Green Leads Doyle By a Half Point in Latest WSJ/Zogby Poll

Lynne knows how to handle CNN

DEMS' FAVORITE HALLOWEEN COSTUME: PATRIOT

After some of us began to ask which part of the war on terrorism Democrats support, Larry Kudlow put the question directly to Rep. Barney Frank on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company." Frank said: "What part of the war on terrorism do I support? I voted for war in Afghanistan."

On "60 Minutes" last Sunday night, aspiring House speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the war in Iraq as not "part of the war on terror." The war on terror, she said "is the war in Afghanistan."

So that's it. The one part of the war on terror — or "so-called war on terror," as New York Times so-called columnist Bob Herbert calls it — Democrats even pretend to support is the war in Afghanistan. Immediately after the attacks of 9/11, Democrats had no choice but to vote in favor of that war — of any war. (Save one member of.... get more from anncoulter.com

The Next Governor of Wisconsin Congressman Mark Green

Meet and Greet

Friday, October 27, 2006

Moraine Park Technical College

245 N. National Avenue, Fond du Lac
Room A109 -- Commons (look for Green signs)
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Refreshments will be served

Entertainment by Winnebago Lutheran Academy (Academy Kids) and Winnebago Lutheran Academy (WLA) Choir

Come join Fond du Lac in welcoming Mark to our wonderful community and wishing him well as he finishes his final days on a long campaign. Tell your family and friends.

from Drudge Report

S.O.S. COURIC: CBS 'EVENING NEWS' PLUNGES TO 7TH PLACE IN TIMESLOT IN LOS ANGELES ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT; BEHIND 'FRIENDS' RERUN, 'KING OF QUEENS', 'MILLIONAIRE'... 1.1 RATING/2 SHARE LOWEST SINCE TAKING CHAIR...

Nice job girl!

Just to make you laugh. Have fun. Hat tip to Kate at An Ol' Broad's Ramblings (she's not that old yet.)

Stop the Press

Newest Voting Block for the Democrats weights in on mid-term elections.

That's correct, Democrats supporter weigh in on the mid-term elections and they could swing the elections to the Democrats if not stopped.

Who is new voting block? The answer is the terrorist. Terrorist in Iraq have stepped up the violence in Iraq in an effort to sway the American voter.

Now ask yourself this questions, why? We all know the answer. The cut and run Democrats along with the help of some cut and run Republicans would run from this fight and allow the terrorist to run amuck. Read more from this Rush web link…

Dow Jones Industrial Average Index
October 19, 2006

You who would consider turning over this Congress to the Dems consider this chart of the DOW over the past 5 years. Wake up!!!

Vote Republican, vote Mark Green for Governor, and vote Van Hollen for AG

Dem Campaign Plan Revealed
Folks this is BIG!!!
Thanks to Boots and Sabers for this story
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

A few other folks got this too, but apparently, some Dem left the Wisconsin state Senate Dem campaign plan on a copier. Here it is. More later…
Some thoughts…
IF this was actually left on a copier in the state capitol, as it was reported to me, then one must ask why the State Senate Dems are using taxpayer equipment for what is clearly campaign related material. If true, that would be a campaign violation for which some have gone to jail.
Much more to come... story on JS Online and Stepping Right Up blog

This is lots of reading but it exposes the way the Dems work.

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Terror suspect contributed to school 'religion guidelines' Issued by Clinton, rules let studentspray to Allah, but banish Christmas


The picture is Abdurahman Alamoudi with President Clinton, Vice President Gore

This is a World Ned Daily Exclusive
Posted: October 19, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A man arrested as a terror suspect for allegedly trying to transport $340,000 from a group tied to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and who reputedly had connections to Osama bin Laden, helped write the "Religious Expression in Public Schools" guidelines issued by President Clinton during his tenure in office. More on this story...

Remember Republican voters, if you stay home and do not vote this year we will see more of this crap in the future.

From the Democrat Hall of Shame
October 16, 2006

Thank you Michael Zak for all your hard work to bring the true Republican history and message to us all.

Your friends Jim and Holly from Fond du Lac.

Today marks a horrendous outrage committed by Democrats in opposition to the civil rights movement.

