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September 22, 2006

Who’s running Team Craps and DEB, Riley Coyote? – part 2

by @ 20:33. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/Ts – Aaron and Kathy)

Paul Bucher is proving himself to be every bit the bulldog, even to the last, as he announced that his office is launching an investigation into the coordination between Team Craps and the ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board that do not directly owe their continued state employment to Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale> in the latter’s highway robbery of Green’s election fund. Guess the DEB shouldn’t have done that meeting in Brookfield. As long-time Cheeseheads, they’re supposed to be smarter than Donovan “Vote twice like a ‘Rat” Riley; after all, Riley had the excuse of being a FIB at the time.

Equally not surprising, the other DA that Mike Ellis (RINO-useful in this case though) asked to look at this, Dane County DA Brian Blanchard, took a pass. I knew he would; he only persecutes enemies of the Madistan branch of the DPW.

Reaction from the Green Team:

GREEN BAY – Today Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher announced that he would open an investigation into the collaboration between Governor Jim Doyle’s campaign and the state Elections Board prior to its decision to retroactively change campaign finance rules to bolster the governor’s campaign. In response to the news, Mark Graul, campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, issued the following statement:

"Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported what all of us have long suspected – that Jim Doyle manipulated the state Elections Board to try and strengthen his floundering re-election campaign. This desperate and outrageous display of corrupting a state agency for political gain showed that the governor will ignore the rules to keep a grasp on power.

"The good news is that we have an opportunity to turn things around in Madison. We can reject Jim Doyle’s brand of politics, and embrace Mark Green’s hopeful vision for the future of our state – a vision of lower taxes, good paying jobs, educational opportunities and honest government."

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Damn, but I wish I had thought of this

by @ 8:40. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – The Blogfather)

The Coalition for America’s Families has launched a new web site documenting just how sleazy Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) is –

DoyleForSale.com

And yet another seam bursts on the USS Jim Doyle…

Almost lost in the shuffle… – SENTENCING UPDATE

by @ 7:49. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Former state procurement official Georgia Thompson, convicted of rigging a state travel contract to award it to a travel agency who gave Jim Doyle’s campaign donations, is to be sentenced this morning. JSOnline’s DayWatch reports that the feds are seeking 27 months in Club Fed, while Thompson’s lawyers (wishing they had Lynn Adelman, brother of the head of the company who was at the center of Wisconsin’s Travelgate) want only probation.

Hang ‘er high, Judge Rudolph Randa.

Revisions/extensions (11:28 am and 11:36 am 9/22/2006) – WTMJ has just reported that Georgia Thompson received 18 months in prison. Further updates from JSOnline’s DayWatch includes a $4,000 fine and an unspecified length of supervised release. Thompson remains free for at least 2 weeks while Randa considers her request to remain out while she appeals her conviction.

The Team Craps fix continues

by @ 7:07. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Elliot)

Somehow I don’t think that a “random” assignment of cases brought the Green challenge to the State Doylie Elections Board to Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess. After all, there’s this little tidbit in today’s Journal Sentinel story –

Doyle named Niess a judge in 2004.

No wonder why Team Craps is now going for the full-monty Grand Theft Courts.

On November 7, remember to say, “And all of Craps’ horseshit, and all of Craps’ men, couldn’t put the USS Jim Doyle back together again” as you vote for Mark Green, JB Van Hollen, and your local Legislative Pubbie.

Joke of the day

by @ 6:58. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

I won’t spoil silent E’s presentation, so go there, read it, and then add him to your blogrolls and feed readers if you haven’t already done so.

September 21, 2006

Doylie Electons Board highway robbery becoming Grand Theft Courts

by @ 17:13. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

You have to hand it to Team Craps for total chutzpah – JSOnline’s DayWatch is reporting that state Justice Department lawyers Michael Bauer, Christopher Blythe and Lara Sutherlin argued in court that the Green campaign should be forced to give back $1.26 million of the $1.3 million and be allowed to keep only the $43,128 they say state law allows any candidate committee to give a gubernatorial candidate.

For you budding (or recovering) lawyers out there, JSOnline happens to have the Team Craps brief, but not the Green Team’s ones. WisPolitics’ Courtwatch, however, comes through with the Green Team’s appeal as well as a supporting affadavit from the Green campaign treasurer. I don’t have the time at the moment to sift through all of that, but I will if anybody feels like commenting.

Ignoring the fact that, among other things, Tom Barrett transfered much more than $43,128 to his gubernatorial campaign from his congressional one without so much as a peep from the Doylies or anybody else, let’s see if Team Craps practices what they now preach.

Looking through the 2002 election cycle records at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, I seem to see donations totaling $190,000 from a “political/ideological” entity called the “Lawton Committee”. I can’t seem to find any information on this committee with either a Yahoo or Google search, but I do know that Barbara Lawton was his lieutenant governor running mate and in fact is the serving lt. gov. My best guess is that the “Lawton Committee” listed in the WDC report is the campaign committee of Barbara Lawton, and I don’t think the $43,128 limit just popped into state law in the last 4 years.

