OG_slinger wrote:When's Wink's Playboy shoot?
Given Playboy's aesthetics and audience, I don't see that happening.
Oh c'mon. I'm sure they could airbrush that!
Dimmerswitch wrote:OG_slinger wrote:When's Wink's Playboy shoot?
Given Playboy's aesthetics and audience, I don't see that happening.
Oh c'mon. I'm sure they could airbrush that!
I think that would strain the limits of photoshop.
Oh c'mon. I'm sure they could airbrush Pat!
Fixed for accuracy!
Hah, the intersection between the two audiences (meme-aware gamers and the politically active) is probably about, oh, twelve people, and eight of them are probably in this forum.
Hah, the intersection between the two audiences (meme-aware gamers and the politically active) is probably about, oh, twelve people, and eight of them are probably in this forum.
Move votes, for great justice!
First charges of willful fraud in the recall efforts.
A Racine man could face felony charges after his brother’s signature was found four times on a petition to recall Senate Republican Van Wanggaard. But the brother said he never signed the petition – and his mother didn’t either, even though her name popped up twiceon the same documents.
The Racine Journal Times said a man was looking at the Wanggaard petitions on-line when he found his friend’s signature multiple times and called authorities. Technically, it’s not illegal to sign recall petitions more than once. But it is illegal for somebody to forge them, which is apparently the case here.
Too soon to know whether Mark Demet is a GOP plant, a Democrat who decided to "help", or something else entirely.
In any event, the crimes he is accused of are a felony, and I hope he's appropriately prosecuted.
Great "friend". You'd think he would check with his "friend" before going straight to the cops!
Great "friend". You'd think he would check with his "friend" before going straight to the cops! ;)
Maybe he did.
"Hey... I saw your signature on this petition four times. What gives?"
"I never signed any petition. Someone is using my name!"
"Great, so someone is forging your signature. Let's call the cops."
Robear, I'm taking the liberty of answering you in this thread, since it's a derail in the redistricting one. Hope that's okay.
[url=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1... wrote:Robear, in the redistricting thread[/url]]I understand that Gov. Walker has decided to use funds from the recent $26B mortgage bank settlement, which were supposed to go to homeowners in trouble, to instead reduce the state's deficit. Is that correct?
Basically, yes. Wisconsin's share of the national settlement is a comparatively paltry $140 million. $31.6 million of those proceeds go directly to the state government, and Walker is appropriating the overwhelming majority of that to prop up his unbalanced budget, rather than supporting the homeowners the money is intended for.
[url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/wal... wrote:Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel[/url]]Wisconsin will use a chunk of its $140 million share of a national settlement over foreclosure and mortgage-servicing abuses to help the state budget rather than assist troubled homeowners, Gov. Scott Walker and state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday.
Walker and Van Hollen said the majority of the settlement amount earmarked to Wisconsin under a $25 billion proposed nationwide agreement announced Thursday still would go to aid consumers in Milwaukee and other communities struggling with the specter of home foreclosure.
But of a $31.6 million payment coming directly to the state government, most of that money - $25.6 million - will go to help close a budget shortfall revealed in newly released state projections. Van Hollen, whose office said he has the legal authority over the money, made the decision in consultation with Walker.
This is probably a derail in itself, but it's a prime example of one of my biggest problem with the libertarian philosophy.
People like talking about how wasteful and corrupt the government is, but the biggest perpetrators always seem to be the state government. Here, that transportation bill that passed a couple years ago, the home insulation credits, the money disappears at the state level, not the federal level. Giving the states more power and money seems likely to cause more problems.
Thanks for the answer, Dimmer. I just wondered if I was understanding it correctly.
http://chicagoist.com/2012/02/15/wis...
Walkers tummy ache prevents him from visiting a union factory.
That seems commensurate with the effort involved in actually *contacting* every signer...
If they verified people in a random order then verifying 350k out of 540k people essentially means that no significant amount of fraud occurred.
Now that is complicated by the fact that they are essentially trying to prove a negative, so it would take a lot longer to prove someone doesn't exist or didn't sign rather than verifying everything was correct, so it makes since that people more difficult to verify (and hence more likely to not be legit) would take longer to clear, which may skew results, but even accounting for that I can't imagine that there is much of a chance for undetected malpractice on any appreciable level.
I was thinking that if they had to verify names, numbers, addresses, and contact the person - if that was the procedure - it could take quite a while. Especially if there was a benefit to working the issue slooooowly...
Poll Shows Scott Walker In Trouble Against Dems In Recall
Against the two declared Democratic candidates, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk edges Walker by 48%-47%, while the lesser-known state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout trails Walker by 46%-44%.
New Yorker profile piece on the recall.
Still reading through it but so far, it's pretty compelling.
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