Posted on Saturday, 7th March 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
I am at the the Defending the American Dream Summit and will be updating this post thought the day. I am here with hundreds of fellow Conservatives. I will be adding commentary and links all day.
The first link I will throw out to you is Fight Back Wisconsin.com
-Expect some big news from Citizens for Responsible Government over the next few days!
- Bloggers in attendance are Fred Dooley, Steve Eggelston, Brian Frailey, James Wigderson, Josh Schroeder, Chris From Racine and others.
-Some great speeches from Joe the Plumber and Scott Walker! Also, I have read Apostle David King’s work, but he is also giving an inspirational speech.
-Apostle King is awesome!
I will be adding links as time permits.
-I will also have some video and/or audio posted over the next day or so.
-J.B. “Empty Suit” Van Hollen is speaking… Yawn.
-Our friends from the Sam Adams Alliance are here.
-The MacIver Institute for Public Policy made it’s official launch announcement. We will have much more on this as time goes along.
-Rose Fernandez gave a great speech.
-I have been shooting a fair amount of video, that’s why my updates here have been a bit spotty.
-Protester Alert! The AFL-CIO has put out an action alert and will be here to protest us at noon!
-James Sensenbrenner and Jim Ott are awesome, Sensenbrenner won the national Defender of the American Dream Award and Ott won the state award.
RECALL DOYLE! Citizens For Responsible Government just announced that they are about to launch a recall effort against Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle!
-Paul Ryan gave a great speech, he really inspired the room.
-Herman Cain is speaking, I have never heard him before, he is really great, check him out!
Stupid people are running this country.
- Hreman Cain
I wish I had the camera running for Cain, this guy rawks!
-Our own Glenn Frankovis is in the house!
-Sheriff David Clarke challenged Governor Doyle to support Concealed Carry, so citizens can protect themselves from the thugs that Doyle is planning to release early from prisons. Huge standing-O.
-Must stop clapping, it hurts my bad paw.
The Founding Fathers did their job, now we have to become the Defending Fathers and do our job!
-Herman Cain
The unions had their big protest, there were about 30 people… FAIL!
-Lunch was okay, then they broke up into smaller breakout sessions. By the time I packed up the Mobile Blogging Unit and ChrisFromRacine got us un-lost and we found the rooms the sessions were being held in, they were all packed, there were far more people here than expected. We both wanted to attend the session held with Herman Cain, Pastor King and Sheriff Clarke, but it looks like everyone else did too, so instead, Chris and I walked over to Starbucks (Thanks Chris!). I also got a copy of Joe the Plumber’s book signed by Joe!
We are now awaiting the late session, it should begin shortly.
-Great news, Fred Dooley has been named the official Blogger for the MacIver Institute.
-Justice Michael Gabelman is amazing, the man has met me twice before today, and he walked up to me and stuck out his hand and called me by name…. I couldn’t remember my phone number when I signed the Doyle Recall petition!
After Action Report: I am home from an awesome event held by Americans For Prosperity! Had a great time with a few hundred like-minded folks and a few very good friends. I took some video, if all goes well, I will start to post some this evening. I have never uploaded video to this machine, but I hope the hardware and software are compatible with the 64bit Vista, if not, I’ll still find a way.
I will close this post, all further commentary by me will be done in the Comments section below.
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March 7th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Typo alert: “every soultion”
March 7th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Huh?
March 7th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Be sure to tell AFP there’s a typo on the front page of FightingBack. I’d hate for people to get the impression that they whip these out to whip up the masses.
March 7th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Typo alert: “forehead”
Foust, why don’t you grow a pair son?
March 7th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I’m not in charge here, and I fully support anyone’s right to run their web the way they like, but let me quote from the BadgerBlogger Comment & Contact Policy: “Constructive criticism is welcome. Name calling, especially of the profane sort, is not welcome and will get you ignored, banned or worse If you want to take issue with something I post, feel free, but do it in an intelligent way. I respect differing viewpoints, but I have no respect for someone that just calls me a Stupid Neanderthal or worse. Also, if you are going to launch an attack on me, be adult enough to use your name or at least a working email address.”
March 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Comrade Foust:
I too am angered by the insult to Neanderthals.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Poor little Johnny Forehead is frustrated.
