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Do you deer hunt? Kroll says, “You are a socialist”
This from James Kroll the man Scott Walker hired to manage Wisconsin’s deer herd.
“GAME MANAGEMENT …is the last bastion of communism.” Which side of the fence are you on? – article by Joe Nick Patoski  February 2002 |
Why did Walker import James Kroll all the way from Texas to manage Wisconsin’s deer herd?
Walker’s decision to hire James Kroll to recommend changes to Wisconsin’s system of deer herd management left many people scratching their heads. Why Kroll? Why import a person completely foreign to the Wisconsin deer hunt?
Now, the reasons become clear as we hear the philosophy of Kroll regarding the deer hunt.
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People who call for more public lands are “cocktail conservationists,” he says, who are really pining for socialism. He calls national parks “wildlife ghettos” and flatly accuses the government of gross mismanagement. |
Many Wisconsin hunters who, may stand with Walker on union and budget issues, take offense at being tagged communists and socialists and are pulling the “Stand with Walker” signs out of their yard. Many who have been hunting deer with their fathers and grand-fathers strongly disagree with the Walker-Kroll vision of privatized deer farms. Wisconsin hunters do not buy into the pay-to-play deer hunt modeled in Kroll’s Texas deer ranches.
Walker/Kroll vision of Wisconsin Trophy Hunters? Is this Wisconsin? Are you a “deer queer?
“IF YOU HANG AROUND HUNTERS long enough, you are certain to hear the term “deer queers.” They represent a growing subgroup of deer hunters who eat, drink, and sleep trophy bucks.”
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Jerry Johnston started Texas Trophy Hunters almost thirty years ago. But it has been only in the past five years that interest in trophy hunting—as opposed to plain old deer hunting—has blossomed, according to Johnston. Though Johnston insists that his main objective is to improve the “quality” of the deer, the message being conveyed through those media is, It’s not about the meat anymore, or the chase, or the man versus beast struggle. It’s all about large, multipoint sets of antlers that you can mount over your fireplace. “Back in the old days, in a deer camp, when the hunting season opened, the hero of the camp was the one who got the first buck,” explains Johnston. “It didn’t matter if it was ten points or not. We didn’t think of management for quality. That kind of thinking has changed.” His organization is the most visible advocate for high fences and for the right of the landowners behind them to manage their property as they wish. |
The buck stops here – pull the sign
The scenario might be great for Texas, but it ain’t Wisconsin. The buck stops here. If you want to preserve Wisconsin’s wild deer hunt you best go pull the “Stand with Walker” sign from your yard or face the Walker/Kroll future. You and your blaze orange dressed son or daughter will buy a ticket, if you can afford it, from a private deer farm for the right to hunt trophy deer.
Marquette Poll Skewed Conservative
Wisconsin is the home of 3,400,000 registered voters. Below is the question of greatest interest in the most recent Marquette poll:
A Q14 (ALL REGISTERED VOTERS)
In an election to recall the governor between Republican Scott Walker and Democrat Tom
Barrett, would you vote for Walker or for Barrett?
Walker 356 or 51%
Barrett 303 or 43%
How is this possible? Nearly 1 million signatures were collected on petitions to trigger the recall election. 1 million is nearly one third of all the registered voters in the state. The result of the Marquette poll begs the question: When one third of all the people who can vote in the state have already signed recall petitions, how is it possible that 54% of the people called said they will vote for Walker?
To his credit, the administrator of the poll Charles Franklin publishes the detail methodology in support of his findings. Most polls do not allow for us to look inside the methods, but only publish the results. This is not the first time Mr. Franklin has been challenged as to the accuracy of his sampling methods, which consistently demonstrate anomalies that skew the findings in favor of conservative and very conservative voters. Yet, his sampling methods have remained largely unchanged since his first poll of the Walker’s approval rating back in late January. No one is looking for a sampling that will favor any candidate, but we are looking for a sampling that rides on an even playing field. So, what is the problem? What are the anomalies that suggest skewing to the right. Even Mr. Franklin acknowledges his astonishment at the number of signatures collected to recall Walker in an interview on “Here and Now” last January.
