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Monday, December 24, 2018
INDY REPUBLICAN Wishes Everyone A Merry Christmas
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Brett Baier Sings Rapper’s Delight w/The Sugarhill Gang
My boss is cooler than your boss. Ladies and gentlemen, @BretBaier and The Sugarhill Gang! pic.twitter.com/NhNziBNzDG
— Ashley Moir (@ashleymoirDC) December 21, 2018
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Green Acres Theme As Sung By Donald Trump
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Martha McSally Appointed To Fill John McCain’s Senate Seat
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Welfare Queen's Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP Ensuring Badger State Has A Blue Christmas
The Atlantic's Russell Berman has the story:
The Wisconsin legislature could vote as soon as Tuesday (December 4th, 2018) to limit the ability of Tony Evers, the incoming Democratic governor, to run state agencies and intervene in litigation without approval from the Republican-controlled legislature. Evers defeated two-term incumbent Governor Scott Walker in a closely fought election last month, ending years of one-party rule in Wisconsin. The proposals under consideration would also strip power from the incoming Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul.
Evers vowed to fight the proposals, and Democrats were already raising the possibility of lawsuits challenging the legislation if it became law. “It clearly invalidates what the people of Wisconsin expected,” Evers, the state superintendent of schools, told reporters on Friday. “It is an embarrassment.”
Among the GOP proposals in Wisconsin is an attempt to slice early voting to just two weeks from as many as six. And Republicans would change the date of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential primary in what Democrats said was an obvious attempt to lower turnout for a separate state-supreme-court election scheduled for the same day.
Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of the Assembly, defended the moves on a local radio show as ensuring “that each of the branches [of government has] an opportunity to negotiate at the table equally.” But he did not explain why GOP legislators did not feel a need to beef up their authority while Walker was in office, and he made clear that lawmakers wanted to prevent Evers from undermining state laws implementing voter-ID rules and work requirements for Medicaid. Vos acknowledged that the legislature should have acted earlier to move the presidential primary, but he said the change was not aimed at securing a conservative seat on the Supreme Court but rather at separating nonpartisan local elections from the all-consuming White House contest.
IR has heard only that if any of the lame duck bills become law that there will undoubtedly be legal challenges. There are several points that we would like to address regarding the issues in Wisconsin. We would like to start off by saying that there can and undoubtedly are good and sound reasons to limit some of the authority of the Governor's office in Wisconsin. IR, Paul Ogden and the late Gary Welsh have often argued that one of the biggest issues in Indiana is the fact that the Governor's Office here has far too much authority and it's power should be severely reduced. That being said if it is the correct course of action to limit Governor Elect Tony Evers authority in some areas. Than their is no reason that Scott Walker should have been given those powers that the Republican Legislators now seek to take away from the man who defeated him for re-election. As to why State Assembly Speaker Vos did not say why they allowed Walker to have this much power for so long. The answer is simply put Speaker Vos and his colleagues really do not give a damn about how much power the Governor of Wisconsin has unless it is someone they dislike.
We have discussed Walker's lack of loyalty to conservatism and limited government before.
This is just more partisan hackery that has become all too frequent in the age of Donald Trump. All we can say is that we hope being endless shills for Trumpism and Scott Walker pays well. Because these people's credibility along with their employment opportunities will be long gone in a few years!
Fortunately the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal reports there are some Wisconsin Republican's who do not share Scott Walker's stupidity.
Sheldon Lubar
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Meg Jones reporting on republican dissent in Wisconsin had this to say:
Here are some other republicans takes on Scott Walker's nonsense:
In their hubris, @ScottWalker & WI Republicans have not only shown how morally bankrupt they are, but have ensured a state once leaning GOP will now be blue. This is a shameful act only the stupid and arrogant would commit. Vengeance will be appropriately merciless.— John Weaver (@jwgop) December 6, 2018
Spot on. Their power grab on the state level will rightly cost them dearly in federal elections. Trump is too stupid/too much of a daytrader to realize this but Ryan/Reince/Walker have no excuse.....as usual.— Aaron Klueber (@AKlueber) December 6, 2018
Here is an interview of Wisconsin former conservative talk radio host, political pundit, and author of "How The Right Lost It's Mind" giving his views on the situation. Sykes is well worth listening to please try to ignore the slimeball Chris Matthews.
UPDATE: Indy Republican just found out some more information on the Wisconsin GOP's "power grab". Yesterday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on what bills passed and in what form:
The updated bill (passed by the legislature) would until September give the Legislature control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. board and allow the board to choose the leader of the agency, instead of the governor as is the case now. Republicans would initially have a majority of the board but after September control would be split evenly between Republicans and Democrats.
Evers has said he wants to dismantle the agency and Republicans said they hoped he would come to see its value over the next nine months, when Republicans have control of the board.
