Rebecca Bradley's Slip Of The Tongue

By Jeff Simpson




The good folks at One Wisconsin Now did some reseach on Scott Walker's flunky Justice Rebecca Bradley and what they found was beyond ugly.  

It seems when Ms. Bradley was in college at Marquette in 1992, the Clinton/Gore election did not sit too well with her.





   

  

  
Here are her letters in full! 


While those statements are beyond hateful, there was something she said, in trying to cover for her pure homophobic hate speech, that unwittingly showed her true colors.

In a statement, Bradley apologized "to those offended by comments I made as a young college student," and said she assures "you that those comments are not reflective of my worldview. These comments have nothing to do with who I am as a person or a jurist, and they have nothing to do with the issues facing the voters of this state. 

 
They have nothing to do with the issues facing the voters of this state?  Maybe the white upper class GOP voters but not most of WI.   I would hate to be an LBBQT person hoping for a fair ruling from Ms. Bradley.  

But wait there's more .......

She said she wrote the columns "as a very young student, upset about the outcome of that presidential election and I am frankly embarrassed at the content and tone of what I wrote those many years ago."

She admits that she is so pure red, dyed in the wool Republican that when the Clinton/Gore ticket beat the George HW Bush/Quayle ticket she could not control her anger and lashed out at the people she hated/blamed.  The gays and the ignorant people of WI, who were not as smart as she is when she heads to the ballot box.    

I am certain now though that is is not a member in good tsanding of the extreme right and she will hear and rule on everything completely impartial.  At least the cases she decides to stay around and listen to, and not go campaign.



As a quick aside, NO judge in history(until now) has EVER left oral arguments to go campaign.  ever.

$147,403 dollars a year doesn't buy what it used too.   Her independence is as fake as her love of hunting!

Looks like Chris Martin and his shadow group - Wisconsin Alliance for Reform, will need to spend a heck of alot more than $700,000 to get this lazy bigot elected!




PS;  The one hilarious thing that came from this breaking story, was Charley Sykes little temper tantrum.

Sykes Tweet:

Charles Sykes‏@SykesCharlie

.@gneumann_wkow @JudgeBradleyWI Eagerly await breathless reports on student writings of Russ Feingold, Joanne Kloppenburg, Tammy Baldwin.

I know Charley is a little slow but let me help him out. 1. The so called "liberal" media had NOTHING to do with releasing these reports it was done with some good research by One Wisconsin Now. 2. If Only Charles had say a TV show, a radio show on the biggest tower in WI and a right wing propaganda website, then maybe he could actually dig up the student writings of stated Democrats. 3. What Sykes is doing here is working the refs....he is trying to guilt them into finding same stories on the Dems(so he does not have to do the work) or else making them hesitate in the future about reporting on such stories. 4. Pretty sure Chuck does not see any problem whatsoever in her writings.

It is essential in 2016 that we elect people who are not fresh out of central casting in 1950.  

Its imperative that we elect Judge Kloppenburg!!!

Walker Implies That Gays Are Pedophiles

Scott Walker apparently has a side bet with Donald Trump to see which one of them can insult the most people before their campaigns crash and burn. Walker's latest example of myopia and bigotry is inplying that gays are pedophiles:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker opened his presidential candidacy speech with a story from his time in Boy Scouts, and he frequently cites being an Eagle Scout to illustrate his Americana appeal and preparedness.

But the Boy Scouts of today is quickly becoming an organization Walker may not recognize.

The Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Committee voted unanimously this week on a directive that would allow gay adults to serve as employees and troop leaders.

In response to the vote, Walker told IJReview:

“I was an Eagle Scout, my kids have been involved, Tonette (Walker) was a den mother.

“I have had a lifelong commitment to the Scouts and support the previous membership policy because it protected children and advanced Scout values.”

Walker did not elaborate on what the children were being protected from, but given his absolute hatred of gay rights, I would presume that he did not mean that gays would feed the kiddies to wild animals or throw them over waterfalls.

Walker Dynasty

By Jeff Simpson

Scott Walker spent many Wisconsin tax dollars and man hours fighting the legalization of gay marriage equality.  Now that the Supreme Court has finally made it legal, Scott Walker is to intimidated to tell us how he really feels about marriage equality! 

