Original Post: Examiner
For the heinous act of allegedly selling gas to a Republican State Senator, a Sheboygan, Wisconsin gas station received threats from a local school district employee.
According to WBAY, Dick Hiers, owner of a Northeast Standard gas station, began receiving calls last Tuesday from an unidentified woman who thought she saw Senator Joe Leibham buying gas there. As it turns out, the person she thought was Senator Leibham was actually the Senator's brother.
Molly Hendrickson writes:
"I think that this whole thing has to end. It has to stop," said Hiers. "This type of stuff is totally uncalled for."
Hiers never thought his little gas station in the heart of Sheboygan would be the stage of political controversy. Then again, his week has been full of surprises.
"I was working back here and the answering machine went off, and I was a little surprised by that, and when I heard the message here, I was even a little more surprised."
The conversation was captured on an answering machine that was left on from the previous night.
Caller: "Can you verify that was Senator Leibham at the gas station this morning?"
Gas station clerk: "Senator Leibham?"
Caller: "Yes. Do you guys support him?"
Clerk: "I have nothing to say about that, I am not politically involved."
Caller: "Alright, well you can tell Dick he's not good for business, I'll tell you that."
Translation: Nice business you have here - be a shame if something happened to it.
Hiers quickly traced the call and discovered it came from the Sheboygan area district school office.
On Tuesday, a school district employee Hiers believed was the woman who made the call visited his business, but he was unable to speak with her. Hiers told the Sheboygan Press he thought the woman was instructed to apologize for the call.
Sheboygan School Superintendent Joseph Sheehan was not in the area Friday, but told WBAY the district has taken "appropriate disciplinary action" against the employee.
"Any type of phone call leaving any types of threats or condoning any type of intimidation is strictly prohibited," he said.
According to school officials, the 8:15 call was made before the employee was on the clock.
Hiers told WBAY he wants answers, and says the week's events are a "...sign things have gone too far."
"Everybody's money is green, it's all the same, and I don't pick and choose who can come into my business," Hiers said, according to WBAY. He also expressed concern for the Senator's safety, citing threats the Senator and his family have received.
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Leibham was one of the Republican lawmakers targeted with a death threat sent by email. Katherine Windels, 26, has been charged with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts for the threats.
In March, a public sector union threatened businesses with boycotts if they did not display a poster showing solidarity with the unions. Most of the businesses refused to cave in to the demands made by the unions and instead of suffering from a public union boycott, saw increased support from the local community.
Earlier in March, a branch of the M&I bank was vandalized with pro-union graffiti and a Sendik's grocery store had its doors glued shut.
WBAY reports that Senator Leibham has filed an open records request with the school district.
According to the Sheboygan Press:
Leibham said his concern is whether a school employee on school time would make statements like that from a school phone.
"My interest in this is as a taxpayer," Leibham said. "I'm interested if this was a call made from a school district phone system and I'm intrigued if it's the responsibility of school district employees to be monitoring the activities of citizens and to be calling businesses to give them advice on how to run their business. I've never, as a taxpayer, understood that was the responsibility of school district employees or the school district as a whole."
Audio of the call can be heard at the Sheboygan Press.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Marquette Warrior Blogger Threatened by Provost, Dean and Department Chair
Original Post: MU Warrior
We just got out of a meeting with Provost John Pauly, interim Arts & Sciences Dean Phil Rossi, and Political Science Department Chair Barry McCormick.
This was the meeting we were summoned to by Pauly.
Pauly, in an e-mail to us, said the meeting was about “some of the ongoing potential conflicts between your role as Marquette professor and employee, and independent blogger-journalist.”
The bottom line: all three – Pauly, Rossi and McCormick – want us to entirely stop blogging about student organizations.
Pauly claimed to have no problem with our blogging about faculty and administrators, but claimed our blogging about student affairs has been out of line. How much of this was a genuine concern (some of it probably was) and how much was the result of an ideological bias from liberal administrators two a conservative blogger (there was almost certainly some of that too) we can’t say.
Two specific instances were mentioned. First, we called the listed home number of a student, talked to (apparently) her father and left a polite message asking for a return call, explaining that we were working on a blog post about The Vagina Monologues (the student was listed as the Marquette contact on vday.org). Apparently, the student’s parents freaked. All three administrators (Pauly, Rossi and McCormick) condemned the call saying that faculty should never call the parents of students. They said that the parents should have been in Fr. Wild’s office loudly complaining about it.
We replied that we were calling the listed number of the student (and had no way of knowing that she was living with her parents), and that’s it’s standard practice for a journalist to call a potential source at home. But Pauly, Rossi and McCormick explicitly stated that we should somehow have known that the parents would freak. We were accused of merely offering “rationalizations.”
All thee insisted that we don’t have any of the prerogatives of a journalist, since the role of a professor trumps that of a faculty blogger.
The other issue raised was the fact that we had mentioned a student’s research paper, and were accused of “criticizing” it. In reality, we did not mention the student’s name, and the point of the blog post was that “‘gender studies’ has been added to ‘women’s studies’ signals a move toward a homosexual emphasis, as shown by one of the papers completed by a WGST fellow this summer . . . .” The blog post was, quite simply, a comment on the fact that the Women’s and Gender Studies program has begun to slip “queer studies” into the university.
Pauly, Rossi and McCormick lamely replied that people could find the name of the student (we included the title of the paper, which could be googled), and that some people knew that we had supposedly “criticized the student.” In fact, nothing was said that was favorable or unfavorable about the student.
A Sandbox?
McCormick, using a metaphor that was supremely insulting to students, insisted that student activities are a “sandbox,” and that faculty should never comment on what student organizations do.
