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.
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.
…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.
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.
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.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I was well and truly sickened by the headline on the banner story on the front page of yesterday’s Racist Jentinel (“712 down, 3 to go”). The story itself, by Tom Haurdicourt, is a fair story on Bonds’ pursuit of home runs.
The 715th home run by Barry Bonds will not tie or break:
In fact, Commissioner Bud Selig sums up best what Bonds’ 715th home run means: “Hank Aaron already broke Babe Ruth’s record. We don’t celebrate second place in anything. We never have. Now, should Barry break Hank Aaron’s record, that’s a different story.” (Side note; MLB DOES celebrate 2nd in one division of each league in the form of a wild-card playoff berth.)
What it does represent, at least to the headline-writer and copy editor at the Jentinel who decided this deserved a cheerleading, prominent headline in yesterday’s fishwrap, and the presstitutes trolling around the Giants like Pavlov’s dogs:
There is no way that if, say, fellow (likely) ‘roid monster Mark McGwire were still playing baseball and came to Milwaukee with 712 home runs, that particular headline/story placement would happen. Indeed, I rather doubt that if Jeff Bagwell, about whom I haven’t heard any allegations of steroid abuse, were to suddenly come up with 263 home runs to reach 712 before Bonds came up with 3, then come to Milwaukee with his team, that particular headline/story placement would happen. For those who don’t know the color of McGwire’s and Bagwell’s skin, it’s about the same as Ruth’s was.
Wake me up when Bonds threatens to reach 733 or 755. Personally, I hope he either retires or suffers a career-ending injury before then because many of those homers, including his single-season “record” of 73, came while he was allegedly (IMHO, drop the “allegedly”) taking steroids. (Side note part 2; I also do not consider McGwire’s 70 homers in 1998 or Sammy Sosa’s 66 the same year as legitimate for the same reason. Of course, I’m not commissioner of baseball, so I can’t either strike them from the record books or append them with the asterisk that Roger Maris had for years and years.)
He whacks Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) but good with the Exxon tiger. Random quote from the piece – “According to Wisconsin Elections Board records, Doyle raised a total of $1.2 million from contributors between July 1 and December 31st of 2005, while spending only $421,000 to raise that money. Doyle’s $800,000 profit amounts to a 200% profit over those six months.”
Tucked at the end of the piece is something that is interesting, but got ignored by the Milwaukee/Madistan presstitutes. The Appleton Post-Crescent reports that Doyle has been using state planes for campaigning without reimbursing the state for the cost. The paper cites a 11/17/2003 trip to Milwaukee during which Doyle appeared at a campaign forum for then-Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards (D-North Carolina). The cost of the flight; $1,500. The amount the Doyle campaign reimbursed the state; $0.00 as Doyle flack Dan Leistikow called the Edwards event “absolutely” a public event, even though it was run by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Say, does anybody remember Doyle making hay out of McCallum’s use of the state airplane fleet? I sure do.
I might not be a professional political consultant, but waving off the little photo-op and waste of state Internet resources on a meaningless online petition really should have been a no-brainer. Oh well, time to deconstruct it, with some help from JSOnline’s Daywatch because I was a bit busy counter-protesting (side note-PSP ROCKS!!):
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle today called on federal lawmakers to cap oil company profits, return “excessive” oil profits to Americans and repeal $10 billion in tax breaks to oil companies, saying the moves would lower gas prices for struggling Wisconsin families.
Craps admit it; he’s a socialist. Of course, I knew it all along.
Moving to the “return” of “excessive” oil profits, how exactly is that going to happen? There’s no way of knowing how many miles somebody drove, even with intrusive vehicle emission inspections. Even if that could be determined, there’s no way that Craps and his merry band of ‘Rats would allow a proportionate share to be “returned” to owners of gas-guzzling SUVs. Indeed, the ‘Rat proposals for a windfall profits tax (already whacked by the pro, Brian Fraley) out there have the “excessive” oil profits going not to drivers, but to more gubmint spending.
Similarily, removing tax breaks would only further encourage the abandonment of American oil wells and foreign wells owned by the oil companies themselves in favor of buying oil from the likes of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Of course, since those revenues go in large part to enemies of the United States, the ‘Rats seem to be perfectly fine with that.
Doyle also announced a joint Web site with the state of Michigan,… (website removed, but it is a wisconsin.gov site) and urged residents of both states to sign an online petition urging President Bush and Congress to make the changes.