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) seemed to bend over backward during a Thursday news conference to avoid articulating a position on same-sex marriage.

"It really doesn't matter what I think now," Walker said, as quoted by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "It's in the constitution."
 "No," he said, as quoted by the Journal-Sentinel. "I'm just not stating one at all."

Mr. Walker does not want to lose any of the LGBTQ vote in a close election so he wisely chooses not to articulate his far right extremist views.  However, as May Angelou told us "when people tell us who they are, we should listen".

It was his Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch who said:

“This is a slippery slope,” Kleefisch said. “In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs?
“This is ridiculous,” continued Kleefisch. “And biblically, again, I’m going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.”

And it was republican Role Model  ducky Phil Robertson, who said this:

What, in your mind, is sinful?
“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”
During Phil’s darkest days, in the early 1970s, he had to flee the state of Arkansas after he badly beat up a bar owner and the guy’s wife. Kay Robertson persuaded the bar owner not to press charges in exchange for most of the Robertsons’ life savings. (“A hefty price,” he notes in his memoir.) I ask Phil if he ever repented for that, as he wants America to repent—if he ever tracked down the bar owner and his wife to apologize for the assault. He shakes his head.
“I didn’t dredge anything back up. I just put it behind me.”

 Ducky even speaks this silliness from the pulpit:





Scott Walker:

Asked how voters might judge governors who bid for the presidency, the Wisconsinite replied, “Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with, making sure to have the smartest person for a particular task or to head a specific agency. They should be judged on that basis and who they take advice from.”

I agree!

Walker's Wisconsin! Part I

The faithful readers are aware that I have been doing an ongoing series with the title of "Walker's Agenda Is Still Working!"  In this series, I have been trying to keep up with the epic failure which is Scott Walker's austerity agenda.  It has led us down a path of economic ruin in which the state's economy hasn't been any better than 48th and an ever increasing gap in job creation when compared to the rest of the nation and the Midwest.

Sadly, the economy isn't the only thing that Walker and his Republican allies have
been ruining.  They are bringing our once great state to new lows on the social scale, where McCarthyism and other forms of bullying is becoming all too common occurrence.  Whether it's Walker's storm
troopers at the Capitol or the Knot-headed trolls, society is going into the same nosedive that the economy is in.

So, as I call out the damage Walker's agenda is causing us economically, I will also start calling out the degradation of our society due to their hate and fear.

With that in mind, we look to Rice Lake, Wisconsin, where homophobia reigns:

A gay employee of Applebee’s in Rice Lake was brutally bashed by the husband of a co-worker, then told by the restaurant’s manager he could not return to work due to publicity surrounding the incident, he said.

Timothy Phares subsequently did return to his job as a server after Greg Flynn, CEO of Apple American Group franchise, intervened on his behalf.

According to Phares and his sister Krista katherine, they were getting out of his car in the parking lot of a Perkins restaurant on March 17 when Rien Hendricks and his wife Shannon Hendricks pulled up behind them in an SUV.

“(Hendricks) was getting out of his vehicle, and he said, ‘Fucking faggot, I’m going to kill you,’” Phares said.

At that point Phares said Hendricks struck him in the head with great force using a 2 x 4 piece of lumber. In a written statement, Krista katherine said she heard her brother’s head smack the pavement, but Tim Phares lost consciousness and doesn’t remember anything else before waking up in the hospital.

Phares suffered head and facial abrasions as well as multiple facial fractures that will ultimately require surgery to implant metal plates, he said.

The article goes on to report how the assailant isn't going to be charged with a hate crime, even though he used homophobic slurs as he tried to kill Phares.

The article also reports how the restaurant manager has been jerking Phares around as well, basically blaming him for being attacked and for the bigotry in that town.

Sad to say, this isn't the only deplorable bit of news that has come out of the burg.

This is also the home of Roger Rivard, the dumb ass that mad the infamous comment of "Some girls rape so easy."

The Barron County GOP isn't any better, which isn't a surprise, since Rivard's wife, Bernie, is their secretary.  This group of knuckle-draggers blamed the federal government for the shooting at Sandy Hook.  They also were so desperate to show their gun love, that they were willing to falsely attribute statements to George Washington, statements which he never made.

