There is a Hell and it's called Racine

Former State Senator Kim Plache was elected to a school board seat she didn't even want in Racine. She wanted to be mayor but the residents of Racine avoided that at least.

Plache, you may remember, beat State Senator George Petak in a recall election after he voted for the tax to build Miller Park. Racine residents chose a tax-and-spender with no limits over the incumbent who voted for one tiny tax in his career.

Having not learned their lesson, they just voted to put Plache on the school board.

I think I found the one place Cudahy residents can mock freely.

Odd correlation of forces

The City of Muskego voted to allow a Super Wal-mart into their community, prompting outrage from the usual suspects. Helping a group known as "Muskego First" is left-wing lawyer and failed political candidate Ed Garvey. As a result of Muskego's decision, a recall effort is now underway against Alderman Noah Fiedler with help from Citizens for Responsible Government Network, the group largely responsible for recalling several members of the Milwaukee County Board in the wake of the pension scandal.

The City of Muskego has responded to all of this outside intervention by hiring Democratic election attorney Michael Maistelman. From the Wispolitics.com PM Update:

Maistelman & Associates LLC has been retained to act a legal counsel for the city of Muskego in the recall against Ald. Noah Fiedler. He's being targeted by a group upset over his vote in support of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in the city.

Maistelman & Associates is headed by attorney Mike Maistelman, who represented former Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee Jr. in the recall against him last year and has been legal counsel for numerous other recalls.

According to the Muskego clerk's office, the firm was chosen due to Maistelman's specialized recall experience and is being retained to provide advice to the city clerk should any legal questions arise during the process.

Just to make the story more complicated, Cudahy's Mayor Ryan McCue is facing a recall effort because of his opposition to a Super Wal-Mart being built at the site of a failed ice arena. Leading that effort is... the Citizens for Responsible Government Network.

Educating the Idiot Politician of the Week

Time for another installment of Idiot Politician of the Week. I didn’t want to, but I felt I owed it to them somehow.

Welcome to Cudahy where the mating call is, “I’m so drunk.” Yes, the punch line of Milwaukee County is too good for Wal-Mart. Casting the deciding vote was Mayor Ryan McCue. You may remember him from such documentaries as “Screw the Taxpayers” and “Your Milwaukee County Board: Good Work If You Can Get It.” According to McCue, well…, nothing. He’s refused to say why he’s opposed to Wal-Mart. He prefers to remain silent and be thought an idiot rather than open his mouth and remove all doubt.

Removing all doubt this week was former Vice President Al Gore, who took advantage of a cyclone that perhaps killed 100,000 people in Myanmar to suggest that it was the result of global warming. Perhaps if they had the Internet in Myanmar, they would understand that tornados have never happened before the introduction of the internal combustion engine, and really all those deaths have nothing to do with living in an especially impoverished third-world brutal kleptocracy.

Dropping into Milwaukee to remind us all why she was President Ronald Reagan’s biggest mistake, former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told her audience that electing judges is wrong, and that Arizona has a better way. Of course, the Arizona method made her a judge, and her tenure on the US Supreme Court is strong evidence that an unaccountable judiciary is not a good thing.

Then there’s Senator Barack Obama who announced in Oregon he has traveled to “57 states” and has “only one left.” He must’ve figured it out using the same math that shows a windfall profits tax will lower gas prices. I’m not even going to comment on the apparent sad state of education in Illinois.

But speaking of the sad state of education, this week’s “Idiot Politician of the Week” is conspiracy theorist and Muslim convert Kevin Barrett who has decided to take on Congressman Ron Kind (D) as a Libertarian. Barrett once proved idiots are in control of UW-Madison when he was allowed to teach despite publicly supporting a theory that the events of September 11, 2001 were somehow planned and carried out by the US government.

Details of Barrett’s candidacy can be found in the online conspiracy theory newsletter Capital Times where associate editor John Nichols called Barrett, “the 9/11 skeptic” and “the media-savvy activist.” Nichols’ next interview will be with a spokesman for conspiracy theorists that don’t believe man walked on the moon. Unfortunately for Nichols, the Weekly World News is no longer publishing.

Barrett will fit in well with the misfits of the Wisconsin Libertarian Party. But aside from the wacko conspiracy theory, did he really feel the need to tell Nichols he plans to run an, “all-out no-holds-barred truth jihad”?

I’m sure local Muslims are wishing he would convert to something else. “Really, no problem, no death threats. Just go.” After all, other than the Libertarians, who would want to be associated with the Idiot Politician of the Week?