Abandon Hope Ye Who Enter Here

By Jeff Simpson


 

This from John Hermes:

Good morning all. It's the morning after the election. While we are sorry we did not bring home a win for the 82nd District, we do know we laid everything on the table and gave it our very best effort. I am very certain and proud of that fact.
When Brandon and I looked at the vote totals last evening we both agreed that we had run the correct race, at the correct time, and applied the correct strategies. We firmly agreed that we would not have changed one thing.
As a campaign, we focused on real local issues and upon returning true and experienced representation to our district. We had the better ground game, we remained on focused message, our literature was more targeted and rich in content, we raised money through individual and traditional means, and our team knocked on as many district doors as was possible in the eight weeks we were given. We did everything you are suppose to do to win these races and communicate with the voters.

The Vote Totals:

 Skowronski received 3951 votes while Hermes received 2195 votes.

We got beat 2-1 and did "everything right".


Show up for the next local Democratic Party meeting to voice your displeasure: 


 


PS:  Is it clear to anyone yet that this is NOT a winning strategy on the Democratic ticket?

Backwards Day

By Jeff Simpson

Apparently, in the land of Fitzwalkerstan, increasing the price of all goods, will make people want to buy more*.

*unless its to pay workers more.  

Gov. Scott Walker said Monday his administration will explore eliminating the state’s income tax.
“There are many states that do very well, better than most states in the country, that have no income taxes," Walker said during the governor’s Northern Economic Development Summit in Pembine, according to Wispolitics.com. "That's one thing for us to look at. Is that feasible? What would that mean in terms of an economic boost? That's not only for individuals, but small businesses in this state."

 Not sure that Scott Walker and the republicans in WI could be any more anti-business than they are,  then they come up with ideas like this and trump all of their other anti business policies prior. In what reality does increasing the price of goods 8-10 % make people want to purchase more? 

 

This is such a silly idea that it was too crazy for Louisiana and Bobby Jindal. 

 

 

Walker isn’t the first conservative extreme right wing governor to look at scrapping income taxes. Early this year, Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed replacing his state’s income tax with a sales tax, but he abandoned the plan in the face of widespread opposition.
“All along, opposition to the tax swap was growing broader and more bipartisan by the day. Clergy members urged the governor to drop the plan, saying it could hurt the poor, while the state’s most prominent chamber of commerce group came out against the plan for its potential impact on businesses,” the New York Times reported in April.

We have become the dumping ground for failed extremist views.   

 

Nice.   

 

 

Get used to this and more, since the democratic party can't win an election anywhere!