Craps just can’t stop spending our money on wasteful and worthless gestures. If Craps and Jennifer Granholm the Canuck want to lobby the feds, let them do it with their campaigns’ money, not the state treasuries.
“We are struggling here in Wisconsin as are people all over the country,” Doyle said at a news conference outside a BP service station in Brookfield where regular unleaded fuel was selling for $2.89 a gallon — about 62 cents higher than a year ago….
I was so hoping that Craps would show up in front of one of the 4 Mobil stations in Brookfield; I would have had to go out and get a video capture card just so I can add some visual to this. Let’s see; take away the 9.18% markup from the daily average terminal price mandated by the state at the pump mandated by the state (more on that in a bit), and that drops the price to $2.65/gallon. Take away the 3% markup mandated by the state at the terminal from that and the price falls to $2.57/gallon. Take away the $0.31/gallon in taxes levied by the state and the price falls to $2.26/gallon. I know, the stations and terminals do have to have some markup to stay in business, but that’s 63 cents in state-mandated costs, which is more than the increase over last year’s price.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that, by schlepping the 135 miles round-trip to Brookfield instead of finding a gas station near either the governor’s mansion or the Capitol building, he enriched the very oil companies he’s fighting against. Of course, knowing Craps, he probably had the tank topped off at Citgo so the money goes to his soulmate in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
…Doyle said he did not know at what dollar amount or percentage increase oil profits should be capped, saying he would leave that to Congress to sort out.
“Let them make decent profits,” Doyle said.
Time to bring back that 9.18% state-mandated markup to the debate. If a profit margin that starts with something less than a “9.” isn’t good enough for a gas station, it stands to reason that a profit margin that starts with a “9.” isn’t too good for ExxonMobil and company.
He also did not stake out a position on how excess oil profits should be returned to citizens.
I guess that if he did stake out a position, he would sound as stupid as his fellow ‘Rats, who would “return” the “excess” oil profits in the form of gubmint health care.
Doyle said he did not believe lowering Wisconsin’s gas tax would lower gas prices because he believed oil companies would raise prices to offset the reduced tax.
Typical socialistic lieberal – tax cut bad, tax hike good. I call bullshat part 1: Just who does Craps think pays those taxes? Hint; it isn’t ExxonMobil/BP/et al.
I call bullshat part 2: Back during the Algore Memorial Gas crisis of 2000, Illinois suspended collecting sales tax on gasoline sold there. Gas was that much cheaper on the other side of the toll booths.
He said he supports eliminating the state’s minimum gas markup but said he also doubted such a repeal would ease gas prices.
If he thought that cutting ExxonMobil’s/BP’s/et al’s profit margins would drive down prices, why won’t eliminating the minimum markup law?
Doyle accused oil companies of intentionally — and unpatriotically — raising prices to record levels after natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina “because they could.”
As an economist, Craps makes a bad trial lawyer. Oil and gasoline prices (as well as natural gas prices) are driven not by the oil companies, but by traders acting on market forces, both real and perceived. Since the petroleum markets operate at tight-supply/high-demand extreme edge of the market curve thanks to OPEC’s quota system, growing global demand, and the unwillingness of both the DemocRATs and RepubicRATs (as well as Sensenbrenner) to allow proper exploitation of American oil reserves through refusal of new drilling rights, the 26-year-and-growing moratorium on new refineries, and umpteen blends of Algore Memorial Gas, any disruption whether real or preceived has a magnified effect.
Of course, because we’re talking about a ‘Rat, the presstitutes will more than gladly try to ignore these holes. Heck, the Journtinel sure did. Only one small problem; that monopoly is gone, and the herd of sheeple who blindly swallow the ‘Rat/Presstitute line is shrinking.
(H/T – Chris)
JSOnline’s Daywatch is reporting that Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) will be appearing at a Brookfield gas station at 10 am this morning to announce a plan to limit oil company profits. Please tell me that it will be at one of Brookfield’s 4 Mobil stations; it would be fun to note that the state of Wisconsin mandates essentially the same profit margin (9.18% above that day’s average terminal price, unless that is less than 6% above what the station paid for it) for the station than ExxonMobil received last year (depending on the source, anywhere between 9 and 10%). Ah heck, I just noted it anyway. I just want the photo to go with it.
Brian Fraley points out that this goes against the May Day pro-illegal-invader boycott of commerce. Some days, Craps just can’t win. Hopefully, another one of those days will be November 7.
Revisions/extensions; multiple sources have differing profit margin numbers for ExxonMobil.
