Halcomb and Welcenbach repeatedly called her and badgered her day and night. Halcomb even went so far as committing a crime by stuffing mailboxes in her neighborhood with a BS flyer. So yea, I think that classifies as "bullying." All you people don't realize that you are the new 21st Century Joe McCarthy's. Way to miss the message of this letter.

I totally agree. Whether you spelled your name right or not is not the point. You signed a public record that shows me that do not support fiscal responsibility. That is why we voted you out.

Man, Steve, you're so tough sitting behind you're computer and being all "patriotic." The fact that you don't even send your kids to school in the district says everything. You are a bully with a secret agenda. The fact that you and your crony Halcomb had to record a conversation is pretty stealthy. Lynn wrote a very positive and explanatory letter and you still resort to personal attacks on her. You set a great example for Erin and Ryan and your other daughter! I would really like you to answer her question- what needed "fixing" in the district? The school board raised taxes once, and that was only because the village demanded them to do so. Therefore, that can't be your excuse. On top of that, the district is one of the best in the state now. And, to top it all off, Brian Schneider cannot even vote on 95% of the votes that the school board has to make because of laws regarding him being the boss of his brother who teaches at Templeton. So, basically, Schneider will be sitting on the board, twiddling his thumbs and being an obstructionist. Good logic to me. And Steve, stay classy. Go rattle the saber at Marquette or DSHA.

Who the hell are Erin and Ryan? I don't have any kids and have no idea who all the rest of your gibberish is really intended for.

Steve<<<Who the hell are Erin and Ryan? I don't have any kids and have no idea who all the rest of your gibberish is really intended for.>>>

Apparently these people who are accusing others of a "witch hunt" are collecting all the information they can to smear the names of everyone they possibly can, because it would be wrong if you did so, but not if they did so.

Now they have some theory about us hanging out at the home of someone named Phil Ritter. I'm there right now with your three kids, along with Elvis, JFK and Amilia Earhart.

Say HI to Santa clause while your there for me. Give him a big shout " RECALL Santa: I didn't get what I wanted"

Yea, Tim, people had no idea the signatures were going to be public because the GAB originally said they weren't. Get your facts straight. And I'm glad you totally missed Lynn's point in this letter. I feel sorry for you and how you have succumbed to McCarthyism. Stay classy yourself as well.

Last years recalls were public as well, which Lynn happen to sign, misspelling and all. They were debating on a searchable database not making them private. Thank you verify the recall for stepping up and getting the searchable database up so quickly.

Mark,

I argee that the families of public figures suffer when they do wrong. I wish I could shield them from that. How many public figures have you observed doing things that you dislike?

I am obviously naive to much of what went on behind the scenes to oust Lynn. Seems we're learning something new each day. While I have my differences with Lynn outside of politics, I am appreciative of how difficult this must have been to write for her. While some will accept her response and some won't, I'd personally like to see a cease to the piling on here. Lynn, Glenn, Andy, Bryan, and Noah have gone through enough.

Mark,

<<<I'd rather see someone run a clean campaign and lose than run a horrible, lie-drenched, slander-loving, dirty, stealthy, agenda-hidden campaign and win.>>

Me too. Which is why when I ask someone a question, I would like an answer that is not a lie. Then I would like that person to try not to cover up their position or try to change the meaning of what was said. Nor would I like it if they then attacked me for sharing what they said. Such actions would not be part of a clean campaign.

Luke, I wholeheartedly disagree with you, but I nonetheless respect what you just said and your viewpoint. Why? Because you stated at the end that it is your opinion. Not facts, but your opinions. Thank you for clarifying and not trying to pass your opinions off as facts. Hats off to you!

"It depends on what the definition of 'is' is"... sound familiar?
A Lie is a Lie is a Lie.
Once a Liar always a Liar.
Tp lay the victim card after playing the Liar card is laughable.

Luke--Lynn is saying she is not proud she sated she did not sign the petition in the moment she was ambushed -- and she set it right the very next day when she called to tell Mr. Halcomb she did sign it.

