{"id":175892,"date":"2020-11-01T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/01\/and-in-the-continued-war-on-voting\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:54:00","slug":"and-in-the-continued-war-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/01\/and-in-the-continued-war-on-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"And in the Continued War on Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Minneapolis, a Trump official and the police union are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/trump-official-asks-minneapolis-police-union-to-recruit-retired-cops-as-poll-challengers-on-election-day\/572904421\/\">trying to bring in retired officers to intimidate voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a Trump administration is trying to gin up a voter suppression effort is no surprise, but the involvement of the PBA, and it&#8217;s notoriously president belligerent Bob Kroll in actively recruiting thugs to suppress the vote is crossing the line from the thin blue line to active criminality:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minneapolis police union put out a call this week for retired officers to help serve as \u201ceyes and ears\u201d at polling sites in \u201cproblem\u201d areas across the city on Election Day, at the request of an attorney for President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The request was made by William Willingham, whose e-mail signature identifies him as a senior legal adviser and director of Election Day operations for the Trump campaign. <\/p>\n<p>In an e-mail Wednesday morning to Minneapolis Police Federation President Lt. Bob Kroll, Willingham asked the union president about recruiting 20 to 30 former officers to serve as \u201cpoll challengers\u201d to work either a four- or eight-hour shift in a \u201cproblem area.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoll Challengers do not \u2018stop\u2019 people, per se, but act as our eyes and ears in the field and call our hotline to document fraud,\u201d the e-mail read. \u201cWe don\u2019t necessarily want our Poll Challengers to look intimidating, they cannot carry a weapon in the polls due to state law. \u2026 We just want people who won\u2019t be afraid in rough neighborhoods or intimidating situations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kroll then passed on the request to federation members, saying \u201cPlease share, and e-mail me if you are willing to assist,\u201d according to a copy obtained by the Star Tribune. <\/p>\n<p>Neither Willingham nor Kroll responded to requests for comment Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bob Kroll is a menace to the citizens of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Minneapolis, a Trump official and the police union are trying to bring in retired officers to intimidate voters. The fact that a Trump administration is trying to gin up a voter suppression effort is no surprise, but the involvement of the PBA, and it&#8217;s notoriously president belligerent Bob Kroll in actively recruiting thugs to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,375,364,526,639],"class_list":["post-175892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-elections","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}