We pointed out that, in the issues they brought up, Marquette as an institution had been the issue. The Vagina Monologues will be sponsored by Social and Cultural Sciences, and the post that “criticized student research” was about the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
We further pointed out that when students do high-profile public things, there is a legitimate news interest in what they do. In fact, it serves students well to learn that when they do highly visible controversial public things in some official role, they might get criticized.
Further, what student organizations do has consequences for the University. When Fr. Wild announced that Marquette is going to provide domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian couples, he explicitly cited a resolution calling for that from Marquette University Student Government. If student organizations can affect Marquette University policy, it’s hard to see how they should be exempt from scrutiny.
As the meeting moved on, Rossi and McCormick became more ad hominem, Rossi accusing us of having a “blind spot,” and McCormick asserting that nobody he knew felt that our blogging about student organizations was acceptable. Since we’ve gotten multiple supporting e-mails, that says more about McCormick’s circle of friends than about what “everybody believes.”
All three implied (and sometimes stated) that we had been guilty of some violation of professional ethics, but could not explain what that would be, beyond McCormick’s “sandbox” metaphor, and the general notion that faculty should never publicly say anything negative about a student, even a student in a very public role doing something controversial.
We were willing to make only one concession: we assured the group that we would be more careful in the future about mentioning student’s names. (It typically isn’t that significant who the student is anyway.) But that wasn’t enough.
They hang tough with the position that we should never comment on student affairs, and we were threatened by both Pauly and McCormick saying that we would “be here [in a meeting like this] again” if we persisted in blogging about the activities of student groups.
Needless to say, we will continue to blog about activities on campus, and when the actions of student organizations have substantial news interest, we will report them.
We just got out of a meeting with Provost John Pauly, interim Arts & Sciences Dean Phil Rossi, and Political Science Department Chair Barry McCormick.
This was the meeting we were summoned to by Pauly.
Pauly, in an e-mail to us, said the meeting was about “some of the ongoing potential conflicts between your role as Marquette professor and employee, and independent blogger-journalist.”
The bottom line: all three – Pauly, Rossi and McCormick – want us to entirely stop blogging about student organizations.
Pauly claimed to have no problem with our blogging about faculty and administrators, but claimed our blogging about student affairs has been out of line. How much of this was a genuine concern (some of it probably was) and how much was the result of an ideological bias from liberal administrators two a conservative blogger (there was almost certainly some of that too) we can’t say.
Two specific instances were mentioned. First, we called the listed home number of a student, talked to (apparently) her father and left a polite message asking for a return call, explaining that we were working on a blog post about The Vagina Monologues (the student was listed as the Marquette contact on vday.org). Apparently, the student’s parents freaked. All three administrators (Pauly, Rossi and McCormick) condemned the call saying that faculty should never call the parents of students. They said that the parents should have been in Fr. Wild’s office loudly complaining about it.
We replied that we were calling the listed number of the student (and had no way of knowing that she was living with her parents), and that’s it’s standard practice for a journalist to call a potential source at home. But Pauly, Rossi and McCormick explicitly stated that we should somehow have known that the parents would freak. We were accused of merely offering “rationalizations.”
All thee insisted that we don’t have any of the prerogatives of a journalist, since the role of a professor trumps that of a faculty blogger.
The other issue raised was the fact that we had mentioned a student’s research paper, and were accused of “criticizing” it. In reality, we did not mention the student’s name, and the point of the blog post was that “‘gender studies’ has been added to ‘women’s studies’ signals a move toward a homosexual emphasis, as shown by one of the papers completed by a WGST fellow this summer . . . .” The blog post was, quite simply, a comment on the fact that the Women’s and Gender Studies program has begun to slip “queer studies” into the university.
Pauly, Rossi and McCormick lamely replied that people could find the name of the student (we included the title of the paper, which could be googled), and that some people knew that we had supposedly “criticized the student.” In fact, nothing was said that was favorable or unfavorable about the student.
A Sandbox?
McCormick, using a metaphor that was supremely insulting to students, insisted that student activities are a “sandbox,” and that faculty should never comment on what student organizations do.
We pointed out that, in the issues they brought up, Marquette as an institution had been the issue. The Vagina Monologues will be sponsored by Social and Cultural Sciences, and the post that “criticized student research” was about the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
We further pointed out that when students do high-profile public things, there is a legitimate news interest in what they do. In fact, it serves students well to learn that when they do highly visible controversial public things in some official role, they might get criticized.
Further, what student organizations do has consequences for the University. When Fr. Wild announced that Marquette is going to provide domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian couples, he explicitly cited a resolution calling for that from Marquette University Student Government. If student organizations can affect Marquette University policy, it’s hard to see how they should be exempt from scrutiny.
As the meeting moved on, Rossi and McCormick became more ad hominem, Rossi accusing us of having a “blind spot,” and McCormick asserting that nobody he knew felt that our blogging about student organizations was acceptable. Since we’ve gotten multiple supporting e-mails, that says more about McCormick’s circle of friends than about what “everybody believes.”
All three implied (and sometimes stated) that we had been guilty of some violation of professional ethics, but could not explain what that would be, beyond McCormick’s “sandbox” metaphor, and the general notion that faculty should never publicly say anything negative about a student, even a student in a very public role doing something controversial.
We were willing to make only one concession: we assured the group that we would be more careful in the future about mentioning student’s names. (It typically isn’t that significant who the student is anyway.) But that wasn’t enough.
They hang tough with the position that we should never comment on student affairs, and we were threatened by both Pauly and McCormick saying that we would “be here [in a meeting like this] again” if we persisted in blogging about the activities of student groups.
