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ELECTION DAY - Tues April 2
Polls open at 7am, and close at 8pm
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board - Elections & Voting at
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting
Find My Polling Place at
http://gab.wi.gov/voters/find-polling-place
Report instances of vote fraud to:
Milwaukee: County Election Commission
901 North 9th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1425
(414) 278-4060
North Shore Victory Center is Open for Business
In order to support staff and office operations, we’re asking for your help as we seek to raise $5,000. before March 18th. Your contribution will help ensure that the hard work you’ve done to elect a common sense conservative legislature and governor will not be negated by an activist State Supreme Court. Help us re-elect Justice Pat Roggensack to the State Supreme Court and Judge Rebecca Bradley to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
North Shore Republican Office
311 E. Silver Spring Dr.
Glendale, WI 53217
Field Rep: Phil Curry 414-727-9980
Phone call hours this week: Monday - Thursday 9am - 9pm
Closed Good Friday
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Closed Easter
Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday April 2 9am - 8pm
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/rpmc/184/1196/eventsignup.aspx
Goldman Rejects Proposal That Firm Run for Elected Office
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the investment bank nicknamed “Government Sachs” because of senior executives who have moved into public posts, won’t be entering politics itself.
A shareholder proposal that the New York-based company run for office instead of funding political campaigns was discarded, according to a letter last month from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which agreed the firm can exclude the measure from its annual meeting.
Harrington Investments Inc. President John Harrington submitted the proposal last year, saying the $6.39 million in 2012 political contributions from the firm’s employees risks doing more harm to its reputation. He said the bank should explore running for office, using a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that corporations have similar political rights to individuals.
Read more by Michael J. Moore at Bloomberg.com
Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012? Ohio poll worker target of investigation
The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson’s Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election.
It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker.
Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well.
“Yes, I voted twice,” Richardson told WCPO-TV. “I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls.”
Read more by Eric Shawn at FoxNews.com
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY - Tues Feb 19
Polls open at 7am, and close at 8pm
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board - Elections & Voting at
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting
Find My Polling Place at
http://gab.wi.gov/voters/find-polling-place
Report instances of vote fraud to:
Milwaukee: County Election Commission
901 North 9th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1425
(414) 278-4060
Blues Cruise
Steaming past Guantánamo, en route to the Cayman Islands, a boatload of Republicans ponder the plight of a party at sea
–SNIP–But what, exactly, were we looking at? It was Friday, November 16. We were in Honduras, gazing at a wreck off a resort called Fantasy Island, near Mahogany Bay. Through my goggles, I watched Reed, in white swim trunks and black flippers, flap his way down through the extravagantly blue waters to the old sunken barge, part of the $64.95 Shore Excursion available to passengers aboard the m.s. Nieuw Amsterdam, an 86,000-ton cruise ship owned by Holland America Line. It was day five of the National Review magazine’s Post Election Cruise 2012, and the GOP’s recent problems were, mercifully, about 760 nautical miles away. The cruise, featuring the star columnists of William Buckley’s 57-year-old conservative biweekly, had been planned long in advance, and everybody had believed it would be a victory party. An e-mail from the magazine’s publisher arrived a few days before we embarked: “Do not despair or fret. At least not next week.”
Read more by Joe Hagan at NYmag.com
Learning from the Election
1. Populism
The Republicans have only won the popular vote since Ronald Reagan’s presidency on two occasions: 1988 and 2004. In both instances, even the patrician Bushes were able to paint their liberal opponents as out-of-touch Massachusetts magnificoes. Lee Atwater turned Michael Dukakis, the helmeted tank driver, into a bumbling Harvard Square naïf. Karl Rove reminded the country that John Kerry, the wind surfer, was a spandex-wearing, wetsuit-outfitted yuppie who lived in several of his rich wife’s mansions, as he jetted around in her plane and sailed on her boat.
Otherwise, it was the Republicans who always ended up reduced to plutocratic grandees. Since 1960, and with the exception of Barack Obama, the Democrats always lost when they ran northern liberals — George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and John Kerry — so great is the American distrust of both old money aristocrats and Northern tsk-tsk scolds. Apparently southern accents — LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore — were necessary fides to win the popular vote, a sort of implicit reminder to voters that liberal Democrats could be just folks rather social engineers and redistributionists. Wealth apparently is not the key as much as an impression of familiarity with the working classes. Liberals laughed at Reagan riding horses, chopping wood, and chainsawing on his ranch, but voters liked what they saw. Neither party apparently can nominate a Massachusetts governor or senator and expect to win. Mitt Romney is a good man who would have made a very good president, but by June he was no longer a good Mitt Romney. Instead, millions of dollars in hit ads and free media assaults reduced him to a hideous caricature of a greedy, heartless Scrooge.
