tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144578848762615882024-03-16T13:52:26.186-05:00JT IRREGULARSOrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.comBlogger26438125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-78789692024020335072024-03-11T18:58:00.006-05:002024-03-11T18:58:38.491-05:00The Shadows - Apache (1960) 4K<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7TwULx_wDiI?si=HyjU2_eb3ueDBfMj" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-76878448206522008902024-03-10T10:05:00.012-05:002024-03-10T14:09:49.134-05:00Luke Burbank on taking "spring ahead" to the next level<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdAMxVlwaj0?si=YJStT0_EM3V-ByL5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-33912252693338067272024-03-05T05:40:00.001-06:002024-03-05T05:41:37.108-06:00Wait trial pushed back, files motion to dismissFrom <a href="http://journaltimes.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Journal Times.com</span></a>:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/5f/d5fc987c-da52-11ee-ae78-ab30597a71a4/64877838493e7.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C961" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="800" height="513" src="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/5f/d5fc987c-da52-11ee-ae78-ab30597a71a4/64877838493e7.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C961" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption-text" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Harry Wait of Union Grove faces two counts of election fraud and two counts of unauthorized use of another person's identifying information for his alleged role in requesting false absentee ballots in July 2022. </p></span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="credit" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; display: block; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 15px; text-align: start;"><span class="tnt-byline asset-byline" id="author--asset-d5fc987c-da52-11ee-ae78-ab30597a71a4" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;">Journal Times file photo</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="lee-article-text first-p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">RACINE — The trial for Harry Wait was taken off the calendar after the defense filed motions to dismiss the charges against him — two counts of unauthorized use of an individual’s personal identifying information and two counts of election fraud.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Wait is accused of ordering absentee ballots in July 2022 through the My Vote Wisconsin website using the names of Racine Mayor Cory Mason and Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Wait reportedly admitted to ordering the ballots to expose vulnerabilities in the absentee voting system. He pleaded not guilty to all charges Oct. 21, 2022.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Wait was scheduled to go to trial March 19, but the date has been removed to allow the defense and prosecution time to address the motions.</p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">Motions</h2></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"><div class="tncms-block" id="tncms-block-2125971" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The defense filed two motions to dismiss the case Feb. 29, alleging the charges against Wait are unconstitutional, infringe on constitutional rights and lack probable cause.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">One motion claims that the election fraud charge infringes on the right to vote because it “imposes substantial penalties on voters” who make false statements.</p><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The motion states the charge has a chilling effect, meaning it will deter people from voting in fear of making false statements and being penalized.</p></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The second motion claims that the complaint filed in the case had “reckless and materially misleading statements” and lacked probable cause for the unauthorized use of an individual’s personal identifying information charges.</p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The complaint alleges Wait claimed to have successfully ordered the absentee ballots to be shipped to his address, and that he was ready to be charged for “exposing these voting vulnerabilities.”</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The motion claims that Village of Rochester Clerk Sandi Swan and City of Racine Clerk Tara McMenamin deactivated the ballot requests he submitted. One ballot was sent, but was deactivated before it was received, according to an interview with McMenamin attached to the motion.</p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The motion claims that even if Wait did admit to ordering the ballots, it does not matter because they were inactive, therefore no crime was committed.</p><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">“No matter what the Defendant admitted about his conduct, he never got those active absentee ballots and he never will,” the motion states.</p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">During a status conference Friday, the defense was given until April 19 to file an opening brief. The state will have until June 21 to file a response, and the defense will have until July 12 to file a rebuttal.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Wait is scheduled to appear in court again Aug. 16 for an evidentiary hearing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="color: #222222;">From: </span><a href="https://journaltimes.com/news/local/wait-trial-pushed-back-motions-to-dismiss-filed/article_2d7905be-d7ff-11ee-b46b-cb299f0e45cc.html#tracking-source=home-top-story"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://journaltimes.com/news/local/wait-trial-pushed-back-motions-to-dismiss-filed/article_2d7905be-d7ff-11ee-b46b-cb299f0e45cc.html#tracking-source=home-top-story</span></a></p></div></div></div>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-66156930207884982452024-03-03T07:07:00.002-06:002024-03-03T07:07:21.465-06:00Early Automobile History # 4 1904 Mitchell Light Car & Ride on My Car Story with Lou Costabile<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JYAmR-PbYYE?si=a1epFgCijPVDLG4Q" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Mitchells were made in Racine.OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-36166346874236668972024-03-03T06:40:00.000-06:002024-03-03T06:40:19.595-06:00Cocaine smuggled in rollerblades from South America to Wisconsin<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QL8KsTOU0rc?si=jWfXbC33i0ey-QIi" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-1292527454060623292024-03-03T06:33:00.003-06:002024-03-03T06:33:25.958-06:00Fires at GM EV plant have fire officials demanding changes<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TFsgfW__crQ?si=NF34pwSqoIGn_Lg7" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-89831508028779372052024-02-27T10:21:00.005-06:002024-02-27T10:21:28.293-06:00Wisconsin Weather<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfi30zJ0zdsYzKVYty0_QEh8iSy9zBghS4GvM44jm5aQTOQaCTL4d9M3Irptf50Kf7e-3spoquw5342mFd2vru4o9HePAblNMef9nA1s7UFV9LWZxASTkN8GdxDGd-yeZJ-k4ghKiPb3DYagZu_nUYDKTCgkJHy8p5bWEvNaL6z8W-3-xGcx3bv4GEuZ7L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="742" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfi30zJ0zdsYzKVYty0_QEh8iSy9zBghS4GvM44jm5aQTOQaCTL4d9M3Irptf50Kf7e-3spoquw5342mFd2vru4o9HePAblNMef9nA1s7UFV9LWZxASTkN8GdxDGd-yeZJ-k4ghKiPb3DYagZu_nUYDKTCgkJHy8p5bWEvNaL6z8W-3-xGcx3bv4GEuZ7L=w400-h270" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Enjoy!OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-76334417484191921692024-02-22T09:52:00.002-06:002024-02-22T09:52:11.882-06:00Gun battle in Milwaukee leads to 'war zone' comparisons<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KL3nIh7uMl0?si=UjyG1BdSCT6f0OpV" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Nothing will be done. And if it is, the shooters will be released.OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-88432174421292118242024-02-21T03:09:00.003-06:002024-02-21T03:09:14.522-06:00Is your phone giving you 'Popcorn Brain'?<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xSxPcEGPKYk?si=q4gbTxUEGdrY8kxc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-9857297015886390592024-02-19T23:53:00.005-06:002024-02-19T23:53:56.327-06:00Teens from Chicago steal nearly a dozen luxury cars in Wisconsin<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ruNe3C6Q8jI?si=-sphdObV50bGE_8A" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-30093415401506987312024-02-19T02:34:00.001-06:002024-02-19T02:34:33.633-06:00Homegrown marijuana: Inside Minnesota's growing market<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aa72Yz3O9vg?si=c5ekzocGoh0QD-sv" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-32112656309213089272024-02-17T10:46:00.001-06:002024-02-17T10:48:09.983-06:00The PERILS of Renting an EV<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pF_YYmsRGdE?si=2SVqOQpPUv3DWXiO" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />
