No Runny Eggs

I got redistricted out of this district in time for the 2002 elections, but my other sister still is in Milwaukee, so again I have a stake in this. I’m recommending challenger Perfecto Rivera over incumbent Gwen Moore. I know it’s a hopeless task because the 4th is now all lieberal, but even lieberals deserve better representation than someone who routinely threw temper tantrums when she was in the state Senate and then disappeared when she met a true master of the temper tantrum and race-card-playing game in Washington.

This ought to come as no surprise – I’m recommending incumbent Paul Ryan over challenger Jeff Thomas. Thomas brings nothing to the table; Ryan brings a history of tax cuts, accountability in budgeting and the best, last hope to keep Social Security from burying the country right about the time I’m ready to retire.

I cannot recommend either candidate whose names are on the ballot, assistant DA John Chisholm or lawyer Lew Wasserman. Chisholm is the hand-picked successor to E. Michael McCan’t, who tried to find a way to plea-bargain every crime down to the bare minimum (and that’s if we in the public were lucky). Wasserman actually wants to make the DA’s office even less of a prosecutorial arm of government. Instead, I’m recommending writing in Jeff Wagner, the WTMJ talk show host (not Jeffrey Wagner the circuit judge).

For those of you who think I’m just pulling a straight-Pubbie ticket, take a gander at this. I’m recommending “Democrat” David Clarke for re-election over challenger Don Holt. Clarke is continuing to try to force the deputies to become actual law officers instead of donut-munching revenue-generators because he recognizes that the Milwaukee Police Department needs all the help it can get. Holt would rather go back to the revenue-generation-only days.

I’m recommending challenger Dimity Grabowski over incumbent Jeff Plale. As alderwoman in Oak Creek, Grabowski somehow got both mayor Dick Bolender and tax-and-spender alderman Al Foeckler (whose district I’m thankfully leaving Wednesday) to agree to a no-levy-increase budget (even though they’re tapping half of a $6 million reserve fund). It sure seems there are two Plales; the moderate pro-life, pro-school-choice Plale that existed before he became state Senator, and the liberal partisan hack that thinks taxes aren’t high enough. The Dems tried to kill the moderate Plale, and even though their candidate Donovan “Vote Twice Like a ‘Rat” Riley was forced to drop out of the race because of double-voting, the 25% he still got will probably be enough to kill the moderate Plale if he’s returned to the state Senate.

My sister recently moved to this district, so I do have a stake in this. I’m recommending Tom Reynolds for re-election over Jim Sullivan. I rather like the idea of a conservative gadfly in the ointment of the power system; without him, we would still have the gas tax going up automatically every April Fool’s Day. As for Sullivan, he’s a tax-and-spend-and-tax-some-more kind of guy who at the very least believes that he can order city clerks to change election records and assistant DAs to rule he didn’t vote in a location he was recorded as voting at with nothing more than his word.

Since I missed the last week due to moving prep, I missed out on the week-long fluid-swapping between Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (the official southeast Wisconsin mouthpiece of the Craps For Governor campaign) idiotorial board and didn’t comment too much (or here at all) about their increasing tilt toward the left. Time to make up for all that with the start of my endorsement series with the local.

I’m recommending a NO vote on the Oak Creek/Franklin School District $28.5 million referrendum to build a new East Middle School. This is the third time in a decade that the school district is looking to jam the taxpayers of Oak Creek and eastern Franklin, and they’re using this to set up jams 4 (the replacement of Meadowview Elementary) and 5 (the building of a second high school), jams that were allegedly addressed by the previous 2 referrenda. Bear in mind that they already bought the property for all three of these pet projects, overpaying in the process. Bear in mind that they’re spending 7.5% more this year than last (“thanks” again for that “freeze”, Craps).