Shelly Moore – the Dwight Schrute of Wisconsin politics – lies so blatantly, even the left-leaning Politifact can’t help but notice. One of Moore’s recent flyers drew Politifact’s attention:
For one, Moore plays loose in stating the impact of Ryan’s Medicare proposal. At one point, her flier says it would “eliminate Medicare as we know it.” In another, it says the plan would “end” Medicare.
For those who turn 65 before 2022, the program would not change. And for the others, Medicare would change dramatically but it would still exist, PolitiFact Wisconsin noted in ruling False a MoveOn.org claim that Medicare would be abolished in 10 years.
And best of all, her flyer misquotes an actual person:
And, last but not least, we called the woman pictured under the flier’s headline: “Lyda Haskins of River Falls Can’t Afford For Medicare to End.”
Haskins, 85, told us that she would have no trouble without Medicare even if it were taken from her — which it would not be, under the plan.
“It’s laughable that I wouldn’t be able to afford it,” Haskins said. “They should have not have done that.”
Haskins, whose daughter Alison Page ran unsuccessfully against Harsdorf in 2008, is well known in the area.
Haskins said she was not told her name would be used, and was not aware that Medicare would be an issue in the direct mail piece. She said she agreed, along with her grandchildren, only to be pictured generically as a Moore supporter.
Which earns Moore an unplaudit:
The flier’s claims are false, barring new information, and the misleading nature of the presentation pushes this into ridiculous territory.
That’s a Pants on Fire.
If you live in the greater Hudson / St. Croix River area, you have a chance today – to help continue saving Wisconsin from its ruinous, California-like fixation on spending, and from forcing the private sector to work ’til it’s 72 so the unions can retire at 55.
While this blog doesn’t do endorsements, I’m just going to say vote early and often for Harsdorf.
Shelly Moore is a liar. Mark Dayton is a liar. Al “Carpetbagger” Franken is a fraud and a liar. Barack Obama is a liar.
Are we seeing a trend here?
I’m just going to say vote early and often for Harsdorf.
You know that some dolt lefty blogger is going to pick that up and screech “BERG CONDONES VOTER FRAUD!!”
Fact Check that, Doggie!
It’s too bad that her campaign didn’t run this! Alison Page is a moral scumbag for letting Moore and her alliance of union goons to expolit her mother like that! Of course, Alison is probably just a trust funder, waiting to collect mom’s money!
Hey bosshoss, this might be as close to a PenisBlog fact check as you can get on the recent election:
“…the right may have won, barely, in the senate recall elections in Wisconsin, but they were only able to do so through a wide range of dirty tricks, illegal voter suppression through robocalls and mass mailing to Democrats, and a whole lot of money, notably from the Koch brothers, and the Amway family fortune. What started as another election ended as another political auction.”
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I read somewhere that the outside union groups and DFL supporters spent more than 2 to 1 vs the Republican supporters. If the 2 Democrat recall elections next Tuesday flip to Republicans, then they are right back where they started from and all their money was wasted. I couldn’t think of a more perfect use for DFL/Union cashola than to get it shoved right back up their ass and told “NO! Now sit the hell down and STFU!”