That is one of many outrageous statements made by a Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin man on his blog attached to the web site of the Racine Journal Times. That same man is a donor to the campaign of Republican Jonathan Steitz, the mysterious Illinois lawyer who recently moved to Wisconsin and is running against incumbent Wisconsin State Senator Robert Wirch in the August 16th recall election.
I wrote about this disturbed blogger in a diary that gave some details about Steitz's supporters. I wrote that diary because information about Steitz himself is almost impossible to find. Just like Scott Walker did, Steitz is running as "not the other guy."
Other bloggers, especially Root River Siren, have also been digging into campaign finance reports filed by the Steitz campaign. It turns out that the angry white man referenced above is not the only questionable supporter of Jonathan Steitz.
First, a few more low-lights from the Journal Times blog:
January, 2008...Public service labor unions are strangling the comunities that they are supposed to serve. and then they act like we are supposed to give them our support, while they are rapeing us.
March, 2008...Once again Balakkk Obama has spewed his Obvious racist, bigoted, self richious Ignorance to the world. and in the process he has insulted and offended the masses. I am supprised that he has refrained from using the H word.
In reality, it is a good thing that Balakkk has run for president because it gives the world a chance to see the double standard, the racism and bigotry common to the black comunity.
He doesn't stop there. His writings are racist, sexist, and offensive in almost every imaginable way. This man had a choice in the recent Republican primary, and he chose Jonathan Steitz. He even gave money to the Steitz campaign.
Well, that's just one guy, right? Steitz can't prevent a lone lunatic from making an online donation, right? True, but if Steitz gets wind of this, he might want to issue a refund. And there's more. A lot more. A few diaries worth.
A large percentage of the Steitz donors are associated with One Church Ministries and with Living Light Church, which holds services in three locations. One of those locations is Treasures Christian Books in Racine, Wisconsin. Root River Siren pointed out today that the co-owner of Treasures Media and Treasures Christian Books, Jerry Bloom, was convicted and served time in prison for shooting a rifle into an African-American church across the street from his residence in 1988. (The other co-owner of Treasures Media and Treasures Christian Books is Tracey Bloom, Jerry's wife. Mrs. Bloom donated $200.00 to the Steitz campaign.)
Others described Bloom at the time as a skinhead and suspected or assumed that he was part of a neo-Nazi group, accusations Bloom denies. Bloom claims that he has since found religion.
In a rambling, 60-minute testimonial available as a podcast on the web site of One Church Ministries, Bloom describes his violent crowd as "punk rockers" and this is how Bloom describes the shooting incident:
..One night we were in my house. We were drinking, and we had guns, and we started shooting the guns out our windows into a vacant house, a car. And there was actually a church across the street. So, that landed me in jail, in prison - not jail, this is not county jail - this landed me in prison for a year and a half of my life.
That's it. There was a church across the street. A church that had a stained-glass window shot out while people were holding services inside!
Details, details.
Here's one more detail. Bloom's Christian book and retail business was so successful that he decided to build an 80,000 square foot facility in Racine in 2009, and he got a nice sweetheart land deal arranged by Racine's mayor.
If the company stays on the site for 10 years it will receive the 5.4 acres of land for free. Normally it would cost $35,000 per acre.
That's your free-market capitalism, the kind Jonathan Steitz says he supports.
As I said, there's more. Next time: The Steitz donor who tried to eliminate the Pleasant Prairie police department, and the donor who recently convinced his local school board to invest in high-risk debt obligations that lost 90% of their value.