AUGUST 2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – LIBERTARIAN CHOICES

Hello Cady Residents,

And finally, here is the only choice that you will find on your ballot if you select "Libertarian" as your party of choice on August 9, 2016. There are no choices on the ballot for the Constitution or Green parties at this time.

AUGUST 2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – LIBERTARIAN CHOICES

·         United States Senator – (Seat currently held by Ron Johnson – R)

o   Phillip N. Anderson

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography (Ballotpedia)

·         Phil is currently the President of the Libertarian Party of Dane County. Phil is also the general manager of Green Cab of Madison and owns Silver Compass Realty. He holds a B.A. in Geography from UW-Madison and an M.A. in Applied Theology from Balamand University. He lives in Fitchburg with his wife and 2 children.

·         As a Libertarian, I am free to represent the citizens of Wisconsin as INDIVIDUALS, not as members of interest groups. I seek to raise up what we have in common, not point out and exploit how we're different. In the end, almost everyone in the whole world wants the same things: to live in peace, prosperity, and privacy.

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If you have any questions, comments, or feedback that you would like to share with the Cady Liberty Caucus, please feel free to contact us by email at CadyLibertyCaucus@gmail.com. We welcome all comments and suggestions and hope to work with the residents of Cady to ensure that voters are going to the polls fully informed of their choices.

It is the goal of the Cady Liberty Caucus to further the cause and strength of liberty in the Town of Cady, St. Croix County, the state of Wisconsin and beyond. We believe that that cause can best be served by thinking and acting locally to educate voters and to elect local officials who also support that cause. We pray that this is a service that you find useful.

Also, if you are interested in helping to further the cause of liberty in Cady by running for office, conducting research, or reaching out to friends and neighbors, we would love to hear from you. We can be much more effective if we're all working together.

Thank you, and God bless,

2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – DEMOCRAT CHOICES

Hello Cady Residents,

As promised earlier this week, here are the choices that you will find on your ballot if you select "Democrat" as your party of choice on August 9, 2016.

It is the goal of the Cady Liberty Caucus to further the cause and strength of liberty in the Town of Cady, St. Croix County, the state of Wisconsin and beyond. We believe that that cause can best be served by thinking and acting locally to educate voters and to elect local officials who also support that cause. We pray that this is a service that you find useful.

​ AUGUST 2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – DEMOCRAT CHOICES

·         United States Senator – (Seat currently held by Ron Johnson – R)

o   Russ Feingold

§  Campaign Website

§  New American Freedom Index Ranking – 33% (From previous terms in US Senate)

§  Former Wisconsin US Senator, lost his seat to Ron Johnson-R in 2010

o   Scott Harbach

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

·         Investigated crime, corruption and dishonesty for more than 30 years

·         Owns three Private Detective and Security Consultant Agencies

·         Polygraph examiner for 30 years

·         Solved thousands of cases (a few in which the F.B.I. were involved in)

·         Uncovered major theft and crime within businesses and organizations

·         Considered by some to be a top investigator nationwide and will use this skill at all levels of government to uncover corruption and fraud

·         Representative In Congress District 7 – (Seat currently held by Sean Duffy – R)

o   Mary Hoeft

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

·         UW Barron County teacher of Communication Arts & French

·         served 6 years on the Rice Lake School Board, was President of the Board of Directors of Barron County Restorative Justice Programs (BCRJP) and continue to volunteer as a Restorative Conference facilitator

·         Endorsed by Obey, former District 7 Rep

o   Joel Lewis

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

·         Current county board supervisor, Marathon County

·         Consumer Board Member at a Federally Qualified Health Clinic

·         Served as Board Members of NAOMI (a WISDOM Affiliate), as representatives of The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist

·         Served on the Vestry at St. John’s for 3 years.

·         State Senator District 10 – (Seat currently held by Sheila Harsdorf – R)

o   Diane Odeen

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

·         Community advocate and an Alderperson for the City of River Falls

·         Serves as the vice-chair of FORWARD: The River Falls Public Schools Education Foundation

·         Chair of the Board of Directors of Emerge Wisconsin, which trains Democratic women to run for office

·         Lawyer in private practice specializing in employment law

·         Representative To The Assembly District 29

o   Randy Knaack

§  Campaign Website – None found

§  Biography

·         Current Mayor of Menomonie, WI for past six years

o   Scottie E. Ard

§  Campaign Website – None found

§  Biography

·         Active in state government issues for many years, Ard took that activism further as a member of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Lobby and Rapid Response Teams the last two years. Ard was highlighted in the February issue of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities magazine series “Women in Government.”

