Posted on 01/25/2005 5:04:49 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
The sons of a first-term congresswoman and Milwaukee's former acting mayor were among five Democratic activists charged Monday with slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans to drive voters and monitors to the polls on Election Day.
Sowande Omokunde, son of Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), and Michael Pratt, son of ex-Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin Pratt, were charged with criminal damage to property, a felony.
The activists, all employees of Sen. John Kerry's campaign, are accused of flattening the tires on 25 vehicles rented by the Wisconsin Republican Party to get out the vote and deliver poll watchers Nov. 2.
The GOP rented more than 100 vehicles that were parked in a lot adjacent to a Bush campaign office. The party planned to drive poll watchers to polling places by 7 a.m. and deliver any voters who didn't have rides.
A criminal complaint said the defendants originally planned to put up Democratic yard signs, placards and bumper stickers at the Republican office in a scheme they called Operation Elephant Takeover. But the plan was dropped when they learned a security guard was posted at the GOP office, the complaint said.
One witness told investigators the five defendants, dressed in black outfits and knit caps, left the Democratic Party headquarters at about 3 a.m. on Nov. 2, and returned about 20 minutes later, extremely excited and talking about how they had slashed the tires.
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Whatever logic they might use to try it defies me ... but I agree they'll probably try it somehow
Could have been a picture of any Chicago Democrat.
Of course, this is all Bush's fault and a case of racism.
If they were white, it would have been ok....
/sarcasm off
Jesse Jackson will be there within the day to speak about how this is the greatest travesty since Selma....
A travesty that they were caught that is....
Got that right!
Well then, let's hope they didn't get the chance to vote!!
bump
You look at the vile, country-damaging things JFK, LBJ, Jimmah and X42(i) did, and you see so much to despise, and so little to respect much less admire...
You're right. And the Democrats cannot understand why the American people have recoiled in disgust at them, their antics, and their so-called "moral values". Slashing tires is merely one more example of their "moral values". The Democrat Party has become the party of scum.
Fashion Slaves
Stupid is as stupid does, and the kids learned this behavior at mama and papa's knee. Decline of the democrats' mindset is right.
A family affair. Why are we not surprised.
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