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!