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As Scooby Doo would say, “ruh roh….” Federal authorities have opened an investigation into two Wisconsin-based corporations founded and run by Mark Block, a veteran political operative who ran Herman Cain’s unsuccessful presidential campaign. “They are very interested in Mark and these groups,” said a source familiar with the probe. “It is not my sense, [...] Read the entire opinion column over at Citizen Action Wisconsin’s “No Sacred Cows” blog. Here’s a series of FACTS about the folks working for (or associated with) the John K. MacIver Institute: FACT #1: Brian Fraley, the Communications Director for the MacIver Institute, is a former national insurance industry lobbyist who was director of the Senate Republican caucus during part of the time of the “Caucus Scandal” in which [...] Mark Block potentially involved in illegal campaign activities? That’s unpossible! Herman Cain’s two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill for tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for such items as iPads, chartered flights and [...] Here is the ad prior to the Mark Block Smoking man ad. Sometimes words fail me. 
I’ve already documented the efforts by Americans For Prosperity (AF) to confuse Democratic voters in the 2nd and 10th State Senate districts – where incumbent Republican State Senators Rob Cowles and Sheila Harsdorf face tough recall elections – with a mailer telling them to send in their absentee ballots by August 11, 2011. That date [...] Many in the blogosphere (including your truly) have labeled Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson as the “Tea Party candidate,” given Johnson’s appearance at a Madison Tea Party rally earlier this year, as well as claims Johnson helped found the Oshkosh tea party group, but folks from the various Tea Party groups in Wisconsin made [...] |
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