Video of Full Interview
Watch Polling specialist assesses recall movement on PBS. See more from Here and Now.
Franklin currently tweets as @PollsAndVotes
Here is the problem with Mr. Franklin’s poll, as described by Jud Lounsbury’s blog since his first poll back in January
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Many in Wisconsin are shocked that Tom Barrett somehow went from being up by a point to being down by six points in a span of only two weeks. Have voters suddenly taken a sharp disliking to Tom Barrett? No.
The reason why the poll numbers have changed is because they significantly changed the sample of who they polled. In this poll there are more conservatives and moderates and fewer liberals: Latest Poll: Conservatives 48% Moderates: 39% Liberals: 20% Poll Two Weeks Ago: Conservatives 43% Moderates: 32% Liberals: 22% Not surprisingly, when you poll more conservatives and fewer liberals, your going to have a very different result. As discussed in previous posts, if we average the last three exit polls in Wisconsin (2006, 2008 and 2010), we find that the actual breakdown of the Wisconsin electorate is 22.7% liberal, 46.7% moderate, and 31% conservative. |
The glaring anomaly has been pointed out by Jud in every Marquette poll since January, and in some polls, when the percentages are closer to the exit poll numbers, guess what? Barrett’s numbers go up.
One last interesting tidbit that suggests skewing in the most recent poll. Nearly one third (29.1%) of those called were of an age 60 or over. We know that older people tend to be more conservative and yet they represent the largest age segment of the poll.
Accurate, scientific polling is appreciated. Mr. Franklin the voters of Wisconsin deserve better.
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Article that is subject of MacIver Threats of Libel
Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230
Hamlet:
Madam, how like you this play?
Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Taken Down 3 Times
The following article has been removed from three blogs, The Capital Times, Blogging Blue, and Host Madison, after the editors received threats of being sued for libel. The quote from “Hamlet” – “the lady doth protest too much,” almost always means that the lady objects so much as to lose credibility.
Note: The article is now reposted atBlogging Blue
The article is written by Dustin Beilke who is a freelance writer and essayist and has written for dozens of publications throughout the last 25 years.
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Beware of the MacIver spin machine The MacIver Institute is a partisan political operation in a think tank’s clothing By Dustin Beilke In the past several months, journalists who ought to know better at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and dozens of other publications have quoted the staff at the Wisconsin-based John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy on policy issues important to Wisconsin’s future. If you’re a MacIver staffer looking to spread your ideas to millions of readers without paying the high cost of advertising, that’s pretty nice for you. But for advocates of good journalism – and a public that counts on it to help understand and evaluate ideas – it’s very bad. That’s because the MacIver Institute MacIver is staffed by veteran conservative Republican campaign operatives. It is run by a board that looks like a “Who’s Who’’ of past conservative Republican political campaigns. MacIver has the right to advocate for any idea it chooses, but it does not have the right to claim to be an honest player in the exchange of public policy ideas. It is headed by Brett Healy, the former veteran chief of staff (and campaign manager several times over) for former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen – the leader who was charged with several felonies for his role in using taxpayer-funded staff for political campaign operations. Jensen, who led the GOP takeover of the Assembly in the early 1990s, is now a consultant to the institute. In fact, he’s so involved that, in some cases, he even writes some of its press releases. MacIver’s communications director, Brian Fraley, is a well-paid national insurance industry lobbyist who was director of the Senate Republican caucus when it was also knee-deep in the illegal use of taxpayer funded employees for campaigns. Fraley has been a campaign manager and consultant for dozens of conservative Republican campaigns. Some of MacIver’s scholarly contributors are, well, not scholarly at all. Its most prolific writer these days is James Widgerson, a self-identified