Julaine Appling speaks on Fox News 11 regarding a request by an employee of the City of Green Bay for the Council to consider including domestic partners in the city’s benefits plan.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Influencing Elections
This week’s radio commentary:
Last week I was enjoying a pleasant walk in downtown Madison when I came across someone standing at a street corner handing out flyers and holding a clipboard, not an uncommon sight in our capital city. When the person held out a flyer and asked me if I need a job I was about to politely refuse and walk on when I saw a word on the flyer that caught my attention.
Feingold & Kohl approve–again–two-time loser Louis Butler
Yesterday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee on a 12-7 partisan vote approved former Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler as a federal district judge. Both of Wisconsin’s senators, Russ Feingold (D) and Herb Kohl (D) are on the Judiciary Committee and both voted for Butler and several other Obama nominees. The full Senate will likely sit for quite awhile before acting on these nominees.
This is the second time Feingold and Kohl have voted to approve Butler for this position. As a matter of record, yes, Butler is the former Milwaukee County judge who ran for the State Supreme Court in 2000 and was soundly defeated by Diane Sykes. In 2004, when Sykes took a federal judgeship, Gov. Jim Doyle appointed Butler to the State Supreme Court–a position incumbent Justice Butler managed to lose in 2008 when challenger Justice Mike Gableman beat him.
So, now Feingold and Kohl have given this two-time loser–a judge “we the people” keep rejecting–yet another opportunity for a lifetime appointment. Obviously, Feingold and Kohl care more about party unity than representing their constituents. Yet another glaring example of what’s wrong with our government.
It’s Here! Anti-marriage $$ hits WI races
Update: Incumbent Mark Radcliffe in Assembly District 92 is also a recipient of the anti-marriage money. Here is his most-recent campaign finance report.
Today we discovered that Assembly Representative Ted Zigmunt (D-Francis Creek) has accepted $500 from Colorado millionaire and homosexual political activist/strategist extraordinaire Tim Gill. All in all, Zigmunt has received almost $3,000 from the same homosexual activist contributors who helped flip the Assembly in 2008.
This is just an initial finding; we expect to discover similar contributions in other, targeted state-level races in the state. This state-level targeting is a relatively new political strategy employed by liberal activists–called the Colorado Model–and outlined in detail in the book The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (And Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care). Highly recommended read, for all citizens regardless of party affiliation.
An Epic Day – Happy Constitution Day!
On this day, 223 years ago, the delegates of the Philadelphia Convention signed the U.S. Constitution and sent it to the 13 States for ratification.
And we’re still here, over two centuries later, with the same governing document–somewhat the worse for wear–but still functioning in some respect as a Republic. That, is epic.
The U.S. Constitution was an entirely new idea back in 1787, birthed in the minds of learned, passionate patriots, and based on concepts of liberty, justice and individual responsibility gleaned from a diversity of sources, including the Judeo-Christian Bible, ancient civilizations, contemporary thinkers, personal experience and English Common Law.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of hearing Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Randy Koschnick talk about the U.S. Constitution, and how important it is for American citizens, and elected officials in particular, to understand the Constitution.
Judge Koschnick outlined some of the ways the U.S. Legislature, Executive Office and Judicial Branch have weakened and destroyed various provisions of the Constitution over the last two hundred-plus years. Every time I’m reminded of how far we’ve come from the original, enumerated language and lofty concepts of the Constitution, I’m incredibly…sad.
I’m sad because I have some idea of what it took to win the right to establish a just and free Republic–a grueling process that started long before the Philadelphia summer of 1787. It was an epic journey and one that I wish We The People would never forget, take for granted or carelessly throw away.
We have something incredible in the U.S. Constitution–a successful experiment in nationhood unprecedented in previous civilizations. I’m celebrating that today, thanking the Lord for the gift of liberty, and vowing to do everything I can to help preserve and restore the Constitution to its original glory.
If you haven’t read it recently, or if you’ve never read it at all, I encourage to take some time to read the Constitution–it’s well worth your time.
>> click here for an online copy of the Constitution
WFA PAC-Endorsed Candidates Win in Primary Election
Julaine on Newsmakers: Issue Advocacy
Julaine Appling, President of Wisconsin Family Action, joined Scott Ross, Exec. Director of One Wisconsin Now, George Dunst, Retired Legal Counsel GAB, and Jay Heck, Executive Director of Common Cause Wisconsin, to discuss GAB §1.28.
Voter Information Publications now available online!
Check out www.YourWisconsinVote.org to view Wisconsin Family Council’s 2010 Voter Information Publications (VIPs), WFA PAC’s list of endorsed candidates, voting information and more!
Julaine Appling on “Understanding Our Times”
President of Wisconsin Family Action, Julaine Appling, joined Kevin Thompson on Blog Talk Radio last Saturday to discuss the upcoming elections. The topic was “When a Christian Votes.”
A Victory for Life
This week’s radio commentary:
Laura Dominguez became a quadriplegic at age 16 as a result of a terrible car accident. Doctors told her that she would never be able to walk again; but fortunately, thanks to the use of her own nasal adult stem cells, she has regained both movement and sensation in her lower body and is determined that she will one-day walk again. Laura’s story is only one of tens of thousands of such stories—stories of people who have been successfully treated and even cured of debilitating, life-threatening illnesses and injuries by adult stem-cell treatments.
But while thousands have been helped by adult stem cell research and resultant cures and therapies, no one, not one person has received help from human embryonic stem-cell treatment. Nevertheless, the push for using taxpayer money for this life-destroying, non-productive research continues. However, last week, a federal judge finally realized that using federal taxpayer money for such research violates federal law.
