David Clarke - Coward Of Milwaukee County

By Jeff Simpson

On a recent flight, from Dallas to Milwaukee, Riverwest resident, and 24 year old videographer Dan Black, saw Sheriff David Clarke on his flight from Dallas back to Milwaukee.  As Mr. Black posted on Facebook:

Dan BlackJanuary 15 at 3:29pmJust got off a flight from Dallas, our wonderful Sheriff Clarke was on the flight. I couldn't tell if it was him because he was decked out in all Cowboys gear, so I asked. When he responded yes, I shook my head at him and moved on. From behind me he asked if I "had a problem" and I shook my head no again. When we landed at Mitchell International I had a welcoming party of about six cops and drug/bomb dogs who questioned me for about fifteen minutes before escorting me out. Just posting to let y'all know be careful around our Sheriff, he needs to be in a safe space at all times.

Mr. Black was returning from a wedding he attended in Dallas and Sheriff Clarke was returning, to repack his bags and head to DC because the idea of actually working is foreign to the Sheriff.   However, the one thing Sheriff Dave does well is use county resources for his own gain.

A constituent asks a public official his name and then shakes his head,  This pisses off the public official so badly that he phones ahead (on his public paid for cell phone), and has six deputies and two police dogs meet Mr, Black on landing and escort him out of the airport,

While Sheriff Cowboy Hat has yet to respond to the fact that four people(including a newborn all you pro lifers), he responded almost immediately to Mr. Black, who filed an harassment complaint with the county:

Sheriff Clarke commented on complaint sent to the media:Next time he or anyone else pulls this stunt on a plane they may get knocked out. The Sheriff said he does not have to wait for some goof to assault him. He reserves the reasonable right to pre-empt a possible assault.

The complaint can be found here!

The elected Sheriff of the biggest county in Wisconsin, has publicly stated that he lives life by the Bush Doctrine(attack before you get attacked).   We are awaiting with baited breath if the Fox News Sheriff thinks that same standard should apply to everyone in our society or just him?   If we all are allowed to "knock-out" some "goof" before he attacks us?  If so, Scott Walker better not go out in public!

As our faithful readers know, there's more , there is always more!

Sheriff blow hard, did not just stop at using Milwaukee County Resources to harass a constituent, then use more resources to verbally attack him for filing a complaint, but had to use even more resources to continually taunt him.

The perpetually absent Sheriff's office(you know one in which everyone is paid by taxpayer money) posted this on their Facebook page:

Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office

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Sheriff Clarke regrets that he cannot attend this juvenile, leftist, anti-cop tantrum. He is pleased that he has their attention however.
The Sheriff is in Washigton to witness the swearing in of our next President Donald J. Trump as we embark on a mission to MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

FOX6 continues to be snookered into fake news. Milwaukee deserves better.

Sheriff Snowflake basically not only threatens someone's life (if someone posted this exact same thing about a public official they would rightly expect a visit from the police or the secret service,

If a high school student posted this about their principal or a teacher, they would be suspended(rightly so).

Not only that, with the divide in this country, and the rabidness of the far right, this is basically sending a hint to his supporters who this guy is and if I were Mr. Black I would fear for my safety.

But wait there is even more!

On the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office Facebook page has this as their description:

Government Organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

They also have this as their profile picture:

Yes that is the Gadsden Flag Trumping the flag of the United States of America!  How UnAmerican.

 The last time I heard about the Gadsden flag, some far right lunatics were throwing it on the bodies of the cops they had just shot in the back. Nice graphics.

Milwaukee County, this is your Sheriff who is immature, childish and downright dangerous and expensive for the people in Wisconsin.  Dave has one priority, to make anyone who pay who criticizes him and proves time and time again he is incredibly unfit for office.

The question is what are you going to do about it?

When DINOs Fight, No One Wins

Woe is to Milwaukee County.

Milwaukee County is in ground zero for a three way power struggle.

