Who do you know wants to buy a beer company?

www.buyabeercompany.com

According to the prospectus, interested investors can make pledges ranging from $5 to $250,000.

$88 a Day

While Glenn Grothman criticizes Tony Riley for spending $1,400 on flowers for WHEDA’s frolicking X-mas party, the purchase did help the economy of a local florist, while Glenn has not publicly complained about a $3 trillion war.

Lege to meet Dec. 16 to consider drunken-driving law overhaul

The Wisconsin Legislature’s extraordinary per-diem session Dec. 16 is to vote on toughen penalties for drunk drivers in which repeat offenders would have to take a pilot treatment program statewide and use ignition interlock devices that force a driver to take a Breathalyzer test before starting a car.

These are the slinky devices that Da Yoopers routinely bypass by having somebody else take the test for them so they can drink cold Budweiser and drive their trucks and Subaru Foresters.

Whatever happened to Dads Against Mad Mothers?

Next thing ya know da Mothers Against Drunk Driving will want to close the taverns and Class 6 Stores.

GOV. JIM DOYLE today announced the appointment of state Rep. Gary Sherman, D-Port Wing, to the District IV Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy left by Judge Burnie Bridge who is retiring in January.

Sherman has represented the 74th Assembly District since 1999.

WISCONSIN POLITICS

Wisconsin politicians are in the pockets of every lobbyist group across the street from the statehouse in downtown Madison. With all due respect to Howie Olson and Cowboy Eddie, the influence peddlers have their hands up the dummy politician's backs, moving their mouths like a ventriloquist.

Dane County DA appellate court race

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard is a candidate in the April election to replace Charles P. Dykman, currently serving as Appellate Court Judge, District IV Court.

Blanchard prosecuted Wisconsin’s infamous caucus scandal, which seems to have produced the state's longest trial ever.

He was elected DA in 2000.

Gov. Jim Doyle has yet to appoint a replacement for state Fourth District Court of Appeals Judge Burnie Bridge, who resigns in January.

New Juneteenth Holiday

Republican Dave Blaska and his neighbors in Little Chicago on Madison’s southwest side have a new holiday to celebrate.

June 19, Juneteenth Day, is now a legal holiday.

It sounds illiterate but Juneteenth commemorates the announcement over the abolition of slavery in Texas, in the in the late nineteenth century.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is recognized on the third Monday of January each year, and February is Black History Month, while Kwanzaa is another African American holiday that recognizes the African diaspora and struggles for equality.

DESPITE THE RISKS OF SMOKELESS TOBACCO being highly addictive and as harmful to your health as cigarettes, state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, when he was Assembly Majority Leader, accepted $7,500 campaign contributions from execs of UST — formerly United States Tobacco Company — to make Copenhagen and Skoal snuff more affordable.

The addictive tobacco comes in apple, cherry, vanilla and grape flavors to appeal to kids.

Fitzgerald got the flat tax abased on the product’s prices changed to a weight-based tax of $1.31 an ounce.

WWW.quittobacco.com/facts/effects.htm

What, me worry?

MADISON CLUB, Wis. — WISCHUCKLEHEADS.COM'S FREQUENT REFERENCES to vague insiders have its followers baffled.

The same political blog that rules out former GOP Congressman Mark Neumann in a primary is taking shots at Scott Walker’s gubernatorial rival Tom Barrett. Obviously the insiders are core subscribers WMC, Wisconsin Realtors Association and shopping cart lobbyist Brandon Scholz.

These insiders hope their message resonates with voters in 2010.

WisChuckleheads picks Walker based on its own ideological course. But if you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote like a Democrat.

Meanwhile, subscribers pay an exorbitant fee for predictable “insider” views while the same stock report of insider opinion is FREE in Wednesday’s Cap Times.

Speaking of free, does Steve Walters and another WisconsinEye cable TV employee occupy a desk across from the Journal Sentinel in the press room? The state doesn’t charge any rent for the media to occupy a senate hearing room in the state Capitol.

Journal Sentinel and AP offer the only original content. John Nichols contrives his opinions from Ankora Coffee’s digs. The State Journal, except for opinions, has ended its political coverage altogether. Wheeler posts whatever the other media publish. And WisChuckleheads routinely looks at his calendar and day book from twelve square feet of rental space across the street from the statehouse. No investigative stuff.

Are these local TV hosts methamphetamine users?

If Paris Hilton isn’t running then by all means feel free to abstain from voting if Sarah Palin is the nominee because she is unqualified to hold public office.

ULTIMATE POLITICAL BIMBO Sarah Palin campaigned at Fort Bragg on Monday as thousands greeted the former desperate Republican vice presidential candidate.

Politicians are prohibited from using installations for campaigning, but what did the Army expect Palin would do while she was there? Obviously she was there to promote the Afghanistan war and cause a negative reaction directed at President Barack Obama, the commander in chief.

Reportedly, Palin, had her tour bus parked nearby plastered with her photo, and encouraged donations to her political action committee, while dumbfounded supporters yammered for inexplicable partisan reasons that she should run for president.