From fool to felon - A tale of two tea party tools in two states.

It is a hot and miserable day in Madison, Wisconsin.  There are no heat or drought records left to break here in the badger state.  Crops are dead or dying, the ground water is drying up and people are ......well just miserable here.  But it could be worse, it seems we will get at least a temporary break from the abysmal heat after today's triple digit heat index figures.

How could it be worse you might ask, well living in Racine, Wisconsin would make it worse, depending on who you are that is.  If you work for Racine, County government you might be ready to tear your hair out and start gnashing your teeth.

The reason for that would be (many of you have already guessed)............Lou D'abbraccio.  Yes like a bad penny he just keeps turning up.  I had just started to give up on ever hearing from Lou again, he still wont answer my e-mails even though he was the person so excited about arranging a meeting between the two of us.  It seems he is busy with another project of his though, well in all honesty it is the same project he was working on weeks ago.  Namely intimidating and questioning anybody in local government he has access to, in order to find out who LEGALLY released the open records request, for his open records request, which was published here previously.

http://hungryguymadison.blogspot.com/2012/06/open-records-request-is-open-request.html

Apparently Lou, like most ground level members of the TEA party, has trouble understanding the difference between legal and illegal.  Information available under the Freedom Of Information Act is legally obtainable  Lou.  Wanting the personal information (names, address, phone number) of people who request open records is quite a different thing altogether Lou.  And interrogating and intimidating government workers and officials is most certainly a horse of a different color.

Plus something else Lou should be aware of, there are multiple investigations ongoing even as we speak, into Scott Walker himself, his entire support staff, his entire campaign staff and all major contributors.  The FBI investigation into Walker and crew, is tied in with state level investigations into gerrymandering, election fraud and conspiracy by none other than the GOP and TEA party.  You may be treading on very thin ice indeed Lou by rampaging your way through Racine government offices and government employee's at home.  I know the TEA party tools and fools think they are either the law themselves or, above the law, but that is not the case. I would not really want to watch Lou go from fool to felon, but what will be will be.

Speaking of fools and felons, yesterday I reported that WI Congressman James Sensenbrenner and Representative Petri had recently been involved in fundraising efforts for their individual campaigns in Washington DC, using the lobbying firm known as Strategic Health Care.  Strategic Health Care or SHC, has gained national attention lately for its use of fundraising parties they refer to as "White Trash Parties"  The theme is to dress up like a rural or urban, working class American (in mockery of US citizens) and drink cheap beer while making racist and classist jokes, while writing checks for hundreds or thousands of dollars to the aforementioned right wing politicians.  Why a "white trash" themed party?  Maybe they are just barely smart enough to know not to have a "nigger and spic" themed party?

Anyway the head of the board of directors for Alliance for BioTherapeutics which is one in the same with Strategic Health Care, is Nebraska Senator and TEA party and ALEC member Abbie Cornett.  Actually she is the ALEC chair for the state of Nebraska, just like Robin Vos is here in Wisconsin. She is a full time lobbyist and part time Nebraska Senator it seems.  Anyway her husband Mark Stranglen, was supposed to appear in court this morning.  Around last Christmas Mark solicited a prostitute, well not really a prostitute, more of a undercover agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who was working a case relating to human trafficking and child enticement.

So this morning his attorney shows up in court, but not Mark Stranglen.  This was of course very upsetting to the presiding judge.  So now instead of having to deal with a $250 ticket for solicitation of prostitution, he has a warrant for his arrest to bring him in and only release him if he can make $10,000 bond.  From fool to felon just like that.  But it gets better folks, he did a phone interview from a "undisclosed location' and presented a astounding legal defense.  He is claiming that he is not Mark Stranglen.  He is claiming that he is not married to his wife.  He is claiming that he does not live at his home.  He is claiming that his arrest record with his photo and all other information is not him either.  The TEA party is full of brilliant people like this.

I don't think this legal defense will hold water very well for him, and I don't think he can make $10,000 bond. Like most TEA party folks he is fiscally inept and filing for bankruptcy.  Incidentally his wife the Senator is also filing bankruptcy, which is interesting because she draws a Senators salary with full benefits.  She has a six figure income from SHC for her lobbying effort plus, she is drawing full disability pay as a former peace officer.  Which has many folks in Nebraska wondering how someone like her with bad knee's, which allowed her to retire on disability at age 32 I believe, can spend all that time rock climbing and repelling and other such activities.  Who am I to say?

