No Runny Eggs

For those that missed her interview with Jeff Wagner, a group of at least 10 activists, some with faces concealed, parked their vehicles on the road outside her rural house, walked up the 500 or so feet to her house, and banged on her windows in a blatant attempt to intimidate her to vote against AB69. Fortunately, her husband was home to confront the group, which left the property once they were informed that the police were called. Fred of RealDebateWisconsin appeared after her, and did a bang-up job. Odds are that Patrick will have the audio up shortly (of course, I went 5-10 in the NFL this weekend against the line, so take that for what it’s worth).

On the presstitute front, the Journal Sentinel finally mentioned this story on their DayWatch at 11:29 am (after Jeff was hyping the interview all morning), and the Journal Times finally got around to contacting Sen. Stepp today. Want to take bets on whether this makes the print version of the Milwaukee paint-catcher tomorrow, and if so, what editions it makes it in (you have your choice of state, Waukesha, Ozaukee/Washington, Metro North and Metro South, which includes Racine – and I get the Metro South)?

OpinionJournal’s Political Diary (sadly, they still don’t archive the daily e-mails, even for subscribers) reports on the latest National Journal “insider” polls (100 Pubbie insiders for the R nomination, 100 ‘Rat insiders for the D nomination). For those that think that John McCain (RINO-4th Estate) is the front-runner; guess again. He’s second to George Allen (R-Virginia) once again (he also trailed in April). The big news on the Pubbie side is the fall of Bill Frist (RINO-Tennessee); he fell from 3rd to 5th. Guess caving again and again and again isn’t what the party faithful want.

Over on the ‘Rat side, no surprise that Hillary is the runaway front-runner, but there’s some items of note as well. “Moderates” (relatively-speaking; they only play moderates in campaigns) tend to dominate the second-tier, led by Virginia governor Mark Warner, with only John “Two Americas” Edwards in that tier. Bringing up the rear guard like good Frenchies are Kerry, Gore, and Clark. No mention of Wisconsin’s own Russ el-Slimeroad.

Jeff Wagner will have State Sen. Cathy Stepp on right after the 1 pm news today to talk about what Voces de la Frontera did at her home Friday night. For those that can’t get WTMJ-AM (620 on the dial) on their radio, they do webcast.

(H/T – Kevin)

Quite possibly the only true statement in the Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) press release touting his signing of the end to the indexing of the gas tax is the first one (and then I won’t believe it until the ink is dry on his signature) – “Governor Jim Doyle today announced that he intends to sign legislation repealing Wisconsin’s automatic gas tax indexing.”

After breaking the story that the pro-illegal-immigrant group Voces de la Frontera stormed the property of Sen. Cathy Stepp because she supports a piece of legislation they oppose, and that Sen. Stepp will be pursuing charges (that would be AB69, which would bring Wisconsin into compliance with federal law that drivers’ licenses be issued only to people in the country legally), Fred goes on to dig into this group. He found that this group was investigated for illegally registering non-citizens to vote last year, and that Marquette University has rather close ties to this group.

One would think that either the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel or Racine Journal Times would find the time to report this considering that the incident happened Friday night, and that Sen. Stepp announced she would be pursuing charges by early Saturday afternoon, but apparently this doesn’t fit either paper’s agenda. Indeed, the Milwaukee paper doesn’t even have a clue that AB69 is going through the Senate.

Suppose that the Minutemen came up to Milwaukee and did this to Pedro Colon, an opponent of this bill, because he opposses it. Who here doesn’t think that this would be the banner headline in both yesterday’s and today’s papers, or that this wouldnb’t be national?

Revisions/extensions parts 1 and 2 – It’s Monday morning, and those chainsaws you hear are coming from sleeping reporters and editors both 4th and State in Milwaukee and wherever the Journal Times has its offices. Still nothing from them. Meanwhile, Jessica and Fred point out that Voces de la Frontera is a 501(c)(3) organization, and dig out their 2004 Form 990 (their federal “Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax”), where they claim to not have made any effort to influence politics at any level (part 2 is to correct attribution; I really need to have my full dose of caffeine before blogging).

Paging Mr. Biskupic. Paging US Attorney Steve Biskupic. Here is your federal hook.