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It is a totally legitimate effort to make voting uniform throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Hours of in-person absentee voting should not vary from locality to locality.
That's fundamentally unfair and potentially a way to disenfranchise people based on where they live.
It's wrong.
Of course, Leftists like Tom Barrett, utter failure as mayor of the decaying city of Milwaukee and three-time gubernatorial loser, object to Assembly Bill 54. They're crying voter suppression.
I say it's voter suppression to allow only certain areas greater access to early voting.
Duh!
From FOX 6 News:A bill introduced in Wisconsin’s Assembly would cut the amount of time voters can cast ballots early for an election. The idea is not sitting well in Milwaukee, and on Tuesday, March 19th, Mayor Tom Barrett and others called it “unjustified.”
Some say it levels the playing field, but others say it attacks a person’s basic right.
“The problem apparently to some Legislatures is too many people are voting in areas that support people of not of their party,” Mayor Barrett said.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and other community leaders don’t support Assembly Bill 54 — a bill that limits a clerk’s office to take in-person absentee ballots Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Rep. Duey Stroebel (R – Saukville) is one of the authors of the bill, and calls it a common sense bill. He says the measure would make absentee voting hours uniform statewide.
“What this bill is geared toward is fairness and equality,” Stroebel said.
Opponents in Milwaukee see it as a power play from the right, and feel it disenfranchises minority and college voters.
That's ridiculous.
College students and minorities can vote during the same hours as other citizens in Wisconsin. It's crazy to claim otherwise.
If Barrett and his Leftist brethren want longer hours, including weekends, for voting, then all Wisconsinites should enjoy that convenience.
There is nothing unfair about MAKING VOTING FAIR FOR ALL.
Good grief!
I fully support Stroebel's bill and I encourage Wisconsin voters to contact their representatives and demand the passage of legislation that prevents people in certain areas from having extended voting opportunities that others lack.
This really is a no-brainer.
Of course, it should be fair.
On election day, polls are open in the state for specified hours. The same should be true for early voting.
Anything other than equal voting opportunity for all throughout the state is unjust.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), a longtime proponent of local control, said Monday that Gov. Scott Walker's call to end residency rules statewide could hurt some of Milwaukee's best neighborhoods.
Grothman said that, while he viewed the end of residency rules statewide as a good idea "in the abstract," Milwaukee is the state's most important city.
"We have to be mindful that it might be devastating to some of the city's best residential neighborhoods," he said. "It will be big trouble in Milwaukee."
...Asked if he would actively oppose the measure, Grothman repeated his statement that it would harm some of the city's neighborhoods.
Asked if the measure belonged in the state budget, as opposed to a separate measure, Grothman said: "Of course it doesn't belong in the budget."
If the only thing propping up Milwaukee is the residency rule, the city is in BIG trouble.
Milwaukee is important to Wisconsin, being the state's largest city; but that's no reason to impose rules that hold people hostage.
According to Grothman, abolishing the rule would be "devastating to some of the city's best residential neighborhoods."
Why?
Why would people leave great neighborhoods? Why would they choose to uproot if where they live is so desirable?
They wouldn't. There's no reason to assume the best residential neighborhoods would be devastated if some city employees are no longer forced to live within the city limits.
Is Grothman saying that only the residency requirement is keeping the city afloat?
Arguing that lifting the residency rule would mean a mass exodus from the city's good neighborhoods is to argue that people would never choose to live in Tom Barrett's Milwaukee without being coerced. It's to admit that the city has so many negatives and the quality of life is so poor that people will escape even the "city's best residential neighborhoods" if given the chance.
Not good. Not good at all.
If the residency rule is the only thing keeping Milwaukee from collapsing then the city may be too far gone to save.
On his radio program yesterday afternoon, Mark Belling shared information about an incident involving Chris Larson, the new Democrat minority leader in the Wisconsin State Senate.
It's yet another case of Larson behaving badly.
We know he's a crook. That's documented.
We know he conducts himself in a very uncivil manner when referring to his colleagues in the Senate.
We have case after case of his immaturity, mental instability, and overall poor character.
Larson, the new Dem leader, has had numerous scrapes with the law.
Belling told his audience about the unhinged Larson's disorderly conduct arrest on May 21, 2004.
Relatively speaking, that's not terribly long ago. At the time of the incident, Larson was an adult. He can't chalk up his behavior as some youthful indiscretion.
Larson's car was towed for a parking violation on N. Bartlett Avenue, on the east side of Milwaukee.
At 9:45 in the morning, the tow truck driver hooked up Larson's car, which was in a tow-away zone. Larson came out, "yelling and screaming and jumped into the vehicle after it had been hooked up to the tow."
The car was hooked up and Larson actually got in the car! He refused to get out. As the tow truck driver pulled away, headed for the tow lot on the south side, around 38th and Lincoln, Larson was honking his horn the entire time.
It's not a short trip from Bartlett to Lincoln. Larson threw a lengthy tantrum. He wouldn't get out of the car until the police were called. Larson received a citation for disorderly conduct for his honking hissy fit.
What a loon!
