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, 2006

February 13, 2006

DNR gives the Italian salute to lakeshore property owners

by @ 18:57. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Charlie)

James Klauser, former administration secretary under Governor Thompson, unloads with both barrells on the DNR regarding their pier proposal.   When he asked  about the 3-foot depth limit under a pier, he got this response from a high-ranking DNR official – “No diving.   No swimming.   No fishing.   Piers are for access to a boat, that’s all."   Well, add  “no  modern boats” to that “banned”  list;   Klauser points out  that most modern inboard-outboard boats draw 36 inches, so they’ll be scraping bottom when they’re tied up dockside.

He goes on to rip the DNR for not differentiating between small lakes and larger lakes (larger lakes require larger piers to protect the boats tied to them), the arbitrary  limitation on the number of boats in the water based on shoreline frontage, the likelyhood that most newer piers will not be in compliance with the DNR rules, and the process used to come up with the new rules (no hearings in Lake Country, discouraged public participation).

Go, read the whole thing.

Steal votes in Milwaukee, get a slap on the wrist

by @ 18:24. Filed under Law and order, Politics.

JSOnline’s DayWatch has not one, but two stories of the prosecutorial and sentencing results of people who stole votes in Milwaukee County during the Presidential election last year.

In story one, they report that  Marcus L. Lewis, who had been charged with five felony counts of election fraud-misconduct in office and three counts of forgery after submitting duplicate cards for the same voter on “numerous” (quote from the criminal complaint) occassions and pled guilty to one count of forgery in exchange for the dropping of the other seven charges, received 45 days in jail and a year of probation from Reserve Judge Russell W. Stamper Sr.

In story two, they report that Kevin L. Cameron pled guilty to voting while still on parole.   Assistant DA Bruce Landgraf will recommend that Cameron serve 45 days in jail despite the fact that Daryl Robinson was sentenced to 120 days in jail for the same offense.

I guess E. Michael McCan’t and his office can now put out an official price sheet for voting fraudulently – 45 days in jail or $5,000 cash.   Disgusting.

February 12, 2006

Same poll, new host

by @ 8:50. Filed under The Blog.

Thanks for telling me about Democracy, Patrick.   It  seems to be working quite nicely  as a replacement for PollHost.com for my polls.

Since the stats got reset, I may as well report what the PollHost.com version stats were –

  • 4 votes for “It fragging rocks!”
  • 1 vote for “It’s better than the old place.”
  • 0 votes for “I hate it.”
  • 7 votes for “I couldn’t care less.”

 

Why I don’t do ads or contributions

by @ 8:08. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

(H/T  – Kevin)

The Spice Boys found out (item #2)  that Peg Lautenschlager’s campaign committee  gave a  $2,000 to FightingBob.com in August as part of a deal to give $4,600 in campaign funds  to non-profit organizations because the campaign received too much money from PACs in 2002.

I have a few questions:

  • Why was the deal to donate to non-profit organizations rather than return the overage to the donors?
  • How does FightingBob.com qualify as a tax-exempt non-profit organization when most of their content is political in nature?
  • Doesn’t this entire episode expose the folly of campaign finance reform?

For the record, No Runny Eggs does not run advertising (though PollHost.com, my polling host, does run  advertising on the “results” pages; once I get a better handle on my new host, I’ll more than likely host my own polls as well thanks to Patrick, I’m hosting my own polls)  or have a donation link  to avoid even  the appearances of impropriety.   When I praise or blast someone, I want you to know that it’s me speaking, not an advertiser or donor.

Six Milwaukee County board supervisors won’t resign over vote

by @ 7:54. Filed under Law and order, Politics, Thug Holloway.

(H/T – Brian Fraley, who’s been keeping up the skeer on Lee “Thug” Holloway)

The Journal Sentinel reported in yesterday’s editions that 6 Milwaukee County board supervisors,  Paul Cesarz, Dan Devine, Lynne De Bruin, James Schmitt, Joseph Rice and Ryan McCue, who were among 10 supervisors that asked for a special board session on Monday, February 20  to elect a new county board chair and were subsequently asked to resign by Monday, February 13  from various chair/vice chair positions by county board chair Lee Holloway, will not resign.   In their letter to Holloway, they restated their position that Holloway step down as chair until his ethics case is settled, stated that they will continue to serve in their committee roles “faithfully and  in the best interests of the citizens of Milwaukee County,… to whom we owe our allegiance,” and challenged Holloway to remove them if he disagreed with that statement.

