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March 1, 2006

I didn’t know E. Michael McCan’t cloned himself

by @ 12:19. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Fred has all the sordid details on Jefferson County DA E. Michael McCan…er, David Wambach refusal to prosecute anybody at Voces de la Frontera for invading the Stepp property in an attempt to pressure state senator Cathy Stepp into support illegal invaders getting drivers’ licenses. He even dug up the letter that Wambach sent to Racine County DA E. Michael Mc…er, Michael Nieskes (there I go again), who punted the case over to him. Despite the admission that Christine Neumann-Ortiz did in fact commit a crime, disorderly conduct, Wambach refused to press even that charge.

Yep; Stepp was right when she said, “The reality is appearing to be that illegal immigrants certainly DO have rights in this country–rights that aren’t even extended to LEGALLY elected officials in this country. They have been passively granted the right to intimidate, harass, frighten and bully people into changing laws to suit their taste.” (also courtesy RDW).

You would think that at least one of the presstitutes would be interested in this, but Fred has all the exclusives.

February 21, 2006

From Milwaukee-ID10T – Memo to Big Gov’t Politicians

by @ 6:59. Filed under Politics.

Clint reads and translates the Declaration of Independence for the RINOs and Liberals. Go, read, and then add him to your blogroll and must-read list (for some reason, Blogger is fouling up his Atom feed, so I can’t add him to my news reader). I can’t do it nearly as well as he does.

Thug Holloway trying to eliminate the chance for a “for-cause” removal as well

by @ 6:03. Filed under Law and order, Politics, Thug Holloway.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that ethically-challenged Milwaukee County Board chair Lee “Thug” Holloway is going to try to cajole 6 fellow supervisors into voting to deny additional funding to the Milwaukee County Ethics Board for the prosecution of a 90-count civil ethics violations complaint against him (to allow the Ethics Board to spend additional money from the county contingency fund, the County Board must approve the request by a 2/3rds vote). The gist of the complaint is that Holloway used his position as a supervisor to vote to approve contracts with the defunct Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee (OIC) while receiving $165,000 from OIC for a property he owned that never changed hands, with many counts alleging that Holloway failed to disclose ownership of that and other properties. If convicted, Holloway can be removed from not only his chair position, but from office entirely.

I don’t often praise John Weishan, best known before this year as being ousted County Board chair Karen Ordinans little brother, but he has the money quote – “Trying to starve them for dollars so he personally can get a better settlement is another example of him misusing his office.”

February 20, 2006

Thug Holloway wins and wins again

by @ 12:37. Filed under Law and order, Politics, Thug Holloway.

(H/Ts – Brian and JSOnline’s DayWatch)

Milwaukee County board chair Lee “Thug” Holloway, Milwaukee County corporation counsel William Domina, and the local chapter of the NAA(L)CP managed to intimidate 2 of the 10 supervisors seeking to replace Holloway as county board chair, Ryan McCue and Roger Quindel, into joining the Thug Nine to vote to “lay over” an attempted vote to elect a county board chair. Supposedly, the Board will take this up again if Peg Lautenschlager’s formal opinion on the matter matches her informal opinion that the board could proceed with the vote and potentially replace Holloway with a simple majority vote.

A message to those 2 cowards, as well as Richard Nykelwicz Jr, who once supported the idea of Thug Holloway stepping aside until the idea became serious: if Holloway is removed from his chairmanship, he will sue no matter how it is done. It won’t matter if the vote is 10-9, or 18-1 after a finding of cause. If you have learned nothing about Holloway, he will do anything and everything necessary to hang onto his power and unilaterally punish anyone who gets in his way. Just ask Orville Seymer and John Weishan.

In a blow against a strong Ethics Board, which has an open 90-item investigation against Thug Holloway, and against citizen involvement in watching government, Holloway cajoled 12 of his fellow board members into rejecting Don Uebelacker’s appointment to the Ethics Board. Uebelacker co-founded Citizens for Responsible Government, and had participated in a recall effort against Holloway (which likely would have forced his recusal in any vote on Holloway).

