How’s your $93 Million boondoggle going? I remember you being the loudest vocal advocate for the largest property tax raising construction project in the history of the State of Wisconsin. What are your plans for St. Croix County?

Are you going to do what you did to your own property? You defaulted on your home and soon thereafter, your mortgage company foreclosed on you. I also seem to know that the Sheriff sold your property.

Looks as if that put a strain on your marriage as well. Tammie ended up divorcing you. You and Tammie left a wake of other miscellaneous debt. Who did you think was going to pay it? I see BOA even filed another claim St. Croix County for other unpaid bills. Was that your debt Andrew? What kind of leadership and financial management will you offer to St. Croix County?

Do you still have those Packer season tickets? 4 tickets. You almost had me going back in the year 2008. You offered up 4 tickets and a 2 day hotel package just to have me outed. My buddies were thinking about it. Naw.

Been out of state for a while but came to visit my buddies OTBL. They tell me you threw your name in the hat for County board. In the famous words of Chris Mathews, “What in God’s name were you thinking?” I forgot, you have a bunch of miscreants up your way. Hold on to your hat, Andrew.

I still owe you one… And I promise to always deliver Andrew Brinkman. You can’t even manage or supervise your own family and finances, what makes you think you can do it for the County? Who would wan’t you to?

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No doubt the teachers in Somerset and St Croix Central participated in some form of protests over the Walker Bill. The ACT scores from their students, which have shown to be pretty consistent over the last 15 years, give testimony to the absolute incompetence of the teaching staff at all grade levels.

Considering the number looking for teaching positions, I have to wonder why the whole lot in Somerset and St. Croix Central are not fired. Or why the sheep for parents have not taken to the streets calling for an end to this educational embarrassment and demanding release from this system through educational tax credits or vouchers.

Just imagine what average scores would look like if every senior had to participate. The following six states require every senior to take the ACT exam: Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and Wyoming (Mississippi had a 96% participation rate and Louisiana had 98%). The average score ranged for these states from 19 to 21.

And you still think government needs to be involved in education?

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Students in New Richmond had an average test score of 23.8, which was a full point higher than last year. Hudson students came in second with an average of 23.7 and the River Falls average was 23. Scores from St, Croix Central and Somerset came in with a moron like averages of 21.5 and 21 respectively.

The New Richmond scores caused New Richmond Curriculum Director Jess Ferguson to crow about what she termed awesome results. Perhaps intentionally, everyone is missing the percentage of seniors taking the ACT at our local high schools and how they fare against the top districts in the state.

The number of students taking the ACT in New Richmond equaled 58.4% of the senior class. Hudson on the other hand had 70% participation and 77% of the seniors in River Falls took the exam. One can only speculate what the scores in New Richmond would look like if a higher percentage of the senior class had taken the exam. But this should give no comfort to the parents and taxpayers in Hudson and River Falls about the quality of their schools.

Whitefish Bay High School north of Milwaukee and a similar size to New Richmond turned in an average score of 26.6% and a participation rate of 88.4%. Over the last 15 years the lowest score was 24 and the minimal percentage taking the test was 78.4%.

Elmbrook High School students turned in average score of 25.2 with 87% of the seniors participating, a rate that has steadily risen over the last 15 years.

Rounding out are sample is the Arrowwhead School District that showed 83% of the senior class turning in ACT scores with an average result of 24.8.

It is obvious that our local government institutions of learning not only lag behind the top districts in scores, but come up dreadfully short in the percentage of the senior class taking the ACT. The real question behind the local test score stories is: How low would the scores be if Jethro Bodine and Ellie Mae had decided join the ones that did take it?

Naught goes into naught, naught.

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Take a look at this woman(?).  She’s giving us the sign that her husband gave her last night when she got a little frisky…. 

So this is what civility is about?  Remember when Shelly Moore rented the bandshell and announced her candidacy?  Did you see teaparty people ranting and raving, being disrespectful and shouting obscenities? 

