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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
Week-ends
By Kevin Fischer
Saturday, May 31 2008, 08:22 AM
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week.
Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Aaron Kampman
Hilary Bilbrey
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Nancy Pelosi
German parents
Gerhard Witte
Irene Rodriguez
Mary Benz
John Serwe
Richard Crain
Paul Gonzalez
Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Scott,
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.
In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you. No doubt you will "clean up" as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, "Biting The Hand That Fed Me."
Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.
I have no intention of reading your "exposé" because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job. That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively. You're a hot ticket now but don't you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?
BOB DOLE
Dole's personal e-mail to former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. McClellan has published a book critical of the Bush Administration.
"I really don't believe it was a put-on. I always thought she felt 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife. I'm white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate,'" he said. "And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama.' And she said, 'Oh damn, where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show.'"
Father Michael Pfleger, in a controversial sermon he made at U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's church. Pfleger spoke about Obama's rival, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and her tears as she felt the Democratic nomination slip away.
"I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."
Barack Obama's reaction to Pfleger's comments.
“Senator Obama, when will you finally visit Iraq?”
Vets For Freedom.
"I would be very surprised if I did.If there is a credible threat, we'd be stupid not to provide protection to anybody who the threat is targeted at, but right now we have no such thing, and I don't think that we will."
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen saying he probably won't bring a security unit to protect him at the Republican National Convention.
"We are not speaking ill of Ms. Witte. Quite the contrary, we are expressing our anger at what happened to her and our frustration with the reality that others in Wisconsin will share the same fate all because we are one of two States who have yet to trust its law-abiding citizens.Seriously, decent people, like Elisabeth Witte, who feel a very real and very rational need to protect themselves should have the right to do so. Had Ms. Witte chosen to carry a gun, I highly doubt she would have gone on a shooting rampage with it. People need to get over their irrational fear of guns. A gun is an inanimate object. A gun becomes an instrument of evil if, and only if, the person behind it chooses that path."
Blogger Shepherd's Laxative, responding to criticism of bloggers who suggested that MSO member Elisabeth Witte who was murdered in a parking lot by her ex-husband could have survived if Wisconsin had a conceal carry law.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Nancy Pelosi
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Milwaukee Aldermen are clueless about our rotten business climate.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
"Sex and the City"
Big time.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
Denver man wants to create an "extraterrestrial affairs commission."
Coming out of the closet.
And this is strange, unusual, and very, very stupid.
REMEMBER: Your suggestions/nominations for any of these categories every week are welcome, especially for HEROES OF THE WEEK. If you know of anyone in the community deserving of recognition, please e-mail me.
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