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Bring Cell Phones to Fight DOJ Asst AGs and Special Agents
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 12:36pm | mal contends
Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCocco, a Democrat, called Van Hollen's plan to use state agents and lawyers to monitor polls Tuesday a dog and pony’ show. DeCocco said his search of state law ‘did not locate any mandates of providing prosecutor coverage at polling sites, or any authority to do so.’ ‘The attorney general has no authority in this state to supervise elections,’ Doyle told reporters. He again said the move by Van Hollen is part of a national effort by Republican Party leaders to ‘try and raise questions’ about the voting process - questions that they hope keep some voters from casting ballots.
Tags: Milwaukee Concerns
Sun, 08/03/2008 - 8:23pm | mal contends
Milwaukee - Spent this weekend listening to numerous people in Milwaukee in one of Wisconsin's most diverse and densely-populated areas.
Asking residents (living in expensive homes, modest homes, and rentals) their concerns in open-ended questions, I expected answers on Iraq, the national debt, the price of a college education, downsizing and outsourcing to be the most frequent complaints.
And downsizing and outsourcing were mentioned, but by far the biggest complaint was the lack of respect for a person's home, a quality-of-life issue for which residents seek redress from all levels of government.
Complaints ranged from jerks littering on front yards, vandalism, loud music, trespassing, with burglaries rounding out the list.
The consistency is striking, residents in a $500,000 home two blocks down from a $100,000 home share the same anger at toward trespassers, vandals, and people screaming in front of their homes like they're at a Brewer game.
In so many words, people just do not like anyone messing with their homes in which they have carved out their familiar, calming refuge in an increasingly isolated, inequitable society.
Asking residents (living in expensive homes, modest homes, and rentals) their concerns in open-ended questions, I expected answers on Iraq, the national debt, the price of a college education, downsizing and outsourcing to be the most frequent complaints.
And downsizing and outsourcing were mentioned, but by far the biggest complaint was the lack of respect for a person's home, a quality-of-life issue for which residents seek redress from all levels of government.
Complaints ranged from jerks littering on front yards, vandalism, loud music, trespassing, with burglaries rounding out the list.
The consistency is striking, residents in a $500,000 home two blocks down from a $100,000 home share the same anger at toward trespassers, vandals, and people screaming in front of their homes like they're at a Brewer game.
In so many words, people just do not like anyone messing with their homes in which they have carved out their familiar, calming refuge in an increasingly isolated, inequitable society.
Anti-Catholic Pol's Slate of Candidates Revealed
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 11:12am | mal contends
Update II: Clean Sweep WI's PAC report.
Tom Reynolds' Clean Sweep Wisconsin (CSW) slate of candidates running in the Milwaukee area are revealed in CSW's July campaign finance report.
The report indicates seven Assembly candidates (one since disqualified) and one State Senate candidate, Nicholas E. Cosey, (since disqualified) as recipients of CSW's PAC money.
The former Wisconsin state senator, Reynolds, has been disavowed by establishment Republicans and Democrats, and criticized for the dealings of his PAC in running rightwingers in Democratic primaries while denying that he is doing so.
Assembly Candidate Landowski Denies Recruitment by Anti-Catholic Pol
Thu, 07/10/2008 - 7:23am | mal contends
Update II: Informed sources say that absolutely no mainstream Republican will have "anything" to do with Tom Reynolds. That will make this story a bit less fun to cover, but it merits stating that the GOP ought not be blamed for anything Reynolds and his people do and say.
Update: Clean Sweep Wisconsin’s (CSW) PAC is mandated to file a 2008 continuing financial report with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board by July 21. Citizens seeking CSW’s disbursements made prior to July 21 can request a copy or inspection of CSW’s report. CSW can claim exemption from financial reporting if several criteria are met.
Updated - Anti-Catholic Reynolds' Candidates Avoiding Press
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 9:19am | mal contends
Update: Daniel Bice has the audio of a Tom Reynolds phone call to state Rep. Christine Sinicki (D-Milwaukee, 20), “a veteran Milwaukee Democrat, (who) has a direct and personal interest in what Reynolds was doing, so she signed up - using a fake name - with Clean Sweep Wisconsin.”
