Showing posts with label lou d'abbraccio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lou d'abbraccio. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

QUICKLY !!! Somebody grab a fire extinguisher and save his ass!

Interesting day here in Wisconsin, things started out rather slowly news wise for me.  But then as the day wore on some interesting matters where brought to my attention.  The first matter involved Senator Abbie Cornett (GOP, TEA, ALEC) of Nebraska, and her husband Mark Stranglen.  After deciding not to show up for court last week on charges of solicitation of prostitution, which resulted from a FBI investigation into human trafficking and similar matters, Stranglen finally took the advice of his lawyer and appeared in front of the judge to plead guilty today.

At first he tried to state the he is not "the" Mark Stranglen that lives at his home address, and that he is not married to his wife, and he is not the Mark Stranglen from his own mug shot.  Guess what, it didn't work.  Also his wife (allegedly his wife LOL) Senator Cornett stopped dodging questions regarding the matter of whether or not she was a paid lobbyist for ABP.  She was forced to reveal the answer that myself and others have been demanding of her, that she is in fact a highly compensated lobbyist.  The shake up in Alliance for BioTherapeutics was deep and nearly immediate with two of the groups leading figures immediately severing ties with the firm before the official investigations start into the firm's activities.

Such is the reality of the tools & fools of the extreme right wing movement in America today. Speaking of which, the deities that the TEA party and Americans for Prosperity worship, the Koch brothers and ALEC, had their local minions here in Wisconsin busy typing away to present more lies and misinformation to the gullible and emotionally led public that follows them.  They came up with this recently posted article:

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2012/07/union-activities-of-teachers-deter-professional-respect/


Wow, I am not even sure where to start with this piece of garbage.  Likewise, I am not sure just how exactly to start responding to those that compiled and published it.  I am tempted to use terms like Koch-whore, but upon some reflection, that would not be quite fitting.  A prostitute is one who is usually engaged in the business of providing something solid (sex) for money.  Although the little MacIver gang is getting well paid by the corporate right wing machine, they are more or less accustomed to providing the journalistic equivalent off a quicky hand-job while telling the audience they are going around the world.  Such dishonesty I find very distressing.  And so perhaps I should just refer to use as "shills" and "hacks".

The article states right off the bat, that there is "bad blood" between teachers and citizens.  A term reflecting violence, feuding and hatred, the hallmarks of the extreme right wing movement.  Yes there are some negative feelings out there (largely based on mis-information spread by the likes of MacIver) towards teachers and school administration, but you right wingers started it.  Without your self-fulfilling prophecy there was no problem to begin with.

As you read further, there is mention of education costs going up every year.  This is a common right wing extremist tactic used to fool gullible people.  The teachers are NOT personally responsible for costs going up on a annual basis!  The truth is that the population in America is steadily increasing.  Population increase means that there are more children being born.  More children being born means that more children are going to school every year.  More children enrolled in school means there is a need for more teachers, more administration and more buildings to operate in.  That is why costs go up every year in regards to education thou lowly hack!

The article also includes the facetious statement that "more than two thirds of people disrespect union teachers"  Even with your corporate propaganda that number is far, far beyond believable.  But just to be fair, I conducted a "scientific test" or poll rather, of the citizens of Wisconsin.  When questioned about the MacIver Institute, the number of respondents that believe the staff of MacIver is composed "completely by pedophiles and/or child molesters, regardless of registration status as such" has increased from 72% to 78% in the last year.  Amazing!  I came up with the exact figures as the MacIver Institure, so I guess folks don't respect teachers and MacIver is a BUNCH OF DIRTY PEDOPHILES!

 You learn something new every day I guess.  And here I thought MacIver was just some shills and tools abusing their 501 (c) (3) status a non-profit charity.  By the way MacIver, how is the investigation against you, into that 501 status going?

Before I wrap up this post and publish it, I would also like to mention that I have finally heard back from Lou D'abbraccio.  He left something on the comment section of this blog, feel free to check it out if you would like.  He is stating that I am being "libelous" in my reporting of his activities lately.  Well Mr D'abbraccio from Maryland, go ahead and try to sue me.  I would very, very much hope that you try to.

Of course you can't sue me on a contingency basis, as the GOP worked very hard last year to remove the ability to sue people in court unless you can pay thousands in cash up front.  Remember that Lou?  The GOTea party you are so proud of called that "creating jobs."

Meanwhile Lou keep doing the Mike Stranglen thing, keep claiming that your recorded statements are not your statements.  Keep saying that your not tracking down the information your trying to track down and so on.  I have people willing to testify in court if ever need be, not to mention all the documented proof of your involvement in the Racine elections.  But first, you may want to find a fire extinguisher, I do believe your pants are on fire.

So pay those retainers to as many attorneys as there are willing to take your money.  Whatever you do, please don't research the validity of your claims before hand.  Remember facts and laws are part of science, and you and your fellow protesters, stinky and sweaty bunch carrying signs in the hot sun that you are, do not believe in science.  So just shell out that cash and try to get me.  The American patriots like myself do not fear you and your protesting hoodlums.

