Wow. You won't believe what this Wisconsin Republican said!

[Scuba]

Dale is the last decent Republican in Wisconsin, and is not running for re-election. Dale voted with Democrats against much of the Walker agenda.

[MNBrewer]

1. I hope the last decent Republican turns the lights off on the way out.

It's the decent thing to do.

[lastlib]

7. (...or sets off the dynamite...........)

(hi, Agent Mike! )

[Warpy]

2. Sounds like Sen. Schultz is just a hair away from realizing he's in the wrong party.

Good for him. ALEC was created to make legislators lazy enough to do just that and the enticement was all the extra hours they could devote to fattening their campaign donations.

[cui bono]

5. Wish the party was just a hair away from realizing they're working for the wrong people. n/t

[HereSince1628]

14. He announced a while back that he's not running for re-election.

He has been an important less than radical republican, he won't be replaced by the same.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. We have a couple mayors like that here.

Dying breed.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. ,

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[Skittles]

6. curious why he is a republican

[lutefisk]

8. He was when it was honorable

He's been a legislator since 1982. If the Republicans gain total control of the Federal Government, we are truly fucked. Wisconsin has been destroyed (seriously) under total (every branch) Republican control. I hope it does not happen to the Nation.

Now he says:

. . . “I am not willing to defend them anymore,” he explained when Salvia asked why Republicans sought to limit the number of voting hours a municipality could offer. “I’m just not and I’m embarrassed by this.”
...

Last week, Schultz argued that there were no legitimate justifications for some of the election reforms pushed by Republicans.

“It’s all predicated on some belief there is a massive fraud or irregularities, something my colleagues have been hot on the trail for three years and have failed miserably at demonstrating,” he said.

Schultz has had it with the Republican party. All he can really do is quit, after 32 years of service! They are totally out of control in Wisconsin. Sucks to be us.



http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jack_craver/dale-schultz-i-am-not-willing-to-defend-them-anymore/article_7c3598f2-ae16-11e3-8097-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2wNi69Fn3

[calimary]

9. Good point. I'd be interested to hear his explanation - and whether he's considering

a defection. Granted, I guess he's not running again, but I just have to wonder at the rationales behind some of these folks. I have a couple of close friends who vote GOP. And I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME figure out why. They seem like such nice people. WHY would they identify with THAT mob of monsters?

[certainot]

10. good on him. the wisconsin ALEC ring kissing radio blowhards will immediately attack and he will

be forced to cow tow.

[greatlaurel]

11. Ohio is being destroyed in the same fashion.

We have the narcissist in chief John Kasich as governor, Jon Husted as secretary of voter suppression, Josh Mandel as state treasurer for looting the state treasury, and Mile Dewine as attorney general who cannot find enough religious bigotry to keep up.

Then we have a legislature stacked with crooks, wife beaters, Rethugs that will not pay their personal debts and liars all backed by ALEC, the NRA and the tea party kooks. They keep passing more and more oppressive legislation against voting, women, teachers and unions and passing laws for more guns!

If Kasich is re-elected this fall, it will be a total hell hole. Public pensions will be stolen and all union rights will be destroyed. They are well on their way to destroying public education. Millions of dollars are being stolen from public schools and given to charter school outfits with no accountability. What a nightmare.

Wisconsin, please accept my condolences on the loss of your state, I know what you are going through.

[Cha]

12. WoW is right.. the opposite of what I thought

it would be. Speaks the truth.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. So, is he just figuring this out?

Better late than never, though!