For those who haven't heard, today was round two of four special recall election days in Wisconsin, and everything good happened for Wisconsin Democrats.
Last week, six real Democratic challengers defeated six fake, Republican-sponsored "Democrats" for the honor of facing six incumbent Republican state senators on August 9th.
Today, incumbent Democratic Senator Dave Hansen thoroughly crushed his Republican opponent in the first of the recall elections pitting a Democrat against a Republican. Hansen retains his seat and the FitzWalkerstan cult leaders in Madison are feeling the heat.
Two other races held today were primaries to select Republican challengers for Democratic Senators Robert Wirch and Jim Holperin. The Republican voters (and Democratic crossover voters) selected a couple of real doozies.
Senator Holperin will face Tea Party organizer Kim Simac. Simac is known for two things.
She has written some right-wing children's propaganda books, including With My Rifle By My Side: A Second Amendment Lesson. One Amazon reviewer gave it 5 stars, gushing...
This excellent book was featured on Glenn Beck Friday July 2 during a Founders' Fridays Show about the many women who shaped our country's history. The book is great for you to read to your children and grandchildren about their right to bear arms.
Her second noted accomplishment is having "swapped spouses" in a manner of speaking. She divorced her first husband in 1993 and remarried in 1995 to her current husband, Arthur Simac. Their ex-spouses eventually married each other. But she's pro-family. Weird.
Simac is a member of the tea party group known as the Northwoods Patriots. Their typo-infused web site describes Simac this way:
The horse trainer from Eagle River, along with her husband Butch, have raised nine children....Simac supports the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the free market, capitalistic economy, Christian prayer in public schools, and the teaching of creationism. She opposes abortion, same sex marriages, and hate crimes legislation.
Butch? I thought her husband's name was Arthur. I wonder if she suffers from migraines.
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Senator Wirch will face the winner of the other Republican primary, Jonathan Stietz. Stietz is a Chicago lawyer who now lives in Wisconsin about a mile from the Illinois border. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is still listed as the student contact for their business school's chapter of the Federalist Society.
The Federalist Society loves free markets, radically so. They are opposed to social welfare programs, environmental regulations, sexual harassment laws, and a lot of other policies that most Wisconsinites think just make common sense.
Stietz believes in liberty and freedom and limited government, except for...oh yeah, you guessed it. He's all good with the government intervening in a woman's right to choose appropriate reproductive medical care.
The guy is probably a Bears fan, too. If I can locate a photo of him wearing a Bears jersey, he's toast.
So, you have two genuine, down-to-earth Senators who stood up for the working man, facing a Tea Party propagandist and a card-carrying member of the Federalist Society. I like our chances.
I also know it's going to get expensive. You can donate to the Wisconsin recall Democrats here.