Walker playing "I beg your pardon"?

“Last night I had the strangest dream…”

Ever since Scott Walker and the Fitzgerald Brothers took hold of power in Wisconsin nothing is as it appears. The shell game began when Walker “dropped the bomb” to curtail collective bargaining rights without ever mentioning the plan during his campaign; each announcement of policy must dissected and tested like a contaminated frog for the DNA chain, in order to
reveal the real truth.

The most recent surprising announcement, that’s left the press scratching its head and pondering the true meaning of “Scotology”, is the decision not to question the validity of the signatures on the governor’s recall petitions, after months of “Mickey Mouse” accusations and the formation of check groups promising to overturn enough fraudulent signatures to curtail collective recalling rights, Walker suddenly announces that he will not challenge the petitions with a very suspicious reason; “Not enough time”. Suddenly, after requests for extensions, law suites, and allegations, it is all over in a few simple words?

Like many other reporters and bloggers, I don’t buy it.

Walker drops another bomb?

If the collective bargaining bomb was the earthquake the wave that follows might well be the tsunami. Unfortunately, it is so aligned with Walker’s sociopathic profile that it has all the traction of a monster car. It would be very Walker-like to dismiss the signature verification process while planning his next self-serving tactic in the midst of his impending recall and/or indictment.

Here is the scenario:

Let us assume, and this is far beyond a leap of fate, that Walker is indicted. Following the indictment we might expect a martyr’s press release or speech, loosely fashioned from the text of Nixon’s announcement to resign the presidency, including the line where he passes the power to his most trustworthy and awe inspiring Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. But the Nixon analogy does not stop here. Now Governor Kleefisch follows the lead of Gerald Ford and uses her new found power to pardon Walker, and quite possibly Timothy Russel, Kelly Rindfleish and the whole cadre felonious conspirators.

The governor has the power to pardon or commute sentences or grant reprieves thereto, except in cases of treason or impeachment; it is required that notifications of these be submitted to the Wisconsin State Legislature each year, along with the reason for them. Wiki Gubernatorial Pardon

The power of the gubernatorial pardon has frequent precedent

Doyle has granted 85 pardons between Aug. 17, 2009, when he announced he would not seek re-election, and early August of this year, according to records obtained by The Associated Press under the state open records law.

What’s a guy, without scruples, got to lose?

Walker ends his tenure as governor of Wisconsin the way it began while escaping from a net of lies, half truths, manipulation, and power grabbing. He vacates Wisconsin with some portion of his accumulated fund raising treasure, following the lead of Sarah Palin who raised millions for a never executed run for president. Scott Walker is ordained as poster boy, who suffered the pangs and arrows of the outrageous fortunes dealt him by the looney left, (Ann Coulter is working on the book?) and transverses the country netting millions from speaking engagements before assembled zealots of Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party, ALEC, McIver Institute, and is chosen as the vice presidential candidate in the 2016 presidential election.

“Last night I had the strangest dream…”

RECALL – Lambeau Horse Collar AWARDS

Lambeau Field will not host any more playoff games this season. It can serve to host a great example of the number of people who signed recall petitions by imagining the oval stadium as a huge horse collar.

Knowing that Lambeau Field’s current capacity is 73,128 we can use the oval horse collar to help visualize the number of people who signed recall petitions.

When hearing numbers like 20,000 signatures or 800,000 signatures, I have a difficult time understanding what those numbers mean in terms of the actions and effect of real human beings. When Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate, made his initial announcements of recall progress a few weeks ago, he said that the 507,000 signatures collected at that time, would be the equivalent of filling Lambeau Field 7 times. That helped me get my mind around the mass of people who were opposed to the performance of Scott Walker and Kleefisch. I know the sound of 73,000 Boos.

One Lambeau Horse Collar equals about 70,000 signatures. We know that Walker already has earned 7 horse collars. The totals will be updated throughout the day.