·         Currently serves on the New Richmond Library Board, Public Safety, Ethics, Board of Review, Community Development Authority, Emergency Government, Historic Preservation, and the New Richmond Housing Authority, as well as the St. Croix County Ad Hoc Construction and Ad Hoc Construction Public Relations Committee

·         Serves on the State Steering Committee for the 50th Commemoration of the Vietnam War

·         Saint Croix County District Attorney

o   Sarah Yacoub

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

·         Graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with Honors with a degree in Biopsychology

·         Volunteered for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office until she was hired as a Deputy District Attorney

·         As a DDA, took over 50 cases to trial, analyzed thousands of files for filing and resolution, and completed over 1000 evidentiary hearings

·         Since moving to Wisconsin, Sarah has taken public defender cases, practicing primarily in St. Croix County

·         St. Croix County Clerk

o   Cindy Campbell (incumbent)

§  Currently holds this seat

·         St. Croix County Register Of Deeds

o   Beth Pabst

§  Currently holds this seat

If you have any questions, comments, or feedback that you would like to share with the Cady Liberty Caucus, please feel free to contact us by email at CadyLibertyCaucus@gmail.com. We welcome all comments and suggestions and hope to work with the residents of Cady to ensure that voters are going to the polls fully informed of their choices.

The next guide that we send out will probably just cover all of the third-party choices (Constitution, Libertarian, and Green) in one email summary since there aren't as many candidates running on those party tickets.
 
Also, if you are interested in helping to further the cause of liberty in Cady by running for office, conducting research, or reaching out to friends and neighbors, we would love to hear from you. We can be much more effective if we're all working together.
Thank you, and God bless,

Cady Liberty Caucus

2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – REPUBLICAN CHOICES

Hello Cady Residents,

August 9, 2016 is the partisan primary election where you will be asked to choose a party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Constitution, Libertarian, or Green), and then you will be asked to select from the candidates for that particular party for each seat that is up for election.

Since most of the residents of Cady tend to vote Republican, we thought we would start by sending out a list of the Republican candidates that will appear on the ballot with some links to their campaign websites, biographies, and perhaps some additional information that might be of interest to voters.

It is the goal of the Cady Liberty Caucus to further the cause and strength of liberty in the Town of Cady, St. Croix County, the state of Wisconsin and beyond. We believe that that cause can best be served by thinking and acting locally to educate voters and to elect local officials who also support that cause. We pray that this is a service that you find useful.

AUGUST 9, 2016 PARTISAN PRIMARY – REPUBLICAN CHOICES

·         U.S. SENATE

o   Ron Johnson – Incumbent

§  Unopposed on party ticket

§  Campaign Website

§  Conservative Review Liberty Score = 58% = F

·         U.S. Congress – District 7

o   Sean Duffy – Incumbent

§  Campaign Website

§  Conservative Review Liberty Score = 51% = F 

o   Donald Raihala – Challenger

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography

§  Running as challenger to establishment GOP policies with intention of following a more fiscally conservative platform that is in alignment with District 7 constituents

·         State Senator – District 10

o   Sheila E. Harsdorf – Incumbent

§  Unopposed on party ticket

§  Campaign Website

·         Representative to the Assembly – District 29

o   Vince Trudell

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography – On Hammond Village Board, served on St Croix County Economic Development Board of Directors, the United Fire Board, Planning Commission, Board of Review, as well as Finance, Ordinance, and Personnel committees

o   Rob Stafsholt

§  Campaign Website

§  Biography - Formerly served on local township planning commission

o   Current Assemblyman John Murtha not seeking re-election

·         St. Croix County District Attorney

o   Donna Burger

§  Campaign Website

§  13-year Public Defender from Hudson

§  Burger said she will respect the law, justice, and fairness while preserving public safety, individual liberty and remain fiscally responsible

§  River Channel Interview

o   Rory Eoin O’Sullivan

§  Campaign Website

§  3-year prosecutor with the Pierce County District Attorney’s Office

§  O’Sullivan said he would place “crimes involving victims” at the top of his priority list

§  River Channel Interview

o   Michael E. Nieskes

§  Campaign Website

§  St. Croix County Deputy DA and Former Racine County DA

§  In December 2011, Nieskes was appointed by Gov. Scott Walker to the bench and served as a Racine County civil court judge until July 2012 after losing an election bid

§  If elected as St. Croix County DA, Nieskes said he would take a closer look at drug problems in the county, especially methamphetamine cases.

