Night of the Living Zombiecan!!!? Dems Say NO to fakes.

UPDATE: According to Democratic Party of Wisconsin's Mike Tate:

"The unprecedented Republican manipulation of these recall elections has compelled a number of people to urge a level playing field by running fake candidates in GOP primaries.

"We cannot and will not stoop to the Republicans' level by encouraging candidates to lie about their party affiliation, or recommending that people try to deceive voters. We never have done that, and won’t start now. This is something that every single one of our six challengers has said they adamantly oppose. Fred Clark, Jess King, Shelly Moore, Nancy Nusbaum, Jen Shilling and Sandy Pasch -- along with Senator Miller -- all contacted the party over the last 24 hours to make it crystal clear this was absolutely the wrong tactic.

Should we sit back and allow Republicans the chance to run fake Democrats in the primary, draining valuable campaign resources, or match them?

We Are Wisconsin and a few other groups want Zombiecans running against Republicans too. They should fight for their short life in the primaries as well. But there's really not much time...

We Are Wisconsin, a group that identifies itself as a network of organizations religious leaders, student groups, community groups, labor union members, today called for Dems to copy the tactic … to counter the GOP strategy of running "protest" candidates in Dem recall primaries, state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said the party is keeping its options open.

"Our goal remains the same - to hold the elections that have been called for by tens of thousands of Wisconsinites, and to be free of the blatant and unprecedented Republican exploitation of the recall process," Tate said in a press release. "We will review the options available to ensure fair elections that allow the people to have their voice heard, and that aren't manipulated by this cynical Republican conspiracy to game the system for their partisan gain."

"This opinion is not rendered lightly," the group said in a statement. "This is the most cynical manipulation of the Wisconsin electoral process in our state’s history, and is being done by a Republican party that has demonstrated no respect for the rule of law and our state’s tradition of clean elections and good governance. Unfortunately, however, after evaluating the strategic implications of their despicable tactics, to simply stand idly by would amount to unilateral disarmament and would almost certainly thwart the will of the hundreds of thousands of voters who support recalling Republican Senators in the upcoming elections."

Candidates would face a difficult challenging in gathering the necessary signatures for candidacy in the recall elections of GOP senators. The deadline is Tuesday at 5 p.m.

It's not the first time Republicans played this trick on the Democrats;