As I mentioned yesterday, a recall against Sen. Jim Sullivan was filed by a group or person (still not sure which as the reports haven’t show up online yet) with the help of the Citizens for Responsible Government.
They issued the following press release today trying to make some kind of comparison between their partisan recall and… The American Revolution!
CRG Network: Grassroots group files for recall of Sen. Sullivan
6/9/2009For more information call Bill Savage at 218-0959 or Orville Seymer at 414-573-8709.
Recall of Jim Sullivan: Is America’s first chapter in history beginning to repeat itself right here in Wisconsin’s 5th Senate District?
Today, in Wisconsin’s fifth senate district, the passion for liberty and freedom that our forefathers demonstrated so many generations ago for freedom is alive and well.
We will not tolerate one more tax, one more anti-business policy and most of all; we will not lose one more freedom to special interest groups with a hidden agenda.
When the citizens fear their government, it is called tyranny. When the government fears the people, it is called freedom.
When our government becomes “out of touch” to the point that they might as well be an ocean away, when the government tramples on liberty, freedom and personal property rights, we have the responsibility and the duty to stand up for the rights that so many of our fathers and forefathers fought and died for.
So today we are filing a recall of State Senator Jim Sullivan. We are standing up for freedom and liberty.
Tyranny, freedom, forefathers, liberty!
But really, how is there any comparison among rational people between the American revolution and the partisan recall of an elected official for the bogus reason that he voted to ban smoking in the workplace?
And for extra irony, there’s the part that derides “special interest groups with a hidden agenda“.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
Nice to know brave patriots froze at Valley Forge so these guys could light up in a bar.
Nice to know brave patriots froze at Valley Forge so these guys had the right to light up in a bar.
And for the right of businesses to install asbestos in the buildings!
I don’t give a rats*** whether CRG is involved or not in the recall. Mr. Savage, please, less time on ridiculous and time consuming recall efforts; more attention to your tavern. Begin “reform efforts” at home (which is either Brown Deer per West Allis property records or Hartford per West Allis police records) for the sake of the actual West Allis residents (and bona fide constituents of Senator Sullivan) who put-up with your nuisance tavern and absentee management. For example and illustration, per West Allis Police calls :
4-26-04 11:43 p.m. Female very intoxicated
4-26-04 10:15 p.m. Request for assistance remove drunk party from bar
8-9-04 10:32 Noise Complaint
8-14-04 2:26 a.m. Fight in front of bar
9-21-04 1:04 a.m. Possible underage drinkers in bar
11-17-04 1:25 a.m. Assault; subject was assaulted offender not on scene
1-19-05 1:57 a.m. Trouble call – Bartender denied problems and suggested that neighbors called police because some of the customers were loud and chair fell over 2-4-05 6:52 p.m. Suspicious Activity – Elderly man (who shall be nameless) had partially fallen into roadway walking home from Wild Bill’s; elderly man was extremely intoxicated.
2-13-05 9:48 p.m. Arrest for breaking a glass mug and striking ex-girl-friend in the head
3-11-05 4:43 p.m. Disorderly Conduct; report of victim being pushed by mother’s ex-boy friend
3-30-05 1:27 a.m. Trouble call: fight
11-12-05 2:52 a.m. Report of after-hours drinking
2-28-06 12:15 a.m. Suspicious Activity; person carrying a large white bag or substance; person Retreated behind residence; tenants did not admit to knowing the person.
6-4-06 12:55 a.m. Assault; bar fight female slapped in the face; both parties intoxicated
6-21-06 12:47 a.m. Assault; bar fight female slapped male; one male struck on head with liquor bottle by another male.
6-26-06 10:25 p.m. Request for Assistance; Man entered tavern “to collect” from someone; concern he may have gun; no gun found
7-29-06 9:34 p.m. Mother and daughter fighting
8-15-06 2:05 a.m. Suspicious Activity; woman laying on sidewalk with man standing over her; verbal argument; both have active warrants
8-25-06 12:34 a.m. Suspicious Activity; unknown w/m outside Wild Bill’s appeared highly intoxicated.
9-13-06 11:45 p.m. Assault; two females in fight outside tavern
1-18-07 12:56 a.m. Trouble Call; responded to call regarding six persons fighting;
Bartender denied any physical fight and was later overheard by W.A.P.D.
demanding to knew which of the customers called the f**k*** cops because
She can control everything.
4-18-07 10:08 p.m. Trouble Call; two parties fighting in the street; bartender denied anything inappropriate occurred inside the bar.
4-30-07 11:15 p.m. Party struck by husband
6-30-07 9:27 p.m. Disorderly Conduct; fight inside bar; suspect physically resisted officers
7-10-07 9:05 p.m. Disorderly conduct; victim slapped
11-12-07 10:07 a.m. Disorderly Conduct; fight in progress; suspects “highly intoxicated” and
Resisted arrest, several officers needed to restrain
12-6-07 2:00 a.m. After hours drinking
12-25-07 11:51 p.m. Bartender without license on person
1-09-08 2:52 p.m. Loud music
5-12-08 1:41 a.m. Trouble Call; fight in bar
6-1-08 12:58 a.m. Trouble Call; fight in bar
7-9-08 12:59 a.m. Disorderly Conduct; fight in bar flashing gang signs
8-16-08 2:44 a.m. Disorderly Conduct; investigation revealed victim struck in front of Wild Bill’s
9-13-08 11:26 p.m. Officer on patrol observed man and woman fighting
2-7-09 1:29 a.m. Weapons; women fighting and a possible gun
5-3-09 1:27 a.m. Weapons: Arrest for Felon in Possession of Firearm
In today’s political climate, over-the-top rhetoric is the only kind of rhetoric and it has replaced legitimate debate.