The Heart of the Matter

There is starting to be a trend happening in Wisconsin.   Recently 2 people associated with the republican party have been attacked.  The first was Senator Kedzie's son in Whitewater(probably just stupid college hormones but we will see)  The second was a homosexual volunteer on the Chad Lee campaign(leave this kid alone, he obviously has other issues).  

While I condemn any and all acts of violence during the election season, as do all dems, our friends on the right seem to be downright giddy about it!  

I am going to leave those attacks right there, we will see what the ACTUAL investigations lead too, and then bring the facts and findings back here for discussion!   What I want to discuss is the attacks on the truth and actual history that the righties have done since Senator Kedzie  told us he was so upset about his son getting attacked, his first act was to send a press release to Mark Belling.

The leading person attacking the truth has been Jimmy WIgderson!   Wiggy, not one who has ever been known for interesting reading OR using facts, is at it again!  While the rest of the state is in a wait and see mode to see where the facts lead in these cases, Sherlock Wigderson has already done the investigation, held a trial and declared all democrats guilty.  

"Somebody remind me again about the peaceful left."  

What exactly does the left have to do with anything?   As we always say here, just wait there is more.  Perpetual Victim and Bullshit artist Wiggy whines about the tough times the republicans have had in our state and blames all violence everywhere on the left!   I wonder if Wiggy is related to Paul Ryan? 

Let's take a look at what the right wing paid propagandists are saying(we have to do it here, because we are banned there):

In Fond Du Lac, a Republican candidate for state Senate, Rick Gudex, says that his yard signs were thrown down on the ground, the vandals turned his American flag upside-down, and they broke some landscaping stones in his yard. Gudex says this was not the first attack on his home. His son’s truck was egged in the driveway. 

Poor Rick Gudex maybe he can call up Dan Kapanke who was also attacked often for support! 


It shouldn’t surprise anyone when we hear about incidents like this. After all, for the last two years in Madison Republican legislators and staffers have been living in a state of siege in the Capitol. We’re finally getting a measure of law and order under the new Capitol police chief.

Nothing says "law and order" like arresting people with an 8 1/2 X 11 piece of paper saying "I heart blood donors".   It is sad that someone who pretends to be a political pundit has never read the Constitution!  


You can point to the leadership. Gudex doesn’t believe the incumbent, Democratic state Sen. Jessica King, has anything to do with the vandalism at his home, and we all hope he’s right. 

BUT we are not quite sure, there is a possibility that Senator King could be out staling Gudex and stealing his signs.  Since there is some doubt maybe we should have re-elected Randy Hopper after all!  


But it probably doesn’t help the calls for civility when the spokesman for the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, Graeme Zielinski, is on Twitter accusing Republicans of not being Christians because they disagree with him. Holy McCarthyism, Graeme.


Unfortunately there is only one Reince Priebus!  Of course no one on the right could ever offend Wiggy on twitter, if they did he would definitely call them on it! As for the Christian thing, maybe Graeme was onto something! 

Nor does it help when Vice President Joe Biden, at a nationally televised debate with Wisconsin’s own Congressman Paul Ryan, thinks being rude, obnoxious, and even inappropriately giggly somehow makes him a “winner.” Turns out he was a “winner” like Charlie Sheen, but that didn’t stop so many of the talking heads of the political left from cheering on the juvenile delinquent behavior. 

Maybe if Paul Ryan had at least made an attempt to tell the truth once, Biden would not have been so amused!  

I remember when President Barack Obama was running in 2008, he promised a new tone in Washington. After the attempted killing of Congressman Gabby Giffords, Obama again called upon the American public to try to restore civility to politics. 

Now we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden laughing Paul Ryan off the stage,  will be the cause of the next shooting.  The right are doing the best they can to remain civil but it is so hard when the dems are so crazy.  

Other than that, Obama himself has done so much to poison the political discourse in this country, and his party has followed his lead.

Not so much! 