Golly; once again, it looks like Team Craps has stepped in it. Of course, they’re on friendly turf in Dane County, and they do have a Craps-stacked State Supreme Court (one that was left unchallenged by the “R”PW earlier this year).

Remember, I predicted the full monty grand theft back on September 6…

Here’s a bold prediction; whether the Craps strategy of trying to smear Green while starving his campaign of some funds works or not in the public arena, Craps will try to get his Doylie Elections Board to declare the other $800,000 Green transfered from his federal campaign "illegal" by early October, using the "justification" that federal law prohibits the transfer of state campaign funds.

I was slightly wrong on the timing (it’s only mid-September), the forum and the “justification”, but you have to give me credit for nailing the theft. As for the “remaining” $43,128, the Doylies will push to have that disappear in the form of “fines”.

Make this pic (borrowed from Patrick) happen; vote Mark Green Nov. 7

Who’s running Team Craps and DEB, Riley Coyote? (and an addition to the roll)

by @ 13:57. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

(H/T – Mike Huckleberry)

Mike Ellis, who I have little love for, noticed a little something about the State Doylie Elections Board’s kneecapping robbery of the Green campaign; namely, it happened in Waukesha County. Last I checked, Paul “The Marauder” Bucher was still DA there. Accordingly, Ellis has asked Bucher’s office to look into whether laws were broken by the Doylies. I don’t think the Doylies will come out in much better shape than Donovan “Vote twice like a ‘Rat” Riley.

For contributing “Riley Coyote” to the lexicon, silent E speaks just found its way onto the roll. Let’s make Doyle’s name mud-spelled backwards November 7.

Gov’s race – 9/21 update

by @ 8:30. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 – The MJS reports Doyle campaign lawyer Michael S. Maistelman told the 3 ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board whose jobs aren’t directly tied to Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) continued occupation of the governor’s mansion, “Even if this ends up in Court it is a PR victory for us since it makes Green spend money and have to defend the use of his Washington DC dirty money.” Further, they report that, contrary to earlier denials that Maistelman was working for the Doyle campaign, he was present at the August 30 meeting where the Doylies retroactively applied their rule to Mark Green to strip him of $486,000 that he had transfered to his state campaign from his federal campaign; and that Maistelman, in conjunction with Doyle campaign manager Dan Schooff, discussed possible penalties with the 3 “independent” ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board before they meted out their punishment revenge on Green.

I’m actually surprised that the Journal Sentinel took the time to dig this up and then reported it. Thank you, Team Craps, for proving just how sleazy you greedy, power-mad SOBs really are. If you doubt me, take a look at the copy of the Team Craps e-mails over at Boots and Sabers.
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Item #2 – Poll-a-copia time. Strategic Vision’s mid-September poll (9/15-9/17) (H/T – Kevin) shows some odd results; despite a 52% disapproval rating (up from 50% in August), Doyle stretches his lead from 45%-44% to 46%-42%. Meanwhile, Rasmussen (currently a “members-only” link) has some bad news for Team Craps (again, H/T – Kevin; his lead dropped from 49%-41% on August 10 to 47%-44% on September 17.

Could the Rasmussen/Zogby Interactive (I do not trust the self-identification method of that particular division of Zogby) trend of tightening be related to item #3?
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Item #3 – As predicted by me on September 6, Team Craps is going after some more of the money transfered from Green’s federal campaign. This time, they’re going after $48,000 that the Wisconsin Democracy claims violates the $10,000 limit. They claim that 30 donors who donated to Green’s federal campaign in 2003 and 2004, then later donated to Green’s gubernatorial campaign, illegally donated more than $10,000 to the Green gubernatorial campaign. Since the Journtinel doesn’t refresh your memory on what the SEB told Green when he transfered the money (again, I’ll point out he did so before they adopted the rule they later applied retroactively), I will – any money that entered the Green federal campaign on or after January 1, 2005, would be counted against that $10,000 limit.

I wonder if the Craps campaign will be suggesting punishments this time too.

September 19, 2006

Why a GOP majority still matters

by @ 15:08. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

For those of you who don’t subscribe to OpinionJournal’s Political Diary, you missed an outlining of some of the reasons why the ‘Rats cannot be allowed back in power by Rep. Paul Ryan. It deserves to be archived somewhere, and since for reasons beyond my comprehension the WSJ doesn’t archive any of the Political Diary, I may as well give you a reason to not miss tomorrow’s edition:

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan dropped by our offices yesterday with an answer to the question: Why not cheer for Republicans to go down to defeat this November? Maybe a period in the wilderness is exactly what the GOP needs to rediscover its soul as the party of conservative reform.

Mr. Ryan says it’s a seductive thought. A young conservative serving his fourth term, he hasn’t lost sight of the reason he’s in Washington in the first place — to reform the unsustainable federal entitlement programs and bring them to heel. His name is on the best-known plan to introduce private accounts into the Social Security system.

