Midwest
Rush Limbaugh Boosts Ohio Ballot Issues 2 & 3
Rush reports that internal Goonion polls aren’t looking good for Ohio Issue 2, the collective bargaining reform initiative that would help Ohio communities rescue themselves from massive unfunded pension and health care liabilities for government employee unions. It’s similar to the initiative passed in Wisconsin.
Rush also explains the implications of Ohio Issue 3, the Ohio Healthcare Freedom Amendment, profiled by National Review Online this week for its potential national implications for Obamacare. What’s remarkable about this constitutional amendment proposal is that Ohio Tea Party, Liberty and 9/12 groups spearheaded the petition drive to get this on the ballot. It required nearly half a million signatures, 100% of which were gathered by unpaid volunteers in every one of Ohio’s 88 counties, working for over a year. (In contrast, the Union forces behind Issue 2 funded their petition drive with union dues.)
Check out the Rush Limbaugh audio here.
I live in a predominantly Democrat, union-employee neighborhood, so the only signs you see are against Issue 2.
The unions are in hysterics about it. They’re running radio and TV ads warning voters that they’re actually going to die if they don’t allow the public employee unions to bankrupt the State of Ohio. In one ad, a panicked man calls 911 to report that someone just broke into their house. The dispatcher tells him and his wife to lock the bedroom door and wait, because the department is short-staffed and the only deputy is not available. The first time I heard this ad, I laughed at the cowering husband, and thought, “damn, lady, you sure married a wuss. Where’s his gun? For that matter, where’s YOUR gun?”
I don’t dare put up yard signs in support of Issues 2 and 3, but I will certainly look forward to voting for them this week during early voting.
Ohio Ground Report: New Primary Date & Straw Poll Results
Interesting news from my home state Saturday. The Franklin County GOP held its first-ever “Swing State Straw Poll” on Saturday, a day after Ohio governor John Kasich signed a bill moving Ohio’s presidential primary to June from March, because of congressional redistricting that’s mandated to happen next year.
This puts the Ohio presidential balloting behind that of 40 other states.
You can imagine how disappointing this is for us Buckeyes. A lot of us are afraid we’ll have very little impact on the presidential race–for the second presidential vote in a row.
In 2008, Barack Hussein “Not A Muslim” Obama stole the election in Ohio with the support of ACORN and Soros plant SOS Jennifer Brunner. The narcissist-in-chief’s margin of victory was roughly equal to the margin of voter fraud facilitated by Brunner.
So, my vote didn’t count in 2008. I was disenfranchised. And by the time of Ohio’s 2010 primary, the Democrat-controlled media had already shoved John McCain down our throats.
Unfortunately, due to redistricting, Ohio’s presidential primary could now become even more of a moot point–it won’t take place until sometime in June, 2012. We Buckeyes may have very little influence unless voters in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Iowa–and 36 other states–stop drinking the Kool-aid catered by the Democrat-Controlled Media.
Ironically, this new primary date was set the day before the inaugural “Swing State Straw Poll,” organized by the Franklin County Republican Party. Franklin County is the home of Columbus, the state capitol, and a big university. (Let’s see how many Buckeyes are in the house…”O – H”…) The Straw Poll attracted Republican activists from throughout the state, each of whom paid $25 to participate. A total of 428 voters took part.
Here are the results:
Ron Paul – 53.50%
Herman Cain – 25.47%
Mitt Romney – 8.88%
Newt Gingrich – 5.37%
Rick Perry – 2.80%
Jon Huntsman – 2.10%
Rick Santorum – 0.93%
Michele Bachmann – 0.47%
So, now that Mittens Romneycare has started to finish a consistent third or worse in straw polls, and Rick “I Heart Illegals” Perry is now getting half as many votes as Newt Gingrich, can we please stop calling Mittens and Perry the “frontrunners?”
I’m not as connected to my former network of Ron Paul 2008 supporters as I once was, so I wasn’t sure if there was much of an organized effort to get out the vote for him. I saw a mention here and there on Facebook and that was about it. With the airwaves kind of quiet in the Ron Paul Ohio blogosphere, I wasn’t expecting much. So even I was shocked to discover that over HALF the voters who took part voted for Ron Paul. And from comments I’m reading online, they were from througout Ohio. And what really surprises me is that I don’t recognize any of them. In 2008, the ranks of Ron Paul supporters were so small that we all kind of knew each other or knew of each other. This time…I recognized one name.
