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Take Tea-Party favorite Wisconsin State Senator Randy Hopper, shown here hanging out with the usual right-wingers at a rally lightly attended but heavily covered. He’s a real loyal ally of Scott Walker and truly fits the modern mold of the Republican Party.
Protesters who marched at the home of Wisconsin state senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) were met with something of a surprise on Saturday. Mrs. Hopper appeared at the door and informed them that Sen. Hopper was no longer in residence at this address, but now lives in Madison, WI with his 25-year-old mistress.
The mistress, naturally is currently employed as a lobbyist for right-wing advocacy group.
But there is good news to go with the hilarious news.
When asked if they would vote for Hopper or someone else if a recall election were held right now, 54 percent said they’d vote for someone else, versus only 43 percent they’d vote for Hopper.
Now leading the recall…Mrs. Randy Hopper.
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A picture of the mistress would add interest, and laughter. We need to get in the habit of doing this Newt might be running for President. I am sick of us pulling our punches with the family values crowd who call us immoral then do shit like this.
Newt and how many other GOP candidates are screaming Morals when they mean Black People are immoral?
Notice they are not talking about Jobs, saving peoples homes or ending both wars issues voters care about nope they would rather say Tax Cuts for the Rich paid for by Teacher’s Pensions!
What kind of resume does a 25 year old lobbyist have? Does she at least have a B.A unlike Governor Walker?
That’s called Hiking the Appalachian Trail now, isn’t it?
Went to the link she has been fired but thats probably damage control and she will be taken care of not the Chicago Way the Bush lets promote failure way.
http://bloggingblue.com/2011/03/11/randy-hopper-family-man/
A photo of the husband would be good chances are he doesn’t rate a 25 year old.
Certainly he is all Koch and no brain.
*snort*
More fossil fuel products.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tqEA7hk-MZcJ:www.persuasionpartners.com/valerie.html+valerie+cass+persuasion+partners&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
Found her resume and a picture in the comments. B.A in Journalism no degree in Finance, Law, Public Policy she can report on the issues I guess but aside from that what makes her qualified to be a lobbyist besides she is young and pretty?
Granted thats more qualifications than George Will has to write about Global Warming or Bobo to write about the economy.
I assume we can recall this guy easy:)
Good morning pups. Thanks for the post, Attaturk.
She is a member of Lobbyists with benefits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Hopper
Randy’s wiki notice anything missing?….No mention that he is married the guy either scrubbed his wiki real quick or he never mentioned his wife at all?
Not a bad picture I think he could easily pass for Valerie’s dad.
No Randy has the Benefits Valerie has to think about England to get through the day. Tha and curse the man who invented Viagra.
http://www.channel3000.com/politics/27196630/detail.html
To be fair he claims he maintains an apartment in the district but when does he go there between playing house with the girl friend, his job and maybe we hope visiting the kids when does he live in his apartment?
What are the laws about Primary Residence and living in a district to get elected in Wisconsin?
What issues did Valerie’s lobbying firm lobby on and how did the Randy vote? How did the other GOPers vote? We have no proof that she is a one man guy. We do probably have a quid pro quo thing going of I assume the AG will book her on prostitution.
Persuasion Partners Inc. seems to be I just looked briefly a Republican propaganda firm I saw lots of adds for politicians and for GOP issues I didn’t see crap about business lobbying it seems they are a GOP campaign firm but why be a lobbying firm?
http://www.persuasionpartners.com/
http://www.persuasionpartners.com/darrin.html
So the name Persuasion Partners is Truth in Advertising :)
Client list I think the press should ask if they were all as well served as Randy.
http://www.persuasionpartners.com/clients.html
Valerie worked on John McCain’s Presidential campaign McCain had to deny an affair with a lobbyist I recall. Maybe we should ask the wives of all Persuasion Partners clients if they want their husbands working for them?
http://bjkeefe.blogspot.com/2011/03/it-all-depends-on-what-your-definition.html
Any bets he hit on the maid?
