Wisconsin Watch: Partisan calls from…a hospital?; Plus: UW fake sick-note doctors to “face penalties”
Well, how did this happen, hmmm?
The Wisconsin GOP reports that Democrats in the Dairy State are “using a fraudulent tactic to harass and intimidate constituents who favor recalling Democrat Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay.”
Somehow, calls are being placed in the name of “Bay Care Aurora” — a local hospital — by left-wing activists targeting voters who signed petitions to recall fleebagger state Sen. Hansen (h/t Steve Eggleston):
The Democratic Party has targeted for harassment people who signed recall petitions against Senator Hansen, making calls on beginning on Monday April 25th using a fake phone number and caller ID that showed up on phones as “Bay Care Aurora,” a well-known Green Bay area medical center. Once recall supporters answered the phone, they were told they were speaking with a Democrat Party of Wisconsin operative, and were questioned about signing a petition to recall Hansen.
“It’s disgusting that the Dems would use a fake call from a hospital to trick people into answering their phones – only so they could harass and intimidate them into saying they did not sign a recall petition,” said Mark Jefferson, Executive Director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. “People who received that call may have feared the worst – an unexpected call from a hospital can bring terrible news about a loved one. The Democrats’ intent was obviously to confuse and upset people, hoping they would be disoriented and easily tricked into saying they had not signed a recall petition. Dave Hansen’s political career may be coming to an end because he fled to Illinois, but that doesn’t excuse this cruel, desperate tactic.”
Here’s a photo of the caller ID from a recipient of the calls:
Local Wisconsin media report that the hospital is denying any knowledge of calls placed from its facility:
“We regret this inconvenience to residents. This call did not originate from Aurora BayCare Medical Center. We have confirmed that no outgoing calls were placed from this number at Aurora BayCare Medical Center. We have reported this matter to the police,” said Public Relations Manager Kristine Lillie in a statement.
Those receiving the calls report callers identified themselves as members of the Democratic Party. They indicated they were going through names on petitions turned in to determine if they meant to sign the recall petition.
Democratic Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Graeme Zielinski says calls are being made to verify the signature on the recall petition following up on some irregularities.
Zielinski says the wrong phone number was typed into the system, but it was quickly corrected.
Innocent mistyping…or willful deceit?
Given the willingness of Wisconsin lefties to use health care professionals to commit fraud in defense of their partisan interests, do the Dems deserve the benefit of the doubt?
Speaking of which, there’s breaking news this hour regarding the fake doctor’s note writers. An unspecified number of the left-wing quacks will face unspecified penalties that will remain secret. Wrist-slaps, as usual:
UW Health doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters at the Capitol in February face penalties up to a loss of pay and leadership positions, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health said Tuesday.
The medical school reviewed 22 UW Health doctors said to have been involved in writing medical excuses for protesters attending rallies over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposals, according to a medical school statement.
“Several” of the doctors were found not to have participated, and among those who were involved “the nature and extent of involvement varied widely,” the statement said.
“Personnel action will be based on the specific nature of the offense and the level of the physician’s involvement,” the statement said. “The consequences range from written reprimand to loss of pay and leadership position.”
The statement didn’t identify the doctors, citing public employee records laws, and said “the school will not comment on individual cases.”
Lisa Brunette, UW Health spokeswoman, wouldn’t say how many doctors were found to be involved.
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I do not think that the sovereign state of the University of Wisconsin has the final say. Isn’t there a medical examiner board in Wisconsin that regulates the practicing of medicine in the state of Wisconsin? What do these people have to say about this unethical practice?
We are the dairy state, not the Bay State.
That said Mike Tate is a truly odious piece.
When I place a phone call, I don’t “type in” the number I want to show on the caller ID. If that’s even possible, it’d have to be pretty deliberate.
Via Kevin Binversie, a flashback of how DPW chair Mike Tate views phone calls in the course of campaigns from his 2006 attempt to stop a traditional marriage constitutional amendment.
Thanks for the link, Michelle.
