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'''Blames Liberals for Giffords Shooting.''' Among other repugnant things said by Judson Phillips was his effort to get his followers to blame the deranged shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on liberals. He urged his flock of Tea Partiers to repeat his claims that "The shooter was a liberal lunatic. Emphasis on both words.”<ref>Rick Ungar, "Tea Party Shamed By Founder Judson Phillips," Forbes (Jan. 9, 2011), available at http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/09/tea-party-shamed-by-founder-judson-phillips (accessed Aug. 8, 2011) (His piece was titled "Don't Blame Us, Blame the Leftist Lunatics."</ref>
'''Calls Wisconsin Citizens Protesting Walker Nazis.''' In August 2011, Judson Phillips also made the malicious claim that Wisconsin citizens opposed to Governor Scott Walker’s union busting and public education cuts were like Nazi “brownshirts” and “storm troopers.”<ref>Dean Walker, "Wisconsin: Here Comes the Brownshirts," Ground Report (Aug. 8, 2011), available at http://www.groundreport.com/Opinion/Wisconsin-Here-Com-the-Brownshirts/2940668 (accessed Aug. 8, 2011).</ref> Phillips is touring Wisconsin, as of August 2011, as part of connected to the David Koch-funded [[Americans for Prosperity]]'s bus tours in the state to rally rallies for right-wingers during the historic effort to recall Republican senators who embraced Walker's agenda. (The bus tour is part of "Tea Party Express III.")
'''Thinks Only Property Owners Should Be Able to Vote.''' Phillips has also advocated the radical regressive position that only property owners should be allowed to vote, an effort that would roll back the rights of millions of American citizens. <ref>Zaid Jilani, "Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners ," Think Progress (Nov. 30, 2010), available at http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/30/132532/tea-party-voting-property/ (accessed Aug. 7, 2011)</ref>