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Total Electoral War in Wisconsin

I'm sure that the spectacle is repugnant to most Wisconsinites.

By certifying the 6 Republican recalls a month to a couple of weeks before any of the 3 Democrat recalls, the Wisconsin GAB gave the Democrats an advantage in preparation for the recall elections. The Republican response was to gum up the works by forwarding pseudo-Democrat candidates to run in those elections. Now the Dems are returning the favor:

The Democrats and their union comrades are pulling out all the stops in the Wisconsin in their attempt to seize control of the State Senate. An unholy alliance of public sector unions and their Democrat enablers have joined together under the banner of an innocuous sounding organization called We Are Wisconsin. The plan is a tried and true staple of leftist politics, get involved in the Republican primary elections and manipulate the process in order to ensure victory in the general election.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that in an email Kelly Steele, communications director for We Are Wisconsin said "it would be in the interest of Democrats to run candidates in the Republican primaries," adding that "it would be in the interest of flipping the Wisconsin Senate that interested Democrats contact the Democratic Party of Wisconsin."

Steele claims that his strategy has been developed to counteract a similar primary strategy that he says the Republican Party is trying to implement. Kelly Steele came to Wisconsin along with numerous other Democrat operatives and union thugs during the ugly public sector union protests earlier this year. The Democrats' hired gun is no stranger to the gutter warfare of the left as he has been credited by many in the party for his role in saving Harry Reid's senate seat last year.

Every maneuver the Democrats have made has taken advantage of any and all options that they could muster: For example, the GAB determination that the Fleabaggers could use campaign funds to offset their expenses while refusing to do their jobs out of state, or the ridiculous maneuverings of Marianne Sumi, or the recounts of JoAnne Kloppenburg, or the attempts to prevent lawmakers from being able to conduct business in the Capitol, or the Madison mayor's attempt to prevent the publication of Walker's budget bill.

Naturally, they cry foul when the other side decides to play hardball, too, because it's only ethical when they do it.

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