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Ralph Heun, a 38-year resident of New Berlin, will be blogging about issues of concern to the New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government, an organization that promotes fiscal responsibility among all units of government.

NBCRG April 1, Ballot recommendations!

By Ralph Heun
Saturday, Mar 29 2008, 11:46 AM

There is a Wisconsin State Referendum Question on the Ballot which is as follows:

QUESTION 1: "Partial Veto, Shall Section 10 (1)(c) of article V of the constitution be amended to prohibit the governor, in exercising his or her partial veto authority, from creating a new sentence by combining parts of two or more sentences of the enrolled bill?"

NBCRG recommends a YES vote for the following reasons;

Democratic and Republican governors in the past have frequently changed the meanings of the stated purpose of the passed legislation  by  combining  words, sentences phrases, dollar ammounts  and paragraphs to completely change the wishes of the legislature.

This practice has let to what various parties have called the "Frankenstein Veto Power"

It has changed State budgets, taxes, programs, failities and most everything else .

 

 Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice

NBCRG voted at our last meeting to endorse Mike Gableman  for the posion for the following reasons:

The present justice was not elected being, as he was appointed by Governor Doyle. Louis Butler has been the swing vote since his appointment and the result have made Wisconsin the only state where industries can be sued without proof that their product, caused particular problem. This is true even if those companies have never made an offending product. The net result is that companies now in Wisconsin have another reason to expand their operations elsewhere, or to completely move out of the state.

The present make up of the Wisconsin Supreme Court has also moved into areas that could affect schools, virtual schools marriage amendment, school choice, police methods and many others,

NBCRG also reaffims support for the  local races previously  stated:

Alderman District 2,    Ted Wysocki  

               District 4,    Ken Harenda

               District 6,    JJ Blonien

School Board

               Art Marquardt

               Dave Maxey

County Supervisors

               District 20, Pauline Jeske

               District 21, Karl Nilson

               District 22, Pete Gundrum

Be sure to vote April 1, 2008  from 7:00am to 8:00pm

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Comments

Ralph Heun   

The matter of the Appeals court race between Lisa Neubauer ans Bill Gleisner was not on our March Agenda so we as a group did not take any position on the matter.

However as a private citizen I can state my preference which is Bill Gleisner.

Although the court rqace is not a partisan issue. it has been turned into that because Governor Doyle appointed Lisa Neubauer as the judge in spite of her political activism and financial backing for the Democratic party. She hardly is in a position to render a unbiased decision in any stand that the Democratic Party has a vested interest in. Union support that she has received will only be used for pushing a party agenda

March 29, 2008 3:11 PM

Mark Musselman   

The Supreme Court race reveals the candidates’ guiding principles.

A political ad for Justice Louis Butler incorrectly states that Judge Michael Gableman’s court decisions were overturned 1/3rd of the time.  The Wisconsin Judicial Campaign Integrity Committee stated that the ad is misleading.   But Butler says in another commercial it’s about doing what is “right”.  Justice Butler’s ad exemplifies his distorted view of “right”; and therein exposes his guiding principle – his personal power.

Judge Gableman states that his guiding principle in legal rulings will be “the simple words of the law”.  Despite Butler’s refusal to likewise limit himself, Gableman’s humility before the law is required of Supreme Court justices according to the constitutional separation-of-powers.  That limit is what we must demand of every Supreme Court justice.

Mark Musselman

March 29, 2008 7:16 PM

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