Rachel commented:<<<Luke--Lynn is saying she is not proud she sated she did not sign the petition....- and she set it right the very next day when she called to tell Mr. Halcomb she did sign it.>>>

And when she called the next day to say that she did sign it, she said that "no" meant "No, I will not answer your question." So given your interpretation of Lynn's Letter to the Editor, exactly when did Lynn (according to her words) do this: "...my integrity led me to call him back to right my wrong the next day"?

My question is, Given her recorded response, and what she told the Sussex Sun (see excerpt below), when did she call and user her "integrity" to "right my wrong"? Here is what she told the Sussex Sun:

<<<According to both Halcomb and Kristensen, when she called back the next day, she admitted to signing the recall petition, and told Halcomb that she was caught off guard by his question. She also indicated that her "no" responses were meant to imply, "No, I'm not going to answer your question.">>>

According to you, Rachel, she only lied about not signing the petition. But according to her, she only said something that could be misunderstood. No one that has heard the recording will make the mistake of thinking that she was misunderstood. After all, she did put on quite an act about wanting to know who put her name on the ballot and how to seek justice. She wanted that evil doer to be flushed out an brought to justice.

Am I wrong?

That was a pretty long "moment" and the question was asked over and over and over again.

Rachel, in case my last post what not clear, what I am getting at is that Lynn has yet to come public and state what you claim she is saying. If she ever does so, she will have to also say that she lied to reporters a couple of days later, because her statement is that she was only misunderstood.

Obviously she was not misunderstood. So when will be the first time her "integrity" leads her to do the right thing and tell us so?

@Emily

<<<Do you all realize that the election is over? >>>

Yes.

<<<If you still seriously need to sit behind your computers and continue to tear apart a woman over something that can no longer change, take a look at your lives. Does constantly beating down other people with no cause in sight make you feel better about yourself?..... No. You're simply sitting in a bath of filth and rolling around in it.>>>

Umm, in case you missed it, this thread is in response to Lynn's letter. She is the one who wrote it. She made some veiled reference to having done the right thing to showcase her integrity in some untenable, mysterious way. And it case you missed it, she called someone a bully and ASKED why someone would feel the need to do what they did. She said that she was ambushed by some simple questions. Talk about calling people names and rolling around in filth....!!

Seriously, if any public figure in this state was approached and was asked some simple questions and they gave untruthful responses and were suspected of signing false names on documents, it would most certainly have made the news.

<<<Good luck keeping your heads above water with Schneider on school board now.>>>

A little hypocritical of you, smearing his name.

<<< Lynn and her family has accepted this...>>>

No, they haven't.

<<< and go find some other innocent person's life to ruin.>>>

"other" implies that we've found one already.

If I was thrown out of an office I deserved I'd ask why people were doing this as well! And not the constituents-though I believe your reasoning is ridiculous, you've made it very clear why you voted her out (even pointlessly after the election is over). She wants to know why Mr. Schneider-as opposed to anyone else-wanted this position. What did she do while on the board to deserve to be kicked off? What will he be bringing to the school board? As Mark Hoppus said above-he can't even vote 95% of the time because of his brother. Seems like he'll be doing a lot of good. At least she fessed up when she made a mistake. She could have taken the lie farther, pretended it wasn't her and spiraled the whole things out of control. But of course she wouldn't do that. She fessed up and admitted her wrongdoing. A commendable action when you know your livlihood is on the line. I'm not doing any smearing. The elections over and I said nothing bad against the man. But simply-good luck. Karma hurts sometimes. Her family has accepted it-do you see them campaigning any more? This letter is proof that she accepts what happened. And yes, you have temporarily 'ruined' the Kristensen family. Luckily they're strong and will get up keep moving forward to do something good for the world.

Well since this letter was posted April 9th, yesterday, and I was out on vacation all last week I'd say these comments are pretty relevant Emily. Nice of you to show up.

I can answer some of these for ya

►Do you all realize that the election is over?◄
Yep, I have a calender.

► over something that can no longer change◄
Yep, recall signatures are public data forever.

►Does constantly beating down other people with no cause in sight make you feel better about yourself?◄
A public official caught in these lies and signing an unpopular recall will receive public reaction. Welcome to the internet enjoy your stay.