WALKER

1,000,000 – 14 Horse Collars! The number of people who want Scott Walker out of office would fill Lambeau Field 14 times! WisPolitics: Recall organizers say they have more than 1 million signatures against Walker Squeezing the truth from Walker’s current ad

KLEEFISCH

845,000 – 12 Horse Collars! The number of people who want Rebecca Kleefisch out of office would fill Lambeau Stadium 12 times! A few weeks ago, she released an ad warning people of the expense of signing a recall petition. If you use Rebecca’s own math and divide the $117 million in Walker corporate tax give away by the total number of votes cast in his 2010 election or 2,160,832 you arrive at a whole different story. Walker and Kleefisch gave 117,000 million in tax breaks to the wealthy, while 2,160,832 people voted in the 2010 election. So, by her own math, a signature on the current recall election, is not costing anything at all. In fact each signer is being paid about 60 dollars! Just think for every signature you get on a Walker/Kleefisch recall petition you are returning about $60 to the working families of Wisconsin! Kleefisch Alter Voice Speaks

SCOTT FITZGERALD

1/3rd Horse Collar This is a Wisconsin miracle. Few people thought it was possible to collect the minimum amount of signatures to trigger a recall election of Speaker Scott Fitzgerald. Lori Compass turned her home and her life into a Recall Fitzgerald Office. A remarkable and inspiring 1/3 horse collar! 20,600 Signatures Collected Only 16,742 needed to trigger a Recall Election. Lori never planned to become a one-woman political committee. A freelance photographer and writer originally from St. Louis but now a resident of Fort Atkinson to become the David to take on Goliath. She is not funded by big union, out-of-state-money but only by a deep beating heart for democracy. Against all odds she orchestrated the successful recall of Senator Scott Fitzgerald! Scott Walker and Scott Fitzgerald Please Watch the Video Above. You are not facing big union organization or out-of-state money. You are facing your constituents. You are hearing the voices of the people of Wisconsin who you failed to listen to over the past long, hard, year.

Recall Cost $9 Million – Democracy 99 Cents

A recall election to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office could cost at least $9 million.

Wow! This is even more than Kleefisch projected in her TV ad by using simple math. She came up with a figure closer to $7 million.

GAB Director Kevin Kennedy cautioned that Friday’s numbers are estimates and election costs can vary. Republicans still pounced on the numbers, saying the state can’t afford recall after recall.

This is the classic “tail bites dog” story, that ever be told.

Since the story casts the donkey icon and democrats as the spend-happy villains, it might be pegged as more of a “tail bites ass” story. Anyway, Wisconsin republicans place the onus for the $9 million on the democrats, like the recall action targeting Walker/Kleefisch is a frivolous effort that is being orchestrated without real cause, or as Rebbecca Keelfisch says in her TV ad, “We already made our choice, back in November, just a while ago”. Life is so simple when you are pulling down $76,261 (after the recent increase) for being a former news anchor turned poster child and captain of the Walker cheerleading squad.

Kleefisch Plus Alter-Voice

Hey, GOP – Democracy is Free

The democrats did not just get together and do this in the dark of night. Wisconsin voters amended the state Constitution over 84 years ago. In 1926 laws were passed to allow for the recall of state officials. The democrats didn’t just post a late night meeting on March 9, 2011 to pass the recall legislation as did the republicans to end collective bargaining rights – a procedure resulting in an injunction in Dane County Court until it was finally ok’d by the state supreme court in mid June, following a choking incident, in a 4 – 3 decision. One of the four, Prosser, was elected under questionable found votes in Waukesha. Another of the 4, Gableman, is now under investigation for ethics violations for his “free defense” by Michael Best Law Firm.

But a Recall Election is too costly.

The democrats did not hire lawyers from Michael Best law firm to gerrymander the rules for recalling elected state officials, as the republicans did to draw new voter districts in their favor – a maneuver that is being reviewed by District Courts and has caused a mess of confusion as to who represents who in the state government.

But a Recall Election is too, too costly.

