The only note of dissent

Came from Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend).

My goodness gracious, what an astonishing surprise.

The savings of millions of dollars to the counties, presumably, are realized by transferring appointments made by the circuit courts, appointments that are reimbursed at up to $70/hour, to the State Public Defender, which pays $40/hour* for the identical services.

Why wouldn't Glenn Grothman support that? Is Glenn Grothman less concerned with saving money than protecting constitutional rights?

It's enough to make a fiscal/social conservative's brain asplode.

One might reasonably expect Glenn Grothman to instinctively seize at every available opportunity to penalize "trial lawyers." But, no.

Incidentally, could Glenn Grothman win an election anywhere other than in Washington County, WI, or maybe someplace in Oklahoma?

* It's not that the SPD is stingy, it's that that's the law.

eta: Grothman attended 8th most liberal law school in U.S.

Glenn Grothman was reported to be "disappointed to hear the news of the ranking." What, he's only just figuring it out now?

Glenn Grothman wants to violate the constitution

Grothman pushes for more accountability [sic] on petitions:

Glenn Grothman's bill would require petition gatherers' statement of authenticity to be in the form of an affidavit, acknowledged by an officer authorized to administer oaths, affirm the circulator's identity and state that the circulator appeared before the officer and executed the statement in the officer's presence.

It's debatable whether Republican Senator Grothman's "hamper[ing], restrict[ing] or impair[ing]"* would be legal before the recalls got rolling, but it's almost certainly illegal now that the recalls are underway. There's some real desperation among the WISGOP leadership in the Senate, where Grothman stands to lose his position as assistant majority leader.

Changing the rules during the game, is what Glenn Grothman is up to.

And you don't get to do that. Sorry bub. Eat your peas.

* See Sec. 12, Para. 7.

State Sen. Glenn Grothman on life as a gay teen

I notice the New York Times is soliciting personal stories about life as a gay teen. Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman has one:

"Did people even know what homosexuality was in high school in 1975? I don't remember any discussion about that at the time. There were a few guys who would make fun of a few effeminate boys," he said, "but that's a different thing than homosexuality."

Grothman is among the most powerful WISGOPers in the legislature: It's like a nightmare, but without the being chased (by a gay homosexual).

Children are more commonly chased by some fantasy figure.

That would be Glenn Grothman's sleeping and waking nightmare.

Glenn Grothman vs. the Atheistic Socialists

This character is a parody of a conservative . . . please? (.pdf)

And here's Wis. Sen. Glenn Grothman telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that education "can have harmful psychological effects."

Sen. Grothman himself has a law degree [!] so maybe he's correct, although Grothman's attendance at the University of Wisconsin law school apparently predated the tenure of top blogger/law perfesser Ann Althouse, thus mitigating the harmful psychological effects.

For years Grothman has served the good people of Washington County, where his many admirers compare him favorably to Louie Gohmert, and his detractors disfavorably to a block of softwood.

Glenn Grothman, speaking for himself

"There are tens of thousands of people with master's degrees who don't have the common sense God gave a rabbit,"* said State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), who has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"Democrats will turn America into a country like Africa."

— Glenn Grothman

Tom Barrett declined an interview request on the issue.

Now that is smart.

* An odd choice for GG, given their notorious sexual promiscuity.

Lieutenant Governor Glenn Grothman

In the WisPolitics straw poll for lieutenant governor, Superior Mayor Dave Ross had 147 votes, state Sen. Glenn Grothman of West Bend had 109 votes ...

Scary. We're talkin' Palin-Scary. Louie Gohmert-Scary.

Is Glenn Grothman still a frequent guest on WVCY? I love those guys. One of my earliest memories of Milwaukee was watching Vic Eliason picketing Sun Myung Moon outside the Hilton on Wisconsin Ave.

Vic Eliason is also an outspoken opponent of the VeggieTales.

Grothman nostalgic for gayer, closeted times

Lawmaker could have convinced Liberace to renounce homosexuality

Wisconsin State senator Glenn Grothman's opposition to discussing and recognizing different sexual orientations in schools seems to come [from] his belief that instructors who lead these talks would have what he called an "agenda" to persuade students to become gay.

Glam rock had yet eluded the teenage Grothman:

"Did people even know what homosexuality was in high school in 1975? I don't remember any discussion about that at the time. There were a few guys who would make fun of a few effeminate boys," he said, "but that's a different thing than homosexuality."

Ah yes, that was good clean fun. Lawd a-mighty, what an ignoramus. It's precisely the intent and the goal of these proposals to mitigate exactly that sort of cruelty. Why do they keep voting for this guy?

I know seventh-graders who read The Onion. They are already millions of light years beyond Glenn Grothman's mentality.

h/t capper.

Skull, buttocks orientation invites suspicion

Homosexuals get agenda tips
They never thought of before
From anti-gay man, ironically

"Why sit down with 7th graders and say to some, 'You will be heterosexual, some [will be] homosexual'?," wondered Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman. "Part of that [homosexual] agenda which is left unsaid is that some of those who throw it out as an option would like it if more kids became homosexuals," Grothman added. Out loud.

And the reason this part of the homosexual agenda is "left unsaid" is exclusively because most people don't have access to the nut-right pantaloon's medulla oblongata, which is the only place it exists.

Emily Mills: Grothman trades up ass-hat points for full crown of glutes

Glenn Grothman is from West Bend, where today two creationists are on the primary election ballot vying for public school board seats.

Appalled Glenn Grothman is appalled

Dept. of Selective Fauxtrage

"I think there is a class of people who lives to get a disorderly conduct ticket. It is a badge of honor of certain leftists in Madison, and they do disrupt things," Glenn Grothman said.

