Democratic Tire Slashers Sentenced

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Kerry's Tire-Slashers Sentenced

 

A congresswoman's son and three Democratic campaign workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004.

 

The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty.

 

"This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan, who rejected prosecutors' recommendation of probation for the four men.

 

The state Republican Party had rented more than 100 vehicles to give rides to voters and poll monitors on Nov. 2, 2004. The cars were parked outside a GOP campaign office when the tires were punctured. The vandalism left the drivers scrambling for new vehicles.

 

Among those sentenced Wednesday were Sowande A. Omokunde, the son of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisconsin, and Michael Pratt, the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt.

 

"I love my son very much. I'm very proud of him," Moore said. "He's accepted responsibility."

 

Omokunde was sentenced to four months in jail; Pratt and Lewis Caldwell of Milwaukee were sentenced to six months; and Lavelle Mohammad of Milwaukee was sentenced to five months. All were granted work-release privileges.

 

Brennan also ordered them to pay a $1,000 fine each, in addition to the $5,317 in total restitution ordered earlier.

 

The four could have faced up to nine months in jail term and fines of $10,000.

 

Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes in the 2004 election ended up going to Democrat John Kerry.

 

 

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[Observer]

Now those folks need to be taken to civil court and hit them where it really hurts!

 

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[BearBryant]

Its funny how the media hasn't reported this. If it were the other way around .......

[Colligula]

Its funny how you guys think this stuff goes one way. I know the Kerry/Edwards stickers went over pretty poorly down here in college station. But you guys are the ones always whining about bias.:crybaby: Nobody ever seems to report that stuff either.Maybe because it ISNT NEWS.

[BearBryant]

50 vans being vandalized on the day of the election is news.

 

Its funny how it was news when the word "Rat" was somehow dug up on a GOP ad in the 2000 election. Every network available talked it to death. Guess they didn't know that rat goes into DemocRAT!