Noisemakers??? You must be confused again morninmist - that's your side that likes to bang on drums and blow on plastic horns! There was none of that at our rally, as you can clearly see from the pictures or the local TV news coverage our event received! Only a sole counter-protestor from your side managed to show up. Additionally, there was someone from your side that drove around us twice, goading us, and then pulled into the parking lot, got out of his car, and acted like he wanted to start a fist fight with one of us. Not to mention the middle fingers we received from your side and the person that spit on my Walker sign as they drove by (DNA analysis of that spit coming soon to a police department near you). Yep, true to form, the people on your side were real classy all right!

It was a great event and Hoffa had a wonderful time showing his support of Governor Walker and meeting some really great people as well! For every middle finger we received from passing cars, we had at least 20+ supporters! Also, for half of those that showed up, it was their first event ever - including many recent converts!

Walker's strength is growing throughout the state as the people of Wisconsin wake up to the joke that is today's DPW! Your side is going down as we will not only carry the day, but also win the war that your side has declared on us!

Cheers!

Only noise makers I heard about were all the honking cars driving by showing their support for Gov. Walker!! Was a great day...

Still drinking the DPW Kool-Aide I see. In reality, the GAB confirmed that only around 930k signatures were submitted. When you throw out the duplicates, ineligible, and fraudulent ones, that leaves between 760k-830k legitimate signatures. Walker received nearly double the amount of legitimately cast ballots in 2010! And in all likelihood, he'll receive even more in this frivolous recall effort.

But keep on deluding yourself with the 1M+ figure, as your side apparently loves living in fantasyland!

Ah Hoffa.....The board determined there were 900,939 valid signatures to recall Walker, 67% more than the 540,208 needed to trigger the election. Walker didn't win by 67%. The board deemed 808,900 signatures against Kleefisch were valid. The same number was needed to recall her as for Walker, which is equivalent to 25% of the total votes cast in the November 2010 election for governor. Guess you need to go back and learn remedial math, or are you using the same math walker used when he claimed to have balanced the budget? How about when he said he wouldn't raise taxes? My property tax is up 10%, and the EIC is eliminated for most people meaning their taxes went up.

@Robert Smith -

The GAB admittedly didn't look all that closely at the Walker signatures, did they? A sample study commissioned by the Milwaukee J/S found upwards of a 15% invalid rate, so in all REALITY, there are probably between 760k-830k valid signatures out of the 930k that were actually submitted, which according to my math is still substantially less than 1M, let alone 1M+. But I know how you guys like to use that liberal math, so by all means, indulge in your fantasies!

As to the budget, if the current projections hold true, it will come in only .68% off initial estimates, which would make it one of the best budgets we've had since the Thompson administration! This should be celebrated, not demonized.

As to your property taxes, Walker didn't raise those - your local level governments did by either spending too much, not spending efficiently, or not utilizing all of the tools Walker made available to them in order to balance their budgets without raising taxes. Even Barrett used Walker's tools to balance his budget. But if you want to believe the Daily Kos talking points, I can't stop you - it just wouldn't be the truth that you're believing in.

As to the EIC, this basically amounted to a social welfare program distributed via tax return checks. It was a poorly constructed, highly unfair, program from the get go, and amounted to little more than a democratic party give away to garner votes. Thank heavens it's gone!

Thanks Dick - it was a great event and we're glad to have your support! It's shame that the other side is acting the way that they are, but we understand the reality of this unfortunate situation.

Are you sure it their thumbs they were showing you?

We don't feel the need to flamboyantly stomp around banging drums when we could be spending time with our children. We'll leave the charades to your side. And besides, that dog and pony show that went on in Madison last year was an embarrassment to our state.

They're not being forced to show up by a union and also not being paid.

Want to make 60 bucks anyone? Sound familiar?

Contrary to what you may believe or have been told over on the Daily Kos, I was there and can personally attest that for at least half the crowd, it was their first event ever - hardly what I would call just the "die hard supporters," although, there were plenty of those as well!

Bradley Farris was a joke - he was wearing dark sunglasses and could hardly convey a cognizant thought the entire time he was there. We're pretty sure he was high on some illegal narcotic. But if that's the kind of person that the left wishes to deitize, more power to you!

Leading the way on assumptions. As usual, if you don't like what you see you make it up. So ALL of Walker's supporters were able to show up in one place? Awesome for you guys.

I give that boy credit. To come out alone in a hostile environment and take a stand? As to the stupidity spewed by hoffa? I know for a fact that Farris doesn't use drugs, or any "illegal narcotic", but what do expect to come out of such a dumbass!

@Roger Smith -

Farris wasn't taking a stand - he was purposefully trying to antagonize us, pure and simple. He was wearing dark/reflective sunglasses the entire time he was down there except when Fox 6 asked him to remove them for an on-camera interview. As you could see from the Fox 6 footage, he was clearly displaying signs of photophobia and was having problems articulating his responses to relatively simple questions. But believe what you will - I was there and that's what I personally witnessed.

