The Walker Black List is Official, Nominates student regent not on his Recall List! Skips guy who started two businesses and promotes the entrepreneurial spirit.

(To start, this is not a slam on the student himself nominated by Walker to be a regent.)

Appearances are no longer a concern for an arrogant Republican governor like Scott Walker, who's made it clear his citizen black lists will be used to punish the resistance. 

For a governor concerned about jobs and business, he went with a snowmobile club member, instead of his first choice, a student who has already started two businesses and is a member of the Pioneer Launch Lab for young entrepreneurs. Good play Scotty.  

jsonline: Gov. Scott Walker on Friday appointed a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student to the UW System Board of Regents after earlier this summer yanking another student's appointment because he didn't disclose that he signed a petition seeking the governor's recall two years ago.

Chad Landes, a UW-Platteville student majoring in animal science, will get the seat that the governor initially promised to Joshua Inglett, a UW-Platteville engineering physics student. Inglett had signed the recall petition as an 18-year-old freshman. Inglett is pursuing a double minor in mathematics and business administration. He's a member of the Pioneer Launch Lab for young entrepreneurs, and the founder of two businesses: one related to travel packages for large groups, and one that produces OEM computers and develops and tests proprietary software, according to his résumé.

Who cares about business and entrepreneurs, snowmobiles, "spirit" and volunteerism are really more important traits under Walker. The Walker Black List is official:

Walker said Landes' "strong spirit of service and volunteerism makes him a great fit for the Board of Regents."

Walker and the Teabilly Republicans want to Rule through Blackmail and Blacklists.

Absolute power has a way of changing the weak willed into monsters. The Walker Authority is one fine example.

When Scott Walker decided to withdraw his own student nomination for regent using his recall petition as a blacklist, that turned a page for me. If you make a list, any list, Republicans everywhere will use it against you for political or employment reasons.

   

And that’s a direct threat to you and your family. It's unimaginable as a way of life in America.

Check out this story from March, that I completely forgot to shine a bright light on, that is even more relevant today:

Uncle Fester...?

Huffington Post: Al Gerhart, 54, of Oklahoma City, said the Sooner Tea Party will do what he promised in his email … threatened to turn State Sen. Cliff Branan (R-Oklahoma City) into a "laughing stock" and "dig into" his family members and associates unless he backs a bill blocking the United Nations' sustainability agenda.

“We want to know what is going on down there. We want to know if his wife has got a criminal history. We want to know everything about him. We want to find out if this man is a responsible citizen, if he's even got his family under control much less control of his office,” Gerhart said.

Devoid of any moral or ethical issues, Gerhart uses the old Republican excuse that gives them a mental pass:

Gerhart denied doing anything illegal.

Gerhart doesn't stop there either. The following is still another reason why the Walker recall petitions, now a GOP blacklist, is so dangerous and threatening:

“These politicians need to know that it doesn't end when their term is over,” Gerhart said. “They need to know that their decision's going to follow them for the rest of their days. They need to know the Tea Party is not going away — that if we don't win it the first time, we're going to come back the next year and the next year and the next year after. And we don't forget these people that are traitors to the Oklahoma people.”

He said the Sooner Tea Party will report what is found on the Internet, in Branan's district and at Branan's church. “I want the people in his church to know what he is doing. That it's wrong,” Gerhart said.

This is the teabilly Republican style of governing. Any questions?

Pridemore's Media Blacklist...sure.

State Republican Rep. Don Pridemore tried for awhile to walk back his successful attempt to blacklist a few media outlets and reporters, but found out how hard it was to keep lying, so he eventually decided to just come out and admit it. And even laugh about it. From Upfront with Mike Gousha, Pridemore shows us how Republicans would run things if they had complete power without the threat of challenge.

GAB finds Verify the Recall one big waste of Time.

Verify the Recall accomplished a few things; it placated the rabid paranoid conservative mind, and inserted itself into something that wasn't any of their business. They came across like a vigilante brown shirted enforcement agency. And a few of their tea party loons called people on the list at their home, women mostly, and intimidated them. Classy.

The scariest part; they've produced an enemies list, a blacklist, for future witch-hunts and vilification. It was almost funny watching Mitt Romney's campaign sugar daddy Frank Vandersloot whine that people are trying to smear him by digging into his background. Poor baby. He should try signing a Walker recall petition sometime.

According to the GAB:

jsonline: A tea party review of recall petitions did not use the proper standards for judging signatures, an attorney for the state's election agency reported Tuesday.

"The methodology they used just would not have worked for us and would have not been valid or legal under the law and administrative code that governs recall petitions," attorney Mike Haas told the Government Accountability Board. The accountability board did not rely on Verify the Recall's findings …  Haas said he wanted to look at their work after the fact to help decide if such information could be helpful in future recall efforts. But he said the tea party groups were overly strict in recommending throwing out signatures. For instance:
1. they did not count someone's name if they used a middle initial in their signature but spelled out their full middle name elsewhere on the petition.