But Mr. Ryan says the GOP’s “brush with death” this year may be sufficient to slap some sense into it. Handing Members “walking around money” to spend on pork barrel projects for their districts “didn’t work,” he says. Republicans now find their majority threatened by voters irate over their excessive spending in pursuit of permanent incumbency. One hopeful sign is the earmark reform enacted by the House last week. Under pressure from Mr. Ryan and a handful of others, the Appropriations Committee accepted new rules that require Members to put their names next to earmarks they insert in spending bills.

Mr. Ryan didn’t spend a lot of time wargaming the GOP’s chances this year. His own seat is safe for now: Five liberal Democrats battled for the privilege of taking him on, but the winner — with a mere 25% of the vote — was the same 66-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon Mr. Ryan’s already beaten twice. But Mr. Ryan says conservatives should think twice before concluding there’s nothing at risk in locking the GOP out of power. The window of opportunity for serious entitlement reform will only be open until the baby boomers become entrenched in retirement. With the first wave of boomers now entering their 60s, time is running out, he says.

September 17, 2006

Milwaukee turnout mixup computer’s fault

by @ 9:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

And you can’t blame this one on Diebold. The city did its own programming, and most of the battiest of the moonbats still lost.

After spending the last couple of days counting the number of ballots cast in Tuesday’s election, the Milwaukee Election Commission announced Saturday that 46,413 ballots were found, as opposed to initial claims that 80,064 ballots were cast. This more-or-less jives with the MEC explanation that ballots cast at polling places hosting multiple wards were counted multiple times in the total count but not in any individual race. The “more-or-less” comes in because 101 ballots that were counted at a North Side ward on election night disappeared and another 34 estimated by the explanation fell through the cracks someplace. I want an explanation because there should not have been a variance of a single ballot, much less 0.3% of them (which is roughly what President Bush lost Wisconsin by in 2004, and much higher than what he lost Wisconsin by in 2000).

While I don’t think that failed ‘Rat sheriff candidate Vince Bobot, the only guy not satisfied with the results, will see any movement in a recount of the ‘Rat sheriff primary, I invite him to have a full recount of that race. Maybe he and his fellow ‘Rats will finally see the light on election reform (yeah right; the only way that Bobot would have won is if the elections were even dirtier).

September 14, 2006

Tuesday election screw-ups

by @ 7:39. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 from the Journal Sentinel –

The city of Milwaukee reports tens of thousands more voters than votes cast. ‘Tis extremely strange, but not exactly surprising considering that there were races in both parties. Question; did anybody consider counting up the spoiled ballots where there was not a “corrected” ballot cast? This bears watching.

More-troubling is the continuing existence of the “Philadelphia” factor – several wards with over 100% turnout in an election where there was an alleged citywide turnout of around 25%. Can someone tell me why we still let people register at the polls the day of the election?

Item #2 (also from the JS) –

Waukesha County all screwed up. The worst screw-ups were in the hotly-contested 97th Assembly District, where Chris Lufter was initially declared the winner, only to lose after the ballots from the city of Waukesha (home of Comrade Nelson) were recounted.

Other snafus included the complete failure of the new touch-screen machines in the city of Waukesha, and incompatibilities between the format of the results from touch-screen machines in 2 of the municipalities and those from touch-screen machines in the rest of the county resulting in no online results on the county’s web site.

A picture is worth 1,000 words

by @ 7:19. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Found on the front page of the Metro section in this morning’s Journal Sentinel, as part of this story on the attorney general’s race….


Journal Sentinel photo by Benny Sieu (9/13/2006)

Remember, Jim “Craps” Doyle remains under investigation by both the US Attorney’s office (Eastern District of Wisconsin) and the state Department of Justice (headed by the state attorney general, an office Kathleen Falk is running for) for multiple “irregularities” involving campaign finances.

Expect more of these pictures, as the person who hopes to be the official Craps whitewasher signalled that she and Craps plan on many more joint appearances.

September 13, 2006

Primary election post-mortem

by @ 9:22. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

Selected short-takes from selected races (edited 6:20 pm 9/13/2006):

