No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for February 6th, 2006

Update on Gus Doyle’s Sunday car ride

by @ 20:28. Filed under Law and order.

We get results here at No Runny Eggs – JSOnline’s DayWatch finally catches up.   The Fitchburg police department clammed up  on the JS reporter (not even confirming that Gus was driving without a license like he did for WKOW), but we finally have a statement from Papa  Craps and  unlicensed lush  Gus over on WisPolitics.

Still no word from the madison.com conglomerate.

Meanwhile, WKOW is doing a lot of  heavy lifting.   Since I first twigged onto this, they’ve dug up a couple of more items.   Gus had his license suspended on July 18, 2005.   According to Craps spokesman Dan Leistikow, Gus was driving mama Jessica’s private car at the time.   Guess I gave Craps too much leeway here.

Doyle’s son nailed for DUI Sunday

by @ 19:17. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Madison TV stations WISC and WKOW, tired of waiting for the likes of The Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, the Madison.com-affiliated WMTV-TV/DT, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to end their embargoes of any bad news for Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), finally reported this evening  that Gus Doyle, eldest son of Jim, was pulled over early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence.   Gus, who was driving a car not registered to him without a valid driver’s license, also pulled a Goldschlager, refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test.

Allow me to make myself clear; at age 30,  Gus is his own man.   Unlike Supreme Solar Allah, his criminality wasn’t designed to help out his parent.   At least at this point, the elder Doyle almost certainly had no knowledge that Gus would pull this.   Therefore, you can’t hold the sins of the son against the father. WKOW is now reporting that Gus had his license suspended July 2005, and the car was registered to Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle.   Therefore, it is now reasonable to assume that Craps knew that and indeed sanctioned the fact that Gus was continuing to drive without a license.   I still won’t hold the DUI portion of the story against Craps though.

However, you don’t suppose that if the adult child of a prominent state Pubbie had done what Gus had, that the state’s presstitutes wouldn’t be tripping over themselves to not only break the bad news, but do everything in their power to link the parent to this.

You just knew there had to be a federal hook here

(H/T  – Wendy – sorry about that, my feed reader doesn’t pick up authors at B&S)

Or, in this case, cash, and lots of it.   From Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) press release on signing the uber-“safety”-seat bill

By signing AB 618, Wisconsin is eligible for $625,000 in new federal funds this federal fiscal year, andcould receive up to $2.5 million over the next six years. These federal funds will be used for child safety seat education and training programs as well as programs that purchase and distribute child safety seats to low income families.

It sure is nice to know that the feds have so much money that they’re mandating this  .   At least they’re not withholding highway funds like they do for every other damn stupid mandate.

Wendy  noticed one more thing; Craps trotted out the tired old lieberal line about X being NUMBER ONE KILLER.   Like him, I sure didn’t notice that kids 4-7 were dropping dead either from the simple fact that they weren’t in booster seats or weren’t in booster seats during car crashes.

Homer nods – it was Owen’s better half, Wendy, that created the post.

Confirmed Senate “No” votes on AB15 – 2/16/2006 PM update

by @ 17:54. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

(Continuing the list from the December version)

So far, we have exactly one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  of the 17 votes we need to kill this awful excuse of a bill, plus a “promise” of an abstention from Luther Olsen  –

-Ted Kanavas (H/T –David – in the comments part of the link back to Badger Blogger)

– Neal Kedzie (H/T – James Wigderson)

– Mary Lazich (from both the comments in the December version of this by an anonymous source and James)

– Cathy Stepp, a former co-sponsor (thanks, Peter, also back in the December version) – see, we can turn Senators back from the Dark Side.

– Tom Reynolds (H/T – LB2 – in the comments part in the link back to Badger Blogger)

– Joe Leibham (H/T – Kevin)

– Glenn Grothman (H/T – TomInWestBend – in the comments on the post from the Wigderson Library & Pub)

– Jeff Plale, my state Senator and the first Democrat to swear off the ethanol (see below)

– Dave Hansen (H/T – James)

– Also, Luther Olsen, whose family stands to become rich beyond the dreams of Avaris, abstained in the committee vote (of course, it passed there 4-2, so he wasn’t needed; I doubt he’ll stay silent if Sgt. Schultz needs him to be vote #18).

We’ve  finally crossed the halfway threshhold, but the ADM lobby  did first  (they’re up to 10 of the 18 they need, 11  if you include Olsen). If you haven’t worked over your state Senator, do so. If you have and they haven’t gotten the message, lather, rinse and repeat. If they have sworn off the ethanol, take the time to thank them.

Homer nod (10:26 pm 1/18/2006) – corrected the math
Homer nod part 2 (1:08 pm 1/19/2006) – durn typos
Revisions/extensions (8:15 am 2/6/2006) – With the move to WP, I can now constantly update across months  without worrying about losing the URL.
More revisions/extensions (5:54 pm 2/6/2006) – We’re safe until 2/21 according to James, but he found another lush.

Keep up the skeer

by @ 8:06. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

Charlie reports that three  Assemblymen who drank the ethanol Kool-Aid when they first acted upon the bad-gas bill have now flipped and will oppose it when the Sierra Club-endorsed revision to explicitly  stick it to business comes back to them:   Mark Gottlieb, Samantha Kerkman and Robin Vos.   Let’s try to make it so that AB15 doesn’t even make it back to them; call your Senator today and get  him or her  to oppose AB15.

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