That’s not to say that Republicans are perfectly innocent in this melodrama (although I’m waiting for the first angry mob of taxpayers to climb through the Capitol windows). 

Yes republicans could do more to help restore civility, but for the life of me, I can not think of an instance where they could have improved their behavior!   The problem is here Wiggy is flat out lying again.   First of all, there was a court order to open the Capitol to the public which the walker administration blatantly ignored.    Secondly, I guess Wiggy thinks that the teachers, firefighters, police officers, county workers, state workers, stay at home parents, grandparents, clergy, union workers, professionals, etc.... who protested at the Capitol are not taxpayers?  

But at some point the anger really needs to stop. We should be able to disagree without angry threats and acts of vandalism being used to intimidate people. 

As with any problem, we can not end it unless we acknowledge it.   The people who have been paying attention understand where the problem is coming from.  Republican Thugs  are responsible for a vast majority of the violent incidences in scott walker's Wisconsin(from Jeffrey Radle, to Linda Lorino, to Phil Dziki, to Scott Fitzgerald the instances are too numerous to recount).   While our friends on the right refuse to ever acknowledge any of these incidents, they seem to even enjoy when an incident affects someone on the right!  

A perfect example happened recently where Wisconsin Democratic chairman Mike Tate called upon the Wisconsin RNC chair(whoever that is), to issue a joint press release condemning all attacks on anyone based on politics.   The unknown RNC chair originally agreed to it then flip flopped and declined.   Wonder why? 

From Mike Tate:

Earlier today I called my counter part at the RPW to ask if he would do a joint statement with me decrying the violence and other criminal acts that have occurred to people displaying Obama and Romney signs. Clearly we both deplore these terrible acts and everyone has the right to display support for their candidate of choice without fear. He initially agreed, then called back to say they didn't want to do a joint statement. I told him I felt it was a real missed opportunity for us to demonstrate some civility. Sadly they chose a different path and I find it symbolic of how the leaders in the Republican Party behave today.

Now that we have seen how there is violence on both sides, but heavily weighted towards the right,   and that when violence is perpetrated towards someone on the right, the right wing blargosphere just cant blame the left enough!   You can see the smile on their face when the story hits the wire! 

However, let us get to the heart of the matter.  While we have always been divided politically since the birth of the nation we have a split here in Wisconsin that goes beyond that.   The one thing about it, and how to fix it is to acknowledge it and find out where it started.   Here we acknowledge the problem, and now here is where it all started:

The Cure:

If you are thinking of stealing a sign and/or abusing someone of the opposite party, STOP!  Channel that anger/energy and write a LTE to your favorite candidate,    If you have stolen a sign put it back.  

However, most importantly, VOTE on NOVEMBER 6th!!!  

Guns Don't Kill People...

Extreme Right Wing Gun Nuts Do!!!!!

In Arizona, J.T. Ready,  a right wing neo-Nazi extremist, strapped on the body armor and guns and went out and gunned down four people.  While the NRA and the republican party would have you believe that this is just some random nut, but there is so much more to J.T. Ready than they like to let out.   First of all he was running for Pinal County Sheriff at the time.   Ready had a long interest in politics and like all people who do,  he had a hero he modeled himself after and that hero was Arizona republican Russell Pearce. 

In case you were wondering how you have heard the name Russell Pearce before, he was also the author of the racist and controversial  SB1070 immigration bill. So this crazy loon snapped, grabbed some gun and went out and used them.   By the way, some other background during his shooting spree a  toddler died.

Now let's bring this to Wisconsin and how it effects you. Ever since the republicans, during their jobs session, passed one of the least restrictive concealed carry laws in the US,  firearm purchases are  at an all time high.

Americans are arming themselves like never before, and Wisconsin is smack in the center of the trend. 

Firearms-related businesses in the state say they are hard-pressed to meet demand, which they say is being generated by factors ranging from Wisconsin's concealed carry law to presidential politics.

"It's incredible," said Steve Lauer, owner of Lauer Custom Weaponry, a manufacturer of firearms, firearm coatings and accessories in Chippewa Falls. "We can hardly keep up."

