Category: Jim Doyle
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Quote of the Day – Bad Company Edition
“If Governor Doyle withdraws his support for: the oil franchise tax, the landfill tax, the income tax hike, the RTA taxes, the cigarette tax, the digital download tax, the 911 phone tax, and vetoes any increase in the gasoline tax or the sales taxes and cancels the new hospital tax and the new combined reporting…
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Cool
Scott Walker offically threw his hat in the ring for the 2010 WI gubernatorial election. Scott has been the Milwaukee County Exec since 2002, winning reelection in 2004 and 2008, proving that when Republicans act like Conservatives, they win, even in heavily liberal Milwaukee County.
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Another reason Doyle has got to go
From jsonline.com: “Most of us are in much more danger from a drunk driver than we are from a person that is going to break into our house,” he said. “I don’t think we should have a ban (on checkpoints). . . . I think it can be a useful tool, used appropriately and in…
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Quote of the Day – Open Carry Edition
“If you want to carry a gun in Wisconsin, wear it on your hip,” – Concealed Carry vetoing Governor Jim Doyle Hat tip Vicki McKenna
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Gotta get those priorities straight
Serial CCW vetoing Governor Jim Doyle spent a good part of Tuesday at a golf outing to raise campaign funds while Wisconsin was dealing with flooding that caused millions of dollars in damage, including washing away houses. Doyle spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner said the governor attended “part of” his campaign’s sixth annual golf outing at University…
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Another useless restraining order
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Gerhard Witte, the 70-year-old physician charged Wednesday with slitting his ex-wife’s throat in a downtown parking garage, repeatedly threatened to kill the woman after she filed for divorce in early 2005, once telling police he wouldn’t need a gun because “he is a medical doctor, and he knows precisely where to cut…
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Real Estate agent found dead
The A.P. is reporting a story out of Wisconsin of a 71 year old real estate agent, Ann B. Nelson, who was found dead in a house she had been showing earlier in the day. She was found in a bedroom with a smoldering mattress and wounds to her head. This certainly looks like a…
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Wisconsin’s Katrina Law
It looks like Wisconsin’s Governor Doyle finally got one right. Yesterday he signed AB-581, the “Katrina Bill”, into law. The bill prevents anyone with emergency powers, such as in a time of natural disaster or extreme civil unrest, from confiscating or restricting legally owned firearms and ammunition. While it may be unthinkable to some, this…