Wisconsin's "Summer of Recalls" will wrap up Tuesday, August 16th when two incumbent Democratic state senators face right-wing challengers.
One of those senators, Jim Holperin from the 12th district, will face off against Kim Simac, founder of a local Tea Party group whose mission statement says they are "...emboldened Americans dedicating our time and our resources to protecting the Judeo-Christian principles, personal freedoms, and system of government specified in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights."
Interesting, since neither the Declaration of Independence nor the U.S. Constitution mentions Christianity or Judaism.
To say Simac is an extremist would be like saying the Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground. She has called firefighters and police "mutinous cowards", equated Wisconsin's public schools with Nazi indoctrination camps, and has even written the text for a children's picture book called "With My Rifle by My Side. A Second Amendment Lesson."
Simac is so opposed to the government that she and her husband Arthur have been delinquent paying their local property taxes in eight of the last nine years. What a patriot! That'll show 'em! Screw all that snow plowing, road building, and educating of children being forced down their throats by the commie pinkos of Vilas County, Wisconsin!
Kim - the rugged individualist who doesn't need government for anything - even wrote this in a letter to the editor of the Vilas County News-Review in 2008:
Main Street America doesn’t want their help. We don’t want the free handouts. That’s what is ruining our country! ....Maybe instead of a check, American citizens who are above looking for a job should get a broom or a shovel in the mail.
And then...
Is there a check in the mail for us? No! Do we want one? No!
You know what comes next, right? They don't want any government bailouts. They'll run their farm and their businesses on their own, right? Do they want a check? Hell no!!!
According to the Environmental Working Group, Kim and her husband Arthur "Butch" Simac received a disaster assistance subsidy of $1,008.00 in 2010 from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Yeah, she just hates those bailouts. Unless the check is made out to her husband.
Her anger isn't just directed at the government. She prescribes the following for Wall Street executives:
If the Wall Street CEOs, who are laughing all the way to the Swiss bank accounts they must hold, cannot be prosecuted, maybe they should be required to watch the movie, “What a Wonderful Life,” with Jimmy Stewart. Maybe they should even have to portray him in plays in small towns across America at Christmastime.
I assume she means "It's a Wonderful Life," but that's quite a suggestion from someone who advocates freedom. Round up those bailout recipients, force them to watch a government-approved film, then march them from town to town and make them perform in Christian-themed pageants.
That almost sounds like an indoctrination camp.
Above is a link to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, in my opinion the creators of the most effective ads in the Wisconsin Recalls. A link to Senator Holperin's site is in my tip jar below.