jrubin998

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  • The DNC chair is coming this weekend, we hope with a ground game check.

  • You’ve got to be a joke!

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post The Industry Divide in the Election

    2012-05-25 16:29:06View | Delete

    Nader did not take away Gore’s ability to win. It was the Secretary of State in Florida, ahead of the creating the ballot and getting it to the Supreme court.

    The ballot was rigged, so that most people who voted for Buccanan, thought they were voting for Gore. The butterfly ballot made a lot of people confused.

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post The Industry Divide in the Election

    2012-05-25 16:21:06View | Delete

    Although most of the information is understandable, there are local farms here in WI who are seeing their safety net being trampled by Scotty. They are reassessing their traditional value of rural America. Much of the Medicaid is being dismantled and their children are suffering.

    WI is a bellweather of things to come, if a course correction isn’t recognized here at home. Ryan is not riding high here either. It may not be a getable seat, but it may be contested well.

    Again, I ask any of you who can help with a few dollars or ground work, if you live close. We need to reject or Recall Walker on June 5th. That will send tremors in the GOP!

  • I find the true irony is many of the GOP citizens, who are part of average working class, do not understand that they are the ones being screwed.

    Many in the South and elsewhere, FL AL, MS, TN, KY, NC, SC, TX, ND, SD, NE, MO, IA, etc, don’t make $250k and they are voting for the MILLIONAIRS.

    Very confusing, except for the fact that they are against social issues!

  • Send a copy embossed to the Everglades where there are 20ft. pythons!

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post Booker’s Wall Street Fundraising Past – and Obama’s

    2012-05-22 08:29:28View | Delete

    Although I agree and respect the writer’s view point on this good write up, the issue of going after funds is a little cynical. The “middle class” is barely hanging in there. They don’t have “chump change” ($1m) to spend on a candidate of their choosing. Yet the candidates opponent has MANY wells that can and do give. Most of their weath is to protect themselves as we know.

    So to suggest that the President doesn’t have to grovel at a trough now and still retain his dignity misses the point. Unless you, the writer, knows of a way to fight many states voter suppression laws, disingenuous attacks of character, bigotry, etc. please do not suggest that his groveling changes his character for the betterment of citizens in this and other countries.

    He is not perfect and he has missed my markers on many occasions, but he has done more then others (especially Clinton if you are more Democratic). He should be compared to Theodore Roosevelt as a “PROGRESSIVE” who was surely not perfect!

  • For all those writing the appropriate dismay, please give $10 to help us get rid of him. The money is only going for two purposes.

    1). Establishing phone banks to get the vote out.
    2). Using basic resourses to drive those who do not have transportation to the polls.

    If you live near WI, there are plenty of people willing to open their door, if you are willing to help with the leg work. No one who collected the signatures or are coordinating the effort is be paid (like a consultant). There are no massive mailing. This is all ground/foot work & ear phone work.

    We need him removed to not only get rid of him, but to support the effort that was achieved in OHIO. That momentum will go after all those who layers back in 2010. We became too complacent in 2008 and did not react in 2010. There was no tea party. It was only the GOP & their money interests who paid for the irrational Sister Sarah types.

  • To maintain a positive not for “progressives” is that it is very possible that we (WI) gains two State Senate seats. Minimally that stops the bleeding.

    I also agree that the national DNC does not see this fight as a defining moment for the 2012 race and the 2014 race for Johnson’s seat back!

  • The Defence department is putting solar panels on buildings, housing units, etc on many bases. They have also installed or are installing tidal bouys on some trial sites.

  • We do subsidize the solar industry….when I put EV panels on my house I received both Fed. Govt. help & State help. The cost savings made it affordable to install the panels. It is still a costly adventure, but I am saving, even in the midwest between 1/4 to 1/3 my energy consumption per month – I have a 2,400 sf house fully insulated (walls & windows). There is “almost” no air leaks – based on thermal tests.

  • Great posting, but go on YouTube and see how many discussions he had to explain his principal……

  • He actually has failed. But I knew this from the very beginning as soon as he marginalized Volcher, and put Sumners, Geitner, & Rubin in place. They were the ones with Greenspan & Clinton to get rid of Glass-Stegal.

    It has nothing to do with his siding directly with Wall Street, but it does suggest some capitulation!

  • I would be more thrilled if we incorporated a national holiday and a day off. And, like Australia, if you don’t vote you are penalized – some can’t renew their licence plates. I am not sure of the other penalties. Anyways, it is a requirement.

    But I do like the idea that a lottery number(s) are established so that when you vote you could win or something similar for those whos moral conviction is against betting!

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post Hollande Wins French Presidential Election

    2012-05-06 17:08:23View | Delete

    The issue is there that they have a vast amount of parties. We only have two parties that are bought and paid for by the “Oligarchy”.

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post Hollande Wins French Presidential Election

    2012-05-06 17:04:24View | Delete

    When we had a socialist Mayor in Milwaukee, WI in the 50-60′s we grew greater then any previous or present office holder in the city! We got the best parks, transportation, shared goals to make this city great!

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post Walkergate: Are We Going To See A World’s Record?

    2012-05-03 08:33:35View | Delete

    Next Tuesday, 8 May, 2012, is primary day. Get out the vote for a Democrat that can beat him, please!

  • I am “Caucasian”, but I found out from the Geneologist (Dr. Gates) that I really came from BLACK descendants thousands of years ago!!!!

  • What comes to mind for me is the Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury where the “whites” (Caucasians) had to sit at the back of the bus!

  • jrubin998 commented on the blog post Double The Hypocrisy, Double The Dumb!

    2012-04-30 15:18:52View | Delete

    The election will be close, mostly due to Voter ID laws. The election would be worse then 2008 without the laws passed in GOP states.

    Remember to vote in WI primary tomorrow………….

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