right-wing blogger who boasts on his website such non-scholarly credentials as serving as campaign consultant for a host of conservatives, including former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann, State Sen. Mary Lazich and former State Sen. George Petak. One of Widgerson’s “qualifications” is his ongoing effort to assist the Republican get-out-the-vote strategy. As almost anyone in Wisconsin politics knows, what “get out the vote’’ means is a well-funded effort to discourage voting by citizens who might lean Democratic. MacIver’s ties to the GOP campaign machine go still deeper. Its past and current board members include Mark Block, a GOP operative best known lately for his blundering work managing GOP candidate Herman Cain’s presidential campaign. Arch-conservative radio commentator Charles Sykes appears regularly in both its “issues’’ and “news’’ coverage. Good journalists usually are careful to avoid phony think tanks. The MacIver Institute might have interesting, even credible ideas, but it doesn’t exist to help us wade through difficult issues and facts. Its job is precisely the opposite – to sway voters by stacking or manipulating facts and data. The reading public should call upon Wisconsin’s editors, reporters, publishers and station managers to follow their professional standards and use sources that are honestly participating in the marketplace of public policy ideas — and avoid groups like the MacIver Institute whose sole job is to manipulate it for partisan reasons. Dustin Beilke is a freelance writer and essayist and has written for dozens of publications throughout the last 25 years. |
Is the IRS Sleeping?
Exemption Requirements – Section 501(c)(3) Organizations
To be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3), and none of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or individual. In addition, it may not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates IRS
The right wing is out of the closet to expose the skeletons of racism, sexism, disregard of the middle class.
Wealth buys power and control of the message
Just such a man is Michael W. Grebe president and chief executive of the Bradley Foundation, which during the period of 2001 to 2009, doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined. Less than a week after being elected governor, Scott Walker and his wife met privately with Michael Grebe, one of the most powerful philanthropic forces behind America’s conservative movement. The list of major recipients reads like an all-star roster of conservative think tanks: millions of dollars directed to well-known groups such as the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, and the Federalist Society – all trying to put their stamp on three branches of government.
Grebe likened the Bradley Foundation to the 1960s Green Bay Packers, who ruled the football world with a fearsome ground game and a deceptively simple running play, the sweep.
“We’re going to run off tackle, right over there, and we’re telling you we’re going to run there and we’re going to knock you on your butt and carry the ball down the field,” Grebe said during an interview inside the foundation’s headquarters near downtown. “There are no surprises.”
The Bradley Foundation is a “Philanthropic” Organization
Summertime and the Recall is a’comin
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The full flash movie is too large for the page so what you see is clipped. You can watch the full version here – Summertime Flash
GOP post partum Abortion Clinic
If you want the GOP to care about you – remain a fetus.
The first time I heard this quip, I thought it was funny. Not any more. The Catholic Church and social conservatives defend the
life of a fetus with all the self righteous zeal of a mob at the stoning of a prostitute. Strange simile? Think about it. Especially in light of Rush Limbaugh’s remark referring to Sandra Fluke as a slut for defending a woman’s right to insurance coverage for contraception. Where is the disconnect between contraception and the ultimate result of a prevented pregnancy or the prevented birth of a human being – like birth is from Mars, but contraception is from Neptune? Where is the disconnect? Is there an 11th Commandment somewhere – Thou shalt be stupid?
Why are women being thrown into the GOP vilification machine along with unions, teachers, and even government itself? Explain why all the Christian love and caring begins at conception but ends at birth? Really, contraception, conception, birth, and crying and kicking life follow along on obvious straight-line continuum as blatantly obvious as 2 + 2 = 4! What am I missing?
