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This restatement of "Those who don't remember history" (and Part 2) will be at the top of the blog until AB15, the bad-ethanol-gas bill, is defeated. Please look for the regular posts below.

How appropriate it is that the penultimate reaction to the first episode happened 232 years ago December 16th. A politically-connected industry finds itself with a massive amount of product that it can't sell. It goes to the government to get a monopoly in a new market to get rid of it and goes on to claim that it will actually cost less to do it that way. I am not talking about the East India Tea Company back in the 1770s (which led to the Boston Tea Party and ultimately the creation of the United States of America), but ethanol in 2005. That's right, the Assembly forgot its history and crammed AB15, the bill mandating the more-expensive, less-efficient, more-polluting, GM-engine-killing statewide E10 gasoline mandate through the day before the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

There is at least one more chance to stop this, and likely just that one more chance. This bill still has to go through the Senate (my list of semi-confirmed "no" votes here). If it makes it through, Jim "Craps" Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) has already promised ADM that he would sign it. Those Senate staffers you called regarding the repeal of the automatic gas-tax increase are still there in Madison. Call them today! If you don't have the number (for shame; you should still have it from the efforts to repeal the automatic gas-tax increase), go here to find your Senator and his or her phone number.

1/22/2006

Grand jury looking into donations to Craps

As noted below, a federal grand jury is now looking into whether donations to the Jim "Craps" Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) got Adelman Travel a $750,000 contract. There are a couple of noteworthy things here:

This grand jury is being run by Milwaukee US Attorney Steve "Hang-Em" Biskupic.
The US Attorney's office is also looking at donations made by the former joint owners of the Kewaunee nuclear power plant around the time of its sale.

Both issues read like they're straight from the Craps' pay-to-play playbook used by groups such as Indian tribes seeking to expand gaming, and teachers' unions seeking mo' money, mo' money, mo' money - make massive donations to the campaign, and get a deal worth a lot more back from the governor.

I wonder what happens if Doyle's convicted of a felony stemming from this between the primaries in September and the general election in November. Remember, we're not talking about E. Michael McCan't, or even the Western Wisconsin US Attorney's office, which seems to have been MIA (bad news for JB Van Hollen; he was that attorney until a few months ago when he decided to run for Wisconsin attorney general). The state constitution prohibits felons from either holding office or seeking office. Of course, Craps doesn't give a rat's ass about the constitution; just take a look at the games being offered by the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and other tribes (say, are the Ho-Chunk making their payments yet?).

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