Black Friday Dispatches
October 10, 2008
Don’t watch CNBC or, frankly, other TV news today. It’s like watching the family discuss the funeral arrangements. The IRA is down 43% as of yesterday and I went shopping for lard.
- The McCain rally went well. Here’s the Freeman front page story and here’s the Journal‘s.
- The Freeman talked to locals, so did the Journal. One citizen speaker at the rally, James T. Harris, is headed for Fox News Network if he doesn’t watch out. The guy at the rally who was mad as hell and not going to take it any more is getting the most coverage, however.
- McCain addressed local business owners in his prepared remarks.
- Pictures? The Freeman has a full page of them. I see Kris, the realtor who sold my condo, was in the crowd. She has a pink camera phone up and behind Sarah Palin.
- Former Governor Tommy Thompson didn’t tell the crowd to stick it to ‘em, did he? I wonder what would happen if he ran for governor again?
- Some people from out of state were so impressed with the rally that they called in to Sound Off.
- 200 deluded people went downtown to see Diamond Jim Doyle instead.
- The Freeman on a possible Hooters in Brookfield.
- The good cops in this town caught the low-life illegal alien wanted for a sexual assault on the northwest side of town.
- There seems to be some opposition to the Waukesha Fire Department’s proposal to move two fire stations.
- I will say that more people in Waukesha are refusing to sit back do nothing. Mayor Larry may have opened a can of worms when he insisted that there be a public comment portion of each meeting but he also created a populace who are more politically involved than they used to be. There will be no stuffing that genie back in the bottle.
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The thing with the public comment portion of the meeting is that people expect responses from City officials but officials are limited in what they can say. If they end up discussing something at length that is not on the agenda they may violate open meeting laws. Most Cities that allow for public comments specifically state that officials will not be able to answer any in-depth questions for that reason.
The old “damned if you do…” thing. That’s vexing.
Nothing like questioning government when it’s run like a kingdom Jeff? It’s shameful that public officials forget that they work for us, the taxpayers.
How dare we question anything elected officials propose or vote on particularly when there’s no application or fees paid for a “conditional use permit” even though it’s on an agenda.