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I subscribe to this YouTube channel.OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-52416189939850355222024-02-16T08:36:00.000-06:002024-02-16T08:36:31.906-06:00A husband and wife went to Ascension for their annual checkup. One of them walked out with a $600 bill.From <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JSOnline</span></a>:<br />
<br /><a class="gnt_ar_by_a" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/10086889002/quinn-clark/" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 3.84px 0px 0px; order: 1; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Quinn Clark</a><a class="gnt_ar_by_a gnt_ar_by_a__fi" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/7681489001/tamia-fowlkes/" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; order: 3; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Tamia Fowlkes</a><div class="gnt_ar_pb" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; display: inline; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 1px 0px 0px; order: 4;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</div><div><div class="gnt_ar_pb" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; display: inline; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 1px 0px 0px; order: 4;"><br /></div></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/15/PMJS/72607232007-mjs-lococo-p-1.jpg?crop=2990,2265,x0,y139&width=660&height=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="660" height="485" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/15/PMJS/72607232007-mjs-lococo-p-1.jpg?crop=2990,2265,x0,y139&width=660&height=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In May 2023, Dan and Helen Lococo entered Ascension Hospital Southeast in Milwaukee for their first-ever annual wellness checkup.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The couple sat in the room together for the appointment as their doctor checked their height and weight and ticked through a series of questions about their medical history.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When they left, they anticipated Medicare would cover the routine appointment. </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But when a billing statement landed in their mailbox in September, the couple found that Dan Lococo had been charged for two additional services — an "established patient periodic preventive medicine examination" for $399 and an "office/outpatient established low MDM" for $180.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Helen Lococo, who had sat through an identical appointment, was not charged at all.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The billing discrepancy caused Dan and Helen Lococo over six months of emails, calls and sleepless nights while the couple pushed for answers from Ascension, culminating in a collections warning letter they received in the mail in December.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"This is your FINAL NOTICE," the letter read. "Your account may be placed with a collection agency and reported on your credit report if we do not receive payment immediately."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Then, on Jan. 23, Dan Lococo received a voicemail from Ascension letting him know all charges from the visit had been suddenly dropped, including some that he never disputed. The company's representative didn't give an explanation.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Now, the Lococos are asking why Ascension, one of the country's largest health care systems, was unable to explain the incorrect charges.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"(An annual wellness checkup) seemed like the right thing to do," Dan Lococo said. "But I have to say, I don't know that I'll ever do one again."</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Experience working with insurance companies provides some answers</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When Dan Lococo got the initial bill, he assumed Ascension had accidentally charged him too many times. When he asked Ascension, representatives told him he had to contact his doctor, he said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">He said his doctor attempted to dispute some of the charges, without success. By the end of October 2023, Dan Lococo still maintained over $600 in overdue payments to Ascension.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">November and December were restless months for him and Helen Lococo, who said they toiled over documents, emails and old communications with Ascension. At night, she lay in bed replaying the appointment and billing dispute process in her head.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Early in their careers, both had worked in the health care industry on insurance billing and financial analysis. Based on their experience, the couple decided to request their appointment's insurance codes from Ascension.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Insurance codes are the set of letters and numbers representing the health care treatment or service given to a patient during a visit.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Through the codes, the Lococos confirmed that their annual wellness visit, coded G0439, was covered and not subject to copays and deductibles. <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.cms.gov/httpswwwcmsgovresearch-statistics-data-and-systemsmonitoring-programsmedicare-ffs-compliance/0176-annual-wellness-visit-medical-necessity-and-documentation-requirements-0" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</a>, an annual wellness visit includes a personalized health issue prevention plan.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Still, Ascension maintained the validity of the charges.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Somebody did contact us back, left a voicemail and simply said, 'Yes, we looked at the billing, and the coding is all correct,'" Dan Lococo said. "'These are valid charges. If you have any other questions, you have to contact customer service.'"</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The couple said the struggle to speak with someone who could justify the extra charges became increasingly frustrating.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al" style="margin-right: 3px;">More:</strong><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|spike click:26|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/public-investigator/2024/01/04/health-insurance-claim-denied-heres-how-to-get-help-in-wisconsin/72089424007/" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank">If you're having a health insurance dispute in Wisconsin, these organizations may be able to help</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">At one point, the Lococos said they requested a meeting with a representative from the hospital and <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/public-investigator/2024/01/04/health-insurance-claim-denied-heres-how-to-get-help-in-wisconsin/72089424007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">a patient advocate</a> to negotiate their case. Ascension did not respond, according to Dan Lococo.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">By the time the couple received the collections notice in December, they had not spoken to Ascension in more than a month, they said. They decided to ignore the notice.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When Dan Lococo received the news in January that the charges had suddenly been dropped, he felt relieved, but remained frustrated with the lack of explanation.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Because Ascension also dropped his vaccination charges that he had never disputed, he suspects Ascension simply didn't want to deal with him anymore.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I don't want to be that person that just (says), 'Well, you know what, I'll just be a complete jerk, and they'll back down,'" Dan Lococo said. "That doesn't sit well with me."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al" style="margin-right: 3px;">More:</strong><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|spike click:33|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/12/13/new-ascension-ceo-daniel-jackson-vows-commitment-to-low-income-patients/71574843007/" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank">Ascension Wisconsin was blasted for poor staffing, lapses in care. Here's what the new CEO Daniel Jackson plans to do.