  • Attorney General – It will be JB Van Hollen (60%-40% over Paul Bucher thanks to a second mortgage, the Clarke Effect, and the outstate-vs-SE-Wis factor) versus Kathleen Falk (53%-47% over incumbent Peg Lautenschlager despite losing Dane County by roughly 10 points). Dennis York notes that it is now open season on Jim “Craps” Doyle at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Keg best hurry to fill her license because the race is now between Craps’ handpicked candidate and somebody who saw nothing wrong with Craps in his 5 years as US Attorney for the part of Wisconsin that includes his residence.
  • US Senate (D) – There are 51,000 pothead non-basketball-fan moonbats in Wisconsin.
  • 8th Congressional – There’s going to be a LOT of money tossed at John Gard (who waxed Terri McCormich 68%-32% in the Pubbie primary) and Deaniac Steve Kagen (who got a plurality in a 3-way ‘Rat race). I do note that the Pubbie primary drew about 3,600 more voters (56,400 to 52,800), which would suggest a 51.6%-48.4% margin in favor of Gard in November.
  • 7th Senate (D) – No wonder why the ‘Rats drew the district the way they did, connecting Oak Creek to UWM via the Jones Island Sewage Plant (irony not intended by the ‘Rats, I’m sure), and why the ‘Rats oppose any efforts to either enforce existing vote-fraud laws or make them tougher – 3,208 out of 12,194 participants wanted a ‘Rat who votes twice like a ‘Rat despite the fact that said ‘Rat (Donovan Riley) withdrew from the race and faces disqualification from further consideration for public office if he’s convicted on charges he voted twice like a ‘Rat. What’s worse is that a solid number of those that voted for incumbent Jeff Plale did so because they crossed over to the ‘Rat primary as part of the Clarke Effect. I shudder to think what would have happened if Scott Walker had stayed in the governor’s race and Clarke had not decided to run as a “‘Rat”.
  • Milwaukee County Sheriff (D) – David Clarke can rest easy after his 2nd party-raiding gamble. Because Milwaukee County conservatives were pretty much happy with either Van Hollen or Bucher, and because Walker pulled out of the governor’s race, enough of them raided the ‘Rat primary to cause the Clarke Effect elsewhere on the ballot and hold off union toadie and multiple-time-loser Vince Bobot (I remembered his disastrous mayoral run; I didn’t know he also got aced out of a Milwaukee aldermanic run until last night’s Drinking Right).
  • Milwaukee County DA (D) – Without access to Milwaukee County-only numbers in the AG’s race, I can only speculate this is the reason why Falk won – the 20,000 (35%) that voted for Larraine McNamara-McGraw, the candidate that made E. Michael McCan’t look like a marauding prosecutor and ideological soulmate to Falk. Again, I shudder to think what this would have been without the Clarke Effect, not that I think that John Chisholm will be much better than Mac-Mac or any better than the guy who hand-picked him as his successor, E. Michael McCan’t.

    Update (6:20 pm 9/13/2006) – Brian Fraley dug up the county-by-county results, and Katty’s victory in Milwaukee County was only a shade over 8,000. Keg carried Dane County by 10,000.

  • 23rd Assembly (R) – Name recognition is almost everything; ex-WTMJ weatherman Jim Ott doubled up John Wirth
  • 29th Assembly (R) – The reason why I said “almost”; John Murtha took 61% in a 3-way race. Guess the voters didn’t confuse this Murtha with the traitor from Pennsylvania.
  • 97th Assembly (R) – Career pols usually beat career activists, and this was no different. Bill Kramer beat Chris Lufter 55%-45%.
  • 98th Assembly (R) – Career pol part 2 – Ex-Sensenbrenner aide Rich Zipperer took 55% in a 3-way race.
  • Connecticut Senate primary (“R”) – The “R”NC, “R”SCC, and President Bush decided to reinforce failure (see Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords-2000 and Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter-2004) by successfully backing lieberal Linc Chafee Dish over moderately-conservative Steve Laffey. The DNC celebrated as they don’t have to spend any money in Connecticut to get a lieberal, and with an expected Leaping Linc Leap should the Senate approach 50-50, they now only need to gain 4 seats to recreate power-“sharing” and 5 to deliver Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid.

If I ignored your race, I apologize. I can only follow so many races.

September 6, 2006

Craps must go – Volume XXX (or something like that)

by @ 18:18. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

The campaign of Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) released a TV ad today that claims that the $486,000 that the State Doylie Elections Board ordered Republican opponent Mark Green to divest himself was was raised “illegally”. Really? Let’s take a look at the facts:

  • At the time the funds were raised for Green’s federal Congressional campaign, state laws did not apply for two reasons – federal laws superceded state laws, and the money was raised for a federal campaign. There are no credible allegations that so much as $1 violated federal campaign finance laws.
  • Both at the time those funds were raised and at the time Green transfered the funds to his gubenartorial campaign, the status of state law was that funds raised legally under federal laws for a federal campaign could be transfered to a state campaign with no restrictions. Specifically, in 2001, the State Elections Board (pre-Craps) ruled that, as long as no federal laws were broken in the raising of the transfered funds, no state laws were considered to be broken.
  • It took all 4 DemonRAT members of the Doylie Elections Board, including a member whose position on the board is directly tied to Craps’ continued occupation of the governor’s mansion, to first change the rule after the action occurred, and then against the advice of the board’s legal counsel, apply it retroactively.

The Doylies are far more brazen than the McShame/Slimeroad crowd. At least when they neutered the First Amendment in order to protect lieberals and incumbents on the federal level, they didn’t apply their rules to that election cycle, much less to a time period before they could get the rules changed to benefit themselves.

Now, let’s take a look at the pre-primary campaign finance reports for Green and Craps (courtesy WisPolitics). Do note that this doesn’t reflect the highway robbery of the $486,000 from Green’s campaign, but let’s roll with it anyway, rounding each number to the nearest $1,000 (which will introduce some rounding errors). Craps started the summer with $5,176,000 in the bank, raised $494,000, spent $1,622,000, and ended up with $4,047,000 in the bank. Green started with $3,170,000 in the bank, raised $1,388,000, spent $838,000, and ended up with $3,720,000 in the bank.

