More voter suppression - Billboards in Milwaukee

[Todd33]

After an outstanding job of detective work, Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now and theGrio revealed Monday that funding to buy voter-intimidating ads on 85 billboards in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, came from the Einhorn Family Foundation, run by patriarch Steve Einhorn. It is not known whether the foundation also paid for 60 of similarly toxic billboards in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio. Einhorn and his wife, Nancy, contributed $25,000 to defeat the recall campaign against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, among other Republican causes.
The billboards depicted a judge's gavel and the text "Voter Fraud is a felony—up to 3 1/2 years and a $10,000 fine.” Citizen advocates objected to the billboard ads because they were placed almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods with obvious voter-suppressing intent. Activists, including One Wisconsin Now, tried to get billboard-owner Clear Channel Outdoor Advertising to say who had purchased the ads. But the company said funding had come from an anonymous donor, something it claimed was against company policy for political ads.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/...of-voter-intimidating-billboards-in-Milwaukee

What douche bags. They try to hide who they are like cowards, but what were the odds it was a right wing group though, 50-50? Clearchannel, who owns the billboards took them down, good for them.

 

[corwin]

So how does this suppress voters again?

 

[xBiffx]

Trolls gonna troll. Misleading title ftw.

Voter targeting now equals voter suppression.

 

[Todd33]

So how does this suppress voters again?

It tries to put a level of fear into voters. That is the intent. It's not like the billboards are trying to solve a real problem. It is a way for rich white people who support the GOP to use their cash to say "hey poor and minority people - we are watching you, you had better not show up at the polls".

 

[waggy]

wait? what!? how is a bilboard stopping anyone from vetoing?

oh wait they put in front of the door right?

 

[nehalem256]

So how does this suppress voters again?

People who were thinking of voting illegally will be less likely to vote 😀

 

[corwin]

It tries to put a level of fear into voters. That is the intent. It's not like the billboards are trying to solve a real problem. It is a way for rich white people who support the GOP to use their cash to say "hey poor and minority people - we are watching you, you had better not show up at the polls".

You mean the same way those DUI billboards put fear into honest drivers who aren't drinking?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Why fear if you are legally entitled to vote? 😕

 

[xBiffx]

It tries to put a level of fear into voters. That is the intent. It's not like the billboards are trying to solve a real problem. It is a way for rich white people who support the GOP to use their cash to say "hey poor and minority people - we are watching you, you had better not show up at the polls".

So scare tactics are fine as long as your side is using them. I see. Judging by your countless posts over the fear ads released by Obama.

 

[PottedMeat]

if i saw that sign i'd laugh my ass off, it looks worse than one of those meme template generators

 

[corwin]

if i saw that sign i'd laugh my ass off, it looks worse than one of those meme template generators

At first glance I thought it was for a bail bondsman😀

 

[waggy]

wait! the op is really serious? he thinks that billboard is bad and actually getting people to not vote?

wtf..

/facepalm

At first glance I thought it was for a bail bondsman😀

so did i.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

It tries to put a level of fear into voters. That is the intent. It's not like the billboards are trying to solve a real problem. It is a way for rich white people who support the GOP to use their cash to say "hey poor and minority people - we are watching you, you had better not show up at the polls".

It tries to put a level of fear into illegal voters. Is this really that difficult to understand?

 

[corwin]

Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote.

And a PSA does this how exactly?

 

[herm0016]

meth head intimidation! We must think of the children on meth too!

 

[Triglet]

But the billboard is targeted against those that do not have a right to vote -- what's the problem?

 

[monovillage]

LMAO, desperate people posting desperate lies.

 

[soundforbjt]

Why fear if you are legally entitled to vote? 😕

gee...maybe you should ask all the repub state legislatures that took legal voters off the registration in an effort to purge the "illegal" voters.

 

[corwin]

gee...maybe you should ask all the repub state legislatures that took legal voters off the registration in an effort to purge the "illegal" voters.

I think you're in the wrong thread, this one is about a PSA billboard😛

 

[xj0hnx]

I think you're in the wrong thread, this one is about a PSA billboard😛

For bail bonds men at that, jeez

 

[PottedMeat]

meth head intimidation! We must think of the children on meth too!

now this is how you do a billboard.

 

[ichy]

The idea that billboards can suppress voters is absurd.

 

[corwin]

The idea that billboards can suppress voters is absurd.

It might make those "undocumented workers" think twice😉

Actually thinking about it why would people who have already proved they are willing to break the law care about one more little one? Hell, the fine/jail time isn't even all that bad considering...

 

[nehalem256]

It tries to put a level of fear into illegal voters. Is this really that difficult to understand?

Suppressing illegal voters is still voter suppression 😀