WI-SEN 2022 Megathread: Who stole my cheese?

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Sarah Godlewski is my preferred choice at this time. Tom Nelson has lost too many races for me to take him seriously and Alex Lasry hasn't lived in Wisconsin long enough to not be labeled a carpetbagger. Plus he has quotes about Milwaukee and Wisconsin that would be painful during a campaign.

Pretty much this, though I would consider Barnes if he enters.  As far as other potential candidates go, Kaul could be a solid candidate too, but we need him to hold the AG seat.  Also, I’m not convinced that Ron Kind would get the turnout from Milwaukee and Madison that he would need to win.  He doesn’t seem like a particularly great fit for either of the two Dem base areas, considering his record on gun issues for example.

The moreover that Ron Kind could be vulnerable in the primary as he supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership and urged fellow House members to vote for it. He also voted for the Iraq War in 2002. That's the kind of record that cost Hillary Clinton the Wisconsin Democratic primary in 2016, losing it to Bernie Sanders.

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That endorsement by Warren will just show extreme Barnes is. He will repeatedly tied to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and socialist policies.

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Barnes got elected as LT Gov, we haven't seen any polls since March[/b]

Johnson praised the Proud Boys thats extreme

That is before the Dems voted in favor of that $3.5 trillion of new spending, before gas prices raised at their highest since 2014, that rising inflation, that drastic rise of consumer price index, Defund the Police.

The moreover that just last month, the gubernatorial administration which Barnes is working for vetoed a bill that would have penalized cities and counties that defund police departments. So Barnes is a puppet of the radical Defund the Police movement.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/tony-evers-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-penalized-cities-counties-that-defund-police-departments/article_30125a78-7312-53d1-9972-9b16e305d008.html

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Recently, it is revealed during Barnes' time as a state legislator in 2016, he introduced legislation to eliminate “monetary bail as a condition of release for a defendant charged with” a crime, no matter the severity of the crime. Yes, you read that correctly – a proposal to eliminate prosecutors’ ability to keep dangerous people in custody.

This bill died in committee but came after current Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm supported similar views in his inaugural campaign. Those views came back to light last month after Chisholm set what he later called an “inappropriately low” bail amount ($1,000) in the case of Darrell Brooks, who allegedly killed six people in a Waukesha, WI Christmas parade rampage just weeks after a domestic violence arrest.

If the Barnes bill passed in 2016, Brooks, along with many other criminals, would have been freely walking the streets of Wisconsin for the past 5 years.

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab981

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Barnes is locked in a Primary battle with Tom Nelson he maynot won the primary

Even if it's Nelson, he hasn't ever won a statewide race. The only statewide race he has run was in 2010 when he was on the Democratic ticket for Governor in 2010 when he was the nominee for LG, and he lost.

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Barnes is more than liberal, he is a radical left-wing socialist out of step with Wisconsin. He supports socialized medicine, which means the government in charge of health care and doctors. In every place that happens, you have waiting lists and rationing. In the United Kingdom, if a senior needs a HIP replacement, it takes 90 days. In Canada, it takes 200 days. The cost of socialized medicine that Barnes supports would be immense as the Urban Institute, a left leaning institute, scored it as costing $32 trillion in 10 years, $2.5 trillion in the first year. The total we raise from our income taxes is $1.5 trillion so Barnes' plan would require tripling taxes. Even if he believes he can do it with five points on the corporate rate, that doesn't even pass elementary schools math. Even if he believes that could be done by taxing the rich, if you took every person in America $1 million or more and took 100 % of their income, it would pay for 5 months of Barnes' socialized medicine plan. Under that plan, Barnes wants to put everyone who hasn't paid into Medicare on Medicare and that would bankrupt Medicare, would hurt seniors who paid into Medicare for their whole life and rely on it for their health care. And putting 200 million people on it, including illegal immigrants, could bankrupt Medicare.

Barnes voted against authorizing work-share programs, against amending Wisconsin's iron-ore mining regulations and against reducing state income taxes.

Barnes is weak on crime and law enforcement, in fact, the gubernatorial administration which Barnes is working for vetoed a bill that would have penalized cities and counties that defund police departments.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/tony-evers-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-penalized-cities-counties-that-defund-police-departments/article_30125a78-7312-53d1-9972-9b16e305d008.html

Barnes also introduced legislation to eliminate “monetary bail as a condition of release for a defendant charged with” a crime, no matter the severity of the crime. Yes, you read that correctly – a proposal to eliminate prosecutors’ ability to keep dangerous people in custody. This bill died in committee but came after current Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm supported similar views in his inaugural campaign. Those views came back to light last month after Chisholm set what he later called an “inappropriately low” bail amount ($1,000) in the case of Darrell Brooks, who allegedly killed six people in a Waukesha, WI Christmas parade rampage just weeks after a domestic violence arrest. If the Barnes bill passed in 2016, Brooks, along with many other criminals, would have been freely walking the streets of Wisconsin for the past 5 years.

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab981

And he also held a fundraiser with Robert Creamer, a felon who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2005 and was sentenced to five months in prison. More recently, Creamer and others tied to Democracy Partners got caught on camera in 2016 talking about inciting violence at Trump events. It got so out of hand that they had to take a step back from helping Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

https://www.nrsc.org/press-releases/barnes-gang-of-radicals-and-a-felon-host-fundraiser-2021-11-16/

Unsurprising that Barnes is a puppet of the radical Defund the Police movement and is endorsed by movements advocating the abolition of ICE.

So you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig but it is still a pig.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW850wtmFvg

In fact Barnes is the only Democratic senate nominee in the country who has explicitly come out for abolishing ICE. That is extreme and careless and that will result to open borders and will worsen the border crisis. And every candidate who ran for office in a statewide race in a state that is either a toss-up state or a red state lost, including O'Rourke in Texas and Gillum in Florida.

And despite the fact that Milwaukee's homicide rate is up 100 %, he wants to eliminating cash bail.