It is not surprising that GOP Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his allies are suing to stop the legal recount of votes in the Presidential election and also want to rewrite state law to further restrict access to the recount process, as Walker and his party have repeatedly bent or broken Wisconsin voting laws or obstructed public access to the ballot box.
Little wonder that Walker and GOP efforts continue to look shady, given their long-running pattern of democratic process abuse, including these known activities:
* When he was Milwaukee County Executive and running for Governor, Walker used public funds to underwrite self-promotional motorcycle tours far from Milwaukee.
Little wonder that Walker and GOP efforts continue to look shady, given their long-running pattern of democratic process abuse, including these known activities:
* When he was Milwaukee County Executive and running for Governor, Walker used public funds to underwrite self-promotional motorcycle tours far from Milwaukee.
* At the same time, Walker used public staff, county office space and other taxpayer-provided resources to raise his profile, organize partisan events, and raise money for his gubernatorial campaign, and other GOP candidates - - moves which sent six Walker staffers, associates and campaign donors to jail in what became known as John Doe I.
* As Governor, Walker and his party pushed through a very restrictive voter ID law with known partisan overtones and with admittedly partisan objectives aimed at suppressing voting in minority and college communities which vote heavily Democratic.
* Forced into a recall election in 2012, Walker raised and received millions of dollars in campaign funds routed through a third party advocacy group which led to another investigation known as John Doe II.
* Walker has since signed a bill into law written by his party which ended the use of John Doe investigations into allegations of political corruption.
* During the 2012 recall elections, the Republican Party openly ran Republican candidates as fake Democrats in Democratic primaries to monkey-wrench the electoral process.
* Walker signed into law several restrictions to early voting so partisan and undemocratic that a Federal judge had to void them.
* Separately, another Federal judge has determined that the Republican redistricting of the Legislature drafted in secret using state employees and public computer equipment inserted out-of-sight into private law firms, and which has helped Walker and the GOP for years to expand their majorities and push through their agendas was illegally crafted to disenfranchise Democrats.
* GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel, a close Walker and Republican legislative ally, sent election monitors during the November elections disproportionally into Democratic-leaning precincts.
* Schimel's actions echoed the posting of billboards paid for by a GOP financier and major Walker donor warning against election fraud in minority neighborhoods where there had been no record of voting fraud.
All of which makes Walker's talking point of his having made it "easier to vote and harder to cheat" in Wisconsin elections a laughably self-serving projection and indictment.
* As Governor, Walker and his party pushed through a very restrictive voter ID law with known partisan overtones and with admittedly partisan objectives aimed at suppressing voting in minority and college communities which vote heavily Democratic.
* Forced into a recall election in 2012, Walker raised and received millions of dollars in campaign funds routed through a third party advocacy group which led to another investigation known as John Doe II.
* Walker has since signed a bill into law written by his party which ended the use of John Doe investigations into allegations of political corruption.
* During the 2012 recall elections, the Republican Party openly ran Republican candidates as fake Democrats in Democratic primaries to monkey-wrench the electoral process.
* Walker signed into law several restrictions to early voting so partisan and undemocratic that a Federal judge had to void them.
* Separately, another Federal judge has determined that the Republican redistricting of the Legislature drafted in secret using state employees and public computer equipment inserted out-of-sight into private law firms, and which has helped Walker and the GOP for years to expand their majorities and push through their agendas was illegally crafted to disenfranchise Democrats.
* GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel, a close Walker and Republican legislative ally, sent election monitors during the November elections disproportionally into Democratic-leaning precincts.
* Schimel's actions echoed the posting of billboards paid for by a GOP financier and major Walker donor warning against election fraud in minority neighborhoods where there had been no record of voting fraud.
All of which makes Walker's talking point of his having made it "easier to vote and harder to cheat" in Wisconsin elections a laughably self-serving projection and indictment.