Republican Debate Distress

By Jeff Simpson 

There is a trend happening around the country, the Republicans are ducking debates.   It has even reached Texas where Ted Cruz has pulled out of a debate with his opponent Beto O'Rourke. 

Brownsville, TX - CNN reports Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has backed out of a debate between Democrat challenger Beto O'Rourke. The debate has changed to a town hall set for thursday, October 18, at the McAllen Performing Arts Center. According to CNN, "Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign initially accepted CNN's invitation to participate" but has since declined. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash will moderate the one-hour town hall live at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.

So now Beto gets an hour of TV, all by himself,  talking directly to the people of Texas,   The guy who cowered to The Donald, also runs from Beto.   Let's hope the good people of Texas, see his cowardice, and send Terrible Ted packing.

While the cowardice bug afflicted Ted Cruz, it is widespread in Wisconsin.   We will try and address the widespread problem soon, but there is one specific instance I wanted to address, 

The 60th Assembly district.   

Republican Rob Brooks, who is currently was the Assistant Assembly Majority Leader,  is the current Representative of the district.   He is also the only Republican in my memory that Scott Walker has asked to resign.   The blatant racism of Bob Gannon, the fact that Robin Vos was sleeping with someone who reported to him, His right hand man trolling teens online, Wild Bill Kramer a known sexual predator, etc... and Walker was always quiet as a church mouse when asked about them. 

This time it is different.  In the home stretch of this election season, Scott Walker is obviously worried about how he polls with women and decided that for the first time in his political life, he was offended by something a fellow Republican did or said. 

"Representative Brooks' comments are offensive and disrespectful," Walker said in a tweet. "They have no place in our society and are inconsistent with the high standards that must be held by those in public office. He should resign from office, period."

What did Brooks do that upset this guy? 

Brooks attended a GOP function in the Wisconsin Dells (probably paid for by all of us) and decided to get drunk as Dale Kooyenga on budget voting day.   The problem with Brooks getting drunk, the real Rob Brooks apparently came out:

Rep. Rob Brooks (R-Saukville) directed a racial remark at fellow GOP Rep. Jessie Rodriguez of Oak Creek — the only Hispanic Republican in the Assembly — at a restaurant after an Assembly GOP caucus event in Wisconsin Dells, according to sources familiar with the incident.
An obviously inebriated Brooks said he was buying drinks for everyone "except Jessie because she's Hispanic," said one source.
Some at the gathering thought it was a really bad joke by an intoxicated individual because it was not delivered in a hateful way. But sources said Brooks proceeded to purchase alcohol for several Republicans. Rodriguez was not among them.
Brooks also made sexual comments to Republican Reps. Cindi Duchow of Delafield and Amy Loudenbeck of Clinton at the restaurant, but it is not known what exactly he said to them.

We will not know what is said because the Republicans, in the heat of the #metoo movement made a rule that they will not disclose any information about any harassment to the public.  They decided the best way to handle, for the long term health of their gerrymandered majority, is to take care of it internally with a slap on the wrist and a vow to never speak of it again. 

This was tried in this case but somehow word of his misogynistic sexism and blatant racism leaked out.  All of the women who were victimized by Brooks, all "want to put this behind them".  It will be interesting to see as we move forward, what exactly Robin Vos offered them to "put it behind them".

Which leads us to the reason of this post.   While Brooks had a few drinks and was not scared to say anything, now he is ducking debates with his opponent Chris Rahlf.   

The people of the 60th district deserve better than a rep who will only talk when he is drunk and then say things that no one should be saying. 

They deserve to be able to see both candidates, together discussing the issues and then decide. 

If  Rob Brooks is refusing to give his constituents that, then he has the same disgust for them that he has for women. 

Tell Rob Brooks to Debate Chris Rahlf. 

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If he still refuses, then let us help Chris Rahlf actually represent everyone in the 60th.  

Go to her website, like her Facebook page, follow her on twitter, give her a few bucks, or a few hours and for sure, call everyone you know in the area and tell them to get out and vote on November 6th for Chris Rahlf.  

Chris grew up in a military family.  Her father, a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant who served in Vietnam, taught her that leadership means putting the needs of others before yourself.   That is a lesson she took to heart during her service in the Navy and subsequent civilian  business career.
Unfortunately, it seems that state government has forgotten for whom they serve.  They put the interests of out of state donors and corporations before the people of Wisconsin.  They play partisan politics with important issues that affect every Wisconsinite's well-being like healthcare, education, and the environment.  
We need leaders like Chris who will stand up to the dysfunction and divisiveness rampant in our state capitol and work with all sides to solve the problems facing our state.   She will put people before politics.