Needless to say, we will continue to blog about activities on campus, and when the actions of student organizations have substantial news interest, we will report them.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wisconsin cop does nothing to stop felony happening right in front of him
Original Post: Maggies Notebook
Wisconsin Union Thugs Destroy Recall Petition of Democrat Jim Holperin: Police Union Members Watch
By Maggie
First the Wisconsin Union rowdies completely trashed the Wisconsin Capitol lawn. No. I mean they really, really trashed it. Only mud where grass once was. Now they’ve destroyed a Republican recall petition for Democrat state Senator Jim Holperin, one of the 14 AWOL Wisconsin senators, and the police are looking into it – but – aren’t the police amont the Union thugs? I think so, in this case. Police were on the scene, but the Police Chief says they were “investigating other complaints,” and just missed this one (see second video below). In the meantime, all the signatures gathered are now void. Please don’t miss the letter Holperin wrote (see below) where he lied to the residents of Wisconsin in a major way.
WausauDailyHerald:
Recall Jim Holperin Committee leader Kim Simac told reporters Tuesday at the Lincoln County Courthouse that up to 100 pro-union protesters encircled committee members Thursday in Merrill as they sought signatures for a petition to oust Holperin, D-Conover.
A female pro-union protester pretended to be interested in signing a petition, wrote a profanity across a partially completed petition form, and ripped up completed petitions, Simac said.
Now get this, apparently there is a chance that it is NOT illegal to let people thwart other people’s right to protest their government, or destroy personal property.
Seubert [Police Chief] said Tuesday that his department still is trying to determine what law the woman might have violated. Investigators plan to review footage of the event from a Wausau television station in an attempt to identify the woman, he said.
Seubert also said that his department will forward to the Lincoln County District Attorney’s office any reports from people who claim pro-union protesters prevented them from signing petitions. So far no complaints have been made, Seubert said.
So where are those who were attempting to sign? Please come forward and tell police your story.
Armed with a bullhorn, thuggery, and the most annoying chants ever, union thugs continued their streak of ‘solidarity’.
The following took place at a recall Jim Holperin Rally in Merill, WI. As you can see, “F*ck you” is written on the ripped up petitions. The video was shot after the incident took place.
According to an eyewitness account:
This video was shot minutes after a union advocate destroyed several petitions at a recall Jim Holperin Rally in Merill, WI. The event was moved to the court house grounds because the private location originally slated to host the event was threatened with arson. It should be noted that police were present when the protestor destroyed these recall petitions, but stated to us that there was nothing they could do about it. The female protestor, who had a young child with her, approached the recall table pretending to be interested in signing the petition, then proceeded to write F— You! She then ripped up other completed petitions before being stopped. Her actions were met with great approval from the rest of the crowd, who took up the chant heard in the video.
From 620WTMJ NewsRadio:
The policemen who were there, and who were standing in close proximity to these events as they unfolded, did nothing to assist those collecting the petitions as they were being destroyed, despite such an action being a Felony under Wisconsin law. Police also did nothing to clear the walk way for citizens that wanted to sign the petitions. Recall Committee members received many phone calls the following day from Merill area citizens who stated that they showed up to sign the petition, but were too afraid to get out of their vehicles and approach the recall table.
I found this story about Holperin published on the Vilas County GOP site by Kerry Thomas:
I recalled a letter Senator Holperin wrote to the Lakeland Times on July 24, 2009.
In the letter, Senator Holperin bragged how the Democrats (who at that time controlled both houses of the State Legislature and the Governorship) had not only eliminated a $6.6 billion deficit in the State’s 2010-11 budget, but had actually left the State with a $270 million surplus.
Of course, in order to claim the budget was balanced, the Democrats had to borrow money from segregated funds (including the 911 emergency dispatch fund), raise taxes, and use $2.2 billion in federal “stimulus” funds to pay the State’s bills instead of using that money to “stimulating” Wisconsin’s economy.
Wisconsin Union Thugs Destroy Recall Petition of Democrat Jim Holperin: Police Union Members Watch
By Maggie
First the Wisconsin Union rowdies completely trashed the Wisconsin Capitol lawn. No. I mean they really, really trashed it. Only mud where grass once was. Now they’ve destroyed a Republican recall petition for Democrat state Senator Jim Holperin, one of the 14 AWOL Wisconsin senators, and the police are looking into it – but – aren’t the police amont the Union thugs? I think so, in this case. Police were on the scene, but the Police Chief says they were “investigating other complaints,” and just missed this one (see second video below). In the meantime, all the signatures gathered are now void. Please don’t miss the letter Holperin wrote (see below) where he lied to the residents of Wisconsin in a major way.
WausauDailyHerald:
Recall Jim Holperin Committee leader Kim Simac told reporters Tuesday at the Lincoln County Courthouse that up to 100 pro-union protesters encircled committee members Thursday in Merrill as they sought signatures for a petition to oust Holperin, D-Conover.
A female pro-union protester pretended to be interested in signing a petition, wrote a profanity across a partially completed petition form, and ripped up completed petitions, Simac said.
Now get this, apparently there is a chance that it is NOT illegal to let people thwart other people’s right to protest their government, or destroy personal property.
Seubert [Police Chief] said Tuesday that his department still is trying to determine what law the woman might have violated. Investigators plan to review footage of the event from a Wausau television station in an attempt to identify the woman, he said.
Seubert also said that his department will forward to the Lincoln County District Attorney’s office any reports from people who claim pro-union protesters prevented them from signing petitions. So far no complaints have been made, Seubert said.
So where are those who were attempting to sign? Please come forward and tell police your story.
Armed with a bullhorn, thuggery, and the most annoying chants ever, union thugs continued their streak of ‘solidarity’.
The following took place at a recall Jim Holperin Rally in Merill, WI. As you can see, “F*ck you” is written on the ripped up petitions. The video was shot after the incident took place.