February 19, 2006

Listen up, RINOs, RepublicRATs and the RPW (warning, strong language)

by @ 8:53. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the language. I would have prefered not to type this at all, or at least not do it on a Sunday, but what has to be done has to get done.

Just in case you grabasstic pieces of puke didn’t get the gentle message from Owen and Peter and Patrick (added 9:36 am 2/19), the not-so-gentle messages from Поле Выстраивает Chris of the Glorious Guards Shock Army (that would be Russian for Field Marshall; added 10:05 am 2/19) and the tomato-chucking Dad29, who also chucks out that thanks to gubmint, the early-1970s standard of living supported by the average 1-earner income of $41,700 (constant 2005 dollars for all figures)/year ($1,600/month spending cash after taxes, mortgage, insurance and utilities) now takes 2 earners and more than $73,000/year (added 7:11 am 2/20), and the vote-with-our-feet threat from Clint (added 6:18 am 2/20) to not fuck with WTPA, let me put it on the line for you primitive screwheads. We of the base have been agitating for strong controls on taxes and spending for years because asshats like yourselves seem to think that our wallets are bottomless wells you can dip your greedy fingers into whenever the hell you feel like buying yourselves the next election. We ousted Mary “Panzy” Panzer because she wouldn’t even allow a vote on TABOR. We thought you buttheads would get the message that we were serious about this; it’s beginning to look like we were mistaken.

The best thing you can do is pass WTPA as-is or somehow find the backbone to actually strengthen it. If you do that, everything will be golden, kapish?

However, Owen’s spies are saying that you numbnuts are looking to water it down even further than letting the Miller Park and Lambeau Field boards off the hook. Let me explain what is going to happen to you suckies if WTPA is either watered down or dies altogether. We in the base are going to vote each and every one of you children of bitches out of office. If we have to remove you knuckleheads, it no longer matters to us whether we’re successful in removing you in the primary election or in the general election. While we would prefer to do it in the primaries so that the state government doesn’t officially fall into the hands of the DemocRATs, the fact that you are governing just like the ‘RATs means that your threats of, “The sky will fall if the ‘RATs get control!” ring hollow. The sky IS falling, and as you are the party allegedly in complete control of the Legislature, you are in a unique position to stop it. If you fail, we will lump you in with the ‘RATs you seem to want to be when you grow up and exterminate your terms accordingly and with extreme prejudice.

Know this: with or without you, we will make a strong WTPA happen. We would strongly prefer to see it happen in time for the 2008 Presidential election, but if it doesn’t, your W2 money is going to run out as we bring it to a referrendum, and you’ll be wishing you made it happen. Our patience ran out when you fucked us over on TABOR; our full and furious anger will be felt if you fuck us over on WTPA.

Choose wisely, and you’ll be in power after 2006. Choose poorly, and you will watch this maxim come true – “You fuck with us, we’ll fuck you up.”

I DID warn you again and again and again about the language, so if you have a problem with it, run home and cry to mama.

More asshattery out of UW

by @ 8:41. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

The Journal Sentinel has a semi-whine piece written by Megan Twohey that the UW system has become “too expensive” for the state’s poor. While the online edition has a couple links ot past stories about the recent abuses of the UW board of regents, the print version doesn’t make any kind of connection between the story and the pay raises being sought by said board of regents or between the story and the out-of-state tuition cut sought by said board of regents (yes, you heard me right; at a time when the state’s poor “can’t” afford UW, they want to cut tuition for the out-of-state crowd only). Further, neither version points out the “backup” jobs, or the outrageous salaries of underworked professors, or the Jim “Craps” Doyle plan to give in-state tuition to illegal invaders. Instead, Megan trots out the same tired lieberal lines of causes, then blindly bleats out Craps’ plan to have the taxpayers pay for college for every “B” student in the state as the “solution”.