Green entered the home stretch with a better-than-2-to-1 fundraising37 advantage (this during the Summer of Extreme Craps ads), and (at least before the DEB raid) a deficit of only $327,000 (or less than half his summer fundraising advantage and an 8% deficit to Craps). Even factoring in that raid, he’s still less than his summer fundraising advantage behind ($813,000).

Here’s a bold prediction; whether the Craps strategy of trying to smear Green while starving his campaign of some funds works or not in the public arena, Craps will try to get his Doylie Elections Board to declare the other $800,000 Green transfered from his federal campaign “illegal” by early October, using the “justification” that federal law prohibits the transfer of state campaign funds. THIS CANNOT STAND!

September 2, 2006

Ask Egg, Vol. 1

by @ 6:59. Filed under Ask Egg, Politics - Wisconsin.

With all the bad news the ‘Rats suffered this week, you would have thought they would have asked an advice columnist before doing their business. Oh well, let’s set the DeLorean for before the ‘Rats did their bad news, pretend that I’m in the business of providing free advice to ‘Rats, and roll with it…

Letter #1 –

Dear Egg,

I’m a retiree who, for inexplicable reasons, fled Chicago. Now, I’ve got these moonbats trying to tell me to do a Loserman to a state Senator and use the slogan, “A ‘Rat who votes like a ‘Rat.” There is, however, a slight problem. They don’t know that I really DO vote like a ‘Rat, going so far as to vote twice for Al Gore in November, 2000. I can’t find my lucky coin, so help me decide.

– Conflicted in Cudahy

Dear Conflicted,

Where did you say you double-voted? Looks like you picked the wrong county to do half of your double-voting. Not only is Paul Bucher a charge-’em-all type of DA, he’s in a hotly-contested primary for AG. It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie and let the clock run out on any potential charges. Besides, Plale sacrificed most of his principles from when he was an Assemblyman.

Regards,
-Egg

Letter #2 –

Dear Egg,

I only have two qualifications for attorney general: I’m extremely soft on crime, and I didn’t crash a state-owned car while drunk. I tried to keep the campaign clean and run on my soft-on-crime record, but I haven’t picked up any traction. I’ve even started to allude to my primary opponent’s misadventure on Hwy 151, and that hasn’t helped. Should I go completely on the attack?

– Batty in Dane County

Dear Batty,

Keep on doing what you’re doing. The ‘Rat primary is dominated by the soft-on-crime types, and you are undeniably the softest-on-crime candidate ever to run. If you’re not successful, you’ll have let that bucket of slime out in the open. It’s no longer 1988, where the only source of “news” is your party’s official mouthpiece, so you ‘Rats can’t expect to repeat the Horton smear history.

Best of luck, at least in September.
-Egg

Letter #3 –

Dear Egg,

I am truly desperate. I spent the last month alone on the airwaves, trying to paint my opponent as too extreme. However, with one commercial, he completely neutered all my efforts. I do have a plan to shut up his campaign for the next two weeks, but it involves getting my State Elections Board to apply a rule change I shoved through to a time period when it was still only under consideration, and get them to ignore that, until the middle of July, it had been suspended by the Legislature. The SEB lawyer, who I haven’t bought, says I can’t do it, but I really need to slime my opponent to get the bloodhounds off my stench. Should I go for it?

-Desperate in Madistan

Dear Desperate,

You know the law; you used to be Attorney General. It won’t survive a legal challenge, especially considering that your advantage on the Supreme Court would have to recuse herself because she appoints a member of the board. Morever, it will look exactly like what it is, a craven, partisan, and desperate attempt to rig the election in your favor. Don’t do it!

Enjoy retirement,
-Egg

Letter #4 –

Dear Egg,

My voting record is a mess. I managed to convince the Milwaukee County DA to ignore records that say I voted twice in two different municipalities in November 1996 and state that the records are a mess without even having to get my dad, who has the same name as I do, state for the record that it was him and not me that voted in one of those places. That hasn’t dissuaded some of my critics, who have called into question where I voted in September 1998. I housesat for my dad at that time, the records say that he voted there, and I voted in the other city. The thing is, I didn’t vote in the city the records say I voted in that election. Should I roll the dice again, claim that the poll workers got it wrong once again, and get the city clerk to alter the record to remove my name from the roll that it was on?

Before you answer, remember that the same DA is still around a bit longer, and my party controls both the AG’s office and the SEB.

– Sweating in Tosa

Dear Sweating,

Leave sleeiping dogs lie, and keep your mouth shut. Even though the statute of limitations on vote fraud in the 1998 election has passed, it just wouldn’t look good to bring it up again by saying you didn’t vote in Tosa. It’s a lot easier to get people to accept that the election workers made one mistake than it is to get them to accept the election workers made three.