GOP social conservative policies are little more than legislative abortion clinics
If the same piece meal overview were taken to the management of rivers as is applied to the conception/birth continuum, Santorum, Gingrich and Romney would call for pumping water for faster flow at the river’s source, and blow up all the dams along the way to
the delta. The myopic hallucination that contraception is disconnected from the ultimate number of births and the care needed for live and kicking life to progress, compares to forcefully pumping water at the source. Removing a woman’s right to plan and chose, aside from her basic right of control over her own body, compares to blowing up all the dams along the way. Yet, social conservatives continue to deny the natural and obvious connection of contraception, development, and birth. They look through the religion tinted classes that cloud the consciousness with the holy will on the contraception and abortion end of the continuum, while ignoring the fact that, just down river, there are children born to poor, single, or unprepared families and mothers. The Bible seems to stop there. Once the fetus is a live and kicking human being, all responsibility for health care and developmental nurturing goes to the new human being and the mother or family, while government washes its hands of responsibility, as family planning and health care options are seen as “entitlements”, which might be perfectly applicable to a fetus, but not a real live and kicking American citizen. What happened to all the good old christian charity of those who erected the “Abortion can stop a beating heart” along the roadway. Where are all the “Health care can revive a slowing heart” road signs?
As this is written the legislature in Wisconsin is meeting to consider cutting 22,000 people from the State Badger Care program. All of them are from the low income end of the wage scale, and many of them are single mothers with real live kicking infant American citizens. Many of them will die. How does the death of a young infant who succumbs from lack of health care differ from a developing fetus to the family or mother who must grieve the death?
We hear the of plans for similar cuts and abandonment of the Affordable Health Care Act daily on the GOP campaign trail. The “I will repeal Obamacare” line is sure to be followed by prolonged applause from social conservatives.
How are GOP polices anything other than Post Natal Legislative Abortion Clinics?
Ear to the rail – The Indictment Train is a’Comin
Ear to the rail
Nearly every child who lived within walking distance of a railroad track, has put their ear to the rail to
see if they could hear the train coming. If it was, the vibration could be heard well in advance of the arrival of the approaching train. Now, with ear to the rail, the Walker Indictment train is a’comin.
The Vibrations of Indictment
Last Friday, Walker established a legal defense fund. Of course, those who stand with him, might say that he is just doing the wise thing; like an Eagle Scout, he is just following the motto “Be prepared”. Those million people who signed recall petitions hear a different vibration on the indictment rail, since the rule for establishment of such a fund is quite clear and narrow in specifying the conditions of such a fund defined as the “527 Status”.
But state election law makes clear that a candidate can set up one of these funds in limited circumstances.
“Wisconsin Statutes permit a state government official who is being investigated for or
charged with a violation of campaign finance laws or prohibited election practices to establish a ‘legal defense fund’ for expenditures supporting or defending the candidate while that person is being investigated for, or charged with, or convicted of a violation of those chapters,” says a summary of the statute provided by the Government Accountability Board. No Quarter Blog
Put your ear to the rail…
The Kevin Kennedy Vibration
Just yesterday Kennedy was asked if the Walker campaign had informed the GAB of an investigation against him, given the news that broke last week of the establishment of a legal defense fund for Walker. Kennedy gave a rather surprising answer “the law prohibits” him from answering that question. Wisconsin Media Co Op – Video and story.
The vibration of the rail would suggest the indictment train has made its stop at the Government Accountability Board (GAB) and Director Kennedy is legally bound to the silence that a John Doe inquiry drops, like a mail bag, as it leaves the station.
Put your ear to the rail…
Defendant Kevin Kavanaugh (conveniently) fails to appear in court
Kavanaugh is one of the half dozen former staffers who have been charged in the John Doe investigation. He was finally scheduled to appear at a hearing to face five felony charges accusing him of embezzling about $42,000 in donations intended to help military veterans and their families. At present all the separates the Governor of the State of Wisconsin from complicity in the allegations of his appointees and friends, is the 25 foot distance between his County Executive office door and the secret email network. If just one word of Walker’s knowledge of this network arrives in court, he becomes subject to felony indictment.
But, Kavanaugh failed to appear at the hearing because he was being treated for internal bleeding, a problem that has placed him in intensive care. This according to this lawyer Christopher Hartley.