Three's Company

 

By Jeff Simpson

As we get closer to election day and the chance to get our state back on the right track, it is time to showcase some more talent that we need to send to Madison.  

We will start out in Hayward, WI where Elizabeth Riley is running for the 87th Assembly seat against Jimmy Boy Edming.   Jimmy boy is known for one thing, being the first person in WI to endorse The Donald.   Yes THAT Donald,and the reason he gives is brilliant (in a Sarah Palinesque kind of way).

Mr. Edming said he hasn’t been in touch with anyone from the Trump campaign and doesn’t have any plans to attend any presidential campaign events. He’s not looking for a job in Washington, though he said “if a good promotion came along, I’d take a look at it.”
He said the news Tuesday that that Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with battery for an incident with a reporter only made Mr. Trump more appealing.
“I had one gal around here saying, ‘He’s attacking the women and he’s attacking all this,’ and I said, ‘You’re listening to the malarkey from the opposition,’” Mr. Edming said. “I think he’s going to make it.”
Mr. Edming said his position is common in his part of the state.
“I’ve talked to a kazillion people here in the last two to three weeks,” he said. “The more and more that they attack Trump, the more people are going to vote for him.”

 The guy from an unincorporated area of 92 people has talked to a "kazillion" and they all agree, the more that people get upset at The Donald for his sexual assaults, the more Jimmy Boy is on his side! 

Women need to know their place in Jimmy Boy's and The Donald's world and what do they have to get mad about anyway, he had his tic tacs! 

Ms. Riley, is running on a public education, save the land, and an equal opportunity for all.   My family has owned a cabin on Lake Owen in Cable, WI since the 1930's and I know first hand what an amazingly beautiful place the 87th Assembly district is. We can not continue to let big money treat the environment as a nuisance.     

Please Vote Elizabeth Riley on Tuesday.  "Like" her Facebook page, go to her website, send her a few dollars and give her some time walking the district during this beautiful last weekend. 

  

Another great woman that we can send to Madison is Nanette Bulebosh, who is a writer, teacher and community activist who will represent the 27th Assembly District more than Rep. Tyler Vorpagel (R- who ever heard of this guy).  

Here is Ms. Bulebosh's website, and please "like" her Facebook page.  

While it is time to send more women to to Madison, it is also time to retire one.  Jessie Rodriguez in the 21st Assembly District.   No one exemplifies what is wrong with politics in Wisconsin more than Jessie Rodriguez,   She is elected to serve Scott Jensen, and not our state and certainly not her district. 

 It is time we stopped slashing our public schools budgets and start representing the people of Wisconsin and not the Billionaire education profiteers!  Let's send Jack Redmond to Madison next Tuesday! 

Here is Jack's website, like his Facebook page, and give him a couple hours of your time walking the neighborhood for our kids! 

Zeus Gets Greedy

By Jeff Simpson 

Zeus Rodriguez, cousin to Assemblywoman Jessie Rodriguez (R-Scott Jensen), has decided to go for the money.    

Until recently, Rodriguez was president of Milwaukee's St. Anthony School, the country's largest K-12 Catholic school system.  

The standards are so high at St. Anthony School that they hired Mr. Rodriguez to run their school, despite having zero experience in education.  

He did however, have experience, and a huge conflict of interest, in running a "non-profit" Hispanics for School Choice. 

How someone could run the "largest Catholic school system in the country and also run a "non-profit" especially where the two are not exactly equal is a question that needs to be asked. 

A quick look at the results and that question is easily answered.   

Rodriguez greatly increased the numbers of students attending St. Anthony.  

He was hired by St. Anthony a year later, in 2011. Since then the school has grown from about 1,476 students in four buildings to almost 2,000 students in five buildings, plus 280 employees.

Every child in the school means more and more dollars to pay for "presidents".   However the one thing that Mr, Rodriguez did not deliver is results or a high quality education(despite making that his priority(wink wink)).   

 As president, Rodriguez said, he aimed to focus on improvement."Our model was: Let's get aggressive. Accountability. Testing. Internal reviews. Let's improve," he said.

Like most urban schools serving predominantly low-income students in Milwaukee, overall state test scores for St. Anthony were and still are low. In the fall of 2010, just 7% of children could read proficiently, and about 10% could do math on grade level.