Morever, even though the DA is and will be a no-charge DA, having the voting record changed is a felony. You can’t count on your party holding onto the AG’s office, and since it was a US House and US Senate primary, there just might be a federal “hook” to get US Attorney Steve Biskupic involved. Trust me, you don’t want him sniffing around.

Remember, silence is golden.
-Egg

You know, I should miss a few days of blogging more often ;-)

August 21, 2006

Still don’t want to build a fence?

by @ 16:00. Filed under Immigration, Politics - National, War on Terror.

Cybercast News Service is running with a story about Texas border-county sheriffs finding evidence of Arabs and Iranians swimming the Rio Grande, often with the help of drug cartels and the Mexican Army.

Guess it’s time to renew my call to militarize the border, with shoot-to-kill orders given to the troops. If the Mexicans have a problem with that, roll south and remind them exactly what happened 160 or so years ago.

Poll-a-copia

by @ 11:31. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

In the last 5 days, 3 entities have released polls on the governor’s race (listed in order of dates taken, hat-tips to Kevin and Peter for finding these first):

  • August 10 – Rasmussen – Doyle 49%, Green 41% (Doyle gained 2 points since the July Rasmussen poll, Green held steady, and the 3-month rolling average remained Doyle +6%). Rasmussen notes a certain lack of “loyalty” for Green among Pubbie voters, but without a breakdown of where that lack of loyalty is, I can’t agree with Kevin’s analysis that it’s Belling telling us SE Wisconsin Stormtroopers to not vote for him. It could just as easily be SW Wisconsin RINOs thinking that Green is too much of a conservative.
  • August 11-13 – Strategic Vision – Doyle 45%, Green 44% (both candidates improved 2 points since the July Strategic Vision poll, Doyle’s disapproval at 50%). Strategic Vision has always been much more favorable to the Pubbies in this race, though you can hardly consider this a conservative-friendly poll; RINOs take the top 3 spots in the straw poll for the 2008 Pubbie nomination.
  • August 12-14 – Research 2000 for WISC-TV – Doyle 48%, Green 38% (no previous polls to compare to and no numbers other than what WISC decided to feed us). Most-noteworthy of those limited numbers is that 34% of the respondents had no opinion of Green.

Before Xoff and the rest of you Doylies break out the champagne, do take a couple of notes:

  • All 3 of these polls were finished just before Green finally got on the TV airwaves, but after a round of Doyle TV ads and several rounds of Doylie TV ads.
  • There has yet to be a major poll that puts Doyle at or above 50%.

I strongly suspect that this is the high point of the Doyle campaign, now that new polls will start reflecting the Green Team’s on-air response. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next Strategic Vision poll has Green up, with Rasmussen reducing Doyle’s lead to 4 points or less.

In short, the election will turn on what close Wisconsin elections have turned on the last several election cycles – whether the Pubbies can turn out enough enough voters to overcome the ‘Rat vote fraud (or conversely, whether the ‘Rats can manufacture enough votes to overcome the Pubbie turnout).

August 18, 2006

The last NSA intercept

by @ 6:37. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

The following is a NSA intercept, in progress as word got to the agency that a Carterista lawgiver/warlord-in-black decided that such intercepts were no longer necessary only a few days after such intercepts were instrumental in stopping the planned bombing of a bunch of UK-to-US airliners. It was handed to me already translated from the original Arabic:

UAMV #1 – Unidentified Arabic Male Voice #1, originating somewhere in South Asia
UAMV #2 – Unidentified Arabic Male Voice #2, originating somewhere in the United States

UAMV #1 – Hello, al-Zawahiri residence, Ayman speaking
UAMV #2 – It’s so good to hear your voice again, dear leader. I have good news to…
UAMV #1 – Achmed von Muhammad, how many times did I tell you to not call me at home? Don’t you know that the American NSA is trying to find you operatives and me?
UAMV #2 – But that’s just the thing. There’s this Carter-appointed lawgiver-in-black, Allah praise the Peanut Farmer, that just stopped the NSA from trying to find us. Thanks to the indidel wench Anna Diggs Taylor, they can’t trace any more phone calls that have an American component without a FISA warrant, and with our allies on the FISA court blocking the attempts at warrants that actually target us, we’re in the clear.
UAMV #1 – Allah be praised. May he give me Taylor as one of my virgins in Paradise. She probably can’t handle the action, but there will be 71 more for me to break in. We’ll have to start routing all our communications through the Great Satan. The infidel Karl Marx was right; the West will give us all the tools we need to destroy them.
UAMV #2 – May Allah clone Taylor so all my 72 virgins are her after I do my part in Operation Final Jihad. Now, let’s get down to business. Most of our preparations for Operation Final Jihad are ready. Did you want to review the methods, targets, and precise timing one more time?
UAMV #1 – Certainly, now that the American pigs can’t trace…
(Transcript ends abruptly as the team monitoring this call get the word they can’t continue)

NSA Technician – What the hell? We were just about to get the goods on stopping a major attack on us
NSA Lawyer – I know, but you heard the judge. We can’t do this anymore. Make sure you erase the tape as well, because we can’t use anything from it thanks to the lack of a warrant.
NSA Technician – Damn it.

