A Couple of Endorsements

My friends, your faithful Peasant does not
make many endorsements of candidates. Not
because of a dearth of solid conservatives running
for public office, but because there are so many
offices across the land up for grabs at election time,
especially at national mid-term elections such as
the one coming up. The Peasant endorses candidates
in races where there is formidable competition,
and races whose results can have a great effect
on a district, or a state, or the nation as a whole.

So I have two endorsements, each for some great
Badger State conservatives, men with courage of
conviction and spines of steel, unlike too many
in the GOP these days: Gov. Scott Walker for
another term as Governor and Dan Sebring for
Congress from the Fourth District (encompasses
Milwaukee and some of her suburbs).

Gov. Walker was elected in 2010 in the GOP
tsunami and was re-elected by a larger margin
in the controversial recall election forced upon
him and his supporters (of which of course your
favorite Peasant is one) in 2012 by the Democrats
and their union chums. Walker's sweeping reform
legislation, Act 10, gave Wisconsinites a state budget
that will not strangle our financial health as individual
citizens nor as a state. The $3.6 billion deficit that
Walker inherited from his Democrat predecessor
has been transformed into a surplus, school districts
as well as municipal and county governments saw
money freed up for them to fund items that they couldn't
before because they were locked into paying out huge
benefit packages and wages to public union workers;
school districts can now hire and retain better quality
teachers, making room for them by firing those of lesser
quality; and guess what friends, although you'd NEVER
get him to admit it, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett used
Act 10 to find money to fund some items in his city's
budget --- and he campaigned vociferously against
Walker's initiative when he ran against him in the
2010 and 2012 gubernatorial races! He claimed that it
would hurt needed programs. Well, those programs and
others in Milwaukee's budget are doing quite nicely,
without any further raising of municipal taxes to burden
Milwaukee's citizens. Oh, and Gov. Walker created a
$280 million rainy day fund for unforeseen financial
circumstances.

Walker is being opposed by a limousine liberal who at
present holds her one and only elected office, that of
Dane County School Board member, who was Commerce
Secretary for Walker's Democrat gubernatorial predecessor
(who had chased many jobs out of Wisconsin and killed
off many jobs which would have been created here during
his two terms), and the Democrat candidate herself, one
Mary Burke, was an executive at Trek Bicycle, a bike
manufacturer founded and run by her family, and stood by
quietly when the firm transferred much of their manufacturing
functions to China where it could avail itself of super-cheap
(and non-union) labor. Furthermore, Burke has hampered herself
by plagiarism, taking ideas and statements from other Democrat
gubernatorial candidates in other states without attributing same
to their sources, and she has been vague to the point of slippery
about her ideas for governance re: the state's economy, taxes,
and jobs. Not a good recipe for changing hearts and minds in
a state with a governor that has made life in his state measurably
more livable by not taxing everything that moves and breathes!

Dan Sebring is running again for the seat in the House of Re-
presentatives in Congress currently held by Democrat Gwen
Moore, a reliable rubber stamp for President Obama. Sebring
has been able to chip away at Moore's percentage of the vote
between the last two elections in which they faced off,
especially with the 2010 redistricting which brought some
moderate-to-conservative suburban communities into
Wisconsin's Fourth District, long a Democrat stronghold.
Dan Sebring is pro-economic (read: job) growth; he is a
self-employed auto mechanic with a garage in Milwaukee.
He is also a foe of creating and raising taxes and a friend to
business folk, especially small business owners like himself,
and disdains excessive regulations on businesses large and
small. Socially conservative, Sebring is pro-life on abortion
and considers the effects on families by legislation which affects
their income, their standard of living, and their ability to raise
their children the way that they see fit without countering ideas
coming from their local schools and state and federal government
bureaucracies. Gwen Moore is reflexively the opposite on all
these issues, and is therefore an Obama proxy. Time to say
"No more!" to Gwen Moore!

Election Day is November 4. Mark your calendars, make arrange-
ments to get to the polls, bring your families, friends and
neighbors, and support these and other stoutly conservative
candidates! We have a great opportunity to take the Senate
and win a super-majority in the House, as well as to score resound-
ing victories in many statewide races. Let's make the most of these
races!


MEM