Bamboo Brandtjen Goes Full Bluster Bonkers

The cranially overheated chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, GOP Rep. Janel ” Bamboo ” Brandtjen, issued subpoenas Friday to election officials in Brown and Milwaukee counties in an apparent attempt to move forward with an Arizona style, so-called “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election, the same day she…

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Sheriff “Deathtrap David” Clarke to be offered Homeland Security post?

This can’t happen soon enough. Officials in the President Donald Trump administration are considering Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. for a job with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Clarke is to be appointed as assistant secretary at the department’s Office of Partnership and Engagement where he would…

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AG Schimel Should Go To Jail

Yeah, I know that’s a provocative headline and no I don’t really think that Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has done anything that deserves incarceration. But I am embarrassed that I haven’t written about this subject before. Four people have died while incarcerated in the Milwaukee County Jail in 2016….

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University drops Sheriff David Clarke as speaker after he requests rock-star arrangements

It sounds like somebody needs to get over himself. David A. Clarke Jr. — Milwaukee County’s globetrotting sheriff — says the University of New Haven rescinded his upcoming speaking engagement because of his criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Clarke is now urging people to contact the university president directly or to sign a…

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Sheriff David Clarke’s deathtrap

According to a report last week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the death of Terrill Thomas while he was confined in the Milwaukee County Jail has been ruled a homicide after the cause of Thomas’ death was “profound dehydration.” According to accounts from other inmates, the water in Thomas’ cell…

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Sheriff Clarke Runs Amok, County Exec Abele Talks Sense, and a Judge Starts the Healing

Following the Sherman Park riots on August 13th and 14th, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke decided to close Milwaukee County park, Sherman Park, at 6 PM each day. The normal time for county parks to close is 10 PM. In the short term this made some sense but in the…

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Sheriff Clarke Panders To His Handlers and Disses Hillary Clinton

Once again Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke went on Fox News to disparage the President of the United States in the support of the fascist GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. But this is typical Sheriff Clarke rhetoric…but in taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton…he dissed her without using her real…

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This President

This president…a pretty simple neutral sounding sentence fragment. Perfect for any number of uses in a newscast, newspaper article, political speech or a blog post like this one. But if you listen to Fox News for any length of time you’ll soon realize they use it as a pejorative…to denigrate…

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Sheriff Clarke Sues County Exec Abele Over First Amendment?

Well here’s a good one…Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is accusing Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of infringing on the good sheriff’s 1st Amendment rights of free speech by trying to cut millions of dollars out of the sheriff departments budget last year. Really…I mean…really? Well I guess if you…

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Sheriff David Clarke’s disgraceful response on Paris terror attacks

From Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s Twitter feed comes this tweet about the Paris terror attacks: If GOP plays this politically smart they can end any chance that the Dems win the WH in 2016. War is politics carried on by other means. — David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November…

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