More on this, the fallacy of returned voter registration postcards in Racine, Wisconsin and more next time folks.  And of course a big cheer for the proud union members of the Green Bay Packers, who play at socialist, tax money entitled Lambeau Field and are hopefully heading for another Super Bowl, Go Pack Go!   Until next time sisters and brothers, solidarity forever.

On Wisconsin!    FORWARD!!!!









Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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!!!!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

It only works for Scott Walker. Crying wolf that is, better luck next time Lou.

And the great heat wave/drought of 2012 continues to hold sway over Wisconsin.  The trees on the hill, like the crops in the fields are withering.  Yet the people of Wisconsin are holding strong and they continue their fight for justice and democracy.   Days and nights are once again filled with talk of the recall elections, and not just because there is now a large and concentrated effort under way to conduct a hand count of every single ballot cast in the recall election of Scott Walker on June 5th of this year.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapp.e2ma.net%2Fapp2%2Fcampaigns%2Farchived%2F29568%2F0f8fb46a7a13dc6cc9e3cfc48b66bb87%2F&h=wAQFBUKgfAQH87ApTXtYtP_QXu2gMEGiUcG_m5viypVuxOA&enc=AZNpMzkfVIjmx0VO-ChQOpVgbgQNNf6DXc14H2OS3NfhJmn-eWT7J2cINBL--4bJK7h-EG0YK3UOkpaB0AlJ0dHa

We knew the black box voting machines and all the incredulous happenings associated with them, would not stand.  A historic effort is now going full steam and we are looking for volunteers to help in all kinds of ways, all skill sets welcome.  We will get to the bottom of who really won that election and who and/or what was affecting the outcome.  Regardless of the outcome this is a joyous return to citizen participation and honest and transparent elections in Wisconsin.

Of course the radical element, the Tea Party, will attempt to subvert this the same way they did with the verification of the recall petitions of Scott Walker. Even after they (the GOTea legislature) have drastically changed the voting laws in Wisconsin to the point of voter suppression and beyond. They will falsely claim that every stroke of a pen is a horrendous and obvious proof of the voter fraud they claim over and again to exist.    They proved themselves masters last year of the incredible skill of pointing out how two letter i's were differently dotted.  Still wont mean a thing this year either, but it is useful for sabotaging and slowing down the democratic process.

One of the people on the extreme right who has been "crying wolf" the loudest for awhile now about alleged voter fraud, is Lou D'abbraccio.  I have covered Lou and his involvement before, during and after the June 5th election in his home territory of Racine County, Wisconsin.  It will be interesting to see what he has to say in the near future regarding Wisconsin's elections now that GOTea candidate Van Wanggaard has officially given up his office after losing to Joseph Lehman.

Lou howled fraud for months (well years actually) for the benefit of the Tea Party and the Grandsons of Liberty and although he provided some fiery rhetoric, somehow has never been able to provide proof.  Lots of fiery rhetoric and claims of proof, but nothing presentable to the courts or the press.  At worst a couple of election workers may require re-training on new, same day voter registration procedure.

 Well, maybe Lou and his friend Willard Helander and the "throngs" of GOP associates she brought with her from Illinois, have helped to provide some proof.  Or his associates he worked the elections with in Racine, the members of True the Vote and Verify the Vote who came to Racine from Texas and California should have come up with some proof between the concerted effort of those groups and all the people they had stationed throughout the voting wards of Racine County.

All of that, along with local Tea Party and GOP volunteers was not able to provide a single shred of proof of violations of Wisconsin's voting laws in Racine County.  Even with a meticulous recount of every single ballot cast under the eye of big dog $800 attorneys and support staff from the law office of Michael Best, could they find proof of any wrongdoing or change in the election results. Both Lou and Robin Vos have joined in the verbal witch hunt with Van Wanggaard, rallying people to the cry of voter fraud, only to slink away when the evidence is demanded.

 That is the problem with using this tactic, creating a false emergency through yelling "fraud" or "fire" or whatever, only works until a certain point.  Than you either have to prove your point, or like Scott Walker, cover it up and move onto something else really fast.  Create another "emergency" if need be.

And so with a very heavy heart yesterday did candidate Van Wanggaard announce that he would not further delay the inevitable any more than he already had, and conceded that he lost the recall election last month.

I am glad that Wisconsin is being spared the time and cost associated with continuing to cling to false hopes on the right.  I hope we can get past the era of election officials like Kathy Nicklaus who has been found guilty of negligence and wrong doing over and again, she has been forced from her office but the investigation of her time there is supposed to exceed $250,000.  That can possibly go much higher especially now that it has been announced that she switched out the software on the black box voting machines in her district secretly of her own accord, right before the election.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fwaukesha%2Finvestigating-fixing-nickolaus-election-errors-to-cost-256300-oc62fkb-161844125.html&h=aAQHV146lAQHsFiRXa8Ns1y7unIXrm68W93hefYCDOrGo0A&enc=AZO3MlYZhdbL-e0_6ssjG0KcpkPrVBF85ncl7p4Kn6pFau1TfHADvb_F5fDUE3vXL1Im7xjyDw4Xhmrhwq2QRdKj

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fwaukesha%2Fnickolaus-changed-software-program-before-april-election-breakdown-vl62uqt-162003205.html&h=JAQE8-8WeAQEE8CTYG3Zj_hBjz0YmSccmojsBRhvhjl_eNQ&enc=AZPJABQvdvZM0nRJmquM2mc1i1NMox0Od4eV-tnxAyCRQlIZL2EDrccvE0LQ2jIRkJOzLiptKqO1esEtrcWzs79k
On Page 4 of the transcripts is the mention of the illegal POMS machines.