The second part of the story deals with the legality of that election.   After issuing a non-binding  opinion that while the supervisors can hold the meeting, Holloway will continue to serve as chair unless 2/3rds of the supervisors vote to remove him for cause, Milwaukee County Corporation Counsel William Domina asked Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager for a second non-binding  opinion.   The group of 10 are contending that state statutes do not preclude removing a county board chair outside of the normal 4-year cycle with a simple majority.

This is going to get VERY ugly, and the ugliness will start tomorrow.   I expect Holloway to remove all 10 supervisors from every committee they serve on, chosing to run county goverment with himself and the 8 supervisors that still support him.

February 9, 2006

Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment

by @ 22:49. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.

I really can’t say it much better than Brian and Owen.   As far as I can see, there’s a lot of good and only two major problems with WTPA:

  1. The “second consecutive Legislature” requirement for a Constitutional amendment (first spotted by Owen)  would be circumvented for anything relating to WTPA.   There is a reason why the writers of the Wisconsin Constitution put it in there; so that no fad that doesn’t have the lasting power of a couple of years gets into the Constitution.
  2. The lack of a per-pupil foundation in the school-district portion of the amendment.   As an anonymous commenter at Fraley’s Dailytakes pointed out, “Less kids should mean fewer expenses.”   It only makes sense that if we let a unit of government grow with growth in the community and force that unit of government to shrink if property becomes abandoned and worth less, and we let a school district grow with the addition of students, we should make a school district shrink if it loses students.

Owen  points out that the battle is more likely going to be to keep the good rather than fix the bad.   It’s also pretty damn good; so count me in on the WTPA bandwagon.

Sykes Writes – Quick quiz

by @ 20:13. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

Charlie has a quick quiz on which item the ‘Rats regret bringing up more (er, it’s only “most” when there are 3 items) – The Abramoff Scandal or The NSA Wiretap Issue.

At this point, I’ll go with the Abramoff Scandal.   It is now clear that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)  used his influence to affect legislation in the favor of Abramoff clients in exchange for campaign contributions from same.

Of course, if it comes out that NSA intercepts did help out in busting up the planned Al-Qaida follow-on attack on the Library Tower in LA (the linked AP  story from breibart.com says that President Bush neither confirmed nor denied that the NSA intercept program helped bust up the attack), the ‘Rats will really rue bringing that up.

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – The top 5

by @ 15:45. Filed under Sports.

We finally have come to the true contenders.   The first 4 drivers will be oh-so-close to being on the podium, they’ll taste it coming into Homestead:

  • Greg Biffle, driving the Roush #16 Army National Guard Ford.   What can I say about Biffle?   He just wins.
  • Tony Stewart, driving the Joe Gibbs Racing #20 Home Depot Chevy.   You just don’t repeat in NASCAR.
  • Jeff Gordon, driving the Hendrick #24 DuPont/Pepsi Chevy.   He got screwed in 2004.   He screwed himself in 2005.   He’ll come almost all the way back in 2006.
  • Jimmie Johnson, driving the Hendrick #48 Lowe’s Chevy.   He’ll always be the bridesmaid.

That just leaves  the 2006 Nextel Cup champ –


Photo courtesy the White House via mattkenseth.com

Matt Kenseth, driving the Roush #17 DeWalt Tools Ford.   He’s finally got this Chase thing figured out, and take a look at the last 5 years.   2001 Winston Cup champ – Jeff Gordon.   2002 Winston Cup champ – Tony Stewart.   2003 Winston Cup champ – Matt Kenseth.   2004 Nextel Cup champ – should have been Gordon except for a screwing by Brain France.   2005 Nextel Cup champ – Tony Stewart.   The numbers favor the Robot; maybe this time, he’ll get some respect.

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – tail end of the Chase

by @ 15:36. Filed under Sports.

