No Runny Eggs

This is the Emergency Blogging System. Even if Papa’s had a WiFi hotspot and steveegg had a laptop, he wouldn’t be live-blogging the election.

The time is now 8 pm Central Standard Time. If the ‘Rats haven’t conned a judge to let them continue to bus people in from Illinois, the polls are now closed. It’s all over but the counting (and hopefully not the recounting and re-recounting and re-re-recounting like in Washington State in 2004).

This is the Emergency Blogging System. Steveegg is busy working the Casper for Everything Victory Party/November Drinking Right at Papa’s Social Club.

One hour, one hour left in the voting day. If you’re going to vote for the NRE-recommended candidates, do so NOW, then come on down to Papa’s. If not, then in the immortal words of Fighting Bob Anderson, “Tahellwitchoo!”

JSOnline’s DayWatch is now reporting that the State Doylie Elections Board has ordered Milwaukee poll workers to take down signs that say that felons who attempt to vote may be prosecuted. These signs were put up by the Milwaukee Elections Commission at the urging of both the city attorney’s office and the county district attorney’s office.

Guess the Doylies aren’t liking Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) chances.

JSOnline’s DayWatch reports that a polling site at Madison East High School received a bomb threat. The initial report at 11:34 had the site shut down and Madison considering asking for an extension, while the update at 11:54 said that the site was open until 11:40, then shut down for an estimated 20-minute search.

Catch the bastard(s) that made the threat and let him/her/them swing.

Revisions/extensions (1:18 pm 11/7/2006) – According to JSOnline’s DayWatch, they moved the machines outside and are voting again.

Various sources from JSOnline’s DayWatch to Owen to my own personal experience (19th when the polls opened with a nice line) all indicate that turnout is heavy in southeast Wisconsin. Keep it up!

This is the Emergency Blogging System. It has been activated because steveegg is already at his polling place and casting his ballot. LOOK OUT BELOW!

For the next 13 hours, the polls will be open in Wisconsin. See below for steveegg’s extended recommendations. To summarize:

Governor/Lt. Governor – Mark Green/Jean Hundertmark
Secretary of State – Sandy Sullivan
State Treasurer – Jack Voight
US Senate – Dave Casper (write-in)
Defense of Marriage Amendment – Yes (that is the ONLY vote that will prevent the Wisconsin State Supreme Court from imposing homosex marriage in the next year)
Death Penalty advisory referrendum – Yes
1st Congressional – Paul Ryan
4th Congressional – Perfecto Rivera
5th Congressional – Jim Sensenbrenner
8th Congressional – John Gard
5th State Senate – Tom Reynolds
7th State Senate – Dimity Grabowski
21st State Senate – Bill McReynolds
21st State Assembly – Mark Honadel (I know, he’s running unopposed, but we don’t want a write-in surprise)
Milwaukee County Sheriff – David Clarke
Milwaukee County District Attorney – Jeff Wagner (write-in)
Oak Creek/Franklin School $28.5 million borrow-spend-tax for another shiny new building – No

(H/T – unspun at Free Republic)

DemocRAT bribery for votes has hit Eau Claire. According to the RPW, Kathleen Vinehout the ‘Rat candidate for the 31st Senate District (held by RepubicRAT Ron Brown) got caught giving away hot dogs in exchange for votes. Also, a UW-Eau Claire professor used her university e-mail to encourage her students to accept rides to city hall for the purposes of voting early, with those drivers handing the students completed sample ballots with every ‘Rat filled in before they reached city hall.

RPW Executive Director Rick Wiley had the line of the day in the linked release, “Cigarettes, pastries and now hotdogs for votes. No wonder Democrats want universal health care. The people they are bribing for their vote are going to need it.”

Now, where have we seen this before?

Revisions/extensions (8:31 pm 11/6/2006) – Because “FAIR” Wisconsin unleashed a fresh set of lies through robocalls today (details at, among other places, Boots and Sabers), this has been brought back to the top.

Borrowing from Tom McMahon’s 4-Block World (which got added to the roll, just in case you weren’t viewing it from his main blog:

If you don’t know who I’m going to say, you’re probably just rolling in with this being your first post read. The choice is clear – Mark Green over Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale). I’ll let Rick Esenberg’s words speak for me because he says it far better than I can.

Like the Milwaukee County DA’s race, I cannot recommend any of the candidates running. You have a do-nothing incumbent and 3 dumb challengers, each more insane than the last. Instead, I recommend writing in Dave Casper.

That’s right, kids. In Wisconsin, you don’t vote for governor and lt. governor as a package. I’m recommending Jean Hundertmark over incumbent Barbara Lawton. Hundertmark is a strong conservative, while Lawton is an unreconstructed lieberal who is both tied at the hip to Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) and would be first in line to replace him should they both be re-elected and then Doyle be convicted on possible federal corruption charges (remember, he’s still under investigation).

Revisions/extensions (2:34 pm 11/6/2006) – Matt Thomas points out below that it is a combined ticket.

This really is a meaningless office, but I’m saving my second write-in of the election because there is but one significant factor – if the governor and lieutenant governor were to both depart office, the secretary of state becomes acting governor. I have no respect for either the La Follette legacy or political dynasties, so I’m recommending Sandy Sullivan over incumbent Doug La Follette.

I’m recommending JB Van Hollen over Kathleen Falk. Van Hollen is an experienced prosecutor on both the local and federal levels, even though he didn’t notice the smell from the governor’s mansion during the time his tenure as US Attorney for Western Wisconsin and Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) tenure as governor overlapped. Falk was chosen by the DPW because she would quash the state participation in ongoing investigations into Doyle and his administration; she also is incredibly soft on crime and unbelievably anti-business, and she lacks any prosecutorial experience whatsoever.

I’m recommending a YES vote on the Defense of Marriage Amendment. Society as a whole has decided that the civil institution of marriage should follow the Christian institution of marriage, which says that marriage is between one man and one woman. Though the civil institution does fall short of the institution established by God, it is the closest we can get.

Beyond that, I strongly oppose change instituted by no more than 7 Lawgivers-In-Black. Passage of this amendment would cut them and only them out of the equation of future changes, as the state Constitution can be and often is amended by majority votes of 2 consecutive Legislatures and the majority of voters in an election, and those amendments often rewrite and strike out existing portions of said Constitution. Failure of this amendment would be all the green light the Wisconsin State Supreme Court will need to use a case already in the court system to impose homosex marriage from on high.

The only competitive Congressional race in Wisconsin features a self-financed moonbat versus a hand-picked RINO (hand-picked over a RepublicRAT). I abhor the ideas of another moonbat from Wisconsin and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, so I’m recommending John Gard over Steve Kagen. That’s all.

Hmmm, a conservative gadfly in the ointment of federal power or a guy who has the audacity to pay himself a salary for running for office? It’s a no-brainer – I’m recommending Jim Sensenbrenner for another 2 years against Bryan Kennedy. I disagree strongly with Sensenbrenner’s refusal to open up ANWR, but on issues from not writing blank checks to “disaster victims” to enforcing immigration laws to securing the borders to understanding the relationship between the states and the federal government, Sensenbrenner and I see eye to eye.