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Supervisor Dimitrijevic plays Pin The Tail on the Candidate

Candidate for Milwaukee's18th County Supervisor seat Tracey Corder announced today that Marina Dimitrijevic has endorsed her for the seat being vacated by Johnny L. Thomas.  Earlier in the campaign Dimitrivijevic had endorsed Larmar "Penny" Amos Sikora, who failed in his attempt to get on the ballot because he not only used an outdated map to acquire signatures, but he himself lived outside the district.   


In Dimitrijevic's attempt to replace Lee Holloway as the Chairman of the County Board she continues to play pin the tail on donkey to gain support in her quest.  The big question is who will she choose between AT Buford or Deanna Alexander if they are ones voters choose in next Tuesday's primary.


In another "johnny come lately" moment for Ms. Corder, she was about two weeks behind Penny Sikora in getting disgraced Supervisor Thomas' signature on her nomination papers. Which begs a question for Supervisor Thomas.  Aren't you aware that you're only suppose to sign one set of nomination papers? It does state that on each form and you did have to circulate your own when you ran in the past. I guess we'll have to wait to see if you ever have the opportunity to do that in the future.

Talk to me, the $500 question

My soon to be ex county supervisor, Johnny L. Thomas was charged with accepting a bribe doing county work. What a wacky political world Milwaukee is. Here's a guy who was on the precipice of becoming the City of Milwaukee Comptroller, which pays $125,607 a year, and blows a promising career for $500 up front and $500 later.

What causes a man to do this?

The city power structure was absolutely won over by Thomas.  I heard more than once about the promising career he was carving out for himself.  Take a look at those who supported him at his campaign website. He could have stayed at the comptroller job for as long as he wanted or moved on to something else. 

As my county supervisor Mr. Thomas was totally absent.  He didn't return any of my contacts with him, from phone calls to emails.  Talking to him was not worth $500 to me.  I could only offer my opinion on matters he was suppose to be representing me on.  I was at a candidate forum tonight to hear those interested in filling the the open seat vacated by Thomas.  He was obviously a point of conversation within the crowd.  What I found out is that I was not the only one under served by Johnny Thomas.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  I have feeling someone will be rolling over to get their sentence lessened.

Biddle Dribble # 8

We haven't had a Biddle Dribble in a bit, we passed on a press release praising a non profit group taking a bus of kids to see Red Tails (the kids paid their own way).

But today's press release about the potential Potawatomi Hotel and a "perfect opportunity to demand jobs for unemployed black men in Milwaukee" cannot be passed up.

Supervisor Biddle is being raised up by the black community as a "new kind" of leader to bring them to the promised land.  Now I'll agree that Milwaukee needs new leadership, but I wonder if what's needed is a more aggressive failed liberal platform.

What right does a County Supervisor have to demand that a private enterprise, the Polawatomi Tribe, hire groups of people who Biddle thinks are worthy of jobs.  I'm not dismissing the fact that help is needed to improve the unemployment levels in Milwaukee's black community, but to demand action is not the way to do it.

This young political neophyte needs to learn some servant leadership skills.  How about working with black owned construction businesses to gear up for bidding on the project?  If there aren't any businesses that can be approached, use some resources to start some. It's time to start taking responsibility being and proactive and rather than sitting back and being reactive. Oh, a little humility wouldn't hurt either.

Recall Petition Update

So I spent the night looking at Recall Petitions.  Below are the 3 last groups on the GAB page with the errors listed on each petition and totals.  Summary is from 152201-152335B is
357 total signatures
135 potential bad signatures
222 good signatures


Of course these numbers include my bias and may not be what the GAB will decide.  I have some idea how they'll look at the petitions if they remain consistent from when I ran for office.


152201  - 152250
152201 - 1
152202 - 2
152203 - 3
152204 - 9
    #9 - no zip code
152205 - 4
152206 - 2
152207 - 6
    #6 - no date
    #3-5 petitioner added municipality
152208 - 1
    #1 - po box
152209 - 10
    #10 - no zip code
152210 - 4
    #1-4 petitioner added municipality
152211 - 2
152212 - 5
    certification date changed
152213 - 9
    #1-9 petitioner added municipality
    certification date changed
152214 - 10
    #1-10 petitioner added municipality
    certification date changed
152215 - 5
    no municipality
    certified on 12/8/11, 2 signatures after that date
152216 - 4
152217 - 4
152218 - 5
    #2 - no municipality
    #3 - no municipality
    #4 - no municipality
152219 - 3
    certified on 12/31/11, 1 signature after that date
152220 - 7
    #3 - wrong date
    #5 - date crossout error
152221 - 6
152222 - 2
    #1 - no municipality
    #2 - no municipality
152223 - 1
152224 - 6
    #3 - date error
    #4 - date error
    #3 - 6 same person filled out name & address information
152225 - 1
152226 - 10
    certified on 1/10/12, 1 signature after that date
152227 - 3
    certification date mistake
152228 - 2
152229 - 5
    #1 - 3 same person filled out name & address information
152230 - 7
    no municipality listed on all 7
152231 - 5
    #2 - date confusion
    certified on 12/11/11, all 7 signatures after that date
152232 - 2
152233 - 10
152234 - 3
152235 - 6
    no municipality listed on all 6
152236 - 7
152237 - 1
    no municipality listed
152238 - 5
    no circulator name, address or municipality
152239 - 8
152240 - 9
    #7 - signature
    #8 - crossed out signature
152241 - 1
152242 - 6
    #5 - no street address
152243 - 7
    #6 - wrong municipality
152244 - 9
152245 - 4
    no circulator information
152246 - 7
    no circualtor name, address or municipality
152247 - 7
    #1 - no municipality listed
    #2 - no municipality listed
    #3 - no municipality listed
    #4 - no municipality listed
152248 - 3
    no circualtor name, address or municipality
152249 - 4
    #1 - no municipality listed
    #2 - no municipality listed
    #3 - no municipality listed
152250 - 6

