Wisconsin's Beery Conspiracy

Among the 133 Facebook users who are not so fastidious that they cannot call Matt Wynns of Eagle, Wisconsin a friend is Wisconsin's Attorney-General, J.B. Van Hollen. The blog, Politiscoop, has been performing admirably in bringing this story to the informable public. Wynns is one of the 15 blowhards, hooligans. and peacocks who, on the 10th of this month, noisily advertised their plans to subvert democracy in Wisconsin by sabotaging the recall of Governor Walker. Their plans to take baths and dress as they imagine liberals to dress and then pose as petition circulators are as grandiose as they are illegal. In the suds-sodden haze of their imagination they will collect "hundreds of signatures. . ." No! "15K to 20K. . ." No! "Twenty-five percent" of all the signatures collected!"  (Tough guys are much drawn to the use of the character K when thousand is meant) They will then dispose of them, thwarting the will of a body of voters they doubt they can beat in a fair fight. Means of disposal would include lining bird cages with petitions, shredding them, and setting fire to heaps of them by way of staying warm in the Obama winter. State law calls that specific act a Class I felony punishable by 3 1/2 years in the penitentiary with $10,000 payable to the state upon release. Van Hollen is supposed to be the principal enforcer of state laws. Will he condemn these brownshirt conspirators for promoting this scheme. Will he, if any of them actually leaves his bar stool long enough to circulate-with-intent, prosecute? And would a newspaper or broadcast journalist kindly raise that question with him tomorrow morning? Stay tuned.