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2012: Walker’s Year of the Veteran or TEAhadist Attack on Democracy?

In December, 2011, Tea Party Governor Scott Walker declared 2012 to be Wisconsin’s Year of the Veteran. Ironic given his past dealings concerning WI veterans over the years both as Milwaukee County Executive and Governor of WI. His history with WI veterans reads like a strategy, an extremist Christian Crusade to conquer our great state […]

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Message to the Government Accountability Board: Protect Our Recall Elections

By Jim Mueller Presented to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board on March 20, 2012 I am a former clerk of the Town of Middleton and I am a founder of and legal counsel for Wisconsin Citizens for Election Protection and for Wisconsin Counts, organizations that were formed for the purpose of protecting our elections from […]

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STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE Installment #3: Wisconsin 2011

This is the third installment of a series of excerpts from my new book, STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE. Due out April 7, 2012, the one-year anniversary of Kathy Nickolaus finding 14,000 votes two days after Joanne Kloppenburg was declared the winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Without those votes, there never would have […]

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Legislative Laundry List Part Two

From 3pm to 7pm the following bills were passed by the WI Assembly.  Still on deck, criminalizing abortion providers, trashing navigable water regulations, privatizing Milwaukee Area Tech College board, and water pollution credit trading, among dozens of others. SB 453 is an omnibus bill that lays out the scope of authority of the newly created […]

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STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE Installment #2: How We Got Here

This is the second installment of a series of excerpts from my new book, STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE. Due out April 7, 2012, the one-year anniversary of Kathy Nickolaus finding 14,000 votes two days after Joanne Kloppenburg was declared the winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Without those votes, there never would have […]

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STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE Installment #1 Introduction to the Takeover

In May 2011, I volunteered to be an observer in the recount of the Joanne Kloppenburg/David Prosser Wisconsin Supreme Court election triggered when Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus “found” 14,000 votes two days after Kloppenburg won. Months before, Scott Walker “dropped the bomb” with his now-famous budget repair bill and sent the state into a […]

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Lori Compas for State Senate(District 13)

Lori Compas spearheaded the recall effort against State Senator Scott Fitzgerald(R-13).  Today she announced her candidacy to run against Senator Fitzgerald in the recall election to be held later this spring.  Here are images taken at the announcement press conference, held at the Jefferson Business Center in Jefferson, Wisconsin.          

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Mass Chaos

February 14, 2012 by Lady Forward Ardis Cerny, Chair of Community Activism for Republican Women of Waukesha County (RWWC), testified at the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reforms hearing on February 6, 2012. On the subject of “double voting,” Cerny stated: “I predict that when citizens find out that they can vote a second […]

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Changes in deadlines for canvassing, recount petitions; provisional ballot status; town officer terms; voter registration in schools

Assembly Bill 476/Senate Bill 381 – relating to: county and municipal canvassing procedures, provisional ballot information, the deadline for filing a recount petition, terms of town officers, the date of the annual town meeting, and technical revisions to certain election laws. Introduced by Senator Lazich, by request of Government Accountability Board; Cosponsored by Representative Tauchen […]

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