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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.