As you know if you're following the recall efforts in Wisconsin, many of the the petition drives to recall democratic senators are being organized by a group from Utah. They have posted the state mandated recall filings as, variously, the American Recall Coalition and the American Patriot Recall Coalition and they also had to register a conduit called Americans Against Immigration Amnesty, LLC. This very americanny group of groups is also involved in recalling Sheriff Dupnik of Pima County in Arizona. I guess his words must have stung. Anyway, back to Wisconsin after the kossian filagree.
So this group of groups -- let's just call them Americans Against -- has a website and a board (of sorts) that is the first board I've ever come across that's only willing to reveal their first names. The board of Americans Against includes Kim from Georgia and Kevin from Idaho and, my favorite, Lori from Pennsylvania, who looks like she might have chosen the bathroom of a mobile for her board headshot. Seriously, is she perching on the toilet as she snaps the photo? The only persons identified by both first and last name on the site are proGod/antiPeople Congressman William Sali (he's the group den mother) and the fella I refer to in the title, Mr. Dan Baltes, aka Daniel Arthur Elliot. Dan is listed as the treasurer of the group in the Wisconsin recall filings, so I guess you'd call him the money man. If you look here and here and here you'll see that Dan has piqued the interest of a number of people -- and not in a good way.
So far, none of the Americans Against groups have submitted petitions. I hope supporters of the democratic senator recalls will be able to get their money back ... or maybe I don't.