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RS at CPAC: Sen. Ron Johnson (R, WI).

I have a lot of these, and probably more getting generated tomorrow – but I didn’t want to not get at least one of these done this evening. This clip is of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who of course came out of nowhere in 2010 to neatly excise Russ Feingold from his Senate seat. Which was personally one of the more satisfying results of the last election cycle: partially because Feingold’s assault on free speech was a constant irritation to me, and partially because the best presents are often the ones that you weren’t expecting.

At any rate, the Senator and I spoke briefly about CPAC. Check out the video.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

First reports of Wisconsin recall petition fraud?

Could be, could be:

The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate possible fraudulent recall signatures collected by Mark Demet, a Racine man whose brother’s signature was found four times on petitions to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine. His mother’s signature was also found twice.

But both say they didn’t sign, said Capt. Thomas Lamke of the Racine County Sheriff’s Office.

This is, by the way, a felony: and if this guy is convicted of it then I recommend the full fine and jail time. If that sounds overly harsh, well, nobody is out there forcing people to fraudulently sign other people’s name to official election documents. For that matter, it’s long since past time that somebody got it through Wisconsin progressives’ heads that their petulant collective refusal to accept that they lost an election doesn’t actually give them an excuse to do whatever damage that they like to civic structures in their home state. It’s a heck of a thing to have to use felony convictions to drive that point home, but then, if you want to train a jackass the first thing you have to do is to get its attention…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

Everything you need to know about today’s WI recall filing.

In general:

Democratic Big Labor cronies are submitting recall petitions today to force a recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. They claim to have enough to weather the inevitable challenges.
This latest exercise in partisan petulance is scheduled to cost the state of Wisconsin 9 million dollars’ worth of taxpayer money, once you factor in all the state- and municipal-level Democratic temper tantrums. And here we thought that getting Democrats out of office would stop them from wasting productive people’s money.
Governor Walker has already amassed a $5.1 million dollar war chest for this nonsense, and he can raise as much as he darn well pleases. There’s going to be a lot of money poured into these recall elections, by the way; money that the Democrats in particular are going to miss.
The Democrats don’t have a clue who to run against Walker. (via @VickiMcKenna)

Continue reading Everything you need to know about today’s WI recall filing.

Wisconsin Democrats voting the graveyard on Walker recall*?

[UPDATE] Before anybody starts complaining that I shouldn’t have taken this calendar entry seriously, I’d just like to note: as of 10:54 AM EST, so did up to 71 Wisconsin Democrats. One wonders how many people they’ll have sign up to conspiracy to commit election fraud before the plug is pulled? – I’m hoping for three digits, myself.

This almost has to be a fake. Surely the Democratic party of Wisconsin isn’t THAT brazen.

Surely?

Cemetery Petition Drive (Recall Petition Signing)

We will be taking names from headstones and making recall petitions with the names we find. We will start in Holy Angels Cemetary on Decorah and go from there.

The goal is 10,000 names – we can do this!

Here’s a screenshot for when this goes away – which it will, and probably within the hour. Which would be true either way, I suppose. Meanwhile, here’s an anti-recall ad from Scott Walker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m0EfMhiE9E0

Remember, folks: Yes on Recall means Yes on Higher Property Taxes. Because the Left resents it when you take your tax money away from them. And that remains true, even if the cemetery thing isn’t.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh Hey, you remember Miles Kristan?

Sure you do: Miles Kristan’s that dumb kid who decided to go dump a beer on a Wisconsin legislator as part of a political statement, then go brag about it. What’s that? The link doesn’t work? Well, that’s because (as per Legal Insurrection) the Blue Cheddar Wisconsin Democratic shill blog (which put up the video originally) apparently came to the sudden realization that it may not be a good idea to have Miles Kristan’s confession up, given that it’s to a crime that could be conceivably scored as a felony. Particularly given that Miles Kristan’s being reported locally as being maybe a bit of a stalker.

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, the confession is already out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7r8ShR208&feature=player_embedded

So there’s that.

Miles.

Moe Lane

Wisconsin progressives attack charter school.

Yup, ‘attacked.’ Those locks didn’t vandalize themselves, and they weren’t vandalized by the Scott Walker administration. That leaves a pretty small list of suspects from which to choose. Anyway, I’m just putting this video about the protests at Messmer Preparatory Catholic School (via Hot Air) up, without any of the (scathing) editorial comments that I had originally written.