</a></p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Shortly after Journal Sentinel inquiry, Ascension calls with explanation</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Public Investigator team contacted Ascension Wisconsin on Feb. 5 for an explanation of the Lococos' dropped charges.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dan Lococo said the following day — Feb. 6 — he received a voicemail from Ascension's director of revenue cycle operations, Karly Wagner.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When he called her back the next day, Wagner confirmed that he never should have been charged in the first place, he said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"She went on to explain that this was an educational issue at the practice and customer service level, and that education will take place to avoid future problems," he said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The same day, Matthew Hanselman, Ascension Wisconsin's chief financial officer, told Public Investigator that he could not comment on the Lococos' situation for patient privacy reasons.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In general, he attributed potential errors in billing and other "reimbursement challenges" to variations in insurance companies' internal systems for processing claims.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As commercial insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid have widely varying reimbursement and coverage policies, as well as different prior authorization and medical necessity requirements.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"These variations create reimbursement challenges, and payers, clinics, billing departments, and other parties occasionally make mistakes which could impact the consumer’s balance due," said Hanselman.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">He added that Ascension appreciates when patients ask questions about their bills.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"We thoroughly investigate those instances and work to put solutions in place, so subsequent patients benefit from those learnings," Hanselman said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Even with their charges removed, Dan and Helen Lococo worry that other patients might fall victim to billing mistakes if they lack the free time and energy to dispute incorrect charges.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/02/PMJS/72443728007-thumbnail-img-1157-1-1.jpg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="660" height="427" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/02/PMJS/72443728007-thumbnail-img-1157-1-1.jpg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" width="640" /></a></div><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I got the sense that the goal of the call was to provide me with the impression that this was an isolated incident and to solicit a response indicating that I was completely satisfied with the outcome," Dan Lococo said in an email to Public Investigator reporters following the call.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The couple wonders if similar incidents have happened to others. </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I can't imagine people who have tons of bills, how they keep that straight and go through at all," Helen Lococo said. "This was just one bill."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em>Quinn Clark is a Public Investigator reporter. She can be emailed at </em><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="mailto:QClark@gannett.com" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank"><em>QClark@gannett.com</em></a><em>. Follow her on X at </em><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://twitter.com/Quinn_A_Clark" rel="noopener" style="color: black; outline-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank"><em>@Quinn_A_Clark</em></a><em>.</em> <em>Tamia Fowlkes is a Public Investigator reporter. Reach Tamia at 414-224-2193 or <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="mailto:tfowlkes@gannett.com" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">tfowlkes@gannett.com</a>. 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Corporate wrongdoing. Consumer complaints. Medical scams. <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/public-investigator/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Public Investigator</a> is a new initiative of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its sister newsrooms across Wisconsin. Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth. We'll investigate anywhere in Wisconsin. Send your tips to watchdog@journalsentinel.com or call 414-319-9061. You can also submit tips at <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="http://jsonline.com/tips" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">jsonline.com/tips</a></em></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">From: </span><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/public-investigator/2024/02/15/milwaukee-couple-spends-months-fighting-ascension-medical-bill/72443775007/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/public-investigator/2024/02/15/milwaukee-couple-spends-months-fighting-ascension-medical-bill/72443775007/</span></a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Ascension is notorious for failing patients regularly. I'm an Aurora client. They are no better. I have been lied to by their doctors numerous times. When called on their lies, the doctors drop you as a patient. At this point, I've gone through numerous doctors. Thirty years ago, when I first went to A</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">urora, things were quite different. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">However</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">, all of my doctors from that time have retired and the "new breed" are absolute crap. There is an MD there that will kill someone, if she hasn't already. Completely incompetent. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">She had Aurora send me a threatening certified letter. Of course, a patient has no chance against one of their MDs. They will gladly take your money but they suffer criticism very poorly. I wish we had a Froedtert in this area.</span></span></p></div>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-64183633119026087202024-02-16T02:46:00.000-06:002024-02-16T02:46:33.531-06:00Time limit for preliminary hearing waived for former sheriff's deputy Preston Kite in need of attorneyFrom <a href="http://journaltimes.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Journal Times.com</span></a>:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/8f/28fa7170-cc25-11ee-8c4c-fb8b1321f567/65ce4d7243535.image.jpg?resize=710%2C500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="710" height="451" src="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/8f/28fa7170-cc25-11ee-8c4c-fb8b1321f567/65ce4d7243535.image.jpg?resize=710%2C500" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Preston Kite, a former Racine County Sheriff's Office deputy who is accused of child sex crimes, appeared in court via Zoom from the Kenosha County Detention Center next to Judge Timothy Boyle on Thursday morning. </p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="credit" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 15px; text-align: start;"><span class="tnt-byline asset-byline" id="author-39df946a-fee0-11ed-b63d-8b12d7b9f713-asset-28fa7170-cc25-11ee-8c4c-fb8b1321f567" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;">Hanna Van Den Einde</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div class="lee-article-text first-p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">RACINE — Preston Kite, a former Racine County Sheriff’s Office deputy accused of sex crimes against children, was granted more time to retain an attorney in court Thursday morning.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Kite, 37, was charged Feb. 8 with possession of child pornography, five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, lewd and lascivious behavior and disorderly conduct. During his initial appearance Feb. 8, a judge set a $150,000 cash bond.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/racine-deputy-preston-kite-charged-with-child-sex-crimes/article_cfc28ee6-c6b9-11ee-a761-bf7c03f06123.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kite</a> is accused of exposing himself to a man in a public restroom. During the investigation into the incident, deputies from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department reportedly found child sexual abuse material on Kite’s phone, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Kite was immediately removed from duty and placed on unpaid administrative leave pending the termination process, according to Lt. Michael Luell, public information officer for the sheriff’s office. Luell said Kite’s disciplinary process was completed Feb. 8, resulting in his termination.