Wisconsin: Shelly Moore under attack

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http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/124355119.html?commentSubmitted=y&refresh=20153&sort=last+to+first#comments

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State Republican Party leaders are asking election officials to investigate whether Democratic candidate Shelly Moore intentionally used her public school email account to organize and work on her recall campaign. In support of its claim, the Republican Party released a number of Moore emails it received via an open records request from the Ellsworth School District.

"We are not supposed to use school email, but since all of our rights are being taken away, I don't frankly care," Moore wrote in a March 10 email to discuss an emergency teachers union meeting and the distribution of her recall papers.


But a spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party today dismissed any suggestion that Moore was using state resources to campaign.
Gillian Morris, press secretary for the Democratic Party's recall drive, said Moore didn't declare as a candidate until early May, some time after the emails in dispute.

"Shelly was absolutely not using taxpayer dollars for campaign purposes - no campaign even existed when these emails were sent," Morris said


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Moore is running in the recall to try to unseat Sheila Harsdorf.


Germaain to the discussion, this wa posted yesterday morning on the JS blog regarding Wisconsin Republicans plan to make recalls more difficult in the future. Thanks kimberlyleudke...

Walker and Republican playbook--we can't win on policy, so let's make it really hard to get rid of us.

We can't win on policy, so let's decimate the opposition by attacking unions.

We can't win on policy, so let's run fake candidates.

We can't win on policy, so let's get rid of public hearings in the lawmaking process.

We can't win on policy, so let's make corporations citizens with the right to free speech, i.e. buy elections with absolutely legal misinformation campaigns.

We can't win on policy, so let's undermine our democracy until we win.

Now, it's we can't win on policy, so let's try to smear our opponents.

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1. There is a comment.

absolutely legal misinformation

That presumes the 'laws' that allow for control or ownership of information systems are 'legal' being part of worse then anarchy two tier justice, that is used in targeted ways, makes those edicts, not laws.

It is only legal without a component of what is just and compassionate.

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2. k&R

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3. I've never understood why people use work email accounts for personal emails

It's not like it's hard to get an email account. They're free. :shrug:

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4. I'd counter with , the Republicans sucking 400,000 of the taxpayers money...

to suit their whim to to give them more time, and the accusation is inaccurate.

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5. So when do we send tanks into WI to take back the government?

Nothing else seems to work. Just sayin.