Boo hoo. I'll be impressed when Grothman is appalled by his WISGOP colleagues — including the Republican governor and top Republican legislative leaders — who broke the law and violated the constitution.

Glenn Grothman issues jeremiad on Koch stationery

Lena Taylor declared war on Georgia-Pacific by encouraging a boycott of their products. . . . There are some narrow-minded and mean-spirited members of Wisconsin's Totalitarian Left that will do all they can to destroy those who disagree with them.

— Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman

It would be interesting to know whether Georgia-Pacific — a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries — manufactures the communications paper which the legislature purchases and conducts its business upon.

Or, obviously, whether its TP is GP.

Glenn Grothman gets his panties in a bunch

State Senator plays the posturing martyr in Madison.

"Democrats will turn America into a country like Africa."

— Glenn Grothman

Glenn Grothman rests the WISGOP voter fraud case

Asked for evidence of "voter fraud" — which both Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus claim accounts for several tens of thousands of ballots in every election in the State, up to 2% of millions — Wisconsin GOP senator Glenn Grothman stated there's a "feeling" out there that there is. Seriously.

He said it on the teevee just last night.

Earlier: Rep. Jim Ott's critical thinking skills quote of the day

Man beaten at tea ceremony, says blogger

UPDATE — Milwaukee paper confirms: Man, 50, suffers facial lacerations after fight breaks out at area tea party event.
"Online phenom" Michelle Malkin congratulates "angry mob."

"Then Joe the Plumber joined the tussle."

Here's some YouTube of the episode, apparently.

"Get him out of here!" they yell, and then applaud and hoot when the cops take him down. So the gummint does come in handy sometimes.

Then one dude shouts the title of a Neil Young song at him.

Hard to say whether former Republican Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher is present. But, he's pretty much everywhere nowadays, isn't he.

I don't know. I cruised by on my daily 15k run and what I saw was a paunchy, sunburned man in a short-sleeved shirt wandering around backstage muttering and grunting to himself. He was wearing a plastic badge that said, "Glenn Grothman for State Senator." Then by the time I'd jogged back up the dirt incline to N. Prospect Ave. and thought about it some more, I realized that was Glenn Grothman.

I recognized him from the teevee.

Seems the Brawler stopped along also.

Me, I estimate the angry mob at around two million.

Like Glenn Grothman with a job

Our friend Mike Mathias returns to blogging with this entertaining preview of the 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary "cage match."

On teh web: Grothman, WTF?

Palin/Grothman 2012

Because of a few angry feminists ...

Democrats will turn America into a country like Africa.

— State Senator Glenn Grothman

Apparently he plays well in West Bend.

zOMG Correction!!!1

Damn, I keep meaning to add this dude to the blogroll, but every time I think to do it, I can never come up with a shorter version of "What did [Wisconsin Whackjob State Senator] Glenn Grothman get wrong this week" that doesn't run across into two lines of text, because I'm so anal about having a clean website layout.

Finally — and I can't believe I didn't think of this before — I give you:

Grothman, WTF?

You can't have too many philosophy professors on your side.

Wis. voters required to show photo of Jeff Stone

Good friend of the blog Emily Mills on the WISGOP's voter ID bill.

Everybody knows the Republicans' bill is most likely to discourage from voting those classes of persons who are most likely to vote Democrat. Even Wisconsin's Louie Gohmert, Senator Glenn Grothman of Washington County, copped to this empirical fact yesterday.

Personally, I didn't watch any of the hearings, but my most reliable sources tell me the bill's sponsors, Republicans Jeff Stone and Don Pridemore, were utterly clueless in the face of questioning and were reduced to offering up personal anecdotes from their college days.

Indiana passed a similar bill, which was challenged and went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided in favor of the constitutionality of the photo ID requirement in the case of Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., which lead opinion has the added Republican bonus of having been authored by the liberal avatar Justice John Paul Stevens.

Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I reckon any and all concerns leveled at Messrs. Stone and Pridemore are addressed in that set of opinions, and even more so among the numerous Friends of the Court briefs filed on behalf of the photo ID bill's supporters, all of which documents are freely available on the internets these days.*

Reportedly Jeff 'Get me the least expensive black guy' Stone mentioned the case, but it was quickly made apparent he hadn't even gotten past the syllabus: Preparation with an H for hilarious.

These are your lawmakers, Wisconsin.

* I mean, you don't even have to hump it down to the law library and reconnoiter the latest-fangled digital reader of microfiches.

VA Gov. hopeful plays the Regent U. card

Early and often, from the sounds of it.

He should be careful. They probably love Pat Robertson down there.

I wonder what Glenn Grothman would do if he found out he attended the 173rd most liberal law school in the country. Jump for joy.

Your Scott Walker supporters in the news

One pleads guilty to two felonies* and another attempts to kill his wife with a hammer. Charles McNeer also contributed to the campaigns of Glenn Grothman, J.B. Van Hollen, Annette Ziegler, and Randy Koschnick.

Those are among the furthest right "family values" crowd in the State.

* Fortunately Gardner hired one of the smartest lawyers in Wisconsin.

Occupation Wisconsin: This was a lot of fun

#WIUnion panel, UW Madison Union South 11.12.11

I'm trying to remember the joke Sen. Larson told me at 40:25.

0:12:50 — Sen. Chris Larson
0:22:05 — Melissa Ryan
0:33:35 — Emily Mills
0:45:15 — Chris Liebenthal
0:55:25 — Max Love
0:32:35 — Obligatory Glenn Grothman joke
1:08:50 — WTMJ's Hip Musings, a dramatic recitation