We Didn't Do Enough

We didn't do enough.

What we did was still a remarkable feat. We took a Supreme Court nominee, who seven weeks ago was trailing in the polls by as much as 30 percentage points to the brink of an unprecedented victory. While there will be legal challenges and recounts I suspect Prosser will ultimately retain his seat on the WI Supreme Court.

While the GOP and Tea Party goofs are busy reveling over this on social network sites, particularly Twitter, Kloppenburg supporters are naturally upset with the latest developments in the "lost and found" ballots out of  Waukesha County.

While I'm as upset over this development as every Kloppenburg supporter is I'm already over it. I refuse to whine about it. I refuse to lower myself to the level of the vitriol being spewed by the Tea Party on Twitter. I refuse to engage them in any manner because this is one case where you can't fix/cure stupid. They've fully bought into the corporate propaganda and Faux News. They're nothing but mouthpieces intent on destroying the middle class, while handing our nation over to the corporations. The same corporations who torpedoed our economy with greed, tax breaks, and tax loopholes at the very expense of the middle class.

We put a helluva scare into the GOP, Koch Industries, as well as other corporations, and the Tea Party with this election despite their many claims to the contrary. They've now, at the very least, been put on notice.

The time for whining on Twitter is over.

We didn't do enough, and that's the bottom line. While our actions have certainly been a wake up call to the nation, we've got to wake up ourselves. Our resolve has to deepen. We have got to get more people involved. We've got to raise money to counter what the corporations are going to throw out to defend the very crooks we want out of office. We have to outwork the GOP.

If you truly want to win, you've got to get to work. We have too much at stake to lose. The fight is far from over, but the fight is going to get tougher. The onus is on us. Getting people to sign petitions is actually going to be the easiest part of the next phase. Countering GOP propaganda, money, and actually getting people to vote will be the taxing part of the job.

You can decide to work harder, or you can sit on Twitter whining. Twitter is by all means a useful medium to get pertinent information out, don't get me wrong. But why engage the Tea Party trolls? Get out and do something useful for the cause, then let us know what you did via Twitter. Counter the false talking points of the trolls without engaging them. Stick to the facts. Tea Party trolls cannot respond to them anyway.

In other words, get off your asses, and make a real difference. It's not going to get any easier.

I urge everyone to get involved in the recall efforts. Listed below are the offices around the state to get in contact with. Even if your district has collected the necessary signatures to trigger a recall election there is still work to do. The Kapanke and Hopper districts, at this point having the required signatures, still should be in contact with the recall offices to see what work needs to be done.

SD 2-Senator Cowles
Green Bay
1061 W. Mason Street

SD 8-Senator Darling

Recall Alberta Darling Office

6807 North Green Bay Ave, Glendale, WI

Menomonee Falls Office
N88 W16784 Main Street, Menomonee Falls


Mequon Mothers Against Darling (MMAD)
9641 North Valley Hill Drive, Mequon


SD 10-Senator Harsdorf
Menomonie - Weekends only
105 21st St. N
Sat 10 am – 5 pm
Sun 12 noon – 5 pm

River Falls Office
109 B N. Main St,
River Falls, WI 54022

Hudson Office
901 4th St, Suite 260
Hudson, WI 54016

SD 14-Senator Olsen
Portage
216 W Wisconsin St.

SD 18-Senator Hopper
Oshkosh
480 Main St.

Fond du Lac
21 N. Portland St.

SD 20-Senator Grothman
West Bend
411 N. River Road

SD 32-Senator Kapanke
La Crosse
116 5th Avenue South