Yet the RepublicRATs wonder why we want a strong WTPA, and the presstitutes wonder why they’re no longer taken seriously.

February 18, 2006

More sales taxes for Milwaukee County?

by @ 9:08. Filed under Politics, Taxes.

The Journal Sentinel is reporting that the tax-increasers on the County Board (Richard Nyklewicz, Lee Holloway, Michael Mayo and Marina Dimtrijevic) want to shove a 0.25% sales tax through to fund the parks, Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee Public Museum, the UW Extension (why in the hell does Milwaukee County have an extension when we have UWM?), Historical Society, War Memorial Center, Villa Terrace/Charles Allis art museums, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Visit Milwaukee, the library system, and the Milwaukee County Fund for the Arts. What’s worse, 2 other unnamed board members want a larger 0.5% sales tax for just the parks.

Never mind that we already have a maxed-out total sales tax of 5.6% (and a state-high 5.85% for food and beverages) – 5 percentage points to the state, 0.5 percentage points to the county, 0.1 percentage points to Miller Park, and 0.25 percentage points on food and beverages to the Wisconsin Center District. Never mind that we have outrageous property taxes that many of these same county board supervisors looted to enhance pension benefits. These asshats want more, more, more. I know damn well that they won’t return the property tax money that they saved by shifting the parks and cultural funding to a sales tax; they’ll spend it on something like a parking structure for themselves.

While the gang of 4 will seek to have a September referrendum on this (gee, why September and not November; could it be that there are less voters in September?), that would only be an advisory one because the Legislature would have to pass enabling legislation.

While County Executive Scott Walker opposes this idea, his grand proposal to shift the parks to an “independently elected parks district board” with separate property tax levy authority is little better. Fortunately, that proposal would also have to go through the Legislature.

We should stick with Walker’s scaled-back proposal to do more privatizing. If this new tax flies, I’ll be doing my medium-ticket shopping in Racine or Waukesha Counties, which don’t penalize me for shopping there (I already do my big-ticket shopping there).

February 17, 2006

Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days at the Courthouse

by @ 19:19. Filed under Politics, Thug Holloway.

(H/Ts – Brian Fraley and JSOnline’s Daywatch)

Peg Lautenschlager issued today a preliminary, informal opinion  that, despite Milwaukee County corporation counsel William Domina’s  informal opinion to the contrary,  the Milwaukee County board could proceed with a special session to elect a replacement for county board chair Lee “Thug” Holloway (side note;  he decided that discretion was the better part of valor and didn’t remove the 6 members of the Group of 10 that still had committee chairmanships/vice-chairmanships).   The full opinion from WisPolitics is here.   A  few notes:

  • She bases her opinion on the facts that because the vote would be to remove Holloway from his board  chairmanship rather than from the board itself and that the chair is elected by the board rather than appointed by anyone  or elected by the voters, neither statute that says that a “for cause” 2/3rds vote is required to remove certain officials applies.   Rather, she states that the statute that says that the board chair serves until the board elects a successor applies.
  • Her opinion is counter to a 1923 formal  Attorney General’s office opinion on this subject, but that 1923 opinion “…inexplicably ignored the plain language of the statue providing for the election of the chairperson as well as its own recognition that the chairperson is elected.”
  • Due to the conflict in opinions, she will undertake a formal review to either clarify or reverse the 1923 AG’s opinion.

I thought I would never say this, but Peg is right.

February 13, 2006

Did anybody check the price of ethanol lately? – UPDATE

by @ 19:36. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Dad29)

It seems that Tom Reynolds did, and he found some interesting items:

  • On February 10, 2006, the average retail price of gasoline in Wisconsin was $2.375 per gallon.   On February 10, 2006, ethanol traded at $2.73 per gallon on the Chicago Board of Trade.
  • The Oil Price Information Service explains that increase in a February 2, 2006 article – “This latest round of price increases for domestic ethanol is tied predominantly to new demand for the Northeast as well as from huge metro RFG markets in Virginia and Texas. There clearly is more ethanol buying interest at the moment than there are sellers willing to commit barrels or term product for distribution in the pivotal second and third calendar quarters….   As February began, spot ethanol in the New York Harbor vicinity was pegged at nearly $2.70/gallon. Six-month term deals for April through September delivery were discussed at between $2.70 and $2.80/gallon”
  • The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration predicted “a very tight ethanol market” through the first half of 2006, and noted that a complete phase-out of MTBE in favor of ethanol on the East Coast would increase ethanol consumption 90,000 barrels per day (or more than double what the East Coast uses now).