According to an eyewitness account:
This video was shot minutes after a union advocate destroyed several petitions at a recall Jim Holperin Rally in Merill, WI. The event was moved to the court house grounds because the private location originally slated to host the event was threatened with arson. It should be noted that police were present when the protestor destroyed these recall petitions, but stated to us that there was nothing they could do about it. The female protestor, who had a young child with her, approached the recall table pretending to be interested in signing the petition, then proceeded to write F— You! She then ripped up other completed petitions before being stopped. Her actions were met with great approval from the rest of the crowd, who took up the chant heard in the video.
From 620WTMJ NewsRadio:
The policemen who were there, and who were standing in close proximity to these events as they unfolded, did nothing to assist those collecting the petitions as they were being destroyed, despite such an action being a Felony under Wisconsin law. Police also did nothing to clear the walk way for citizens that wanted to sign the petitions. Recall Committee members received many phone calls the following day from Merill area citizens who stated that they showed up to sign the petition, but were too afraid to get out of their vehicles and approach the recall table.
I found this story about Holperin published on the Vilas County GOP site by Kerry Thomas:
I recalled a letter Senator Holperin wrote to the Lakeland Times on July 24, 2009.
In the letter, Senator Holperin bragged how the Democrats (who at that time controlled both houses of the State Legislature and the Governorship) had not only eliminated a $6.6 billion deficit in the State’s 2010-11 budget, but had actually left the State with a $270 million surplus.
Of course, in order to claim the budget was balanced, the Democrats had to borrow money from segregated funds (including the 911 emergency dispatch fund), raise taxes, and use $2.2 billion in federal “stimulus” funds to pay the State’s bills instead of using that money to “stimulating” Wisconsin’s economy.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Civilized peaceful union supporter threatens blogger with opposing view
Original Post: Maggies Notebook
Wisconsin Law Prof and Blogger, Ann Althouse, Threatened in Madison by Cyberstalker
By Maggie
There’s a Wisconsin story that I’ve not had a chance to cover this week, and everyone should know about it
Ann Althouse
because a blogger has been publicly threatened with violence for supporting Republican Governor Scott Walker. Ann Althouse is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She and her husband Laurence Meade were present inside the Madison Capitol building and document some unsavory and uncivil behavior at The People’s House.
Althouse dared to write about it, and film it. It didn’t take long before they both became public targets. According to the Wall Street Journal, one Jim Shankman posted the following on Scirbd.com:
“We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go. We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving sh–out of you all the time. . . . Because we aren’t anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL F— YOU UP.”
That’s a small sample. There are threats with the cyberstalker asking “Who are you gonna call? Cops for Labor?” – In otherwords, cops are union and they won’t be helping you. There may be more than a little truth in that.
More from Shankman:
There is no calvary. It is us vs you on the streets of the city going as far as it has to go until A) We Win or B) Doomsday.
So the obscenity in Madison has spilled over onto a well-respected and brilliant blogger. And she has been warned that she will be ruined, her career will ruined and her “sense of safety and wellbeing will be ruined.”
When Shankman works, he’s apparently a dishwasher. And now he wants to bow out of the controversy; issue the threats to life, limb and job, and drop out. Do dishwashers usually live in “townie” houses in groups of 5-7 at a time, and …well, you don’t want to know that – what am I thinking.
The same WSJ article says another Wisconsin private citizen and supporter of Governor Scott Walker, received a threat posted from a Facebook page, that promised to leave him in pool of his own blood.
Browse through Althouse’s archives for the full story.
Then return to The Other McCain and the story on how Shankman is identified, and is quoted saying “I’m done with it,” to which McCain replies: “you’re done with it, Jim — just like a cockroach is done feeding on crumbs when somebody turns on the kitchen light.”
If you’ve been missing McCain’s Smitty, he’s writing from Afghanistan has been filling some pages with excellence. Smitty, What is a “Death-Porn Doorstop, anyway?
Wisconsin Law Prof and Blogger, Ann Althouse, Threatened in Madison by Cyberstalker
By Maggie
There’s a Wisconsin story that I’ve not had a chance to cover this week, and everyone should know about it
Ann Althouse
because a blogger has been publicly threatened with violence for supporting Republican Governor Scott Walker. Ann Althouse is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She and her husband Laurence Meade were present inside the Madison Capitol building and document some unsavory and uncivil behavior at The People’s House.
Althouse dared to write about it, and film it. It didn’t take long before they both became public targets. According to the Wall Street Journal, one Jim Shankman posted the following on Scirbd.com:
“We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go. We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving sh–out of you all the time. . . . Because we aren’t anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL F— YOU UP.”
That’s a small sample. There are threats with the cyberstalker asking “Who are you gonna call? Cops for Labor?” – In otherwords, cops are union and they won’t be helping you. There may be more than a little truth in that.
More from Shankman:
There is no calvary. It is us vs you on the streets of the city going as far as it has to go until A) We Win or B) Doomsday.
So the obscenity in Madison has spilled over onto a well-respected and brilliant blogger. And she has been warned that she will be ruined, her career will ruined and her “sense of safety and wellbeing will be ruined.”
When Shankman works, he’s apparently a dishwasher. And now he wants to bow out of the controversy; issue the threats to life, limb and job, and drop out. Do dishwashers usually live in “townie” houses in groups of 5-7 at a time, and …well, you don’t want to know that – what am I thinking.
The same WSJ article says another Wisconsin private citizen and supporter of Governor Scott Walker, received a threat posted from a Facebook page, that promised to leave him in pool of his own blood.
Browse through Althouse’s archives for the full story.
Then return to The Other McCain and the story on how Shankman is identified, and is quoted saying “I’m done with it,” to which McCain replies: “you’re done with it, Jim — just like a cockroach is done feeding on crumbs when somebody turns on the kitchen light.”
