VOTE in the Primary for LOCAL people in primaries

Letter to the editor Wis St Journal published Sat. 2/16/08 Politics are local. The Presidential primary Tuesday Feb 19 hopefully won’t overshadow the importance to change our local politics by voting out the “progressives” and “Lefties” on the County Board who have a primary also. Over the past two years they have made a concerted effort to crush private property rights with their 22 member majority. The County Board correctly purchased land with your taxes to preserve parklands, but then bought more just to lock out future development, pushed billion dollar trains, trolleys with new sales taxes while Transport 2020 Implementation members freely admitting, “it’s not about transportation, it’s about land use.” Add their 'Free phone calls for Felons' at the county jail, voting against adding Deputies, their push to take over local zoning through the “No Growth” Capitol Area Regional Plan Commission, dictating to the rest of the county housing density and the illegal alien and felons housing protection ordinance - no asking for SS numbers by landlords, no criminal background checks - and you have reasons to vote for someone who recognizes that common sense should trump social utopian experiments. To be fair, the County and Madison are cooperating. Madison is adding police officers and Dane County is adding 200 ankle-bracelet felons fresh from outlying jails for them to catch!

Wall St. Jrnal: Mormons dismayed by Harsh Spotlight

It appears that fat people and Mormons are still considered fair game by the press and a lot of Americans.

My take: All the Mormons I have worked with, played with and been around have been exemplary people. They don't deserve this kind of bigotry from anyone. Good Luck Mitt- you are missed already!

Of course when you ask a Democrat pollster , as they did here, they never miss an opportunity to bash the religious right. (Ever notice, no one ever writes about or quotes the "Agnostic Left or Atheist Left"- Ann Coulter pointed that out about 8 years ago)

WAll ST Jrnal Page 1 TABERNACLE ON TRIAL Mormons Dismayed by Harsh Spotlight By SUZANNE SATALINE February 8, 2008; Page A1

Mitt Romney's campaign for the presidency brought more attention to the Mormon Church than it has had in years. What the church discovered was not heartening.
Critics of its doctrines and culture launched frequent public attacks. Polling data showed that far more Americans say they'd never vote for a Mormon than those who admitted they wouldn't choose a woman or an African-American.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in late January revealed that 50% of Americans said they would have reservations or be "very uncomfortable" about a Mormon as president. That same poll found that 81% would be "enthusiastic" or "comfortable" with an African-American and 76% with a woman.

BLOGGING MORMONISM

Read excerpts from blog posts addressing the recent public interest in Mormons and their doctrines.

The Mormon religion "was the silent factor in a lot of the decision making by evangelicals and others," says Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the poll. The Romney campaign ran into "a religious bias head wind," Mr. Hart and his Republican polling partner, Bill McInurff, wrote late last month.
"I don't think that any of us had any idea how much anti-Mormon stuff was out there," said Armand Mauss, a Mormon sociologist who has written extensively about church culture, in an interview last week. "The Romney campaign has given the church a wake-up call. There is the equivalent of anti-Semitism still out there."

Civil rights Act of 1964 and LBJ How Hillary got it wrong

The article in link above and here by Wynton Hall echoes a blog I did about Martin Luther King, Jr below on Jan 15, 08.

I must be smarter than I look!

Mr. Hall is talking about Hillary's attribution of credit to LBJ for getting the 1964 Civil Rights act passed. The reality is a bit more gritty.

I actually saw LBJ several times when performing with the Marine Band in the White House between 1966-70. Whenever he saw a good looking woman he would glide over, ask her to dance and then unleash his "Russian hands and Roman fingers" moves on the dance floor. It made for some interesting counter moves from the lady he was dancing with....