As a lifelong Wisconsinite, I'm insulted by Priebus' slander of the state.  Priebus is a longtime mischief maker in our state, and he is famous here  for his attempts at voter suppression on behalf of Republican candidates, for what we used to regard as dirty campaign tactics, before the standards got so low. He refers to an incident where a street-level get-out-the-vote worker (hired from out of state) allegedly offered somebody some cigarettes as an inducement to go and vote on election day. I don't think the guy was even prosecuted. And try as they might, the Republicans have been able to produce only a tiny handful of indictable instances of fraud. Our level of voter fraud here is miniscule! There were a couple of instances where University students voted both in their home town and in their university community. But you can count those instances on your digits without taking your mittens off! And the total of all voter fraud indictments without taking your shoes off

Under Governer Walker, the republican-controlled legislature has sharply curtailed access to polls by erecting barriers. I am hoping that, in response to such cynical hostility, Wisconsin elderly, African-American and student voters turn out in record numbers for the vote to recall Governor Walker, and also in the 2012 general elections.

 In Wisconsin political circles Priebus is regarded as a professional liar who has made good for the time being.