And to think our Democratic leaders are afraid of these people. Obama, for example, shows every sign of being scared sh*tless of Republicans.
The Feeble Soul of Barack Obama
The GOP is running Newt, Sarah etc on Morals against a guy who is married to the same woman for years and who’s daughters haven’t gotten knocked up.
But yes Obama is scared, why its the ECONOMY STUPID as Clinton said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/middleeast/16bahrain.html
Unacceptable in diplomatic language means what?
Caught a few minutes very trippy video.
I don’t mean Obama is just “scared about getting reelected.” I mean the guy is terrified of Republicans in general. Even if he gets reelected, he’ll still be scared of Republicans and will continue to do whatever he can to please them. It’s both sad and funny.
I have to wonder about the 43% that would still vote for this asswipe.
Like Newt, he must’ve loved his country too much.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-insurers-idUSTRE72D3KQ20110315
Another bailout might be coming:(
OK
I don’t think Obama is afraid of Republicans, I think he’s one of them. How esle do you explain Daley,Immelt, Geithner, Salazar, Summers and the rest of the Wall Street/Corporatist crowd?
Maybe he is in the GOP ingroup but is afraid constantly of being kicked out? He does act afraid and he does act like a GOPer.
He doesn’t realize the GOP will never like him no matter what he does.
Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Herbert today. Bobo has extruded a thing called “The Ike Phase,” in which he babbles that at a time when urgent action calls, President Obama is choosing prudence. Is this wisdom or passivity? Mr. Herbert, in “The Sport Needs to Change,” says the tragic side of pro football is increasingly emerging from the shadows.
Here they are.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels and cream cheese. Last Friday the Times published a review of Bobo’s book “The Social Animal,” in which the reviewer called it “a moral and social tract.” Here’s a taste:
That’s gotta leave a scar… Have a great day.
Thanks, Marion, no wonder the NFL still has an audience.
Lobbyists lobby for a specific client for issues that help them. This firm seems to have no or little actual business clients and lobbies for the GOP agenda and does voter out reach. I thought campaign work could not be done on state property or time?
Lobbyists however have access to the state Capital and Pols because they try to pass laws and educate pols about their issues.
This lobbyist firm seems to be doing campaign work. I am not an expert on these laws but I think they are in violation of the law never mind the mistress.
For what it’s worth, I see Obama as an extremely right-wing guy who is posing as a centrist Democrat. This–along with a great deal of sheer incompetence–best explains his cataclysmic career so far.
Bob’s characters I’m sure are as lifelike as he is:)
I agree third term of Bush Nite:)
And thanks for peeping at my video. There will be no quiz. :)
“the GOP will never like him no matter what he does”
I think they’d like him better if he could change the color of his skin.
President Barack Obama is not afraid of the Republicans,if he were,he wouldn’t be in the White House.As I have posted time and time again,politics is the art of the possible and it is just not politically possible to go any further to the left than Obama has done.
And another thing I would like to remind all of you about,the Democratic Party has to stand for something other than the interests of the public sector unions.Their members should pay more towards their health insurance and pensions,the overwhelming majority of the American people support this idea,of course,they do not support stripping them of their collective bargaining rights.One thing has nothing to do with the other. Let them bargain collectively but let the various states,counties and cities get much tougher when they bargain with those unions.
How very appropriate that the workers should pay for the financial disaster brought on by the financial sector after it bought and paid for the politicians that deregulated it. Such a perfect solution.
Good Morning, I’ve got some little jobs today. Woo-Hoo!
Not sure if you all saw this one, but the bank that is helping Walker sneak in and out via tunnel is full of TARP and getting millions in bonuses from it.
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011031114/wisconsins-backstabbing-bailout-bank-was-toxic-too-governors-pals-got-rich-any
Yes. theBernank and theGeithner will be holding meetings to review this major banking turmoil with Japan. We know it is a CYA meeting. The market did a major fall yesterday and not enough jobs have been added to raise tax revenue here in the US.
Bernanke, building with Lincoln Logs and twiddly winks.
theGreenspan taught him well.