</p><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The sheriff’s office also requested that the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department lead the investigation.</p></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Kite appeared via Zoom from the Kenosha County Detention Center without an attorney for a preliminary hearing Thursday.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Kite said he has made attempts to get counsel through the State Public Defender Office in Racine and his family is trying to retain an attorney for him.</p></div><div class="hidden-print " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Judge Timothy Boyle found good cause that Kite was trying to find an attorney and waived the required time limits for holding a preliminary hearing.</p></div><div class="hidden-print " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Kite will appear in court again March 7 for a status conference.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/0a/60ab1c86-cc3a-11ee-9c96-dbbb292abfa3/65ce6948f2024.image.png?resize=483%2C588" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="483" height="640" src="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journaltimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/0a/60ab1c86-cc3a-11ee-9c96-dbbb292abfa3/65ce6948f2024.image.png?resize=483%2C588" width="526" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="related-mugshots " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="asset-related-mugshot inline-asset inline-image hover-expand" data-instance="#gallery-items-4fa7e86c-cc24-11ee-b61a-e3a8b34feebb-photo-modal" data-photo-target=".photo-60ab1c86-cc3a-11ee-9c96-dbbb292abfa3" data-target="#photo-carousel-4fa7e86c-cc24-11ee-b61a-e3a8b34feebb" data-toggle="modal" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><figure class="photo layout-vertical letterbox-style-default" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><figcaption class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; cursor: initial;"><span class="caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Kite</p></span><span class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_container_bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"></div><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center hidden-print " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; min-height: auto;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="color: #222222;">From: </span><a href="https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/former-deputy-preston-kite-appears-in-court-lacks-attorney/article_4fa7e86c-cc24-11ee-b61a-e3a8b34feebb.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/former-deputy-preston-kite-appears-in-court-lacks-attorney/article_4fa7e86c-cc24-11ee-b61a-e3a8b34feebb.html</span></a></p></div></div></div>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-60241103121450037052024-02-13T06:46:00.002-06:002024-02-13T06:46:45.142-06:00Former UW professor who resigned amid sex harassment probe fired by Goshen CollegeFrom <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JSOnline</span></a>:<br />
<br /><div class="gnt_ar_by" style="background-color: white; display: inline-flex; flex-flow: column wrap; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; justify-content: center; margin: 12px 6px 3px 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-left: 60px; position: relative;"><a class="gnt_ar_by_a gnt_ar_by_a__fi" data-t-l=":byline with photo|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/9722381002/kelly-meyerhofer/" style="align-items: center; color: black; display: inline-flex; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; outline-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;"><img alt="" class="gnt_ar_by_i" data-t-l=":byline with photo|o|c|photo" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" loading="eager" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/09/PMJS/72544461007-kelly-meyerhofer-020124.jpg?crop=4127,4128,x0,y51&width=48&height=48&format=pjpg&auto=webp" srcset="/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/09/PMJS/72544461007-kelly-meyerhofer-020124.jpg?crop=4127,4128,x0,y51&width=96&height=96&format=pjpg&auto=webp 2x" style="border-radius: 24px; height: 48px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 48px;" />Kelly Meyerhofer</a><div class="gnt_ar_pb" style="color: #303030; display: inline; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; order: 4;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</div><div><br /></div></div><br />
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/presto/2018/11/12/PMJS/15a4420b-7f1e-43f4-855c-31cb27f7f594-UWSP_3.jpg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="660" height="427" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/presto/2018/11/12/PMJS/15a4420b-7f1e-43f4-855c-31cb27f7f594-UWSP_3.jpg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" width="640" /></a></div><div><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Richard Brunson, a former University of Wisconsin professor who sexually harassed students and went on to land two other jobs in education, was fired by his most recent employer a week after the <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2024/02/05/uw-marshfield-professor-richard-brunson-quit-amid-sexual-harassment-probe/69748961007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a> reported on his disciplinary history.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The story highlighted the unusual steps the UW System took to bring Brunson's background to light and how, despite those efforts, both a Wisconsin school district and an out-of-state college hired him.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Contacted for comment on the termination, Brunson's lawyer, Michael Brown of DVG Law Partner, asked the Journal Sentinel to "please leave us alone."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Brown has previously argued UW's actions amounted to overreach. He asked the s<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://record.goshen.edu/news/brunson-on-leave-after-new-report" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank">tudent newspaper of the Indiana college where Brunson most recently worked</a>: "At what point do ongoing punishments of Dr. Brunson become excessive (and unending)? … How, if at all, can Dr. Brunson ever have an opportunity to move forward with his career and community life and have a chance to prove he has changed, and is changing, for the better?”</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Here's what to know:</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Where did Richard Brunson work?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Brunson was a music professor at the UW-Stevens Point Marshfield campus for just over a decade.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A UW System investigation found he sexually harassed several of his students in a pattern going back several years, records show. Six students told investigators they received sexually suggestive messages from Brunson, often about masturbation.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">While the disciplinary process was playing out, Brunson applied for a job teaching choir to middle and high school students in the Medford School District, about 40 miles north of the Marshfield campus.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Brunson resigned before the UW Board of Regents could vote on firing him. So instead, five months after Brunson quit, the board revoked his unused sick leave. A day later, a UW System lawyer called Medford's superintendent to share what had happened.</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Is what UW System did in this case rare?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Yes. Proactively volunteering information on a former employee's disciplinary history is "unusual," one education risk-management expert told the Journal Sentinel.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But it's something more schools should consider doing if their state laws allow them to do so, Brett Soklow of TNG said. It can help curb a common problem in education known as "pass-the-trash," where someone commits misconduct, quietly leaves and is hired elsewhere.</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">How did Medford School District respond?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Medford put Brunson on paid leave for the next seven months until he resigned at the end of the 2022-23 school year, according to a settlement agreement Brunson struck with the district. Medford agreed to provide a neutral letter of reference for Brunson.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Medford Superintendent Pat Sullivan declined to answer questions about the district's hiring process.