Great job verify the recall! The truth appears to be our WI Democrats and Madison (bought and paid) Libs worst enemy!

Karma? Do you even know what Karma is? Karma will strike Brian Schneider soon enough, considering he has no clue what he is even doing now due to the fact that he never attended anything in the district except for 1 school board meeting about 2 months back.

Yes, let's remove these misguided politicians and board members who either have their hand in the union tills or are getting embarrassing benefits and kick backs on behalf of us NON- UNION PUBLIC WI tax payers! They continue to lie and then slap us in the face even AFTER they steal our money for their cushy benefits! How sick and misguided are they to push this WALKER recall forward????

Agreed..Goetz is the next to go.

Carl in Sussex: Yes, Yes, Yes. Throw out the haters. Learn to live with the election results. Get rid of the liberals.

Life lessons? You want to teach your kids to focus on personal attacks instead of records? I feel bad for how your misguided kids will end up being. Shame on you for teaching them crappy lessons.

Mark, based on your reply you haven't a clue what you're talking about. BTW, considering the life lessons I'm teaching my children, I'm confident they will make better decisions than the one you are supporting here.

Thanks for the chuckle Kyle -- Good one! Gene Wilder's so wise.

it's really a shame you'll be so disappointed when recall votes are counted and Walker will be out forever. You're looking at Waukesha county as a representation of how Wisconsin is going to vote? Just because one entirely conservative community votes out one liberal politician means nothing. The majority of Wisconsin's population is in Milwaukee and Madison-two very liberal communities. If I were you I'd hold your tongue till June and see how this goes. Elections in Waukesha county in no way represent an entire state of people.

It's really a shame you say something as silly as "the majority of Wisconsin's population is in Milwaukee and Madison - Two very liberal communities."

Dane Co has 488,000 people
Milwaukee Co has 948,000 people (over half of which reelected Walker 3 times in 9 years)
Wisconsin has 5.7 million people.

That's 1.4 million people out of 5.7 million. 25.1%

I'd hold YOUR tongue before spouting off facts apparently stemming from the same math methods used to run our school systems and union organizations for 50 years.

Yea, Edward, Emily is correct. Milwaukee and Dane county are the two biggest counties in Wisconsin. Read a book.

I meant "NOT" for use just becuase...

I know that Dietrich was elected to his position in last year’s April election, so he should be recall-able soon. I would love to get involved in the recall process but I don’t really know where to even start.

Stop the stupid recalls!!! Really? Recall a school board member? What's next- recalling High School class presidents??? They will be up for re-election again soon, and then YOU can run if you're so smart!!!

Thankfully? Thankfully?! Have you people even done your research?! Because he has a brother in the district, he won't be able to vote on 95% of the votes that the school board will have to make! He legally cannot vote on anything from teacher salaries to work conditions to where money is appropriated. Good job on placing a do-nothing no-brain on the board of one of the best districts in the state.

Mark, please do everyone a favor and stop hurling personal insults.

Everyone noitce Emily set it up so you can't 'Reply'. Liberal chicken or is it chicken liberal?

@Bill: You can't reply to any replies. It's odd, I know, but even your comment beneath Mark H's (and now mine) will be sans "reply" button. I wish they'd change it, though!

Ummm, isn't Scott Walker under investigation for CRIMINAL activities? How is that not a representation of the worst politician in any public office?

liberal chicken? way to embarrass yourself here, sir. I did nothing. You're the one looking ridiculous now for calling me out on something I can't control. I too wish this could change, but we've all figured out how to comment anyway.

That’s a pretty convincing ad hominem argument. I guess I better go with the people who break the law and lie to their constituents next time.

This is great, a liberal that doesn't know what he's talking about. Kool Aid is what all of the lefties are spewing through the media. If you want to sound halfway smart the term you should have used was TEA. I know that I was drinking some last night, becuase these elections were a tea party!

Max and Luke -
I rest my case.....thanks for helping me make it. BTW - I DID mean Kool Aid and NOT tea, as that reference has a meaning separate from anything associated with the Tea Party (neither the original nor current). I don't think we've ever met so you know nothing about whom I've ever voted for, or my position on any issues of our time, including whether I am for or against this trend toward the quick recall of legally elected officials ....so tell me how my comment merits a branding as - a Liberal?

DM asked<<<Max and Luke -
I rest my case.....thanks for helping me make it. ....so tell me how my comment merits a branding as - a Liberal?>>>

I don't know why you ask me how it "brands" you "as a liberal," since I never said anything of the sort. Perhaps you are branding me as a conservative because I pointed out that breaking the law is not a freedom. Who knows!?

The only thing I have noticed about you is that you don't address the facts as delineated in the story, have questionable reading comprehension, and potentially a related inability to hold a number of abstract concepts in short-term memory. That means you could be a liberal, or perhaps you could be a conservative who is suffering from some endogenous physical/biological disorder, or are even under an exogenous influence, such as smokin' crack.