While none of these 5 drivers will have much of a chance to win the Nextel Cup, they will be packing their bags for New York City after the fall Richmond race (again, no particular order):

  • Kyle Busch, driving the Hendrick #5 Kelloggs Chevy.   There’s an unwritten rule that there must be a Busch in the Chase.
  • Dale Earnhardt Jr., driving the DEI #8 Budweiser Chevy.   The good news; Tony Eury Jr is back.   The bad; there’s still flat tracks on the circuit.
  • Kasey Kahne, driving the Evernham #9 Dodge Dealers Dodge.   The sophomore slump is over, and Jr will have some competition for camera time at the end of the year from NBC.
  • Ryan Newman, driving the Penske #12 ALLTEL/Mobil 1 Dodge.   Over/under on the number of poles for Rocket; 10 (take the over).   Over/under on the best finish for Rocket; 10 (also take the over).
  • Carl Edwards, driving the Roush #99 Office Depot Ford.   Since he never ran for ROTY, can he really have a sophomore slump?

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – 11-15

by @ 15:28. Filed under Sports.

The guys that will be oh-so-close to the Chase:

  • Joe Nemechek, driving the MB2 #01 Army Chevy.   I just can’t root against Front Row Joe because he’s driving the Army Surplus Special.
  • Kurt Busch, driving the Penske #2 Miller Lite Dodge.   Come the fall Richmond race, I’ll be laughing my ass off when Rubberhead falls short.
  • Jeremy Mayfield, driving the Evernham #19 Dodge Dealers Dodge.   The fade will start a bit earlier this year.
  • Kevin Harvick, driving the RCR #29 GM Goodwrench/Reeses Chevy.   Happy will never be consistent enough to make the Chase.
  • Elliott Sadler, driving the RYR #38 M&M’s Ford.   The odds-on favorite to flip his car at Talladega.

Most-likely of the 5 to get the $1,000,000 booby prize for finishing 11th; Sadler.

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – 16-20

by @ 15:22. Filed under Sports.

Into the top 20:

  • Martin Truex Jr., driving the DEI #1 Bass Pro Shops Chevy.   If only he could have brought the Busch cars with him,….
  • Mark Martin, driving the Roush #6 AAA Ford.   Mark will regret taking one for the team.
  • Clint Bowyer, driving the RCR #07 Jack Daniel’s Chevy.   He’ll have the best equipment of the rookies.   Whether that overcomes the talent advantage that Truex has remains to be seen.
  • Jamie McMurray, driving the Roush #26 Sharpie Ford.   He’s real happy that Rubberhead decided to pull his Phoenix stunt.
  • Dale Jarrett, driving the RYR #88 UPS Ford.   Where’s the truck?!?!?

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – 21-25

by @ 15:17. Filed under Sports.

Continuing my spiel (once again, in no particular order):

  • Denny Hamlin, driving the Joe Gibbs Racing #11 FedEx Chevy.   The big question at JGR is whether Smoke will share any of the tricks that gave him the 2005 Nextel Cup.
  • JJ Yeley, driving the Joe Gibbs Racing #18 Interstate Batteries Chevy.   We’re about to find out whether Bobby Labonte really lost his ability to drive.
  • Bobby Labonte, driving the Petty Enterprises #43 Cheerios Dodge.   Bobby brings Petty the best chance in years to win a race.   Unfortunately, both he and the team have lost a lot since 2000.
  • Brian Vickers, driving the Hendrick #25 GMAC Chevy.   Every team has to have a weak sister; McVickers is Hendrick’s.
  • Reed Sorenson, driving the Ganassi #41 Target Dodge.   There hasn’t been this much excitement in the Target camp since Jimmy “Mr. Excitement”  Spencer punched out Kurt “Rubberhead” Busch.

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – 26-34

by @ 15:11. Filed under Sports.

Moving right along, let’s continue with 31-34 in my predicted 2006 finish (again, no particular order):

  • Dave Blaney, driving the Bill Davis Racing #22 Catepillar Dodge.   BDR will muddle through one more year before Toyota comes charging in to make them instant title contenders.
  • Kyle Petty, driving the Petty Enterprises #45 Wells Fargo/Schwan’s/Your Company Here Dodge.   The good news is that the #43 team is set.   The bad is that The Other Kyle doesn’t have sponsorship for more than half the races.
  • Brent Sherman, driving the BAM Racing #49 Serta/Hickory Farms Dodge.   Brent picked the wrong year to even think about trying for ROTY.   At least he’ll have the benefit of starting the first 5 races.
  • Sterling Marlin, driving the MB2 Motorsports #14 Waste Management/Your Company Here Chevy.   At least Riggs and Evernham left the owners’ points; otherwise, Sterling would be missing more than the 24 races he doesn’t have a sponsor for.