Does anyone remember what other “clean-burning” product the “it’s cheaper” claims were made by its proponent, and what happened to the price of that product once a modest shift to that product was made?   I’ll give you a hint – its March 2006  futures  closed Friday on NYMEX at  $7.360 per million BTUs, roughly 22% higher than the March 2005 futures were at this point last year.

Revisions/extensions – The price differential is even worse than Sen. Reynolds says.   At the trading level, where we compare the proverbial apples to apples, unleaded gasoline futures (March 2006)  on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at $1.4290 per gallon  while ethanol futures (March 2006)  closed at $2.730 per gallon on the Chicago Board of Trade.   Rounding to the nearest penny, ethanol is $1.30 per gallon more expensive than unleaded gasoline.

I know what you ethanol-sniffers will say next; what about the taxes slapped on gasoline?   They’re not reflected in the futures price.   True.   However, when ethanol is used as a fuel, it’s also slapped with those same taxes.   Morever, even in WisTAXsin, that’s “only” $0.513 per gallon.

Hell, let’s do some math.   There’s roughly an 12-cent/gallon profit margin for gasoline between the futures market and a Wisconsin terminal, then there’s the 51.3-cent/gallon taxes slapped on there, then a 3% markup mandated by the state at the terminal, and a 9.18% markup mandated by the state at the retail level.   With good, E0 gas, that brings the pump price up to about $2.30/gallon, which is where things stand. Now, let’s take E10 bad-gas.   9/10ths of that is made up of unleaded gas, so the price of that portion of the gas is $1.286/0.9 gallon (I’ll round to the nearest tenth).   Ethanol makes up the other tenth, so the price of that portion of the gas is $0.273/0.1 gallon.   Add the two together to get the net “futures” price – $1.559/gallon.   Add the 12-cent/gallon pre-terminal profit margin and the 51.3-cent/gallon taxes and you come up with a pre-state-mandated-profit price of $2.192/gallon.   Add the 3% state-mandated margin at the terminal, and it leaves there at $2.258/gallon.   Add the 9.18% state-mandated margin at the pump and you’re paying $2.465/gallon.

Last time I checked, $2.465 is $0.165 more than $2.30.   If AB15 were law today, and we ignored the fact that the increased consumption of ethanol forced by AB15 would further increase the market price of ethanol, unleaded gasoline would be 7.2% more expensive than it is now.   I’m not enough of an economist to forecast how much more expensive ethanol would be with AB15, but I do know that it would  make ethanol more expensive than it is now.

DNR gives the Italian salute to lakeshore property owners

by @ 18:57. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Charlie)

James Klauser, former administration secretary under Governor Thompson, unloads with both barrells on the DNR regarding their pier proposal.   When he asked  about the 3-foot depth limit under a pier, he got this response from a high-ranking DNR official – “No diving.   No swimming.   No fishing.   Piers are for access to a boat, that’s all."   Well, add  “no  modern boats” to that “banned”  list;   Klauser points out  that most modern inboard-outboard boats draw 36 inches, so they’ll be scraping bottom when they’re tied up dockside.

He goes on to rip the DNR for not differentiating between small lakes and larger lakes (larger lakes require larger piers to protect the boats tied to them), the arbitrary  limitation on the number of boats in the water based on shoreline frontage, the likelyhood that most newer piers will not be in compliance with the DNR rules, and the process used to come up with the new rules (no hearings in Lake Country, discouraged public participation).

