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Now maybe we can get the attention of those outside of Milwaukee. Many of us in Milwaukee County have been fighting plans to, among other things, set up “group homes” for violent sexual predators. We have been questioning why people from outside of Milwaukee never seem to be interested in this subject, now that a task force is trying to foist the first of these facilities on the residents of Waukesha County, perhaps more people will realize what we are fighting against.

It’s a shame that your children have to be endangered before you realize what we have been fighting for.

Housing for sex offenders opposed
Task force told to forget about halfway house

A Waukesha County official cautioned a sex offender study group Wednesday against moving forward with a halfway house concept that has stirred strong neighborhood opposition.

“Don’t even think about it,” County Supervisor Duane Paulson of Waukesha told a task force studying whether the county is equipped to handle sex offenders released from prison.

Members of the group are considering recommending that the county establish a halfway house for released offenders inside a former county nursing home.

Located next to the county fairgrounds on Northview Road, the former nursing home currently houses the county’s work-release jail program, although the facility also has unused space available for remodeling.

The task force established by the county’s Criminal Justice Collaborating Council has not decided whether to recommend the halfway house strategy.

As White Death descends upon Milwaukee and the surrounding region, before even a flake has fallen, the panic begins. Store shelves are bare as terrorized citizens prepare for the long siege ahead, businesses and schools plan to close for weeks, and a desperate call goes out for snow plow drivers…

Okay, that may be a little overdramatic, but only a little. Geeze people, it’s Wisconsin, it shows here, get a grip! I understand that 7-14 inches of snow is a pain in the @ss, but it’s Wisconsin. The roads will be clear by the time you get out of work tomorrow so you won’t have to deal with the worst of it (unless like me, you drive for a living).

Give your self a few extra minutes tomorrow morning, give the car ahead of you a little extra following distance and take your time… We can survive this, just like we do every year.

I’m taking bets that most schools will close, not really because of the snow… but because it’s Friday

Today, the McGee supporters on the radio have taken to really juvenile attacks against ViAnna Jordan, mainly based on her appearance, and several callers said she needed “a man” to fix her, but McGee asked “where is she going to get one from?” and the caller suggested Mark Belling, and McGee went on to talk about the children being another kind of ugly, really sophomoric garbage like that. And yesterday, McGee said Ms. Jordan “looks pathetic,” have you seen a picture of McGee Sr. lately? People who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones.

The attacks also continued against Leon Todd, McGee Sr. said “He has a bunch of mixed kids, so he not only love white people, he LOVE white people.” Again, he had to not only inject race, but his children… talk about pathetic. One caller also said he should change his name to Uncle Tom.

They are still holding to the claim that McGee was lied to when he signed his own recall petition, don’t most people read what they sign? Especially an elected official?

McGee Sr. is fixated on the belief that anyone that disagrees with him or anyone in his family, hates them, because of how he (Sr.) is. I find it interesting to hear McGee Sr. continually reference Jesus, he keeps saying “they hated Jesus too.” I think if Jesus were among us today, he would ask Mr. McGee Jr. to admit his wrong doing, instead, he continues to lie, and invokes the name of Jesus in doing so.

One caller equated this recall to a “black on black” crime and said that she doesn’t see any white people being recalled. I guess she wasn’t around when we recalled (I believe it was) 7 County Supervisors and forced the County Executive to resign in disgrace back in 2002, I believe all of those recalled supervisor were white. This recall is about holding someone responsible for doing the wrong thing, not about race.

Bigotry and juvenile attacks, this is not what this recall is about, it is about Alderman McGee’s actions. From his use of a false name, two Social Security Numbers, his homophobic comments, his cheating on his wife and family by having an illicit affair, then denying the child, and committing perjury in court, his arrests, his changing his identity and refusing to pay legal judgments against him… this is a short list of what this election is really about. Many of us don’t think he should be recalled, we think he should be investigated for the crimes that is seems clear that he committed.

You can continue to call the people trying to hold this politician accountable nasty names, pathetic, ugly, honkey, cracker, whitey, Uncle Tom and the whole slew of names I won’t repeat here, I guess this is the only way that you feel you can win, because the facts are certainly against you.

Previous coverage can be found here.

Today ends the official hurricane season, you know… the season that Al Gore said would be the worst that mankind has ever seen, all because of President Bush. The fact is, we didn’t have a single hurricane hit America this year, proving what a fraud Al Gore and his ilk really are. Thanks for confirming that Al!