A century ago, despite the Democrats’ continued terrorizing Republican organizational activity in the South, many courageous Republicans were standing up to their oppressors. One of those great southern leaders was Booker T. Washington, the famed African-American educator and founder of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute. But even a man as distinguished as this, and even in the 20th century, was opposed by a racist Democratic Party.

A month after taking office in 1901, on October 16 Republican President Theodore Roosevelt invited an African-American to dinner at the White House. Of his guest, the President said: "I do not know a white man of the South who is as good a man as Booker T. Washington today."
The fury with which many Democrats reacted to this one gesture of respect for an African-American astonished Roosevelt. The Democrats raised hell in the media. They said it was a scandal, and a travesty, and an atrocity. Several Democrat- controlled state legislatures passed resolutions censuring the President. Some of the Democrat protestors went so far as to demand that the President throw away whatever silverware and china Washington had used.

The purpose of the meeting had been to discuss reviving the Republican Party in the South, a goal which Roosevelt was forced to abandon. Not until the Reagan era did our Grand Old Party regain its political dominance of the region.

The Republican Party should stop throwing away political capital, because the more we Republicans know about the history of our Party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs.

Contact Michael Zak (Grand_Old_Partisan@hotmail.com) to invite him to speak at Lincoln/Reagan dinners, conventions, and other Republican events. For more information, see www.republicanbasics.com.

Michael Zak is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of the GOP from the civil rights perspective.


Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country, showing office- holders, candidates, and activists how they would benefit tremendously from knowing and appreciating our Party's heritage of civil rights achievement. His book, Back to Basics for the Republican Party, is the acclaimed history of the GOP from the civil rights perspective.

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A friend just sent me this-
10,000 yr old Democrat just discovered

With the Democrats' full-throated moralizing of late, I'm almost tempted to vote for them — although perhaps "full-throated" is the wrong phrase to use with regard to Democrats and sex scandals. The sudden emergence of the Swift Butt Veterans for Truth demonstrates that the Democrats would prefer to talk about anything other than national security. More...

Board Reduction myths cleared up
LTE to the Reporter to be printed soon

October 16, 2006

Dear Letter to the Editor,

I’d like to clear up some myths that have been put forward by those opposed to reduction.

The Committee to Protect Citizen Government PAC was formed to stop the referendum from passing. What are they trying to protect the government from? Citizens? Support for reducing the county board is widespread; 81 Fond du Lac County citizens circulated the petition to reduce the number of supervisors and 4,300 citizens signed the petition indicating they support reduction.

Its worth repeating, the national average county board or commission operates efficiently and effectively with five members, we have 36. Some complain that they would have to attend more committee meetings if the board was reduced, then reduce the number of committees. There currently are 39 committees, commissions and boards and we could reduce the number considerably. Some have citizen members; I’d like to see more volunteer citizens sit on our committees.

A lot of different people support reduction. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, current and prior county board members, the former county executive, city council members, homemakers, farmers, business people, and this list goes on. People from every corner of the county support reduction.

According to the Fond du Lac County Clerks office, the 2005 mileage and per diem payments to the county board totaled $90,268.85 or an average of $2,507 per member. Assuming we reduce the number of committees, then reducing by 18 members is a savings of $45,126 per year. Add reduced postage costs, reduced time by county staff trying to attend all the committee meetings, less printing costs, fewer committee meetings if the committee structure was reformed and reorganized, etc, and the savings would be higher. The savings could be high enough to hire another sheriffs deputy or other essential staff.

The workload of the average supervisor isn’t as strenuous as some might want you to think. I’m on two committees and attend the monthly board meeting and find my commitment to be four to seven hours a month. If the board was reduced, the time commitment could continue at this level if the committee structure is reformed and reorganized.

How many of you know who your supervisor is? Many people don’t. Supervisors are invisible to the average citizen and it can’t get any worse than it is now. If there were fewer of them, more people might actually know who their supervisor is. If more people knew their supervisor; the supervisor would be more accountable to the people.

Its Halloween time and those opposed to reduction are trying to scare the rural people by telling them they will lose representation. Hogwash. It’s illegal for one thing. Federal and State Law require each district to have fair and equal population sizes. The City of Fond du Lac currently is represented by 16 supervisors and the rural areas of the county have 20. Under the reduction plan the City of Fond du Lac would have 8 supervisors and the rural areas would have 10. This is the same ratio we have now. No one loses representation!