2. The tea party concluded some people did not live in Wisconsin when in fact they did … the software they used did not recognize all Wisconsin municipalities.

3. The groups also identified as duplicates all people living at the same address with the same name, even though in many cases they were a parent and child who had the same name.

Verify the Recall is now claiming in some way that they brought “integrity and accountability” to the recall, when actually, they had nothing to do with it. It may have eased their minds, but only just a little. It's sad to have such a self-inflated image of themselves. 

Verify the Recall issued a statement "One major point that the GAB fails to mention in its analysis, however, is the fact that VTR fundamentally changed the nature of recall conversations in Wisconsin. ... Following VTR’s launch, recall conversations in Wisconsin changed from 'fraud and indifference' to 'integrity and accountability.'"

Police can’t be trusted, Republicans above the law now, victims of unionized law enforcement, says Randy Hopper.

Have we now descended into chaos!!! 

Apparently, laws do not apply to Republicans now, knowing the police and sheriff’s departments are unionized. They can’t be trusted. They have an ax to grind, and payback and vengeance preoccupy their every waking moment. Conservative lawbreakers can now claim liberals are out to get them. Just check the online recall petition site. See previous story:

This isn't the first time Republicans got off scot free; Justice David Prosser, Michael Gableman, Annette Ziegler, Rep. Scott Jensen etc.!

Now we have the ultimate victim and persecuted Republican; Randy Hopper. 

TMJ4: A jury found former state Senator Randy Hopper not guilty of drunk driving. The former state Senator beat a drunk driving case -- because his lawyer argued the charge was a conspiracy built on political revenge. "Honestly, I don't know that I've ever been happier for a client.  What that man has had to endure in the last 12 months is sickening," said Hopper's attorney Dennis Melowski.

Poor baby? 

Last August, Hopper was recalled -- for his support of Governor Walker's collective bargaining bill.  In October, he was arrested for drunk driving.  A couple of citizens tailed Hopper's SUV and called in a drunk driving tip to the Fond du Lac sheriff.

Attorney Dennis Melowski argued those callers were driven by their politics. "Not only did they sign recall petitions, they circulated recall petitions," said Melowski.

Oh no, not that? It looks like Verify the Recall has become the defacto Democratic "black list," for future reference. 

How would the couple have known Randy Hopper owned the SUV or that he was driving it. Yet, the six-woman jury found the recall petition signers and the police department biased, and out to get poor Randy "bed" Hopper.

Jaw dropping stuff. But Hopper isn’t cleared completely just yet:

Circuit Court Judge Robert Wirtz on April 25 will rule on a charge of refusing to take a test for intoxication after arrest. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Renee Schuster said the pending charge carries a greater penalty against Hopper and can be counted as a prior offense if Hopper were to commit drunken driving in the future. Hopper faces the potential of having his license revoked for a year, as opposed to the six-to-nine-month revocation an OWI carries.

Radio’s Charlie Sykes starts Black List. Verify the Recall the De Facto Enemies List.

It looks like the Walker recall petitions now represent the de facto "black list," an enemies list of opponents for decades to come. This is how it started.

Charlie Sykes posted the following letter on his web site to threaten charitable leaders for signing the Walker recall petition. Joe McCarthy would have been so proud. Though publicly available, the names on the list are not necessarily out on full display, in your face, or for mass dissemination. It's not exactly like wearing an anti-Walker t-shirt. But political opponents have decided to change all that. 

Even more ironic; the brownshirt letter writer asks for anonymity, all the while attacking another Wisconsinite who put their name out there on a petition, a First Amendments right by the way. Real cowardice: 

"Good morning, Charlie.  For personal & professional reasons, I would ask that you not identify me as the sender of this email.

"As a 35 year supporter of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee, I have seen first hand the great work done by many of its member agencies. So it was with great disappointment that in reviewing the recall petitions against Gov. Walker, I found the names of Mary Lou Young (President & CEO) as well as Linda McFerrin (VP, Campaign), both on the same page.

The term "common sense" rears its ugly head again. I’ve previously blogged about this amazing new American standard. “Common sense” simply usurps our constitutional rights. Hey, that's just common sense.

I will continue to support them. But I cannot help but wonder what either of these high ranking employees was thinking when they signed the petition. Their lack of common sense has potentially harmed the United Way's great efforts. I have no problem with what/who/how they vote when they cast their vote. But I think it is a slap in the face to those of us who support both the United Way and Gov. Walker for them to publicly display their feelings by signing the petition. I think it shows a complete lack of common sense on their part."-(Name withheld)

It takes real courage to suggest a black list for those who sign their name to a recall petition. They don't even thinks it's odd to pur political opponents on an enemies list.  A blacklist. It didn’t take long for McCarthyism to rears its head.

Sly in Morning discovered the letter on Sykes site, and talked about it here in this short audio: 

A reminder: I'll be filling in for Sly Friday between 9-10 am, and Monday morning, 6-10.