State data shows they jumped considerably by the fall of 2013: 12% of children were proficient in reading; 19% were proficient in math. That beat the average math proficiency score for all voucher schools but was the same for reading.

St. Anthony scores about the same as Milwaukee Public Schools; score comparisons vary, depending on whether all students or just low-income students are compared

While they have improved very slightly, I would guess much of that improvement came from the extra 500+ kids they sold snake oil too and stole from the public schools.   

88% of the kids in his schools are NOT proficient in reading and 81% of his students are NOT proficient in math,   In most schools that is a very solid F.    

It could possibly be blamed partly on the massive turnover at the school or it could be blamed on hiring a president to run a school who is a college drop out with zero experience in anything but selling Snake Oil.   

Mr Rodriguez had this to say:

"I feel like I've been called to effect change for underserved kids," Rodriguez said.

The problem is we see by the (lack of ) results he has delivered  for his kids and the fact he is now expanding his reach into other states (like Wisconsin), run by anti education far right ideologues, that maybe he was misquoted.   

This seems a more fitting quote for Mr. Rodriguez:

"I feel like I have been called to collect change(and dollars) by taking advantage of underserved kids".   

 

The Company They Keep!

By Jeff Simpson

A while back, tape was released that was somewhat damaging to Senator Mike Ellis.  In a drunken stupor he let his feelings fly, and they were not as hardcore right wing extremists as the folks in Fitzwalkerland prefer so he was forced to retire.

Mike Ellis was well covered(they wanted him out), and Judi Rhodes Engels(they need her to do the dirty work) was given a free pass for her role in the alleged illegal and smear campaigns.  One thing that was pretty much overlooked was the role that Project Veritas and Smear merchant James O Keefe played.

While O'Keefe refuses to say why he came up here and attacked small fish Ellis, it does not take much effort to connect the dots.   One of the biggest items on the republican agenda in the next session is vastly expanding for profit education, irregardless of the results.

 The face of education profiteers in Wisconsin is formerly convicted and ex-Speaker of the Assembly Scott Jensen.



Scott Jensen is such a powerful figure in Wisconsin politics still that when the republican party, made elected reps sign secrecy agreements to be let in the redistricting meetings(Not a single elected Democrat was consulted), Scott Jensen did not have to sign one and had to sign off on any new map they came up with.   Scott Jensen also stands to profit personally the most from raiding our public education funds.   Scott Jensen also had no problem buying the Assembly, he bought an Assembly seat in a special election(Jessie Rodriguez) who answers pretty much only to him.

The problem of course was the state Senate.   The republican majority was fragile, and while lightweights(figuratively only) like Rick Gudex will do whatever he told him to, the republicans did not have a solid enough majority to push things through.  Especially on the rare occasions when Senator Ellis actually represented his constituency.     One of those occasions has always been around the raiding of public education money.   Senator Ellis knew it was bad for WI and that the people in his area were against it.

Jensen and his ilk have no concern for the people of WI or what the people in WI care for or stand for, they enjoy profit.   That meant Ellis was an obstacle between our public education money and their bank accounts.   An obstacle that had to be removed.

I have no doubt that all bases are covered and there is no actual ties directly between Scott Jensen and James O Keefe.   The guys with the power rarely get their own hands dirty.   However, following the bread crumbs of logic,  we know right where that leads us.

That being said, let us look at the person that "someone" hired to come to WI and remove Senator Ellis - James O' Keefe.   See James O'Keefe was Andrew Breitbart's protege, until he was too disgusting of a human being even for Breitbart.   Now that Breitbart has moved south, O'Keefe is trying to establish his own legacy and apparently, with customers like the Wisconsin republicans, it is working.


O'Keefe you might recall, almost singlehandedly took down Acorn.  After the initial fake outrage, we found out that Mr. O Keefe was lying and he ended up having to pay the Acorn employee $100,000.

O'Keefe is back at it again with his trademark, half truths and outright lies.  This time Jimmy dressed up as his hero, Osama Bin Laden(not understanding the irony or stupidity) and crossed the Mexican border into the US.



Here is the kicker though:

Update: "To complete this investigation, Project Veritas spent over $74,242 in legal fees, investigators salaries, and travel expenses... Please help me replace these funds." ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

O'Keefe does not have any money, so he needs to fund raise to do these silly video's and gotcha moments.   The story was not Ellis's loose lips, when the liquor flows those have always been there.  The story is who in Wisconsin has money to burn to bring Jim O'Keefe to Wisconsin to help push through an agenda?  We also know our Governor likes to be involved in all aspects of his campaign, was he aware that Mr. O'Keefe had been hired?  Did the same person(s) hire Mr. O'Keefe who advocated bringing in violence to the peaceful protests in the Capitol?   Are James O'Keefe and Scott Jensen friends?