I also didn't see any of our supporters ever jam a gun or middle finger in his face, as he's alleged on these boards. It's clear that Mr. Farris is probably lonely and just seeking attention for himself. Perhaps he should get himself some professional help instead.

Cheers!

@Dirk -

Hardly an embarrassment, as we received a healthy dose of media attention. Admittedly, not as much as your side typically receives, but our side has a problem with banging on drums, blowing on plastic horns, holding up signs depicting our elected officials as Hitler, trashing our Capitol, passing out fake sick notes, fraudulently calling in sick to our jobs, dumping beers over the heads of our elected officials, etc. just to get some attention.

We will not lower ourselves to play the game at your side's level, as our side has dignity, integrity, class, honor, and respect - and those are attributes that your side will never be able to take away from us!

Try again.

@Dick G

Love you story. Thanks for the post.

Hoffa loves to huff and puff. I expect no less from a
TeaGOPer! He is obsessed with drums and horns--yet loves the horns making noise when his own side does it.

ray reynolds ‏ @cr8f
62,000 #recallwalker supporters ralled at the capitol 2 weeks ago http://yfrog.com/khdpipp VS 100 pro Walker yesterday http://bit.ly/GOOuf1

'62,000 at the Capital'- gee that's not tough to do when you're in Madison with a population of 100% liberals who have nothing better to do on a Saturday. That's not apples to apples- more like comparing sensible people to cry babies.

And I'm sure 62,000 were all from Madison. By your math the turnout would make Brookfield .01% conservative. Hardly.

No, not all were from Madison there were many from out-of-state, all expenses paid trip as usual....

@Cynthia-- you're mistaking that for the out-of-state paid petitioners they hired to gather signatures to recall the Dem Senators. Money well spent I see too. Fail!!!

Oh, please -- retaliation? Afraid of a few scowls are we?

The only reason I would have bothered to come was to meet Hoffa, not disrupt.

@Randy1949 -

In case you forgot, Hoffa had his family's business targeted for a union boycott just because Hoffa was expressing his political opinions on Facebook, which is why Hoffa uses a screen name on Patch instead of his real name in the first place. You'd be surprised at the hostility coming from your side. This was the first chance I had to witness it first hand, other than the union thuggery at our restaurant. No joke, someone actually spit on my Walker sign as they drove by and another guy drove around us a few times, then pulled in the parking lot, got out of his Nissan Maxima, and tried to goad one of us into a fist fight!

While Farris may have been unwelcome, he was admittedly well behaved the entire time he was there, which was only about 40 minutes. Hoffa was there from the start to the finish, leaving the AFP event early to join my fellow Walker Backers. It really is a great bunch of people and I can't wait to join up with them more often!

BTW - I would have loved to have met up with you. Hoffa was actually able to meet Denise Lockwood, Jim Price, and Rory Linnane of our local Patches and had a really great time chatting with them! Hoffa was also interviewed by several other local media outlets and may have appeared in a few local stories about the rally ;-)

Have a good one!

This wasn't about getting out huge numbers. It was a grassroots effort by a bunch of friends who encourage support from the passersby. By the amount of vehicles showing this support with car horns beeping and folks waving and thumbs up, there is tremendous support out there for Gov. Walker. Afterall......his reforms are working.

Dream on, Mikey! I'm sure you'll like getting beat like a drum, seeing as your bunch is so great on the sound of them.

Nice try. Run out of pertinent things to say?

Well, somebody must have claimed my comment was inappropriate, and had it deleted, or is it in another blog? So the comments remain here, but people cannot see what I wrote that they are commenting on? That seems fair.
I do not even know Hoffa or his kids. For all I know, he does not have any. It was an obvious analogy of your kid's team losing at at game, the kid trying hard but not scoring, and the long ride home, and how that must feel. Many of us have been there. An analogy of how it must feel to get all excited about an event like the fizzled Walker rally, and have it fail rather miserably.
I believe Hoffa is intelligent and literate, and to understand what was really being said.
I apologize to those who are not, or choose not to be to try to play a juvenile game of censorship and pretended partial literacy. THAT is not Christian, my dear Chris P.

Chris P - Seems you also do not get my explanation of my comment that you flagged for deletion either.

If youpossibly do not understand a comment, please ask for an expanation before flagging as inappropriate. I noticed you are a very infrequent commenter, and the only time I would "flag as inappropriate", which I never have, is gross profanity, of which none of my comments contain. Commendable that you thought you were defending a child, though the child was purely imaginary. I suspect from your few other comments posted over the months and the fact that you were reading this news blog that you also probably disagree with people who criticize extreme Republicans.
Allow me my own possible misconception: that your politics and not your "care" probably had some part in flagging my comment as inappropriate.

