Early last week I started asking for Milwaukee area volunteers to carpool down to Kenosa to help Steitz.
I got ZERO responses. I drove down there, alone, from Grafton. If a WI Senate repub flips, and anyone dares to bitch, I will chew them up one side and down the other.
You don't win elections by sitting home. And if you sat home, you don't get to bitch.
We’re going to have to get a WHOLE helluva lot better at it between now and November 2012, if we want to win.
A lot of folks on FR like to bitch that someone isn’t conservative enough, is a RINO, etc, and I think, “What was the last County or local Republican event you attended?”
THAT is where you change things, by getting involved, and supporting Conservatives in the local and Primary process.
Frankly, the whackadoodles of the nutjob left are light years ahead of us in Organizing, and it’s in large part responsible for where we are today.
You’ll NEVER change anything by standing outside and whining. Get in, GET INVOLVED. You don’t have to be a card-carrying Party member to participate in most things.
I have lived in the town of Somers (Senate district 22 Wirch/Seitz) for 37 years and have voted in every Federal, State, & local election. Up until now the routine was drive to the Town Hall. Park, walk up to the table with the little old ladies who check you off in the list of registered voters, they initial a ballot and hand it to you and you go into a booth and vote, put your ballot in the scanner and leave. Every election up to today was a carbon copy of that drill and didn't take much longer to do then read what I just wrote.
Today my wife and I arrived and the parking area was nearly full. When we walked into the building the line ran all the way down the hall and around a corner, with a rope line to keep the crowd corralled. There were somewhere around 150 people in line with a heavy percentage of sun burned, muscular young men who looked more like construction workers then farmers. Every 70 something couple that arrived took one look at the line, turned around and left. After about an hour or a bit more we voted and then left. On the way back to our car I noticed several cars with Illinois plates in the lot. Hmmmm?
If I didn't mention it before, Somers is an unincorporated farm town about three blocks long with a county highway as it's main (and only) street. I should note that nearly everyone knows everyone else. I did not see a single soul that I recognized in the line waiting to cast a ballot.
Regards,
GtG
PS I did work in the recall effort but not the Seitz campaign. I was pulling for the retired Sheriff who got blown away in the primary. I got a very nice thank you from Alberta Darling for contributions made to her campaign even though I'm not in her district. Also Scott Walker and Paul Ryan sent bread and butter notes. Republicans in Wisconsin are civil (to a fault)!