The republicans in Wisconsin know no level low enough that they will not stoop to to continue in power.

The real question is why would you reward that behavior at the polls?

The Scott Jensen Legacy

By Jeff Simpson

I finally figured out why new Assembly rep Jessie Rodriguez does whatever formerly convicted felon Scott Jensen tells her to do:

1.  He was a convicted felon before blind to republican crime Brad Schimel, gave him a get out of jail free card.

2. She knows that if she does not do what he says, he will send his goons over to rough her up!

WIsconsin political aide pleads guilty to disorderly conduct chargeA state legislative aide accused of harassing a news cameraman at the capitol building in Madison, Wis., pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on April 25.Steve Baas, communications director for Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, was referred to a first offenders program for his actions inside the state Capitol on Jan. 30. Steve Cady, a cameraman for WBAY-TV in Green Bay, claimed Baas collared him by the necktie while he and a reporter attempted to interview another Jensen aide.Cady claimed Baas spun him around by his necktie and let go of him only when Cady shouted that he captured the incident on videotape. Baas said he tried to move Cady from blocking the hallway and claimed Cady tried to hit him during the confrontation. After the incident, Cady said the videotape exonerated him from Baas' claims.In accepting a plea agreement, the misdemeanor charge will be expunged from Baas' record after he completes the first offenders program. Baas will not have to serve jail time or pay a fine.Although she did not file a complaint, reporter Natalie Arnold said in an interview with The Green Bay News-Chronicle that other Jensen staff members "manhandled" her by shoving her against the wall in an attempt to prevent the interview.The scuffle occurred when Cady and Arnold went to the Capitol to question R. J. Pirlot, another aide to Speaker Jensen, about his involvement in a campaign against state Rep. Lee Meyerhofer (D-Kaukauna). WBAY News has been investigating allegations that Pirlot anonymously provided court transcripts to an independent campaign group. The group has been accused of producing a campaign radio spot that portrayed Meyerhofer as a "wife-beater." (City of Madison v. Baas)-

The question I have, is why in the world would anyone hire a thug like Steve Baas to represent them?  Especially the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, no wonder unemployment is so high in Milwaukee.

Here is Baas getting the name of the next person who asked the wrong question to rough up:



If you see this person stand clear he is known to be dangerous!  

Edit Note:  Scandal Plagued Scott Jensen is the one person in the state of WI leading the voucher expansion.  Do you really think he has the best interest of your children in mind?  Is he someone you would want your children to look up to or role model?  We all know the answer to that!   

Privatization Ploy

By Jeff Simpson

Not that we need a study to tell us that voucher schools do not perform as well as public schools, we have the test scores to prove it.   Professor Gordon Lafer gave us one anyway:

A new report reveals that legislative moves to convert struggling public schools in Milwaukee into private charters─whether for-profit or non-profit─may actually damage the academic futures of far too many of the city’s children.

The report, “Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education Than Rich Kids? Evaluating School Privatization Proposals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” was written by Professor Gordon Lafer in conjunction with the national think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

A special briefing on this provocative study will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, in the ground floor rotunda of Milwaukee City Hall, 200 East Wells Street. You can join Dr. Lafer and public school supporters from the area to hear about the growing private charter industry and its impact–often negative–on Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and students.

There was a strong push by Wisconsin legislators in the last session to enact bills aimed at closing low-performing public schools and replacing them with less accountable, privately-run and often-for-profit enterprises. Considering many of the unanswered questions, EPI commissioned Prof. Lafer to actually look at the impact these privatization efforts would have on MPS.

The report is an eye-opening investigation into the rapidly growing private charter industry and the effects profit motivated schools can have on the depth and quality of education children receive.

Voucher and for profit schools perpetually get outperformed by public schools, and yet almost like clockwork, the tea party shows up to argue the wrong side of the issue(facts be dammed)!

 

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a prospective presidential candidate in 2016, will be in Milwaukee next week hosting a school choice roundtable at St. Anthony School.

The event will follow a Chicago roundtable the day before and will be held at St. Anthony School's middle school campus April 23. The event is co-hosted by Hispanics for School Choice and the Libre Initiative, a national conservative Hispanic organization whose spokeswoman, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is married to U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.).

Paul, son of former Texas congressman and libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, is a Tea Party Republican, self-described "constitutional conservative." He's considered a likely 2016 presidential candidate.

