… she wants to abolish them entirely!
It was the Madison Common Council’s Executive Committee, meeting on-line on 4 August 2020. On the agenda for presentation later that evening, an ordinance to prohibit Madison Police from using such non-lethal weapons as tear gas, mace, and bean bags.
That message may sell in Prestigiacomo’s campus area aldermanic district but voters in District 18 on Madison’s far north side may not be buyers. It is worth noting that Kemble has put out two campaign mailers as of today 01-25-21. None of them mention “police” or “public safety.” Now you know why.
Rebecca Kemble: “I think you heard alder Prestigiacomo and me state clearly we are in a historical moment where there are not only demands being made but a lot more understanding about what police abolition means. …. We need to think beyond improving the police system as it is and think about completely transforming public safety. … including people who might behaving anti-socially.”
Max Prestigiacomo drives home the point: “I consider myself an abolitionist and this is one step along the path to that.”
Ald Skidmore calls them out on it:
“I find it significant and note the honesty of Ald. Kemble who said this is not about police reform, this is about police abolition. And that strikes a different note in me and something more fearful. It’s a change in our governance system. But taking away the ability of the police department to exist let alone use less lethal tools is a very serious change that we need to be talking about … The narrative isn’t just reforming police but abolishing them.”
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You may not have noticed that filing deadline was January 5 for April 6 election.
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Surely someone could pull a Toriana Pettaway “Some White Supremacy BS” as a reason for their inability to observe very clearly specified time/date guidelines, couldn’t they?
The Gotch
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Aiyaiyaiya….. there’s a blast from the recent past.
Last I heard she was on the verge of getting canned by her (Black) manager who had more than enough of her incompetence, insubordination, and unprofessionalism while holding high-paid (6-figure) public office.
She seems to have completely disappeared after a disastrous effort to run for mayor after wigging out and accusing her Black manager of white supremacy.
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Thanks for the reminder to check-in w/ good ol’ Ms. Petty. From “Linked-In”
Toriana Pettaway
Chief Executive Officer, Equity Hope Consulting LLC.
Grand Prairie, Texas, United States – Since January 2019
“Chief Executive and owner providing innovative coaching, leadership and development for business leaders and associates in areas of talent, career management, employee relations, performance management, racial equity and unconscious bias training. Assessing talent pipelines, develop and execute appropriate actions to ensure succession plans for critical tools for feedback ensuring continuous improvement. Proving pathway for efficiencies in training materials… ”
I’m sure she’ll be a resounding success someday, but only after changing her plan from coaching & leadership of companies to… providing a thorough job of cleaning & maintenance of those self-same companies. Whilst in MDSN, she proved to be one of the most clueless of the clueless. Man, she had a real nice gig here but then…
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In all fairness, her gig is ~ $85 large with benefits, still way the hell too much for an illiterate dip$#!t who’d consistently shown an inability to discharge even the most basic aspects of her job description.
In May 2019 she was issued a LAST CHANCE to keep her job by Despartment of Civil Rights Director Norman Davis (who is reportedly black) along with a 10 day unpaid suspension.
When she couldn’t play the RAYcist Card on Davis, she pulled the marginalized black X-Chromosomal Unit ace-up-her-sleeve.
Glass half full?
That laughable ploy elicited ~ 0 sympathy/support & her GoFundMe page netted a hilariously miniscule $703.
Glass half full 2.0?
The resounding bipartisan cross demographic condemnation of Pettaway’s RAYcist BS supplied a measure of reassurance that not ALL sanity has departed the 77 Square Miles Surrounded by A Sea Of Reality.
The Gotch
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She fled the White Suprema-City Of Madison for…..Texas??? That is simply too hilarious!
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People have been saying this for years. Sorry, not happening. Normal people don’t want the grief.
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No police will be great for tourism. Madison can advertise it as “Wild West Days!”
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And both “sides” would come to agree that it is for “the people”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZebly5h36M
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How long are the citizens of Madison and specifically the Madison Police Department going to be held responsible for an incident that occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota? Is there any data that suggests that the Madison Police Department abused the use of force while attempting to protect
people and property on State st. and the surrounding area? Violent and destructive behavior led to six blocks of destroyed windows and looted businesses, arson to an occupied city county building and destruction and theft to historic statues.
Well, Rebecca and Max, kindly identify precisely how the police should respond to these incidents.
The issue isn’t having access to materials of less than lethal force it’s defining parameters on when these materials can and may be used. And if they are used, review the totality of the incident prior to jumping to conclusions.
I honestly feel that most Madisonian’s are more than satisfied with the performance of the Madison Police Department. My wife and I are and we have lived in Madison for 73 years.
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Of course Madison police didn’t “abuse the use of force while attempting to protect people and property on State Street and the surrounding area.” How could they when they were standing aside and scratching their asses while State Street was being looted and vandalized by hordes of BLM thugs. They might as well be abolished if this is how they “protect people and property.”
