Neumann Makes an Ass of Himself
Madison — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann accused County Executive Scott Walker on Monday of working part-time hours so he can campaign for governor, in the latest sign the race for the Republican nomination is growing rougher.
Is this really all the Neumann campaign has? Really? Pathetic.
Behling was talking about this today and pointed out that Neumann missed a “KEY” vote when he was in congress because he took his son deer hunting. This was the vote to shut down the government during the Clinton term. Also last week Behling called out Neumann again because he’s been silent on all the huge water rate increases in the Milw. suburbs.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 17, 2010 at 1952 hrs
Owen,
I thought you were against government waste. Don’t you think a half time politician is a waste? Or are you OK with Walker campaigning on the tax payers dime?
Posted by capper on May 17, 2010 at 2020 hrs
I predict this won’t be the last time you’ll be tempted to use that headline on a post dealing with his campaign.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 17, 2010 at 2034 hrs
Capper we know what a hard-on you have for Walker… but let’s get serious here. If Walker was running for re-election of his own seat you’d still be busting his chops. Every politican has to run for office at some time. Where is your contempt for Barrett? Is he working “full time” as mayor while running for governor?
Neuman is running a TERRIBLE compaign. If he was smart he’d drop out and save himself the money and embarrassment.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 17, 2010 at 2133 hrs
If Neumann is doing so bad, why is he tied with Walker, and leading in most of the state?
And Barrett doesn’t have nearly a billion dollars in unpaid bills like Walker does, nor is Barrett running a mental health hospital where people are getting sexually assaulted.
Oh, and that story is no where near being done.
Posted by capper on May 17, 2010 at 2147 hrs
Capper, if you are going to blame the sexual assualts on Walker then you will have blame Barret for all the murders and other crimes committed in Milwaukee.
Posted by Dan on May 18, 2010 at 0116 hrs
BHD is a closed environment that is strictly under the control of Walker. He sets the budget, he hires the managers.
That is very different that open environment in which people are not controlled in that fashion.
You are trying to compare apples and oranges.
Posted by capper on May 18, 2010 at 0119 hrs
Capper - you are unstable and you need help.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0206 hrs
Because nobody has ever been sexually assaulted in the city pokey, right? Do you blame Doyle for the assaults occurring in state prison? Do you blame Obama for sexual assault in the military, or federal prison? Apples to apples…
There are bills that need to be covered in the county, that is a legitimate issue. Sexual assault in a mental health institution is a reach.
As far as poll numbers go, it is very difficult to get an accurate poll in Wisconsin. No democrat (with anything resembling a brain) is going to support walker in a head to head poll, and in a three way poll there is going to be alot of cross over, just as there will be in the primary. Walker is in trouble, but it has nothing to do with the job he did in the county or with sexual assault at the county hospital… His trouble will come from cross over voting in the primary. Neumann should drop out of this race, right now, his victory will be ill gotten and conservatives will never support him. Neumann will turn hard left when he gets to Madison because of it.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0654 hrs
If, in the chance that Neumann wins this primary, as a conservative and as a Republican, I will not be supporting Neumann.
I will not volunteer. I will not cut checks. I will not vote for him. My integrity is worth more than a temporal win over Democrats.
He has run a poor campaign and as a person I have little respect for the man. As a Republican, he has been MIA for over a decade. I will support him as much as he has supported the GOP since losing to Russ Feingold 12 years ago.
Walker should, and probably will, win the primary. But after seeing the type of man he is, Neumann should go back to building green houses and feeding at the government trough, devouring tax credits for homes that otherwise wouldn’t get built.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0719 hrs
The problem I have with Walker is that he is more loyal to the republican party then he is to the voters. I hope the Democrats feel the same way about there lap dogs, Barrett and Fiengold.
The only one that appears to be loyal to the voters is Neumann. If Walker has ever defied the party, now is the time to make it known.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0733 hrs
Posted by djmamayek on May 18, 2010 at 0654 hrs:
His trouble will come from cross over voting in the primary.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the Liberal Democrats are taking great pains to avoid any substantial primary elections in November? Obey, Feingold, Barrett - it smells like they can’t win in a head-to-head election, so they’re getting ready to play jubilee with our pig.
In Wisconsin they really need to have the veto pen on their side next year to keep their liberal spending programs in place with a conservative legislature.
Neumann needs to do what Walker did four years ago - he needs to be a real American, and a real gentleman, and bow out now for the good of everyone in the State of Wisconsin. Failing to do so will just enable the liberals and facilitate their demented view of government.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0744 hrs
Walker is in trouble, but it has nothing to do with the job he did in the county or with sexual assault at the county hospital…
Walker’s track record is what made it possible for Neumann to move up so far so fast as to tie with him. If you don’t think the stories about BHD, the courthouse falling apart, and all the other problems Walker was trying to keep down aren’t affecting this race, you’re not paying enough attention to the news coming out of SE WI.