But see if you can guess what the major difference was between the ‘choice’ school kids being protested at, and the screaming vandals doing the protesting. Hint: if you know anything about the DC school choice saga then you already know what I’m talking about – which is also true if you’re a typical progressive activist. The only difference there is, you’d rather gargle razor blades then admit that you do know what I’m talking about*. Continue reading Wisconsin progressives attack charter school.

#rsrh WI progressive children’s-book fans behaving badly again.

This time, they have (allegedly, to be sure) filled a primary school’s locks with glue and metal in what will end up being a profoundly futile attempt to keep Governor Scott Walker from reading Oh, the Places You’ll Go! to a bunch of school children. Also – in what will later be revealed to be related news – it turns out that the sweetheart last-minute pre-election deals that the old Madison city administration made with Big Labor will result in higher property taxes AND lowered services this year for Madison residents! Including the elimination of the crossing guard program! Hope those kids are good at broken-field running!

Anyway, I mention this to set up some snark, here: Continue reading #rsrh WI progressive children’s-book fans behaving badly again.

I think that we’ve reached diminishing returns at this point.

I don’t want to be mean, or anything – and, actually in this particular case I don’t want to be mean – but I have to confess that I’m a little disappointed in the general lack of performance from the Online Left over this entire Jane Yolen thing. I mean, yes, it got me a little boost for a couple of days, and I understand that this will be good for increasing my ad revenue and whatnot… but as digital jihads go it was not really all that much of a much, honestly. It’s certainly not enough for me to encourage it further; to be frank about things, my time is kind of valuable, and I’m just not really feeling the oomph, here.

So, let’s get on with things, shall we? Here, let me provide some actual content: 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides. Every so often, Cracked.com produces a grace note that makes up for… well, actually, Cracked.com comes up pretty consistently with some funny (if rude) content, so they don’t have much to make up for. Anyway, this is a decent piece; I figure that it might be useful for all those people out there that are just a bit too disappointed that Russ Feingold’s hiding from Scott Walker.

OK, OK, I swear: that was the last dig. It’s just that I’ve been meaning to point out that this entire Yolen thing was really about Ron Johnson’s brazen effrontery in defeating Feingold last year – and if I don’t use that observation now, then when could I?

George Will and the Wisconsin Progressive Waterloo.

George Will visits the wreckage-strewn battlefield where Wisconsin progressives launched their desperate counter-attack against the forces of reform, and finds a certain grim satisfaction there. To refresh people’s memories: Wisconsin progressives’ refusal to accept the widespread repudiation of the Democratic party in Wisconsin in 2010 (loss of the state legislature, two Congressional seats lost, progressive icon US Senator Russ Feingold handily if not contemptuously defeated by Ron Johnson, loss of the executive branch) led them to desperate attempts to retroactively rewrite reality to make The Bad Thing never happen. While they (and their Big Labor manipulators) were able to force Wisconsin Democrats to go along with a hapless (and futile) fight over collective bargaining reform, attempts to create change via popular outrage failed, largely because Wisconsin progressives failed to create any actual permanent outrage outside of their rather narrow sub-demographics*. Reform measures thus passed, much to the impotent rage of its enemies.

We’ll have George take it from here:

Having failed to prevent enactment of the Walker agenda voters had endorsed, unions and their progressive allies tried to recall six Republican senators. If three had been recalled, Democrats would have controlled the Senate, and other governors and state legislators would have been warned not to challenge unions. Fueled by many millions of dollars from national unions and sympathizers, progressives proved, redundantly, the limited utility of money when backing a bankrupt agenda: Only two Republicans were recalled — one was in a heavily Democratic district, the other is a married man playing house with a young girlfriend. Progressives also failed to defeat a Supreme Court justice.

An especially vociferous progressive group calls itself “We Are Wisconsin.” Evidently not.

Continue reading George Will and the Wisconsin Progressive Waterloo.

Russ Feingold (D, NOTHING) cuts and runs.

(Via Hot Air) Russ Feingold’s not running for Senate in 2012. He’s not running for Governor in a hypothetical (and futile) 2012 recall election. He’s not running for Governor in the 2014 general election[*]. Russ Feingold’s just running away:

“After twenty-eight continuous years as an elected official … I have found the past eight months to be an opportunity to look at things from a different perspective,” Feingold said in the email, first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert. Feingold said he is “thoroughly enjoying the life of a private citizen.”

Funny about that: I’m enjoying Russ Feingold’s life as a private citizen, too. More than I suspect that he is, brave words to the contrary. Continue reading Russ Feingold (D, NOTHING) cuts and runs.