaganda, and coercion for what it is, and counter with common sense and the truth. The majority of people will wake up and understand.

5.) Don't buckle to the intimidation tactics. Look the bully in the eye and smile.

6.) Don't be afraid to expose the opposition’s agenda – socialism through the catch phrase "Social Justice."

7.) Don't be afraid to expose the truth about the opponent's past affiliations. A person or entity's past affiliations speak volumes.

8.) Take the offensive. The best defense is a strong offense.

9.) Use the unions/Democrats misuse of members’ dues against them.

10.) Don't buy into the ruse that the "Citizens United” case created an unfair playing field for Republicans. Expose the fact that it merely evened a playing field that Big Labor had been exploiting for years at the expense of membership dues.

These lessons must be learned and implemented if the decline of American exceptionalism is to be reversed this November!

Big Government

Some of What Wisconsin Means

by Frank Salvato

 
 There are many in the pundit-sphere who are dissecting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall victory and declaring that Mr. Walker’s retention means one thing or another. Truth be told, many of their declarations hold merit as far as political science is concerned. But, American politics being what it is, the November General Elections are an eternity away and any perceived misstep – or an effectively marketed October surprise – can swing public support from a clear front-runner to a dark horse. That said, a few things were exposed in the Wisconsin recall election as irrefutable. Some of those things are good...while some of those things are disturbing. One of the preeminent facts to come out of the Wisconsin recall election was this: Scott Walker’s fiscally Conservative policies work. Looking back to Mr. Walker’s first campaign for governor – all the way back to 2010, Wisconsin had a $3.6 billion – billion with a “B” – budget deficit.

By invoking fiscal reforms outlined in Wisconsin Act 10, today, the State of Wisconsin is running a $154 million surplus.

In addressing the benefits of the Act 10 reforms, Jennifer Stefano, a TEA Party activist and Pennsylvania state director for Americans for Prosperity, wrote:

“Nowhere was that felt more powerfully than in Wisconsin’s schools. The Kaukauna School District, near Appleton, Wisconsin, had a $400,000 deficit for the upcoming school year and was going to be forced to lay off teachers.  By instituting the changes to pension and health care payments, Kaukauna swung to a $1.5 million surplus allowing class sizes to fall and was able to institute over $300,000 in merit pay for teachers.”

Indeed, across the State of Wisconsin, wherever the ACT 10 reforms were employed with fidelity, jobs cuts were avoided and budget deficits were transformed into budget surpluses; jobs were saved and exasperated fiscal coffers were afforded relief.

In fact, with an unemployment rate of 6.7 percent – quite a bit better than the U-3 national average of 8.2 percent (the U-6 national average is 14.8 percent and when all demographics are included, the SGS national unemployment rate stands at 22.7 percent), and job creation numbers in the black, Wisconsin has joined the ranks of States that are actually looking attractive to business creators; to job creators.

Another prescient point made in the polling that led up to the recall election is that when public-sector employees are afforded the choice of whether to join a labor union or not, many are opting out.
FOX News reports:

“Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees – the state’s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers – fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed AFSCME’s figures.

“Much of that decline came from AFSCME Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.”

And according to the Wall Street Journal, the American Federation of Teachers’ Wisconsin Chapter, a labor organization representing 17,000 public school teachers, has seen 6,000 members leave its ranks.

Yet another pertinent point codified as fact via the recall election is that labor union leadership, along with their most ardent rank-and-file lock-steppers, will do anything – anything – to win elections and advance their agenda, even if it is to the detriment to the very communities in which they live.

During the course and immediate aftermath of the Wisconsin recall election, labor union leaders and their henchmen operatives exhibited such an incredible disregard for the truth; for professional and personal ethics, that it is incredibly hard to accept their routine declaration that they stand as champions of the worker; of “the little guy,” in the face of the oppressive corporation (in this instance, read: government).

Labor union spokesmen routinely misled the voting public by saying that Wisconsin Act 10 “stripped” public-sector unions of their collective bargaining rights when, in fact, it did no such thing. Act 10 limited public-sector unions to collectively bargaining their wages, excluding pensions and employment-perk benefits, elements where labor union negotiators exhibited little restraint – and a tremendous amount of greed – given the financial abilities of the State of Wisconsin. The big crime against the public-sector union workers culminated in state workers being asked to pay just under six percent of their salaries towards benefits and a little over twelve percent to their premiums, financial burdens still less than what those in the private-sector have to bear.

The truth regarding the reasons why the union-backed candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D), lost was also manipulated beyond recognition. Labor union mouthpiece after mouthpiece took to the airwaves and print media even before the recall voting had started in a desperate attempt at political damage control, with almost every one of them parroting the talking point that the loss had everything to do with the “disproportionate” amount of money spent in advertising during the recall campaign. Of course, the union mouthpieces didn’t bother to include in their calculations: 1) the amount of money spent bringing about the recall election in the first place, and 2) the dedicated man hours their organizations used in executing the recall campaign from start to finish.

