Real Voter Suppression

Four Democratic campaign workers, including the son of a Democratic congresswoman, were sentenced to jail for from four to six months in Milwaukee on Wednesday after pleading no contest to slashing the tires of 25 vans that Wisconsin Republicans planned to use on Election Day 2004 to transport voters to the polls.

The judge imposed the sentence, even though the prosecutor had recommended probation, saying, "Voter suppression has no place in our country. Your crime took away that right to vote for some citizens."

Hmmm. Party workers interfering with people trying to vote. Sounds like the very kind of thing Jesse Jackson and Howard Dean and the House Democrats claimed to be so upset about in Ohio in November of 2004 (where the biggest complaint they could ultimately come up with seemed to be that minority voters had to wait in long lines to vote – in districts run by Democrats).

I wonder how long it will be before Jesse or Howard or any of them say something about this situation, where a real crime was committed. I certainly would not think that all their complaining about Ohio was just baseless partisan politics, would you?