Where were the Hudson police yesterday?  Why didn’t they arrest these people for disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace or inciting violence?  Maybe it’s because the police thugs are on the same team as the other government union thugs who showed up yesterday.

What a pathetic display from the Shelly Moore supporters.  Sure can’t let anyone have their right to free speech now can we?  Is this what Shelly teaches her children to do?  And to think these are the same people teaching our children about “anti-bullying”.  How ironic!

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The protestors were allowed to demonstrate outside the property bounds of the motel where the AFP had gathered. After the meeting, protestors who had no intention of engaging in commerce entered the Hudson House for the purpose of confronting State Senator Shelia Harsdorf. The exchanges that took place revealed a collective think of entitlement.

My personal encounter went something like the following:
I asked several of the goons what moral right of collective bargaining they held that forced me to pay the union dues that went toward a political agenda contrary to my beliefs. The salary they receive comes from my taxes, which in turn pays union dues that ends up in the coffers of political candidates who favor more taxation and restriction of personal freedoms.

The response was eye-opening. The thug’s view saw no difference in my question then when they shop at Wal-Mart and the company uses their money to support candidates and causes of their choice. A thief could make a similar defensive analogy in that when they go to a store the proprietor eventually takes their money; taking is common to the action of the thief and the store.

Of course the former is forced upon an individual while the act of shopping at a store is voluntary.

Toeing the union line, every teacher complained how they only made $40,000 and the cost of living made it hard to have a decent life. From the looks of their ages, I doubt every teacher that we encountered made $40,000 or less, plus being single. When talking compensation, they always fail to mention benefits paid mostly by taxpayers plus nearly four months of vacation. If the argument begins with obfuscating the truth, then the answer to the problem cannot be found. I voiced loudly that if they did not like the working conditions, then like any other worker in the country resignation was always an option. Many could be found to replace them.

In another conversation, a protestor saw nothing wrong with the fourteen Senators fleeing the state. The electoral process in the past that had so well served government workers now needed to be stopped. Democracy is only a virtue when it serves their desires. Coincidentally, this man from the DNR admitted to contributing not one penny to his pension.

When the mob spotted Shelia Harsdorf exiting the motel, they broke the line of private property and surrounded her vehicle. In doing so they not only presented a threat to safety, but denied othersthe ability to enter or leave the property. As we have now witnessed over the last two weeks, private property rights mean little to bullies or in fact to thieves.

Perhaps “Joe the Plumber” said it best. The divide in the country is between those that feel they deserve something versus others who truly believe in freedom where the word “deserve” does not exist. Philosophically, citizens in the country rest in two camps with no common ground.

It is time we go our separate ways.

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From: Kit Bruesewitz [kbruesewitz@dishup.us]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 5:12 PM
To: All Teachers
Subject: Fwd: Rally in River Falls Saturday February 26th

RALLY IN RIVER FALLS: 4:00 PM – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH. Meet at KILKARNEY HILLS GOLF CLUB at 163 Radio Road, River Falls for a short rally and to line the road entering the Golf Club with vehicles and bodies showing union solidarity. This is a public golf course so there should be no problems. For additional information you can contact Cecil Cahoon, NEA Organizer at ccahoon@nea.org or via cell at 202-230-9027

Gov. Scott Walker, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Dean Knudson, John Shiltz, Kitty Rhoades, Sheila Harsdorf, Dan Kapanke, John Murtha, and Supreme Court Judge David Prosser are all invited speakers and/or guests to the annual Lincoln Day Dinner in River Falls. No doubt, they view this tiny retreat as a respite from the loud crowds speaking their minds on the State House grounds in Madison. But this is OUR chance to tell them that union rights are important in every corner of Wisconsin. The tentative agreement reached yesterday in Durand demonstrates that collective bargaining works: If it can work in Durand, it can work for Wisconsin. JOIN US on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Kilkarney Golf Course public parking area and help us carry our message to greet Governor Walker and his guests. WEAR YOUR RED and BRING YOUR SIGNS!

