Tag: David Clarke
Cue a David Clarke crack about penis envy in 3….2…1….
As noted by Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who’s fond of hurling juvenile insults in order to get some cheap publicity, recently wrote a piece for the Wisconsin State Journal blasting plans in Dane County to create a system of community courts. The…
Progressives on County Board budget committee vote to give David Clarke the budget he wants
Whomever said politics makes for strange bedfellows certainly wasn’t kidding. Case in point is news today that the County Board’s budget panel, which includes at least four progressives, voted to give conservative Sheriff David Clarke a budget much, much closer to the budget he requested than the scaled-down budget the…
Murphy’s Law: David Clarke the False Conservative
This is worth a read… If you’re a numbers-crunching fiscal conservative like Abele, one obvious place to look for cuts is the Sheriff’s Department. In the decade prior to Abele’s election, the sheriff’s budget had risen 61 percent, far faster than any other county department. It was something of a…
Is David Clarke really Andy Kaufman?
As someone who lives almost 350 miles from Milwaukee and only gets to read about the ongoing and bizarre antics of Sheriff David Clarke, it seems entirely possible to me that he’s actually Andy Kaufman. I don’t have any evidence to swing the question one way or the other right…
Sheriff David Clarke is a petty, small man
What does Milwaukee County Sheriff David “Keystone Cop” Clarke think of Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele’s proposal to cut $12 million in funding from Clarke’s budget for 2014? Read for yourself. “Abele should be drug tested. He has to be on heroin to be hallucinating with that wild proposal. He…
“Democrat” Sheriff David Clarke to attend Republican Party gun fetish events
Just in case anyone actually believe Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke really is/was a Democrat, Sheriff Clarke will be the keynote speaker at an event later today sponsored by the Republican Party of Wisconsin – 4th Congressional District. Here are the details of the event. The Republican Party of Wisconsin…
Sheriff David Clarke, staff no-show at Milwaukee County 9-11 ceremony
Stay classy, Sheriff David Clarke… Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and members of his office were noticeably absent Wednesday from the 9-11 anniversary ceremony at the War Memorial Center — with one of Clarke’s sergeants a no-show despite being listed in the program. Sgt. Brandy Lester of the…
Sheriff Clarke brings the crazy, threatens to have HOC Superintendant arrested
Another day, another absolutely bizarre situation from Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and one of his top toadies, Inspector Richard Schmidt. Michael Hafemann, the new superintendent of the House of Correction, must have known he was going to butt heads with Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. Clarke relinquished…
Why was there a 24-minute delay between reports of smoke in the MKE courthouse and a response from Sheriff’s Dept?
I’d love to hear Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s explanation for the 24-minute gap between reports of smoke billowing from the Milwaukee County Courthouse and his 911 center calling for fire fighters, but apparently Sheriff Clarke isn’t responding to requests for an explanation. Smoke alarms sounded at the Milwaukee County…
UPDATED: Two men with concealed carry permits engage in rolling gunfight across Milwaukee
Remember, concealed carry here in Wisconsin was supposed to make us all safer… Two Milwaukee men — each with a state permit to carry a concealed weapon — traded dozens of shots in a rolling shootout through two sides of town and down a freeway, the kind of scenario concealed-carry…
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