</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">How did Brunson land job at Goshen College?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Brunson applied for a music professor position at Goshen College, a private Mennonite liberal arts school in Indiana, two hours east of Chicago. He also sued UW System to prevent releasing public records associated with his time at UW-Stevens Point.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The chair of Goshen's music department contacted UW-Stevens Point's human resources office about Brunson in June 2023, UW System spokesperson Mark Pitsch said. The HR office responded, saying Brunson hadn't been employed there since June 2022 and an ongoing court case prevented the university from releasing public records.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A judge last August ordered the documents be turned over. Goshen had already hired Brunson by then.</p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 28px 0px 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">What has Goshen College said about its hiring process?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Goshen College spokesperson Jodi Beyeler said the college had not submitted a formal records request to the UW System and did not know the reasons behind Brunson's resignations until the Journal Sentinel contacted the school in late January.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The UW investigation "was not revealed to us through references or background checks," Goshen College human resources director Marlene Penner later said in an email to students and staff.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The school put Brunson on leave a day after the Journal Sentinel story published Feb. 5. On Monday, Penner emailed the campus to say Brunson had been terminated.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"We take all reports of sexual harassment very seriously, including from previous employers, and have sought to act with both due diligence and speed," Penner wrote to the campus community. "We are committed to examining our systems to strengthen our prevention and responses in the future."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em>Contact Kelly Meyerhofer at </em><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="mailto:kmeyerhofer@gannett.com" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank"><em>kmeyerhofer@gannett.com</em></a><em> or 414-223-5168. Follow her on X (Twitter) at </em><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://twitter.com/KellyMeyerhofer" rel="noopener" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;" target="_blank"><em>@KellyMeyerhofer</em></a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">From: </span><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2024/02/13/goshen-college-fires-richard-brunson-former-uw-professor/72571917007/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2024/02/13/goshen-college-fires-richard-brunson-former-uw-professor/72571917007/</span></a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">"It can help curb a common problem in education known as 'pass-the-trash,' where someone commits misconduct, quietly leaves and is hired elsewhere."</span></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">That's how sex predators just keep going and going...</span></p></div>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-39699713037978907442024-02-09T08:31:00.002-06:002024-02-09T08:31:43.726-06:00Battle Of Berlin: Latvian Legion | Final Defence | Forgotten History Of World War II<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_tlHb2sphLA?si=J5vxNPLBfhIMV6xC" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />
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My parents were Latvian immigrants to the US after the war. They didn't want to live under Soviet or German rule. This video embarrasses me. OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-23000451562452500752024-02-09T03:53:00.005-06:002024-02-09T03:53:33.058-06:00Biden says his 'memory is fine' in reaction to report | REUTERS<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BIg5p216jQs?si=LI_HwUKyqyc51KXz" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-13915604759401403492024-02-07T06:25:00.002-06:002024-02-07T06:25:43.449-06:00Janet Protasiewicz campaign official claims vulgar reason for embedding horses in adsFrom <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JSOnline</span></a>:<br />
<br /><div class="gnt_ar_by" style="background-color: white; display: inline-flex; flex-flow: wrap; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 12px 6px 0px 0px;"><a class="gnt_ar_by_a" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/2647036001/molly-beck/" style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 3.84px 0px 0px; order: 1; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Molly Beck</a><a class="gnt_ar_by_a gnt_ar_by_a__fi" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/12042691002/jessie-opoien/" style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; order: 3; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Jessie Opoien</a><div class="gnt_ar_pb" style="color: #303030; display: inline; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 1px 0px 0px; order: 4;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br />
<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicndG0W6VsEZonN9dw1lcUkyGuwVlTqwYC-gMnuUHiu0NyV8CcpzcXQsYYvYklRbKk_WukO0w2AEYPuLpcJ9_zZ9rMv_XDVCPKk4y46jDh2xUJk4pJYFUs0Dk1hOUT7UN-pAJsG0KTLHO3tushvT7lVKGrSRLhjm-Gka0pdDeN2F8Db3O9Z7WOCBPbldgG/s637/SUPREME_Protasiewicz_2192.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="637" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicndG0W6VsEZonN9dw1lcUkyGuwVlTqwYC-gMnuUHiu0NyV8CcpzcXQsYYvYklRbKk_WukO0w2AEYPuLpcJ9_zZ9rMv_XDVCPKk4y46jDh2xUJk4pJYFUs0Dk1hOUT7UN-pAJsG0KTLHO3tushvT7lVKGrSRLhjm-Gka0pdDeN2F8Db3O9Z7WOCBPbldgG/w640-h498/SUPREME_Protasiewicz_2192.webp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="gnt_pg_img_cap" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: start;">Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz (center) holds hands with Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Rebecca Dallet (far let),and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley (right of Protasiewicz) at Protasiewicz’s election night watch party for state Supreme Court at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel in Milwaukee on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Wisconsin voters headed to the polls for the spring general election to determine a new justice on the Supreme Court as well as other local, nonpartisan offices. Protasiewicz is facing off against Daniel Kelly for a spot on Wisconsin's top court.</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Mike De Sisti / The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">MADISON - Wisconsin voters were bombarded with ads last year in the <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/04/03/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-draws-massive-out-of-state-cash/69985330007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">most expensive state court race in U.S. history</a>, but they probably didn't notice commercials paid for by Janet Protasiewicz's campaign featured a number of horses. That unusual detail was never explained to voters — until now, when a campaign official claimed a crude reason.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Protasiewicz’s campaign for Wisconsin Supreme Court used a portion of its massive fundraising haul to hide horse figurines and feature neighing in ads as an apparent subliminal reference to baseless inside jokes about her opponent fornicating with horses, <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/21/wisconsin-supreme-court-janet-protasiewicz-2023-election-age-husband-liberal-marquette-law-school/69928229007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Protasiewicz</a>'s campaign manager said in a recent interview.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Protasiewicz's campaign manager Alejandro Verdin said in a Jan. 25 <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://player.captivate.fm/episode/1c353c32-453c-4c6c-8fd5-a25729e9a61f" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">appearance</a> with a liberal podcaster that the campaign hid images of horses in negative campaign ads against <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/02/21/daniel-kelly-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-2023-age-conservative-regent-university-law-school/69928566007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">former Justice Daniel Kelly</a>, and used audio of a horse neighing in one radio spot, to convey the message he alleged came from focus groups: that Kelly looked like a "horse (expletive)."