That investigation is ongoing, and unlike the UW one, can result in the suspension of the quacks’ medical licenses.
steveegg #5,
Thanks so much for the heads up, and the bit of good news at a time when too little is given front and center notice !
Another Night of the Long Knives will take place soon in America. The Democrats have nothing to lose.
Imagine if conservative docs were accused of doing this…they would be facing the proverbial firing squad right about now.
/Yawn. The same old bully tactics.
But guess what? They don’t work anymore.
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid – Ronald Reagan
Reagan knew that lefties are a bunch of cowardly bullies. As soon as they see that we’re not afraid of them anymore they go hide under a rock.
Are you next to a ‘cookie state’? Yum.
Call centers do have that capability so that their client’s name appears instead of the call center’s. That said, it was no “mistake” the DPW didn’t pop up.
No, they are a kookie state.
I don’t understand. Wisconsin Dems recalled? All the polls showed that the majority of the people in Wisconsin were in favor of the unions maintaining their power. Prosser won (until the Dems can do the Franken type of recount), Dems being recalled…. Did the polls deceive? Say not so.
“The consequences range from written reprimand to loss of pay and leadership position.”
LOL, that is a show. Nothing will happen. Seriously, their medical licenses should be brought up for review and possibly revoked. That is what should happen.
I was watching Cavuto, Varney sub today, and it seens AZ and another state is being sued again by the feds for passing a law that lets workers vote without union thugs over them when they vote. I have tried to find the link. Four states have passed this but AZ and the other state are the only one being sued. bho and team are knee deep with the unions and will do whatever they need to do to stop the states from letting workers not go unions if they don’t want to. bho is going around the card check letting the union thugs do his dirty work.
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For those wondering, 8 of those quacks are under investigation by both the Department of Regulation and Licensing and Medical Examining Board after the Medical Examining Board determined there was enough evidence to open said investigations (announced on 4/20).
hangfire said: “Another Night of the Long Knives will take place soon in America.”
Fine by me. Most of us have guns. LOL!
Wow. The mound of “uncivil behavior” on the part of Liberals seems to be stacking up by the day since January 8th…especially in Wisconsin.
Obama really meant NOTHING he said in his Tuscson “civility” speech…or so his silence towards Liberal misbehavior seems to indicate.
I gave him roughly 2 1/2 years to shape up, but today, I am officially downgrading Barack Obama to a full-fledged pant-load. This guy isn’t incompetent, he’s intentionally destructive.
“UW Health doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters at the Capitol in February face penalties”
This is yet another story that I am noticing is being studiously ignored and avoided at leftist websites. That always tells me something.
Just what we thought they’d do.
The one undeniable truth in all this. Liberals are very predictable.
I believe that BHO believes that he can pretty much say anything he wants…and even if 50% of the people don’t believe a word of what he’s saying…there still is 50% who might.
If these thugs employed even half their skills energy and time in honest endeavors, they would be so much better off and so would we. I liken thugs like this to people who devote their time, skills and energy to hacking our computer and writing malicious code. When found and proven to be responsible, capital punishment seems an appropriate way to remove them from our midst.
…and to think that the events in Wisconsin weren’t even baked into our “National Hurt” index.Just wait for the irresponsible actions of Liberals in California, New Jersey and New York when their fraudulent, Utopian meal tickets fade away.God help us all.
Arrest them. Take their license. Put them in jail. Any questions?
Phone Spoof Law was introduced by two Republican Wisconsin legislators March 2, 2011. They submitted it after Gov Walker received a faked caller id call from a left wing blogger impersonating one of the Koch conservative billionaires. I see the Democrats are taunting the Republicans about their new bill.
Here is a link to a story and House bill regarding Caller ID Spoofing
When my parents reached age 65, they were inundated with hundreds of calls from scammers. Telemarketers and other scammers buy lists of senior citizens in order to commit financial fraud against their bank accounts and identity theft. I use to watch their caller id and noticed every one was either UNKNOWN or a faked name. I would ask questions to the caller. But they quickly hung up. Many will swear and curse you. Some will taunt you to find out who they are. I remember “Tele-Zapper” use to work at giving a fake disconnected signal to remove yourself from their lists. You can report these “fake caller id” phone numbers to the governments DoNotCall.gov website. But how can the government take action against a fake caller id? The phone company says there is NOTHING you can do about these fake calls. No recourse. No tracing. It pisses me off. The government needs to find a way to allow us to trace these goons.
