The Shepherd Express 2018 Election Endorsements

Please Vote: Your Voice Matters

Oct. 30, 2018

4:40 p.m.

This is probably the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Midterm elections are often a referendum on the president even though he’s not on the ballot. At the same time, there are many excellent candidates running for state offices for all the right reasons: to serve their constituencies and to make their community and Wisconsin a great place in which to live, work and play. On Tuesday, you have the opportunity to elect some good people and to send a message to the president and the politicians who embrace him that you approve or disapprove of his words and actions. Your voice matters. Please exercise your vote. Don’t waste it.

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The GOOD thing about Trump is HATE and ANGER

Listen to my reasoning, People who are comfortable and happy in their lives don't see a strong reason to vote, as they found a way to be happy with things left just the way they are. No changes were needed, so no reason to take the effort and time to vote.

If nothing else, Trump has motivated both sides to get out and vote. It is only through stress and hardship that common people get off their couches or barstools and take action to visit the voting booth.

It was Reagan saying "Welfare queens in Chicago with two Cadillacs" that got people to vote for trickle-down and lower taxes on the top 1% (but it shifted tax burden to the Middle Class,) and the eventual stripping our government of its ability to serve its working classes and Middle classes, all with the hope of stopping welfare (which never really happened.)

Let's look at a few issues:

Drug dealers don't want drugs made legal, illegal keeps it untaxed and unregulated.
But law abiding young adults entering the legal and honest world want this, because they may have lost their anonymous connections they once had in college.

Healthy people with company-provided insurance don't want pre-existing conditions covered in their company, it only drives up their premiums while working. They also want to see it uncovered by Medicare so there will be more money left for themselves when they reach 65. They want to see people with sickness in their family driven out of their companies because it raises their companies "self-insured" premiums. They want part-time people who cannot afford to pay healthcare outright to be taken out of the gene-pool as soon as they get sick, they only want natural "Survival of the Fittest" to be around them for them to hire, to face as co-workers and servers, to be their children's classmates and future in-laws.

But their tune changes once one of their own family is unlucky enough to get one of those "pre-existing conditions" like cancer, diabetes, a back injury, heart disease.

People who can already afford private education do not want good public schools, or even school vouchers or scholarship inclusion quotas, it gives their lazy and spoiled children an edge over the hungry, motivated, and ambitious children from the lesser compensated neighborhoods. Talent comes from all kinds of demographics, restricting high paid professions to only those from "good" homes serves to keep money "in the family" and keeps only the top levels served.

Business owners want our governments stripped of its ability to regulate them, and also drained of tax money so the regulations cannot be effectively enforced. For many, "the solution to pollution is dilution", its just a matter of distributing their waste all over the countryside, so keep unregulated waste trucking and disposal out in the back ravine. But if you are a worker living in those areas and cannot afford to move away, the tune changes.

A problem about bringing up a dialog... stay at it too long and it just stalls, no action.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 6 years ago

Hate and Anger

Those who support Trump and our movement HATE the New World Order. We hate the globalist agenda that whittles America away while a small oligarchy of New World Order loyal seditionists, both (R) and (D) (but more (D) through the Clinton crime organization.) Trump supporters are ANGRY that justice has not been served to individuals at the top of the government, both elected and non-elected that have participated in child trafficking (such as the outright sale of plane loads of Haitian children that the Clinton Foundation raised millions to help after the earthquake), the sale of 25% of our country's uranium (with the proceeds going into the pockets of the Clinton organization and its benefactors, in an outright theft), the censorship of common sense voices in social media platforms (that were originally financed as start-ups with taxpayer dollars), the commandeering of the mainstream media that blatantly shills for the New World Order and salaciously broadcasts a biased agenda designed to distract people from the truth and prevent unity among the people (Operation Mockingbird, an actual NWO, CIA operation, still in effect), and more. We have some problems, and Trump supporters (most of whom are Independent Patriotic Loyalists that reject the brainwashing of the 2 party system, but who vote Republican because that's how the game board lays out in a brainwashed 2-party system where any 3rd party candidate is shredded by the mainstream media) want to overcome them and return control of the government to We the People, and away from the New World Order which took over in a coup de etat against John F Kennedy on Nov 22nd, 1963. Our movement is a counter-coup to that terrible day. As for what Wisc. Citizen says, let me address some of his issues. Medicare is taxpayer funded. Those who pay those taxes want to ensure that they get their investment returned to them, as the program was designed to do. His comments of 'take people to and shoot them if they are poor' are only rhetoric, and site nothing specific. What CAN be sited is the public approval boards that were part of the 'Obamacare' law (the one Nancy Pelosi refused to read before she voted on it, which makes a patriotic person very angry.) These boards would determine who would receive care and who would not. THAT is more akin to 'taking them out and shooting them'. How many times is Scott Walker on record saying that Badger Care will not eliminate coverage for preexisting conditions? Many. That would indicate that this is and will be the policy. So why speak contrary to this, with no evidence? Next, people who can afford private education escape from public schools. Calling their children lazy and spoiled is prejudiced ignorance. Those children take the same college entrance exams as a public school kid. Who is hateful here? Tony Evers says improvement only comes via throwing more of your and my money at the problem. He's already shown failure with the resources allocated to him. No more.