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alerted to Verdin's comments, Kelly told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "This goes a long way towards explaining why Janet Protasiewicz's campaign was so dishonest, undignified and lacking in respect for the office of Supreme Court justice."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"This is just sick," Kelly said. "Wisconsinites ought to be appalled by this kind of vulgarity and vileness."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Verdin boasted about the activities on "The Downballot," a podcast produced by the liberal Daily Kos, and promoted the episode on social media. He did not provide evidence to back up his claim.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">According to a source with Protasiewicz's campaign, the new justice was not aware of the horse imagery in the ads. Verdin, Protasiewicz, and other members of the campaign declined or did not respond to interview requests.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A quick review of the campaign’s TV and radio <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.youtube.com/@janetforjustice/videos" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">ads</a> found that there were, indeed, hidden horses on more than one occasion, such as positioned in front of a plant pot in one ad's background. A horse figurine can be seen in the background of at least three television spots (a fourth was too blurry to confirm).</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The campaign also ran a radio ad poking at Kelly’s family history — the candidate described his dad, who worked on ranches in Wyoming, Colorado and California, as an “honest-to-god cowboy.” </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kelly sometimes shared an anecdote on the campaign trail about his father promising that, while he could not leave him many material possessions, he would leave his son "a good name."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“There goes dirty Dan Kelly, riding off into the sunset of his pathetic, dishonest campaign,” said a narrator after the sound of a horse neighing.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Verdin told podcast co-host David Beard the initial accusation came from a participant in a focus group for Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky's 2020 campaign against Kelly. A former campaign aide for Karofsky declined to confirm the story.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al" style="clear: both; height: 408px; margin: 14px auto 32px;"><div class="gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al gnt_x__prmt" data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-method="llx" data-google-query-id="CJiWxNCZmYQDFbhUCQkd_qEBGw" data-x-c="3" id="ad-slot-7103-wi-milwaukee-C1258-native-article_link-news-politics-4" style="align-items: center; background-color: unset; contain: content; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 371px !important; justify-content: center; margin: auto; min-height: 250px; overflow: clip; position: relative; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); width: initial; z-index: 1;"></div></aside><p></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 14px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"This was sort of like an internal joke that we all kind of laughed about, because it was just such like a weird thing. But then, like, weirdly, we started hearing it on the campaign trail from other people," Verdin said in the interview.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Verdin said the internal joke was taken "to another level" by media consultant Ben Nuckels, who also worked on Gov. Tony Evers' campaigns.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"He literally hid visuals of horses in nearly every negative ad produced against Dan Kelly," Verdin said. "You don't see it and we didn't catch on. And like, he did it really well."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nuckels declined to be interviewed.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Verdin said he found the chatter "funny."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"The thing that was so funny about it was that one, it's an uncommon insult; two, it's just like a very weird thing. And three, the funniest thing about this is that Dan Kelly, his father was a cowboy from the West ... and Dan Kelly himself was a horseman."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al" style="clear: both; height: 408px; margin: 14px auto 32px;"><div class="gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al gnt_x__prmt" data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-method="llx" data-google-query-id="CLa389ibmYQDFc5BCQkd7_kBlQ" data-x-c="4" id="ad-slot-7103-wi-milwaukee-C1258-native-article_link-news-politics-5" style="align-items: center; background-color: unset; contain: content; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 371px !important; justify-content: center; margin: auto; min-height: 250px; overflow: clip; position: relative; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); width: initial; z-index: 1;"></div></aside><p></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 14px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Protasiewicz<span> </span><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-2023-janet-protasiewicz-daniel-kelly/70052928007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration: underline 2px rgb(0, 152, 254); text-underline-offset: 2px;">defeated Kelly</a><span> </span>by 11 points in April 2023,<span> </span><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/01/janet-protasiewicz-will-be-sworn-in-today-to-wisconsin-supreme-court/70501202007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration: underline 2px rgb(0, 152, 254); text-underline-offset: 2px;">securing a liberal majority</a><span> </span>on the court for the first time in years. It was the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history, with spending tallies from the nationally spotlighted election surpassing $50 million.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Protasiewicz campaign spent nearly $13 million on TV advertising. It's unclear how much of that was allocated to ads featuring horses.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em>Molly Beck and Jessie Opoien can be reached at molly.beck@jrn.com and jessie.opoien@jrn.com.</em></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">From: </span><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/06/janet-protasiewicz-campaign-embedded-horse-images-in-anti-kelly-ads/72427170007/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/06/janet-protasiewicz-campaign-embedded-horse-images-in-anti-kelly-ads/72427170007/</span></a></p>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-5990387048792172532024-01-29T08:27:00.003-06:002024-01-29T08:27:19.488-06:00'They're both dinosaurs': Concerns about age drive lack of enthusiasm for Biden and TrumpFrom <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JSOnline</span></a>:<br />
<br /><div class="gnt_ar_by" style="background-color: white; display: inline-flex; flex-flow: wrap; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 12px 6px 0px 0px;"><a class="gnt_ar_by_a gnt_ar_by_a__si" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/2647036001/molly-beck/" style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 3.84px 0px 0px; order: 1; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Molly Beck</a><a class="gnt_ar_by_a" data-t-l=":byline|o|c|text" href="https://www.sctimes.com/staff/71595579007/sam-woodward/" style="color: #303030; 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Blatnik Memorial Bridge in Superior, Wis" style="color: #303030; margin: 3px 0px 11px; width: 660px;"></div></a><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SUPERIOR – Last week marked the first barnstorm of the 2024 presidential election cycle.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">President Joe Biden visited Wisconsin's northwestern corner on Thursday while Vice President Kamala Harris <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/22/kamala-harris-rallies-wisconsin-audience-around-abortion-access/72282459007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">stopped in Waukesha County</a> on Monday and Biden's <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/01/26/janet-yellen-announces-1-5-million-for-milwaukee-trades-training/72354739007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen</a> capped off the week in Milwaukee while the Biden-Harris team <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/26/biden-campaign-slams-wisconsin-republicans-abortion-referendum-bill/72367303007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">pointedly weighed in</a> on the Legislature's proposed 14-week abortion ban referendum.