Is there no problem in law that says he can’t live in another district?
Funny you mention George Will. Went to college with a girl who grew up in his neighborhood. Let’s just say there is an interesting tale about the transition between Mrs. George Will mark I and Mrs. George Will mark II. Ahh, the power of the interwebs, the story is online…
she dumped his clothing in a pile in the driveway with a sign saying “Take it somewhere else, buster.” Will’s divorce left his wife with their Downs syndrome daughter.
http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=112
these great fanciers of ‘family values’; need lots of families to spread them around well.
Of course Obama is afraid. He fired Shirley Sherrod when Glen Beck told him to fire her. He has adopted the neo-con Police State and their illegal wars. He has broken every promise he made. His corporate Republican Illness Maintenance Care, has set back universal health care for years.
Historically, this statement is an outrageous falsehood and proves that you are an enemy of organized labor. In 2006 and 2008 the D’s voted against war and shock doctrine.
Your statement seems to be the White House policy that the Liar Obama is spinning. Except I do not believe he even supports labor unions. You could say that Obama and that loser Tim Kaine stand for nothing other than helping Republicans impose wars and shock doctrine. They are not the Democratic Party.
I am sure that Obama and Kaine and Daly and Geithner agree with you about suppressing labor unions and stealing their pensions and health care.
Here you go:
http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2011/03/sen-randy-hoppers-problems-mounting-in.html
Oh, indeed. Which made his pursed-lip pontificating about Evil Horndog Clinton even funnier to those in the know.
Depends on the age and appearance of the maid. If she’s over thirty, I’m betting not.
“They are not the Democratic Party.”
Sadly, I think they are. The national party has compromised or capitulated on every plank in the party platform. I don’t think most even know what planks are in the party platform.
The list of non candidates is interesting too:
Republican Party of Tennessee
Associated Builders and Contractors
Americans for Job Security
Susan B. Anthony List
Wisconsin Coalition for Consumer Choice
ENOUGH!
Wisconsin Utility Investors, Inc.
United States Chamber of Commerce
Direct Impact
Cross Link Strategies
Republican Party of Minnesota
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Sporting Heritage, Inc.
Americans For Prosperity
Wisconsin Institute for Leadership
They work for Koch (AFP)& the Chamber of Commerce. I only wonder if the did direct work for Hopper or Walker someewhere along the line, or just via surrogates?
I wonder if this will turn into the next voting fraud scandal too. It appears that he voted using the address of his soon to be ex wife. I think that it can be proven pretty easily that he no longer resided there at the time of the election.
Wisconsin voting law requires a person to have resided in the election district for at least 10 days prior to the election. Even if Hopper can prove that he did maintain an apartment in Fond Du Lac, the question remains as to whether he voted properly. It seems clear that he did not update his address properly. Did he vote in the proper polling place? Was this new apartment in the same Ward as his former home for local election purposes?
If your federal government actually represented YOU, they would...
Permanently end Bush tax cuts
End the foreclosure crisis by giving bankruptcy judges the power to order reductions in mortgage principal owed
Immediately set up a national infrastructure bank – run by engineers, not politicians and invest $2 trillion over 10 years to create jobs now and increase productivity later. Put millions back to work. Fund with millionaire’s tax
Invest 6% of GDP yearly in R & D to create quality jobs long term in areas like biotechnology, alternative energy, clean technology, etc. Fund with a 7% national sales (innovation) tax
Reform Education – Raise educational standards through a national core curriculum. Advocate the end of tenure for teachers. Make higher education free to families that can’t afford it to encourage upward mobility. Fund with financial transactions and bank tax
Reform Budget – raise taxes on the super-rich, contain the explosion of health-care costs, cut the defense budget, end the wars (another form of corporate welfare), end agricultural subsidies, stop corporate welfare.