Because it’s the Governments money, not yours!

Doyle says sick leave program should stay

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle said today that lawmakers should tighten their reporting of sick time but that he felt they should be able to convert unused sick leave into a retirement benefit like regular state employees.

“I think the plan in Wisconsin over many years was to have the basic benefit - retirement and health care package - be the same for elected officials as it is for other people, and I don’t see any reason why that shouldn’t be the case,” Doyle told reporters after a town hall meeting on the state budget at the Cudahy Family Library.

I like the “like regular state employees” comment… How about trying to live like regular state CITIZENS sometime Mr. Nixon Doyle.

This is the same Jim Doyle that, so far, has accrued $169,500 and climbing…

Update
Owen has more at Boots & Sabers.

Original post: November 29, 2006 @ 08:59 — Update below

The effort to recall Alderman Michael Jackson / McGee Jr. has collected enough signatures (including one from McGee himself) to force a recall election. Of course, this morning on his fathers radio show, there was a lot of really nasty rhetoric aimed at ViAnna Jordan and anyone that signed the recall petition, especially other African Americans. They also make it clear that this is solely based on race (even though Ms. Jordan is herself black), they claim that this is all being forced along by white people that hate the McGee’s…

Paranoia

Main Entry: para·noia
Pronunciation: “per-&-’noi-&, “pa-r&-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind

1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations

2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others

It seems that Leon Todd has spoken against McJackson, and is taking a lot of heat, since a black man is not allowed to speak against another black man.

You can keep up to date at the website of ViAnna Jordan

Fox6 has video here.

UPDATE - 2:25 pm

Here is an audio montage from the McGee’s and the callers to McGee Sr.’s radio show. You can hear how they intend to make this recall election about race, not about the many many issues that make people believe that he should not be an elected representative in the city of Milwaukee.

Note: I don’t get good reception of this radio station, I apologize for the background static. Also, the microphone McGee Jr. was using wasn’t working properly part of the time.)

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On the above audio clip, a caller claims that someone from out of the district signed the petition, they live on 18th & Capitol. I can’t of course speak directly to this instance, but the south side of Capitol, and 18th Street south of Captiol are in McGee’s district. Also, it is not uncommon for a recall petition to get a few signatures from people not eligible, that is why the party being recalled has a chance to challenge the signatures. It is also why recall groups collect more signatures than needed. In this case, they needed a minimum of 1,620 signatures, but they collected approximately 2,300, so they are well over what they needed to force a recall.

If you go to The Early Spin Blog, they have the audio of an interview with ViAnna Jordan, giving her description of McGee signing his own recall petition, in the audio above, McGee Sr. claims that his son was lied to and tricked into signing it, but as you can see, his name(s) are on the top of the recall petition.

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With the fact that Michael McGee has been using two names (not to mention two Social Security Numbers and drivers licenses), does this audio clip strike anyone as… Ironic?

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coverage of today’s events.

UPDATE: New TV news coverage
Fox6 has a new video, including comments by ViAnna Jordan as she turned in the signatures.

Further Updates can be found on this updated post.

I don’t normally approve of hate crime enhancers, but these morons deserve everything they are getting.

You can watch this video to see for your self.

Hate crime stands against firefighters

Two North Lake firefighters acknowledge they will be convicted under the state’s hate crime law for their confrontation with a Milwaukee man fishing in Waukesha County, attorneys in the case told a judge Tuesday.

Under a plea agreement approved by the victim, prosecutors will recommend that the firefighter charged with instigating the episode receive “significant” incarceration and that the firefighter charged with joining in and unleashing his German shepherd during the encounter receive probation and undergo racial sensitivity training.

“I’m very satisfied with this outcome,” Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher said. “Under this resolution, the hate crime enhancer will remain.

“That’s what this was all about, a hate crime.”

About 6 PM this evening, a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack was launched on one of my domains, I am not sure which one at this time, but my server support crew is working to secure the server, but you may have problems connecting to the server while they are blocking the DOS attack.

I’ll let you know as soon as i learn anything new.

Wait One Damn Minute! The paper is blaming Scott Walker for laying off 120 workers, as he said he would have to do after the Milwaukee County Board passed an irresponsible budget that included a tax hike, and still didn’t include money to fund jobs that they restored from the Walker budget.

