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This is hilarious! How To Prank A Telemarketer

h/t: Vista on Current Events

I don’t have the details, but Mark Belling has broken a story today. Chief Nan Hegerty wants to greatly expand the 1st Police District to include much of the north side inner city. The plan would have the current downtown district cover west to 27th Street and north to North Ave. in an effort to get more police into the area.

Mayor Tom Barrett’s mouthpiece says that the mayor is opposed to any plan that will take cops out of downtown.

I wonder if/when the paper will catch this story?

UPDATE: Audio of Belling breaking the story
Listen to mark Belling’s report (13:00)

Jim Doyle announced his plan to raise cigarette taxes by $1.25-a-pack, as well as banning smoking from all public places like bars and restaurants. Sure, this tax hike hits all smokers, but it hits the poor the hardest. It is a fact that the poor smoke in greater numbers, and adding $1.25 to each pack, will have a real effect on someone struggling between paychecks as it is. Another fact is, a great many of these people, when given the choice between their cigarettes and other needed items for their family, will make the wrong choice.

The real question is why this guy will be on the streets to begin with?

John Chic
837 S 85TH ST UPPR
WEST ALLIS, WI 53214

He drives (WHY I do not know) a 2002 GMC Red Sonoma Pickup, with a license plate of AL27841

Sex offender meeting is Thursday

West Allis - Police will host a public meeting Thursday to alert residents that a registered sex offender has moved to the community.

Chief Dean Puschnig said the decision to hold the meeting, which is not required by law, was made because of the seriousness of the offense.

“We consider this man a very dangerous person,” Puschnig said of John Chic, 41, who was released from prison in January after serving 15 years for first-degree sexual assault. “He basically lured an apartment manager into the basement and forced her at knifepoint to commit a sex act.”

Chic, who also has gone by the name John Peters, has been living since his release in a duplex in the 800 block of S. 85th St. According to police, he is allowed to leave the apartment to look for work, but is being tracked through an electronic bracelet and a GPS monitor.

The state’s sex offender registry describes him as 5 feet 11 inches and 230 pounds, with gray-brown hair and blue eyes. He drives a 2002 GMC Red Sonoma Pickup, with a license plate of AL27841, police said.

Chic was convicted of first-degree sexual assault in July 1992 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was paroled in March 2003. But his probation was revoked after he was accused of robbing a woman and holding her against her will at a Greenfield Shopping center in July 2004. He was acquitted at trial of all charges in connection with that incident.

Thursday’s public meeting will be at 7 p.m. at Central High School auditorium, 8516 W. Lincoln Ave.

Monday (Jan. 22) night, there was a meeting in Milwaukee’s 6th Aldermanic District hosted by Michael McGee. The meeting was to discuss a development project on Holton & Brown. The River West Neighborhood Association website, as usual, has a great write-up on the meeting.

Alderman McGee had an interesting take on the meeting, he discussed his views on WNOV’s Word Warrior program, run by his father, Michael McGee Sr. He described his constituents that showed up at this community meeting on a cold January night, as being hateful white people. Here are a few quotes from his remarks on this meeting.

A lot of the white constituents feel that, it’s a South African situation, where they can come in and impose their will.

There was so much hatred, the dynamics of last nights meeting was the gay people, the homosexual people who were upset about my Jude comments, they came to the meeting.

McGee Sr. suggested that since Alderman D’Amato was also at the meeting, that he may be a member of the gay community, and then went on to say, “There’s definitely a lot of gays down there now, I mean, I’m not just saying that, I mean that’s for real. They be switchin’ left and right down there.”

They then went on to discuss the white constituents that showed up as people that are “empty nesters” that are trying to keep black people out of the area because they have the audacity to have a fence, “to keep people out,” instead of trying to be a part of the community. But you can see when they are involved in what happens in their community, their alderman treats them like this.

To call your own community meeting on King Dr. & North, that’s an area that is heavily populated by block people, and out of 70 people, 50 of them was white people… Which is pretty interesting.

Download the audio. (5:40).

Can you point to another elected politician that would refer to his constituents like this?

Milwaukee, and the 6th District deserve better.

UPDATE: CRG Information in Comments
Citizens for Responsible Government have put out information on the recall, I have added the links in a comment below, so make sure you check them.