No Runny Eggs

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For the next 13 hours, the polls will be open in Wisconsin. See below for steveegg’s extended recommendations. To summarize:

Governor/Lt. Governor – Mark Green/Jean Hundertmark
Secretary of State – Sandy Sullivan
State Treasurer – Jack Voight
US Senate – Dave Casper (write-in)
Defense of Marriage Amendment – Yes (that is the ONLY vote that will prevent the Wisconsin State Supreme Court from imposing homosex marriage in the next year)
Death Penalty advisory referrendum – Yes
1st Congressional – Paul Ryan
4th Congressional – Perfecto Rivera
5th Congressional – Jim Sensenbrenner
8th Congressional – John Gard
5th State Senate – Tom Reynolds
7th State Senate – Dimity Grabowski
21st State Senate – Bill McReynolds
21st State Assembly – Mark Honadel (I know, he’s running unopposed, but we don’t want a write-in surprise)
Milwaukee County Sheriff – David Clarke
Milwaukee County District Attorney – Jeff Wagner (write-in)
Oak Creek/Franklin School $28.5 million borrow-spend-tax for another shiny new building – No

(H/T – unspun at Free Republic)

DemocRAT bribery for votes has hit Eau Claire. According to the RPW, Kathleen Vinehout the ‘Rat candidate for the 31st Senate District (held by RepubicRAT Ron Brown) got caught giving away hot dogs in exchange for votes. Also, a UW-Eau Claire professor used her university e-mail to encourage her students to accept rides to city hall for the purposes of voting early, with those drivers handing the students completed sample ballots with every ‘Rat filled in before they reached city hall.

RPW Executive Director Rick Wiley had the line of the day in the linked release, “Cigarettes, pastries and now hotdogs for votes. No wonder Democrats want universal health care. The people they are bribing for their vote are going to need it.”

Now, where have we seen this before?

Revisions/extensions (8:31 pm 11/6/2006) – Because “FAIR” Wisconsin unleashed a fresh set of lies through robocalls today (details at, among other places, Boots and Sabers), this has been brought back to the top.

Borrowing from Tom McMahon’s 4-Block World (which got added to the roll, just in case you weren’t viewing it from his main blog:

If you don’t know who I’m going to say, you’re probably just rolling in with this being your first post read. The choice is clear – Mark Green over Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale). I’ll let Rick Esenberg’s words speak for me because he says it far better than I can.

Like the Milwaukee County DA’s race, I cannot recommend any of the candidates running. You have a do-nothing incumbent and 3 dumb challengers, each more insane than the last. Instead, I recommend writing in Dave Casper.

That’s right, kids. In Wisconsin, you don’t vote for governor and lt. governor as a package. I’m recommending Jean Hundertmark over incumbent Barbara Lawton. Hundertmark is a strong conservative, while Lawton is an unreconstructed lieberal who is both tied at the hip to Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) and would be first in line to replace him should they both be re-elected and then Doyle be convicted on possible federal corruption charges (remember, he’s still under investigation).

Revisions/extensions (2:34 pm 11/6/2006) – Matt Thomas points out below that it is a combined ticket.

This really is a meaningless office, but I’m saving my second write-in of the election because there is but one significant factor – if the governor and lieutenant governor were to both depart office, the secretary of state becomes acting governor. I have no respect for either the La Follette legacy or political dynasties, so I’m recommending Sandy Sullivan over incumbent Doug La Follette.

I’m recommending JB Van Hollen over Kathleen Falk. Van Hollen is an experienced prosecutor on both the local and federal levels, even though he didn’t notice the smell from the governor’s mansion during the time his tenure as US Attorney for Western Wisconsin and Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) tenure as governor overlapped. Falk was chosen by the DPW because she would quash the state participation in ongoing investigations into Doyle and his administration; she also is incredibly soft on crime and unbelievably anti-business, and she lacks any prosecutorial experience whatsoever.

I’m recommending a YES vote on the Defense of Marriage Amendment. Society as a whole has decided that the civil institution of marriage should follow the Christian institution of marriage, which says that marriage is between one man and one woman. Though the civil institution does fall short of the institution established by God, it is the closest we can get.

Beyond that, I strongly oppose change instituted by no more than 7 Lawgivers-In-Black. Passage of this amendment would cut them and only them out of the equation of future changes, as the state Constitution can be and often is amended by majority votes of 2 consecutive Legislatures and the majority of voters in an election, and those amendments often rewrite and strike out existing portions of said Constitution. Failure of this amendment would be all the green light the Wisconsin State Supreme Court will need to use a case already in the court system to impose homosex marriage from on high.

The only competitive Congressional race in Wisconsin features a self-financed moonbat versus a hand-picked RINO (hand-picked over a RepublicRAT). I abhor the ideas of another moonbat from Wisconsin and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, so I’m recommending John Gard over Steve Kagen. That’s all.

Hmmm, a conservative gadfly in the ointment of federal power or a guy who has the audacity to pay himself a salary for running for office? It’s a no-brainer – I’m recommending Jim Sensenbrenner for another 2 years against Bryan Kennedy. I disagree strongly with Sensenbrenner’s refusal to open up ANWR, but on issues from not writing blank checks to “disaster victims” to enforcing immigration laws to securing the borders to understanding the relationship between the states and the federal government, Sensenbrenner and I see eye to eye.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stay tuned to RealDebateWisconsin for the details.

It will make Kurt Vlach’s banana hammock and the union takeover of the Racine ‘Rat party look like actions at a Sunday School picnic.

Revisions/extensions (6:25 pm 10/26/2006) – Fred has the story up. Cliff Notes version:

Told you it would make Fred’s previous scoops look like Sunday School picnics.

Once again, I apologize for the lack of blogging. This chest cold just isn’t letting go. Oh well, let’s push on and define a Jentinel “moderate” in Jeff Foxworthy terms:

• If every action you take shows that you think taxes aren’t high enough in Wisconsin, you might be a “moderate”.
• If you think the only form of stem cell research worth funding is both the only form that has shown zero promise and the one that destroys life in the process, you might be a “moderate”.
• If, after a lifetime opposing expansion of gambling, you all of a sudden think the state Constitution, as expressed by both the Legislature and the public, doesn’t apply to you because you have to pay off the $1 million that Indian gambling interests gave you, you might be a “moderate”.
• If, a few short months after claiming that “Big Oil” would simply take additional profits if you sign a (failed) bill to eliminate Wisconsin’s minimum mark-up law on gasoline, you unilaterally exempt only those stations selling corn-a-hole because you need to shore up the MIlwaukee vote, you might be a “moderate”.
• If your idea of health care reform includes leeching off of a country that itself is leeching off the American prescription-drug consumer, you might be a “moderate”.
• If you think that a moderately-trained armed citizenry defending itself against an armed criminal element is inherently more dangerous than a defenseless citizenry at the not-so-tender mercies of said armed criminal element, you might be a “moderate”.
• If you oppose every effort to limit rampaging trial lawyers, you might be a “moderate”.
• If you think forcing kids whose parents can’t afford to flee Milwaukee into a failing public schools is a good idea, you might be a “moderate”.
• If you think that Festivus is a real holiday deserving of its own “tree”, and that “tree” is more real than a Christmas tree, you might be a “moderate”.
• If building a new dorm for UWM is more important than delivering 800 jobs out in the Chippewa Valley, you might be a “moderate”.