If you’ve been missing McCain’s Smitty, he’s writing from Afghanistan has been filling some pages with excellence. Smitty, What is a “Death-Porn Doorstop, anyway?
Civilized peaceful union supporter smashes Republican's car window
Original Post: Weekly Standard
Wisconsin Republican Senator's Car Window Smashed
By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Wisconsin Republican state senator Dan Kapanke has been the subjecte of death threats and vandalism, the LaCrosse Tribune reports:
Sen. Dan Kapanke has canceled upcoming district meetings after being the target of threats and vandalism. Rose Smyrski, Kapanke's chief of staff, said the senator's car window was smashed in Madison, and his wife found nails scattered in the driveway of their French Island home.
He also received death threats.
Via Ace, a Huffington Post blogger asks, in the wake of the Giffords shooting, "Why isn't the mainstream media talking about the death threats against Republican politicians in Wisconsin?
Good question!
Wisconsin Republican Senator's Car Window Smashed
By JOHN MCCORMACK
Please sign me up for The Weekly Standard weekly newsletter.
Wisconsin Republican state senator Dan Kapanke has been the subjecte of death threats and vandalism, the LaCrosse Tribune reports:
Sen. Dan Kapanke has canceled upcoming district meetings after being the target of threats and vandalism. Rose Smyrski, Kapanke's chief of staff, said the senator's car window was smashed in Madison, and his wife found nails scattered in the driveway of their French Island home.
He also received death threats.
Via Ace, a Huffington Post blogger asks, in the wake of the Giffords shooting, "Why isn't the mainstream media talking about the death threats against Republican politicians in Wisconsin?
Good question!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Suspect Located In Wisconsin GOP Death Threats UPDATE: Female Suspect Has Confessed
Original Post: Gatewaypundit
Posted by Lady Liberty on Saturday, March 12, 2011, 1:14 PM
The Wisconsin authorities actually located one of the loons who sent the Wisconsin GOP members death threats. They found the violent crackpot who sent this email to 15 different Republican lawmakers.
The Port Washington-Saukville Patch reported:
News that the state Justice Department has identified one suspect in connection with death threats sent to Republican state senators comes as at least a minor relief to Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend).
“They caught someone? Good,” he said Friday night. “I am waiting to hear the background of the type of person who would do such a devious thing.”
“The Division of Criminal Investigation takes these kind of threats seriously and will follow through with the investigation and prosecution whenever possible,” DCI Administrator Ed Wall said in the release.
“I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough,” one of the threatening e-mails read. “We feel that you and your Republican dictators have to die.”
The message then went on to say the “group” planned to shoot the senators, and plant bombs in various locations, such as their homes and cars.
“If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then we will ‘get rid of’ (in which I mean kill) the eight of you,” the e-mail continued. “Please understand that this does not include the heroic senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do.”
The second message was much shorter, and stated:
“(Expletive) you, (expletive). I am formally requesting to see the 30,000 e-mails you have gotten making you comply with the open records law. I assure you that none of them are in support of you or anything that you or your staff stand for. Your staff members have now been added to the hit list as well as those of the other Senate members we have threatened. Please advise them of the impending danger leading to their deaths.”
Grothman said the threats made in response to the budget repair bill, and the passing of the revised version, are something unseen before in his nearly 20 years in office.
“We have never — you could add up all of the nasty emails and phone calls I have gotten on the first 17 years on the job — and they would not begin to match the obscenities we have seen from opponents of Gov. Walker,” he said.
WHBL is reporting that the suspect is a female.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it has located one of the people who sent death threats to elected officials during the controversy at the state Capitol. The female suspect wasn’t named, but the state says she was located last Thursday.
WisPolitics.com is reporting that the suspect has confessed to authoring and sending two e-mails threatening to kill the Governor and members of the Senate.
Here is the text of the email.
I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was signed, but I have deleted the name pending what I hope will be a thorough police investigation.
Posted by Lady Liberty on Saturday, March 12, 2011, 1:14 PM
The Wisconsin authorities actually located one of the loons who sent the Wisconsin GOP members death threats. They found the violent crackpot who sent this email to 15 different Republican lawmakers.
The Port Washington-Saukville Patch reported:
News that the state Justice Department has identified one suspect in connection with death threats sent to Republican state senators comes as at least a minor relief to Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend).
“They caught someone? Good,” he said Friday night. “I am waiting to hear the background of the type of person who would do such a devious thing.”
“The Division of Criminal Investigation takes these kind of threats seriously and will follow through with the investigation and prosecution whenever possible,” DCI Administrator Ed Wall said in the release.
“I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough,” one of the threatening e-mails read. “We feel that you and your Republican dictators have to die.”
The message then went on to say the “group” planned to shoot the senators, and plant bombs in various locations, such as their homes and cars.
“If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then we will ‘get rid of’ (in which I mean kill) the eight of you,” the e-mail continued. “Please understand that this does not include the heroic senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do.”
The second message was much shorter, and stated:
“(Expletive) you, (expletive). I am formally requesting to see the 30,000 e-mails you have gotten making you comply with the open records law. I assure you that none of them are in support of you or anything that you or your staff stand for. Your staff members have now been added to the hit list as well as those of the other Senate members we have threatened. Please advise them of the impending danger leading to their deaths.”
Grothman said the threats made in response to the budget repair bill, and the passing of the revised version, are something unseen before in his nearly 20 years in office.
“We have never — you could add up all of the nasty emails and phone calls I have gotten on the first 17 years on the job — and they would not begin to match the obscenities we have seen from opponents of Gov. Walker,” he said.
WHBL is reporting that the suspect is a female.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it has located one of the people who sent death threats to elected officials during the controversy at the state Capitol. The female suspect wasn’t named, but the state says she was located last Thursday.