§  River Channel Interview

·         St. Croix County Treasurer

o   Tim Schroeder (Challenger)

§  Holds an associate degree in financial accounting, moved to New Richmond eight years ago.

§  He has more than 10 years of accounting experience.

o   Laurie A. Noble (Incumbent)

§  Noble was appointed treasurer in June 2009 and re-elected in 2012

We intend to compile a similar list for the other parties available on the ballot.
If you have any questions, comments, or feedback that you would like to share with the Cady Liberty Caucus, please feel free to contact us by email at CadyLibertyCaucus@gmail.com. We welcome all comments and suggestions and hope to work with the residents of Cady to ensure that voters are going to the polls fully informed of their choices.

Also, if you are interested in helping to further the cause of liberty in Cady by running for office, conducting research, or reaching out to friends and neighbors, we would love to hear from you. We can be much more effective if we're all working together.

Thank you, and God bless,

Cady Liberty Caucus

Village of Bay City, WI Prefers Theft of Land to a Negotiated Trade

The village of Bay City has voted to put in a walking trail along the Missippi River. There is just one small problem, however. The land belongs to Bay City resident David Meixner. Evidently, that's not a serious problem if you think that the village has the ability to take what it likes whenever it likes. Mr. Meixner doesn't agree, and neither would anyone who has worked and saved to build their life's dream on their own property.

According to an article in the Peirce County Herald:

The proposed nature trail would split Meixner’s land into three separate chunks, which he said “makes everything I’ve tried to put together worthless.”

Meixner began acquiring parcels of land there about 15 years ago, in hopes of creating a nature photography sanctuary. However, he said, people walking through his land on a trail would scare away the birds and animals he hopes to attract, therefore destroying his livelihood.

Meixner is proposing to give the village a 650-by-15-foot swath of his land along the back side of his property, along what is platted (although unused) as Eighth Street. The path would then meet up with Market Street, swing around a 130-by-60-foot parking area for the ball field (which Meixner is also proposing to give to the village), and head over the berm on a permanent easement (again, given by Meixner) to the unclaimed island.

“In an effort to try and resolve the issue, I would be willing to give you the land,” Meixner said of his proposal. “The designated parking area, I’ll give it to you. You can have it. If you get the island, I would give a permanent easement to cross the berm around the pond.”

In exchange, Meixner wants a 150-by-50-foot tract of woods and wetland, owned by the village on the northwestern side of his property.

“It’s about the same amount of land I’d give you for the parking lot,” Meixner said. “I would also ask the village to stop any and all claims against my property. It would save the village a ton of money.”

But why would anyone even consider negotiating a fair trade when they have the potential ability to simply take the land for themselves? If the good people of America and Wisconsin don't stand together to protect the property rights of others, then no one will stand with them when the government decides that they would like to have their land, too.

It is the duty and commission of government to protect the natural, God-given rights of the people of their community, among which are life, liberty and property. When governments fail to provide these basic functions, it is the right and the duty for the people to amend or abolish said governments. Hey, that sounds somewhat familiar...

We must stand together or we will all eventually stand alone against the bullies who think that might  makes right and that they can get what they want under threat of force. We have to show them that they are sadly mistaken.

Church owners say they’re being bullied by small-town government (Perry, WI)

Be careful about giving your local town board the power to control the land and it's uses within the community. No matter how "nice" and "friendly" your "neighbors" are who fill the seats of the local town board, they won't always be the ones who fill the seats and they won't always have the appetite of a bird when it comes to power and control. They will succomb to the whims of their own fancies and the fancies of those who think that it is moral and just to take stuff away from people who are not using it in the way that they think is best, just because they have some self-granted legal authority to do so.

Just ask the good caretakers at an historic 19th century church in Perry, Wisconsin. Their local town board has decided that it is in the best interests of the town and the church to destroy the historic landscape surrounding the church. And they're using the power of eminent doman as well as the church itself to raise the money that they need to do it.

St. Croix County Property Rights Case Goes to U.S. Supreme Court

A property rights dispute between St. Croix County, WI and the Murr family, who owns a small piece of property along the St. Croix River, will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Murr family own a small 1.25 acre on the banks of the St. Croix River, but the county has forbidden them from building on it, selling it, or doing anything at all with it. The Murrs then asked for just compensation since the county has essentially taken control of the property, but the county only offered 10% of what the Murrs believe that the property is worth.

