Tonette Owes Madison Metropolitan Schools an Apology!

By Jeff Simpson

In a little read puff piece, by WPRI stenographer Sunny Schubert, Tonette Walker had this to say about the Madison School District:

 Then the protests erupted, and Scott’s mother volunteered to move in with the boys so they could stay in Wauwatosa. “If they had been in a Madison school, it wouldn’t have been very nice for them,” she adds. “They didn’t sign up for this job.”

What exactly was that based on?  Does she have any examples of the Madison Metropolitian School District and/or the Madison administrators, teachers and support staff being anything but professional in the way they deal with the children in their district?  

To say that the professional staff of the MMSD, who have dedicated their whole lives to making sure ALL kids get a chance in life and a quality education would unequivocally treat her kids any different than anyone else in their classes is beyond the pale.  


**Tonette Walker owes an apology to every employee in the Madison School District.**
 


Also, one last little tidbit from the interview(I read it so you dont have too):

“It makes me sick — and very, very sad. I’ve heard people say that they still won’t speak to their cousin or that they lost a good friend over the recall, and it hurts to hear that.”

I wonder where that divisiveness comes from?

Beloit College Alum Points Out Ignorance of Right Wing Pundit

Denver Post Editor and Beloit College Alum Curtis Hubbard pointed out the ignorance of a right wing pundit!

Then the fun began!

Why do they always become unhinged when you do? 

Sheldon!

Recently WPRI flunky and former purple project blargher(why did she disappear) Sunny Schubert expressed her admiration for Sheldon Adelson (for being a former democrat and all of the "good" he has done- emphasis mine):  

As an example of the evils of Citizens United, she mentioned that “billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson… can donate tens of millions of dollars” to support conservative/Republican candidates and causes.
In case you know Adelson only as a rich Republican donor, you might be interested to learn that he is the son of poor Jewish immigrants who came to the United States in the 1930s. His Lithuanian-born father was a taxi driver; his British-born mother ran a knitting shop. “Like most Jews around the country, being Democrat was part of our identity, as much a feature of our collective personality as our religion,” he wrote in a moving piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “I didn’t leave the Democrats; the Democrats left me.”
One of the factors that prompted Adelson to become Republican, he writes, is the Democrats’ waning support for Israel. “There is now a visceral anti-Israel movement among rank-and-file Democrats,” he says.
Another factor is Democrats moving away from traditional values like charity and neighborliness, he says, and toward government dependency. Adelson notes that “states that vote Republican are now far more generous to charities than those voting Democratic. In 2008, the seven least-generous states all voted for President Obama.”
While Adelson acknowledges that government does have a role to play in aiding the poor, he quotes political scientist Walter Russell Mead in describing what over-reliance on government has done to the Democratic stronghold of Illinois:
“Illinois politicians, including the present president of the United States, have wrecked one of the country’s potentially most prosperous and dynamic states, condemned millions of poor children to substandard education, failed to maintain vital infrastructure, choked business development and growth through unsustainable tax and regulatory policies—and still failed to appease the demands of the public sector unions and fee-seeking Wall Street crony capitalists who make billions off the state’s distress.”
Adelson goes on, but I won’t, because you can read it for yourself – if you’re remotely interested in what motivates conservatives. (Hint: It’s not racism, sexism or homophobia.)

In case you do not know the real Adelson, he gave $150,000,000 to help get republicans elected in the last election cycle.  No wonder the righties love him, I guess buying elections is a "traditional value". 

However there is something else he has done recently - break the law and then in the interest of "traditional neighboliness", met with members of the republican congress to change the laws he broke:

“[T]here were likely violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions” of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the company said in its annual regulatory report published on Friday. Late last year, Adelson reportedly held meetings with at least one House GOP leader to discuss “possible changes to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” arguing that he had been the target of federal investigations under the Act as retribution for his strong support for Republican candidates.
The Las Vegas Sands Corporation is suspected of improperly and in some cases illegally bribing Chinese government officials to expand its business in China. The company may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act with a $700,000 payment to a Chinese associate and worked with organized crime gangs to drive business from mainland China to their Macau casino.