August 14, 2006

The Green Team is (almost) finally on the air

by @ 17:36. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Mash here for the first extreme commercial, set to hit Wisconsin’s airwaves tomorrow.

For those that doubted that the ‘Rats are the Party of Fraud™…

by @ 17:21. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Revisions/extensions (11:28 am 8/15) – Jim McGuigan has raised some serious questions about the veracity of the Sullivan report. I am looking into this, and hope to have the original voter registration information, specifically from Whitefish Bay, by the end of the week. Once I do, I will scan that, without any enhancements, into a file and go from there.

We have a pair of multiple voters seeking office under the DPW banner. I’m sure you know all about Donovan Riley, who was imported from Illinois by the moonbats who felt that Jeff Plale’s conversion to hard-core lieberalism wasn’t complete enough, voted twice in the 2000 fall primary, and basically laughed it off. Who you may not know about (if you don’t read Boots and Sabers, that is) is the saga of James O. Sullivan, who the ‘Rats hope unseats Tom Reynolds. He did the same thing 4 years earlier. You’ll have to forgive the FIB for not realizing a few things that Sullivan knew all about:

  • Keep your fraud in Milwaukee County. Sullivan did his personal fraud-for-Clinton campaign in Whitefish Bay and Wauwatosa, communities mis-served by E. Michael McCan’t, a DA who never met a political corruption case he would pursue. Riley chose to do his Wisconsin half of his personal fraud-for-Algore campaign in Oconomowoc, which is served by a hang-’em-high DA, Paul Bucher (who has to be hitting his knees thanking God for this plum case right now). Bucher isn’t wasting any time in launching an investigation.
  • Don’t cross state lines, especially if your federal candidate loses – Once again, Sullivan didn’t leave Milwaukee County. Riley spread his scheme across two states, and the guy he committed fraud for lost the Presidential election. Crossing state lines easily opens up the federal hooks, and because George Bush won instead of Algore, there are pit bulls in the Milwaukee and Chicago US Attorney’s offices.
  • Let the statute of limitations run out before your scheme is discovered, just in case the prosecution situation changes between the time you commit the fraud and the time it is discovered. I’m not positive on the federal statute of limitations, but the state has a 6-year one. It’s been just short of 10 years since Sullivan committed his fraud, but less than 6 years since Riley committed his.

Of course, there is one thing or two that neither Sullivan nor Riley counted on; the rise of blogs and the anger of informed voters. I have another reason to jump on the far side of the primary, because as much as I’ve called Plale “East Side”, he’s nowhere near as bad as Riley (and thanks to gerrymandering, there’s no way a Pubbie is taking a district dominated by UWM and a couple of union towns in Cudahy and South Milwaukee). Meanwhile, folks on the west end of the county (which will include my sister in a couple weeks) will have to wait until November to hold Sullivan accountable by denying him the state Senate.

August 11, 2006

Craps protects ADM – again

by @ 12:35. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/Ts – Charlie and Dennis York as I try to catch up on the news of the week)

Shortly after his Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection threatened to apply Wisconsin’s gasoline Minimum Markup Law (the one that mandates a station charge the higher of 9.18% above the average terminal price or 6% above what the station paid) to a chain of stations selling E-85 gasoline, Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) ordered that the state no longer harass those selling corn-a-hole-blended fuels (which appears to apply to both E-85 and E-10). A few random observations:

From the original Duluth News Tribune story via Charlie:

Wisconsin Consumer Protection investigators launched a probe into Badger’s fuel prices and found E-85 selling for just over $2 a gallon.

Based on a formula, the investigators said the price should have been $1 more.

Surprise, surprise, surprise. Isn’t that what I’ve been saying for a while? CBOT no longer provides live quotes for corn-a-hole online (gee, I wonder if I had something to do with that :-) , but their latest weekly chartbook (as of the close of business last Wednesday) had ethanol futures settling above $2.50/gallon through the October contracts. By comparison, gasoline futures settled yesterday under $2/gallon on NYMEX, while reformulated gas (the more-plentiful East Coast version at least) futures settled just over $2/gallon (depending on the month, $.04-$.12/gallon over the good stuff).

From Craps’ press release (linked above):

The minimum markup law, passed in the 1930s, sets a minimum price at which motor fuels can be sold in Wisconsin, but makes no distinction between fuel derived from petroleum and fuel derived from ethanol. Governor Doyle said this has the effect of artificially inflating the cost of ethanol blended fuels such as E-85 and E-10. Ethanol is selling wholesale at $1.37 a gallon (accounting for a federal ethanol tax credit), while the price of petroleum is $2.60.

