Koch Brothers' group "Americans for Prosperity, is messing with the Wisconsin elections in 2 dstrict

From TPM:

As Politico reports, mailers have now turned up from Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin, addressed to voters in two of the Republican-held recall districts, where the elections will be held on August 9. The mailers ask recipients to fill out an absentee ballot application, and send it in -- by August 11, after Election Day for the majority of these races.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/koch-group-mails-suspicious-absentee-ballot-letters-in-wisconsin.php?ref=fpb

These wins are gonna be sweet.

Donald Segretti must be proud.

Hey let's sit here with our thumbs up our asses while the GOP cheats yet again.

:sarcasm:

How does urging their supporters to mail their ballots in late, further their cause?

must be typo or something...

they addressed it to cora pynenberg. See this post from a while ago;
http://cherrystreetagency.com/2011/03/18/this-is-why/





http://www.politico.com/blogs/davidcatanese/0811/AFP_Wisconsin_ballots_have_late_return_date.html?showall

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/koch-group-mails-suspicious-absentee-ballot-letters-in-wisconsin.php?ref=fpb

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The mailing address for the applications is listed as "Absentee Ballot Application Processing Center, P.O. Box 1327, Madison WI 53701-1327." A Google search shows that this address is not any sort of government office, but has been used by the conservative group Wisconsin Family Action.

In addition, Wisconsin Right To Life previously used the same address for absentee ballot application letters and phone calls that were sent out shortly before the July 12 Democratic primaries, but after the official deadlines for the applications. The group responded to criticism, saying the phone calls were intended to be for the general elections in August.....

They're misleading voters into thinking that they have 2 extra days to get their ballots in. Being who they are, what their interests and and who they support financially, it's probably not a typo

Unless, of course, they sent out letters to their guys advising them of the dupe.

However, that would be an act of outright slam-dunk stupidity. A slam-dunk case for a prosecutor, that is.

so depressing or suppressing the vote is to the Republicans' advantage.

That said, these were sent to voters in solidly Democratic districts:

The fliers, http://www.politico.com/static/PPM187_ballotapp.html obtained by POLITICO, ask solidly Democratic voters to return ballots for the Aug. 9 election to the city clerk "before Aug. 11."

A Democrat on the ground in Wisconsin said the fliers were discovered to be hitting doors in District 2 and District 10 over the weekend.

"These are people who are our 1's in the voterfile who we already knew. They ain't AFP members, that's for damn sure," the source said.

Is this one right here;

I dug this up from the ol' memory hole.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20070076-503544....

June 8, 2011 12:40 PM
Koch-backed group's fake eviction notices rile up Detroit
By Stephanie Condon

Residents in a Detroit neighborhood received a scare this week when they found what appeared to be eviction notices on their doors. The flyers, however, turned out to be political pamphlets in opposition to the construction of a controversial new bridge.

The fake eviction notices were posted by a local chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political advocacy group backed by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who run Koch Industries and are longtime libertarians. Local political leaders and columnists are condemning the group for scaring residents -- whose homes sit in the epicenter of the nation's foreclosure crisis -- while refusing to disclose which of its corporate backers are funding the flyers.

At the center of the flyer in question, in large print, reads: "Eviction Notice." In medium print, the top of the flyer reads, "This property is subject to seizure by the Michigan Department of Transportation." Only in small print does the flyer say the property in question could be seized if legislation approving the bridge is passed.

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