If we don’t reduce now, when will it happen? The county board can reduce itself after each census and they didn’t do it in 1980, 1990, or 2000. Now they want you to think they’ll do it in 2010. Many of us don’t think they will and that is why we find this non-partisan referendum on the November ballot, short and simple. If we all said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” we’d still be watching black and white TV and driving a Ford Model T.

Sam Meyer
Fond du Lac County Board Supervisor, District 34

Hey Kevin Cardinal from Oshkosh read this story

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2006, 8:57 a.m.

VOTER FRAUD UPDATE Vote Fraud in St. Louis....St. Louis Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards - including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old - among the thousands pouring in before today's voter registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election.

City Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker said the board's staff expects to find even more bogus voter-registration applications among the thousands remaining to be processed.

The board plans to turn all the questionable cards over to city Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce for investigation and possible prosecution, said board chairman Kimberley Mathis.

The board says all the questionable cards were turned in by one group - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.
Republicans right Kevin?


Remember Vote Mark Green for Governor

North and South Korea at night. Guess which one is North Korea?

Party leader's letter
Fond du Lac Reporter
Posted October 13, 2006

This is in regards to the outlandish editorial by James D. Kiser, the vice chair of the Fond du Lac County Republican Party. What was outlandish? The fact that I called the Democrats on double voting? This is recorded fact. Donavan Riley is the Democrat Senate candidate from Milwaukee who is now being prosecuted for voting at least twice in the 2000 election. His defense: "I might have made a mistake."

This sounds like a party that has nothing to offer but trying to paint the other guy as the bad person. I do not agree with everything that the Democratic Party does, (like double voting, burning nazi symbols in lawns, or slashing tires?) but the thing that I like about it is that there is always a debate about what is right. Notice no debate on their party candidate's double vote. I ask where is the debate?

In Mr. Kiser's article, they are right and everyone else is wrong (he means it was not wrong for Democrats to do the above). I think he forgot who is in the majority in Congress and who holds the White House (what does this have to do with anything?).

Mark Green offers nothing new to the people of Wisconsin, other than he is a Republican clone (he means Cong. Green is honest).

The Republican party is about instilling fear in voters, and sadly it has worked the past two elections. Does he mean like the Republicans fear of having their tires slashed or having nazi symbols burned into their lawns or having a bunch of Democrats invade their headquarters screaming and yelling as they did in 2004? "Fear did not work in 2004 and we won the election!"

Change is always needed, but we are better off with Jim Doyle as governor. Seems Fond du Lac County Democrat Party leader Todd Schmitz is not so sure. Remember Schmitz is "having a hard time warming up to Mr. Dyole" and is only going to vote for him because he is a Democrat. What convictions!

Doyle is their top of their ticket in Wisconsin. It was Jim Doyle's lawyer who gave the State Elections Board their marching orders to rig this election and offered cover if they were caught. Wisconsin needs an honest Governor who will respect Wisconsin laws and the people he serves. Vote Mark Green for Governor.

Kevin Cardinal
Oshkosh

My final notes on the above letter to the editor. In my letter I exposed the thuggish things that Democrats have done in the past to steal votes in elections. I also stated their goals for the future. Mr. Cardinal did not “debate” even one of these points. That’s because he can’t. They never can.

Pro-life rally does not dishonor park
Fond du Lac Reporter Posted October 13, 2006

I attended and spoke at the pro-life rally that outraged Jan Starks.
I admire the military as much as anyone, and thank you for your service. So it's a shame that, amidst all the self-righteous hysteria, you couldn't articulate why a peaceful rally held in a public park "stamped on" or "disgraced" the memory of servicemen.

One Navy veteran attended, as did the mother of an Iraq vet — neither of whom were offended — and I suspect we had at least a couple more present.

On July 16, 2004, Gov. Doyle announced two Commerce Department projects from Veterans Park. Did the non-military purpose of this event, or the fact that Doyle did not serve in the military "seek to dishonor the memory of the fallen for a political advantage?" I want Mark Green to beat Doyle, but I see nothing wrong with the governor's choice of venue.

Since I read your letter, I've been trying to think of an instance when I've objected to where a liberal event was held. The answer: never.

Maybe conservatives just aren't as naturally inclined toward censorship as liberals.