More dangerously, a band of chat room buddies called SWAT teams in to the addresses of unsuspecting people by using the victims’ home phone numbers as their caller ID. At least one old and infirm man in New Port Richey, Fla., was injured when the SWAT team arrived. The conspiracy touched 250 victims and caused $250,000 in damage, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which announced last year that Stuart Rosoff, Jason Trowbridge and Chad Ward were sentenced to five years in prison each. In one of their “swatting” incidents, they called Alvarado, Texas, police and pretended to be in the middle of a hostage crisis to draw emergency teams to the home of the father of a chat room participant.
What happens when some poor family member has a bonafide *Emergency* from the Hospital but refuses to pick up the phone after hearing of these PRANK calls!?
Just when you think The Professional Left can’t get any worse. Sink any lower.
Thanks, Michelle. Nothing surprises me about Democrats anymore.
Now… what are reasonable people supposed to do? Employ more public employees to “get the word out” that even while these are -malicious- and intentionally deceptive calls to serve an Unauthorized Agenda ( you still have to TAKE them in case Uncle Walt had a tragic chainsaw accident? )
Where does it end!
Can somebody charge the donks with fraud or something else for this?
The only doctor we really care about, is the one with the bone in his nose, that chewed through little Barry Soetoro’s umbilical cord! His name we want!
Rogue Cheddar #29,
I don`t care who you are, that there was funny ! Hee heee !
I ignore any phone calls with a caller ID from what looks like a medical facility… unless it’s from Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
I’m assuming you are referring to both the hackers and the thugs to be lined up and shot and or hung which every is convenient. Sounds good to me…-)
Letget
Arizona is a right to work state. That might have something to do with ogabe’a obsession with suing us.
Expecting a consult call from Greg House?
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Bust the unions, starve the money laundering arm of the socialist democrat party!
Is it time yet to indict Bernanke for lying about not monetizing the debt, under oath? If not now, when?
No blood for oil with your illegal non-war war, Barry!
Who IS Barry Soetoro? (aka “Our Dear Son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama” Mohamar Quadaffi) I refuse to allow Regulus to control my thoughts or speech.
Obama gives politicians a bad name. Personally, I rank 99.44% of politicians one step below used tire salesmen,
These are not Democrats. They are gone. These are Marxists.
Oops … I’m still
pretty new herelearning. I thought I fixed it before I hit “submit,” but apparently not!One of the last true democrats almost got tar & feathered when he said he was going to vote for GW instead of Kerry.
Zell Miller is who I refer to.
I don’t quite understand why, once the caller identifies him / herself as from the Democrat Party of Wisconsin the person doesn’t just hang up the phone? Just because you answer the phone doesn’t mean you have to say anything to the caller.
I came home tonight to homemade Maidrites and fries.
I love my wife!!!!
P.S. Regarding your comment I did not respond to the other day. Fareway is the only place to shop. They have added COLD BEER!
Life is good !!!
Like I once said. Someone who got one of these fake doc notes should sue the doctor for misdiagnosis and malpractice . Anyone got of these. If you do Bingo time.
Relax, it’s probably not Lupus.
George Costanza: All right – we’re taking it up a notch!
OT, Drudge is headlining that Obama is releasing his LFBC today.
If this isn’t a hoax on the MSM, this will be the most scrutinized document since the Dead Sea Scrolls.
No. And NO. Isn’t the fact that people have given liberals the benefit of the doubt the reason the country is in the shape it’s in?
People gave Obowmao the benefit of the doubt when it was argued he had no leadership experience. He got the benefit of the doubt about the birth certificate. He’s gotten the benefit of the doubt about all his stupid bail outs and the extreme debt he’s put us in. Enough!