Go, read the whole thing.

Steal votes in Milwaukee, get a slap on the wrist

by @ 18:24. Filed under Law and order, Politics.

JSOnline’s DayWatch has not one, but two stories of the prosecutorial and sentencing results of people who stole votes in Milwaukee County during the Presidential election last year.

In story one, they report that  Marcus L. Lewis, who had been charged with five felony counts of election fraud-misconduct in office and three counts of forgery after submitting duplicate cards for the same voter on “numerous” (quote from the criminal complaint) occassions and pled guilty to one count of forgery in exchange for the dropping of the other seven charges, received 45 days in jail and a year of probation from Reserve Judge Russell W. Stamper Sr.

In story two, they report that Kevin L. Cameron pled guilty to voting while still on parole.   Assistant DA Bruce Landgraf will recommend that Cameron serve 45 days in jail despite the fact that Daryl Robinson was sentenced to 120 days in jail for the same offense.

I guess E. Michael McCan’t and his office can now put out an official price sheet for voting fraudulently – 45 days in jail or $5,000 cash.   Disgusting.

February 12, 2006

Why I don’t do ads or contributions

by @ 8:08. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

(H/T  – Kevin)

The Spice Boys found out (item #2)  that Peg Lautenschlager’s campaign committee  gave a  $2,000 to FightingBob.com in August as part of a deal to give $4,600 in campaign funds  to non-profit organizations because the campaign received too much money from PACs in 2002.

I have a few questions:

  • Why was the deal to donate to non-profit organizations rather than return the overage to the donors?
  • How does FightingBob.com qualify as a tax-exempt non-profit organization when most of their content is political in nature?
  • Doesn’t this entire episode expose the folly of campaign finance reform?

For the record, No Runny Eggs does not run advertising (though PollHost.com, my polling host, does run  advertising on the “results” pages; once I get a better handle on my new host, I’ll more than likely host my own polls as well thanks to Patrick, I’m hosting my own polls)  or have a donation link  to avoid even  the appearances of impropriety.   When I praise or blast someone, I want you to know that it’s me speaking, not an advertiser or donor.

Six Milwaukee County board supervisors won’t resign over vote

by @ 7:54. Filed under Law and order, Politics, Thug Holloway.

(H/T – Brian Fraley, who’s been keeping up the skeer on Lee “Thug” Holloway)

The Journal Sentinel reported in yesterday’s editions that 6 Milwaukee County board supervisors,  Paul Cesarz, Dan Devine, Lynne De Bruin, James Schmitt, Joseph Rice and Ryan McCue, who were among 10 supervisors that asked for a special board session on Monday, February 20  to elect a new county board chair and were subsequently asked to resign by Monday, February 13  from various chair/vice chair positions by county board chair Lee Holloway, will not resign.   In their letter to Holloway, they restated their position that Holloway step down as chair until his ethics case is settled, stated that they will continue to serve in their committee roles “faithfully and  in the best interests of the citizens of Milwaukee County,… to whom we owe our allegiance,” and challenged Holloway to remove them if he disagreed with that statement.

The second part of the story deals with the legality of that election.   After issuing a non-binding  opinion that while the supervisors can hold the meeting, Holloway will continue to serve as chair unless 2/3rds of the supervisors vote to remove him for cause, Milwaukee County Corporation Counsel William Domina asked Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager for a second non-binding  opinion.   The group of 10 are contending that state statutes do not preclude removing a county board chair outside of the normal 4-year cycle with a simple majority.

This is going to get VERY ugly, and the ugliness will start tomorrow.   I expect Holloway to remove all 10 supervisors from every committee they serve on, chosing to run county goverment with himself and the 8 supervisors that still support him.

February 9, 2006

Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment

by @ 22:49. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.