(H/T for the Robson e-mail – Owen)
For those of you disillusioned with the “Republican” Party of Wisconsin like me, it sometimes is helpful to remember what the DemocRAT Party of Wisconsin platform is. They’re brutally-honest in their belief that government must continue to grow faster than our ability to pay for it, and that taxes need to grow to match. Senate Minority Leader Judy Robson (D-Madison) articulates it so well in her Friday e-mail newsletter. That e-mail lends itself so well to fisking, I almost wish I had the whole thing instead of the part reprinted by Owen.
Dear Friend:
STOP THE TAPE! I’m surprised she isn’t using “Comrade” in her e-mails; it would fit so much better.
The good news in the Legislature this week was that the Republicans did not have enough votes to pass the original Taxpayer Deception Amendment in the Assembly.
I see the ‘Rats are honest about their belief that we don’t pay enough taxes, at least when they’re not up for re-election.
The bad news is that they mustered enough votes to pass a modified version of the amendment, one which writes rigid limits on state revenue growth into the constitution.
What does that mean for you and me? It means a huge shift in taxes to the property tax. Because the cost of state operations will grow faster than state revenue, the state will have to find places to scale back spending, and a prime target is state aid to communities and counties.
Allow me to explain something. Shifting the responsibility of raising the money to the entity that spends it will necessarily reduce the tax burden. First, it exposes just how much that entity is spending. Second, it costs money to transfer money from one government unit to another, even when it isn’t skimmed off illicitly. Once again, thank you ‘Rats for being honest in your belief that taxes aren’t too high and government isn’t too big.
As for the claim that the cost of state operations will grow faster than state revenue, thanks again, ‘Rats, for admitting your belief that a 5.13% growth in government just isn’t enough. Who here has had income growth average 5.13% lately?
Once again, I’ll point out that the filing deadline to replace those on my Rogues Gallery is July 11, 2006. The State Elections Board even has a helpful Ballot Access Checklist and Campaign Finance Checklist (I assume that, if you’re running to replace a RINO/RepubicRAT with a conserative, you won’t be needing the Campaign Finance Checklist for those applying for a Wisconsin Election Campaign Fund grant).
Round 1 – AJ Hawk – Mighty fine pick, especially since the Texans and Titans fouled up their higher picks.
Round 2 – Greg Jennings, Daryn Colledge – As things stand now, I would rather have not traded down and taken Chad Jackson. Of course, if they get a diamond in the rough with that extra 6th-round pick, I reserve the right to change my mind.. I would’ve liked Jackson instead of Jennings straight-up, but it was a 3rd-rounder instead of a 6th-rounder they got, and I like Spitz. I guess they’re looking at moving either Clifton or Tauscher inside, because Colledge would be a far better fit at tackle than guard (he’s simply too undersized to play inside).
Round 3 – Abdul Hodge, Jason Spitz – The linebacking corp is set for 2006 and beyond with Hodge, Hawk and Barnett. Spitz looks to be a nasty guard.
My overall take – I actually like this draft so far. Thompson’s been so busy with the trades, nobody kept it straight yesterday.
Cross-posted at The Wisconsin Sports Bar)
Revisions/extensions (12:34 pm 4/30) – The Headless Blogger points out I fouled up the trades. I should’ve known better than to trust the initial NFL.com reports without re-checking. D’OH!
Let’s see what else happened the 2+ weeks I semi-voluntatily took off:
I’m sure there’s more, but I can’t think of it.
As a public service for those of you living in a cave the last few days, Brett Favre announced that he will be back in the Green and Gold for one last season (deeply-saddening Wile E. Thompson, mud, and causing sports programming execs at Fox, NBC, Disney and the NFL to say, “Hallelujah!”). Not coincidentally, the following day, Charles Woodson, the best cornerback on the free-agent market, agreed to come to Green Bay for 7 years. Now all eyes are on the draft tomorrow, where the Packers are scheduled to pick 5th.
If Thompson doesn’t screw this up royally (either by now trading Favre trying to recreate Hersheal Walker or taking somebody other than the likes of AJ Hawk or Vernon Davis), I can actually see the Packers threatening to hit .500 and be in contention for the NFC North crown. If that’s the case, I’ll stop the Wile E. Coyote references.
Sorry about being absent the last few weeks. First, taxes got me, then allergy season kicked off with a bang. I think I finally stocked up on enough FIB pseudophedrine to see me through, though. In honor of the resounding “FUCK YOU!” delivered to us taxpayers by the RepubicRATs and RINOs of the Assembly, I have assembled a photo album of sorts. Remember these faces. Remember these names. Remember them well, especially on September 12.