In case you wonder if Adelson's lack of morals and continual breaking of the law would scare away any republicans?  Think again!

 Since the election, Adelson said that plans to double his contributions to Republican candidates and with an estimated net worth of almost $25 billion, he could theoretically spend $500,000 on every single Republican House and Senate nominee for the next 186 years.

Thank God the Democratic Party is NOT aligned with Adelson's morals!  


 

Purple Project Flop

While I still stand by my belief that Christian Schneider is THE single biggest hack of a writer in WI, Sunny Schubert comes close. Unfortunately for the people of WI both have made the Journal Sentinel's Purple project. Sunny, one of the WPRI flacks, who incredibly keeps getting column space, had another doozy. This time she gave a very weak attempt at trying to say that the Scott Walker campaign is a grassroots campaign.

So I was pleasantly surprised when Mark casually said “I sent some money to that governor of yours.” “Really?” I said. “So you’re one of those evil out-of-state donors who’s trying to influence our election!” “Well, it was only $50,” he said. That puts him in the bottom 76 percent of all Walker donors. “So what are you expecting in return?” I demanded, feigning outrage. “Nothing,” Mark said, shrugging. “I just believe in fiscal responsibility. Walker did the right thing.” “Oh, and my wife hates the teachers’ unions,” he added. “She taught for years, and thinks the unions stand in the way of innovation and reform.” I high-fived him. So that’s what an out-of-state donor looks like, and that’s why they send money to a political race where they don’t have a horse running: They look like an older, wiser version of a kid you went to college with. And they have principals.

The problem of course with Sunny, as always, is that she does no research ever. Of course, the whole business plan of WPRI, is NOT to have a public debate, but to advance an extreme right wing agenda. Were Sunny to actually do research and want a debate she would have actually read the paper that supports her.

The Republican governor has raised more than $30 million since January 2011 and he has about $1.6 million on hand. The majority has been from out of state. That means Walker raised an average of more than $178,000 a day for the latest period. He already has taken in more than 80% of the total amount spent by him and all other candidates and independent groups in the 2010 governor's race, when he beat Barrett. In that race, all groups spent $37.4 million, according to estimates by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. Tuesday's report included six contributions to Walker above the normal $10,000 limit, including one from the richest woman in the world. Christy Walton, a Walmart heiress active in the school voucher movement, gave Walker $50,000, the report shows. Forbes lists Walton as the richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $25.3 billion. The other donations above the usual limit were: $25,000 from Grant E. Nelson of Prescott, Wis., who heads a large foundation; $25,000 from Richard Uihlein, CEO of Illinois packaging company Uline; $25,000 from Fred Fehsenfeld, chairman of the executive committee for the Heritage Group in Indianapolis; $25,000 from Robert McNair, CEO of the Houston Texans football team; and $20,000 from Gary Reynolds, CEO of GMR Marketing of Delafield. In addition to the reports due Tuesday, candidates for governor in the final two weeks of the campaign must file daily reports of donations of more than $500 within 24 hours. In those reports, Walker's campaign said it had raised another $800,465 between May 23 and Sunday. The contributions over those five recent days included three outsize ones - $100,000 from Richard Pieper, an executive at Pieper Electric Inc. in Milwaukee; $50,000 from Richard H. Roberts, president of URL Pharma in Philadelphia; and $25,000 from Max Carney, chief executive officer of Midwest Insurance Co. in Springfield, Ill.

Yes the one guy who she may or may not have seen who sent $50, is exactly equal to Christy Walton sending $50,000. Even though Christy Walkton has spent much time and effort working on privatizing public education, I am sure her $50/k donation comes with no strings attached. Now that I think of it, I am sure Sunny's "friend"'s $50 check had nothing to do with wanting to break the public employee unions, it was sent with purest of intentions. Sunny and her peers blatantly false attempts to change the debate show just how incredibly desperate they are to change the debate. It shows how the right wingers know they are losing the debate and no amount of BS from these people will change that! Vote for Tom Barrett on June 5th and let's take our state back and stop this attack on Wisconsin!!!