I really can’t say it much better than Brian and Owen.   As far as I can see, there’s a lot of good and only two major problems with WTPA:

  1. The “second consecutive Legislature” requirement for a Constitutional amendment (first spotted by Owen)  would be circumvented for anything relating to WTPA.   There is a reason why the writers of the Wisconsin Constitution put it in there; so that no fad that doesn’t have the lasting power of a couple of years gets into the Constitution.
  2. The lack of a per-pupil foundation in the school-district portion of the amendment.   As an anonymous commenter at Fraley’s Dailytakes pointed out, “Less kids should mean fewer expenses.”   It only makes sense that if we let a unit of government grow with growth in the community and force that unit of government to shrink if property becomes abandoned and worth less, and we let a school district grow with the addition of students, we should make a school district shrink if it loses students.

Owen  points out that the battle is more likely going to be to keep the good rather than fix the bad.   It’s also pretty damn good; so count me in on the WTPA bandwagon.

Sykes Writes – Quick quiz

by @ 20:13. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

Charlie has a quick quiz on which item the ‘Rats regret bringing up more (er, it’s only “most” when there are 3 items) – The Abramoff Scandal or The NSA Wiretap Issue.

At this point, I’ll go with the Abramoff Scandal.   It is now clear that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)  used his influence to affect legislation in the favor of Abramoff clients in exchange for campaign contributions from same.

Of course, if it comes out that NSA intercepts did help out in busting up the planned Al-Qaida follow-on attack on the Library Tower in LA (the linked AP  story from breibart.com says that President Bush neither confirmed nor denied that the NSA intercept program helped bust up the attack), the ‘Rats will really rue bringing that up.

Time to narrow the focus of Wisconsin’s Own Travelgate

by @ 12:59. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Jenna, and cross-posted by her at the BBA)

Three months after  Georgia Thompson  fixed the infamous travel contract in the favor of Jim “Craps”  Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale)  contributor Adelman Travel, then-Department of Administration secretary Marc Marotta, who now serves as Craps’ campaign chair, awarded  her a $1,000/year  base-building Discretionary Compensation Adjustment (DCA).   The DCA is awarded at the secretary’s “sole discretion”.

This information, which was apparently not part of the indictment against Thompson, is now in the hands of the US Attorney’s office.   Considering that Marotta reported directly to Doyle, and Marotta currently has a prominent position in Doyle’s re-election campaign, today cannot be described as a good one for Team Craps.

Lee Holloway to Milwaukee County Board – “You f* with me, I f* you up.”

by @ 12:15. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Thug Holloway.

(H/T – Brian Fraley)

Embattled, ethically-“challenged” (more like “lacking”)  Milwaukee County Board Chair Lee Holloway isn’t taking the request of a new vote for county board chair lying down.   He’s demanding that those of the 10-member “putsch” that filed paperwork to re-elect a board chair on Monday, February 20,  that he hasn’t already removed from power to take a blood oath supporting him, resign any chairmanship/vice chairmanship on any committee they may be on, or face firing on Monday, February 13.   The text of the form letter sent to Supervisors Cesarz (Personnel vice-chair), DeBruin (Parks, Energy, and Environment chair), Devine (Parks, Energy, and Environment vice-chair), McCue (Finance and Audit vice-chair), Rice (Judiciary, Safety and General Services vice-chair), and Schmitt (Personnel chair):

You recently signed a petition to the County Clerk to hold a special meeting of the County Board to elect a Chairman. In addition, I appointed you to serve as (insert position: e.g. Chairman of Parks)

Because of this situation, as well as the need for continued cooperation and communication between the County Board Chairman and the Chairs and Vice Chairs of standing committees, I am requesting that you inform me as to whether you can continue to work with me in your leadership capacity under the current circumstances at the County Board.

As you know, I believe I am exercising my constitutional rights of due process in defending myself against what I believe to be unfounded and unfair ethics charge.

You have even expressed your opinion that I have the right to do this.

I am now asking you to inform me whether you feel you can continue to work with me given this situation.

If you believe you cannot continue to work with me, I would request that you resign from your current position as (insert position) until due process has been completed.

I would like you to give this your careful thought and give me an answer by Monday, February 13.