Like Dennis, I have a few questions:

  1. How much more of a tax break is Big Corn-A-Hole (i.e. ADM) getting than Big Oil? Hint, Big Corn-A-Hole gets better than a 50% tax break.
  2. Why did the Legislature in the 1930s and governors up until The Bought-And-Paid-For One not make a distinction between corn-a-hole fuel and petrol? Could it be that until Craps came along, Big Corn-A-Hole couldn’t find somebody who could be bought so easily?
  3. How much would it cost me to have the speed limit raised to, say 110, so it doesn’t take me 5 1/2 hours to get from Superior to Milwaukee?

Of course, what else should I expect from the guy who threatened Big Oil if they ever passed on the true costs of reformulated gas (which then and now contains corn-a-hole) to only those who are forced to buy it? Should I have expected any different from the guy who felt the state Constitution didn’t apply to him when it came time to pay off the Potawatomi and the Ho-Chunk (who bought the biggest position change from him)?

August 8, 2006

The 5-ring circus known as the 2006 Wisconsin Senate race

by @ 6:00. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. Even though steveegg isn’t here, through the magic of WordPress and a helpful Badger Carnival creator, we have a Carnival post, even if it does suck because it was pumped into the pipeline on a keyboard broken by repeated crashes by a tired forehead.

The Senate race just isn’t getting the attention or respect it deserves. Frankly, it deserves no respect, but it does need some attention. Let’s bring in Michael Buffem….

In the gray corner, weighing in at no accomplishments in 3 terms in the Senate, a man whose idea of campaigning is to buy a spot in the NBA playoffs once every 6 years, Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl.

In the red-and-blue corner, weighed down by a sexual abuse allegation that, despite being filed in December, only came to light after nobody else showed up at the “R”PW headquarters to try to carry the RINO banner, the Rodney Dangerfield of Wisconsin politics, Robert “The Lawyer” Lorge.

In the Commie red corner, and the first challenger for Nobody’s Senate seat, knocked down by Madison police for attempting to gather signatures after hours, sponsored by the KOmmies and dope-smokers nationwide, Ben “Potted Plant” Masel.

In the other red corner (Oh, that’s green? I can’t tell the difference), carrying the water of the battiest of the moonbats, Rae Voegler.

Skydiving his way directly into the general election, stupidly refusing to accept the benefits of a straight-party ballot, Ben “Don’t call me the other one” Glatzel.

When the bell rings, the man in charge will be Kevin Kennedy. For the tens in attendance, the hundreds that give a damn, and the millions that will vote anyway, let’s get ready to rrrrrumbllllllllllle!

August 1, 2006

The Senate finally supports a bit of additional drilling

by @ 20:23. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Fred)

It’s a case of good/bad/ugly news:

The good – The Senate voted to open up 8.3 million acres of the central Gulf of Mexico to new oil development by a vote of 71-25.

The bad – It must now be reconciled with a House measure that opens up additional land off both coasts to oil development.

The ugly – Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) supported both of his natural constituencies in voting against this.

July 26, 2006

It’s official; the Craps tax “freeze” sublimated right before our eyes

by @ 11:06. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance has the details on the municipal level. To wit:

– Among the municipalities with a population of at least 2,000 (230 total), despite the Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi) 2% tax “freeze”, property taxes increased 4.1% in fiscal year (FY) 2006 (2005-2006 on your calendar), the same as the average between FY2002 and FY2005. Throwing in the tiny communities kept the FY2006 increase at 4.1% and raised the average FY2002-FY2005 increase to 4.3%.
– 86 of those “large” communities raised those taxes higher in FY2006 than in FY2005 (when there was no Craps anti-Freeze).
– Local spending in the “large” communities increased by an annual average of 4.3% between FY2000 and FY2004.
– Local debt in the “large” communities increased by an annual average of 6.9% during that same time-frame.

Meanwhile, neither inflation nor compensation has kept up with any aspect of government taxation or spending over that time. Between 2000 and 2005, inflation in the Midwest was an annual average of 2.41%. Over that same time, compensation in the Milwaukee-Racine area went up an annual average of 3.48%.

Tell me again, members of the Party In Government, why we don’t need a property tax freeze.

Will the last person out of Wisconsin please tell We Energies to turn out the lights.

Revisions/extensions (11:19 am 7/26) – Forgot to mention all of those unelected taxing authorities, like MMSD and MATC, that weren’t even part of the Craps’ anti-freeze. Throw those in, and the news gets worse.

July 24, 2006

Road builders the latest to buy Craps

by @ 6:34. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

This morning’s Journtinel reports that executives with HNTB gave Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) $17,684. I suspect that it’s for future considerations because their second-biggest payday (a no-bid $685,000 contract to build mchange.org) came before Craps came to town, and their biggest (co-design of the Marquette Interchange) straddled the timeline.

Oh, and this fresh $17,000+ comes less than a year after the #2 official at WDOT held a highly-questionable barbeque fundraiser for Craps that HNTB officials attended.

Revisions/extensions (1:36 pm 7/24) – Brian reminds us that while the original $600,000 contract was indeed approved under the McCallum administration, it was under the Craps administration that gave final approval to the overrun-plagued site.

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