St. Anthony's is Wisconsin's largest Catholic school. St. Anthony School president Zeus Rodriguez is also president of Hispanics for School Choice, a Milwaukee-based organization designed to reach out to and represent the Hispanic community on issues of school choice.

Milwaukee's school choice program is the country's largest and first for low-income students. It allows low- and middle-income students to attend participating private schools using state-funded vouchers to pay tuition.


It is funny to me that a serial plagiarist would talk about school choices.  Since he is not a serious student I would guess he does not care too much about your child's education.  

Also full disclosure, Zeus Rodriguez is the brother-in-law of  Assembly rep Jessie Rodriguez (R- Scott Jensen) whose seat was bought and paid for by the formerly convicted felon.   The Rodriguez has ALOT of personal money riding on the perpetual expansion of using public school dollars to line their pockets.

I will give them some credit though, they have not cashed in on our public school dollars the way their peers at Lifeskills Academy have! 

Also full disclosure, Mr. Rodriguez once invited me to come speak at his school and when I accepted promptly disappeared and apparently rescinded the offer.   I wonder how many on the roundtable will be anti voucher schools?

So, Just How Upset Are The Republicans With Bill Kramer? Not Much

The Bill Kramer affair has grown to become an epic problem for the Republicans.

As the gentle reader already knows, it all started earlier this year when it was reported by Dan Bice that Kramer was accused of  sexually assaulting and harassing a legislative aide and a lobbyist at a fundraiser event in Washington, D.C.  This, of course, wasn't surprising since another incident of sexual misconduct - this time at a ALEC event - had been reported just before the Republicans voted Kramer in as Assembly Majority Leader.

Since then, we've learned that there was a third incident that happened on April 8, 2011, well before the other two incidents.  It was for this incident that Kramer is now facing two counts of Second Degree Sexual Assault.

After the February incident, Republican leaders couldn't act fast enough to remove Kramer from his leadership position.  Since the criminal charges, there's been calls for Kramer to resign or be impeached.

Kramer won't resign because he's not going to give up the money.  He needs that for his legal defense.  The Republicans aren't going to impeach him because they're still trying to keep the lid on things and prevent more damage from happening.

Not only that, but Kramer hasn't even been convicted of anything yet.  Just how scared are the Republicans?

But there's more.  There's always more.

The victim of the assaults in the criminal case was an aide to Senator Ron Johnson.  The victim had gone to her supervisor, RoJo's Chief of Staff, Tony Blando, who in turn told RoJo.  Yet neither man did anything to help her and kept it hushed up.  Worse yet, they have since blamed their silence and lack of action in protecting the victim or offering her aid on the victim herself.

Per the article, the victim also told one other person of the incident, Keith Best, the Waukesha County GOP Vice Chairman, who was also at the events where the assaults were supposed to have taken place:

At the time of the alleged assault, the woman also told Waukesha County GOP vice chairman Keith Best, who had witnessed Kramer and the woman at the bar. Best didn't witness the assault but did confirm later to Muskego police that the woman and Kramer had been present at the bar that night and that the woman had later been distraught.

Best told a police officer that the incident "had been difficult for him" because Best was friends with both the woman and Kramer. He said he had seen Kramer drink too much and make inappropriate comments in the past but not be physically inappropriate.

Best told the officer that he never spoke with Kramer about the incident and that despite the alleged sexual assault, Best hoped Kramer's promotion to Assembly majority leader would "give Kramer the motivation to 'clean up his act,'" according to the police report.

Best did not respond to requests for comment.

So Best knew of the incident on the date it happened, but did nothing? I would think just as a human being, much less an officer of his party, he would have had to taken some action. But Best, who is also known to be a member of the extremely hateful group of knotzies, did not take any action.

Well, I take that back.

Best did indeed take action. Since the time of the April 8, 2011 incident, he donated at least four times to Kramer's campaign fund:

• 8/24/11 - $100
• 7/27/12 - $75
•  7/6/13 - $50
• 7/31/13 - $100

Contrary to Best's statement in the article, he wasn't having to much difficulty about Kramer's behavior now, was he?  Seems like he was rather OK with it, in fact.