Put your ear to the rail…
Attorney for Tim Russell Withdraws
Tim Russell was Deputy
Chief of Staff under County Executive Walker and is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a veterans fund and illegally campaigning on county time. Just as his roommate Kavanaugh missed his hearing, we learn that Russell’s attorney, Andrew Franklin, told a judge he wanted to withdraw from the case because of a conflict. Attorney Andrew Franklin was granted the withdrawal but the reason will be kept confidential.
Put your ear to the rail…
More than one coincidence is not a coincidence
John Doe defendants are suddenly struck ill, attorney’s are quitting, defense funds are being set, the Director of GAB declines to answer questions for legal reasons – put your ear to the rail. Hear the vibrations?
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
I bet there’s rich folks eatin’,
In a fancy dining car,
They’re probably drinkin’ coffee,
And smokin’ big cigars,
But I know I had it comin’,
I know I can’t be free,
But those people keep a-movin’,
And that’s what tortures me.
Right op ed reports Obama Narcissism
It’s a LISTENING problem
Jennifer C. Braceras suggests, in an Op Ed in the Boston Herald, that Obama could use a lesson in humility suggesting that he, more than any Republican leader such as George W. Bush, addresses the people with a narcissism suggesting sole ownership all government policy, or as she expresses it a government “of Barack, by Barack and for Barack.”
She brings forward this example:
Here is Dear Leader on the capture of Osama bin Laden: “I directed [the CIA] to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority.” “I met repeatedly with my national security team.” “I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden.”
Compare this to the language used by George W. Bush after the capture of Saddam Hussein: “The success of yesterday’s mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq. The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator’s footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Boston Herald Op Ed
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Hear Hear! Within this microcosm of Ms. Braceras’ observation, lies a universe of denial; a hidden black hole of static that sucks the real kernel of truth out of the story, the picture, and any meaningful link to the larger conversation. Denial, by its very definition, is a truth, obvious to others, that we do not want to hear. In fact, we cannot hear the information because of its deep connection to “who we are”. This hidden connection is an acid meant to burn the core of our very identity. This is a human problem. Not an American Problem, a Republican problem, or a Democratic Problem. We all own this problem with the same equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The enemy is here, and it is us.
In one small instance, in one op ed piece, Ms. Braceras evolves one small criticism, which has no real earth shaking importance other than to illustrate, yet another, preaching to choir article about a dissatisfaction with President of the United States in the election year of 2012. Big deal. If you are a right leaning Republican, you agree. If you are a progressive leaning Democrate, you are incensed. I can point out that she is expression her own arrogant and narcissistic opinion, while defining the arrogance and narcissism of Obama. She is expressing her own, self-held opinion and using words and editorial puzzle pushing to say, “your identity should attach to my identity”, and on it on it has gone, hour by hour, day by day, on radio, TV; and now with the advent of Twitter and Face book the puzzle pushing, people pleasing, narcissistic messages and tweets have grown exponentially in to a tsunami of preaching to the choir that might convert the devil himself. If he were listening. And there is the rub. That is the hidden point that put out the eye of Rush Limbaugh, and brought Wall Street to its knees, and sent Bernie Madoff into a downward spiral. When were you ever given instruction in “how to listen”. With all the arrogance and narcissism I can muster, I encourage you to research, examine, and practice the skill of real listening. Not because I have mastered it, but because I have not.