►Does this help you sleep at night?◄
I don't have an issue with falling asleep

►Does it make a positive influence on the community?◄
Yes

►Are you doing anything to change anything?◄
Yep, voted. Thanks to this many had a clear informed vote this time around about your friend Lynn.

Good job missing the entire point of what I said. Props to you.

I got the point. You supported Lynn, defended her lies, got caught defending her actions when all the facts were made clear and now you want this all to be swept under the rug as fast as possible.

It's politics. Max two week lifespan

@Emily

<<<At least she fessed up when she made a mistake. .>>>

She told another lie, And then she went to the papers and told them a lie. No one that supports her can make a defense that makes sense of what she is saying, and they don't claim that they can.

<<<She could have taken the lie farther, pretended it wasn't her and spiraled the whole things out of control>>>

That's exactly what she did. Shall we go back over the facts?

I didn't 'get caught' doing anything. I'll admit to anyone that I supported her, and basically everyone that knows me knows I did. I'm not trying to sweep anything under a rug. I'm just honestly confused as to why this banter is continuing after the fact of the election. At this point you're just talking to hear yourself talk, because what's coming out of your mouth can have no impact on the future. and Luke, these 'facts' you want to go back over, aren't real facts. do i want to go over your opinions again? no. you've made your point very clear, and i respect it as an opinion.

@Emily

<<<. I'm just honestly confused as to why this banter is continuing after the fact of the election.>>>

Maybe it's because the Letter To The Editor above was posted 48 hours ago, because Lynn wanted us to see it. Ya think?

<<< and Luke, these 'facts' you want to go back over, aren't real facts. do i want to go over your opinions again?.>>>

No, we can go over LYNN'S opinions again. You said that she lied once and corrected it. Yet no one that has heard the recordings will step up and defend what she said to the Sussex Sun as truth (not to mention the lie in the second phone call), because it is obvious to her most ardent defenders that she told the reporter yet another lie. Not even ONE single person has come forward and attempted to make sense of that glaring problem. It is so obvious and clear that I fear that some people may gouge out their eyes and ears to avoid seeing it and hearing it.

I'm not Steve Welcenbach and have no idea who he is. You guys need to lay off the kool aid.

I am the 1%, we do that kind of stuff

Thank you. Since I am not who your crazy head thinks I am it was pretty easy to come up with.

►but it's privacy, you know their name and address!◄

ever herd of the white pages?

These clowns all think they're mini-Limbaughs. They all think that it's OK to (anonymously) de-humanize and say utterly despicable things about their neighbors, because they hear Rush do it. Their ring leader Belling called one of the MF school board members a "whore" on his radio show. The lemmings on this board jumped right in with the name-calling on these boards. There's not a thinking brain among them. It's all the same garbage, regurgitated every time. They have no concept of respecting their own neighbors, respecting the work people do in the community. Most of them have no idea what it is they're even angry about. (Note - not one of the lemmings ever could answer my question about what specifically in the dreaded MF teacher's contract they didn't like - I doubt a single one read it. But, achieving all of the financial benefits of Act 10 without actually shoving done teachers' throats just wasn't good enough for some).

But, not to worry. When these people see those of us with different opinions than they at Pick N Save or at the LL Complex, they'll smile and say nice things, pretending not to be the hate-filled nut jobs they really are.

Bert you are being an idiot again. I as well as others answered your questions. You either can not read well enough to know it, or you chose to ignore it.
I do not listen to Rush or Belling. But I agree with Belling regarding the MFSB member.

► but it's privacy, you know their name and address! ◄

ever herd of the white pages?

One more thing.......EVERYONE involved has kids. Think about that.

@MSo32

<<<Don't you have a brother who has a record>>>

Perhaps in his attic. But when CDs came out he probably got rid of them. He really doesn't listen to much music these days, so I doubt that he uses an MP3 player.

Relax. It's like being chased by the Keystone Cops. (I hope you are old enough to appreciate the reference.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops

Scroll down to the "In popular culture" section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsgKSGR32c&feature=youtube_gdata_player