Thank you for your response.

This thug cannot be removed from office fast enough.

Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment released

by @ 11:30. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Owen has the text.   I’ll be back in a while after I digest this.

February 6, 2006

Doyle’s son nailed for DUI Sunday

by @ 19:17. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Madison TV stations WISC and WKOW, tired of waiting for the likes of The Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, the Madison.com-affiliated WMTV-TV/DT, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to end their embargoes of any bad news for Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), finally reported this evening  that Gus Doyle, eldest son of Jim, was pulled over early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence.   Gus, who was driving a car not registered to him without a valid driver’s license, also pulled a Goldschlager, refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test.

Allow me to make myself clear; at age 30,  Gus is his own man.   Unlike Supreme Solar Allah, his criminality wasn’t designed to help out his parent.   At least at this point, the elder Doyle almost certainly had no knowledge that Gus would pull this.   Therefore, you can’t hold the sins of the son against the father. WKOW is now reporting that Gus had his license suspended July 2005, and the car was registered to Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle.   Therefore, it is now reasonable to assume that Craps knew that and indeed sanctioned the fact that Gus was continuing to drive without a license.   I still won’t hold the DUI portion of the story against Craps though.

However, you don’t suppose that if the adult child of a prominent state Pubbie had done what Gus had, that the state’s presstitutes wouldn’t be tripping over themselves to not only break the bad news, but do everything in their power to link the parent to this.

You just knew there had to be a federal hook here

by @ 18:19. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T  – Wendy – sorry about that, my feed reader doesn’t pick up authors at B&S)

Or, in this case, cash, and lots of it.   From Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) press release on signing the uber-“safety”-seat bill –

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By signing AB 618, Wisconsin is eligible for $625,000 in new federal funds this federal fiscal year, andcould receive up to $2.5 million over the next six years. These federal funds will be used for child safety seat education and training programs as well as programs that purchase and distribute child safety seats to low income families.

It sure is nice to know that the feds have so much money that they’re mandating this  .   At least they’re not withholding highway funds like they do for every other damn stupid mandate.

Wendy  noticed one more thing; Craps trotted out the tired old lieberal line about X being NUMBER ONE KILLER.   Like him, I sure didn’t notice that kids 4-7 were dropping dead either from the simple fact that they weren’t in booster seats or weren’t in booster seats during car crashes.

Homer nods – it was Owen’s better half, Wendy, that created the post.

Confirmed Senate “No” votes on AB15 – 2/16/2006 PM update

by @ 17:54. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

(Continuing the list from the December version)

So far, we have exactly one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  of the 17 votes we need to kill this awful excuse of a bill, plus a “promise” of an abstention from Luther Olsen  –

-Ted Kanavas (H/T –David – in the comments part of the link back to Badger Blogger)

– Neal Kedzie (H/T – James Wigderson)

– Mary Lazich (from both the comments in the December version of this by an anonymous source and James)

– Cathy Stepp, a former co-sponsor (thanks, Peter, also back in the December version) – see, we can turn Senators back from the Dark Side.

– Tom Reynolds (H/T – LB2 – in the comments part in the link back to Badger Blogger)

– Joe Leibham (H/T – Kevin)

– Glenn Grothman (H/T – TomInWestBend – in the comments on the post from the Wigderson Library & Pub)

– Jeff Plale, my state Senator and the first Democrat to swear off the ethanol (see below)

– Dave Hansen (H/T – James)

– Also, Luther Olsen, whose family stands to become rich beyond the dreams of Avaris, abstained in the committee vote (of course, it passed there 4-2, so he wasn’t needed; I doubt he’ll stay silent if Sgt. Schultz needs him to be vote #18).

We’ve  finally crossed the halfway threshhold, but the ADM lobby  did first  (they’re up to 10 of the 18 they need, 11  if you include Olsen). If you haven’t worked over your state Senator, do so. If you have and they haven’t gotten the message, lather, rinse and repeat. If they have sworn off the ethanol, take the time to thank them.