The world does not start or stop with TMJ or Charlie Sykes.
Posted by capper on May 18, 2010 at 0751 hrs
His trouble will come from cross over voting in the primary.
Having just returned from the north country the perception is that his trouble is coming right out of his own administration and campaign.
The people I talked to seem to think he is just more of the same political problem that has been plaguing WI for a couple of decades.
Dave Westlake is the only guy out there who is viewed as possessing any sincerity at all.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0810 hrs
Walker’s track record is what made it possible for Neumann to move up so far so fast as to tie with him. If you don’t think the stories about BHD, the courthouse falling apart, and all the other problems Walker was trying to keep down aren’t affecting this race, you’re not paying enough attention to the news coming out of SE WI.
The world does not start or stop with TMJ or Charlie Sykes.
As the President of a corporation based in milwaukee I appreciate very much the fact that Walker is doing everything he can to keep my taxes down. If you think a monument to statism (courthouse) falling apart is of any concern to me you have another thing coming…. That building could fall down and have a steel pole shed put up in its stead, we’d save a bunch of cash, and be able to lay off a bunch of overpaid county “workers” if we did. I don’t need to pay attention to the news coming out of SE WI, because I live here and see what is going on day to day. If you are trying to suggest that everything is rosy and that the city (milwaukee)is a utopia and its policies should be brought to the state level (a governor barrett) then preach on… Should we bring up the multimillion dollar roof on the library, in a city that has neighborhoods that compare with detroit?
Walker is the best candidate to do what Wisconsin desperately needs, RIGHT NOW, which is to cut state employment, cut entitlements, cut services, and stop new spending. Is anyone seeing what is happening in Greece? is that what we want Wisconsin, or the United States to look like? Progressives (GWB, Obama, Doyle, Barrett, Neumann, etc.) are doing a great job of getting us there. It is time to bring the budgetary parlor tricks of the WI democrat party to an end, the era of progressivism needs to come to an end before calamity brings an end to the era of the democratic-republic.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0812 hrs
” It is time to bring the budgetary parlor tricks of the WI democrat party to an end, the era of progressivism needs to come to an end before calamity brings an end to the era of the democratic-republic. “
We would need to get rid of both parties to achieve your goals.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0836 hrs
Walker is the best candidate to do what Wisconsin desperately needs,
Like road tolling?
I wonder if he will bring that up before or after the election?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 0847 hrs
I was a big fan of Neumann and supported him in the past. This time, it feels like he is only running because the home building business is in the dumper.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1039 hrs
Although Neumann has apparently been snorting his ethanol, most unfortunately, Capper is right. That is, having also been in North Country recently, Walker’s ties with Milwaukee might be too big to overcome. Rightly or wrongly, when you get 50+ miles from Milwaukee, people look down at anything associated with Milwaukee. Neumann doesn’t have the balls and/or the tact to bow out graciously.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1057 hrs
Neumann doesn’t have the balls and/or the tact to bow out graciously.
Actually Neumann staying in and declining to participate in the upcoming RPW predetermined endorsement results shows that he has balls.
It also shows that he has the brains to realize that the it is more important to be conservative in this race than the anointed RPW candidate.
I know you guys around here keep getting confused with the idea that being a fiscal conservative does not necessarily equate with being a Republican.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1115 hrs
Read Neumann’s stance—-he is NOT conservative. He’s pro ethanol. Need I say more?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1230 hrs
Read Neumann’s stance—-he is NOT conservative. He’s pro ethanol. Need I say more?
Well, he’ll probably get the farm vote then. Corn is king.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1322 hrs
And Neumann is for climate change legislation—remember he said that Doyle’s proposed 25% reduction “doesn’t go far enough.”
Posted by hsgbdmama on May 18, 2010 at 1633 hrs
Funny how a smart business man in an extremely competetive industry like Newman is now an outcast and a career politician is now the sweetheart.
It makes me feel better about November-for my lefties.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1810 hrs
If they promised to stay out of trouble and leave us alone, i think we should pay more politicians to stay home!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 1810 hrs
Hasn’t the country done well by continuing to elect career politicians?? Why not keep up the trend. I’m sure it will serve us well. Never look toward the past to predict the future.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 18, 2010 at 2030 hrs
@djmamayek,
Walker kept taxes down? They went up some $48 million dollars under Walker’s tenure. Not to mention the nearly one billion dollar bill that he has already run up for the tax payers.
He has separated tens of thousands of people from their jobs (and I’m not referring to county workers) with his cuts to transit, with another 14 % on the horizon for next year and double that the year after.
And if you value the dollar more than the safety of a woman, then all I can do is pity you.
Walker had done the impossible in that he actually showed that there are people worse than Ament ever was.
Posted by capper on May 19, 2010 at 0001 hrs
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