This is one man that will stand with the people and show with actions he cares. He is not afraid to stand for what he believes in. Having gotten to know him He is the best person for us and HAS MY VOTE

The commie labeller has struck again. Is that all you have RLOT? I am a loud mouth, all you do is aspouse communism on every thread, with little or nothing to back it up! I vote my conscious, loud mouth. I was a lifelong conservative, just gave up on them.Maybe you should speak to the article, and the candidates, and who you support. Instead of callin everyone a commie. BTW if there were a legit 3rd party candidate I would love to vote for them, Big MOUTH. Maybe I should just write in "Robot Lord Of Tokyo", at least then I wouldnt be a commie, right?

I just refuse to label people with "isms" and throw hyperbole around to make points. If you are unable to discuss an issue, I get it. But labelling everyone a commie doesnt really do much for you. Maybe it makes you feel good, but repeating the same simplistic montra on every single thread, doesnt make it true, it just makes YOU a loud mouthed parrot. Frankly a little annoying, but if you believe it maybe its true, in Tokyo.

Want a cracker??

"If you really think that Dems waste your money and repubs dont, then you are truly disabled!"
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Vote Libertarian, loud mouth.

"The Koch Brothers and their selfishness stink. I hope that helps."
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Communism lifts it's ugly head and smiles again.
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So what's next? Greece?? That would make a very nice commie country.

What a wonderful fairy tale, diverdown. But you forgot the part where they lived happily ever after.

Here are two actual scenerios. See if you can pick which state is described in each of them.

1. Put the Republican party in the majority in both houses and Governor. Reign in government and balance the budget without raising taxes. Eliminate collective bargaining for state employees and other state funded employees.

2. Put the Democrats in the majority in both houses and Governor. Promise no layoffs or cuts in benefits to the state workers unions, increase state corporate income taxes by 67%, build up an 8 billion dollar deficit.

Your choices of which states these describe is.

A. Illinois
B. Wisconsin

Now tell me, which party is doing the responsible thing for the taxpayers of their state?

Hey! Look what I found! http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/07/da...
and

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/tea-part...

The Koch Brothers and their selfishness stink. I hope that helps.

No mention of the Koch brothers. That's progress!

Joe intends to run again...save your money JOE because you will not win the election. You have two people running against you that are more qualified and will listen to the people.

Wasting money is a democrat plan? Really? Lat time I checked the state that was in a 3 billion dollar hole, just outspent the last budget by over a BILLION dollars! High paying jobs for political appointees, sometimes at 60% raises! But thats not wasting money right?
Maybe we need to pay someone who has failed finding fraud in medicare, to find fraud in Medicaid! Ahh just another 91,000 dollar job , CREATED BY THE GOVERNEMENT! Not to mention a 2 million dollar budget to CREATE AN ENTIRE NEW DEPARTMENT of government. Wait I thought government doesnt create jobs? I thought we were broke? WOw its amazing how broke we aren't when it comes to our political allies and donors isn't it? Ask the railroad company in Milwaukee that got caught illegally donating to the Eagle scouts campaign. What to do? AWARD them with a 37 million dollar railroad contract!
Sure TTTT its the Democruds that waste money, not your holy Republitards! Get a clue pal, governemnt is corrupt, they ALL waste money, you are just to clueless and blinded by loudmouths that aspouse your pont of view to see the forest through the trees! If you really think that Dems waste your money and repubs dont, then you are truly disabled!

TTTT you are a truly UNeducated person, thats okay, and your right.
So let me get this straight since Yuri wasn't born here , and Knilans is an American. What does that have to do with anything? As RAF might say, the tinfoil hat is affecting your undersized brain. Do you have the same problem with the Governator(a repub) in California? What a pathetic attempt. And you have the nerve to say I spout rhetoric? Look at your rant at 5:59 PM. stand up for your beliefs not on how much you hate the commie bastards taking over our country. Ever heard of the word Hyperbole, it should be your screen name.
Mine by the way refers to folks like you that cant turn off Fox noise. Try to make a relavant argument, you have yet to do that.
As far as if I am a "Raskin supporter", to be honest I have yet to make up my mind, if my feet were held to a fire today, I would support Kevin Murray. Either way a green puppet in a garbage can would be better than JOe Knilans. Assuming that garbage can would be in this district of course. After that little stunt he tried to pull with the teachers contract(settled), he wrote his ticket out. He aparantly doesn't know that he caught lightning in a bottle getting elected over a terrible iuncumbent. Realizing that, his stunt with the JEA will not go unpunished, not to mention that he isn't really a resident of his district. If he werent up for re-election so soon, he would have been recalled, as is, he WILL be gone. I would bet the farm on it. But keep on the baseless pointless bashing, because it really serves no purpose, except your own.
I actually have issues with Mr Raskin and some of his positions he has taken in city govt. and would be MORE than willing to discuss them, you on the other hand like to play judge and jury. I am sure you are perfect right? Doubtful. Debate policy, if you can.

