Posted on Friday, 6th March 2009 by Glenn D. Frankovis
I want to bring to your attention a new publication by Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan called Common Sense which also has a website www.CommonSenseMilwaukee.com. Alderman Donovan has plans to make this a quarterly publication and will be distributing the first issue of this publication throughout the metro Milwaukee area tomorrow with 50 volunteers. Please take the time to read the info provided on the website link. This is an effort to get Milwaukeeans involved in City government and provide their input and/or allow them to ask questions through the e-mail address: [email protected]. I would invite anyone reading this post, whether or not you are a City of Milwaukee resident, to offer any suggestions you may have to make Milwaukee better, as we all know that Milwaukee needs all the help it can get. My only request would be that any input be in the form of suggested solutions and/or constructive criticism. I am of the belief that a “silent majority” exists in Milwaukee and that most of the people who vote for leftys like Jim Doyle, who wants to release criminals back into their neighborhoods and tax the hell out of us, simply don’t understand just how detrimental these so-called elected representatives are for the City of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin just as many of them are now beginning to realize the mistake they made voting for Obama. Let’s help get the message out to these people. Many of them may not read BB or even have access to a computer, but they will have an opportunity to read Alderman Donovan’s quarterly publication, and the other local, county and state politicians will be reading it too (as well as online). This publication, with its online access, can be a very powerful tool to tap into the pulse of the City and outlying community and, as such, it will command the attention of all politicians.
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March 6th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Thank you for alerting us to this new effort. I have already submitted one proposal to the alderman to fit the call for constructive criticism.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I see that Ald. Donovan is using a city phone number as his contact number. With a city wide circulation of this newsletter is he also using city funds for that?
March 7th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Hello Richard, can I call you Dick?
Bob Donovan is paying for his newsletter with stimulus money. Get a clue,
March 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Hey Richard, good question. Give him a call and ask him and then get back to us with the answer.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
By the way, I talked with Bob Donovan after I got home from the AFP conference, and he told me that he had 50 volunteers made up of City residents, to include off-duty Firefighters, who braved the rain to distribute 20,000 copies of the paper all over the city. I’d say there’s more than just a little interest in this project.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Glenn, did you have an opportunity to ask Bob about the costs? I would have asked him last night at Don’s Pub but didn’t want to approach him during dinner. I’m glad so many folks participated. Just want to make sure his prgram doesn’t get trash talked.
Gus, not sure who you are but I prefer Richard. Thanks for asking.
March 7th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
We talked before I read your comment. His program is already being criticized on one of the lefty blogs, but then that’s all those guys know how to do so it comes as no surprise to me.
March 8th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I pulled up the ‘Common Sense’ webpage…loading slow though…one question I have is this appears to be a community outreach effort to help not just his constituents but all Milwaukeeans, why would it be a problem for the city to pay for the printed materials? Or the website? This appears to be in keeping with his duties as an alderman if you ask me…regardless of whether the Liberal Squawk Brigade agrees with his style or his politics.
March 8th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Hate to rain on the lefty’s parade, but the good alderman paid for the newspaper with money out of his own pocket. And…….several area businesses also contributed because of deep concern for the direction this city is headed. There you have it! Any other questions??? When people believe in something they contribute, money, time, etc., whatever it takes. Milwaukee is in big trouble - don’t kid yourself. We need someone to move us forward. Someone with a plan. Right now, we’re dead in the water!
March 8th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Dennis, thank you for finding out. Not sure where you’re from, but not spending taxpayer money on projects that could be funded privately is a good idea. You must be one of these new conservatives that doesn’t get that model.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I don’t know of anyone that wants mass transit. Essentially you risk life and limb using the bus these days at about the same cost or more of owning your own ($7.50 person mile). Now they want to expand something that doesn’t work, doesn’t help and puts the general population at more risk enabling criminal activity to expand.
Why don’t you spend the money on getting the %49 of students not attending school to school with lunch in hand. Use the money to find those students and parents not participating and hold them responsible/accountable for themselves. The city and federal government are responsible for letting the parents and kids be irresponsible, not MPS. The kids are entitled to education, entitle them and hold them and their parents responsible. Use the money to put those kids in boarding schools if their parents choose not to participate. An uneducated citizen votes to get free money, votes to steal money from their neighbors.
Uneducated citizens do not make good neighbors…
March 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Uneducated citizens make great dependents for Democrats to exploit for political purposes.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:43 am
There has to be some fair ground between Alan Keyes and Obama, where people that can’t help themselves get the help they need and they people that can help themselves will be responsible for themselves.
You make bad choices, you make bad choices, quit forcing everyone else to pay for your bad choices. We know you know who the fathers are, make them take responsibility, not your neighbors.
We are free, at a great cost, quit taking my freedom away because of your bad choices or even bad luck.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I emailed them a couple days ago…no acknowledgment yet.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Day #3….no response.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Day #4….no response.