Luckily for her though she does not need to rely on her husband to babysit the kids while she is off in Washington and he is running from the law.  You see she is also under investigation for having fostered teenage children who apparently, act as her domestics for her biological children while she runs around the country at $5,000 dollar a plate fund raisers.  Just like that, from fool to future felon, gotta love the right wing and their 'family values"

So in closing I would like to address Lou one more time here.  Please Lou for the love of whatever it is you may believe in, give up whatever bogus plan you are working on and just let it all drop.  It is probably too late for you to escape what you have already done, but at least you can avoid further investigation.  Some things you just cant hide from, and have you ever considered this Lou, where do I get all my information on your activities and connections????

I am only a blogger and not a journalist, but I do protect my sources.  And I have multiple people giving me information on you and other GOTea members in Racine County and all your shenanigans.  And as much as I love hearing about you from these folks who may or may not, work for Racine County, The D.A.'s office and may or may not work for the Sheriff's Department there, who may or may not be related to you, I would hate (honestly) to see you go from fool to felon.  You would be of much more benefit to the citizens of Wisconsin in promoting clean and transparent elections instead of wasting time trying to create a false crisis about them.

On Wisconsin!    FORWARD!!!!

Two mysteries, two mysterious idiots, and a arson.

Hello everyone and welcome once again from ground zero in the fight to save democracy.  We are sweating out what is supposed to be the last day of the two month heat wave/drought that has all but crippled the badger state.  Some new news from the Capitol in Madison today as well as some old stories revisited.

First it was officially announced today that after the departure of Chief Charles Tubbs from the Capitol Police & Security force (for political reasons((namely that Tubbs was sick of the politics)) that David M Erwin would be filling that post, replacing Interim Chief Blackdeer as the official head of that department.  I was actually hoping that Mr. Blackdeer would be permanently filling that roll but the Department of Administration under Mike Huebsch did not agree with me.  I have looked into David Erwin and the man literally does not exist on the Internet, well almost so.  What little information I have is that he is a former member of the Marine Corp. who went into law enforcement.

Most recently he has held a high post in the Wisconsin State Patrol, that being the head of the Dignitary Protection Unit.  This small branch of the State Patrol under Poppa Fitzgerald, is responsible for the full time safety of the Governor of Wisconsin, as well as for security and transportation for visiting dignitaries to the state.  Whether this David Erwin is a real law enforcement officer or, a tool of Fitzgerald and Walker selected by Huebsch, remains to be seen.  I will meet with the new Chief and report back to you as soon as I am able to arrange that.

I would also like to remind everyone that there is still very much a need for donations after the arson that destroyed six buildings last week on the Lac Courte Orellies Reservation.  There is much devastation being dealt with both physically and emotionally, and any support you can show would be greatly appreciated.  Here is the link to send help:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffirefund2588.chipin.com%2Ffirefund-2588&h=bAQG--TQ0

Our second mystery today is a another individual that is nearly, only nearly, non-existent on the Internet.  This person is one Jed Charles Ballard of Menominee, Wisconsin.  He has come to our attention recently as he is making death threats against activist Miles Kristan, as well as two others in the Wisconsin Movement.  Except for a short and violent criminal record, there is basically no information at all on this individual.  So until things are cleared up on this matter, we are letting all activists and organizers know to be aware that this person is out there, making serious threats, and has been in the past.  Hopefully our friend Miles will keep himself safe for another week here until he leaves Madison to return to his academic pursuits once again.

We also bid farewell this week to another great activist, Wisconsin's own, Jenna "Batman" Pope.  After nearly two years of tireless and non-stop effort in the Wisconsin Movement against Scott Walker; Jenna is heading to Gotham, the Big Apple, to continue her good work there.  Best of wishes to you Jenna, and thank you for everything you do.

Moving on now to the second mysterious idiot of this posting, another devotee of the cowardly long distance threat making game, previously mentioned on this blog, is Duane Michalski.  He came back to my attention around a week ago when he felt the need to pipe in and make threats against me for investigating Lou D'abbraccio and his false election fraud emergency in Racine, Wisconsin.