This is the link is to the audio of the Reynolds phone call, and the URL is: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=770314
Transcription of the Reynolds call, in part, follows:
Anti-Catholic Man's First Salvo at Assembly Dems
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 11:41am | mal contends
The first candidates for Tom Reynolds' (R-Outer Reaches) Clean Sweep Wisconsin's project to run some 12 candidates against Milwuakee-area Democratic incumbents in the Democratic primary are now public.
The Reynolds' folks are: Phil Landowski (running against state Rep. Christine Sinicki (D-Milwaukee)) and Josh Hoisington (running against Tony Staskunas (D-West Allis), West Allis being Reynolds' home turf), reports Daniel Bice in yesterday's Journal-Sentinel.
Reynolds, almost universally blasted during his tenure in the state senate (see Waxing America's profile on Reynolds from 2005 for Reynolds' weird anti-Catholic cavorting and the Milwaukee Shepherd-Express piece on Reynolds), has reportedly convinced several candidates to run against incumbent Assembly Democrats for reasons not entirely clear.
The Reynolds' folks are: Phil Landowski (running against state Rep. Christine Sinicki (D-Milwaukee)) and Josh Hoisington (running against Tony Staskunas (D-West Allis), West Allis being Reynolds' home turf), reports Daniel Bice in yesterday's Journal-Sentinel.
Reynolds, almost universally blasted during his tenure in the state senate (see Waxing America's profile on Reynolds from 2005 for Reynolds' weird anti-Catholic cavorting and the Milwaukee Shepherd-Express piece on Reynolds), has reportedly convinced several candidates to run against incumbent Assembly Democrats for reasons not entirely clear.
Anti-Catholic Nut Tom Reynolds' Guys to Be Revealed Next Week
Wed, 07/02/2008 - 8:47am | mal contends
Clean Sweep Wisconsin's foray into the state Assembly races is being fronted by former state senator Tom Reynolds (R-Outer Reaches).
Reynolds has created Clean Sweep Wisconsin's PAC and is recruiting numerous rightwing candidates to run in the Democratic primaries of Milwaukee state representatives.
Wonder if that means all Catholics and non-virgins will be swept away this election cycle.
The Wisconsin State Journal's Mark Pitsch politely describes Reynolds as "eccentric".
But with Reynolds, politeness obscures reality.
The Milwaukee Shepherd-Express' Lisa Kaiser leads her piece from June thusly:
Milwaukee Activist Pedro Colón Seeks Solutions
Thu, 01/17/2008 - 7:53pm | mal contends
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
~Edmund Burke
The race for Milwaukee City Attorney is off and running.
Longtime City Attorney Grant Langley versus State Representative Pedro Colón (D-Milwaukee) in what promises to be a spirited race for a heretofore obscure office.
Colón is out to change the position, with an activist’s approach.
Colón has made some enemies and stepped on some toes as an activist attorney and state representative, but he brings a broad coalition in his campaign for the April 1 election.
As has been widely noted, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, District Attorney John Chisholm, the incoming president of the Milwaukee Bar Association and the Wisconsin Trial Lawyers Association and almost all of Milwaukee’s legislative delegation have endorsed Colón’s hard-line approach to flushing out destructive policy, and becoming part of the solution in addressing city-wide problems.
As Greg J. Borowski of the Journal Sentinel wrote in a column from December.
~Edmund Burke
The race for Milwaukee City Attorney is off and running.
Longtime City Attorney Grant Langley versus State Representative Pedro Colón (D-Milwaukee) in what promises to be a spirited race for a heretofore obscure office.
Colón is out to change the position, with an activist’s approach.
Colón has made some enemies and stepped on some toes as an activist attorney and state representative, but he brings a broad coalition in his campaign for the April 1 election.
As has been widely noted, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, District Attorney John Chisholm, the incoming president of the Milwaukee Bar Association and the Wisconsin Trial Lawyers Association and almost all of Milwaukee’s legislative delegation have endorsed Colón’s hard-line approach to flushing out destructive policy, and becoming part of the solution in addressing city-wide problems.
As Greg J. Borowski of the Journal Sentinel wrote in a column from December.