WisPolitics.com is reporting that the suspect has confessed to authoring and sending two e-mails threatening to kill the Governor and members of the Senate.
Here is the text of the email.
I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was signed, but I have deleted the name pending what I hope will be a thorough police investigation.
Violent Threats Against Wisconsin Republicans Increase
Original Post: Yahoo
Kim Linton Kim Linton – Sun Mar 13, 7:29 pm ET
Several suspects have been identified, while obscene phone calls, threatening e-mails and other "thug-like" intimidation tactics continue to be used by union supporters to incite violence and anger toward Republican senators.
One particularly threatening e-mail warned Republican lawmakers to "put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."
Why all the hate?
The heated battle started when Walker introduced his budget repair bill, which originally contained fiscal language designed to cover a $137 million budget deficit. Most importantly, the bill also placed limits on collective bargaining rights for state union workers, excluding police and firefighters.
Protests and death threats against Republican legislators intensified after a modified version of the bill passed the Senate and ultimately the Assembly. To make the vote possible in the absence of 14 Democratic colleagues, all fiscal language was stripped from the legislation leaving only collective bargaining restrictions.
Wisconsin protests turn ugly
Since Walker signed the anti-union bill into law, protests in Madison, Wis. have been anything but peaceful.
After causing an estimated $7.5 million in property damage to the State Capitol, Wisconsin protesters are now the stars of amateur videos springing up on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Earlier in the Wisconsin budget battle timeline, Massachusetts Rep. Michael Capauno told a group of Boston union members that collective bargaining battles were so important "every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody."
On the other side of the fence, Sarah Palin told Fox News Wisconsin union bosses were "acting like thugs" and it's their responsibility to "turn down the rhetoric and start getting truth out there so that nobody gets hurt."
What happens now?
While recall efforts, lawsuits and political strategies are being discussed on both sides of the aisle, there's one thing Republican and Democratic lawmakers can agree on -- the battle over unions and collective bargaining has just begun.
Kim Linton Kim Linton – Sun Mar 13, 7:29 pm ET
Several suspects have been identified, while obscene phone calls, threatening e-mails and other "thug-like" intimidation tactics continue to be used by union supporters to incite violence and anger toward Republican senators.
One particularly threatening e-mail warned Republican lawmakers to "put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."
Why all the hate?
The heated battle started when Walker introduced his budget repair bill, which originally contained fiscal language designed to cover a $137 million budget deficit. Most importantly, the bill also placed limits on collective bargaining rights for state union workers, excluding police and firefighters.
Protests and death threats against Republican legislators intensified after a modified version of the bill passed the Senate and ultimately the Assembly. To make the vote possible in the absence of 14 Democratic colleagues, all fiscal language was stripped from the legislation leaving only collective bargaining restrictions.
Wisconsin protests turn ugly
Since Walker signed the anti-union bill into law, protests in Madison, Wis. have been anything but peaceful.
After causing an estimated $7.5 million in property damage to the State Capitol, Wisconsin protesters are now the stars of amateur videos springing up on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Earlier in the Wisconsin budget battle timeline, Massachusetts Rep. Michael Capauno told a group of Boston union members that collective bargaining battles were so important "every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody."
On the other side of the fence, Sarah Palin told Fox News Wisconsin union bosses were "acting like thugs" and it's their responsibility to "turn down the rhetoric and start getting truth out there so that nobody gets hurt."
What happens now?
While recall efforts, lawsuits and political strategies are being discussed on both sides of the aisle, there's one thing Republican and Democratic lawmakers can agree on -- the battle over unions and collective bargaining has just begun.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Union teacher thinks pedophile joke will endear Wisconsin voters to their side
About an inch to the right of the reporter's head is a sign with a cartoon bear known as "pedo bear". This is an iconic image from /b. You can figure out why pedo bear got his name. I'm not sure why a teacher who claims to be a professional, would think that just a joke is at all appropriate. Are they going to bolster the moral of teachers, who work with children, with pedophilia jokes? Are they going to turn Walker supporters to their cause with memes from /b? If I had thought as lefties do, I would say it's a call for child rape against Scott Walker's children. But I do not suspect that is actually the case since I'm a rational individual. No, I suspect it just goes to show the crudeness and the lack of forethought that these teachers are exhibiting.
Mob of Angry Protesters Corners Wisconsin GOP Senator
Original Post: The Blaze
Wisconsin state Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman found himself in a frightening situation at the Wisconsin State Capitol after being tailed and cornered by a large group of angry protesters who screamed and hurled curses at him as he tried to enter the building. Fortunately, a Democratic state assemblyman — Rep. Brett Hulsey — stepped in to help.
I'd like to thank Brett Hulsey. There are very few Democrats representing their constituents and it's good to see that there are those across the isle who still care about law and Democracy.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Matthews Ignores Democrat's 'You're F***ing Dead!' Threat of Republican Woman, But Slams Boehner for Talking Like Glenn Beck
Original Post: MRC
By: Geoffrey Dickens
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:37 PM EST
Chris Matthews has yet to condemn Democratic Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz for yelling "You're f–ing dead!" at Republican State Representative Michelle Litjens during a legislative session on Friday, but the Hardball host did find the time, on Tuesday's show, to slam Speaker of the House John Boehner for engaging in "Glenn Beck talk" about guns.
Matthews, initially teasing a guest for using the word "lethal" in a discussion about recent poll numbers on the Wisconsin budget battle, chided: "In the media world, I think we all agreed...after the horror in Arizona that we weren't gonna...use ballistic terms." The MSNBC host then segued into a clip of Boehner making a gun reference, after which he railed: "What is this Glenn Beck talk?...That's how Glenn talks. 'I'm gonna put a gun to your head' and all this!" This led Huffington Post's Howard Fineman to tag in: "Well when John Boehner back slides, he really back slides."
