After breaking the story that the pro-illegal-immigrant group Voces de la Frontera stormed the property of Sen. Cathy Stepp because she supports a piece of legislation they oppose, and that Sen. Stepp will be pursuing charges (that would be AB69, which would bring Wisconsin into compliance with federal law that drivers’ licenses be issued only to people in the country legally), Fred goes on to dig into this group. He found that this group was investigated for illegally registering non-citizens to vote last year, and that Marquette University has rather close ties to this group.
One would think that either the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel or Racine Journal Times would find the time to report this considering that the incident happened Friday night, and that Sen. Stepp announced she would be pursuing charges by early Saturday afternoon, but apparently this doesn’t fit either paper’s agenda. Indeed, the Milwaukee paper doesn’t even have a clue that AB69 is going through the Senate.
Suppose that the Minutemen came up to Milwaukee and did this to Pedro Colon, an opponent of this bill, because he opposses it. Who here doesn’t think that this would be the banner headline in both yesterday’s and today’s papers, or that this wouldnb’t be national?
Revisions/extensions parts 1 and 2 – It’s Monday morning, and those chainsaws you hear are coming from sleeping reporters and editors both 4th and State in Milwaukee and wherever the Journal Times has its offices. Still nothing from them. Meanwhile, Jessica and Fred point out that Voces de la Frontera is a 501(c)(3) organization, and dig out their 2004 Form 990 (their federal “Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax”), where they claim to not have made any effort to influence politics at any level (part 2 is to correct attribution; I really need to have my full dose of caffeine before blogging).
Paging Mr. Biskupic. Paging US Attorney Steve Biskupic. Here is your federal hook.
Jessica found that too just for crediting sake.
I commented that the noise made by the Mainstream Media on this story would allow us to hear those famous chirping crickets Charlie Sykes plays on his show.
That too. Crickets and snoring sound quite a bit alike :-)