In one corner is Milwaukee County Executive Emperor Chris Abele. Abele is a plutocrat's plutocrat who feels that because he got hundreds of millions of dollars from his daddy, he is everyone's superior. He wants things done his way, right or wrong, and he will go after anyone who dares to tell him "no." A prime example is when the Milwaukee County Board changed one of his budgets, he stomped his silk-stockinged feet and paid off some Republican state legislatures to change the law allowing him to consolidate an unprecedented amount of power into his hands.

In another corner is Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, the darling of Faux Newz who has yet to find anything too bizarre for him to utter. His latest and greatest egregious statement was saying that the Black Lives Matter movement would join forces with ISIS in order to destroy the United States. No, really, he said that.

It should be noted that Abele and Clarke are more alike than either would care to admit. Both are right wing nut jobs that pretend to be Democrats. And like the right wingers that they are, they both are austerity enthusiasts, unless it pertains to themselves, of course.

Despite their similarities, or maybe because of them, Abele and Clarke have been feuding for years. For years now, Abele would endanger public safety by cutting Clarke's budget, forcing Clarke to lay off deputies. Clarke would endanger public safety by, well, by being himself and shooting off his mouth.

In the third corner is the Milwaukee County Board, who are simply trying to do their best with their weakened positions to keep the county moving forward and maintaining as much as good government policies as they can.

Which all leads up to the current situation.

The county board was forced to file a lawsuit against Abele because he refused to attend meetings to discuss his proposed 2016 budget, as is required by law. They are also suing Abele to clarify who has the authority to set limits on how much Abele can pay his aides. This stems from Abele giving one of his hatchet men a $50,000 a year raise.

And that is where the inanity really sets in.

Clarke decided he wanted to be as petty as ever and personally serve Abele with the papers.

When the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's political gossip columnist, Dan Bice, probed into the incident, Clarke responded like the pompous ass that he is:

Process servers or law enforcement officers provide defendants with all the relevant papers letting them know that they have been sued.

Since when did the sheriff add this to his list of duties? And, more important, who asked him to do this with Abele?

Not Lipscomb.

"The chairman did not ask the sheriff to serve the county executive," said Bill Zaferos, spokesman for the County Board.

Zaferos said Lipscomb's staffers let the sheriff's office know that the board chairman was filing a lawsuit and that it needed to be officially served to Abele. Clarke's No. 2, Inspector Richard Schmidt, then came and picked up a copy.

Clarke then confirmed — in his distinctive style — that he decided on his own to play process server to Abele.

"Danny boy," Clarke wrote in an email, "you are mistaken. NOBODY directs Sheriff Clarke to do ANYTHING. I think you know that."

The sheriff didn't stop there.

"Sheriff alone decides what he does or doesn't do," Clarke wrote. "By state constitution, he doesn't take direction from other county officials and that includes Abele. He is accountable to the voters, the people of Milwaukee Co and they spoke last November by a 79-21 margin.

"Hope this answers your question."

Abele's spokeswoman's response was even more bizarre. In an effort to deflect attention away from Abele's misdeeds, she instead brings up Clarke's bizarre statement about BLM and ISIS:

Asked to respond, Abele spokeswoman Melissa Baldauff confirmed that Clarke made a visit to the county exec's office, though she was intentionally fuzzy on the details.

"I'm not sure whether the sheriff attempted to serve papers on the county executive before or after he called Black Lives Matter activists 'subhuman creeps' on Fox News, or how often he personally serves people," Baldauff said via email.

"But it's probably just a coincidence that he attempted service the very same day the County Board gave him $4 million to spend however he wants with no accountability."

By the way, that $4 million that she was whining about was restoring half of the cuts Abele gave the Sheriff's Office's budget, showing that he puts his own pettiness before public safety.

And does Abele really want to bring up anti-Black comments when he recently said he is "helping" the African American community by improving the jail, boosting child welfare and adding more mental health services?

While all of these theatrics might make a great soap opera, trust me when I say it's not much fun to live through.

Sadly, the next election for Clarke isn't for two more years. We can always hope that he quits to become a full time Faux Newz puppet, er, pundit, but why would he give up a six-figure job that he doesn't even have to show up for?

The good news is that Milwaukeeans can do something about Abele next year when we elect State Senator Chris Larson as the next county executive, a true progressive rather than a plutocratic putz.