 I am not sure how to even begin describing Duane Michalski of Caledonia, Wisconsin to you.  He is notable for so many reasons, threats of death and violence only begin to scratch the surface of his idiocy.  Admittedly I am somewhat reluctant to call this guy an idiot, in researching him he has many moments of clarity and genuine interest in the issue's and in discussing them with diverse people.

Then apparently something snaps in him, and he turns off the logical parts of his mind, and takes off at full speed on pure emotional vitriol.  A man of contradictions is perhaps the easiest way to describe him.  For instance he holds to the belief that the democratic party is trying to take over America, and they are doing that through the incomprehensibly stupid practice of encouraging the death of the entire party's support base through aborting the children of all Democrat party members.  Really!  You cant make up something this dumb, check out his facebook page.

He declares himself to be a devout Lutheran yet he claims very loudly that it is taking the moral high road, to  kill somebody before letting harm come to yourself.  I may not be the worlds most highly educated minister, but I don't recall ever seeing that statement anywhere in the Bible.

Recently in a public forum, Michalski in a discussion on the subject of people living in rural, as opposed to urban areas, asked this question  "Why does the MAJORITY (his capitalization) of Caledonians live in the most populated area?"

I don't know Mr. Michalski, perhaps after we solve that mystery for you we can get to the bottom of the recent rumour that has been going around, that 3 out of 4 people in Wisconsin, now make up an estimated 75% of the states population.

Maybe in all fairness, he has been too busy lately to trouble himself with finding answers to these perplexing questions?  Perhaps he has been too busy trying to understand thoughts of a higher order, like economics perhaps?  Recently he has posted absolute proof that the billionaires pay all the taxes in this country while "the poor" lead lives of luxury and leisure, getting rich off of benefits for the unemployed and disabled.  His proof was an old copy of the tax code, and the brackets for corresponding income levels.

Apparently and according to Michalski, the overly-prosperous gladly pay all taxes voluntarily, and would never hire lawyers and accountants to utilize loop--holes in the tax laws.  They would never stash money around the world in places like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes on all that wealth.  I guess he believes that only people on welfare have huge cash holdings in un-numbered offshore accounts.  Armed with this wisdom, Michalski will be voting for Willard Romney this coming Novermber.

But hey, maybe he knows something that I don't, perhaps he has knowledge of an entire side of the economic spectrum that I am totally unaware of?  He did just recently celebrate an anniversary of sorts, that being, twenty years spent in the courts being sued for debts that he refuses to pay.  I know, now you think I am being mean and picking on somebody who appears may be cognitively disabled, or at least challenged.  I only brought up his civil record to demonstrate another contradiction about Michalski, that even though his financial life is full of litigation and suits, he considers himself to be a highly educated and able, fiscal conservative who can be trusted with tax money.  That is the platform he used to run for town council in Caledonia, apparently from the election results people are not buying the contradictions.

Which is okay, because he is pretty straight forward and non-contradictory on some issues.  Like crime for instance, or even race relations, where he also has solved all of our problems for us with his "genius" as he puts it, "idiocy" as I see it.  A few years back Michalski piped in after a violent crime in Milwaukee and publicly stated the solution to the problem of crime and violence.  That being, that all minorities should be fenced off and a large pile of guns and drugs tossed over the fence.  Michalski is confident, that all the members of the minority population would quickly kill themselves in a drug fueled orgy of violence.  I am not making this up just google search this violent idiot, it is all right there waiting to be read.

And so I am left to ponder the mysterious and perplexing, convoluted even, musings of this right wing nut job who apparently wants me dead, and is willing to work to those ends.  Perhaps he thinks this will help him in some future election campaign of his.  Perhaps next time he will run on a law and order platform, based on a possible felony record?  Who knows, truth is stranger than fiction my friends, more from the Capitol in Madison later, solidarity forever.

Tomorrow I will bring you news of Judge David Prossers conversion of his re-election fund, just like his buddy Scott Walker,  And some exciting news regarding the re-installment of constitutional rights to the Capitol building in Madison.  Perhaps we will even hear from Duane Michalski, maybe he can explain why he is so mad at Wisconsin, Democrats for not pushing a jobs bill through the GOTea controlled state legislature.  A man of contradictions indeed.

On Wisconsin!    FORWARD!!!!