It’s possible that the Cocktail Party GOP is going to have its clock cleaned in June of 2012 if its not careful, in the same way the Democrat party had its clock cleaned in the mid-term elections of 2010. It would appear that the most active of Ohio Republican activists are Ron Paul supporters.
This does not bode well for the likes of RINOs like Mittens Romneycare and Ricardo Perry.
Perhaps Ohio will make a difference after all.
Wisconsin Ground Report: What’s happening with the teachers’ unions there?
Dear HillBuzz,
Some attention has been paid to the political situation in Wisconsin. In summation:
1. Last November, the people of Wisconsin voted for a Republican Governor (Scott Walker), and Republicans to run both the State Senate and Assembly.
2. When the Walker administration took office, he worked to balance Wisconsin’s budget, which faced a $3.6 BILLION deficit (thanks to the previous Democrat-run administration), and a massive structural deficit with debts to various state funds and other states (like Minnesota).
3. While running for office, Scott Walker promised to fix this budget and right Wisconsin’s economic ship without massive tax increases.
4. The administration balanced our budget by rolling back collective bargaining privileges for unions, requiring union members to pay 5.8% of their salaries toward retirement (i.e. a guaranteed, lifelong pension) and 12% of their health insurance costs (far less than the private sector).
5. Weeks of protests ensued, including the Democrats in the Senate fleeing to Illinois for WEEKS.
6. The budget, with the collective bargaining changes, passed.
7. Wisconsin’s budget is in better shape than the nation’s, and on pace to be a player in a down federal economy.
Despite this, the left and the unions (but I repeat myself) have made it their mission to DESTROY Scott Walker. They tried to recall Republicans, dumped $30 million into the effort, and failed to gain a majority in the Senate. So they’re reduced to stalking Scott Walker wherever he goes.
This past week, Scott Walker went to Messmer Preparatory Academy, a successful, inner-city Catholic school that participates in the Milwaukee School Choice Program (school choice allows low income families to use tax vouchers to pay for alternatives to the failing Milwaukee Public Schools). A vast majority of Messmer’s students are black, and the high school has an 85% college acceptance rate (while MPS’s drop-out rate is in the TOP 5 in the US).
Gov. Walker was at the school to read to kindergarteners in an apolitical visit. But the unions wouldn’t let that happen.
They not only vandalized the school by super-gluing the locks on several doors, they threatened the head of the school — Br. Bob Smith — promising a “riot” for having Gov. Walker at the school.
A crowd of about 100 union members and various liberals showed up.
Here is a Wisconsin blog with video chronicling their despicable, threatening, and thuggish behavior.
http://badgerblogger.com/?p=20527
Watch how they treat the staff, administrators, and students of Messmer. All for having Gov. Walker there.
Of course, the unspoken rage behind their behavior is that Messmer represents an alternative to Milwaukee’s black community, which is poorly served by a failing public school system.
Amy in Wisconsin
Disgusting: Leftists trying to indoctrinate sex education to toddlers
Dear HillBuzz,
Today I have seen it all, http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/08/26/brave-new-world-arrives-ahead-of-schedule-sex-indoctrination-for-toddlers/
As many of us worried in the USA over how our children were being educated, taking God out of the schools, re-writing history to suit the new storyline jammed down the throats of the youth, creating more divisiveness between the races and usurping the parents’ rights over what is taught in the public school system (that our tax payer dollars pay for) we let the parental rights slip away into the hands of sincerely crazy & possibly perverted people.
As I came upon this story of what is happening in another so-called civilized society I felt I needed to draw some attention to it here on HillBuzz, especially when considering the recent horrific attack on Trig Palin who is also so very innocent. Can you imagine Sarah Palin allowing anything of the sort to be taught in the USA? Now can you imagine our so-called leaders today allowing it?
When we do not speak up against what we do not believe should be taught, or perhaps worse…the things that are left out of our schools…like Morality, God, Personal Responsibility & above all the Truth, we are complicit in the resulting chaos!
I believe there should come an outcry to reform our public schools…it is time for all parents to get involved…form groups, take turns sitting in on our children’s classes to hear what they are taught. I don’t think this is an isolated example. The photos in this article of children’s stuffed toys for kindergarten of a penis & vagina are simply unreal…I realize this is not the USA…yet, but folks if we all sit quietly here & do not forcefully exert our opinions & morality into our schools…well then we deserve what the next generation brings to us.
This is not an issue of sex education, gay, straight, or even of acceptance…it is the power of government controlled systems taking your children.
I implore everyone to read this article & discuss with educators in your school systems across the country what is being taught to your children here in the USA. This evil comes in piece by piece people, hug your children & teach them well.