And how could we forget that these are the people that elected (twice!) Sean "Pretty Boy" Duffy, the reality star turned soft porn star, who can't make it on $174,000 a year, but thinks that someone making a a quarter of that is making too much money.

Yup, Rice Lake is a proud representation of Walker's Wisconsin.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they invite Westboro Baptist Church to establish a branch there.

Reince Priebus' Rebranded GOP - Now With More Bigotry

We already knew that Reince Priebus was fashioning the GOP in his own image - that of a disgusting racist.

But after doing a post mortem on his party, he has figured out what was wrong and even more bigotry:

is doing his best to rebrand his party which apparently means

The Detroit Free Press reports, “Agema’s posting Wednesday, during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the legality of same-sex marriage, was based on an online article titled, “Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuals,” which appeared under the byline Frank Joseph, M.D.

The post depicts gays as sexually promiscuous, rife with sexually transmitted diseases and responsible for “half the murders in large cities.” (my bold)

A group of state Republicans are now calling for Agema’s resignation over his offensive post.

Dennis Lennox, a Grand Traverse County Republican precinct delegate and former county drain commissioner, issued a statement Wednesday joined with signatures by 20 other Republicans condemning Agema’s “deplorable actions”

The statement reads, “This isn’t about what we believe either politically or as women and men of faith. This is about common decency and realizing that you cannot win an election by insulting a wide swath of the electorate, whose votes our Republican Party needs to once again form a national majority.”

But, what’s troubling is that Republicans are more concerned with gaining votes than simply doing the right thing. Still yet, I’m glad he was called out.

In a statement e-mailed to the Free Press this morning, Agema said he posted something someone else had written and “some publications and even a few liberal Republicans have chosen to take the words of someone else and cast them as my own.

Agema said, “I think it was a piece worth sharing given the debate over gay marriage that is happening in the Supreme Court.”

“I strongly maintain my position in support of marriage between a man and a woman and I will not back down from my core beliefs in support of strengthening the family.”

Even as more and more Americans are open to same sex marriages, leave it to the Republicans to continue to drag their feet and their knuckles.

Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch Is No Bigot

Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, along with most of the top Republicans of the state, has been in Tampa all week at the Republican National Convention.*

For whatever reason, Politico thought it would be appropriate to get her opinion of Condoleeza Rice, who gave a speech at the convention. (Her speech, by the way, was in a more prominent time slot and was better received than Scott Walker's.)

Anyway, Kleefisch could not stop gushing about Rice, but in a less than flattering way:

“There aren’t enough exclamation points to say how I’d feel if she ran in 2016,” said Wisconsin Lt Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. “Her story [of being raised in the segregated South] is so inspiring. She could have just shrugged her shoulders and accepted mediocrity like others around her probably did.”

"Like others around her?!" Really?! She's inferring that the other African Americans are lazy or unmotivated? If she wants another prime example of someone who doesn't accept mediocrity, I would remind her of Mahlon Mitchell. He tried to rid the the state of mediocrity and even worse.

Given that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan embody the same type of inherent racism, is it any wonder that recent polls show a full 0% of African Americans are going to vote for them?

At least Kleefisch's racist statement wasn't as egregious as her comment about gay marriage and gay rights was:

“This is a slippery slope. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects?” Kleefisch stated in the radio interview. “Can I marry this table? This clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous and biblically again I’m going to go back to my fundamental Christian beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman, and no matter what you say, the people in Wisconsin have spoken on this issue.”

Kleefisch later apologized for her "poor choice of words." But she was only sorry for the words. The underlying bigotry and hatred, she was just fine with.

Now if she utters something that is anti-Hispanic or misogynistic, then we would have concrete proof that Kleefisch is no bigot. She'll have proven that she hates everyone equally.

*It shows you how little Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch matter. They're both gone all week seemingly leaving no one in charge. But we all know that the special corporate interests who have been in charge for the past two years can run the show without their puppets.

