BREAKING!!! They are goingto defy Sumi AGAIN!!!!!
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Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman have much to report, and should get right to it; but first indulge us in a wee parable that sets the tenor for today's update:
The thing is this. We recall a really REALLY stupid story that was told to us as kids about a truly morally challenged farmhand who dug a hole in the middle of a field in an attempt to find water or oil or something. Predictably, a donkey fell into the hole. Rather than try to find a way to help the donkey get free, the jerk called a few friends over to help him bury the donkey alive...both to cover up his stupid mistake and the loss of the valuable donkey. However, the donkey was smarter than the assholish farmhand and his buddies. With every shovel full of dirt that hit his back, the donkey shrugged it off and took a step up, until he was able to leap out of the hole and get the fuck out of the reach of the farm hand and his pals.
After a few weeks, the donkey came up behind the farmhand and bit him.
The moral after the jump and the promised update!
The Moral of this parable is a simple one, and I doubt Walker, the Fitzgeralds and their masters and synchophants yet understand such thoughts but here it is:
When you do something despicable or otherwise shameless, and try to cover your ass after doing so, it invariably comes back to bite YOUR ass.
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In the aftermath of the Judge Sumi's beyotch-slap to Walker/Fitzgerald over their attempt to knock over the chess board and re-set it three moves from checkmate in their favor, predictably there is both confusion AND attempts to find additional work-arounds the law. Moreover, criticisms of Judge Sumi by the few allies that Walker has left are pitiable and cliched.
In multiple rags today is this quote:
"It's disappointing that a Dane County judge wants to keep interjecting herself into the legislative process with no regard to the state constitution," said a statement from Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R-Horicon). "Her action today again flies in the face of the separation of powers between the three branches of government."
Moreover, check out (but first make certain you are sitting or suitably supported while standing...a second pair of socks might be warranted, too) THIS presse realease from the Dane County GOP:
Ah... the ol' 'activist-judge-legislating-from-the-bench' defense! A classic. Sad as it is, these would-be kings suffer from such compelling moral and intellectual penury it boggles the mind. Note to Fitzgerald: her actions do NOT fly in the face of the separation of powers, dilweed...they serve as a near perfect example of HOW the system of checks and balances are supposed to work in the first place!! Were it not so rib ticklingly funny, I'd weep the hot salty tears of a man whose moral outrage is only surpassed by his desire to send these clowns to a late 19th century Seberian circus.
Now that Judge Sumi has told Walker and the rest to "suck it", and we seem to be in a holding pattern (at least until they are done, as DOA Secretary Mike Huebsch said "examining the Judge's ruling...undoubedtly looking for another petulant attempt to circumvent the TRO) lets look at the Budget bill for the next plan of attack on Lady Democracy and all her lovely handmaidens by Walker and the gang. We Find these items:
Kennedy sounds alarm over lack of funding for GAB positions
Genral Accounting Board director and general counsel Kevin Kennedy said Gov. Walker's budget proposal doesn't address staffing concerns the agency outlined in its budget request.
"Our top priority in crafting our agency budget request was to ensure the agency
maintained the personnel resources to continue to serve Wisconsin citizens, local election officials, candidates for public office, political committees and entities seeking to influence government policy," Kennedy said in prepared remarks delivered to the committee members.
Kennedy says the agency has 43 authorized positions, 26 of which are temporary staff hired with federal funds to ensure compliance with federal mandates.
"We have implemented the requirements of the Help America Vote Act, but we must now sustain those election infrastructure improvements along with additional federal mandates for serving military and overseas citizens," he said.
What this means, constant reader is that under the Guv's budget there is no humanoid means by which the statewide administration of elections can be conducted with oversight standards higher than those offered by a package of Ho-Hos. The Feds have required that (with the passage of HAVA), the states maintain a statewide voter registration system and Walker wants it dead.
Any guesses as to why, dear reader?
Now consider the second item of update, and be daunted.
Jauch rips "gutting" of Impartial Justice Act
Sen. Bob Jauch blasted Gov. Walker's budget proposal for "gutting" the Impartial Justice Act set up to publicly fund state Supreme Court elections.
Currently, the money for the Supreme Court grants comes from the general fund. Walker has proposed funding the IJA through a check-off system on tax forms, and renaming it the Wisconsin Election Campaign Fund.
Jauch said the proposal "shows contempt for the citizens of Wisconsin" who have asked for clean judicial elections, and makes the fund "an empty shell."
While Kennedy said he didn't want to judge whether public funding for campaigns is a good or bad idea, he said if the state isn't going to provide funding for the program it will only end up being a waste of staff resources.
"If we're not going to provide resources for it let's not have a dual system," he said. "Provide the resources for it or take it away."
What we have here, my fellow Kossacks, is an attempt to LIMIT the amount of public funding that Supreme Court candidates can enjoy, meaning that PRIVATE money will be able to fill the vaccuum like dust bunnies and crumbs into a Dirt Devil.
Get it?
Walker is trying to not only create a corporate structure to hire Judges to 10-year terms, he is alos trying to destroy the Help America Vote Act by underfunding IT. This would allow again PRIVATE money and funding create infrastructure and message that can dominate any of the safeguards set forth by HAVA!
He wants to rig every election. If he is sucessful both in the budget AND by killing the unions... I predict he will succeed.
Obviously in the parable we have cast progressives... law and freedom lovin' progressives in the role as the (convenient, ain't it?) DONKEY, the great mascot of we blue-staters. Walker and the Fitzgeralds/Kochs as the farmhand and his pals. I guess the question becomes...are we gonna let these creeps bury us with legislation and manipulation such as this, or are we going to use our brains to get out of the trap and collectively chew their gluteus maximus?
Vote Kloppenburg and STAY TUNED!