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Though the Republican presidential primary race is technically still underway, with former President Donald Trump leading former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley by double digits in polling, it's over to Biden as he and his surrogates <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/25/in-trip-to-superior-biden-looks-to-regain-a-key-democratic-stronghold/72327611007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">blanketed the state</a> with a message aimed at chipping away Trump support.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Both candidates have an uphill battle in a battleground state that each of them has won in the last two elections. Just 37% of Wisconsin voters <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/08/biden-up-slightly-over-trump-trails-desantis-haley-in-marquette-poll/71424972007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">polled by the Marquette University Law School in November</a> said they had a favorable impression of Trump. Not many more said they had a good opinion of Biden, at 42%. In a head-to-head matchup, Biden edged Trump by three percentage points — within the margin of error.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Voters surveyed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Thursday during a Biden trip to Superior and Duluth, Minn., signaled the candidates' ages and enthusiasm for either could be key challenges for both campaigns.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ruth Hagenan, who works at Top Hat Tavern in Superior, is still an undecided voter. Despite her excitement over the presidential visit and being able to see Biden’s motorcade fly by the bar, she’s thinking she will likely vote Republican this fall because she’s concerned about the economy and believes it was better during the tenure of Trump.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But she has some concerns over both Biden and Trump’s cognitive abilities. As a former home care nurse, she sees symptoms of aging that alarm her.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“I’ve seen them both stumble in their thought process,” she said. “So to me, it’s like they need backup to help. Can they do this on their own? Can they do it quickly?”</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Debby Strop, co-owner of Uncle Loui's Cafe in Duluth, told the Journal Sentinel she does not identify with either major party but appreciates Biden's visit. Strop's cafe was used as a backdrop in 2018 by Fox News' morning show "Fox & Friends."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I'm glad he's here. It shows he really cares. If he didn't why would he be here?" she said, noting the cold and foggy weather. Despite this, Strop said she doesn't want either Trump or Biden to run. Their age is a major issue for the 67-year-old, saying deciding between candidates who are 77 and 81 is not ideal.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For Duluth resident and barista Afton Iliff, the 2024 election is the last thing on her mind. "I don't like either of them," she said. "Biden is way too old and Trump is a horrible person."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">During the summer months, Iliff works as a heavy-equipment operator for a local construction company, working to consolidate highways and prepare for construction on the Blatnik Bridge — the replacement of which Biden visited the area Thursday to promote. She said she's happy the work is getting attention because the lack of accessible roadways affects the lives of those in the region, saying that most politicians aren't in touch with "real people's" needs. "The people in office are too old. They're not even going to see the changes they are voting for," she said. "They're older than sliced bread."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Illif said she wants to see a candidate focus on reining in spending on international conflict and instead restructure the health care and pharmaceutical industries.The 21-year-old said that even if she did like who was running, she doesn't think her voting would make a difference. She has never voted and is unsure if she will this year.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">University of Minnesota Duluth senior John Leppik said the "age problem" in politics is not just an executive branch issue, downplaying it being unique to Biden.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"They're both dinosaurs, but, this is an issue with the wider political fabric, not just the presidency," he said. "We have the oldest Senate that we've ever had, the oldest house."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Leppik said he describes himself as "progressive" and voted for Biden in 2020 because he wanted "not Trump." The English and linguistics major said he was enthusiastic about Biden's pro-union policies and believes Biden has followed through with his goals on that issue. When asked if Biden can beat Trump in 2024, Leppik said "He did it already."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kiett Takkunen, a former teacher who drove 40 minutes to wait outside of Earth Rider Brewery in Superior to see Biden, is not on the fence, however. She plans to vote for Biden in November.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Takkunen said she's worried about a redux of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol if Biden wins again. She said the issue of abortion is a motivating issue for her.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“I wonder if Trump’s people are going to go just crazy again, when he loses the next time, are we going to have another insurrection?” she said. “Some people talk about a civil war, but I think that might be a little extreme. But we’re so divided right now, it’s so sad.”</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wisconsin Republicans portrayed the Biden team's Wisconsin blitz as as an act of electoral desperation in the face of high grocery prices and disorder at the southern border. </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Look, there's a reason we're getting all this tourism in Wisconsin from the White House," Republican Party of Wisconsin chairman Brian Schimming told reporters Thursday. "And that is not that we all know that President Biden will lose Wisconsin in November. It's because he's lost Wisconsin already."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="color: #303030; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em>Molly Beck, Sam Woodward and Laura Schulte can be reached at molly.beck@jrn.com, swoodward@gannett.com and leschulte@gannett.com.</em></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">Original story: </span><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/29/age-questions-hang-over-both-biden-and-trump-in-wisconsin-swing-region/72339800007/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/29/age-questions-hang-over-both-biden-and-trump-in-wisconsin-swing-region/72339800007/</span></a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I'm 72 and I also consider both candidates to be inept, old fools. Come November, pick your poison. </p></div>OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-25547589217887389312024-01-28T05:11:00.001-06:002024-01-28T05:11:40.745-06:00TMJ4 faces backlash for asking Black business owners to pay to appear on air during Black History MonthFrom <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">JSOnline</span></a>:<br />
<br /><div class="gnt_ar_by" style="background-color: white; display: inline-flex; flex-flow: column wrap; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; justify-content: center; margin: 12px 6px 3px 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-left: 60px; position: relative;"><a class="gnt_ar_by_a gnt_ar_by_a__fi" data-t-l=":byline with photo|o|c|text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/staff/4223818001/drake-bentley/" style="align-items: center; color: black; display: inline-flex; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; outline-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;"><img alt="" class="gnt_ar_by_i" data-t-l=":byline with photo|o|c|photo" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" loading="eager" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/presto/2022/01/21/PMJS/087a5c0e-e540-4cb1-b5e8-6e788da36cb3-headshot2.jpg?crop=2667,2667,x600,y0&width=48&height=48&format=pjpg&auto=webp" srcset="/gcdn/presto/2022/01/21/PMJS/087a5c0e-e540-4cb1-b5e8-6e788da36cb3-headshot2.jpg?crop=2667,2667,x600,y0&width=96&height=96&format=pjpg&auto=webp 2x" style="border-radius: 24px; height: 48px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 48px;" />Drake Bentley</a><div class="gnt_ar_pb" style="color: #303030; display: inline; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; order: 4;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</div><div><br /></div></div><br />
