Mark Belling
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Ah, State Sen. Mary Lazich, (R-New Berlin) - - Wisconsin's gift to political theater that keeps on giving.
On Thursday morning she's scheduled
a hearing on the state's use of traffic roundabouts - - that foreign roadway import that calms traffic, and saves on stoplight costs, but which Lazich finds overwhelmingly baffling.
City of Milwaukee Mark Belling fears a New Berlin roundabout, too.
Even though all turns are to the right.
Some other true-fact items from the Lazich archives:
* She proposed
criminalizing prank phone calls. This came after Scott Walker was embarrassed spilling the beans to the fake David Koch and earned her a shout out on "The Colbert Report."
* Led opposition to the Great Lakes Compact of 2008 even though it was making it possible for her home town to get the Great Lakes water supply it sought, because she believed it would destroy
Wisconsin's sovereignty.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Jeff Wagner is AM 620 WTMJ talk radio's second-banana, but that doesn't mean he can't create a laughingly large contradiction that veers into genre self-parody.
On his Monday program, Wagner was belly-aching about the year-long closing of the I-94 airport connecting spur due to regional freeway reconstruction and expansion - - a project that he and the other conservative talkers have long-supported.
Yet he complained and he whined just like the kids in the back seat on a long road trip to Grandma's house: "Are we there yet, are we there yet?"
"A year...a year," Wagner whinnied, as if he didn't know the basics of highway construction.
And a reality he helped make concrete.
Belling or Roenicke? Who's The Baseball Expert, And Who Has The Thin Skin?
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
1130 WISN-AM's grumpy late afternoon talker Mark Belling spent much of his 5-6:00 p.m. segment Wednesday reprising what he said was one of his worst sports-related moments, ever.
Turns out he had a bad night at a sports bar (unnamed) after the Brewers Tuesday night win over the Pirates.
Seems his drinking buddy (unnamed) kept undermining Belling's worrying as the Dodgers blew a late-inning lead to Arizona (this prevented Milwaukee from clinching home-field advantage) to the point that, as Belling told the audience numerous times today "I nearly killed someone" last night.
Belling said he got so upset with his buddy's jinxing the outcome that he stormed out of the bar, leaving $45 change from a $50 bill for his final beer order on the counter.
Today, that anger morphed into anxiety, as Belling sees Arizona as an unstoppable juggernaut and worries Milwaukee might end up playing them in the playoffs.
Belling then went on to second-guess the Brewers skipper Ron Roenicke for how he's setting up his pitching tonight (Zach Greinke on three days rest) to save Yovani Gallardo for game one of the playoffs.
Belling predicted other Roenicke moves tonight with the line-up, such as resting starters, would backfire and cost the Brewers dearly in the unfolding playoffs.
Rewriting caucus scandal history, Mark Belling edition
Doing political work on government time is common. It is only criminalized when Republicans do it. Former GOP Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen and Majority Leader Steve Foti were criminally prosecuted for it while Democrat staffers caught doing the same thing were never charged.-- Mark Belling, in a Milwaukee Post opinion column.
Belling chooses his words carefully, saying Democratic "staffers" weren't charged. Many staffers on both sides of the aisle escaped being charged in connection with the state Capitol caucus scandal that began in 2002.
But Jensen,pictured, and Foti weren't staffers, they were legislators. And their counterparts, two Democratic State Senators named Chuck Chvala and Brian Burke.
Burke was initially charged with 18 felony counts, sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay almost $88,000 in fines in a deal with prosecutors. Burke pleaded guilty to a felony and a misdemeanor for using workers in his Capitol office to help him campaign for attorney general in 2002.
Rewriting caucus scandal history, Mark Belling edition
Doing political work on government time is common. It is only criminalized when Republicans do it. Former GOP Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen and Majority Leader Steve Foti were criminally prosecuted for it while Democrat staffers caught doing the same thing were never charged.-- Mark Belling, in a Milwaukee Post opinion column.
Belling chooses his words carefully, saying Democratic "staffers" weren't charged. Many staffers on both sides of the aisle escaped being charged in connection with the state Capitol caucus scandal that began in 2002.
But Jensen,pictured, and Foti weren't staffers, they were legislators. And their counterparts, two Democratic State Senators named Chuck Chvala and Brian Burke.
Burke was initially charged with 18 felony counts, sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay almost $88,000 in fines in a deal with prosecutors. Burke pleaded guilty to a felony and a misdemeanor for using workers in his Capitol office to help him campaign for attorney general in 2002.
Recent comments
1 year 42 weeks ago
1 year 50 weeks ago
1 year 51 weeks ago
2 years 12 weeks ago
2 years 36 weeks ago
2 years 45 weeks ago
2 years 45 weeks ago
2 years 47 weeks ago
2 years 51 weeks ago
3 years 2 days ago