Chaz the Intolerant Chicken

Capper gave us a run down of the Chick - Fil - A  faux fiasco, and yesterday there was a huge outpouring of support of righties, who have probably never eaten at Chick- fil - A before, but when they realized they were serving up a side dish of hate and homophobia, could not get there quick enough. 

It does my heart good to know that in America,  someone can spew hatred, racism and homophobia and it is good for business.  

However, Dan Cathy's strong views and voice have led rogue chickens to speak out also!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

We all know the Chik-Fil-A flap caused much controversy recently:

  Take the recent comments by Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy in the Baptist Press, in which he pleaded "guilty as charged" for his company's advocacy of traditional marriage based on biblical principles:

We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that.

The fast-food chain's commitment has included millions of dollars donated to anti-gay groups and causes, including the Marriage & Family Foundation and the Family Research Council, according to Business Insider. The company's WinShape Foundation also has refused to admit gay couples to marriage counseling. Last year, Chick-fil-A cosponsored a marriage conference with the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which lobbied against a state effort to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In another interview on the Ken Coleman Show, Cathy suggested that the nation could face God's wrath for supporting gay marriage. That's pretty strong, incendiary language.

 This led to many celebrities speaking up against such hatred: 

Roseanne Barr struck a differing tone, tweeting that anyone who dines at the restaurant chain “deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ.” She later clarified her sentiments, saying she did not actually wish cancer on anyone. “I should have been more careful in choice of words,” she said in a follow-up tweet.

Also invoking medical conditions was celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who tweeted, “I heard #ChickFilA gives you diarrhea!”

Atlanta native Ed Helms, the actor of “The Office,” “The Hangover” and “Jeff, Who Lives at Home” note, tweeted: “Chick-Fil-A doesn’t like gay people? So lame. Hate to think what they do to the gay chickens! Lost a loyal fan.”

Some celebrities(term used loosely):

Financial guru Dave Ramsey, a bestselling author and talk-show host who sells out stadiums all across the country with his live events, tweeted his support: “I LOVE Chick-fil-A food and Dan Cathy is a personal friend. I will be buying a biscuit on Aug. 1 to tell them I love them. Join me.”

He was referring to a movement spearheaded by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is encouraging people to dine at Chick-fil-A on Aug. 1. Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum is actively supporting “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” as well. In a statement, the Rev. Billy Graham said he will participate as well.

Then two insignificant douchebags felt the need to weigh in:

'Nuff Said! 

Journal Broadcasting's PR Problem

In Wisconsin, Memorial Day weekend is traditionally considered to be the start of summer.  People start looking forward to camping, fishing, picnics, cookouts and all the assorted fun associated with summer.

In Milwaukee, people also look forward to all of the wonderful festivals and events that fill the short months of summer.

This morning, WTMJ 620 AM had kept saying in their newscasts that this was Milwaukee's official start to summer because this weekend is the time for Polishfest and the Festival of the Arts, both at our beautiful lakefront.

But if they are using the kick off of the festival season as the official start of summer, why didn't they say it was last weekend, when the first festival of the season was held.  Or is the corporate media so biased and homophobic that they don't consider the 25th anniversary of Pridefest to be a real celebration?

Dogs, Ducks, What's The Difference?

Back in her first race to be Lieutenant Governor, Rebecca Kleefisch displayed her bigotry and homophobia when she made this over the top comment about gay marriage:

“This is a slippery slope. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects?” Kleefisch stated in the radio interview. “Can I marry this table? This clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous and biblically again I’m going to go back to my fundamental Christian beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman, and no matter what you say, the people in Wisconsin have spoken on this issue.”

Not only was she wrong for beings some brain dead homophobic freak, but she was also wrong about marrying dogs.

She should have said ducks:



Either way, she doesn't deserve her job.

Homophobia Run Amok

A collection of nutjobs misnaming themselves as "American Family Association" and their offshoot "One Million Moms" are on a rampage against gays.  This time they after JCPenney for daring to have Ellen Degeneres as a spokesperson.

If you look at their history, they should just be calling themselves Bigots'Я'Us.

Their Deepest Fear

Do you know what the deepest fear that Andy Martin, Scott Walker and the other homophobes all share?

Succumbing to bedbug powder.