Republican Wisconsin and Indiana straightening out while Democrat Illinois is still sinking

coachisright.com ^ | January 28, 2012 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

[USS Alaska]

There ain’t a damn bit of difference between “downstate” e.g. rural Illinois and rural Wisconsin or rural Indiana. Those of us who are red-staters stuck in these blue-state havens ought to know, so just direct your anger at the right place, please

I hear ya brother.

I'm from PA and we are a red state with big corrupt, demonRAT cities bookending the state.

If we could dump Philly and Pburg, PA would be 96% red.

This is the same in many states, including Georgia, it just happens that Atlanta can't over power the rest of the state.

Dead beats congregate in cities because that's where the biggest bunch of freebie centers are located, it's not an accident.

[Secret Agent Man]

I was thinking “Mile afte Magnificently Taxed Mile” but it’s pretty much the same thing.

Can’t stand having to be on the “free”ways there. Have been able to avoid them for at least 6 years now.

[Secret Agent Man]

There’s no way anyone will be Walker. Not with the voting reforms passed and not with the other legislation that’s passed that’s helped the state.

Dems are clearly just trying to make the state pay tens of millions for an election they know they can’t win. They just want it to drain the taxpayers, if they can’t have the money, the taxpayers can’t have that in savings. Then they’ll rip Walker for all the money that had to be spent on the special elections.

[Paleo Conservative]

The legislature should reform the recall laws. The organization requesting the recall should be required to post a bond for the full cost of running the special elections. If their position loses, they lose the money. Also, any organization collecting signatures should clean up the lists to eliminate fraudulent signatures. If any fraudulent signatures remain, there should be a $100 fine per fraudulent signature. Also not only would the fraudulent signatures not be counted, but each fraudulent signature found should increase the number of required signatures to increase by 10. If 100 fraudulent signatures are found in a batch, the organization submitting them would be fined $10,000, and the total number of signatures required would increase by 1,000.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’m surprised someone there hasn’t started the Church For The Dis-embodied Voter!

[ought-six]

Illinois won’t recover. I live here (my job brought me here, but I am a proud Southerner), but I’ll be heading back to Dixie when I retire in four years.

Illinois is — in many ways — worse than California, and in almost all ways is worse than New Jersey for God’s sake!

I really feel bad for Illinois south of I-80 (except for Springfield and Champaign and East St. Louis), because it is an entirely different state, but because it is outnumbered by Chicago, Chicago dominates and calls all the shots. Illinois south of I-80 is pretty conservative, and is literally being oppressed by Chicago.