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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.

The This Just In...Official Special Voters Guide for August 9, 2011


If you believe in unbalanced state budgets, please don’t vote.

If you love the concept of a structural deficit, please don’t vote.

If you believe taxes and fees in Wisconsin aren’t high enough, please don’t vote.

If you believe Wisconsin is not a tax hell, please don’t vote.

If all you do is whine all day, every day about how tough a job you have, even if it’s only 9 months out of the year, please don’t vote.

If you put tape on a wall in the state Capitol this year, please don’t vote.

If you banged a drum inside the state Capitol this year, please don't vote.

If during anytime this year you went several days without taking a bath, please don't vote.

If your calendar at home says 1967, please don’t vote.

If you love using light bulbs that require a HAZMAT team to dispose of properly, please don’t vote.

If you enjoy disrupting events that honor the disabled, please don't vote.


If, when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, you suddenly go silent at that part that says "under God," please don't vote.

If you believe you shouldn’t have to pay your bills and that it’s the responsibility of your children and grand-children and their children, please don’t vote.

If you believe government workers should pay little or nothing for their health care, please don’t vote.

If you believe government workers should pay little or nothing for their pensions, please don’t vote.

If you believe it’s ok to have a physician write a phony sick leave note for your employer, please don’t vote.

If you believe it’s ok to destroy public property because you’re not getting what you want, please don’t vote.

If you believe it’s ok to make death and sexual assault threats against public officials because you’re not getting what you want, please don’t vote.

If you planted a tree on Arbor Day, please don’t vote.

If the term “tree-hugger” gets you all goose pimply, please don’t vote.

If you marched across the 6th Street viaduct in Milwaukee in the late 60’s, please don’t vote.

If the idea of class warfare gets you all excited, please don’t vote.

If you believe the scandals involving Wisconsin Shares and WI food stamps were orchestrated by the right-wing conspiracy, please don’t vote.

If your favorite columnist is Jim Stingl, please don’t vote.

If your favorite columnist is Eugene Kane, please don’t vote.

If you believe Joel McNally isn’t liberal enough, please don’t vote.

If you donated to any NPR-affiliated station in the last 10 years, please don’t vote.

If you can’t wait to ride the downtown Milwaukee streetcar, please don’t vote.

If you cheered the Milwaukee Teachers Union decision to shun concessions that resulted in the loss of hundreds of teacher jobs, please don’t vote.

If you think Keith Olbermann is cute, please don’t vote.

If you think Rachel Maddow is a fox, please don’t vote.

If you are a vegan, please don’t vote.

If you have ever said out loud a phrase that begins, “But if we could save just one…” please don’t vote.

If you believe Joanne Kloppenburg is the epitome of high fashion, please don’t vote.

If you believe Joanne Kloppenburg’s hair style matches that of Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein, please vote.

If you believe a politician cannot get a divorce, please don’t vote.

If your highest priority in going to the polls is to defeat a politician who has a girlfriend, please don’t vote.

If you would prefer Wisconsin be more like Illinois with astronomical income taxes and New York and California that have laid off tons of workers, please don’t vote.

If you read Politi-Fact, and actually believe it, please don’t vote.

If you’ve gotten this far and haven’t hit the delete button in disgust, please vote.


God bless the great state of Wisconsin and the forward direction it has taken since January 2011.

All eyes on WI recalls

Also, thanks to some This Just In readers who sent suggestions of their own for this voter's guide.

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