The original bill would have permanently eliminated Evers' ability to pick the CEO of the jobs agency.
Lawmakers also removed a measure that would have allowed the Legislature to replace incoming Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul with private attorneys picked by lawmakers at taxpayer expense. Other provisions remained that would allow lawmakers to intervene in lawsuits when state statutes are challenged and hire private attorneys when they are sued.
Sheldon Lubar, a Milwaukee businessman and philanthropist who has long backed Walker, released an email Tuesday he sent to Walker telling him he’d voted against him in the November election and believed the lame-duck legislation “will damage Wisconsin as it ignores the will of the majority of Wisconsin voters."
What is of interest to us is that the article also reports that the lame-duck session also may have cost the GOP passage of some of their most sought after legislation:
Casualties of the extraordinary session included a proposal to move the 2020 presidential primary election to benefit the election bid of a conservative Supreme Court justice.
The reason lawmakers were returning to Madison before January in the first place also didn't make it to the floor: a tax incentive package for Fox Valley paper maker Kimberly-Clark.
So after all this idiocy the GOP actually wound up losing more than if they had just simply waited for Evers to take office next month. Lets just hope for the sake of the nation and for all real republicans that this permanently ends Scott Walker's chances to become President.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
President Trump’s Unpopularity Sinking The Republican Party
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Eric Morris’s Letter to the Editor Regarding Campaign Finance Issues in Carmel
Spring 2003: Jim Brainard announces he will file campaign finance reports weekly in lead-up to Republican mayoral primary. “This is being done in the spirit of openness and the public’s interest in—and right to know—who is exactly supporting these campaigns.” The pre-primary report was “too late in the campaign.” “[T]he people I’ve talked to are very concerned about the money being spent and where it’s coming from.”
October 2005: Speaking of his and other campaign supporters fundraising for a Kokomo mayoral candidate, Brainard says “It may not be the best system, but it's the system we have. There are safeguards, and everything is publicly recorded."
Prior to 2015 Republican primary: Brainard and Woody Rider, Jeff Worrell, Keith Griffin, Sue Finkam, Bruce Kimball, Ron Carter, and Christine Pauley agree to support each other financially in primary.
April 17, 2015: Pre-primary campaign finance reports due for the eight above. No indications of financial support for each other.
May 5, 2015: Primary election where all but Keith Griffin win.
October 16, 2015: All eight above report supporting each other for over $22,000 each on the date of the primary itself.
April 20, 2018 Election Board meeting: Tammy Baitz, Hamilton County Clerk of Court and Election Board member: “Tammy also stated she had contacted Mayor Brainard on Wednesday (April 18, 2018) of this week and that his campaign had since filed corrected [2015] CFAs.”
May 18, 2018 Election Board: Greg [Purvis] moved, and Bob [Becker] seconded, to have Tammy prepare letters to all the candidates listed in Mr. Morris’ letter, advising them that their [2015] reports would need to be amended. It was approved unanimously. Tammy will prepare letters for each candidate and submit to both Bob and Greg for their review before sending out to the candidates.
June 28, 2018 Election Board: Republican Party Chairwoman, Laura Campbell, appointed Ray Adler as the new Republican member of the Board. Tammy nominated Ray as Chairman, Greg seconded, and it was approved.
October 12, 2018 Election Board Meeting: Brainard’s lawyer admits the recently re-filed 2015 reports were still incorrect. Board unanimously approves requiring new (fourth) reports from Brainard by midnight, October 19, and the other seven by October 29.
November 6, 2018: Mr. Adler moved to dismiss the complaint as it appears that no violation had occurred with the original Brainard report filing and to declare the subsequent amended report filing moot. Seconded by Tammy Baitz. After much discussion, the consensus of the board was to encourage the mayor to be more thorough in any future reporting but the amendment was rejected. The Motion to dismiss the complaint carried.
Also, on this date I wrote Lee Buckingham, Prosecutor, asking him to look into this issue and determine if the Board failed in its statutory duty to investigate expeditiously and thoroughly. No response yet.
November 15, 2018: Ray Adler writes to Hamilton County Reporter: “Finally, anyone with grievances can obtain a [newly created] form from the Hamilton County Clerk, complete the information requested and return to the Clerk so that complaints may be dealt with expeditiously.”
I ask you, fellow engaged citizens, does it look like Ray Adler, Greg Purvis, and Tammy Baitz performed their duties well? I call on Joe Weingarten to replace Greg Purvis with me on this Board. I call on Lee Buckingham to review this. I call on Ray Adler to determine whether focusing on creating a new grievance form is absurd when he thinks that the campaign finance forms required by the state legislature essentially carry no legal weight, much less legal repercussions, for filing incorrectly! Mr. Purvis correctly saw that as a "novel theory". This tale reads like a novel.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Eric S. Morris
Carmel