While the Forward Omaha anti-recall group is recruiting thugs to work for $150 per day, we wonder what their plans are for dealing with the I.R.S. and the Nebraska Department of Revenue? Why is that? Well, their hires aren't exactly what you would call casual workers. In fact, they are working at specific times, specific places, with specific work instructions and will apparently be carrying equipment provided by Forward Omaha while uttering specific messages.
Doesn't sound like independent contractors to us. These folks are W-2 workers who should file W-9s and receive W-2s as well while their employer should be withholding for taxes and FICA.
It is our understanding that appropriate notifications of this have been sent to the I.R.S., the Nebraska Department of Revenue and the news media.
Once again under the sham of their anti-recall effort it appears that Forward Omaha and its supporters Richard Holland, Brad Ashford and others are violating the law. Apparently hiring thugs to potentially intimidate voters isn't enough so now they are going to violate all federal pay and I.R.S. rules.
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I have voted in every election since I was 19 years old. I am now 53 and I witnessed something I never thought I would see in this city let alone west Omaha. I have been conflicted about the mayoral recall because my feeling is the electorate got what they deserved. If people would have turned out for the mayoral election in the first place the unions and special interest groups would not have been able to control the outcome. After listening to your report on the auditor’s review of the Omaha Fire Department’s lack of bookkeeping records and then finding out that the fire chief and the mayor both knew about it pushed me over the edge. As I left the polling place today I saw a person on each side of the exit approximately 200 feet away. I pulled my car up and approached one of them and asked if they were a petitioner for the mayoral recall. She said she was actually representing the other side and handed me a stop the recall card. I said good for you, if we had more people exercising their rights we would not have to be dealing with such recalls. I politely said however that I am going to sign the petition. She smiled and I approached the gentleman on the other side of the entrance. As I signed the petition he asked me if I had witnessed what had just happened. I said no. He said an off duty policeman in the pickup truck parked not more than 20 feet away from us had just assaulted him. The petitioner said the off duty police officer grabbed him by the arm and drug him away from the entrance, but did nothing to the “stop the recall person” on the other side. The petitioner said he had called the Douglas County Sherriff and they were on the way. Later I spoke to one of my friends who said he signed the petition a couple lines under my name and asked me if I knew what had happened. I told him the off duty officer had allegedly assaulted the petitioner and he had called the Sherriff. My friend said after he came out of the polling place the petitioner was leaving. When my friend asked him why he said the Douglas County officers were harassing him. When my friend replied, “the officers were harassing you?” the officers came up to him and in a threatening way said, “did you just say we were harassing him?” My friend decided discretion was the better part of valor and left along with the petitioner. It would appear that the police drove off the recall petitioner. I don’t know if this is an isolated example, but I am shocked that this happened in our city.
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