Moving barely into the top 30 and out of the danger zone:

  • Ken Schrader, driving the Wood Brothers/JTG Racing #21 Little Debbies/Motorcraft/Air Force Ford.   I’ll believe Ken’s retired when he’s been buried for 5 years.
  • Jeff Burton, driving the RCR #31 Cingular Chevy.   Brother Ward is wondering when NASCAR ceased being a Southern sport.
  • David Stremme, driving the Ganassi #40 Coor’s Light/Lonestar Dodge.   Stremme picked the wrong team to join for his ROTY run.
  • Casey Mears, driving the Ganassi #42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge.   Mears is the luckiest guy in NASCAR; if Home123 hadn’t pulled out of NASCAR, he would be nothing more than a field-filler.   In Ganassi’s best ride, he’s only little more than a field-filler.
  • Jeff Green, driving the Haas-CNC #66 Best Buy Chevy.   Believe it or not, this is a step up for Jeff.

NASCAR Nextel Cup preview – beyond 34th

by @ 14:55. Filed under Sports.

With the NASCAR portion of SpeedWeeks kicking off Saturday with the Bud Shootout and continuing with Sunday’s qualifying (which will have more to do with Thursday’s Gatorade Duels than the following Sunday’s season-opening Daytona 500), it’s time to look ahead to how the full-time drivers (according to Jayski)  will do in 2006.   This will leave out the likes of Tony Raines, who will take over the new-for-2006 Hall of Fame #96 TI DLP Chevy starting the 6th race (they’ll run past-champ Terry Labonte to ensure they make the first 5 races as well as the 2 road-course races, hope  get into the top 35 in owners’ points to ensure a start, and then stay there), and Kenny Wallace, who will run most but not all the races in the new-for-2006 Furniture Row #78 Chevy.

Let’s start with the full-time drivers  that will have to qualify their way in every week.   This will actually start with 35th-place as I expect the HOF team to stay in the top 35 in owners’ points beyond the start of the season (in no particular order).

  • Scott Riggs, driving the Evernham #10 Valvoline/Stanley Tools Dodge.   Ray Evernham picked the wrong year to start a third team.   They won’t be able to overcome the hole of missing an early race (most likely the Daytona 500).
  • Derrike Cope, driving the McGlinn Racing #00 (we think) Chevy (again, we think).   Derrike should’ve retired after the 1990 Daytona 500.
  • Scott Wimmer, driving the Morgan-McClure #4 AERO Exhaust Chevy.   The team got screwed when Doug Bawel teamed up with Michael Waltrip to keep Jasper Racing alive.   They really could have used the break of Penske folding the #77 team.
  • Robby Gordon, driving his own #7 Harrah’s/Jim Beam/Menard’s Chevy.   Robby, not-so-affectionately known as “Crash” and “Rubby”, wishes every race was on a road course.
  • Travis Kvapil, driving the PPI #32 Tide Chevy.   One-car teams are a thing of the past in NASCAR.
  • Randy LaJoie, driving the Front Row/Mach 1  #34 Chevy.   Nothing like reinforcing failure with more failure.   Neither Mach 1 nor Front Row could get a sponsor, so they decided to join forces and create a 2-car team.   That’s something I’d expect Wile E. Thompson, suuuuper genius, to do.
  • Michael Waltrip, driving the Waltrip/Jasper(/BDR) #55 Dodge.   Driving 4th-rate equipment, Mikey will waste the opportunity he bought by buying his way into Jasper Racing and guaranteeing himself a start for the first 5 races.
  • Kevin Lepage, driving the Peak Performance #61 Ford (or is it Chevy; they tested a Chevy at Daytona).   Somewhere in Virginia, Hermie “The Other” Sadler is laughing.
  • Morgan Shepherd, driving his own #89 Dodge.   Odds of Grampa Shepherd making 5 races where there are at least 44 entrants; 50-1.
  • Chad Chaffin, driving the Front Row Motorsports #92 (probably will be #192 in your NASCAR program once again).   See my comments for Randy LaJoie.   Further, Chad picked the wrong year to run for the ROTY.