Reform Health Care – target costs at 10% (currently 17%) of GDP with Medicare for all
Reform Social Security – raise the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security tax to $180,000 to restore solvency
Reform Wall St. – break up the big banks and strengthen the Volker Rule
Reform Federal Elections – enact the Fair Elections Now Act. Matching funds. $100.00 maximum donation. Strictly voluntary
Climate Reform – create a permanent U.S. carbon tax to reduce emissions
Remove the letter o from “country” and I think you’re onto something. ;-)
Thanks for this post!! Well well we have yet another ReTHUG – probably ran around spouting off (pun intended) about Family Values ‘n stuff, and his rightwing constituents are ever so satisfied about the meaningless bullsh*t what he said. Typical. And most of those conservatives would turn right around and vote for this bought off by the industry adulterer simply because he calls himself a Republican.
IOKIYAR rules!! Yay team. Take one for the Gipper!
Just like CA State Assemblyman, Mike Duvall, who got busted bragging about his hotpants affair with a corporate Lobbyist 19 years his junior.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/blogs/busted-california-rep-caught-cheating-with-energy-lobbyist
WTF is going on with Lobbyists these days??? Are they ALL recruited from Escort Services, or what??? Sheesh. But hey: it’s ALL OK if you claim to be a FAMILY VALUES Republican.
THAT is a brilliant idea!
LOLzer: pull the other one! Obama has never ever done anything that was *remotely* “left” after signing the Lilly Ledbetter law. That was IT; that was the sole action that Obama took that, while the correct thing to do & not even particularly “leftwing,” it was the ONLY thing that the Great Pretender did that was remotely “left.”
Guess you like ALL your politicians bought off and beholden to the upper wealthy 2%.
You have only your chains to lose to gain your freedom. We’re not talking about “left v. right” anymore, my friend. That’s so Twentieth Century.
What we’re discussing here is CLASS WARFARE. And believe me, when the dust settles YOU, too, will be just as ground under by the Elites, as any purportedly “leftwing” person is.
My wife was a guest at Will’s first wedding. Couldn’t stand the guy. I don’t know just how close a friend she was to wife #1. I’ll have to ask her. Maybe more dirt?
we should all start to understand that nothing is easy …. ever
Entertaining as geeks biting the heads off of chickens. I’m waiting for Americans to get their fill of such disgusting personal and ideological squalor.
If I had a buck for every time I’ve heard this tripe I’d have enough beer money to last me the summer.
Tell me, why does Wisconsin have an idiot governor? Why does Michigan have another idiot governor? Both got swept into office in great part because the timid, tepid, pusillanimous Democrats did not address the public’s needs in the 2 years they had to do so, instead catering to every whim of their corporate masters. They got killed in the mid-terms as a result. The Wisconsin 14, on the other had, did not wring their hands helplessly, with lamentations of “politics is the art of the possible”; instead they fought back. Bet they get reelected. Sometimes you have to fight to win, even if you lose the fight.
What a narrow perspective.
She’s very laid back.
“Unacceptable” means Iran will have to treat the local Shiites to the Hezbollah subsidies.
The unfair labor contracts that public sector unions have received from states,counties,cities and school boards over the past 15 years have nothing to do with the current recession which was mostly broght on by the greed and stupidity of the banks and Wall Street.The current mess has just brought home to the public that these wages and benfits are simply unsustainable.
As an example,here in New Jersey,the average salary for a cop in $90,000 a year plus $47,000 in benefits. They can retire after 25 years at somewhere around 65-70% of their pay plus lifetime health benefits for them and their spouses. And its not only cops and teachers who get these gilt edged benefits,its the school secretaries and the custodians and the clerical help in city hall,all public employees although the cops are the greediest. They and others here in NJ and New York also know how to work the overtime racket,they pile up overtime in their last 3 years to fatten their pensions. The newspapers are constantly printing stories about this abuse.
I have no idea where you live but in NJ and NY,trust me,the great majority of the people,whether on the left or right are fed up with this nonsense.It was the Democratic legislature in NJ which recently passed a 2% cap on police and fire raises and a 2% cap on local property taxes. You see,the public sector unions are so out of favor with the general public,that the left has even turned against them. My state senator,who I have known for 35 years and is very much on the left,agrees with this post.