Now, anyone with any experience in politics know that gossip is a staple for any political group or organization.  It would be a pretty safe bet that this story had made its rounds through the party and back, especially within the Waukesha County GOP.  So here is some of the more notable donations made to Kramer since the incident in April 2011:

• John Macy, Chair of the Waukesha County GOP gave Kramer $250 each time on 9/6/11, 6/15/12 and 6/3/13;
• Don Taylor, former Chair of Waukesha County GOP and who is credited for deepening the red in the 262 area code, gave Kramer $250 on 7/27/12 and $125 on 7/25/13;
• John Hiller, Scott Walker's former campaign treasurer, gave Kramer $500 on 12/2/11;
• Shawn Reilly, who was just elected as mayor for the City of Waukesha, gave Kramer $250 each time on 9/23/11; 7/18/12 and 6/3/13;
• Margaret Farrow, former Lieutenant Governor, gave Kramer $250 each on 10/28/11 and 8/14/12 and another $50 on 7/25/13;
• James Klauser, major power broker with WISGOP, gave Kramer $100 on 7/24/12 and $50 on 7/6/13;
• Steven Foti, known for his involvement with the original caucus scandal, gave $500 to Kramer on 8/21/12;
• Daniel Le Mahieu, Assembly Representative from the 59th District, gave Kramer $50 on 8/26/13; and
• Michael Grebe, head of the Bradley Foundation and Chair of Scott Walker's last to campaigns, gave Kramer $250 on 6/3/13.

Also of interest is that the Koch Industries PAC gave Kramer $500 on 2/24/12.

Not only were a number of Teapublicans were happy to give Kramer money, they were even happier to take money from him.  Some of the groups benefiting from Kramer are listed below. Please note that they have all kept the money, to the best of my knowledge:

• Marquette University's College Republicans received $100 each on 4/11/11 and 9/32/12;
• WISGOP received $7,500 each on 1/19/12 and 10/10/12;
• Waukesha County GOP received $300 on 9/20/11, $1,000 on 3/9/12, $250 on 10/1/12; $1,000 on 2/8/13 and $300 on 9/20/14; and
• The 1st District Republican Party of Wisconsin received $250 on 7/21/13 and $125 on 10/818/12.

Irony alerts on the next two!

• The Wisconsin Federation of Republican Women received $150 on 3/21/12; and 
• The Marathon County Republican Women received $500 on 10/18/12.

The following are donations Kramer made to individual campaigns. Those that were guilted or savvy enough to return the money are noted. All others kept their loot:

• Dan Trawicki, Waukesha County Sheriff got $75 on 9/30/11, which he returned;
• Representative Mary Czaja received $500 which she returned. (Interestingly, she returned it on 10/11/12. What did she know and when did she know it?);
• Representative Rob Swearingen received $500 on 7/14/12 and returned it;
• Representative Alvin Ott received $500 on 7/24/12;
• Representative John Jagler received $500 on 8/15/12. He returned it 8/15/12. Again, what did he know that he returned it so fast?;
• Former candidate Pat Snyder received $500 on 8/15/12 and returned it;
• Representative Rob Hutton who received $500 on 8/15/12;
• Representative Joe Sanfelippo received $500 on 8/15/12 and has returned it;
• Representative Mark Born received $500 on 8/15/12 and has returned it;
• Candidate Nancy Vander Meer (rerun candidate for the 70th AD) received $500 on 8/15/12;
• Representative Adam Neylon received $500 on 2/20/13 and has returned it;
• Shawn Reilly, Mayor-elect for the City of Waukesha, received $250 on 9/16/13;
• Representative Jessie Rodriguez received $500 on 10/24/13;
• Representative Robert Kulp received $500 on 10/24/13;
• Lieutenant Governor Becky Kleefisch received $50 on 8/12/13; and 
• Brad Schemel, Waukesha County District Attorney and candidate for Wisconsin Attorney General received $500 on 11/22/13.  He later returned the money.

I find it very interesting that Mary Czaja and John Jagler returned their donations early on. What did they know and when did they know it?  And while many of the people that returned it did so only after the fecal matter struck the air circulation device, they had at least returned it.  What does it say about the people that kept that loot? 

It seems to me that a lot of people in the Republican Party, especially those in Waukesha County, has a lot of explaining to do to their voters and members.  

It also seems to me that some of these people, like John Macy and Keith Best should just resign from their positions now.  Macy is a municipal attorney for several communities and knows the laws.  They are both officers of the party and know their bylaws better than anyone.

And if they don't step down and the party takes no action, well, that will only mean that they are OK with the sexual assaults and harassment done by Kramer.  Then again, as Jeff Simpson pointed out, Kramer has already been portrayed as the face of the Waukesha County GOP.

Then again, that should surprise no one either, given their acceptance of the rape culture.