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Same here too, about 70 yrs. this will only bite them harder and harder as time goes on.
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“Same here too, about 70 yrs. this will only bite them harder and harder as time goes on.”
Tragically, I don’t think they care.
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Kemble — who is just an awful antiwhite individual — has two opponents for the upcoming election.
Charles Myadze and Veronica Figueroa Velez.
I know very little about either but hope one of them can defeat her and get one of the very worst council members out of our city council.
Myadze is a working class African immigrant who is a responsible family man. For that alone I would vote for him in an instant over Kemble.
Madison needs more representation from working class family men — of all colors. We have enough far-left white women all over this city with their fingers in everything pushing their radical B.S. (which really only benefits their type, certainly not working class people and definitely not marginalized minorities).
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Good luck finding “working class” citizens in Madison. They’ve been driven out for decades by developers (and their allies in city government) catering to upper-middle class twits who work in “tech” and can afford to live in the overpriced high-rise monstrosities sprouting all over town. The few working class types left are too busy cobbling together 3 or 4 jobs just to be able to afford to live here to consider running for political office.
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Good point although there are responsible working men among us. Problem is, they are blamed for every real and imaginary wrong ever committed in human history.
Expressing a common-sense solution that is practical and time-tested — or even worse, advising that the surest way for ANYONE to avoid grinding poverty is to graduate high school, wait until marriage to have kids, and get a full time job — is a surefire route to getting canceled and run out of this town by a mob of screaming crazies.
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Why city is allowing developers on stretch of E Washington Ave block any type of homeless housing in Starbucks land. Surprised they do not have their own police force. Took them off of speed and running stop lights patrol to keep an eye out for the bad elements that are tormenting the area.
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This Kemble chick is Exhibit A when in comes to lefty lunacy (no wonder she holds political office in Madison). She and her cohorts are engaged in an endless game of one-upsmanship. “You only want to DEFUND the cops, you miserable racist! I want to ABOLISH them.” And if you think her proposal represents the outer limit of how far lefty loons in this town can possibly go, you haven’t been paying attention for the last decade or so as Madison has slowly tilted into the realm of the unlivable.
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“This Kemble chick is Exhibit A when in comes to lefty lunacy (no wonder she holds political office in Madison”
Seems this is the only type that gets elected to office. The Tulsi Gabbards of the party don’t stand a chance, unfortunately.
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To a certain extent, I understand how younger people like Max P get to be this radicalized. They’re products of universities that indoctrinate instead of teach (though not all young people succumb).
What’s Kemble’s excuse? Or Tag Evers’s? Or the other grownup clowns who embrace this stupidity? You’d think that at their age, they would know better.
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“You’d think that at their age, they would know better.”
They’re intellectually lazy (seek the path of least resistance) and morally bankrupt (who only need to THINK they’re doing the right thing) career Lefties; that approach enables them to proceed with the craven approval of their dark li’l souls.
Look at some of breathtakingly idiotic $#!t they’ve come up with over time:
*Trolleys
*Mandatory Sick Leave
*BIKIE trail/path/lane/boulevard/box/bridge infrastructure
*Inclusionary Zoning
*Light Rail
*Sister Cities
*High Speed Rail
*Land Banking
*Public Market, and (The Gotch’s personal favorite)
*Edible Landscapes
Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted, At Times, To Spit Upon His Hands, Hoist The Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats. H.L. Mencken
And The Gotch can resist anything…but temptation…
The Gotch
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The Public Market is one of the longest-running unintentional jokes in Madison history, which is saying something.
Breathless newspaper stories have announced its imminent construction for what….10, 15 years now?
The pandemic-driven city budget cratering ought to have resulted in the permanent cancelation of this preposterous boondoggle but the bad joke refuses to die.
It’s a homeless shelter for the foreseeable future. I wonder if decades from now we’ll still be hearing guilt-trips about how a public market is urgently needed.
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Forgot to mention the Laissez Faire La Lycra crowd chasing down the LAB BIKIE Platinum Rating.
One may only imagine how much Spandex was spent in that effort.
The Gotch
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Had lots of light rail, but those brilliant minds removed them to pave with asphalt for tricycles to bird watch.
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Please note how many of these projects cater to privileged Madison liberals whose goal in life is to make Madison as much like Portland as possible.
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Can these leftist dimwits get any more ignorant….??
At the risk of stating the obvious, the most basic contract the people have with government is this:
We pay you property taxes in return for which you promise to provide police and fire protection above all else. Whether it is spelled out or not, abrogation of that agreement is a breach of contract in it’s most basic form. Moreover, any citizen harmed or murdered because of a lack of that protection should justifiably wind up… owning city hall… literally.
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The key word to watch for this year: “Equity”. It is deemed to be superior to “equality”.
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