There are many fiscal conservative candidates running for office in Wisconsin.
For a listing of who needs your help - www.wcep.org
This is the web site for the Wisconsin Center for Economic Prosperity. (WCEP)
WCEP is a registered political action committee.
Leon Young Faces Three Challengers in the 16th District
Candidates seek job growth and better schools
The 16th Assembly District is a microcosm of Milwaukee. The district fans out west from the Milwaukee River and encompasses parts of Riverwest, Brewers Hill, the near north side and the west side of Downtown Milwaukee. The district’s residents are diverse in every way, and their challenges and opportunities represent the challenges and opportunities of Milwaukee as a whole
David D. King is a school bus driver and pastor of Win-A-Soul Ministries. He said that he would ensure that the state gov ernment isn’t wasting money and that he would fight for more funding for Milwaukee, since there is more need in the city. “I have a way of getting what I want,” King said. He says he doesn’t believe that patients receive quality care in government run health care programs. He says that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program has been a success and should be expanded, because the competition it provides raises the performance of public schools. He does not support a statewide smoking ban that includes bars and restaurants. He does not support a woman’s right to choose. “I was raised pro-life from the womb to the tomb,” he says. He does not support a 1% increase in the Milwaukee County sales tax to pay for transit, the parks and the arts and pro vide property tax relief. “I would vote to freeze all taxes,” King says. He is not a member of the Democratic Party and has been endorsed by Pro-Life Wisconsin and Wisconsin Right to Life. King has received an in-kind contribution from former Republican Sen. Tom Reynolds’ PAC, Clean Sweep Wisconsin.
Many folks have called and emailed me regarding the Dan Bice Story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday.
Old pol faces fresh scrutiny
Posted: Aug. 9, 2008
Daniel Bice
No Quarter
As this story unfolds in the weeks and months ahead I am confident the Government Accountablity Board will Do The Right Thing.
I am also sure that “Mike Wittenwyler, a partner at Godfrey & Kahn”…”who gave the letter to the state agency shortly after he received it….,” did not Do The Right Thing.
Mr. Wittenwyler is a sharp and respected attorney. He must have missed this chapter in law school about the United States Postal Service.
Sec. 18 USC 1702 provides,
Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
The task force was supposed to consider economic consequences — the executive order that created it is quite clear on the point, saying that part of its mission is to: “Advise the Governor on ongoing opportunities to address global warming locally while growing our state’s economy, creating new jobs and utilizing an appropriate mix of fuels and technologies in Wisconsin’s energy and transportation portfolios.” Unfortunately, the report contains no cost-benefit analysis of its recommendations or any consideration of the economic impact of imposing energy mandates and regulations.
One major task force recommendation is to decouple utility rates from consumption. Unfortunately, this scheme ignores that energy demand is not driven by the profit incentive of suppliers. Consumers decide how much energy they want to consume, not the power companies.
Other proposals in the report include passing more restrictive building codes, which prevents people from deciding how to balance construction costs vs. future heating and cooling costs by forcing everyone to take higher up-front costs that may not make sense for them, raising parking prices in cities and mandating the use of mercury-filled fluorescent light bulbs for common areas in rental spaces.
They want taxpayers to foot the bill for commuter rail, which voters historically have not supported. They suggest considering lowering speed limits to the hated double-nickel.
The task force’s central recommendation, though, which is required for most of its recommended greenhouse gas reductions, is to support federal and regional cap-and-trade mechanisms. This is a recipe for economic disaster.
An analysis of the cap-and-trade scheme recently rejected by the U.S. Senate conducted by the modeling firm SAIC for the American Council on Capital Formation found devastating impacts for Wisconsin, which would lose 22,869 to 34,401 jobs in just eight years, with disposable household income falling between $913 and $2,961 per year, electricity prices rising 31% to 38% and gasoline prices rising 20% to 68% in the same time frame.
These are net jobs numbers, which means the lost jobs are much greater than the green jobs that would be created. And green jobs are not really benefits of these policy changes but costs — they represent the diversion of resources from profitable pursuits into compliance with government regulations.
Worst of all, for all this economic pain, there is no real environmental gain with respect to global warming. Even the United States can have little effect, absent a binding international agreement, because other countries will continue to grow their emissions faster than we can cut ours. Wisconsin represents just a tiny fraction of U.S. emissions, 1.8%, according to the task force, and U.S. emissions themselves are a shrinking fraction of global emissions.
The report has to be viewed as the flawed product of a flawed process, driven largely by the environmental group World Resources Institute, the consultant the state hired to run the task force process and to set its agenda. Allowing an environmental group to run the process led, unsurprisingly, to a report that is biased toward environmental concerns without respect to cost.
Fortunately, the report will have little effect unless the Legislature follows its recommendations. For the sake of the state economy, we hope they follow a more balanced process.
Mark Block is state director of Americans for Prosperity.
There is much buzz in the Milwaukee area about “Fake Democrats”. Our favorite progressive writer Lisa Kaiser from the very left leaning (almost fascist) Shepard’s Express has called several Democrat candidates running against incumbent liberal Democrats - “Fake Democrats”.
How many other “Fake Democrats” are in Wisconsin? Is Democrat Bob Ziegelbauer from Manitowoc a “Fake Democrat”? Are these candidates running for public office “Fake Democrats” because they believe in fiscal responsiblity, lower taxes, creating jobs and a better business environment?
Funny how we label folks. The Republicans use the term “Rhinos”. Now we can add “Fake Democrats” to our list of labels.
If these candidates get elected as “Fake Democrats” I hope they Do The Right Thing and vote on the issues the same way they campaigned, and then we should start supporting more “Fake Democrats”.
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