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The website guy I use is also pretty terrible. Think "This will be god four you" which is a real correction I made last week.

I'm sorry, but I genuinely laughed out loud when I read that. That's terrible!

Thanks for the support everyone. I'm feeling better now that I'm off work until Tuesday. (The grumbling might commence then)

So I am a Democratic Party intern working in the field office on the upcoming recall elections. Six of the recalls are against Republican state senators for passing the controversial budget. Three of the recalls are against Democratic state senators for fleeing the state to deny quorum for a vote on the aforementioned budget.

This is an actual press release sent out by the Republican challenger to one of the Democratic incumbents facing recall:
VanderLeest Campaign: Response to Mike Tate's false accusations
6/30/2011

Contact: David VanderLeest
920-672-8513

Statement from David VanderLeest:

I am an advocate for truth in Brown County. I have sued public officials for curruption and abuse of power, as an attempt to protect the hard working taxpayers, of NE WI. (see federal court case number 07-c-318) I am inocent of every criminal case ever brought against me. Every accusation ever brought fourth, happened because my then wife had a drinking problem, and made false accusations that she later recanted. These cases were intensified at the hand of currupt officials, who viewed me as a political threat, and wanted to silence, suppress, and minimize me, like Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Mike Tate tryed to do today. Crooked public officals like this do not deserve the public trust. They fear my ability to polarize the public and expose true corruption that takes place at the hand of public officials who have different political views then me. People like this have no morals, and only care about winning, at any and all cost. These officials do not care who they hurt in the process, they are simply interested in protecting their place at the public trough. Hurting David VanderLeest and his seven year old son James, are just ways of getting currupt official the means they desire.

There's at least 15-20 spelling & grammatical errors in there. I read it over two or three times trying to get an exact count and got a headache.

It gets better.

This David VanderLeest is a local Republican activist who led the effort to collect the signatures necessary to recall this Democratic state senator. He was not the choice of the GOP establishment. There was supposed to at least be a primary, with the foregone conclusion being that the Republican establishment candidate would win it.

The GOP establishment choice was a current Assemblyman, Dave Nygren. He's already been elected, so you know he has to have some existing organization capable of getting his name on a ballot.
It takes just 400 signatures to get on this ballot. Rep. Nygren submitted 424 signatures to the relevant state agency for approval.
Said agency determined that only 398 signatures were valid and denied him a spot on the primary ballot, which left VanderLeest as the only viable Republican candidate and prevented the necessity of a primary.
Here's the kick-him-while-he's-down angle: Nygren and his wife did not sign Nygren's own nomination papers to get on the ballot... while he fell exactly two signatures short.


I can't believe I have to defend democracy against fucking idiots like these.

bloggingblue.com/2011/06/14/david-vanderleest-now-with-police-reports/
In a report dated 7/30/06 an intoxicated David VanderLeest had an argument with his wife and proceeded to throw her across the kitchen and prevent her from calling 911 for help. Once authorities arrived VanderLeest attemted to evade police but was located and arrested. Included in the report is a statement that this was not the first time VanderLeest had beaten his wife.
In this report, dated 10/26/06, VanderLeest was alleged to have told his wife he would kill her if she testified against him in a previous domestic abuse case that was still pending. When VanderLeest found out his wife was going to testify, he responded by grabbing her by the hair and throwing her to the ground. Curiously, this report also notes Vanderleest wanted his wife to see a psychic (which she acquiesced to) to see where their marriage was headed, as if it took a rocket scientist to see where VanderLeest’s marriage was headed
Then on 08/10/09, VanderLeest had another physical altercation with his wife, an altercation that resulted in his wife having bruises to her thigh and a large lump on her head, injuries his wife said were sustained as a result of VanderLeest physically assaulting her.
Not finished with his wife on 08/10/09, VanderLeest violated the conditions of his release in the incident from earlier that day, resulting in VanderLeest being re-arrested after he defied written and verbal instructions to stay away from his wife.

If this didn't keep him from running for office, I don't believe proper spelling, grammar, and general use of the English language is really a consideration for the guy.

I certainly feel safer already...

I can't believe Vanderleest said all his altercations (abuse charges) are all lies his wife said because SHE had a drinking problem. What a piece of work Not to mention the suspicious lack of signatures that happened to be unvalid from Nygren.

Is it too late to bring back tar and feathering for this guy, maybe put him in the stocks?

I'm sure it's not, bama, as you get to see how idiotic some of those people are!

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Sorry, had to point out the tense fail there

With my poor grammar and awful spelling ability, I do not have much to offer this thread, but I think I could learn a lot from it. I would even volunteer my posts to be used as an educational tools, as examples of how not to use grammar.