First up, the RepubicRATs who can’t even stand a weak spending limit on just state gubmint: Â Â Â Â
Joan Ballweg
Robin Kreibich
Terri McCormick (who was hoping that the “R”PW would now back her with her true lieberal colors flying)
Lee Nerison
Alvin Ott
Jerry Petrowski
Next, the RINOs who think that local taxes aren’t high enough:
John Ainsworth
Sheryl Albers
Brett Davis
Stephen Freese
Curt Gielow
Eugene Hahn
J.A. Hines
Judy Krawczyk
Andy Lamb
Gabe Loeffelholz
Terry Moulton
Jeffrey Moursau
Terry Musser
Carol Owens
Mark L. Pettis
Debi Towns
John F. Townsend
Gregg Underheim
Karl Van Roy
David Ward
Steve Wieckert
Revisions/extensions: After reading Owen’s comments on the disaster that happened, I took Frank Lasee, Stephen Nass and Leah Vukmir off the rogues gallery. They recognized faster than I did what a complete disaster the WTRA (I’ll let you figure out what the “R” stands for – hint, it’s a 4-letter word) has become.
Joey has an “interesting” quote from an outstate Pubbie which goes a very long way in explaining certain actions by the RPW since 1998 –
First, this person called Southeast Republicans “nutso.”
Then, this representative declared, “There are three parties in this state. There are normal Republicans, normal Democrats, and Charlie Sykes Stormtroopers. He says jump, they ask ‘how high?'”
I humbly submit these as the differences between the 3 parties:
I’ll be back this afternoon to tie Tommy Thompson’s latest ruminations on running for governor again into this. A preview message for Mark Green; damn the “R”PW, full speed to starboard.
For those of you who can’t or won’t tune into your local TV or radio station to listen to the Brett Favre news conference at 7:30 am CDT in Mississippi (confirmed in Milwaukee – WTMJ-AM, WISN-AM and Channels 4, 6 and 12, and one of the ESPN family, likely ESPNews), I’ll bring it for you. The current odds in Vegas:
2-5 – He retires
9-1 – He’s back 1 more year
50-1 – He says, “Wile E. Thompson really is a suuuuuper genius.”
Revisions/extensions #1 – Fox6 is reporting that the presser is pushed back to 8 am CDT.
Revisions/extensions #2 (7:33 am 4/8) – Updated the list of stations covering,
Today’s Journal Sentinel finally highlights Fred’s instrumental role in the resignation of former Racine County Democrat Party Chair Kurt Vlach, but it still manages to miss the target. Let’s take this 2-paragraph extract as an example:
He used unnamed sources. He posted lewd photos. He let his opinion be known about what he believed was the unethical and unprincipled behavior of the Racine County Democratic Party chairman.
He used tools that most mainstream media steer away from, but that bloggers are now using with gusto.
Let’s take the CBS-led attempt to unseat President Bush in 2004. They used unnamed sources. They created false documents and presented them as legitimate. They let their opinions be known about what they believe to be the true enemy of America. I guess that “tools” sentence should undergo a ReWrite™ – He used tools that most mainstream left stream media steer away from unless targeting either Republicans or conservatives, but that bloggers are now using with gusto.
Similarily, the Journtinel decided to highlight only a portion of a quote from Steve Outing, a columnist with Editor and Publisher and himself a blogger, to make his words fit their anti-blogger agenda. Here is the full quote, with the part you missed if you didn’t read the whole story emphasized – “”Bloggers don’t have to operate by the same rules and can publish stuff that professional journalists say is just gossip. Later, what was dismissed as gossip really did turn out to be a legitimate story.” Oh, where did we see this before? It was Matt Drudge’s exposing of Newsweek‘s decision to spike the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski story.
Despite the anti-blogger bias I highlighted, the article is a good read. We “barbarians” are already beyond the gates. Not all of us may break stories like Fred, but we’ll hold everybody’s feet to the fire.
A day after No-Ethics Milwaukee County Board Chair Lee “Thug” Holloway got 4 of his cronies to starve the County Ethics Board of funding into the continuing prosecution of a 90-count indictment against him in the Finance Committee on an allegiance-line vote, the chair and vice-chair of the Ethics Board, John C. Carter and Maria Monreal Cameron, resigned in protest. Charlie has a mid-morning interview with Carter, a mid-morning interview with supervisor Roger Quindel (whose violent replacement on the Finance Committee allowed Thug Holloway to get away with this), and the text of the resignation letters over at Sykes Writes. Also, Brian Fraley has the best collection of Thug Holloway news and commentary around.