You can read more about the case here:
Supreme Court will hear Wisconsin family’s property rights case

Agenda 21 = Sustainable Development = Smart Growth = Proposed Cady Zoning

The Cady Town Board has not yet been successful in implementing their "Smart Growth" plan known as Title 13 - ZONING. They did unanimously vote to adopt this Agenda 21 style ordinance in June of 2012 and then sent it to the county for approval, only to have it rejected by the county.

The primary reason that the Cady Liberty Caucus is against this zoning ordinance, written by Dane County attorney Allen Harvey, is because it's primary purpose is to transfer immense control of private property rights away from property owners. The power is then given to an un-elected zoning authority who will sit in judgement of all private party land uses as we, the land owners, go to them for permission and licenses to ask if we can do what we like with our own land.

There is a new documentary out that explains how this "sustainability" agenda has its roots in Communism and serves the UN's Agenda 21. The film is called "It's Easy Being Green When You Have No Choice: Sustainable Development and the End of History." This documentary is only one of many resources out there that clearly exposes the connections between UN's Agenda 21 and local zoning regulations being implemented across the country.

We need to educate ourselves regarding the methods being used to erode away at our natural rights if we are to have any hope in stopping them. Please, for the sake of yourselves and your children for generations to come, stand up and protect your natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Once these rights have been violated by government, which is actually supposed to be the protector of them, we may not ever be able to restore them without great struggle and sacrifice. The time to preserve and protect these rights is now, while we are still in control of them.

Surrendering "Freedom of Choice" for "Poll Worker Convenience"?

Although it's somewhat older news by now, most people are probably not aware that the rules have changed in Wisconsin regarding "write-in" votes.

According to this article on Isthmus, Wisconsin rules were changed in 2014 to save poll workers as much as 45 minutes on election nights, because they are no longer required to count all the votes. 

On April 2, the day after this year's spring election, Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed a bill lifting the requirement that all write-in votes must be counted.

Under the new law, only votes for registered write-in candidates, and write-in votes in races absent a certified candidate on the ballot, will be counted 

To be considered a registered write-in candidate, a special form must be submitted with the appropriate clerk's office prior to the election.

Not only does this new law prevent votes from being counted, but it also prevents votes for "registered" write-in candidates from being cast in the first place. 

According to a memo published by the Wisconsin G.A.B., 

Municipal clerks must provide their inspectors with a list of registered write-in candidates and the offices for which they are running.  This list is not to be posted or advertised in any way.  The list should be present at the polling place, in a folder, so that if a voter directly asks an inspector about write-in candidates, the inspector may refer to the list.  Inspectors may not volunteer write-in candidate information. (emphasis added)

So, how do you even know who you can write-in for an elected position? Well you'll have to ask an inspector at the polling place, assuming that you are even aware that a list of registered write-ins even exists in the first place.

We're told that this new rule is intended to prevent poll workers from having to count votes for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but it also relieves them from counting votes for Joe Citizen who doesn't know that he must first "register" with the clerk prior to the election if there is to be any hope that he might be chosen to represent the people.

Under the new law, only votes for registered write-in candidates, and write-in votes in races absent a certified candidate on the ballot, will be counted.
To be considered a registered write-in candidate, a special form must be submitted with the appropriate clerk's office prior to the election.
- See more at: http://isthmus.com/news/news/write-in-election-rules-changed-under-new-wisconsin-law/#sthash.vlLpWCFT.dpuf

Under the new law, only votes for registered write-in candidates, and write-in votes in races absent a certified candidate on the ballot, will be counted.
To be considered a registered write-in candidate, a special form must be submitted with the appropriate clerk's office prior to the election.
- See more at: http://isthmus.com/news/news/write-in-election-rules-changed-under-new-wisconsin-law/#sthash.vlLpWCFT.dpuf

On April 2, the day after this year's spring election, Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed a bill lifting the requirement that all write-in votes must be counted.
Under the new law, only votes for registered write-in candidates, and write-in votes in races absent a certified candidate on the ballot, will be counted.
To be considered a registered write-in candidate, a special form must be submitted with the appropriate clerk's office prior to the election.
- See more at: http://isthmus.com/news/news/write-in-election-rules-changed-under-new-wisconsin-law/#sthash.vlLpWCFT.dpuf