Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Citizens For A Responsible(?) Government

Yesterday, Citizens for a Responsible(?) Government proudly announced that they are going to donate time, energy and money to a start up recall exploratory group with Supervisor Patricia Jursik as their target:
CRG Network PAC, the political action unit of CRG Network, has agreed to provide assistance and financial support to a Cudahy and South Milwaukee citizens group interesting in holding county officials accountable for tax increases. The group will file the necessary documents to form a resident Political Action Committee (PAC) named “No Tax Increase for Cudahy/South Milwaukee” tomorrow morning with the Milwaukee County Election Commission.

The impetus for forming the PAC was the tax increase positions of local county supervisor Patricia Jursik. The PAC was established to campaign in support of lower-tax candidates and against higher-tax candidates at the next election but has reserved the right to amend the PAC to a Recall PAC pending the outcome of future votes and actions by Jursik.

CRG Network spokesperson Chris Kliesmet commented, “It is no secret that Supervisor Jursik continues to support a tripling of the Milwaukee County sales tax despite the fact that her district voted against it. Such actions are an outrageous breach of the implicit contract between politicians and constituents to represent them honestly. Ms. Jursik should not be surprised that her constituents are taking steps to hold her accountable or that her future actions may well inspire the cry for recall. CRG is already in contact with several other local citizens groups interested in taking similar action should they decide their representatives on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors are no longer honestly representing them.”
I see one flaw with their plan already. Jursik voted against the budget and its increased tax levy (emphasis mine):
Supervisors who voted in favor of adopting the 2010 County Tax Levy (10-9):
Gerry Broderick, Toni M. Clark, Elizabeth Coggs, Marina Dimitrijevic, Willie Johnson, Jr., Theodore Lipscomb, Michael Mayo, Sr., Johnny L. Thomas, Peggy West, Chairman Lee Holloway

Supervisors who voted against:
Mark Borkowski, Paul Cesarz, Lynne De Bruin, Patricia Jursik, Chris Larson, Joseph Rice, Joe Sanfelippo, Jim “Luigi” Schmitt, John F. Weishan, Jr.

Supervisors who voted in favor of adopting the 2010 County Budget (10-9):
Gerry Broderick, Toni M. Clark, Elizabeth Coggs, Marina Dimitrijevic, Willie Johnson, Jr., Theodore Lipscomb, Michael Mayo, Sr., Johnny L. Thomas, Peggy West, Chairman Lee Holloway

Supervisors who voted against:
Mark Borkowski, Paul Cesarz, Lynne De Bruin, Patricia Jursik, Chris Larson, Joseph Rice, Joe Sanfelippo, Jim “Luigi” Schmitt, John F. Weishan, Jr.
So now they're recalling people for doing what they wanted them to do? No wonder they've lost almost all credibility.

3 comments:

  1. This is nothing more than a ploy to get Walker's buddy Kujawa in as County Supervisor. As many people know he owns KEI and he lost to Pat Jursik in the general election. Lets see if Kujawa gets in his company will more than likely get the contract to maintain our parks system since there will be almost no park workers left. In return he and his business associates will continue to pour money into Walker's campaign for governor which just goes to show you how Milwaukee will become just like Chicago and political corruption and payoffs will rule our system and the voices of the people will be effectively squashed and any pretense of clean government will be a joke.

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  2. does anybody actually believe the milwaukee county parks system can function properly with 20 full-time employees.walker has cut,cut,cut and he has KEI waiting in the wings.hopefully the board will hang in there and do the right thing.they never look at management costs,amazingly.

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  3. These jokers aren't looking for logic so don't try to find it. They said that the reason they wanted to recall Supervisors back in 2001 was because we didn't read the information in our packets. Then I gave a copy of the same exact packet I got to over 50 seniors at the Brown Deer senior center and challenged them to show me what I should have read. (CRG was spawned at the Brown Deer Senior Center) They ignored it. And of course that made sense because the Journal-Sentinel ignored it too. No one could tell me the parts we apparently failed to read but the JS continued to fan their mob flames and give them free publicity.

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