Precise figures on firearms sales don't exist. But based on the number of calls made to the FBI and Wisconsin Department of Justice for background checks related to firearms purchases, more guns are being sold this year than ever.

The number of calls to Wisconsin's handgun hotline set a record in February, with nearly 16,000 calls. So far this year, the hotline has handled more than 53,000 calls. That's on pace to far eclipse 2011, when the hotline handled just shy of 90,000 calls for the full year.

People in Wisconsin can not get guns fast enough.  The republicans are responsible for arming our population and now we will see where that leads us.   The one thing we know is that they  will take the accolades but none of the blames.    We saw this in action when an unarmed Bo Morrison was gunned down in Slinger.   We all know it will not stop there,  We have right wing hate groups, who the Bush administration itself labeled as domestic terrorists, in Wisconsin now legally armed.

There was a tremendous amount of violence and intimidation, during the last 18 months directed at people who disagree with the far right and  Governor Scott Walker.  Let's also not forgot the closest parallel  case we have here in WI, the case of Phil Dziki.

Of course our politicians are the adults in the room and exulting calmness and calling on their followers to do the same right??




So now we have a very enthusiastically armed populace, an angry  electorate and a group of politicians who will play into that fear as much as thy possibly can.   You do the math!  

Republican Thugs - Phil Dziki Edition

When I was at Blogging Blue, there seemed an endless supply of stories to write about the bad behavior of the republicans and Walker supporters, as they realized they were losing their short term grip on power. I even labeled these stories as part of my Republican Thug series that had too many instances to count. Now that I have relocated here at CogDis, the republican thug stories keep on coming. This one from a republican, walker supporter and former elected official!

A federal investigator and former local elected official has been cited for repeatedly harassing a man gathering signatures during the governor recall petition drive Phil Dziki, 60, of Trevor, was cited for harassment and for unlawful use of a telephone. According to Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department reports, a man in blue Toyota — later determined to be Dziki — confronted the alleged victim while he and another man were gathering signatures in Old Settlers Park in Paddock Lake on Jan. 9. Dziki reportedly shouted at the man that he was not allowed in the park then pointed his finger at him “like a gun” or with “gun-like action” and drove away. Feeling threatened, the petition gatherers called 911. Before they were off the phone with the dispatcher, the car returned and the driver again pointed his finger at them in a gun-like motion.

So this federal investigator & former elected official is threatening others with a "gun-like" action. Brilliant! But as is wont to be the theme at this blog- but wait there's more!

When deputies traced the car’s license plate, they found it was registered to “Elmer D. Fedd, 123 Rabbit Hole Drive in Coon Valley.” “It appears given the close reference to the cartoon character Elmer Fudd, the registration was made fictitiously,” the sheriff department report states. Further investigation revealed that the car was registered to Dziki, an industry operations investigator with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a former member of the Wilmot School Board and Salem Town Board.

Wow he lied, who have ever guessed that republicans would lie??? SO he was driving around illegally, I wonder if JB wants to deport him? But wait, before we wrap this up, there's more!

About two month later, the alleged victim told the sheriff’s department that Dziki called him twice, saying he would be “scrubbing” the signatures the man collected on petitions “and if they find any false or bogus signatures he is going to fill out a sworn complaint” to make sure the man would be prosecuted. Dziki reportedly said he knew where the man, a retired firefighter, worked and said “when the recall ends in favor of Walker, I’m going to make sure that everyone knows that you and (the other man gathering signatures) and the others will be rewarded with a present. It will be a nice set of flowers with a note on it. It will be delivered to your fire house in Bristol.” In a second phone call, the caller said “I consider you to be a pariah in this county.”

So this sick freak not only threatens a recall petitioner with "gun-like" gestures, could not let it go and kept harassing this poor man! You say what harm could come with a former elected official messing with a citizen? Let me see if we can find any cases of a lunatic with a gun in WI causing any damage???? Nuff Said!