You may wonder what type of place votes in such a way. To get an idea, take a look at the story that came out this week from the biggest city in Washington County. One of the West Bend city fathers was sent to jail...for wanting to be a young girl's daddy.
The city administrator in West Bend has been arrested after police say he tried to entice a 16-year-old for sex. Prosecutors say it started with text messages and only got worse.
49-year-old Thomas (T.J.) Justice is now in custody Friday, April 22nd and facing two felony charges.
According to a criminal complaint, Justice had been sending provocative text messages to a teenage girl for nearly a year -- including offering her money for sex.
Gotta love the "3x" mark on the orange jail shirt. Typical bully who lived off of "big fish, small pond" syndrome. But wait, it gets better.
The criminal complaint states the girl's mother turned the phone over to police. A detective with the Muskego Police Department posed as the girl to communicate with Justice -- setting up a meeting for sex at a local Dairy Queen.A middle-aged bald man hopped up on Viagra who tries to relive his youth by enticing a teenage girl? You couldn't create a better stereotype of a Baggerland shriveldick if you tried. And this guy wasn't just some loser with a dead-end job listening to AM radio so he could blame others for his mediocre life. This guy was the top city official in West Bend, in charge of the city's budget and the hiring and firing of many city department heads.
Police pulled Justice over nearby and found a bottle of Viagra in his car.
But having unqualified idiots for public officials in Washington County is hardly unusual. Those same West Bend constituents also the same people that elected Jesse Kremer to the State Legislature, last seen claiming that Wisconsin's jobs problems were due to "entitled college graduates" and workers who won't accept slave wages, and who has introduced a North Carolina-style "bathroom bill" targeting transgendered students. The State Senator for the area is Duey Stroebel, another bald dimwit who was an author of the bill that would have limited the ability of public schools to hold referenda. These referenda are the direct result of cuts in aids to K-12 public schools imposed by Stroebel and Kremer and the rest of the ALEC crew in the Capitol, and then Stroebel decided to impinge on local control in favor of "lower taxes by any means necessary", regardless of how much it damaged the communities involved. Stroebel was also a sponsor of the absurd (and likely illegal) bills that would defund Planned Parenthood and put restrictions on the fake controversy involving illegally-made videos regarding fetal tissue.
And let's not forget who begat all of these goons in present-day West Bend- current Congreessman Glenn Grothman. Grothman is the never-married "family values" fool who lived in his Mom's basement until he carpetbagged his way into a House seat in 2014, and most recently was caught on camera admitting that voter ID was a tactic put in place to help elect Republicans. Among his greatest hits as a legislator included saying that wage gaps existed because men "valued money more than women," and led a charge to get rid of required days off (aka "weekends"), claiming it burdened businesses. Grothman also called pro-union protestors during the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising "slobs" (the bloated, white-haired Grothman is quite the looker, you know), and claimed that already well-off Wisconsinites needed a tax break to send their kids to private school because Grothman said sex education was "radical" and that public school teachers "proselytized a liberal agenda."
This gives you an idea of the type of trash that Washington County and West Bend have signed off on to represent them. Oh, but you in the exurban 262 think that it's the rest of the state that doesn't get it, and you're some kind of low-tax, Christian community that can shut off the 21st Century and be a permanent Pleasantville. Here's a tip for all you in West Baggerland- you're not so virtuous, you're a regressive joke whose mentality is harming the rest of the state, and no one worth a fuck is going to want to live in such a backward-ass place. That's why I don't spend a dime in those parts of the state, and you shouldn't either.
When I started in the UW it was at UW Washington County during the height of the Grothman plague. This is so unsurprising.
ReplyDeleteThose folks really don't get it, do they? But if they want to cut the UW budget so bad, why not start with UW-Wash? There are already 2-year campuses in Fondy and Waukesha, and UWM isn't that far away (if they want to hang with "those folks" on the commuter bus).
DeleteC'mon Washington County, take the hit and show how it's done! Oh wait, now they're not so keen on this, are they?
Gosh I wish I could self-righteously upbraid you for your unfair and narrow-minded comments about my county.
ReplyDeleteBut I can't. The only thing I can say is that TJ might be forgiven if he's a serious churchgoer, but likely right now he doesn't have a friend in the world. Or at least the county; at the end of the day it's an unforgiving place and he is a non-elected public employee, after all.
I know you're one of the few good ones there, Sue. I just wish there were more that were snapped out of complacency over the disgraceful behavior that they condone by electing these bigoted lowlifes.
DeleteDo you think shaming and mocking works better than being nice and trying to convince people from those parts at this point, Sue? Because my instinct is that it is- too many don't have the guts to reflect on the failures.
I know some of Grothman's immediate relatives and they are the nicest, most pleasant people. Makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteNeither works as far as I can see. Shaming/mocking brings out that weirdly superior victim status thing and reinforces the idea that they are somehow better than 'those people'. Being nice goes as far as you would expect - you will be very nicely ignored.
ReplyDeleteBut - the county is growing; people are moving into it and not everyone coming in fits the expected requirements. I do not think I will see the day that the county diversifies in a truly meaningful way, but basic population increase will one day have an effect.
It's a beautiful area, and they can't keep us all out forever.
Sue- What shaming does is send the message to the casual voter that "this is not OK," and they'll start questioning it. It's not intended for the AM radio sheep and other right trash that sign off on this bigotry and idiocy.
DeleteI think there are a sizable amount of people who vote based on who all of their neighbors and friends vote for, and if you can show them that these people really are clueless and aren't doing the right thing, then 75-25 can turn to 65-35, which kills the GOP in statewide elections