However, according to Newbusters' own Noel Sheppard, Matthews, Fineman and most mainstream media outlets, other than Fox News, have been largely silent about the Hintz threat.
To review, a Democrat man cursing at a Republican woman "You're f--ing dead" isn't worth mentioning in Matthews' mind, but if you dare make a political metaphor referring to weapons (something Matthews himself has done) that's objectionable.
(MP3 audio)
The following is the relevant exchange that was aired on the March 1 Hardball:
JOSH MARSHALL, TALKING POINTS MEMO: They see that the Republicans, Walker, et cetera, sees that, that collective bargaining argument which is really what's being discussed right now is a loser for them and when you have these poll numbers that are 60/30, you know those are lethal for anybody in politics.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Lethal? Did you say lethal? Because let me tell you who is using the word lethal. You know how we all agreed, in the media world, I think we all agreed a couple of weeks ago after the horror in Arizona that we weren't gonna talk about, you know, "shoot 'em up." We weren't gonna use terms, ballistic terms in the way we talk. We're gonna, we're not gonna say, "Mow down our opponents" or all that. We're gonna stop talking about guns in regular political discourse. Somebody didn't get the message!
MARSHALL: I don't think, I don't think that's in, I don't think that's in, I don't think that's in the same category. I think those, I think those kinds of numbers can be politically lethal.
MATTHEWS: Well no you're missing. Here's Boehner! I'm just teasing. I used you to tease into Boehner. I'm sorry.
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTON POST: You got in the way, you got in the way of one of his set-up jobs.
MATTHEWS: You were part of my set-up sir. Let's take look. Here is John Boehner who didn't get the – you of course have always gotten the message – here is John Boehner on unions. And let's look at his metaphor. Let's listen.
(Begin clip)
REP. JOHN BOEHNER: In some of these states you've got collective bargaining laws that are so weighted in favor of the public employees that there is almost no bargaining. You know we've given them a machine gun and put it at the, at the heads of the, of the local officials and they really have been, had their hands tied.
(End clip)
MATTHEWS: What is this Glenn Beck talk? Guns at the heads of - that's how Glenn talks. "I'm gonna put a gun to your head" and all this!
FINEMAN: Well when John Boehner back slides, he really back slides.
By: Geoffrey Dickens
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:37 PM EST
Chris Matthews has yet to condemn Democratic Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz for yelling "You're f–ing dead!" at Republican State Representative Michelle Litjens during a legislative session on Friday, but the Hardball host did find the time, on Tuesday's show, to slam Speaker of the House John Boehner for engaging in "Glenn Beck talk" about guns.
Matthews, initially teasing a guest for using the word "lethal" in a discussion about recent poll numbers on the Wisconsin budget battle, chided: "In the media world, I think we all agreed...after the horror in Arizona that we weren't gonna...use ballistic terms." The MSNBC host then segued into a clip of Boehner making a gun reference, after which he railed: "What is this Glenn Beck talk?...That's how Glenn talks. 'I'm gonna put a gun to your head' and all this!" This led Huffington Post's Howard Fineman to tag in: "Well when John Boehner back slides, he really back slides."
However, according to Newbusters' own Noel Sheppard, Matthews, Fineman and most mainstream media outlets, other than Fox News, have been largely silent about the Hintz threat.
To review, a Democrat man cursing at a Republican woman "You're f--ing dead" isn't worth mentioning in Matthews' mind, but if you dare make a political metaphor referring to weapons (something Matthews himself has done) that's objectionable.
(MP3 audio)
The following is the relevant exchange that was aired on the March 1 Hardball:
JOSH MARSHALL, TALKING POINTS MEMO: They see that the Republicans, Walker, et cetera, sees that, that collective bargaining argument which is really what's being discussed right now is a loser for them and when you have these poll numbers that are 60/30, you know those are lethal for anybody in politics.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Lethal? Did you say lethal? Because let me tell you who is using the word lethal. You know how we all agreed, in the media world, I think we all agreed a couple of weeks ago after the horror in Arizona that we weren't gonna talk about, you know, "shoot 'em up." We weren't gonna use terms, ballistic terms in the way we talk. We're gonna, we're not gonna say, "Mow down our opponents" or all that. We're gonna stop talking about guns in regular political discourse. Somebody didn't get the message!
MARSHALL: I don't think, I don't think that's in, I don't think that's in, I don't think that's in the same category. I think those, I think those kinds of numbers can be politically lethal.
MATTHEWS: Well no you're missing. Here's Boehner! I'm just teasing. I used you to tease into Boehner. I'm sorry.
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTON POST: You got in the way, you got in the way of one of his set-up jobs.
MATTHEWS: You were part of my set-up sir. Let's take look. Here is John Boehner who didn't get the – you of course have always gotten the message – here is John Boehner on unions. And let's look at his metaphor. Let's listen.
(Begin clip)
REP. JOHN BOEHNER: In some of these states you've got collective bargaining laws that are so weighted in favor of the public employees that there is almost no bargaining. You know we've given them a machine gun and put it at the, at the heads of the, of the local officials and they really have been, had their hands tied.
(End clip)
MATTHEWS: What is this Glenn Beck talk? Guns at the heads of - that's how Glenn talks. "I'm gonna put a gun to your head" and all this!
FINEMAN: Well when John Boehner back slides, he really back slides.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Compassionat open minded Liberals want to hang black judge
But that's ok, because being a Liberal makes you a good person and anything you do is innately a good thing regardless of moral or ethical considerations. It's inflammatory rhetoric of the right that is the cause of all things evil.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Toning it down and a tone of civility by Liberals
It’s Art… Madison Theater Kills Off Right-Wingers For Fun In Latest Play
Original Post: Gateway Pundit
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:09 PM
Here’s more on that new national tone…
A Madison Theater is running a play where right-wingers are invited to dinner and then murdered.