25-34 will be up shortly.

Time to narrow the focus of Wisconsin’s Own Travelgate

by @ 12:59. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Jenna, and cross-posted by her at the BBA)

Three months after  Georgia Thompson  fixed the infamous travel contract in the favor of Jim “Craps”  Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale)  contributor Adelman Travel, then-Department of Administration secretary Marc Marotta, who now serves as Craps’ campaign chair, awarded  her a $1,000/year  base-building Discretionary Compensation Adjustment (DCA).   The DCA is awarded at the secretary’s “sole discretion”.

This information, which was apparently not part of the indictment against Thompson, is now in the hands of the US Attorney’s office.   Considering that Marotta reported directly to Doyle, and Marotta currently has a prominent position in Doyle’s re-election campaign, today cannot be described as a good one for Team Craps.

If Cheeseheads were as intolerant as Islamokazis…

by @ 12:35. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – Charlie)

We would be burning storming IHOPs and Denny’s to burn Texas Toast.   Iowahawk has a great parody of a couple of Danish cartoons mocking Mohammed.   In all seriesness, we’d just take care of things quietly :-)

That gives me an excuse to once again post my favorite Danish cartoon.

Lee Holloway to Milwaukee County Board – “You f* with me, I f* you up.”

by @ 12:15. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Thug Holloway.

(H/T – Brian Fraley)

Embattled, ethically-“challenged” (more like “lacking”)  Milwaukee County Board Chair Lee Holloway isn’t taking the request of a new vote for county board chair lying down.   He’s demanding that those of the 10-member “putsch” that filed paperwork to re-elect a board chair on Monday, February 20,  that he hasn’t already removed from power to take a blood oath supporting him, resign any chairmanship/vice chairmanship on any committee they may be on, or face firing on Monday, February 13.   The text of the form letter sent to Supervisors Cesarz (Personnel vice-chair), DeBruin (Parks, Energy, and Environment chair), Devine (Parks, Energy, and Environment vice-chair), McCue (Finance and Audit vice-chair), Rice (Judiciary, Safety and General Services vice-chair), and Schmitt (Personnel chair):

You recently signed a petition to the County Clerk to hold a special meeting of the County Board to elect a Chairman. In addition, I appointed you to serve as (insert position: e.g. Chairman of Parks)

Because of this situation, as well as the need for continued cooperation and communication between the County Board Chairman and the Chairs and Vice Chairs of standing committees, I am requesting that you inform me as to whether you can continue to work with me in your leadership capacity under the current circumstances at the County Board.

As you know, I believe I am exercising my constitutional rights of due process in defending myself against what I believe to be unfounded and unfair ethics charge.

You have even expressed your opinion that I have the right to do this.

I am now asking you to inform me whether you feel you can continue to work with me given this situation.

If you believe you cannot continue to work with me, I would request that you resign from your current position as (insert position) until due process has been completed.

I would like you to give this your careful thought and give me an answer by Monday, February 13.

Thank you for your response.

This thug cannot be removed from office fast enough.

Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment released

by @ 11:30. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Owen has the text.   I’ll be back in a while after I digest this.

Carnival of the Badger is up

by @ 11:11. Filed under Miscellaneous.

James Wigderson Library and Pub has it this week.

That was some well-spent money to get up top ;-)

The Consigliere officially enters the talk radio world

by @ 11:09. Filed under Miscellaneous.

If, for some reason, you missed the 10-o’clock hour on the Charlie Sykes show, Jessica McBride (McBride’s Media Matters)  has been hired part-time at WTMJ to run the 8-11 pm weekday slot.   She did some guest-hosting while Mark Reardon was still there.

 Congrats, Jessica.

February 7, 2006

Iran has reached nuclear capability

by @ 10:46. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – A Daily Briefing on Iran – which has just been added to the roll)

Robert G. Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control, said Monday that Iran has stalled long enough to gain the ability to both create nuclear weapons and  deliver them.   He  did not offer an assessment on how long before  “ability” becomes “reality”.

I sure hope the moonbat Left, the EU, Russia, and China are happy when the Islamokazi mushroom clouds start popping up worldwide before the end of this decade (I’d say before the end of this year, even).  

February 6, 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

by @ 18:19. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

(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.

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