However, there is one more shot to keep this investigation alive. Our friends at Citizens for Responsible Government have announced a rally and fundraiser to continue the investigation into Holloway to happen at 6 pm Wednesday, April 12, at Serb Hall (S. 51st St. and W. Oklahoma Ave. in Milwaukee). They will have additional details at a press conference on Sunday, April 9, outside the County Courthouse. I’ll keep you posted.
It seems a few “interesting” things happened while I was taking an unplanned/unannounced “break”. Let’s see if I can come up with coherent, semi-fresh thoughts on a couple of them:
There’s a few more items that warrant their own posts, so I’ll be doing that.
This morning’s paper has the story of 2 guys who were awarded more than $385,000 from DaimlerChrysler for an oft-broken 2003 Dodge Viper, which went for about $80,000 new. Let’s review a few items from the story:
To wit, we have a pair of yahoos who pushed their car beyond its limit, almost certainly violated at least one part of their obligations under the warranty they had, and got a judge and jury to ignore that to give them one big payday. I sure hope the other car manufacturers were paying attention.
Coming hard on the heels of the Kansas Legislature’s override of their governor’s veto of concealed carry, Nebraska’s Legislature has passed a concealed-carry bill 32-12. Governor Dave Heineman said previously that he woudl sign it, making the veto-proof majority just icing on the cake. That leaves Wisconsin and Illinois as the 2 states where law-abiding citizens cannot defend themselves with weapons.
Assuming that Sgt. Schultz won’t reverse course and become a RepublicRAT next year, if we get Mark Green as Governor, we’ll join 48 other states in the land of sanity next year.
Yesterday, MMSD, The Crappy Water People™, dumped 800,000 gallons of partially-treated sewage into the lake from the Jones Island treatment plant. According to MMSD, the partially-treated sewage, which had the solids removed and was disinfected, flowed while gates were tested for an underground channel at the plant between 10:19 am and 10:53 am. A couple of questions:
Mark Green and Scott Walker will have a joint press conference at the Milwaukee headquarters of the RPW (7223 W. Greenfield Ave. in West Allis) at 3:15 pm today. They will be discussing the future of the governor’s race, and the Green and Walker teams are asking for a show of party unity. For those that can make it, they ask that you get there by 3 so the show can start on time.
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Unless you’ve been in a cave since yesterday morning, you know that Scott Walker dropped out of the governor’s race yesterday afternoon. That leaves Mark Green to take on Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale). I don’t think I’ve made it much of a secret that I supported Walker in the Republican nomination, and I am sad to see him drop out because of a combination of a lack of money and the RPW (and indeed, the RNC) standard operating procedure to back the least-conservative of multiple candidates at all costs (in the RPW’s case, even pulling the rug out from the conservative should he survive the party bosses’ attempts to rig the primary). In this specific case, other than Green being in the same back pocket of ADM that Doyle is, he appears to be not much less conservative than Walker. Further, I’m relieved that the money differential won’t be magnified by a bitter and expensive primary fight.
Tomorrow’s Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes (10 am, Channel 4 in Milwaukee) will be a much-watch as Charlie dumped the regularily-scheduled format for an interview with Walker. Judging from the inaugural podcast he and Jeff Wagner did, it will be must-see TV. I will try to live-blog it.
It will be good to still have an upstanding young man (Walker’s only 38) here in charge of Milwaukee County for at least the next 2 years instead of a thug like Lee Holloway, who, assuming Walker would have been elected governor, would have assumed the duties of county executive effective Walker’s swearing-in. He ruled out jumping into the Senate race against Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl.
Beyond this helping Green and hurting Doyle, who now must start “prematurely” spending his massive war chest funded by WEAC, the Indian casinos, the trial lawyers, Archer Daniels Midland, and everybody else that bought Wisconsin policy the last 3 years, there are some other winners and losers. Paul Bucher has to be wondering whether Milwaukee County Pubbies and conservatives will be voting in the Republican Attorney General primary (and presumably for him) or the Democratic Sheriff primary for David Clarke. Over on the Dem side of that race, it wasn’t a coincidence that the chorus of “Damn it”s from Madistan had a high-pitched tone; both Kathleen Falk and Peg Lautenschlager are sweating it out to see which one of them is deemed the weaker candidate by those of us in Milwaukee County (and perhaps elsewhere) interested in not seeing a Dem in that office next year and no longer with a very-vested interest in being on the Pubbie side of the primary.
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