The effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker begins today, and organizers and volunteers are readying their clipboards to begin collecting more than half a million signatures throughout the holiday season. But as volunteers celebrated the launch at midnight "recall-themed" pajama parties, the many challenges ahead were underscored by a deliberate, grinch-like cyber-attack on a key recall website.
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Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), discusses the complaint that CMD filed with the Internal Revenue Service asking the IRS to investigate whether a top aide has used tens of thousands of dollars from a tax-exempt non-profit to fund Herman Cain's political activities. Citing leaked financial records, CMD says Cain's campaign manager, Mark Block, used at least $40,000 from his group, Prosperity USA, to pay for Cain's private jets, air travel, computers when he's exploring a presidential bid.
Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS is running an ad in Massachusetts attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren with some questionable assertions.
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