Hang, you’re on point once again. It’s coming.
I got a call from “The President of the United States” and the caller ID looked like this.
Is this before or AFTER you’ve had a heart attack? Sorry but when most of us “get a call from the HOSPITAL!” ( it typically isn’t good news? ) Dem’s have -intentionally- abused the system to PUT THEIR TARGET ON THE DEFENSIVE. Sheesh. I would think ‘that’ much would be obvious?
Then there’s the psychological impact to the target and the message is pretty damned clear whether or NOT you hang up immediately! ( We’re every…where… ) Sheesh, again I thought that much was obvious? Kinda’ get it in gear there ok?
You exect different from the communist left? Win at all costs, lie, cheat, steal, kill, just secure america as a marxist communist state. Sounds just the same as the Islamic mandate to conquer the world through any means possible. Can’t wait for Islam to clash with Communism in China. Pop a big tub of popcorn for that show.
I don’t understand how they got the list of names. Who gave them access to that information?
It will do no good. Both of my numbers are on the do not call list and when I reported an ongoing problem with telemarketers, I was told there was nothing that could be done. Once again, the government proves that anything it does is utterly useless.
They can’t. If you search the web, you’ll find a few electronic appliances that block all incoming calls except those on your permitted list. You just have to enter phone numbers from friends and relatives. The nice thing is, even if the gov’t do not call list did work, it wouldn’t block political ad calls. These devices block everything but what you want to allow through.
It will be my next purchase.
The list of names/addresses are a public record, and became such the moment the recall petitions were turned in. Of course, that doesn’t address the phone numbers.
If the DPW legitimately did collate the names to phone numbers, it would be from a telemarketing list the DPW bought. Something tells me that a certain stolen computer helped out the Donks, however.
Plus, a hang-up would be used by the Rats to attempt to invalidate the signature.
Perhaps the call came from the hospital’s “VP of Community and External Affairs”.
From what we know about that position at the UC Med Center (M.O.’s job before becoming FLOTUS), that person has no hospital-related tasks to perform…
Last night, I posted some links in a comment, but the comment seems to have disappeared. The links were from http://www.biggovernment.com and they concerned courses being taught at Missouri universities. Violent union tactics were being taught in one course and anti-Americanism was being pushed in another. I heard it was covered on Fox News today. I hope any Missouri readers of this blog will contact Gov. Jay Nixon as well as your state senator and rep. and demand to know why taxpayers are funding this.
I have two questions:
1. Do your comments re-appear as if by magic when you log on?
2. Is your nickname different from your login name?
I had that exact problem when I changed my nickname to “True Liberal” (added a space). I changed it back and everything’s fine now, although I hope the MM IT dudes will have a look at it.
If your nickname is different from your login ID, change it back to be exactly the same and see if your problem goes away.
TrueLiberal:
Question #1 – YES!
My comments (#35 and #37) were both showing when I submitted them, and are now showing while I’m logged in. When I looked at the comments while logged out, only #37 was showing. Very strange!
Question #2 – does not apply.
It seems some others mentioned having issues with comments, too. In some cases, my comments appeared when submitted, but disappeared when I had logged out. However, when I checked later, and I was still logged out, the comment was then showing. I figured I just needed to give it time to show up.
Thanks for your input on this.
Ok, I had just logged out and my comment #35 was replaced by Flyoverman’s comment, which shows as #36 when I’m logged in. My comment #37, when I’m logged in, shows as #36 when logged out. The comment I just typed in response to TrueLiberal does not show up when logged out but shows when logged in. What on earth is going on???
I wonder if the problem has anything to do with this.
Go to your profile (if this link doesn’t work, you can go to where it says “Logged in as 1ConcernedMom. Log out” and click on your username).
Look for “Nickname (required)”.
Make sure what you have entered in there matches exactly with your username. If it isn’t, change it to match your username.
It may take a while for it to take effect.
I already wondered that myself. My nickname and username have matched since I first registered, so that’s not the problem. Once again, thanks for your input.