Tim Michels For U.S. Senate (Wisconsin)

http://www.michelsforsenate.com/ ^ | 04/10/2004 | Tim Michels Website

[ServesURight]

Attention Wisconsin FReepers - the Tim Michels website is up and running. Please make a donation to this fine individual as he takes out the reprehensible and socialist Russ Feingold.

President Bush Sr., First Lady Barbara Bush, and Tim Michels

Tim Michels has an extensive business and military background.

Business

- Co-owner and Vice President of Michels Corporation, Brownsville, Wisconsin.
- Member of IBAW, NFIB, and numerous trade organizations representing the construction industry
- Executive Committee for the Transportation Development Association, Wisconsin (TDA)
- Worked on the trading floors at the Chicago Board of Trade

Military

- Twelve years of active duty service as an Airborne Ranger Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army
- Rank of Major
- Upon promotion was one of the youngest Captains in the U.S. Army
- Former Commander of the Army’s elite Honor Guard with duties at the White House, State Department, and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- Currently still serving in the IRR (reserves), member American Legion and VFW

[ServesURight]

BUMP

[good_ole_texas_boy]

Question: What are his chances?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

A. Slim and none.

Regrettably - Feingold has a lock on Wisconsin. I've told this story before but in 1998 Mark Neumann had a 40,000 vote plurality in the rest of the state until Dane County came in and Feingold picked up enough to win by more than 20,000 votes. Dane County and Milwaukee county have such disproportionate effect that even a candidate strong in the rest of the state cannot win on that alone. 

Feingold has great personal integrity and cannot be assailed on that aspect. But you would think that his indifference to freedom of political speech and his position on the Patriot Act, etc. etc. etc. would render him vulnerable. Alas, not in the state of Wisconsin.

[alloysteel]

Feingold may have great personal integrity, but then, so does Ralph Nader, who covers some of the same part of the political spectrum. Is Feingold as firmly rooted as, say, William Proxmire was thirty or forty years ago? One continuing problem that Wisconsin has, is that prospective voters may still register at the polls on Election day, and there is more than a little opportunity for widespread fraud, which has been noted and documented elsewhere in previous elections. UW-Madison students, who cannot be bothered to fit into the fascist-capitalist mold, and are from out-of-state, vote both in their home district, and in the local precincts in Madison. Milwaukee is notorious for passing out cartons of cigarettes to homeless people on Election Day. With a little bit of expert doctoring of documents, the same person may vote in several different precincts the same day. For one thing, it is absolutely illegal for your Social Security number to be used as any kind of identification for a driver's license (the generally accepted form of ID used), so it may be possible to use several different forms of ID and never be cross-referenced.

[JohnnyZ]

Question: What are his chances?

To win the primary: 1 in 4
To win the general election if he's the nominee: 1 in 3

I think he'd be our strongest general election candidate.

Russ Feingold does NOT have personal integrity -- he's a little worm like all the others -- but he does have that image.

[Dan from Michigan]

Marquette (College, not city in Michigan) has multiple voting as well.

[SuziQ]

Oh man! I'd LOVE to see Russ Feingold defeated!!

[LouD]

All you out of staters (at least you're not flying WI flags) may be surprised this year. I think either Michels or Welch has a shot against Feingold; He is out of step with his constituents.

[ServesURight]

Question: What are his chances?

Feingold's support is mostly in Milwaukee and Madison. He barely won his Senate seat in 1998 against Mark Neumann, who ran a solid conservative campaign. A lot of union workers and swing voters may vote for Michels due to his business background.

[ServesURight]

Feingold has great personal integrity

IMO, Feingold's just a savvy politician who doesn't allow himself to be protrayed as a liberal Democrat. But anyone who supports partial-birth abortion has less integrity than Charles Manson.

[BlkConserv]

Sorry, but Michels has his work cut out from him. Feingold is a very dangerous Democrat because he doesn't fit the "tax and spend" liberal Democrat mold that Republicans (and FReepers) use against other Democrats.

Feingold votes against pay raises each year - he knows the raises will go through but he knows that taking a stand will resonate with average voters. Also while other Democrats are out there foaming at the mouth bad-mouthing Bush and the war in Iraq Feingold wisely keeps his mouth shut.

This is a guy who ran a humorous campaign in 1992 while the other candidates were slinging mud at each other. Like I said - extremely dangerous Democrat, someone I wouldn't want to run for President.

[ServesURight]

Congratulations!!! Michels for Senate!

[ServesURight]

Oh man! I'd LOVE to see Russ Feingold defeated!!

Your wish may come true! Wisconsin Republicans are very excited about Michels' chances. IMO Russ Darrow is too old, and Bob Welch has been in politics too long. Lorge was a nobody. Michels is 42, he's spent 12 years as an Army Airborne Ranger, and he runs a successful construction company. He's the perfect conservative Republican.

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. You reckon The President's coattails will reach far enough to bring Michels along? I'm really hoping we see some major changes in the makeup of the Senate. Thune is ahead of Little Tommy in South Dakota, and that would be schweet to unseat the Minority Leader!!

[Logic n' Reason]

Went to the polls yesterday morning in La Crosse. Was voter number 16!

Cast vote for Michels - he won.

Now...we gotta send this man to the Senate to support our President during the next four years.

As a "value add" to this process, we also gain the retirement of the ultra liberal ex-senator Finegold.

Good stuff!

[Logic n' Reason]

I believe finegold also cast a vote in the senate. he was the only - repeat ONLY - senator to vote against the Patriot Act.

The Republicans in Wisconsin are the "toaster"; finegold is the Toast!

[Kryptonite]

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