Johnboy, my 8 year old is more of man than you.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Protester Alert! The AFL-CIO has put out an action alert and will be here to protest us at noon!
What, they couldn’t get out of bed earlier on a Saturday?
Sounds like a great summit, wish I could have gone.
March 7th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
It looked like mostly SEIU out there. That’s ok. We can be persistent, too.
March 7th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
How come every time they have a SUMMIT in D.C. I get billed??
March 7th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
What an awesome event. Say hey to Fred for me
ooooooo and I hear he wss looking for a beer vendor. Tell him I have a cold one for him he just has to come and get it.
March 7th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Secret Agent #2, don’t blow your cover.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I wish I could have been there! It sounds like it’s turning out to be an awesome event.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Great event! I had to leave before the break-out sessions though due to factors beyond my control -didn’t sleep well last night. I did get to meet Phelony finally and we had a nice time chatting. Also chatted with Patrick, Fred, Chris from Racine, Steve, and several others. Even got to shake Joe the Plumber’s hand and tell him that he’s a Great American! Mike Dean from First Freedoms Foundation was there too. Great guy! He introduced me to one of the speakers, Fred Kelly Grant. Fascinating guy who also understands and appreciates sound law enforcement and effective policing strategies. He and I will be communicating more on that issue.
All of the speakers were excellent, but Herman Cain just rocked the house! Pastor David King also had a very powerful message which I’m sure he carries throughout the neighborhoods of the City of Milwaukee. And Vicki McKenna was awesome as usual.
The leftys have good reason to fear us. We’re going to retire their politicians in 2010 and throw Obama out of the White House in 2012! And they’re lefty agenda is going to make it easy for us to do it too!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Sounds like a great time, looking forward to reading and seeing more.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Ms. Jones was there? Awww, didn’t see ya Phel.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Patrick, if you need any help processing video let me know. I’d be happy to help.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Shoot - I didn’t see Phel either!! But I believe a good time was had by all!
March 7th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
The protest was even more pitiful that I first reported, it was actually less than 20 angry union thugs. Yes, I know, it was raining, but in Green Bay they had over 500 Great Americans turn out for a Tea Party in the same cold rain.
March 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Thanks Matt, worst case scenario, I can do it on the laptop, it’s just easier to work on the grown-up PC
March 7th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I didn’t see Phelony Jones there. Where was she hiding?
March 7th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Video looks like it will be delayed until tomorrow (Sunday).
March 8th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I don’t get it. What exactly were these pathetic union hacks protesting? Prosperity?
March 8th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Just checking in from Florence (Firenze) Beautiful day and hard to believe I’m on the same latitude as Chicago. I’m up for CRG and got juiced when I read, recall Doyle. I’ll put up real dollars for that. Wisconsin is a beautiful place, let’s not let them ruin it for real working people and their families.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Just an FYI, the videos are coming, now YouTube is the hold-up, they are uploading extremely slow… at least I hope it is uploading, there is no status indicator anymore…
March 8th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I also feel compelled to add that while I had a hand at getting us un-lost, it probably wouldn’t have been necessary had I not gotten us lost in the first place
March 8th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I told ya, I thought we should stop and ask for directions, but nooooooo, you knew where we were going…
March 8th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
YouTube is being stupidly slow today, I am thinking about uploading them all to my server and just embedding the MPEG’s. Never uploaded to Facebook, maybe I’ll think about that.
March 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Yes, you were right - I SHOULD have asked for directions
March 8th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Barf.
I came here to see if you CRG clowns hung Dickert yet.
Can I have my click back after seeing that Joe the Plumber autograph?
March 8th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@toilet town - WTF is your problem? From what you’ve written, the name fits
March 9th, 2009 at 9:18 am
I believe the name “Toilet Town” is in homage to his/her hometown of Sheboygan…and represents the authors personal bitterness.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
No, it’s homage to Kohler
Toilets? Kohler? Dickert? Get it?
March 9th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
So Toilet Town is a reference to whatever cities in Mexico and China Kohler has moved its production to.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
The SEIU was so lack-luster. Someone from Senator Darling’s Office told me they sent out the e-mail less 24 hours before the Summit began on Saturday.
I posted on my blog on the North Shore Exponent debunking their very false and misleading press release they put on AFP. Basically, these people from SEIU are lying and misleading the public.
March 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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