We are coming up on the recall elections quickly with the primaries for the recalls of the Republican Senators starting tomorrow. Now one would think that the fiscal hawks of the Republican Party would want to keep the costs of these elections down - right?
Wrong...the Republican Party has inserted fake candidates into all of the recalls against Republican Senators. Now why would they do this? To give their candidates longer to campaign. Now I don't know about you, but, I find the Republican plans flat out unethical. While it may be perfectly legal to run fake candidates it is one of the more unprincipled things I have seen the Republicans do so far this year, which is saying a lot as the current crop of Republicans that we have here in Wisconsin are about the most dishonorable group of people I have seen serve in our legislature...and I have lived through the caucus scandals.
Now as you can tell the Republicans in Wisconsin are so concerned about the fiscal well being of our state by not only forcing unnecessary primary elections upon us unwitting peasants that they also passed a law that raises the cost of future elections by passing the Voter ID bill. Basically a law looking for a crime...however, being so concerned about the integrity of elections as they are (you can tell they are concerned about this because they are running fake candidates in the primaries) they passed this law for a crime that is never committed. Hell, how can you possibly worry about voter fraud, i.e. people voting twice, when you can barely get fifty percent of the population to vote in the first place.
But - I guess when you are worried about the states fiscal health and the issue of voter fraud you have to think outside the box and come up with solutions like running fake candidates and passing laws that disenfranchise voters in the name of fiscal responsibility and election integrity.