Perhaps, contrary to your claim, abortion really is the issue. I have never seen an issue that stirs people's passion (for good or ill) like abortion. Humanitarian concerns lead pro-lifers to passionate, mature actions such as Monday's rally. On the other side, guilt can manifest itself in a variety of ways—and with the blood of 47 million defenseless children over three decades, the side of "choice" has plenty of guilt to go around.

Calvin Freiburger
Fond du Lac

The good editorials just keep coming. Calvin always has a way of making the liberals look small. Good job.

Doyle's so called "Tax Freeze"

see new ad
beat you on this one Kate

Great letters to the editor today from two classy Republicans

Fond du Lac Reporter
Posted October 12, 2006

Letter got it wrong about Van Hollen ad
J.B. Van Hollen has proven experience as a district attorney and a U.S. attorney. He would bring this experience to the office of attorney general. And yes, he will prosecute crime.

A recent letter stated that Van Hollen would not prosecute criminal cases if he were elected. The writer misrepresents the ad for Van Hollen. The ad states that Van Hollen will not make environmental cases the focus of his office when elected to the attorney general's office.

A review of the press releases for October from the Wisconsin Department of Justice shows five releases all dealing with environmental issues. No mention of prosecutions of drug dealers, sex offenders or other criminal activity.

Ask your neighbors what the greatest criminal threat is in their lives and I am certain they won't respond that it is the cranberry farms they fear the most.

This state needs J.B. Van Hollen as attorney general to put the Department of Justice back on track.

F. Cary McQuitty

Fond du Lac

Campaign ads on TV miss the point
In case no one has noticed, this is an election year. No, the president is not running for anything, but you wouldn't know that by some of the ads I've seen on TV.

Why do the Democrats think that no matter what the office their candidate is running for, they are running against the president? The governor of this state should be concerned with what's going on in this state, not what has been happening in Washington, D.C.

Wisconsin has some of the highest taxes in the country -- gas, property, etc. Businesses aren't coming here, thanks to the hostile environment created by the DNR, Attorney General Lautenschlager and our governor.

How many opportunities for jobs in this state have been lost thanks to the policies of our liberal governor and his minions? A perfect example of this would be the recent case of Menards relocating 600 to 800 jobs to Iowa.

Many of the television ads being run by the Democrats and Governor Doyle state that Mark Green voted with the president a large percentage of the time. That's really interesting, since the president doesn't create bills; Congress does. The president just signs or vetoes them.

Isn't it a shame that no one producing those ads seems to have ever read the Constitution?

Kate Wagner

Waupun

Cash Today Gone Tomorrow
In today’s Fond du Lac Reporter Governor Jim Doyle announced the Village of Lomira will receive a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant-Public Facilities for Economic Development grant to support expansion efforts of the Kondex Corporation. This expansion is expected to create 40 new jobs over the next three years.

While I welcome the new business to the area I could not help but do a little math. Forty jobs at $7,500.00 per job over three years.

Jim Doyle says he has created 170,000 new jobs in Wisconsin over the past three plus years. So did we spend 170,000 times $7,500 for a total of $1,275,000,000.00 for these 170,000 jobs. Just thinking.


What the Governor doesn’t say is how many people and jobs left Wisconsin because of the high taxes and bad business climate he has helped to create.

Polls can be very very wrong

I just copied this from the Fond du Lac County Democratic Party website. I don't need polls to know Wisconsin is sick of Doyle. Mark Green and JB Van Hollen will win and Republicans will continue in power in DC.

Keep working, talking and get out and vote on November 7th for Green/JB.

Old News but still on their site today 10/12/06.

New Badger Poll Shows Lautenschlager with Significant Lead Among Democrats and Independents

Lautenschlager leads Primary opponent by 14 percent among Democrats in New Poll Madison, WI In a Badger Poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Research Center, which was released today, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager holds a commanding lead over her primary opponent, Kathleen Falk, among Democrats and Independents.

Those groups make up the most likely voters in a Democratic Primary. Among Democrats, Lautenschlager leads Falk by nearly 14 percent, 37.1% to 23.2% and also leads among Independents.

In the WPR-St. Norbert's Survey taken in April, the last public poll to survey the Attorney General primaries in Wisconsin, Lautenschlager held a ten percent lead over Falk among Democrats.

