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 May 5th, 2006

TPA post-mortem from Owen

by @ 19:39. Filed under WTPA.

Go read. Summary in 10 words: piss-poor timing, too long, mishandled support, lack of leadership (Owen leaves open the door to actual sabotage from said leadership).

There’s far more than that. Say, what are you still doing here? Owen says my basic thoughts much better than I could, even if I don’t share his long-term optimism.

As long as I’m doing galleries,…

by @ 7:33. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

…I may as well let you know about the asshats who decided that the same profit level that ExxonMobil is getting ripped to shreds over must continue to be mandated to gas-station owners (which includes ExxonMobil):
Roger Breske
Russ Decker
Mike Ellis
Jon Erpenbach
Scott Fitzgerald
Dave Hansen
Sheila Harsdorf
Bob Jauch
Dan Kapanke
Julie Lassa
Joe Leibham
Mark Miller
Luther Olsen
Jeff Plale (who has turned into my biggest disappointment)
Fred Risser
Judy Robson
Cathy Stepp
Lena Taylor
Bob Wirch

If you see any of these asshats complaining about either high gas prices or “excessive” profits, shove their votes to continue to mandate a 9.18% profit for gas stations in their faces and serve them a tall, frosty glass of STFU.

R.I.P. Wisconsin Taxpayer Relief (2002-2006)

by @ 7:12. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.
  • Born 2002 to then-Gov. Scott McCallum, who proposed the end to state aid to localities, with a freeze on local taxes, as a solution to the structural deficits he inherited from Tommy Thompson.
  • Killed 2002 by Assemby Pubbies who wanted to continue the expensive fund transfers.
  • Resurrected 2002 by the voters, who voted in a Pubbie majority in the Senate and extended the Pubbie majority in the Assemby by electing tax-freeze candidates like Mark Honadel (who won in a district dominated by the ‘Rats the last 80 years). Renamed TABOR.
  • Buried by then-Senate Majority “Leader” Mary Panzer in 2004. Panzer promptly got buried by her constituents by a late entry by Glenn Grothman, who campaigned on TABOR.
  • TABOR killed again by the traitorous election of Sgt. Dale Schultz (I know nassink-No Talk Radio Here) as Senate Majority “Leader” in 2005.
  • Various tax-freeze languages in the state budget killed by Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) 2003-2005.
  • Re-resurrected as a weakened WTPA in 2006 by Grothman (who only took a full year to come up with something).
  • Local revenue limits killed by the Assembly 2006. A Swiss-cheese state-only version barely survived the Assembly, faces certain death in the Senate.
  • State-only limits killed by the Senate 2006.

Time to start job- and house-hunting out of state.

Revisions/extensions – The Senate made the death of Wisconsin Taxpayer Relief official yesterday. The whole lot of them are asshats. I hope to be out of this tax hell by the end of the year.

Rogues Gallery, the Senate version

by @ 6:08. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.

As expected, the Wisconsin State Senate killed what was left of the Taxpayers Protection Amendment. NONE of them are blameless, as every Senator that was around (Spencer Coggs took a powder) ultimately voted to screw the taxpayers. That vote was sandwiched between the defeat of an attempt to slightly strengthen the TRA that came out of the Assembly by adding most segergated funds and the defeat of the original Grothman-written TPA. So, without further adieu, let’s start the pics:


The asshats who decided to just give up:
Alberta Darling
Glenn Grothman
Ted Kanavas (up for re-election this year)
Neal Kedzie (up for re-election this year)
Mary Lazich
Joe Leibham (up for re-election this year)
Tom Reynolds (up for re-election this year)
Dale Schultz (up for re-election this year)
Cathy Stepp (the seat is up this year, but she’s leaving the Senate)
Dave Zien (up for re-election this year)


The RINOs who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for local limits:
Mike Ellis (up for re-election this year)
Alan Lasee (up for re-election this year)


A clueless idiot who has no idea how to vote on any given issue (case in point, he voted for the state-and-local TPA but against strengthening the state-only TPA):
Scott Fitzgerald (Chris, I think I hear his seat calling you; he is up for re-election this year)


Finally, the RepubicRATs who think, like every single DemocRAT, that taxes still are too low in Wisconsin:
Ronald Brown (up for re-election this year)
Robert Cowles
Sheila Harsdorf
Dan Kapanke
Luther Olsen
Carol Roessler


Just as a friendly reminder, for those of you living in an “odd” Senate district, you can start circulating your nomination papers to enter a primary June 1. They have to be back to the State Elections Board, along with some other paperwork (checklist here), by 5 pm July 11th. You only need 400-800 signatures.

For the “Republican” Party of Wisconsin, I have a challenge for you. Either support primary opponents of the career politicians above and in my original Rogues Gallery who actually supports the “R”PW platform, or adopt the DPW tax-and-spend socialistic economic platform at your convention. Don’t lie to us conservatives any longer.

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