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 September 7th, 2010

Tuesday Hot Read – Doug Ross’ “Obscure blogger compares Obama’s treatment of U.S. economy to a dog”

by @ 19:10. Filed under Politics - National.

Doug Ross is hardly an obscure blogger, but we’ll run with his Onion-worthy sendup of Obama’s “dog” comment here in Milwaukee yesterday:

“Some powerful special interests who have dominated the agenda in Washington since the thirties really hit the jackpot with the Obama administration,” Ross said, “This White House is treating the economy like a dog. It’s taught the economy to roll over and play dead, for instance.”

Ross isn’t known to stray off prepared remarks and also took a more aggressive tone in the speech.

I only wish I were well-known enough to be obscure; I would’ve live-blogged that. Of course, it wouldn’t have been as scintillating as Doug’s account.

IndyCar coming back to the Mile?

by @ 15:44. Filed under Sports.

USA Today’s Nate Ryan broke the following on his Twitter feed:

The 2011 #IndyCar schedule will be announced Friday at….The Milwaukee Mile. That would seem to be a rather large clue.

I guess the State Fair Park Board found the $400,000 IndyCar wanted to run a race weekend next year. There is a very-“convenient” break in the confirmed part of the 2011 schedule between the Indianapolis 500 and the twin race at Texas Motor Speedway, as the TMS date was pushed back from the week after Indy it was this year to two weeks after Indy. Between 1949 and this year, that weekend after Indy had traditionally seen an open-wheel series at the Milwaukee Mile, but TMS took the date when Wisconsin Motorsports, the last private promoter at the Mile, folded and stiffed IndyCar for $1 million and NASCAR for about $2 million.

This ad could’ve been even more effective

by @ 11:33. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

After taking months of shots from the Mark Neumann campaign, the Scott Walker campaign hit back with the final House vote on the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century Neumann made back in 1998, which came complete with $9 billion in pork roundly slammed by entities ranging from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to The Heritage Foundation.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J1v64mMII[/youtube]

Instead of tying Neumann to Nancy Pelosi, they should have contrasted Neumann’s support of that pork with Tom Barrett’s opposition to it. That’s right; Barrett voted against the final version of the bill.

For his part, Neumann flubbed his response by simply saying many other Republicans voted for it too.

Bleg time – Get R.S. McCain mobile again

by @ 8:54. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Robert Stacy McCain went hunting and bagged a 6-point buck. Unfortunately, instead of using either a gun or a bow-and-arrow, he used his car, and 2004 Kias aren’t made for hunting whitetail deer. The ugly news is he had just spent $700 to fix the engine on said car.

I wish I could hit the tip jar myself, but the funds aren’t there for me right now. So do it, and tell him Egg sent you.

Alternate headline, Neumann campaign finance edition

by @ 8:14. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

If this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about Mark Neumann not accepting a lot of special-interest money had been written 8 days from now, here’s how the headline would have appeared:

Neumann campaign fails to report PAC money; significant percentage of donations came from special interests

At least half of that would be true, as the Neumann campaign failed to report a $1,000 donation from the Wisconsin Dental Association PAC. Side note; that failed reporting merited only a parenthetical mention a week before the primary against the main target of the Journal Sentinel this election cycle, Scott Walker. Who here believes that Walker would have received the same benefit of the doubt had it been his campaign that failed to report the donation, and who believes that the ex-Spice Boy would have been sicced on the campaign to produce a banner-headline story?

On the other end of the headline, Neumann’s campaign has not received a significant portion of its donations from special interests. As of the end of June, Neumann raised $565,623 from donors. The story notes that he received $12,925 in “conduit” donations, which together with the $1,000 PAC donation, inexplicably omitted from the totals despite being dug up, meant that just under 2.5% of the donations came from special interests. That is still below the 11.5% the Walker campaign received and the 22% the Tom Barrett campaign received from special interests.

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