Additionally, there were numerous reports of voter fraud and attempts by outside groups from Illinois and Michigan to affect the outcome of what was supposed to be a recall election by the people of the State of Wisconsin, including this eyewitness account from someone calling The Chris Plante Show, broadcast on WMAL radio, from inside a bus leaving Michigan in route to Wisconsin on recall election day:

“On WMAL’s The Chris Plante Show today a Michigan resident by the name of ‘Mike’ called in to discuss how he had infiltrated a Michigan Union’s organized bus convoy, en-route to vote in the Wisconsin recall election for Democrats.

“The caller claimed that Michigan’s ‘Democrat Unions’ had organized a convoy of 4 buses, filled with Michigan Democrats, with the intention of voting for Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election.

“Caller ‘Mike’ describes ‘Greyhound size buses, filled to capacity’ with a good amount of ‘freebies’ available, ‘They treated me to lunch!’

“The caller also points out that the organizers did not tell union riders that it is illegal to vote in Wisconsin if you're from another state.”

Of course, this account is subject to scrutiny. But having been born and raised in a western suburb of Chicago, and having been active and engaged in Illinois politics from a young age, I am more inclined than not to believe that “Caller Mike” was truthful, knowing Chicago and union politics the way that I do.

Even in losing, union operatives and their political Democrat kin couldn’t be forthright and honest with the citizens of Wisconsin and, by virtue of the attention the Wisconsin recall election garnered, the American public.

In describing the “too-close-to-call” results from Wisconsin’s 21st Legislative District between former Wisconsin State Sen. John Lehman (D) and retiring incumbent Van Wanggaard (R), where the results stand at Lehman with 36,255 and Wanggaard with 35,476 (which should absolutely garner a recount), Wisconsin Senate Democrat Leader Mark Miller said:

“Tonight, Wisconsinites across the 21st Senate District elected a new State Senator. By electing a Democrat Senate, the people of Wisconsin have opened the door to responsible dialogue and if needed provide a bulwark against continued political extremism, and restored checks and balances to the Wisconsin Legislature. I look forward to working again with Senator-elect Lehman in the State Senate in the coming months.”

The 10,000lbs. gorilla in this room is that Wisconsin’s legislature won’t be in session from June 13, 2012 until after the November elections; elections where 16 of the 33 Senate seats are up for election. That said, anyone who believes that any elected body can achieve anything in an election year in just six days, well...

Aside from all of these indisputable points, perhaps the most important result in all of this is that truth has become a casualty of politics where Progressives, labor unions and Democrats are concerned.

Now, I am not naïve enough to believe that the truth isn’t, bent, manipulated, spun and bastradized on the Right side of the aisle as well, but the difference is this: when the truth is found to have been circumvented by elected officials, candidates and operative surrogates on the Right, the electorate of the Right objects; we hold those who lie, cheat and steal accountable, most often affecting the ends of their careers. In contrast, how many times have Republicans and Conservatives had to resign for doing the exact same thing that their Progressive, Liberal and/or Democrat counterparts have done; things that garner those on the Left little if no rebuke? A perfect example would be the Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters ethics issues...and I won’t get into seated presidents lying under oath because that would require defining what the word “is” means.

When the facts are manipulated for political purposes; when the truth suffers at the hands of political opportunists and power-seekers, it damages society and divides the citizenry against itself. This is evidenced by the societal divide that exists today in Wisconsin, courtesy of the political operatives of the many labor union organizations who purposely misled the voting public of that State for their own narcissistic gain. And as the labor union leaders and operatives board their Lear Jets and buses (respectively) bound for the next political battleground, they leave, in their wake, damaged relationships between neighbors, between friends and family; divided communities where it will take years, if not lifetimes in some cases, to heal the wounds inflicted by the reckless, the greedy and the opportunistic of the political class.

In the end, 36 percent of Wisconsin’s labor union workforce voted to retain Gov. Scott Walker. In the end, after all the divisive and untruthful rhetoric that surrounded this unnecessary event, the notion of not spending more than you make; not spending more than your budget will afford – whether you are the head of a household, a corporation or a government entity – won out over the Grecian model of purposefully borrowing into debt to satisfy the unsustainable demands of those who don’t have to live the economic consequences.

Maybe, just maybe, the electorate doesn’t want to suffer the slings and arrows of a Greek existence; of European-style austerity. Maybe, just maybe, this generation of Americans isn’t narcissistic enough to saddle their children with unmanageable debt; debt that will rob them of opportunity and the real American Dream.

Maybe, just maybe, the American citizenry is waking up to the very real possibility that should we continue to tax-and-spend; should we continue to indebt ourselves beyond recovery, we will lose this country.

Maybe, just maybe, the country is waking-up. We’ll find out on November 6th.

Big Government