Belling On Nelson
Belling went over his reasoning for Nelson’s victory. As usual he had his gaggle of morons calling to cry about it.
One guy said he (Nelson) was an embarrassment. Um, he hasn’t even been in the Mayor’s chair yet, how can you call him an embarrassment? You don’t know what he is going to do as Mayor. You want an embarrassment; look at your candidate’s pathetic campaign. She ran the worst campaign I have seen since John Kerry’s run for president.
As for all the whining about Nelson raising taxes or implementing fees, please settle down. These matters are up to the Common Council as well. If Nelson proposes something you don’t want, call your alderman! Oh wait, that would require some kind of action on the part of residents. If we can’t get people off their asses to vote for mayor, why would we think they would call their elected officials? They would rather call Charlie, Mark, Jessica, or Jeff and cry about it.
I also find it interesting that the conservatives are solely focusing on local property taxes. They are only a portion of the taxes we pay, yet they are the only taxes that they want to freeze. Why not put a cap on how much money the state can raise from income taxes? Why not cap state spending? Why not cut all of the wasteful state programs? There is far more waste and fat in Madison than at the local level but the folks in Madison don’t want to do any of the heavy lifting so they dump it on the local municipalities whose existence depends on the authority of the state.
One guy said he (Nelson) was an embarrassment. Um, he hasn’t even been in the Mayor’s chair yet, how can you call him an embarrassment? You don’t know what he is going to do as Mayor. You want an embarrassment; look at your candidate’s pathetic campaign. She ran the worst campaign I have seen since John Kerry’s run for president.
As for all the whining about Nelson raising taxes or implementing fees, please settle down. These matters are up to the Common Council as well. If Nelson proposes something you don’t want, call your alderman! Oh wait, that would require some kind of action on the part of residents. If we can’t get people off their asses to vote for mayor, why would we think they would call their elected officials? They would rather call Charlie, Mark, Jessica, or Jeff and cry about it.
I also find it interesting that the conservatives are solely focusing on local property taxes. They are only a portion of the taxes we pay, yet they are the only taxes that they want to freeze. Why not put a cap on how much money the state can raise from income taxes? Why not cap state spending? Why not cut all of the wasteful state programs? There is far more waste and fat in Madison than at the local level but the folks in Madison don’t want to do any of the heavy lifting so they dump it on the local municipalities whose existence depends on the authority of the state.
posted by Jeff @ 3:44 PM
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Well, gee Jeff, the Taxpayer Protection Amendment would do just that.
Um, yeah, what he said.
John Kerry's campaign was indeed one of the worst in American history. One of the worst presidents competing against one of the worst opponents, ever. Like Bush, I am confused why Ann ran in the first place. Why do you want to be President of the United States/Mayor of Waukesha?
TABOR is a joke on policy and politics. The majority cannot even agree on what it means and the conservative base today does not care anyway. The only force driving it forward is ideology.
I decided I was against TABOR in the hopes that local official would usually do the right thing. yesterday, the common council enacted a nominal fee to use the city dump. This is a short sighted step backwards. To further upset me, The Freeman failed to report how the individual aldermen voted. This is an important thing being as some of them were not elected to the position.
Oh yes, Nelson. Well, I met the man a couple times when I was looking for the 4th district appointment. I guess that I said a few too many things in my presentation. The mayor has not responded to two emails that I sent to him. Could it be his comment that you CAN fight city hall is just so much milorginite???
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