This is not normal. Honking the horn all the way from Bartlett to Lincoln? I've seen plenty of cars being towed. I've never seen a person in the car, honking the horn continuously. How bizarre!
Why haven't the media informed the public about Larson's antics?
Now that Larson is the minority leader in Wisconsin's Senate and he's in a high profile position of authority, I think it's appropriate for these incidents to be discussed.
On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article about the Republicans' amazement that Larson was chosen to lead the Democrats, "Republicans poke fun at new Democratic leader in Senate."
Not one word about Larson's shoplifting and disorderly conduct was included.
Why would the Journal Sentinel omit that?
He's a Democrat.___________________
Listen to audio.
Chris Larson of Milwaukee is now the leader of the Democrats in the Wisconsin State Senate.
CHRIS LARSON!
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:Democrats in the state Senate elected 32-year-old freshman Sen. Chris Larson of Milwaukee as minority leader on Tuesday -- a surprise decision that Republicans instantly cheered.
Larson was first elected to the Senate in 2010 after beating a more conservative Democrat in a primary and since then has been a reliable part of the caucus's liberal wing. With his relative youth and inexperience, some Republicans immediately signalled Tuesday that they thought he would be ineffective as a leader.
"Obviously, I'm new," Larson said in a brief interview after the caucus vote. "But I think I've made that up in the work that I've done over the last two years speaking up and speaking to the issues that matter to our constituency, the middle class, the people who are blue-collar workers."
Larson was elected on November 2, 2010, when Wisconsin elected Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Sen. Ron Johson and a slew of other Republicans. He's only been in the State Senate for two years, and much of that time was spent doing interviews on MSNBC. Larson runs to cameras, whether national or local. He had the audacity to consider himself a hero for going AWOL, running away to Illinois.
Without question, Larson has a massive ego.
Almost nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the Democrats, but the choice of Larson is surprising.
He's inexperienced. He's an extremely extreme liberal, which is probably why Larson is so loved by the likes of the foul-mouthed, misogynistic Ed Schultz and other MSNBC/NBC wingnuts.
Larson is also a crook. Literally.
Larson's illegal activities didn't bother voters when he successfully ran in 2008, to become Milwaukee County supervisor for the 14th District.
Larson's criminal past didn't bother Milwaukee voters two years later when he challenged incumbent Jeff Plale, vying for the 7th District seat. Milwaukee voters chose Larson to represent them in the State Senate.
Now, the crook, darling of the radical Left media, has been chosen to be the Democrat minority leader in the Wisconsin State Senate.
I can understand why Senate Republicans are pleased.
Let's dip into Larson's larcenous past.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 2008:Christopher Larson is a 27-year-old business manager for a series of sports stores who is the favorite to win a seat on the County Board.
But things were much different in March 2000.
Larson was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and, by his own description, struggling to make ends meet.
That's when he was busted for retail theft.
"I made a dumb mistake," Larson said Friday.
The details of the case are fuzzy. He said he was caught stealing food from a Milwaukee grocery store. He said he can't remember exactly which items he tried to obtain with a five-finger discount. A copy of the city ticket, which carried a $331 fine, and the court file were not available late Friday.
As part of a deal reached with a Municipal Court judge, Larson agreed to take a course in exchange for having the ordinance violation dropped, he said. Asserting that he has not stolen anything since, he credited the situation with "completely turning me around."
Asked if voters should take this matter into consideration when voting April 1, Larson said he didn't think so because he has changed so much in the past eight years. Larson, a political liberal, scored a surprisingly easy victory in the five-way primary contest to replace longtime Supervisor Richard Nyklewicz Jr. in the south-side district.
"Everybody makes dumb mistakes," Larson said. "It happened so long ago."
His opponent, Steven Kraeger, said he was shocked to hear about Larson's run-in with the law. He said he was not the source of an anonymous letter to No Quarter containing an official summary of the case.
Kraeger, a 50-year-old conservative, said he thought the matter should be made public. But he would leave it to the voters to decide its relevance and importance.
So Larson is a crook. He doesn't think it's a big deal. He minimizes it. "Everybody makes dumb mistakes." True, we all make mistakes, but we all most definitely do NOT commit crimes like Larson.
He's also a flamethrower, regularly spewing incendiary rhetoric. Larson is not someone likely to work well with the Republicans.
He's childish and disrespectful. He would take to Twitter to rant and rave.
For example, from March 3, 2011, when Larson and his Dem comrades fled the state to avoid doing their jobs: How does the guy thwarting the democratic process respond to the Republicans' resolution to hold him and his colleagues in contempt of the Senate?
He vilifies and denigrates Republicans.
Larson tweets:
...and Senate Republicans have officially gone 'round the bend. Next up, dropping puppies from the top of the Capitol onto protestors.
Expecting elected officials to remain in the state to do what they were elected to do, serve as legislators, is NOT akin to "dropping puppies from the top of the Capitol."
What a sick thing to imagine!
Yes, that's Chris Larson, the Senate Democrats' chosen leader.
Their selection of Larson tells you all you need to know about the mindset of the Dems and the path they intend to take.____________________
More lunacy from the deviant Larson, on TV and Twitter.