Jo Palmer
Administrative Staff Assistant
West Central Education Association
105 21st Street N
Menomonie, WI 54751
wceajo@wwt.net
715/235-6808
1-800-472-6801
FAX: 715/235-7475

Send Kit and Jo an email or phone call and let your feelings be known.

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Surely, given the Lexus-styled, taxpayer funded, union demanded, cradle to grave idiotic health plan poured onto the already overpaid and under-worked government hacks masquerading as teachers in Hudson that this tax will hit hard.

Then again, all you suckers in the Hudson School District who blindly support the asinine government school monopoly deserve what you will obviously get: a nice bump in your property taxes to pay the 40% assessment.

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So much for the explosive growth that required $93 million worth of new schools.

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Neither do we.

However, we have been reminded that he offered a bounty on Jack Bauer’s identity back in 2006. Brinkman offered tickets to a Packers game and overnight accommodations at a local Green Bay Hotel to anyone who could accurately identify Jack Bauer.

Brinkman went on to become a vocal advocate for the largest property tax raising school construction project in Wisconsin history by supporting New Richmond’s $93 million referendum. Brinkman’s logic was aimed at having others pay for what he wanted.

Not surprisingly, a short time later Brinkman defaulted on the mortgage on his house. The bank subsequently foreclosed on him and the Sheriff ended up selling the property.

Around the same time, he and his wife Tammie, divorced, leaving a wake of other debts to other financial institutions.

Well, poor Andy, looks like he keeps getting deeper and deeper into a financial black hole.

Bank of America has just filed another claim in St. Croix County Court against Tammie seeking judgment for additional unpaid bills. She has forty days to respond from August 14, 2008.

What an example community involvement and leadership. Looks like the new school building project is helping New Richmond turn the corner.

We wonder how involved Andy remains in the Front Porch Project.

Let’s just hope Andy and Tammie never had any children.

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Psst, Jack. Psst, J.B. I am over here. Man you have those socialist in New Richmond madder than a whore who discovered she was paid with phony money. I understand there is even a bounty on your head. What did you do to get them so mad? Was it murder, or stealing [you know government types hate people who horn in on their territory] , or rape? Oh, don’t tell me you’ve been playing around with folk’s farm animals at night. You did what? You have been out blabbing about public information from public meetings. You made public the school board election results before the local paper even had an idea of the results. You made public the sniveling emails and dirty tricks from the we are proud to be socialist group. You have exposed lies and outright fraud. What did you expect them to do, give you a plaque and the keys to the city for being a messenger of truth. I am shocked the bounty is a measly couple of baseball tickets. If it was Packer tickets, I would turn you in myself [ha,ha, just a little bandit humor] [UPDATE: The bounty was raised to a 2 day hotel package and 4 Packer tickets to a game of choice.]

I have been on the run myself for quite a while. It seems folks didn’t take too kind to me calling socialist pigs, socialist pigs. I also seem to have a talent for creating nicknames. According to a letter in the new Richmond Paper a while back, I even got my picture up on the walls of the Post Office. I hope it’s my good side. What do you say we join up. We will be like Butch and Sundance. At this very moment we are being pursued by the fearsome Burp Brothers, Jeff and Doug. Jeff brought along his trusty media sidekick, Squeaky. He don’t say much except to blurt out ” anti-public education gang”. Following along with Doug is his bloodhound Meg who has a knack for missing clues and following cold trails like in the Devin Willi threat letter case and the expenses of the former Hudson School District Superintendent and the 16 million dollar slush fund. Personally I don’t think these people could find their ass if they had both hands in their back pockets.

Oh-oh, looks like they may be picking up our trail. Here quick, throw out a couple bags of Pork Rinds. It always gets them off scent. It is kind of funny to watch them go in circles around St. Croix County. Hey, I got an idea. What do you say we lead them one more time around the area and then take off for River Falls. There is a fellow down there who goes by the name of River Rat. He said the River Falls schools just hired a new Principal and a few people are a little upset. How about we go down there and give a little stir? On our way down we need to stop at County Market and get some more Pork Rinds. You never know, the Burps could get lucky and find us again.