March 11th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Ron, I just got back from 3 days of my own version of “spreading the wealth” out in Las Vegas. Among the calls on my answering machine was one from Bob Donovan asking that I call him “about the blog”. I don’t know if this has anything to do with your e-mail non-resaponses but I’ll try to find out when I call him tomorrow. This thing may need some fine tuning, but I like the concept. It certainly is an attempt to get people involved.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Thanks Glenn. I was going to keep posting until they responded or I ran out of days.
Maybe they got a deluge of email or maybe my idea s**ked.
It’s good to know BB has some clout.
March 12th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Ron, I just finished talking with Bob Donovan and he told me that they are acknowledging e-mails they receive if only with a Thank You, so if you haven’t received such an acknowledgement or want more of a reply to whatever it was you sent them, then call Bob’s aide Patty at 286-3533 and she might be able to provide answers or direct you to someone who can. As with anything new, there may be some bugs to iron out, but Bob tells me that the website has been receiving many e-mails and he is very optimistic. He said the next issue of Common Sense may be an 8 pager.
As for Richard’s inquiry, Dennis has the correct information in his comment.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Commenter “Scott”: Your comment is libelous and will not be published here. Thanks for playing.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Believe it or not, your humble poster Gus, is personal friends with Bob Donovan, and I can assure you that Bob is no Right Wing nut. He is a common sense middle of the road guy.
He sincerely loves Milwaukee.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Last night I emailed Bob a question. At 9:15 this morning, someone from the City called to understand what I was exactly looking for. By 11:08 a.m. today I received my answer.
BTW, this is consistent with any request/assistance I’ve asked from his office over the past 5 years. I’ve always received a prompt an accurate reply.
I agress, Bob loves the City of Milwaukee.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I was with Bob for a couple hours yesterday, he doesn’t have a phony bone in his body.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Gus, i meant I agree…. typo above.
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
As happenstance would have it, I was hanging with Fightin’ Bob Donovan tonight. He thanks the blog for it’s support and he told me to say “Hello” to Glenn.
Hello Glenn!
April 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Tell him Marty’s wife says hello -
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I recently discovered Alderman Donovans, “I Ideas for a Better Milwaukee” and came across the following blog while researching the newsletter online. I simply cannot understand how some would choose to destroy what any clear thinking person would consider to be an outstanding civic tool. I’ve included the full text below…it’s long but worth it for the pure insanity…and a great demonstration of how the left attacks rather than debates.
-Jim
Regard the most absurd statement that ever shamefully needed to be made: Someone must inform Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan that United States elected officials cannot publish newspapers, not even when it is published at taxpayer expense….Alderman Bob Donovan of the Milwaukee Common Council currently issues a newssheet periodical titled, “Common Sense - Ideas for a Better Milwaukee.” He directs “your comments and ideas” to himself, Alderman Donovan, via email (info@CommonSense Milwaukee.com), and via phone number to his office at City Hall (414)286-3533. The publishers of this paper identify themselves only as “We,” so the alderman apparently publishes this paper in collusion with another person, although the name of this collaborator is nowhere provided. In “An Open Letter to Our Citizens,” Alderman Donovan, as author, exhorts “…our elected officials…” thus: “For the love of God - lead.” These are the antics of a backward idiot, alienated from his political environment, alienated from reality, and alienated from the law…a criminal man, desperate to force the opinions of the people whom he is elected to serve and to serve alongside.
Alderman Bob Donovan appears a malcontent, intolerant of the social and political changes which continue outside his own mastery. Alderman Donovan and his shadowy associate aggressively subordinate the US Constitution to their private motives. This periodical of Alderman Donovan finds distribution well beyond the boundary of the Alderman’s District-Eight, and as the paper does not specify a publisher, one may safely conclude that it is being published entirely at taxpayer expense.
The US Constitution’s Bill of Rights prohibits a State-run Press, yet still further crime is committed by Alderman Donovan (et al) in the actual content of this newssheet. To wit, the US Supreme Court prohibits government from encouraging citizens to any private conception of what is ‘good.’ Alderman Donovan’s publication, “Common Sense - Ideas for a Better Milwaukee,” abrogates citizens’ inalienable rights with the very title. Alderman Donovan and his mysterious associate put forward not just a conception of the ‘good,’ but a conception of the ‘better,’ which is simply the ‘good’ in the comparative, and thus compoundingly unconstitutional.
Let us now turn away from Alderman Bob Donovan’s dream of a “Better Milwaukee,” and back to the world of reality and sane practice. Were a private citizen or corporation of Alderman Donovan’s district to publish a newspaper, the Alderman might serve to protect such an enterprise in its right to a Free Press; the Alderman would, however, be constrained from any further association. The Alderman Bob Donovan, though, has taken the liberty of publishing a paper of his very own, and at taxpayer expense, no less! This man and his shrouded collaborator need to be unmasked for the thuggish abusers of right which they are, then to be re-clothed in tar and feathers! Too barbaric for some? Then let’s just throw them both in jail.