Homer nod (10:26 pm 1/18/2006) – corrected the math
Homer nod part 2 (1:08 pm 1/19/2006) – durn typos
Revisions/extensions (8:15 am 2/6/2006) – With the move to WP, I can now constantly update across months  without worrying about losing the URL.
More revisions/extensions (5:54 pm 2/6/2006) – We’re safe until 2/21 according to James, but he found another lush.

Keep up the skeer

by @ 8:06. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

Charlie reports that three  Assemblymen who drank the ethanol Kool-Aid when they first acted upon the bad-gas bill have now flipped and will oppose it when the Sierra Club-endorsed revision to explicitly  stick it to business comes back to them:   Mark Gottlieb, Samantha Kerkman and Robin Vos.   Let’s try to make it so that AB15 doesn’t even make it back to them; call your Senator today and get  him or her  to oppose AB15.

February 5, 2006

From RDW – Stepp case went to the Jefferson County DA almost 2 months ago

by @ 21:54. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Fred has the details.   I wonder what the conflict of interest is.   Smart money (the one that just won on the under in Super Bowl XL) says that the conflict of interest is with Voces de la Frontera (the invaders).

Sunday pre-brunch smashes

by @ 8:18. Filed under History, MMSD - The Crap People, Politics - Wisconsin, Religion, Sports.

– From Fox News, adherents of  Islam, the Religion of “Peace”, stormed and torched the Danish Embassy in Syria as part of ongoing protests over a cartoon.   Grow up, Muslims; the presstitutes have been doing that sort of schtick to us Christians for decades.

 – The Journal Sentinel crows about how Wisconsin is the King of the Throne – yes, that throne (so if you have just eaten or are about to eat, please skip to the next segment).   It seems that between Kohler-#1 in toilets, Bemis Manufacturing-#1 in toilet seats, the thickest concentraion of toilet paper manufacturers around in the Fox Valley, and SC Johnson’s Glade-#1 air freshener, we’re the king of all that is crappy.   So next time you see #2 floating in Lake Michigan, take pride that not only did a Wisconsinite (probably) squeeze that particular piece out, and not only that MMSD-The Crappy Water People decided to once again showcase Wisconsin’s competence by displaying their incompetence, but that Wisconsinites had a hand in almost every other step of that process as well.   Don’t say I didn’t warn you

– In the “blind squirrel finds nut” category, Eugene Kane gets something right.   History is history, so it’s time to stop patronizing blacks by setting aside the shortest month of the year as “Black” History Month.   Teach those milestones on the anniversaries of the dates they happened (and find a suitable time for those that happened during the summer).

– The Minister of Defense, Reggie White, is headed to the Football Hall of Fame.   Despite his passing away last year, fellow inductees Troy Aikman and Warren Moon will be looking over their shoulders hearing the footsteps and their blockers flying through the air, and I’ll be hearing Reggie’s gravel voice.

– Fred gives “Badcast” a unique definition.   No, it’s not a putrid podcast (though if I tried it, it sure would be); it’s a Badger-centric one.   Tips of the hat to Aaron and Jenna, and Sean for having the courage to do this.

January 31, 2006

Stepford ‘Rats strike yet again

by @ 15:19. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

This time, Terry Van Akkeren (‘Rat-Sheboygan) and John Steinbrink (‘Rat-Kenosha) drank the Craps Kool Aid to uphold Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/ADM-For Sale) veto of concealed carry. Never mind that these two Assemblymen voted twice for the very bill that Craps vetoed. Never mind that the state Supreme Court has all-but-ordered the Legislature to come up with a systematic way to implement concealed carry or face an outright voiding of the current concealed-carry ban in a future case (of course, this was before Patrick Crooks became a lieberal). Never mind that, come November when they lose their re-election bids because of their betrayal, Craps likely won’t be in a position to offer them state jobs. Never mind that, in a moment of clarity, Snarlin’ Marlin Schneider voted to override the veto.

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