"The Badger Poll confirms what we already know, the Lautenschlager campaign is continuing on the right track and increasing our margin among the most likely Democratic Primary voters,"

Governor Mark Green will correct this problem within the UW system.

This is what passes for education at UW Madison. Is this Wisconsin values? I think not. Vote Mark Green. I called UW Madison today with this message. Fire Barrett now! It's your turn. Call today 608-263-2400.

Instructor who doubts 9/11 compares Bush to Hitler
BY CARRIE ANTLFINGER
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor who has come under scrutiny for saying that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks compares President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay that his students are being required to buy.

The essay, "Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth of 9/11," is part of a $20 book of essays from 15 authors called "9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out," according to an unedited copy first obtained by WKOW-TV in Madison and later by the Associated Press.

The book is on the syllabus for the twice-a-week course, "Islam: Religion and Culture," being taught by part-time instructor Kevin Barrett, but only three of the essays are required reading, not including Barrett's essay.

Barrett is active in a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth, whose members say U.S. officials, not al-Qaida terrorists, were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies," he wrote.

Barrett said Tuesday he was comparing the attacks to the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

"That's not comparing them as people, that's comparing the Reichstag fire to the demolition of the World Trade Center, and that's an accurate comparison that I would stand by," he said.

But he did say in an interview: "Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler."
Moira Megargee, publicity director for the Northampton, Mass., publisher Interlink, said the book is due out at the end of November, and the editing isn't finished.
"It is not final, and for all we know, that essay may not be in the book or may be edited," she said.

The UW's decision to allow Barrett to teach the course touched off a firestorm of controversy over the summer once his views became widely known.
Sixty-one state legislators denounced the move, and one county board cut its funding for the UW-Extension by $8,247 — the amount Barrett will earn for teaching the course — in a symbolic protest, even though the course has nothing to do with that branch of the UW System.

The two major-party gubernatorial candidates said Tuesday they still believe he should have been fired.

"The governor feels this is crazy, offensive and shouldn't be in the classroom," said Matt Canter, spokesman for Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.

In a statement, Republican Mark Green said: "Kevin Barrett continues to make a complete mockery of the University of Wisconsin and our great state."

One essay Barrett is requiring is entitled: "A Clash Between Justice and Greed," about how conflicts between Islam and the western world were made up after the "collapse of the Soviet Union to justify U.S. 'defense' spending, and to provide a pretext of controlling the world's resources."

"The Remaking of Islam in the Post 911 Era" is about the assault of Islamic people by the Rand Corporation.

The author of "Interpreting Terrorism: Muslim Problem or Covert Operations Nightmare?" contends some Western intelligence agencies are doing acts of terrorism to make it look like radical Islamics.

UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell decided to retain Barrett for the course after reviewing his plans and qualifications. He said Barrett could present his ideas during one week of the course as long as students were allowed to challenge them.

He later warned Barrett to stop seeking publicity for his personal political views.
Farrell said Tuesday that he hasn't seen the essay but faculty can assign readings that may not be popular to everyone.

"I think part of the role of any challenging course here is going to encourage students to think of things from a variety of perspectives," he said.
Farrell said it's common for instructors or professors to require books they have written or contributed to.

"For many faculty a book represents their best thinking on how an issue should be presented, so why not use that 'best thinking' for the students they teach?" he said in an e-mail.

In the essay, Barrett restates many of his controversial views of the terrorist attacks.
Barrett said required class reading will also represent mainstream views on the Sept. 11 attacks.

'Double voters' Don't let 'double voters' steal yours

Posted October 10, 2006 - Letters to the Fond du Lac Reporter

It is time for all the good and decent people of Wisconsin to stand up on Nov. 7 and say, "I will not have my vote stolen again by the likes of Donavan Riley."

Donavan Riley is the Democrat Senate candidate from Milwaukee who is now being prosecuted for voting at least twice in the 2000 election. His defense: "I might have made a mistake." As a result, my vote did not count in 2000.

In the 2000 elections, a woman worth over $700 million dollars came to Milwaukee to buy votes with cigarettes; in 2004, supporters in Madison used weed killer to carve out a Nazi symbol on a Bush supporter's lawn; in 2004 on Election Day they slashed the tires of vans meant to be used by Republicans to get out the vote.

And of course, when they get caught they say it's the Republicans that are suppressing the vote. Let's not forget it's the Democrats that fight tooth and nail to stop any voter ID law.

