In recent weeks, there have been two primary races that have caught the national eye. Both of these races were between establishment Republicans and extremist Tea Party candidates.
In the bigger race, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was
handed a stunning defeat by Tea Party challenger David Brat. More recently, Thad Cochran barely
eked out a come from behind victory over his Tea Party opponent, Chris McDaniel.
In Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District, we have a GOP primary that is shaping up to be rather interesting and, depending on your point of view, quite comical. Sadly, I don't see it getting much attention nationally.
In one corner, we have the perennial Teapublican Dan Sebring. Sebring has run against Gwen Moore about a gajillon times now, always with the same result. Sebring has a strong propensity to be a buffoon with problems ranging from unpaid taxes to racist ads to
raffling off guns for the GOP.
In the other corner, we have an extreme Tea Party member named David King, but goes by the name Apostle David King. Like Sebring, King is a perpetual candidate with a consistent record of failure. Also like Sebring, King has some interesting history, including
being accused of getting a female employee drunk and then raping her.
As if that was not enough, there is
this article announcing King's candidacy. Besides being very poorly written and exemplifying the fact that King has no clue about that which he speaks, comes this little tidbit:
Local grassroots leaders Kristi Lacroix and Paris Procopis is backing King as well. Paris states, “He is not out there giving people a lecture on Ideology 101; he’s actually focused on the real issues that matter. Issues like better education for our kids, and attracting better paying jobs to the Milwaukee area. In fact, he is the only candidate that has actually had to meet a payroll, and with his work with former inmates, he has helped to create thousands of jobs.”
As I'm sure the gentle reader is aware, Kristi Lacroix is the woman whose claim to fame was portraying an educator in a pro-Scott Walker TV ad. But Lacroix and Procopis are also a part of the lovely bunch of savage, knuckle-dragging trolls that like to call themselves "Knots." (It is not clear if this moniker is short for Knotheads or Knotzies.)
Even better is
the comment left on the above-cited article from Sebring himself:
As a candidate for the same office as David King and the owner/operator of a Milwaukee business for nearly 21 years, I take exception to Mr. Procopis’ statement that David King “is the only candidate that has actually had to meet a payroll”. The statement is patently false and intentionally misleading. The idea that someone who has been in business over two decades would have never had any employees, or have had to meet a payroll is absurd . In my opinion, Mr. Procopis owes the voting public a retraction of his statement that David King “is the only candidate that has actually had to meet a payroll” and an apology.
Oh, yeah. This should be fun to watch Sebring and King try to out-conservative and out-nutjob each other.
So while we're pulling out our popcorn for this primary, could someone please call Reince Priebus and ask him how his rebranding scheme is working out.
Dan Sebring is running for the umpteenth time against US Representative Gwen Moore. Last go around, Sebring's claim to fame was running a racist ad against her. This year, he decided to let his proverbial hair hang loose by going with a full blown right wing conspiracy theory:
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