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Residents were joyful that their investment in their homes continued to accelerate as NR realtors and contractors kept raising prices to play catch up with Minneapolis – St. Paul. Neighboring communities to the east however weren’t quite as fortunate with their home values. Baldwin, Woodville, Elmwood, Spring Valley; try as hard as they could – they were just too far away from the Twin Cities for the average commuter. These communities kept their small town charm; but the real estate value was far below anything in New Richmond or Hudson. The option for Twin Cities residents considering purchasing a home in western Wisconsin was to move to Hudson, New Richmond or River Falls and pay top dollar for Wisconsin real estate; or move to Elmwood, Baldwin, or Spring Valley where they could purchase more home for less money, but pay exorbitant commuting costs.

And then, when everybody was sleeping, the price of gasoline rose from $2.50 a gallon to $4.00 a gallon. Just like that! This is when the Twenty-Ten rule came into play.

What is the Twenty-Ten rule? Simply stated it goes like this: For every $1.00 hike in gasoline prices, New Richmond moves 20 miles to the east in the eyes of those Twin Cities residents considering moving to Western Wisconsin. When the price of gasoline rose from $2.50 to $3.00 (just fifty cents), New Richmond moved ten miles to the east ending up in rural Cylon. This past year as the gas prices rose another full dollar New Richmond moved an additional twenty miles east and found itself in the outskirts of Glenwood City. There is about as much appeal for Twin Cities folks to move to New Richmond today as there was for those same folks to move to Glenwood City two years ago when the gasoline price was $2.50 a gallon.

Where does the Ten in the Twenty-Ten rule come into play? For every twenty miles that New Richmond moves east, the value of current homes in New Richmond drops an additional ten percent. So in other words in the past two years as the price of gas has soared from $2.50 a gallon to $4.00 a gallon, New Richmond has moved 30 miles to the east in the eyes of those considering moving here; and the value of the average house in New Richmond has dropped by 15%.

So what happens when gas prices reach $5.00 a gallon later this summer? The answer is simple. New Richmond will be a suburb of Menomonie in the eyes of potential commuters and home purchasers, and the value of the average home will have dropped 25%. $6.00 a gallon? Eau Claire and 35%.

Now wait a minute! What about the Stillwater bridge that is scheduled for construction in the year 2024 and the accompanying 600 new housing starts every year the School District Parrot Board promised? By 2024 New Richmond will be located in Stanley. A bridge to Stanley doesn’t make much sense. Who wants to commute to a prison any way? On top of that our Democratic governor has diverted our highway and bridge funds to government education to overpay our administrators. There isn’t any bridge money now, and won’t be any bridge money in the future. Ask those in Winona about Wisconsin’s role in funding bridges.

But rest assured New Richmond. We have had the privilege of being hood-winked into constructing 35% – 40% more classroom space than what will ever be needed. Why? Because the Parrot Board believed the false growth figures provided by a consultant who has a reputation of being wrong more than being right. Try to get a straight answer from the Parrot Board about our true growth figures. It’s easier getting a Democrat to support new off shore drilling! New Richmond will not be growing any faster in the future than Emerald, Downing, or Boyceville has in the past. To make matters worse, with that 35% – 40% surplus classroom space comes the doubling of that portion of our property taxes that supports our School District. Now how attractive is that to someone considering moving to New Richmond, but at the same time is looking for value? There is no value in paying exorbitant taxes for surplus classroom space that isn’t needed today, and won’t be needed in the future.

The Twenty-Ten rule. My twenty bucks to your ten that the New Richmond Parrot Board will never offer an apology for the way they misled the voters in that $93,000,000 fiasco of a referendum.