232 total signatures
110 potential bad signatures
122 total

152251 - 152300
152251 - 10
152252 - 2
152253 - 2
152254 - 5
152255 - 1
152256 - 152300 - not submitted

20 total signatures
0 bad signatures

152301-152335
152301 - 2
152302 - 5
152303 - 1
152304 - 1
152305 - 1
152306 - 6
    #2 - month crossed out on date
    #6 - no zip code
152307 - 3
152308 - 4
152309 - 6 signatures in 5 available slots
    #1 - no city
    #2 - no city
    bad date in certification section
152310 - 3
152311 - 5
    bad date in certification section
152312 - 1
152313 - 4
152314 - 3
    #3 - no vote municipality or date
152315 - 5
    date verification before last signature
152316 - 4
152317 - 2
152318 - 1
152319 - 1
152320 - 5
152321 - 2
152322 - 2
152323 - 3
152324 - 3
    #3 - marked town of Oshkosh, not city
152325 - 4
    #2 - no municipality
    #3 - no municipality
152326 - 4
    #2 - no signature
    all information filled out by 1 person, signatures suspect
152327 - 2
152328 - 5
152329A - 1
    Rebecca Kleefisch petition
152329B - 1
152330 - 3
152331 - 1
152332 - 4
    #4 - no municipality or date
152333 - 3
152334 - 1
152335A - 1
152335B - 5
    #4 - incomplete date
    bad date in certification section
   
105 total signatures
25 potential bad signatures
80 total

First look at recall petitions

On a nudge from the Fairly Conservative blog  I decided to look at some of the recall petitions tonight, not only looking for errors, but also the number of signatures in each section.  In the six groups of petitions I looked at they averaged from 3.3 to 7.8 signatures per group of 50 pages.  

Some funny errors also.  One guy had himself and a lady who shares the same address as the only two signers of a petition and he screws up the date on the bottom where he's suppose to verify the page.  There were lots of people not knowing what municipality they live in.  

Also a big question on many forms from up north where the petitioner entered the addresses for the signers.  Not sure that is legal.  

This could be one interesting ride.

Who Knew He Was In?

Sen. Frank Lasee announced today he was suspending his campaign to become the next US Senator from Wisconsin.  Was he really in other than sending out a press release saying he was considering a run?

It's amazing what can qualify for news some days.

Angry White Man

Has any else noticed how angry and ill mannered Joel McNally is lately on the Interchange TV Show.  The more he talks the angrier he gets.  As a former red head myself I notice the redness of face as the anger sets in.

On the left is a picture of Joel trying to swallow the microphone so no one else can give their opinions.

Sen Taylor in dreamland

State Senator Lena Taylor today sent out a press release today about the disappointing employment figures for black males in the city of Milwaukee.  The Press Release is titled "Taylor Calls For Real Action to Meet Real Crisis with Real Solutions".

This is the same Lena Taylor who called for a boycott of a local businesses in her Senate district because they supported Gov. Scott Walker.  

This is the same Lena Taylor who spent weeks in Illinois holding up jobs legislation and has the nerve to say this in her press release "Despite the fact that Republicans have been in control of both houses for a year, you have not made a dent in the manufacturing problem!"  

Sen. Taylor you fail to mention that these numbers are from a time when you were in the majority in the State Senate, the Democrats had the majority in the State Assembly and the Gov was a Dem also.  If the legislation you passed was so successful, why did we not see any increase in the employment situation.

Sen. Taylor it's time you point your fingers at the failed policies of the officials in Milwaukee.  You know, Mayor Barrett who's been in charge since 2004, a common council led by Democrats for decades, a county board out of control, and state representatives and senators who obviously have failed in their attempts.to change the way businesses view opportunities in the City of Milwaukee.

You may also want to watch your rhetoric.  I can't imagine a business being excited to locate in your senate district when at any time you'll use your political bully pulpit to damage them if they don't agree with your politics.

One Sided Money

It gets a bit frustrating when watching a political TV show and all you hear is one side of a discussion in what is trying to be "fair" show.  This weeks segment with Frederica Freyberg of Here and Now on Wisconsin Public Television and her interview with Wisconsin Democracy Campaign director, Mike McCabe was one of those times.

Mr. McCabe talked about big money interests and their influence on Wisconsin politics.  The focus was on Scott Walker getting money from out of state and Super PACS from Republican presidential candidates.  Suspiciously missing was any mention of money from local and national unions. 

By no means was this discussion anything more than a hit piece of poor journalism.