Tape: County GOP wanted a spoiler Democrat to run against Shilling in recall

[kpete]

Source: LaCrosse Tribune

La Crosse County Republicans discussed running a spoiler candidate against Democrat Jennifer Shilling in an effort to delay the recall election of Sen. Dan Kapanke, according to a secret recording of the party’s general membership meeting last week.

On the recording obtained by the Tribune, party vice chairman Julian Bradley says he just spoke with Mark Jefferson, executive director of the state GOP, and “we are actively keeping our ears to the ground and if anybody knows anybody for a candidate that would be interested on the Democratic side in running in the primary against Jennifer Shilling…. So if anybody knows any Democrats who would be interested, please let us know.”

Kapanke, a second-term Republican, is expected to face a recall election July 12, unless more than one challenger comes forward. Shilling, a five-term state representative from La Crosse, is the only candidate to declare her intention to run.

Should a primary be necessary, the general election would be pushed back, according to scenarios proposed by the Government Accountability Board.

Read more: http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_0f2ffc96-8cc9-11e0-aa91-001cc4c002e0.html

[ananda]

1. Nasty.

But not surprising at all.

[Scuba]

2. I heard Alvin Green is now living in LaCrosse and working at Piggy's.

[EC]

3. The only reason I can see for the delay is to

try and get as much of their agenda passed as they can...they've been pushing things through really fast lately...I just hope they wrote all these new laws and policies so sloppy that they will be easy to undo. They aren't good at writing legislation without loopholes because they love loopholes.

[MadMaddie]

4. They can't win fairly so they cheat

Redistricting
Running Spoiler candidates
Fixing the voting machines

Understand they know no other way to get what they want and that makes them dangerous.

[Scuba]

5. Bingo.

[W T F]

6. Fine, run a spoiler republican (Tea Bagger), That should even out the playing field

[Jim Lane]

9. No, it would still delay the election and keep the Repug in power, as they want (n/t)

[scribble]

7. This has been going on in the US ...

... as long as there have been two parties running our Government.

Republicans are especially vulnerable now. Democracts should be thinking about doing the same thing -- finding Republican "moderates" to run in primaries, to force Republicans to start talking about sane solutions to local problems, and to split the GOP vote.

Some of those moderates would turn out paleoConservative office holders, who are more likely to run well-funded campaigns than a moderate winner would be.


I humbly suggest that this is exactly where so-called DLC Moderates came from, twenty years ago.


sc

[MessiahRp]

8. Bobby Heenan always used to say: "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."

That says it all about the GOP.

[bobthedrummer]

10. The Kanpanke recall effort will be successful and Jen will be elected-can't speak for the rest of WI

but this area has had it with Kapanke especially his arrogant tactics and lies.

[iwishiwas]

11. I hope voters can stay riled up enough to get to the polls.