And speaking of the black box voting machines, they were supposed to have their memory boxes retained for 21 days, by law, by the county clerks where those machines were used.  That is in order to be able to verify election results to provide for accuracy and transparency in the voting procedure.  Instead within 3 days all of those hundreds and hundred of units were back in the hands of the owners of Command Central, the company which owns them, having they're memories erased in Minnesota.

And thus the lengthy and huge effort to hand count the millions of votes cast in the recall election, fairly and with full documentation.  There is a link below to a story that contains more information on the subject, it also links you to a site where you can register to help in the recount effort if you like.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fuppitywis.org%2Fblogarticle%2Fvoting-machine-doubts-now-begins-major-effort-verify-wisconsin-v&h=TAQE7sgdCAQHRC2NNyPEi116-XAYpXs2XGuxuHbnyeUvTxQ&enc=AZOju5Us83fQxzMKhqEUU6Pr62KtJRx9DVd-msRfpoEGirSebo_Lu1GWbCcBxCTk8-bJrlsgpTd7oBI9mi93jb9l

I am glad to report that I had some recent communication with Lou D'abrraccio and though I am waiting to hear back from him still on some other matters, he does agree with me that the black box voting machines have to go.  Norway recently got rid of them and now Ireland is doing the same, leaving only America as the last modern, western nation to trust its elections to machines that even FOX News says can be compromised with $36 worth of parts from Radio Shack.

And so in the end it seems that our friend Lou, and all his helpers, just couldn't sway the election and now Scott Walker loses control of the senate.  On the good side though Lou does agree that the black boxes are a bad idea.  Maybe I can get him to aid me in the future in the cause of getting the Tea Party behind the idea of hand counted paper ballots.  It would be nice to have a project that both sides can agree on, and work at together to help mend the rifts here in Wisconsin.  It has to be a much more fulfilling pursuit than yelling "voter fraud" until blue in the face.  Besides repeating oneself constantly, to create a fake "emergency" is the trademark of Scott Walker.  He might not like the imitation and all of its connotations of flattery.  He tends to get very angry and personal over matters such as that, and he is very vindictive.

On Wisconsin!    FORWARD!!!!

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Goons and thugs in Wisconsin politics? Yeah we have em, you can find them on the right, the extremist, radical right.

This is an addition to my posting on Willard Rooks Helander who came to Wisconsin from Illinois to exert unwanted (and now it seems illegal) influence on the recall elections of June the 5th.  It seems that once again our good friend and my fellow blogger the Root River Siren has now uncovered the answer to one of the questions I posed on my blog posting.

The question was 'who if anyone invited Willard Helander to Racine to affect the election?' and the answer is Lou D'Abbraccio who originally comes from   Rhode Island but is now firmly planted in Wisconsin.  You can check out his facebook profile here and get a better understanding of the man.  He is a republican in good standing in Racine County, which means he is most likely a person of questionable character and tactics.

https://www.facebook.com/dabbraccio

And here is the link to the insightful and revealing posting by the Root River Siren:

http://rootriversiren.blogspot.com/2012/06/catching-racine-poll-observer-in-big.html


In all fairness though for a tea party neo-con he is far smarter and way more educated than your average member of that movement at or near ground level.  For some reason though he seems to think that the Republican party is still the champions of African-American rights, or like all neo-cons these days he just lies.  According to what posted on his facebook wall anyway, in a graphic that seems once again, like a threat of violence against those who do not agree with him politically.  But that is par for the course with these extremists and radicals.

Not only did this guy bring in right wing extremists from Illinois to influence the elections in Racine County, he also brought in more extremist group representatives from California and Arizona.  There is audio tape of him instructing these people in how to take part in the elections that day in Wisconsin.  Furthermore he states that in the election of June 5th plus on other occasions he has snuck video camera's into polling locations and SECRETLY AND ILLEGALLY VIDEO TAPED THE VOTERS.

People are seriously looking into this matter now and hopefully we will see this guy in court as well as his out of state cronies and dare I dream.........Scott Walker?  Keeping up the good fight here in the badger state along with many others.  We will get to the bottom of this illegal conspiracy and drag these people into the light of day.  I dream that we will soon seen honest and fair elections once again in Wisconsin and a return to transparent politics and representation of the will of the people.

After posting this I found some more on our buddy Lou:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/liberal-media-this-week-unfairly-balances-tea-party-and-union-protests/

 http://www.thenation.com/article/155688/inside-wisconsin-rights-voter-suppression-scheme



On Wisconsin!    FORWARD!!!!