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“The housing slump was over. The economy was on the way back up and all was well again.”

As this guy talked I soon learned he was a realtor who was doing his best to put a positive spin on what has obviously been a less than stellar year playing the real estate game.

I decided to do a little data mining to see just how bad things have gotten. What I found was a bit surprising, but it still confirms my prediction that valuations throughout St. Croix County are going south. And in some places in a big way. (Some may recall, I made a comment predicting a 2% drop in the county’s total valuation back last December. A drop in valuation that is certain to raise havoc in a number of area school districts budgets.)

Here is the link to all the St Croix Home Sales 2008 YTD listed so far this calendar year on Edina Realty’s website.

The bottom line is this, Edina Realty shows 116 homes sold in the Hudson school district for a total of $35,236,570.
This total is 4% under what the county gives as the “Full Market Value” for these same homes in 2007.

But the real shocker was seeing the total for New Richmond. The number of single family homes sold in the New Richmond school district totaled 68 for a total selling price of $11,312,149. That number is 16% below the “Full Market Value” the county listed these properties for in 2007.

Now, would someone like to remind all of us how much of a valuation increase the New Richmond school district was going to see to help ease the tax burden on the upcoming levies? I wonder if that $92M is still being chirped now as still being cheaper than the $54M failed attempt? “Fuzzy math” can be hell on a pocketbook.

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· The ninety three million dollar school referendum. With no real growth projected in the intermediate future (except for Hazel and her blind followers) the referendum created excessive classroom space that won’t be filled in the next hundred years
· Potentially the highest property taxes in the greater metropolitan area
· The lack of industry and jobs
· The burst of the housing balloon and the 600+ unsold homes on the NR market
· The devaluation of property values
· The unreasonable access fees to initiate construction projects
· The lack of excellent public library space
· The sub-standard city wide recreational facilities
· The fact that most residents don’t shop in New Richmond, killing local small businesses
· The arrogance of some school board members, school administrators and public officials

If you had guessed anyone of these factors alone, you would have been wrong. Sure, they are all contributing factors. The number one enemy of the City of New Richmond is something that is out of the control of any person involved with shaping New Richmond’s future. The number one enemy to city growth and economic stability is the new paradigm of spiraling gasoline prices. Folks, gasoline prices are not coming down, and you will probably see $10.00 – $15.00 a gallon prices in your life time.

For decades many people moved out of the inner hub of the Twin Cities to save money. With cheap commuting gasoline prices, New Richmond and much of St. Croix County had a lot of appeal. The rural, small town life, affordable housing and taxes, low crime, and cheap gasoline.

It’s the non-ending increase to the price of fuel and commuting, not just the high property taxes alone, that will choke the future of any growth in New Richmond. A recent N.P.R report shows the close link between driving costs and the housing market. The father one lives away from where the jobs are, the more significant the home prices have fallen, and will continue to fall. At the current $100 a week commuting costs, intellectually advantaged people will not move from the Twin Cities to New Richmond to save money. Those days are gone forever.

Rising fuel costs are to blame for everything from soaring utility costs to lower retail sales, higher food costs, higher airline tickets. And now experts predict that high gas prices will reshape U.S. cities.

Gasoline prices have always fluctuated up and down in the mind of American citizens, albeit giving way to a slow but steady rise in cost per gallon over the years. But once the realization soaks into the American consciousness that high-cost gas is here to stay, those high commute prices will pull more homeowners – even young families – to live in central cities and create a push for more public transportation. We are not going to see the historic pattern of building single-family detached homes farther and father into the desert. New Richmond will no longer be a city of destination. Commuters are not going to line up at the city gates waiting for the new schools to open. The new schools will be seen as a liability rather than as an asset because of their financial effect on a dwindling tax- payer base.

