It’s well known that Walker and the Fitzwalkerstan Cult based their extremist anti-American delusions to make the toughest voter ID law in the United States based on the myth of voter fraud. The legislation was purely produced to disenfranchise voters such as students, the poor, the disabled, the elderly and others that fit the metrics of Democratic voters. It’s Party over Country for this despicable crowd.
It turns out that the voter ID law was so carelessly written that veterans who served this country and put their lives on the line for democracy get rejected when they want to use their veterans identification to do the most basic of American rights, the ability to vote.
This event happened during the February 21 election. Based on how careless Walker and his rubberstampers are, nothing will change as the national election comes in the fall. By Walker thinking that a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs photo ID is not good enough to allow someone to vote, he is implying that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is not good enough to be able to issue valid identification. It’s that simple.
A local man wasn’t allowed to use his veteran’s card to vote in Tuesday’s primary and he’s pretty steamed about it.
Gil Paar, 69, of Mount Pleasant, said he went to his polling place, Peace Lutheran Church, and when asked by poll workers to provide the ID, he handed over his U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs card. The poll workers said the ID, which includes Paar’s photo, wasn’t considered an acceptable form of identification under the state’s new voter ID law, Paar says. They asked him if he had a driver’s license he could offer. He did, he said. But he refused to show it and didn’t vote.
“Basically I was trying to make a point,” Paar said. “I gave them four years of my life, why shouldn’t I be able to use my vet’s card?”
Paar said he was shocked to learn that the card, which he uses to receive his VA benefits, isn’t an acceptable form of ID under the law, noting that VA cards are the only form of identification some veterans have. He has already reached out to the VA about the problem as well as to the offices of Sen. Herb Kohl and state Rep. Robert Turner, D-Racine, he said.
We’re bound to hear some hallow ramblings from some Fitzwalkerstan Cult mouthpiece as they drag their knuckles and make up some excuse for this pitiful charade. Perhaps the usual right-wing radio skanky blowholes will screech like zombies and attack the veteran as some kind of “troublemaker”.
After all, in their eyes, Walker is some kind of soft-handed, powdered king who can do no wrong. If it’s veterans who can prove they served this country and are denied the right to vote, for them, so be it.
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I am glad to see my Phrase is catching on. I am the person who coined the phrase ” Fitzswalkerstan ” and am glad to see it has made a longlasting impression on many people. It just goes to show that there are many people who are dissatisfied with this current govenor and his cronies. I called it fitzswalkerstan for these reasons:
1. the 2 Fitzgeralds that seem to want to run everything and like a couple of bobbleheads say yes to everything Walker says.
2. Walker because no matter what he says or thinks our jobs keep walking ( i call this walkering) away and I’ve known too many good people named Scott to ever sully their good names with his.
3. Stan because with the repubs there is no independent thinking on their part just like dealing with the taliban and other groups like that.
Some day soon I hope to have this state go back to it’s great name of WISCONSIN, the state I moved back to some 30 years ago.