Wisconsin
Related: About this forum“Get out of your cushy office and take a look around”: A rural Wisconsinite’s open letter to
Party Chair Mike Tate
"You hung us out to dry the last election, and now we are stuck with Tiffany and Czaja and Duffy and a whole bunch of stupid puppets that are voting lock-step in line with Walker. If you would have at least given us some signs, some literature, some turf to canvas, or even a database we could use to help stay connected with one another after the fierce boots on the ground dedication from the recall, I know we could have done better. Up here, all people see are TV news (which even the court has declared is not news, but entertainment) and TV commercials. We need to be able to speak to people door-to-door and to have physical paper signs to put in our yards so people know where we stand and talk to one another about it.
Oh yeah, you sent us some OFA folks
you might as well have sent us a box of
rocks. The one we had sat on his ass and put statistics in a computer every single time he came to Tomahawk. From what I understand, the others in Merrill and Rhinelander and Stevens Point and Minocqua were the same. After your cute little bus tour, the idiots didnt even have the lists of folks who attended for us to contact! They wanted us to invite out friends to house parties and then turn the statistics over to them. We finally asked them not to come into our community because we did better without them.
Older people do not do FaceBook. Older people do not Twitter. In truth, outside of Tomahawk and north of us, people do not even have Broadband! (No thanks to Scotty who has probably planned it that way.) Have you tried to use the internet on dial-up lately? So, the idea that the computer is going to do it up here is false. And yes, we did make our own signs and we did steal lists from the resources we had from the recall, but really
you keep sending me requests for money. Really. I bought paper and paint and gas so I could go out in the country and talk to people. What the heck did you do for us?!!! Nothing.
So get out of your cushy office and take a look around. Wisconsin is headed to the bottom like a rock tossed into a lake. My Plan A is to fight. My Plan B is to leave this state. My plan C is to leave this country."
http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=33753
Scuba
(53,475 posts)They seem to undermine our efforts at every turn.
midnight
(26,624 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)A
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(4,949 posts)ewagner
(18,964 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts). . .doesnt mean hes got it between the ears. . ."
- a farmer's comment
The comments section is well worth reading.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)it would match his leadership style. "Dick Tate."
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)we do have this nice little forum to use at du
if you have no signs or lit perhaps some from down here in the south could mysteriously move north
perhaps the chairs association could actually hold some folks feet to the fire
folks travel around the state all the damn time-perhaps we would attend a fundraiser or 2 if we knew about it
oh and DOCUMENT the lack of broadband--folks around here don't believe me.....
midnight
(26,624 posts)interest.... I'm grateful that Minnesota is helping bring high speed rail through the state..... Why on Earth is Broad Band so difficult to get throughout the state?
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)certain distance to make it pay
if you were not wired for the first run thru of cable you are screwed that way
dish? been promised for a really long time--any day now any day now.......
wireless--nice if you are in range--but if you are really rural pretty much a joke and heaven help you if you like movies....
and now it looks like the bastards want to screw around with the internet network that serve a lot of schools and libraries.
midnight
(26,624 posts)"Most of us in rural counties have adapted. We dont expect the cell phone to work and we dont bother calling cell numbers for rural neighbors. But what happens if you pick up the old landline and its dead?"
"According to the National Regulatory Research Institute, Wisconsin was one of 21 states that deregulated phone companies between 2010 and April 2012. The study detailed similar legislation pending in another 14 states. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill mill, is a driving force behind telephone deregulation.
The predominant carrier in Wisconsin, AT&T, lobbied for the deregulation bill that passed early in 2011. One provision of the new law ended the 100-year-old agreement between customers and the utility that brought reliable phone service to every part of Wisconsin.
When the deregulation bill was debated in the Senate I authored several amendments to protect consumers including one to keep the requirement for the provider of last resort. This meant if no other phone company provided service for you, your local phone company couldnt come in and pull the plug."
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)to replace landline infrastructure in hurricane sandy areas with cell boxes.
how would they get around building code????
elevator lines MUST be land lines--alternative source of power and all
same with alarm lines
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)Pneumatic tube mail delivery, the wave of the future.
http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mail-network/
Then Pony Express riders can speedily deliver the alarms
on fast horses, fleet as the wind. Just like Paul Revere.
The Teapublicans will all eat it up, cuz you can't get much more American
than Paul Revere and the Pony Express.
....and Verizon's lobbyists will pay off enough of the Republican Legislators
in the state, to guarantee themselves a hefty profit.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Thanks for giving us the link. The disruption that these companies can cause in people's lives is breathtaking.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)towers
quite frankly I was surprised at this as lots of wealthier areas have had pretty good luck in keeping cell towers away.
guess the thugs were more concerned about keeping the corps happy.
I guess the budget bill was also about their campaign budgets besides the state stuff
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)...under the sub-title or sub-heading, "Eye on ALEC"
http://billmoyers.com/2013/07/23/the-end-of-the-wireline/