<br /><br /><div><figure class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_img" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #303030; contain: content; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 12px 0px 30px; width: 660px;"><img alt="The Morning Blend logo" class="gnt_em_img_i" decoding="async" elementtiming="ar-lead-image" fetchpriority="high" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/01/27/PMJS/72374894007-morning-blend-logo.PNG?width=660&height=352&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; height: 352px; object-fit: contain; width: 660px;" /><div class="gnt_em_img_ccw gnt_em_img_ccw__cap gnt_em_img_ccw__crd" data-c-caption="The Morning Blend logo" data-c-credit="TMJ4 News" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; width: 660px;"></div></figure><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Milwaukee's NBC affiliate TV station stirred up some ill feelings after marketing an opportunity to local Black-owned businesses to appear on a morning program during Black History Month, but only if they were willing to pay $1,000.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">WTMJ-TV sent marketing emails to several Black business owners in the area offering an opportunity to appear on <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.tmj4.com/shows/the-morning-blend" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">"The Morning Blend,"</a> TMJ4's daily lifestyle program, which airs weekdays at 9 a.m.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The email included an attachment with a Black History Month graphic that noted how important it is for the program to highlight Black-owned businesses during February.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"It is important to The Morning Blend to highlight black-owned businesses during Black History Month to celebrate their contributions, promote diversity, amplify voices, tell their story, and foster inclusivity and understanding in the community," the attachment read.</p><figure class="gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #303030; contain: content; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; float: right; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px 24px 31px; width: 300px;"><img alt="Flyer circulated to Black business owners in Milwaukee area by TMJ4." class="gnt_em_img_i" data-g-r="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/01/27/PMJS/72374204007-morning-blend.png?width=300&height=402&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; height: 402px; object-fit: contain; width: 300px;" /><div class="gnt_em_img_ccw gnt_em_img_ccw__cap gnt_em_img_ccw__crd" data-c-caption="Flyer circulated to Black business owners in Milwaukee area by TMJ4." data-c-credit="Submitted" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; width: 300px;"></div></figure><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Business owners who pay will get a copy of the segment. "This is a great opportunity to tell your story and reach the members in your community," the attachment read.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It offered that a business' "investment" would be $1,000, which the email said was a discounted price.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“If you're going to invite us to celebrate Black History Month then we shouldn't be charged to come in to celebrate Black History Month,” said Tomira White, owner of <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/dining/carol-deptolla/2021/10/22/delicious-bites-plans-sell-wraps-salads-and-baked-goods-tosa/6139187001/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Delicious Bites</a> on Wauwatosa's east side.</p><figure class="gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #303030; contain: content; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; float: right; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px 24px 31px; width: 300px;"><img alt="Tomira White, owner of Delicious Bites, at 6538 W North Ave. in Wauwatosa." class="gnt_em_img_i" data-g-r="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" src="https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/01/27/PMJS/72373581007-tomira-1.jpg?width=300&height=437&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" srcset="/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/01/27/PMJS/72373581007-tomira-1.jpg?width=600&height=874&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp 2x" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; height: 437px; object-fit: contain; width: 300px;" /><div class="gnt_em_img_ccw gnt_em_img_ccw__cap gnt_em_img_ccw__crd" data-c-caption="Tomira White, owner of Delicious Bites, at 6538 W North Ave. in Wauwatosa." data-c-credit="Submitted Photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; width: 300px;"></div></figure><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">TMJ4's station manager, Gregg Schraufnagel, told the Journal Sentinel that "The Morning Blend" is a lifestyle program, not part of the news division, and that it is common for content to be sponsored on the program. "That’s always been the format of the show," he said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"The Morning Blend" has been on the air for 18 years.</p><div><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Schraufnagel declined to get into the specific details of show's makeup, how many of its segments are sponsored, its typical practices for reaching out to possible guests, or whether the program has charged for Black History Month segments in the past. "Things are evolving all the time," he said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"We will all learn from this."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But he noted that "we absolutely do not charge for anyone to be on the news or for any news coverage, ever."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It's widely considered unethical for a news organization to pay sources for information or access, a practice <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.spj.org/ethics-papers-cbj.asp#:~:text=The%20practice%20of%20checkbook%20journalism,undermine%20journalism%20and%20damage%20democracy." style="color: black; outline-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">advised against by the Society of Professional Journalists</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kimberly Adams, owner of <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northshore/news/shorewood/2020/12/22/food-network-competitor-milwaukee-cake-artist-opens-shorewood-bakery/3929198001/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Signature Sweets</a>, has<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/13/with-top-chef-coming-re-visit-wisconsins-iconic-reality-tv-moments/70406096007/" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;"> appeared in multiple forms of media</a> including on Food Network. She <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.sweets.1" style="color: #303030; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">posted to Facebook on Wednesday</a> about the emails, spurring many other Black business owners to come forward to express that they'd also received the email and felt insulted by it. Her post was shared dozens of times and had received almost 100 comments as of Friday evening.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"You know, typically when someone's celebrating or honored they're not paying to be celebrated or honored," White said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Schraufnagel called White Friday afternoon to apologize for the marketing efforts, White said. "I did really appreciate that," she said.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I reached out to members of our community who voiced an opinion about it, to explain the nature of the show, that it's paid content, and to express that we regretted the tie-in to Black History Month," he told the Journal Sentinel. "Everyone I spoke with was understanding."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em>Drake Bentley can be reached at <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="mailto:DBentley1@gannett.com" style="color: black; outline-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">DBentley1@gannett.com</a> or 414-391-5647.</em></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #303030;">From: </span><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2024/01/27/tmj-morning-blend-invites-black-businesses-on-air-for-a-price/72373364007/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2024/01/27/tmj-morning-blend-invites-black-businesses-on-air-for-a-price/72373364007/</span></a></p></div><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al" style="background-color: white; 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