Lena Taylor Does Two-Faced Two-Step On Usurpation Law

After the signing of the Plutocracy Law, giving Milwaukee County Executive Emperor Chris Walker Romney Abele unprecedented power, State Senator Lena Taylor (DINO-Milwaukee) tried to put some distance between her and herself.  From her press release:

Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) issued the following statement following Governor Walker’s signature today on AB 85, the Milwaukee County Board Bill.

“Today marks the end of a long process by which AB 85 became law. This bill, as it is now signed, is better than the original bill proposed by the majority party. Milwaukee citizens should take note of serious changes that were made to better protect the balance of power in our county. Some of these changes include:

• The Supervisors salary will be set at the per capita income (approx. $24,000) rather than $15,000, IF the referendum in adopted.
• An independent research office created in the Comptroller’s office to protect independent analysis of issues.
• Restrictions on the ability of the county executive to compel a special meeting of the board.
• Added language protecting the ability of supervisors to interact and communicate with departments. 
• Statutory regulation requiring the purchase and sale of assets comply with county policy, as set by supervisors.
• An exemption of fixed costs, such as rent and legacy costs from the county board’s budget cap.
• Both the county executive and county board will have at least one lobbyist reporting to each.”

“This is not a perfect law and there are provisions that I believe need to be addressed in follow-up legislation. However, this bill is a better product, because in this time of great partisan divide, we negotiated and accomplished changes in law rather than just firing press releases back and forth at each other.”

Have you ever seen anyone work so hard to polish a turd?

No matter what she says, the facts are the same.  She has helped remove democracy and representative government from her own constituents as well as everyone else in Milwaukee County.  She helped put a plutocratic tyranny in place.    

What Taylor is doing is trying to have her cake and eat it too.

One one hand, she is claiming that she made the law better, but wouldn't show up for the photo ops and says it needs fixing.  But then again, she had no problem partying it up with her new fascist friends.

On the other hand, she says the laws is bad and needs fixing, but had sponsored it and voted for it.

She can't have it both ways. She made her bed and now she can lie in it. Besides, she'll need a place once the voters remove her from office, as she so richly deserves.

Who Is Senator Lena Taylor Representing? UPDATED!

In 2011, Senator Lena Taylor voted for not only the conceal carry law, but also the Castle Doctrine.  Showing how much of a hypocrite she is, one year later, she posed with Trayvon Martin’s Mother at the Rainbow Push Coalition Conference in Chicago.

Image courtesy of WISN

Earlier this year, she again stood against her own constituents by putting her name as a cosponsor to the power grab bill that Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and Representative Joe Sanfellipo are trying to ram down our throats.  This bill would end representative government on the county level and diminish the voices of the very same people which she is supposed to be representing.

ADDENDUM #1: I forgot to also point out how Taylor did race-baiting in the last election.  In her opposition to Representative Sandy Pasch's campaign, Taylor actually told voters that they should support "someone who looks like us."

Just this week, we learned that she is now trying to play games with open record requests submitted to her office.  It makes one wonder what she is trying to hide from the public.

Given the anger that her constituents have shown toward her after she has betrayed them time after time, it's not surprising that she would not want more information coming out which would show her treachery.

And the stuff she wouldn't want to come out would include things like this email, which she sent to every member of the finance committee:

From: Lena Taylor [mailto:[redacted]]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:31 AM
To: Rep.Kooyenga
Subject: Preserve and promote quality education options in Milwaukee


Dear Representative Kooyenga,

Milwaukee has a long tradition of empowering parents and fostering innovation in education. The private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) and independent charter schools are some of the most successful and innovative education options in the City of Milwaukee.

Unfortunately despite this success, funding for these options has lagged far behind funding for more traditional options. In the last decade charter and private schools participating in the MPCP have watched their funding stagnate and then decline, while the investment in traditional schools continues to increase. This funding disparity is not fair.

This makes it very difficult for great schools to grow and nearly impossible for promising schools to make the changes necessary to go from good to great. As a result, we do not have enough quality seats to serve Milwaukee students.

As a Milwaukee resident and education reform supporter, I thank the Governor for putting a provision in his budget that increases funding for students participating in the MPCP and those who attend charter students. We urge members of Joint Finance to support those changes.

Sincerely, Lena Taylor, A Concerned Voter Who Votes on Education Issues

[address redacted]
Milwaukee, WI 53206-2934

In summary, Senator Lena Taylor had already come out against public safety and representative government. Now she is coming out against the children in the state, not to mention her own district, getting a quality education.

This should make her constituents wonder exactly who she is representing in Madison, because it sure as hell ain't them.

ADDENDUM #2:  Well, we can make a pretty good guess at who Taylor is representing.  Thanks to a good friend of Cog Dis, we learned that Taylor was once named "DFER Reformer of the Month."  And not only did these education profiteers offer their verbal support to Taylor for selling out our children, they paid her pretty well too.

Is there any issue that Taylor won't sell us out on?

She's got to go.

The Treacherous Lena Taylor

I first met State Senator Lena Taylor about six years ago, when she was running against Scott Walker for the position of Milwaukee County Executive.

I was still writing at folkbum's rambles and rants at that time, and I fought hard to try to get her elected.  Sadly, her campaign was very poorly managed and was an utter flop.  I remember feeling more than a little angry when it seemed like that I was working harder on the campaign than her campaign staff was.  I grew even more miffed when I learned her her campaign manager* was lying through his teeth to me.

But she was such an amiable person that I didn't stay mad long.

In 2011, when Taylor and her other senators fled the country to give the people a chance to recognize the harm that Scott Walker and the Republicans were causing to the state, I cheered her on as did so many other Wisconsinites.

But something happened.

Taylor changed.

She is no longer the champion of the people nor for her own constituents.

It started a year and a half ago, when Taylor went against her constituents and against Milwaukee by supporting the reckless concealed carry law, comparing guns to works of art.  When you have an area that has such a high level of gun-related crimes as they do in her district, the last thing one wants to do is introduce more guns.

Last year, she fought against members of her own party, especially Sandy Pasch, during the election, jeopardizing the few seats that the Democrats were winning.

Earlier this year, she was seen standing behind Scott Walker as he was pushing the mining bill, complete with the lies that it would create jobs right away, much less that those jobs would go to Wisconsinites.

And now she has come out as a cosponsor of the plutocratic power grab which will eliminate local level representation for people in her district, not to mention raise taxes and cuts services on the poorest and most vulnerable of her constituents.

To recap, in the last year and a half, she has back-stabbed her own party, her state, her county, her city and her own constituents.

I would say that last year, when we swept out the sell outs like Jason Fields and Elizabeth Coggs, it appears we missed at least one more.  We will have to make sure we correct that mistake the next time she comes up for reelection.

At least Senator Chris Larson, Senate Minority Leader, had the foresight to take her off the important Joint Finance Committee.  Who knows what damage she could have done then.

With Democrats like Taylor, who needs Republicans?

*That same fellow is now working for Abele and is still telling lies. Coincidence to Taylor's latest treachery?