Karl Gustavson more than 6 years ago

Delusion ain't a river in Egypt, either.

Let's talk sedition and immigration. First, let's get the definitions straight: Liberals are anything but liberal. Liberals are Leftist Communist Seditionists. Progressives are progressing only toward Communism. Progressives are Communists. Leftists NEED crime to advance their industry of poverty and victimhood. Communists NEED open borders to finish off America as a sovereign country. Leftists and Communists want America to die. And because Communists are godless atheists by creed, and quite often outright Satanists these days, they don't operate under the principles of right and wrong. Their ends justify their means, so any lawlessness and deceit are acceptable means of getting from point A to point B in their agenda...the collapse of America, and the sale of its broken pieces to the New World Order. Now then, back to immigration: In 1969 Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farmworkers Union, made a march to the border against illegal immigration, joined by Walter Mondale and Ralph Abernathy (confidant of Martin Luther King.) Chavez ordered his supporters to watch the border at night and report illegal entries into the US, taking a stand against illegal immigration and the disastrous effects to the economy. They led protests at the Southern border against illegal immigration, and they had full support of the Democrats. Is Dwight D Eisenhower considered a racist? I don't think so. Yet in the 1950s he initiated "Operation Wetback" and rounded up 1.3 million illegal aliens and transported them back to their countries of origin. On to the topic of Democrat hypocrisy. Upon signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Lyndon Johnson said...and I quote..."This will keep niggers voting Democrat for 200 years." When black people wake up and realize the extent of them being preyed upon by the political party they have supported since the 1960s, they will reject it again. The Shepherd itself employs a man who has made a career out of race baiting. Joel McNally, the dehydrated Communist hippie, continues to write ridiculous statements that are nothing more than ignorant rhetoric. Now on to Trump and the Republicans in this election. A vote for Republican in this election is a vote for industry, employment, and unity among ALL Americans. It's about protecting our borders so that only peaceful, law-abiding people enter the US though properly documented channels and procedures, just like my ancestors did when they immigrated here in the 1850's. As for Trump the man, I challenge EVERY Trump hater to watch the rallies. See and hear for yourself what the man has to say. Decide for yourself if disagree with him and his policies. And for God's sake, shoot your damn TV and wake up! You are NEVER going to get the truth from the mainstream media. Don't be loyal to a brand. Get the facts, and overcome the name calling and the empty rhetorical comments made by Democrats and the media.

Karl Gustavson more than 6 years ago

rethink please

I do think you should know the consequences of voting Democrat. Improve our country? Alright, now listen to this. I don’t know whether we can prosecute but I think we can. I think I can get you behind bars if you even think of voting Democrat ever again. You vote with us or we are going to make damn sure you don’t get to the polls. As far as liberals are concerned you are to get them out of your filthy minds right now. Is that perfectly clear to you?

djl more than 6 years ago

Shilling for the Democrats, are we?

djl, only a Leftist operative shilling for the Democrats would make statements like this. Right leaning people don't think this way. Remember, it was Gwen Moore's own idiot spawn Supreme Sunshine Douchebag, or whatever his name was, who went around slashing tires at the Republican Party offices in Milwaukee on election day years ago. Your comment stinks like a Democrat operative took it upon themselves to advance their agenda. Nice try, asshole.

Karl Gustavson more than 6 years ago