2. Barack Obama Was a Special Case
Read more by Victor Davis Hanson at PJmedia.com
Register ahead of election? Yes
Most states already require voters to think ahead.
AFTER ALL THE nasty brawling — not just in Wisconsin, but across the nation — over whether Voter ID amounts to sensible security at the polls or a barely veiled suppression effort, a partisan battle over scrapping same-day registration in the state seems unavoidable.
North Pointe
Currently, Wisconsin is one of just a handful of states that allow unregistered individuals to come to the polls on election day and take care of the business right then and there. A substantial majority of states require registration well in advance. For example, in Illinois, registration closes about a month before election day.
The tradition in Wisconsin, however, has been far more liberal. Some like that. Some think it’s ripe for fraud, and creates an undue last-minute burden on election officials.
Read more by William Barth at BeloitDailyNews.com
There Are No “Missing Voters”
Republican pollster Bill McInturff demolishes an early theory of how Obama won: Voters who didn’t show up. In fact, some are still to be counted, and others were affected by Sandy — but swing state turnout was up!
Read more at BuzzFeed.com
ELECTION DAY - Tues Nov 6
After a long campaign, DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!
On Tuesday November 6, Polls open at 7am, and close at 8pm
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board - Elections & Voting at
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting
Find My Polling Place at
https://myvote.wi.gov/
Report instances of vote fraud to:
Milwaukee: County Election Commission
901 North 9th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1425
(414) 278-4060
Election Night Victory Parties
Tommy Thompson for Senate
Milwaukee Marriott West
W231 N1600 Corporate Ct., Pewaukee, WI 53072
http://tommyforwisconsin.com/victory-party/
Ryan for Congress Victory Party
The Holiday Inn Express
3100 Wellington Place, Janesville, WI 53546
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/s/rpwc4u/event/details/1135
Dan Sebring for U.S. Congress Victory Party
Governor’s Room at American Serb Hall, 5101 W. Oklahoma Avenue, Milwaukee
https://www.facebook.com/events/505002609527269/
Joe Sanfelippo Victory Party
Klemmer’s
10401 West Oklahoma Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53227
Molly McGartland Victory Party
County Club Inn
Ramsey & Packard Avenue, Cudahy, Wisconsin
Ozaukee County Victory Night Watching Party
The Nines at the River Club of Mequon
12400 North Ville Du Parc Dr., Mequon, WI 53092
http://www.ozaukeecountyrepublicans.com/events.cfm
Where to Vote
After a long campaign, DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!
On Tuesday November 6, Polls open at 7am, and close at 8pm
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board - Elections & Voting at
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting
Find My Polling Place at
https://myvote.wi.gov/
Election Day Observer Training Sessions
The Republican Party of Wisconsin and Romney for President are working hard to ensure we have a fair and honest 2012 election cycle. Both organizations are taking a proactive approach, advising that it should be easy for everyone to vote but hard to cheat. As part of our program, we will be holding Election Day Observer (EDO) training sessions.
* Tue. October 9, 5:30pm – 6:30pm at the Wauwatosa Victory Center
* Tue. October 9 at 7:30pm at the Waukesha Victory Center
* and other Wisconsin locations
Please RSVP for the training session you wish to attend. If you RSVP for a conference call session, please note the call information will be sent out 1 - 2 days before the training.
For more information, please contact Kristina Sesek at the Republican Party of Wisconsin at (608) 257-4765 or ksesek@wisgop.org.
Obama’s Re-Election Case Rests On 5 Phony Claims
In making his case for re-election in the face of historically high unemployment and sluggish growth, President Obama has a simple and straightforward argument.
Things were terrible when I arrived, he says, thanks to Bush-era policies of tax cuts and deregulation. We stopped the decline, but the ditch was so deep that it will take time to get out. Still, we are making progress, even if it isn’t as fast as everyone would like.
So the last thing we want to do is return to the failed Bush policies that, he says, drove us into the ditch.
That argument appears to be working. More people continue to blame Bush than Obama for the current poor state of affairs, and some surveys show that consumer confidence has recently increased.
But each part of Obama’s argument is based on claims that are not accurate:
Read more by JOHN MERLINE at Investors Business Daily