wisconsin and Gard vs. SpongeBob

what an absolute JERK

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=40744&ntpid=13

Editorial: Gard vs. SpongeBob

An editorial
May 21, 2005


SpongeBob SquarePants


Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, is so determined to beat up on gays and lesbians that he has joined the crowd that thinks cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is a homosexual poster boy.


Gard's goofiness would be embarrassing enough if he just engaged in it on a personal basis. But with his attempt to make a formal link between the state and the most extreme elements on the homophobic fringe, the Assembly speaker is associating the good name of Wisconsin with intolerance, ignorance and intellectual imbalance.

Here's what Gard is up to:

Last Monday, the Assembly speaker asked legislative leaders to approve an Arizona-based special-interest law firm's offer to help in defending the state's refusal to pay health insurance for gay and lesbian partners of its employees. According to Gard, the Arizona firm, which is known as the Alliance Defense Fund, has volunteered to represent the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate for free in the fight against a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a half dozen same-sex couples who charge that the state discriminates against its gay and lesbian employees by refusing to provide their partners with health insurance and family leave benefits that are provided for the spouses of straight employees.

Gard is obsessed with denying protections to gays and lesbians. During his tenure as speaker, he has constantly neglected important economic and public policy issues in order to devote his attention to his pro-discrimination campaigning. And it bothers him greatly that Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager and attorneys with the state Department of Justice, which exists to represent the Legislature in lawsuits, do not share his passion. While there is no reason to believe that Lautenschlager and the attorneys who work with her would fail to do their jobs, Gard is uncomfortable with people who think about other things than going after gays.

and go for a drive around Peshtigo.

Wonder if I should wear my alb? :evilgrin:

We'd have better luck driving around his place in Sun Prarie.

does Gard think he's appealing to?

Wisconsin has some strange characters, sure, but that ISN'T THE MAJORITY OF US! Gard is a damned fool......thank God we've got a chance of getting rid of him in 06/

I think all wacko's begin there.I'm alittle biased though.

Pound is Fundiebot central in the 89th. The rural parts of the 89th District are strewn with people who toe the theocon line (often aainst their own best interests) because their fundamentalist indoctrination tells them that Democrats are evil baby-killers. :eyes:

Now do you people know why I dreaded leaving Stevens Point for the summer?

(BTW, If Pound WI, sounds familiar, you may have heard of it When Slim Fast had an ad campaign featuring residents this town a long time ago.)

Patz Industries was my major competitor for many years.....

My dad grew up in Pembine, so we'd go up once a year to visit. I always got a kick out of the "Coleman-Pound(s)-Lena" route. (Of course, I am easily amused).

So what are you doing this summer, Jonathan? Do you have a chance to get away, maybe join us at the state convention DU meetup?

I'm trying to get a job hauling a Harley around the area for a Radio Station, If I get the job, I can probably kiss my weekends goodbye, I don't know If I can make State, I'm completley broke right now.

I'd also probably be sent to the Porterfield Country Music Festival. If I took my car with my Feingold, Kerry, and DU Stickers, I could probably guarantee that some drunk redneck would deface them or worse.

What an asshat. I mean really, picking on a cartoon character. If that gets you elected in Peshtigo, I know why I don't live there.

And this is my 300th post :woohoo:

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ltsb/redistricting/Maps/ad89.pdf

Ever since the Marinette County Dems really got thier shit together a few years ago, Peshtigo and Marinette have been getting more and more purple, even creeping a bit into the blue. The Union people working for the ship factory and other union places there are beginning to wake up and realize that the Repukes really are fucking them over. (The changes in overtime really pissed them off) It's the rest of the district that's electing him. The rural parts of Marinette County and Oconto County, one of the redder counties in the state definitley help his cause.

Trying to get them to come over to ur side may prove fruitless. A lot of them are hardcore fundies who have been indoctrinated by their preachers and by talk radio that all Democrats and Liberals are evil socalist baby killers.

:D

RL

since those little kids' jockey shorts keep riding up - talk about giving yourself a wedgie! :evilgrin:

:hi: