Priorities, people!
Bad enough that Sheriff Kalvin Barrett consorted with a wanted felon who, inconveniently, is pictured wearing the sheriff’s campaign T-shirt. But also pictured with pedophile John F. Brown, age 56, is Dane County Supervisor Anthony Gray. Last year, Gray offered a resolution to strip law enforcement officials of qualified immunity. Brown also got up and close and personal with Gov. Tony Evers, patron of Kenosha criminal Jacob Blake, whose lawful arrest set off the Kenosha riots! (See for yourself.) The WI State Journal also links Brown to State Rep. Shelia Stubbs, D-Madison.
John F. Brown had been wanted since 03-14-22. Three days before the sheriff’s close encounter with the fugitive on 06-09-22, the U.S. Marshall’s service blanketed police agencies that they wanted this guy. The Dane County sheriff, apparently, was blissfully unaware of the active arrest warrant.
According to Barrett’s challenger, Anthony Hamilton (himself a sheriff’s detective) Brown was 41 years old when he sexually assaulted a juvenile between the ages of 12 and 15. Brown is also suspected of inciting rioters two years ago as Dane County law enforcement was told to stand down, Hamilton says. Brown was wanted for:
- Resisting/obstructing an officer; two charges.
- Misdemeanor and felony bail jumping
- Disorderly conduct
- Felony sex offender registry violation; two charges
Hamilton concedes that one cannot vet everyone who attends a campaign event. But why, the challenger asks, did the sheriff call the Department of Corrections to ask whether Brown would be charged? (The full story here.)
Blaska’s Not-quite Bottom Line: And Democrats are trying to shake their Soft On Crime profile!
Scene in Madison WI
A tree grows in Madison
Construction on the notorious ‘Hairball’ intersection required a bend in the curb on Blair Street to accommodate the tree in front of the old railroad depot, now part of MGE.
Platinum Subscriber bonus filler:
The canary is coughing: How does Trump-backed Sarah Palin lose to a Democrat for the lone House seat in ruby-red Alaska?
Did you notice? The City of Madison and Dane County have an extra $9 million for a homeless shelter but not $10 million for a jail?
Would someone please put that unnecessary, unwanted, Madison Public Market out of its misery? Another “funding gap.” This time, $5.2 million. New price tag: $20.2 million. (Read & weep.)
Memo to Tim Michels: For your next campaign ad, promise if voters elect you governor and you will load that 42-ton Chamberlin rock on one of your flatbed trucks and return it to the UW-Madison campus. Plus, you’ll restore Fredric March’s name so big it will dwarf that iconic “Hollywood” sign.
Blaska’s Bottom Bottom Line: Now John F. Brown is a “resident” of Kalvin Barrett’s jail.
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I don’t see anything wrong with the turtle egg signs.
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“I don’t see anything wrong with the turtle egg signs.”
Seriously, Oe? That’ll draw moronic Touch Me attention like no Wet Paint sign ever could.
Same thing happens over in The Gotch’s neighborhood near the Odana Hills Golf Course ponds, mercifully minus the idiot hoopla.
And c’mon, that’s the Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood, ergo, it’s Lefty Look At Me/I’m Dialed In/ Gosh I’m Nice Eco-Virtue-Signaling secular Heaven on steroids!
GuaranDAMNteed there’ll be selfie-seeking d!pst!cks staking that place out, which will only be to the hatchling’s detriment.
The Gotch
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The turtle egg signs are wonderful! I love turtles.
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Your OK relocated neighbor ‘cross the street always had Turtles nesting in his yard, never put up a sign though…
Anywho, The Gotch collects Turtles: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd959e3d34fccd2afa433f9b0bf6062caccab58df437fdbc2f13604975856efa.jpg
This li’l guy keeps an eye on him at his desk:
The Gotch
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Turtle laid eggs at my place across from our OK friend but never saw any hatch. Days later, heard thumping noise in the basement. Thought it was the water heater or something. Turns out Ma Turtle had fallen into the window well. Pulled it out and took it over to the pond.
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Good on you, Blaska!
The Gotch has saved Turtles too numerous to mention; up in Iron County along Hwy 122 and along Milward Drive right across the Beltline/Odana Pond from you.
He helps the females (Eastern Painted & Snappers) across the road (always in the direction they’re headed) to their higher ground nesting sites, and had ferried many hatchlings from Milward across the vast Odana Hills Park Soccer Fields to the pond when precious few could make it on their own.
Them there Snappers are a gosh darn challenge; they fight you, with a capital F, every dang step of the way!
The Gotch
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And My Little Pony too.
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Re: Turtle Egg Signs—
The greatest danger to the eggs would be raccoons digging them up and eating them. As to the signs, well, raccoons can only read at a 4th grade level, and according to the data released today by the National Center for Education Statistics, they are probably functionally illiterate.
The eggs are safe.
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Of course kids won’t be able to read them either !
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Not being products of the MMSD, The Gotch would make the argument that the raccoons are further along than the kids…
The Gotch
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awwww; I love turtles.
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Who knew we’d finally find common ground…. with turtles.
So happy together.
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“So happy togethER. I can’t see me loving nobody but you, for all my life …”
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Fond memories!
Remember listening to that on a transistor a.m. radio strapped to the handle-bars of my Milwaukee Journal deliverin’ bike in Glen Oak Hills & Crestwood.
Stoney Wallace (the IT DJ at the time) played it ’bout three (3) times each hour on WISM 1480.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone…?”
The Gotch
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I watched “Stand by Me” on TV a few years ago. They redacted “Jesus” from the green screen typing. Heaven forbid someone might get triggered by “Jesus”.
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Are you f****n’ kidding me?
FFsS…the world is being Shaved by a Drunken Barber!
The Gotch
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Any Democrat candidate for any office in Madison/Dane County will get elected/re-elected even if he/she was videotaped having sex with the ghost of Jeffery Epstein at high noon on the steps of the City County building. That simply comes with the territory in a one-party autocracy. Why go on spinning a fantasy that there’s the remotest chance of a Republican–no matter how well qualified–being elected here?
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Nail on the head there, Gary.
Despicable Lefty has no problems whatsoever with a Lefty-Centric CommonSENSEless Council & County Board, but they sob-slobber inconsolably that they can’t have their widdle way with the State Legislature.
The Gotch
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The turtle summit lasted all of 1 hour.
Still, it’s a start.
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The canary didn’t cough; it was laughing it’s a$$ off.
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Wait’ll DementiaJoKe quintuple clutches/strokes out on national T.V. tonight, that canary will be $#!ttin’ itself upside down!
His despicable Lefty handlers?
They’ll be “watching” (DementiaJoKe) “like a child on a tightrope over the Grand Canyon.”
Ah Lefty; so MUCH cataclysmic failure, so little time!
The Gotch
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Yo’ Jeannie, you save the receipt for those Anger Management classes; seems they haven’t…um…taken…….
The Gotch
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Gene Larson’s comment has been scrubbed for profanity and he is hereby put on notice that the second incident will be his last comment
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