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To: steve harris who wrote (287119)	5/8/2006 2:00:08 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570432

I can't imagine the uproar and media attention this would be getting if the parties were reversed. A judge admonished a congresswoman's son and three other Democratic campaign workers for interfering with voters' civil rights as he sentenced them to jail Wednesday for puncturing the tires of some Republican vans on Election Day 2004. Judge Michael B. Brennan exceeded the recommendation of prosecutors in sentencing the four men to jail time ranging from four to six months for misdemeanor property damage. "Voter suppression has no place in our country," Brennan told the defendants in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. "Your crime took away that right to vote for some citizens." The Republican Party wanted to use the vans to transport voters to the polls during the presidential election. The men, including the son of U.S Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee, had pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage in a plea agreement with prosecutors who recommended no jail time. Brennan told Moore's 26-year-old son, Sowande A. Omokunde, he was impressed by his expression of remorse and gave him the lightest sentence of four months in jail. The judge cited prior criminal records when sentencing Michael Pratt, the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt, and Lewis Caldwell to six months in jail. I don't think it's a coincidence that the son of a congresswoman and a son of a former acting mayor of Milwaukee were involved... noagenda.org