Sincerely, Kim
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Please remember to honor our fallen heroes
Dear HillBuzz,
Today is the day that the fallen heros from the helicopter crash in Afghanistan over the weekend begin to return home for the final time. A young wounded warrior posted this quote online this morning:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
–John Stuart Mill–
I’ve heard many respond to the tragedy by saying “we just need to get out of there now”. As someone who is close to young men in the military I have to admit that I want this to end as well. I listen to the news reports of how the fallen heros are being returned, listen to families of these heros express their grief and pride, and see photographs of the fallen with their loved ones with tears welling-up in my eyes. These photos could easily be of someone I know and love. Yes, I want them home and safe. But what many with no understanding of, or connection to, someone in this area of service to our country don’t realize is that the quote above is something they believe in to the last fiber of their being.
Gone are the days when our young citizens join the military as just a good way to get a job, learn a skill, pay for school and figure they’ll stay safe. Everyone who has joined in at least the last decade, National Guard included, know that they will most likely be doing duty in a hostile area. They join to serve our country, first and foremost. The worst thing we can do to repay them is give them a sense that the sacrifice they make is for nothing. To say “we just need to get them out of there” causes them to feel that their service and sacrifice are diminished in our eyes. That we don’t consider their mission to be important enough.
We can all pray that our heros return home safely and that there comes a time when they no longer have to be prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice. But we can also pray that they are victorious in their duty and that they continue to be successful in making our world a safer place to live. They fight for our safety. We can pray that they are allowed to be successful in their fight.
A Proud Supporter of our Military
Wisconsin Recall Elections Results Watch Thread
Can you help follow what’s happening in Wisconsin today?
If you recall, when the Democrats in the Wisconsin legislature fled the state earlier in the year in a reckless attempt to prevent a vote to end the public sector union’s ability to bankrupt the state, Democrats then decided to launch recall elections to get rid of the Republicans in the legislature as retaliation.
That process comes to a head today, with the recall election.
Already, Governor Walker’s reforms pertaining to the public sector unions have saved Wisconsin millions — and in some districts have rescued budgets from the red, eliminating the need for layoffs.
Democrats and the labor unions are tied at the hip, as one cannot exist without the other, and both need as much tax money funneled into the Democrat Party as possible to survive.
Today is all about seeing if the people of Wisconsin can really see the Democrats for what they are.
What do you expect to happen?
Please pray for the families of our Navy SEALs
Dear HillBuzz,
I am heartbroken today at the news of the huge loss of our Navy SEALs and their flight crew and SEAL dog. My family has 3 people close to us who are members of the Special Operations community. We know first hand the level of commitment and patriotism these brave men possess. I was initially relieved when I found out the crash did not involve anyone we or our 3 young men knew, but that did not last long. I began thinking of each and everyone of these brave soldiers and their grieving families. Then I began thinking of their Commander-in-Chief and my sadness began being mixed with great anger.
Each of these heros knew that they were being asked to possibly give up their lives in service to our country when they swore their oath to “protect and defend”. They place their trust in their Commander-in-Chief to not ask this of them unless it is absolutely necessary. They trust him to only place them in harms way if absolutely no other option exists. This trust has been utterly abused by their current CIC.
During the Debt Ceiling debate, Obama threatened that he might not pay our military if the Debt Ceiling was not raised. This was taking those whom he has asked to be prepared to give “the last full measure” and trashing their trust they have in their CIC to have their best interests at heart. He asks each and every one to be prepared to give up their lives and then used their pay as a hostage in his political games. Mr. Obama, SHAME ON YOU!
Let me say this again; Mr. Obama, SHAME ON YOU. You ask for their lives and totally abuse your position of leadership and trust as their Commander-in-Chief. Will you look at the family members of each fallen SEAL and say “Yes, I threatened to not pay your son/husband/father for putting his life on the line. Hey, I’m just trying to get reelected.”? Your words of sympathy and gratitude for their ultimate sacrifice are hollow and soulless. They come out of the mouth of a man who is not fit to carry the title “Commander-in-Chief”.
Obama needs to be court-martialed. The only way we can do to this is to work hard to make sure that his court-martial is carried out at the polls in 2012.
Please join me in prayer, or thoughts of sympathy and gratitude, for the loved ones of our fallen heros. We may have a man in the White House who doesn’t understand the level of devotion and commitment of our military. But I know we have a country that does.
Respectfully,
A Proud Supporter of our Military
