A homeowner in Waukesha for 20 years, Steve is president of the Waukesha Dog Parks Organization and enjoys motorcycling, fishing and staying on top of politics.
Part 2 about quality of life will have to wait. I'm a bit too worked up today to consider my original topic more than trivial compared to the news of the day about probable tampering of the state elections board by the Doyle re-election committee.
When the board voted that gubernatorial candidate Mark Green had to return a portion of campaign money, I thought something wasn't right. The money transfer to his campaign was made before the rules were changed. I'm not a lawyer, but I think there is some legal term for enforcing a new law on things that were legal and done before the law changed. No mater, it didn't seem right. Then the news came that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett did the same thing during his unsuccessful campaign for governor and the election board was all fine with that. So what is the difference? Barrett is a democrat, Green is a republican and the present board is dominated by Doyle appointees. The kicker is the news of the day that Doyle's attorney told the board what, how and when to make this rule change. Further it is suspect that some of these so called citizen groups screaming that Green refuses to obey the law, that are by law, required to not be associated with any campaign, appear to be groups controlled or answerable to Doyle's re-election committee, judging by wording of emails from Doyle's attorney to an elections board member. The timing all too suspect.
There are many questions to be answered about this. True, Jim Doyle may have had no knowledge of all of this just like he had no knowledge of the Adelman Travel scandal. I won't be surprise if someone falls on the sword again for the governor.
I wrote a week ago that voting should be treated with reverence. All of this negative campaigning makes me ill. That includes Green's "Tax Hiking Man" campaign on the radio.
I further mentioned how easy it would be to vote fraudulently. I won't say what I think is the real issue why the democrats are fighting against photo ID's for voting. If they were sincere in making sure that people are not "disenfranchised", they would have a drive to get these people set up with the photo ID.
When I walk into Hawthorne Elementary School in November, I want my vote to count and not be cancelled out by fraud elsewhere. I hope all of you feel the same way. Oh, and don't think about doing the husband vote one way and wife vote the other so you don't have to go to vote. We need 100% voter turn out. In Milwaukee that could be 200% if they don't get the voting machines fixed!