I take this very personally because my one vote is taken away by double voters.

Now Gov. Jim Doyle is rigging elections with the help of Democrats on the State Election Board — the Doyle campaign lawyer who gave the board their marching orders and the Doyle-appointed judge who furthers this insult on the Wisconsin voters.

Democrats stand for gay marriage, adoption by gays, state funded abortions, partial birth abortions, life not death for the most vicious killers on earth but death for pre-born babies, tax increases, lawsuits on honest businessmen and farmers, a cut and run policy on the war on terror, and the list goes on.

Now, please make a difference and get out to work for Mark Green in any way you can.

James D. Kiser

Vice chair of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County

Fond du Lac

They added my title to my letter

Guest editorial: GOP 'sets record straight' on County Board debate
Fond du Lac Reporter Posted October 8, 2006

Ask anyone I know. I don't advocate mud-slinging, name-calling, or leveling accusations.

The political ads on TV drive me just as crazy as they do everyone else. I like to examine both sides of an issue before making an informed decision.

For these reasons, I am distressed by the unfounded barrage of attacks on "my" Fond du Lac County Republican Party. Somehow, we have found ourselves in the middle of the debate that is raging around the County Board referendum.

We have heard the accusations, and felt they were so absurd that we largely ignored them — until Thursday. That morning, The Reporter felt the need to state as fact, on the front page of its paper: "the Fond du Lac County Republican Party helped circulate petitions for the Nov. 7 referendum … "

In "researching" this story, The Reporter did not even bother to call any of our party leadership or stop by our office to see if this was really the case. Instead, The Reporter took the word of two people that never spoke to any of the leadership in our party, either.

Let's set the record straight: In late spring, Supervisor Sam Meyer e-mailed to ask if he could give a legislative report and also discuss the County Board reduction debate. Since we have an open invitation to all legislators to speak at our membership meetings, I welcomed him to speak. However, I cautioned that not all of our members are in favor of reduction and that we, as a party, had decided not to endorse one way or the other.

He came to the meeting, spoke for a few minutes, and a member of our group suggested that anyone wanting to help with the petition drive take a few petitions home to work on. Less than 10 people out of our total membership of 200-plus took petitions to circulate. This hardly constitutes a "Republican machine" or "Republican party sophistry."

What we have been doing as a party is focusing our efforts on electing a new governor and attorney general for Wisconsin. Every ounce of our enthusiasm, energy, and even our pocket change has been saved just for this purpose. We feel so strongly that our candidates for statewide office are what Wisconsin needs, we have very little time to spend on anything else.

Mark Green, candidate for governor, will lower our tax burden, reform the UW system, fund adult stem cell research, sign voter I.D. legislation, prevent big government from driving up health-care costs and return dignity to the governor's office.

J.B. Van Hollen, candidate for attorney general, will actively fight the "meth" problem, prosecute those involved in voter fraud, protect our children from pedophiles and cyber-criminals, work with local law enforcement agencies, and support the efforts of small businesses and farmers.

Even the leader of the local Democrat party shares our sentiments in regard to the gubernatorial race. He stated in his commentary in last Tuesday's Reporter: "I'm finding it tough to warm up to Mr. Doyle." He also acknowledged that he supports Doyle because he is the Democrat chairperson "and therefore must support Democratic candidates."

American elections are all about the voter, not the political parties. Each individual voter has a responsibility to find out the facts surrounding the issues on the ballot and measure them against his or her own values.

Please use these last 30 days to look beyond "the facts" in the paper, and gear up to vote on Nov. 7.

Holly Schwefel is chairperson of the Fond du Lac County Republican Party.

Eat your words Todd Schmitz!

FdL County Board size: Concerns about politics voiced
By Jared Blohm The Reporter jblohm@fdlreporter.com

Both sides agree the Fond du Lac County Board size debate should be a non-partisan issue.

Where they disagree, however, is whether it has been.

The Fond du Lac County Republican Party helped circulate petitions for the Nov. 7 referendum, something County Board Chair Martin Farrell said illustrates partisan politics.

The Fond du Lac Reporter printed this garbage without so much as calling any officer of The Fond du Lac County Republican Party. If a reporter would have called they would have gotten the rest of the story. Fair and balanced, don't make me laugh. Click above to read the whole story.