Wisconsin Dems Head to Cemetery to Recall Walker?

It’s either a hack into their website, or a deeply revealing Freudian slip. Appearing briefly on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s website this morning was an event billed as an opportunity to gather signatures to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker from a cemetery. According to the listing, “We will be taking names from headstones and making recall petitions with the names we find.”

Anti-Walker activists and groups have 62 days in which to gather the over 540,000 signatures required to force a recall election of Governor Walker. In order to keep their pledge to recall both the governor and lieutenant governor, the groups will need to gather close to 1.1 million signatures in that 62-day period, which started on Tuesday.

The cemetery from which the names were to be taken and placed on recall petitions does exist in downtown West Bend, right next to the West Bend School District’s administrative office building.

The MacIver Institute, a conservative free-market think tank based in Madison, Wisconsin reached out to the Democratic Party’s spokesman via Twitter and asked him to explain the screenshot of the event. The page was apparently taken down from the website shortly after it appeared.

In a short back-and-forth exchange, Graeme Zielinski, the spokesman, refused to state whether or not the page was an actual DPW sanctioned event or a prank by someone trying to tarnish the credibility of the recall effort. Zielinski would only hurl insults at the conservative group asking him for comment and dogged the question.

While the Democratic Party of Wisconsin refuses to comment about the matter, the public will be left to wonder how many recall “signatures” will come straight from headstones in Wisconsin cemeteries.

This report by Brian Sikma.