Not one associate of any democrat in the state senate or assembly has been granted immunity in a John Doe investigation in the past year, but the GOP and Walker cannot say the same. Associates of Scott granted immunity are: Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie, and GOP official Rose Ann Dieck, while associate Andrew P. Jensen Jr. was arrested for refusing to cooperate with the FBI investigation. Then of course William Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., whose company received grants from the state totaling $14 million, was sentenced to two years’ probation after pleading guilty to two felony violations of state campaign finance laws for exceeding the donation limits and laundering donations to Walker and other Wisconsin politicians. Not to mention the recent arrests of Walker’s former top aid Tim Russell, and his Milwaukee associates Brian Pierick and Kevin Kavanaugh who was Walker’s appointee to the Milwaukee County Veteran Service Commission, for charges including embezzlement and child enticement charges.

But a Recall Election is too, too, too costly.

The simple solution is to rescind the $14 million in grants from the convicted felon, William Gardner, and apply it to the cost of the recall elections and there would still be $5 million left over to launch a real investigation of Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nicholaus.

Or just buy a can of “democracy” shaving cream for 99 cents shave the whole Wisconsin executive, legislature, and court system clean.

ALTER Voice of Rebecca Kleefisch – Videos

Lieutenant Gov Rebecca Kleefisch released two video adds in support of the Walker Administration. Her alter voice created two more. Here by popular demand.

Meeting Countdown

Kleefisch – Mistah Kurtz—he dead

Rebecca Kleefisch:
“Governor has kept his promises”

Kathleen Falk:
“Walker has not been honest”

T.S. Elliot:
“Between the idea and the reality – Falls the shadow.”. (The Hollow Men)

All three quotes are true to some degree or other, but the final quote of the trilogy, the one by T.S. Elliot, speaks to the shadow between the truth of all the words above. The shadow surrounding Scott Walker’s year long management of the office of governor, has generated the dark ink that has spilled itself in the form of over 300,000 signatures on recall petitions in just two weeks.

The opening of the poem is quoted below, with link provided at the bottom to the full work.
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Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
The Hollow Men complete poem

The Shadow – Balancing the Budget

Walker campaigned on the simplistic mantra that he would balance the state budget. For all the talk and controversy, balancing a budget is not a difficult task, at least in the sense of mathematical accounting. You simply cross out expenses until they match the income. Simple really. The problem is one of leadership calling for negotiation, compromise, and skills of listening demanded to reach a fair consensus. Scott Walker is so inept in this regard he begs recall. He has vilified teachers and public workers, even when they made an offer to contribute to their pension funds back in February. He is a disgrace to any ideal of fair leadership. Instead of demonstrating a willingness to listen and compromise he began a slow process to close the avenues of communication by imposing administrative rules to silence any voices of opposition. Can anyone remember a press conference called by Walker to address controversy? You Pick the Game – I Make the Rules Finally, he closed the spigot of free speech to the point where the starving voice of the people is left with no option but to snake out the clog. Recall Walker. Walker Scares the Dickens Out of Me

The Shadow – Rebecca Kleefisch:
“Governor has kept his promises”

Yep. He balanced the budget, but his whole campaign was a lie of omission. Does anyone believe he would have been elected governor if he had been honest with his plans to end collective bargaining rights? The Walker campaign was an unconscionable lie to the people of Wisconsin. If future candidates, Republican, Democrat or Independent, are to be trusted to campaign on a specific agenda of policy, the only recourse is to send a message to Walker and Fitzgerald or any future candidate that such gaping lies of omission will not stand in Wisconsin. They have lowered the bar of truth of promise to voters. They must be recalled. The Advent of Alec the Secret Malignant Magi

But Rebecca Kleefisch says “Walker is that rare type”.

A similar description was awarded to the man alluded to by T.S. Eliot; Guy Fawkes: “that it was this mixture of piety and professionalism which endeared him to his fellow conspirators”. Guy Fawkes was an attempted arsonist of the English house of Parliament, and his straw-man effigy is burned each year in the United Kingdom on November 5; Guy Fawkes Night. Yep, Guy Fawkes was also a rare type. Yet, he is symbolically recalled each November until his rare is quite well done. Yet, he is knocking, knocking, knocking at the window.

Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca.