I noticed from another of your blog comments that you started out saying you are concerned with the safety of bikers, dog walkers, runners, rollerbladers, scooter-ers, skateboarders, and walkers, then launched into criticisms through the entire rest of the long comment.
From that I establish a possible behavior pattern that your "care" is actually a cover for your real intentions.

Hmmm... Hoffa doesn't really know what happened here, but accepts Dirk G.'s explanation of such after the fact. After all, Hoffa isn't the kind of guy to make something out of nothing, as that tactic/strategy isn't in our playbook - such is owned by the left/recallers.

Ciao!

BRAD FARRIS - Do you do anything besides LIE?

I was there as well. I saw you (Brad Farris) walking up and down the street. Everyone thought you were actually a Walker supporter. I was young and stupid once too when I was your age until I got a job and raised a family, and paid taxes. Then I woke up. Hopefully, someday you will too.

Brad - I commend you for your bravery, and/or chastise you for your foolishness. We all know the gun laws have changed drastically. It was of course Republican legislation. Packing concealed or open heat and highly agitated, as witnessed on these pages, I would avoid this fringe element in such emotional circumstances. In fact, there are right wing commenters on Patch that admit to looking up lefties. Constitutional rights of free speech are ignored if you present a negative view.

Good LORD,Sister Brad! You are so lucky that Alberta Darling did not punch you in your weasle licker. These meanies had guns out and were threatening you? For REALSIES???? OMG!

WOW, I have seen the videos................ LOL typical liberal brad......... play the victim of imaginary events...

@Brad Farris -

You sir, are a LIAR!

Like @Keith Best, I was also there and I also saw you for a majority of the time you were there. In fact, you stood right next to me for practically 10 minutes and I never said a single word to you, preferring to ignore you and focus on the support we were receiving from passing motorists. You purposefully inserted yourself in close quarters to those of us who were there to legitimately celebrate the scheduled event. If you honestly didn't want a confrontation, you could have stood 20 feet further down the pike with your sign, but no - instead you walked our line getting up close and into the personal space of our supporters. While I saw no obscene gestures or gun flashing, I did overhear some of our supporters trying to engage you in conversation, but it wasn't purely a barrage of insults as you are claiming on this board.

There is plenty of video posted over on Facebook that completely discredits your accounts of what happened at the event, so go spew your lies over on the Daily Kos where they might actually be believed.

morninmist-- The real "War on Women" was started years ago. Did you speak out when Sarah Palin was vilified, when here children were attacked? I didn't think so.
Did you speak out when a liberal radio personality mocked Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, claiming she provided oral sex to conservative men, among other vitriol? I doubt it. There are plenty of other examples against Michelle Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham and many many others. This is the real war on women.

Now there's a real comparision: healthcare vs name calling. And yes, the name callers were condemned. Unlike the real war on women being supported. Look a chicken!

@morninmist -

Only patently or obviously fake names were ever checked for in the review by the GAB. If they had checked the Walker signatures as closely as they checked the Wanggaard signatures, there would have been a lot more signatures tossed. But that's Kevin Kennedy and the GAB. If your side had any class or integrity at all, you'd offer to pay an independent non-partisan firm to comb through every single signatures to make sure that only valid ones were ever submitted to the GAB in the first place. In fact, didn't Tate claim that the DPW did something like this - I think he did! The fact that tens of thousands of signatures were tossed is just utterly pathetic in all reality.

Lay off the liberal blogs long enough for a few doses of reality and to actually think for yourself - you may be surprised by what you learn!

As the tweet says-- next stop, #WalkerRecall! --
You are quite boring--you yip about the same issues over and over.

.........................

Mattison ‏ @Mattison
Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of .@GovWalker's Wisconsin Anti-Union Law http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/30/us-wisconsin-court-idUSBRE82T1C020120330 ... next stop, #WalkerRecall! #p2 #wiunion

@morninmist -

And you don't? PLEASE!!!

Hey hoffa
You continue to cry about the GAB numbers but you forget the rules say that Walker should have challenged them. But, as is typical of the TeaGOP, you want the taxpayers to pay to some new count. ha ha.

@morninmist -

I don't want the taxpayers to have to pay for any of your side's frivolous antics! Lest you forget, there's probably more legitimate taxpayers contributing far more to the government till on Walker's side than there is on yours! If your side wants to throw a fit, that's fine so long as it's done within the confines of the established rules - but you guys should have to pay for it!

We elected Walker to govern, not challenge the validity of frivolous recall petition signatures!

Try again.

Walker and his Tea fiends do not govern. They just run all that is good about Wisconsin into the ground!!

BTW-I deleted the first part because it is just more your hypocritical rant.

.............

James R Hoffa

8:55 pm on Friday, March 30, 2012

@morninmist -

...We elected Walker to govern, not challenge the validity of frivolous recall petition signatures!

Try again.