We knew that they would try to pass this off as Walker’s fault. The County Board, when they failed to fund these workers said that they were planning to get concessions from unionized workers, but they never bothered telling the unions. This is the Milwaukee County Board’s fault, their tax increase and irresponsible budgeting has caused this.

You can read my past coverage on this here.

Walker moves to idle 120 workers

Milwaukee County’s financial picture took center stage again Monday as County Executive Scott Walker’s administration notified union officials of 120 layoffs effective in mid-December, and a new option popped up for running county-owned Mitchell International Airport.

Walker moved, as promised, to terminate workers in parks, courthouse security and maintenance after the County Board-approved 2007 budget rejected his privatization plans and provided only partial funding for the jobs.

It’s unclear exactly how Walker’s departments plan to provide perimeter security screening at the courthouse complex, clean the facility and keep parks in shape without the workers or the funding.

His top managers will meet with him Wednesday to propose short-term privatization plans or shifting other workers into those jobs, but legal and budgetary hurdles exist, Walker said.

Sean Hackbarth from The American Mind has just passed a huge milestone, he just passed 1,000,000 visitors!

I I don’t have the time I would like to dedicate to plan that State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, the MoonBat from Middleton is working on to end many of the sales tax exemptions in Wisconsin. This would raise the sales tax that we pay by some $3.9 billion a year. Erpenbach demagogues the issue by claiming that this tax increase isn’t a tax increase… How stupid do they think we are?

Since I don’t have the time to do this story justice, i am going to give you some links to my favorite bloggers covering this story. While you read their coverage, you can listen to Senator Mike Ellis go on a rant with Charlie Sykes. Ellis also touches on the story of legislators scamming the taxpayers by collecting up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in accrued sick pay benefits. (I love to listen to Ellis!)

Listen to Mike Ellis & Charlie Sykes

Boots & Sabers: Dems Propose $3.9 Billion Tax Increase

Texas Hold ‘em Blogger: A TAX INCREASE BY ANY OTHER NAME

The American Mind: Seeking to Raise the Sales Tax

The Fraud Files Blog: Another tax increase for Wisconsin?

There was a big story broken in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the weekend, Lawmakers bypass sick days. We learn that state legislators are working their entire career without taking a single sick day. These legislators are then ‘banking’ these days, and when they retire, they are eligible to keep the accrued sick days, for some, well over $100,000.

This is, and will be a topic on talk radio and the blogs, but I want to focus on one thing that really hit a nerve with me. There have been some legislators that have taken significant time off, continued getting their full pay, while accruing this sweet benefit as a retirement nest egg. For example, Rep. Christine Sinicki (MoonBat-Milwaukee) was in a car accident, and was off for three months recovering, and didn’t take any of her accrued $14,000 worth of this benefit.

My question is, how could someone like Sinicki be off of work for three months, continue to collect her full pay, plus continuing to rack up this so called sick pay time?

All of these legislators are claiming stupidity by saying that none of them knew that they were aware that they were eligible for sick pay, does anyone buy this? I sure don’t. It is ludicrous to think that these legislators are not fully aware of their compensation packages. This benefit, that almost no one outside of taxpayer funded jobs could ever get, is clearly used by them as a pension sweetener, and I am wondering if it is legal? There is a law against Double Dipping, and I wonder if collecting full pay while being off of work, PLUS this growing pile of money that they will collect when they retire or lose an election.

For legislators to claim ignorance is offset by the fact that Rep. Sheldon Wasserman tried to end this perk in 2003, but he couldn’t get a single other lawmaker from either party to support his effort. It is clear that they see this money as theirs.

Seems like something that newly elected Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen might consider looking into if he is serious about fighting public corruption.

Fresh off of his vote to override a veto, and approve a budget that will raise taxes on Milwaukee County taxpayers by $9 million, not to mention the fact that it includes a $6.5 million shortfall, Ryan McCue has just announced that he is running for Mayor of Cudahy.

Button, compliments of Citizens For Responsible Government

Peter brings us word that Uncle Charlie Rangle thinks that Jon Carry was right. He has more comments and even the video of Rangle expressing his twisted opinion.

Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger: RAINGULL: US MILITARY STUPID LOSERS

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Badger Blogger readers knew about this story days ago, but the paper has finally caught up.

11/18/06: BadgerBlogger: Franklin Voters: Support sexual predator ordinances

11/22/06: BadgerBlogger: Good news on the Sexual Predator fight

11/24/06: JSOnline: Shutting out sex offenders