As a mom with two small kids, I’m glad that Scott Walker is looking out for families like ours. As lieutenant governor, I see his leadership skills helping Wisconsin families like mine. It was a rare thing to cover a politician who said what he’d do and do what he said. Walker is that rare type.
Kleefisch Op-Ed wsjonline

The Kleefisch view of the importance and character of unions in this state and country is so simplistic and shallow that it must be derived from labor research going back, well, at least six or nine months. It makes me want to knock her window as she talks, in the commercial “Your Money”, about collective bargaining as though it were an ingredient of holiday chex mix.

And, of course, the T. S. Elliot poem ends with the famous words: For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Meeting Countdown

Oh! the cost of Signing up for DEMOCRACY

Rebecca Kleefisch’s Foamy Math

Beginning at the very beginning, let us remember the very first thing Walker did when he entered the Governor’s office.

There is a kernel of truth in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s claim of a “budget shortfall” of $137 million. But Walker, a Republican, failed to tell the state that less than two weeks into his term as governor, he, with his swollen Republican majorities in the Wisconsin legislature, pushed through $117 million in tax breaks for business allies of the GOP. There is your crisis.
What Governor Walker is not telling you

Rebecca Kleefich has determined the total cost of signing the recall petitions in last Summer’s Senate recall election to be 2,900 million dollars. She goes on to estimate the cost of the election to recall her and Scott Walker to be 7,700 million dollars.

If you use Rebecca’s own math and divide the $117 million in Walker corporate tax give away by the total number of votes cast in his 2010 election or 2,160,832 you arrive at a whole different story. Walker and Kleefisch gave 117,000 million in tax breaks to the wealthy, while 2,160,832 people voted in the 2010 election. So, by her own math, a signature on the current recall election, is not costing anything at all. In fact each signer is being paid about 60 dollars!

Just think for every signature you get on a Walker/Kleefisch recall petition you are returning about $60 to the working families of Wisconsin!

Download, circulate, sign! There is big savings in it!

Kleefisch Alter Voice Speaks

Fundamentally Kleefisch

The counter till the days of recall began somewhere around 260. Now it is just 4 days till the recall action begins!

What about Kleefisch?

Meeting Countdown

Fundamentally Kleefish

Republican Attorney General Van Holen informed us that Rebecca Kleefisch was a “separate political entity” from Governor Walker. As a result, a separate recall sheet for Rebecca will be passed (if not paper clipped) to the recall Walker signature sheets.

Who is “separate entity” Rebecca?

Well for starters she is married to Representitive Joel Kleefisch a Republican representing the area of Oconomowoc. Joe authored the bill AB237 with language that would give arrest powers to law enforcement officials over, well…anyone.

“violating a law that constitutes a civil forfeiture if the law enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person is violating or has violated the law”

Read about the bill to give the State Patrol “reassurance” in the legality of arrests in the assembly gallery.

But what about Rebecca. She is a comfortable spokesperson for herself, since she was a talking head on WISN-TV in Milwaukee and has railed against health care reform in front to tea party gatherings, and anywhere else she can find a microphone and red part of the state to espouse her fundamentally “christian” message of no government help for the ne’er do wells. Kleefisch talks about her successful cancer treatment, which was diagnosed, treated and financed through the access she has to health care as the spouse of an state elected official (Rep. husband Joe). Kleefisch supports a plan that would cut 400,000 working families off the state’s successful BadgerCare plan. I guess it is fundamentally not christian to offer affordable health care to working adults and children whose employers don’t offer health care benefits and who can’t afford for-profit health care plans. Kleefisch and health care

Should Dog’s be Allowed to Marry?

The fundamentally christian Kleefisch was at her fundamentally self righteous best when she made a remark on a christian broadcast station WVCY. The context was the very thought stretching the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ – Love they neighbor as thyself – to mean allowing gay domestic partners to share benefits.

“We can’t at this point afford to just be handing out money to anyone. This is a slippery slope in addition to that — at what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous. Can we marry dogs?

She apologized some days later for her “insensitive” remarks, but not even her own uncle Chris Pfauser (pictured in video below) doubted the sincerity of the gesture. He and his partner Rob Gow consider themselves to be married. They’ve been together for 18 years and would get married, except same-sex marriage is against the law in Michigan where they live. Pfausere – Apology insincere

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