For years city officials have been asking the wrong questions. When gasoline was cheap and commuting costs reasonable, there were many from the Twin Cities moving to rural Wisconsin to build single-family residences. The question that the city administrators asked themselves is “How can we slow down growth?” The logical answer to this near -sited question was to increase the access fees and red tape involved in developing property. Then when the price of gasoline started its journey up to the four dollar a gallon figure, and nobody from the Twin Cities considered New Richmond as an affordable option to commute from, these same city administrators asked themselves the question: “How can we speed up the growth rate?” I’ve got an idea, “let’s drop the cost of access fees and red tape,” as if that were going to make a difference.

These questions are not the right questions to ask. The right question to ask is this:

In five years from now when the price of gasoline is $7.50 a gallon, and commuting costs to the jobs in the Twin Cities is $8,000 a year, and the district property taxes are the highest in the greater Metropolitan area due to the $93,000,000 referendum, and the school population is decreasing, and the space in Paperjack Elementary is not longer needed…with all these factors in mind…“how do we position ourselves – what can we do in the next five years to reverse what appears to be inevitable crippling of a once growing community? The question is not how can we maintain our small town ambiance in times of explosive growth. Explosive growth is dead and will never return. The time for wearing the smiling face and promoting New Richmond as something that it isn’t is over. There are tough times facing the city, and nobody seems to have a clue. We’re just waiting for the new school buildings to open, the new bridge to be in place. We’ve convinced ourselves into believing that once the buildings are built and the bridge is open, 600 new housing starts will happen every year. New Richmond will once again return to its glory of the early 2000’s.

Where’s the leadership in New Richmond? Who is bringing the right questions to the table, whether it is the city council or school board? Is anybody out there? Anyone?
In the mean time New Richmond’s inability to address reality is posing harm to those who call New Richmond home.

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Jeff Holmquist’s latest contemplation in The New Richmond Newspaper [Holmquist is editor of the paper] illustrates the confliction and ignorance that decays an otherwise normal brain at birth. Holmquist ponders whether the New Richmond City Council’s move to lower certain fees for construction is good or bad. see opinion

In his opinion piece Jeff admits that growth in residential and commercial construction has slowed precipitously. Huh? Almost two months ago, this same person was beating the drum for the passage of the biggest referendum in Wisconsin state history. Why? Because of the exploding growth that New Richmond was experiencing. So which is it; dramatic slowing of growth [no growth would be more accurate] or exploding growth? It seems the City Council, members who also supported the big referendum, confirmed what the socialists were denying; growth in this little part of the world has come to a standstill. Of course anyone with eyesight and the penchant for truthful observation was well aware of the reality of the situation. The question that should be put forward is not whether the City should lower construction fees, but why did members of the Council, the school board and administrators, prominent citizens in the community, and Jeff Holmquist fabricate the growth scenario?

Concerning directly the matter of lowering fees and taxes and how such actions might impact future growth, the City Council overlooked several important steps. First, even though fees may have some effect on the decision to build in one area over another, the reason for building is to meet the demands of individuals. A house built when there are no buyers is an empty house and wasted capital; a business built without profit is a business headed for bankruptcy. The lowering of certain construction fees does not alter one bit certain overriding facts; first, the state of Wisconsin is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden with more increases on the horizon. Secondly, New Richmond just passed the largest school referendum in the state, which is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden, with more increases on the horizon. Added together, New Richmond now has the distinction of being one of the most heavily tax-burdened communities anywhere.

The convoluted logic [if that term is even applicable here] of the City Council, Jeff Holmquist, and et al is bewildering. They pressed for the passage of a huge tax increase to meet the demands of exploding area growth, so they said. Part of their argument concerning the referendum was that the tax increases would not affect the growth. However they now see fit to cut certain fees as a way to spur the growth, which is presently non-existent that would not be impacted by an increase in taxes. Therefore, raising taxes has no impact on growth, but cutting taxes do. Meanwhile, living in the seventh highest tax-burdened state is not even considered a factor since taxes have no bearing on where people live, unless you cut taxes to make your area more attractive for people to live.

The only thing left to say is, “will the last one out turn the lights off!”

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