Bob Unruh found another election-denying conspiracy theorist to promote for an April 20 WorldNetDaily article:
An election fraud investigator who has documented multiple cases of “Smurf” campaign donations, those made in the name of a person who was unaware his or her name was being used, has been arrested, then released, in a Wisconsin election fraud dispute.
A report in the Wisconsin Daily Star documents the case involving Peter Bernegger, the chief of Election Watch in Wisconsin.
He was charged with sending a document through the mail, “simulating a legal process,” after he filed numerous complaints against officials and candidates who, he charges his evidence shows, took donations facilitated by activists in the names of unsuspecting voters, the report said.
He posted a signature bail and was released.
“This is politically motivated where they are trying to shut me up, to shut us all up. For those who don’t know, this is the second time they have come after me; the first time was dismissed in 15 minutes when the judge learned the truth of the matter,” he explained.
The previous case involved claims he harassed Meagan Wolfe of the Wisconsin Elections Commission but there was no evidence, resulting in dismissal.
Unruh is deliberately understating what Bernegger has been accused of. That “previous case” actually involved the Wisconsin State Capitol police sending Bernegger a warning letter stating that has behavior toward Wolfe, whom he has been trying to force into testifying in a lawsuit he filed, “could be interpreted as ‘stalking’ under state law.” And the offense that he simply handwaves as “sending a document through the mail” actually involved allegedly forging a subpoena.
Unruh went on to tout how Bernegger “filed six complaints against Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, which are before the Wisconsin Ethics Commission,” which tells us that he is a bad-faith serial litigator. Indeed, Bernegger is an election denier who loves to file lawsuits against state and local officials to promote his conspiracy theories, which “has drained election offices of already-limited resources and stoked mistrust in the electoral process in his years-long quest to uncover election fraud.”Unruh went on to tout how Bernegger “filed six complaints against Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, which are before the Wisconsin Ethics Commission,” which tells us that he is a bad-faith serial litigator. Indeed, Bernegger is an election denier who loves to file lawsuits against state and local officials to promote his conspiracy theories that make false and unproven claims, which “has drained election offices of already-limited resources and stoked mistrust in the electoral process in his years-long quest to uncover election fraud.”
As usual, Unruh’s article completely lacks any journalistic balance; he simply rewrote a column from the the Wisconsin Daily Star — a right-wing website — written by Rachel Alexander, whom Unruh didn’t disclose is a WND columnist, without even bothering to seek out the other side of the story. It contains other unsupported assertions that Unruh parrots, such as the assertion ACORN “later turned into ActBlue,” the fundraising platform for Democratic candidates.