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(From “Meet Your Playful Self) Watching Yourself You are about to make a discovery. You may think of yourself as a glass-half-full sort of person, and that you react positively in most situations of your life. Now is your chance to put your reactions to a test. Try this little experiment. Experiment # 1 Watching Yourself Listening Go over to the radio or TV and switch it on and listen to a news report. As you listen, watch yourself to discover what you are thinking in reaction to the words you hear. Do you find that you take immediate exception to much of what you hear? After doing this for five or ten minutes, try to evaluate your reactions as positive or negative by percentage. Where they: 50% negative 50% positive? Make your own evaluation. Now repeat the process, but this time try saying “yes” aloud to everything you hear. You are not being encouraged to become some dish rag conformist. You are experimenting with watching yourself listen. As you become attentive to your habitual thought process, you can access the difference in the way you feel by agreeing when holding the intention of yes…. As you watched yourself listening, you became aware of all the immediate, split second, judgments and attitudes that arose. Of course this is normal. We all do this. The big difference is, as you are doing it now, you are actively watching, whereas ordinarily the judgments creep in beneath the surface without the slightest notice. |
The Secret Meeting – What, When, Where?
Living a Mystery
It is one thing to be an avid reader of
popular mystery novels, it is quite another to be cast in one. Wisconsin has been pressed between the covers of one of the greatest living mystery stories of the century. The John Doe investigation, being lead by Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, has been dubbed “Walkergate” in reflection of the history shaking antics of “the plumbers” and the Watergate break in, that finally led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.
John Chisholm (Chisholm and Grisham have a similar ring) has proven to be a master of the moment of mystery. The technique is to reveal a piece of juicy information and then follow it with pages of narrative before the next kernel of evidence is released, as has been demonstrated throughout the John Doe investigation of our sitting Governor, Scott Walker. The secret meeting that is to occur between John Chisholm and Scott Walker represents just such a masterful mystery novel technique of suspense. The last kernel of note was announced more than a month ago, and since that time, we are tempted to page ahead to the end to find out how the mystery will end.
The problem with a living novel is that is has not been written yet.
The announcement of a secret meeting of Scott Walker with D.A. John Chisholm became public on February 3.
February 3, 2012, 7:38 pm
Wisconsin Governor Is to Meet With Prosecutor
By MONICA DAVEYScott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, will meet with a prosecutor who has been investigating the behavior of workers in his previous public office, at the helm of Milwaukee County, Mr. Walker’s campaign office said Friday.N.Y. Times
All we need is Kinsey Millhone
Kinsey Millhone is a fictional character created by Sue Grafton for her “alphabet mysteries” series of novels that have gone through the 22 letters, one at a time, with titles spanning 30 years. Her last book was “‘V’ is for Vengence”.
“A” Is for Alibi (1982)
“B” Is for Burglar (1985)
“C” Is for Corpse (1986)
“D” Is for Deadbeat (1987)
“E” Is for Evidence (1988)
“F” Is for Fugitive (1989)
“G” Is for Gumshoe (1990)
“H” Is for Homicide (1991)
“I” Is for Innocent (1992)
“J” Is for Judgment (1993)
“K” Is for Killer (1994)
“L” Is for Lawless (1995)
“M” Is for Malice (1996)
“N” Is for Noose (1998)
“O” Is for Outlaw (1999)
“P” Is for Peril (2001)
“Q” Is for Quarry (2002)
“R” Is for Ricochet (2004)
“S” Is for Silence (2005)
“T” Is for Trespass (2007)
“U” Is for Undertow (2009)
“V” Is for Vengeance (2011)
You notice the opportunity? Her last work was the “V” book. And what follows “V”? Yes. “W”!
“W” is for Walker.
How might the book be billed by publicists?
“A chess game or a battle of the brains?”
No. Only one brain would be involved in our story. It is up to you to guess the player with all the brains.
“A cat and mouse maze of intrigue and suspense?”
That might work if the word “mouse” were replaced with weasel.
“The ending has a twist that only increases the reader’s pleasure. This is excellent!”
No doubt. Enjoy the ride!
527 Status – The Scott “Walker Trust” – OXYMORON
Oxymoronic Statement of Considerable Truth
The Walker Trust is an open measure to defend a blameless culprit who is clearly misunderstood as a untargeted victim in the open secret of the John Doe Investigation. Walker has maintained partial silence to clearly indicate he is a misunderstood Governor who maintains that it is a false fact that Walker is not an active target in a victimless crime.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Friday that he has set up a legal defense fund to help pay expenses incurred as a result of the John Doe investigation of activities during his time as county executive.
