Trading cigarettes for votes?

[proud2BlibKansan]

My least favorite local wingnut is all over this story today. He is claiming that Democrats who are gathering signatures to recall Walker in Wisconsin are trading cigarettes for signatures.

When pressed for details, he claimed that Gore tried this in 2000. He 'bought' votes from homeless people with cigarettes. When I asked where, he said all across the country.

So I Googled it and found this blog describing a video where CHILDREN in Milwaukee are given cigarettes in exchange for signing recall petitions. But the video has been removed. http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2011/11/20/occupy-milwaukee-fraud-kids-caught-on-video-being-given-cigarettes-to-sign-recall-petition-against-gov-walker-video/

The right wing idiocy has never failed to astound me. This guy apparently doesn't realize that every single one of those signatures has to be verified. And kids under 18 can't vote anyway, so why would anyone bribe them with cigarettes for a signature that isn't valid?

[zbdent]

1. this is not just a lie, it's a legendary lie ...

and if they had ANY proof, heads would have rolled ...

Of course, in today's "liberally-biased media", any video without any actual evidence (or sound, for that matter) by a certain "video reporter" would be "proof enough" for conviction ... in the court of public opinion.