Finally, it's totally possible that you are simply conflict-oriented, and are receiving positive reinforcement from my every reply to your posts. I simply don't know.

(I hereby subtract 100 points from my reputation for this flaming post. But it was worth it.)

Luke- facts? You wouldn't know facts if they came up and hit you in the face. This whole election was a grade-A, 100% perfect example of Wisconsin's own McCarthyism. Lynn's record was spotless, so gutless people decided to launch a personal attack on her because of a recall petition. Also, because Brian Schneider had absolutely nothing to run on, he shut his mouth the whole time and let his lapdogs do all the work for him. You want to know the "facts?" Lynn didn't raise taxes on the community. At all. RESEARCH!

Mark H.<<<Luke- facts? You wouldn't know facts if they came up and hit you in the face.... RESEARCH!>>>

No, Mark H., the person responsible for the undoing of Lynn was Lynn. She broke the law and made herself untrustworthy. She then went public with a false story. It was one immoral act after another.

If not for her own incompetence, she would have easily have won the election. Now no one trusts her BECAUSE OF the facts.

She LIED and misrepresented herself as a conservative. She also has every right to sign any petition she wants, but when the constituancy finds out....WATCH OUT, they voted her out and that's THEIR RIGHT!

Umm, can you explain to me how Lynn is "corrupt?" Scott Walker is under a criminal investigation, but Lynn dropping an N off her name means she's "corrupt?" You clearly don't know how to parse facts and learn the exact definition of simple terms like "corrupt."

Wake up dude!

Believe it or not Rachel but there are a lot of people who are concerned about constant tax increases when there is not a noticeable increase the quality of services received.

Sorry to interject, but
@atthec44, Hamilton actually is lowering taxes in the village due to cuts, and they were named one of the top ten school districts, spending the least amount per pupil in the top ten. So, the services are actually pretty good considering the ranking, and there wasn't a tax increase due to the district. There was one, I believe, because of the village increasing their tax levy.
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Good information Andy.

My statement was more of a generalization of the sentiment we are seeing in a lot of places across the U.S. Taxes keep going up without an equal increase in the quantity/quality of services, MPS comes to mind.

Regardless of their motive, there is one person responsible for Lynn Kristensen no longer being a school board member...it was her position to lose...and she did it by a landslide!

atthec44- your comment was not a generalization at all. It was clearly aimed at Lynn, as you claimed that by electing Lynn, taxes would increase. Seems like we a liar on our hands here! Just like how Lynn is such a "huge liar!" Look in the mirror man. Even with proof right in your face, you deny the facts. You are the reason that this state is moving backwards.

Mark, can you do me a favor and refresh my memory to remind me of when or where I said "that by electing Lynn, taxes would increase"?

I guess Jim Doyle running the state budget into the ground, and Democrats creating a business climate so caustic that many employers have left the state is not so ''extreme''.

Luke
Did you not understand what Rachel said about the deceptive nature of the people involved and love stirring up a "witch hunt". Oh wait, Joe McCarthy....same tune, just a different year......know your facts!

Luke- the fact that the two people who masterminded the whole smear campaign, Steve Welcenbach and Jeremy Halcomb, against Lynn do not send their kids to Hamilton schools is very relevant. What do two people who send their kids to private schools care about a school board election? Especially if taxes are actually going DOWN, as just proved earlier in the discussion? There's obviously a hidden agenda here. If they want to get more "fake" board members elected, the children of the district will suffer.

Mark H. commented<<< the fact that the two people who masterminded the whole smear campaign, Steve Welcenbach and Jeremy Halcomb, against Lynn do not send their kids to Hamilton schools is very relevant. What do two people who send their kids to private schools care about a school board election?>>>

@Mark H

In response to your question, all residents have the right (some would say "obligation") to discuss the issues and vote, whether or not they pay taxes or have children in the system. My kids have grown up, yet I still vote and pay $730 per month in taxes to live in my own home.

In addition, everyone has the right to know. The two newspapers that reported on the issue had reporters that don't have kids in the schools as far as I know. They thought the issue was just as newsworthy, just as much as those you claim masterminded a smear campaign.

But in this case, it was Lynn at the controls behind the curtain. She pulled the wrong levers by breaking the law repeatedly and telling lies repeatedly, and the results have simply been observed and made public.

Interesting that no one is claiming false accusations were made. Instead, they are claiming that the damning ones were made public, by big, bad meanies.

@MSo32

Do you know what "deceptive" means? Who has been deceptive? Lynn, or the people who told us the truth?

Luke, wait, who are you? Oh wait...you have a BUSINESS to protect so you can't expose your name lest you lose business due to your politics. Never mind!

Exactly what is Mark Belling spinning?

^funniest thing I've heard in a while, @highlightfilm.

Why bring the crony boys? They hog the beer.

Who is Phil Ritter? And who are my crony boys? I really want to hear your answer smart guy!

MSo32, you have NO clue who I am or what my positions are other than I don't support Lynn Kristensen. You and Mark Hopper are peas in a pod with your character assessments.