It’s art.
620 WTMJ and The Daily Page reported:
Five lefty graduate students in Iowa City gather for weekly dinners to revel in their shared (and sometimes smug) world view. The first dinner we witness ignites a surprising shared mission when one of the students invites the truck driver who offered him roadside assistance to join them. This young man, a patriotic Desert Storm vet, first startles the group when he insists on saying grace before the vegan meal and then goes on to praise Hitler, alarming and repulsing the other dinners. Threats and violence ensue, and one of the hosts stabs him.
As he lies bleeding on an area rug, the quintet, after some debate and initial hand-wringing, decide that they have done society a favor by eliminating him and silencing his dangerous words. They also decide that since participating in protests and sit-ins has been a futile way to fight the power, this new dinner party/murder method may be a more effective technique in coping with right-wing adversaries.
Soon a parade of special guests is invited to dine, and when their dinner conversation proves repellent, they are given poisoned wine and buried in the backyard. Our smarty-pants grad students toast themselves for making a difference each time and feel vindicated when they learn that their first victim, the trucker, was implicated in a heinous crime. The death toll grows, and the tomato plants seen through the patio door flourish.
Just blow up global warming skeptics
Original Post: Daily Mail
October 1, 2010 by Don Surber
From the You Tube citation: “Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis — you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief — and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie No Pressure. The film stars X-Files’ Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present — including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola — with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, No Pressure celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.”
Ho ho ho.
And you people who think that blowing up people you disagree with isn’t funny are squares.
It’s just jelly and bananas.
But it is not humor or satire. It is frustration. It is the fact that global warming believers cannot make a sane, logical and rational argument for their position. They call skeptics :deniers” as if we are a bunch of Nazis denying an event that actually occurred.
There is not a single prediction made by global warming believers that has come true in the last 25 years.
Not one.
And so they resort to violence.
Couched as humor — but not really funny.
No matter how smug they are.
By the way, don’t explosives release carbon into the air? Doesn’t the harvesting and transportation of bananas release carbon? I wonder what the carbon footprint was of this film.
From Anthony Watts: “What were they thinking? They weren’t, because this is going to have the exact opposite effect they intended it to have. I don’t have words to describe my disgust with the video.”
UPDATE: The organization has since made it a “private” video. Bluck, bluck, bluck. Well, they are Chicken Littles. But you can see how they made the film:
UPDATE II: A reader sent a new link. We shall see how long this lasts.
In light of the Arizona shooting the media/left has been telling us how our rhetoric is too heated, how we have to tone it down. It's the right wing speech that has caused the shooter to do this, even though everyone who knew him called him a left-wing nut job. But no, it's the violent right wing speech that has caused this and certainly not the compassionate, tolerant, open minded speech of the liberals.
I apologize for this but it's too funny.
Original Post: Gateway Pundit
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:09 PM
Here’s more on that new national tone…
A Madison Theater is running a play where right-wingers are invited to dinner and then murdered.
It’s art.
620 WTMJ and The Daily Page reported:
Five lefty graduate students in Iowa City gather for weekly dinners to revel in their shared (and sometimes smug) world view. The first dinner we witness ignites a surprising shared mission when one of the students invites the truck driver who offered him roadside assistance to join them. This young man, a patriotic Desert Storm vet, first startles the group when he insists on saying grace before the vegan meal and then goes on to praise Hitler, alarming and repulsing the other dinners. Threats and violence ensue, and one of the hosts stabs him.
As he lies bleeding on an area rug, the quintet, after some debate and initial hand-wringing, decide that they have done society a favor by eliminating him and silencing his dangerous words. They also decide that since participating in protests and sit-ins has been a futile way to fight the power, this new dinner party/murder method may be a more effective technique in coping with right-wing adversaries.
Soon a parade of special guests is invited to dine, and when their dinner conversation proves repellent, they are given poisoned wine and buried in the backyard. Our smarty-pants grad students toast themselves for making a difference each time and feel vindicated when they learn that their first victim, the trucker, was implicated in a heinous crime. The death toll grows, and the tomato plants seen through the patio door flourish.
Just blow up global warming skeptics
Original Post: Daily Mail
October 1, 2010 by Don Surber
From the You Tube citation: “Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis — you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief — and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie No Pressure. The film stars X-Files’ Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present — including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola — with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, No Pressure celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.”
Ho ho ho.
And you people who think that blowing up people you disagree with isn’t funny are squares.
It’s just jelly and bananas.
But it is not humor or satire. It is frustration. It is the fact that global warming believers cannot make a sane, logical and rational argument for their position. They call skeptics :deniers” as if we are a bunch of Nazis denying an event that actually occurred.
There is not a single prediction made by global warming believers that has come true in the last 25 years.
Not one.
And so they resort to violence.
Couched as humor — but not really funny.
No matter how smug they are.
By the way, don’t explosives release carbon into the air? Doesn’t the harvesting and transportation of bananas release carbon? I wonder what the carbon footprint was of this film.
From Anthony Watts: “What were they thinking? They weren’t, because this is going to have the exact opposite effect they intended it to have. I don’t have words to describe my disgust with the video.”
UPDATE: The organization has since made it a “private” video. Bluck, bluck, bluck. Well, they are Chicken Littles. But you can see how they made the film:
UPDATE II: A reader sent a new link. We shall see how long this lasts.
In light of the Arizona shooting the media/left has been telling us how our rhetoric is too heated, how we have to tone it down. It's the right wing speech that has caused the shooter to do this, even though everyone who knew him called him a left-wing nut job. But no, it's the violent right wing speech that has caused this and certainly not the compassionate, tolerant, open minded speech of the liberals.
I apologize for this but it's too funny.
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