That is a polite stab of non-partisan journalism to subtly suggest that the resulting determination could well be a suggestion that Walker has been disqualified as a non-target.
But state election law makes clear that a candidate can set up one of these funds in limited circumstances.
“Wisconsin Statutes permit a state government official who is being investigated for or
charged with a violation of campaign finance laws or prohibited election practices to establish a ‘legal defense fund’ for expenditures supporting or defending the candidate while that person is being investigated for, or charged with, or convicted of a violation of those chapters,” says a summary of the statute provided by the Government Accountability Board. No Quarter Blog
OXYMORON
 This man, is the ring leader of a plot to plant a secret email network in the Milwaukee County Executive’s office to be used for non-official purposes including raising funds for a campaign for governor of the State of Wisconsin. Through the use of illegal tactics he won the election to become governor illegally, only to use his power to dismantle a promising rapid rail plan, curtail collective bargaining for most public workers, introduce vote suppression legislation, and gerrymander the vote district boundaries to disenfranchise voters and throw the 2012 election process into complete disarray. His actions have cost the taxpayers of the state, millions of dollars. Charges, and sentencing pending due to grave imbalance in justice system that favors and excludes white collar executives and politicians from the timely and harsh prosecution and sentencing that would befall a common citizen. |
Roger Snells, who pleaded guilty on September 2nd, was also ordered to pay mandatory restitution of $26,164.61 to the U. S. Treasury. |
Now departing Penokee Hills – ALL ABOARD the Recall Train
Like a child’s train, what goes around comes around.
Walker’s refusal of Federal High Speed Rail funds was “Not only frustrating, it was downright disgusting”. Now, Walker uses the same words regarding the failure of mining bill.
Walker did not mince words over mining Thursday. “It’s not only frustrating, it’s downright disgusting. You had senators who were willing to put politics ahead of jobs,” Walker said. Walker Reacts
Mirror, mirror on the wall..
“If politics is going to play a higher priority than getting people back to work, it’s a sad day,” Walker said.
Who played politics worst of all?
It was Scott Walker who had a King of job creators kneeling at his feet. Talgo, the Spanish train-maker had already opened a plant in Milwaukee and was working on two trainsets for the Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha service. Wisconsin was awarded eight hundred and ten million dollars to create thousands of jobs in Wisconsin. Walker said “No”. The reason he gave was one of the first in the long litany of lies he would unleash on the people of Wisconsin over the following year.
Why did Walker reject high speed rail?
The job creating potential of Talgo, that was already in place in Milwaukee and looking ahead to years of production, was seen as such an obvious beacon in the dark tunnel of economic woe that Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois immediately laid out a red carpet with a willingness of circus puppy.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn sent Talgo Inc. a letter inviting the company to move to his state and promising to do whatever he could to lure it there. …
“If Wisconsin is losing its enthusiasm for its rail program and others are not, we could go to Illinois and manufacture world-class trains there,” said Nora Friend, Talgo vice president for public affairs and business development. “We certainly appreciate Gov. Quinn reaching out to us. We will consider very seriously states that want to grow their rail program.”
Poor leadership, poor strategy, abysmal whining
A wiser man would not find himself in Walker’s place. People like Walker fail to understand any of the often quoted words of truth – “The chickens come home to roost” – “The arc of moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” – “You can fool some of the people some of the time…”. Only a self possessed man like Scott Walker is doomed to strut and fret his hour on the stage of politics owning the belief that he can impose his self will on people and politics, while defying history by repeating the behavior of fools of the past and expecting different results. The tracks, leading Walker out of his post, have been bent toward justice through the furnace of protest and unending demands of over a million people. The train is now departing the Penokee Hills – All aboard the recall train! |
Epitaph
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