Walker increased government spending by $1.1 billion over Doyle's last "overspent" budget and is cutting shared revenue to communities. If against voter ID then we are "for voter fraud?" You're just rambling nonsense TTTT. Maybe somebody else will debate with your insanity, but I won't. Good luck.

TTTT, so you're saying that the UAW and other organized labor unions are welcome and embraced in China and Cuba? That's its my imagination that real communists hate labor unions? You have a Glenn Beck understanding of Communism and its relationship to free market organized labor - Which means you truely have no clue. But it does seem though that you have a personal and serious psychological hang-up with Rashkin. Get help.

totellthetruth, could you please point specifically to the content in your last post that is relevant to what you accused Yuri Rashkin of and that is being bought. I can't find it in there, sorry.

jvlhousewife: Read the post again. You missed the point!

totellthetruth, your post on Oct 5, 2011 at 4:38 p.m. accuses Yuri Rashkin of being bought. Most every politician accepts legal contributions to help finance their campaigns. If this is your definition of being bought, then most every politician in America is bought and your accusation does absolutely nothing to differentiate Yuri Rashkin from his opponents.

totellthetruth said, "tjncj, excellent point. Rashkin=Briarmoon!"
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You have got to be kidding. Briarmoon of the Rock County Voter Education Forum aka Gary Meinert sponsor? Polar opposites on the political spectrum to Yuri Rashkin. Something is totally screwed up with that equivocation.

TTTT, Rashkin is eligible to be a state legislator. Knilans might have been born here, but he wasn't living in the district he chose to run in. He told told everyone during the summer that he''s living in the district (in his brothers basement) but then votes for Loudenbeck during the September primary in another district! Knilans is the poster boy for voter fraud. Learn your communist history too. Real communists HATE labor unions, sort of like yourself. Knilans better be ready for the truth.

befair - why should Yuri move to another place to run for an office, Janesville is his home and he loves Janesville. You would not want to put up with everything the citizens of Janesville put you through when you are on the Janesville City Council if you don't LOVE this city.

totellthetruth, which facebook page are you looking at? His personal facebook page has 1134 friends, the Yuri Rashkin for State assembly page has 43 friends, his Defend Wisconsin News Round Up page has 918 people that like it. Yuri is lacking in the friends department on facebook :o)

Its not the foul language, it just shows that there is no middle ground for him, he will just be a rubber stamp for the far left which is just as bad as a rubber stamp for the far right. I guess I am wishing for the impossible, but wouldn't it be nice for our politicians to sit down with the other side and work together for the people of Wisconsin?

Walker is far worse than that, but thats another discussion.
Foul language? Another laughable one, but again, when you are deparate you continue to grasp at straws.
The comment that best describes right wing,hyperbole, zombie politics was "Rashkin=Obama+Fiengold+Jeriamiah Wright"
WHAT the heck does that even mean? Russ Fiengold is an HONEST man , always has been. You may disagree with his politics, but what an idiot. Wright was a US marine and right wingers (fox news parrots) tried to use him to dicredit Obummer because he excersised his free speech rights. Nice how you righties are such defenders of the constitution, when you agree with the venom.
TTTT- your statement must have been the absolute DUMBEST attempt at hyperbole that I have ever seen, and on top of that it means NOTHING.
I may not vote for Mr Rashkin, but I certainly will never cast a vote for Joe Knilans, he is a rubber stamp conservative wasn't even really living here when he ran for office. Fortunately we live in a very bllue area, that won't make the mistake twice of electing a puppet. I believe that Kevin Murray would be the better choice here, but anything, ANYTHING is better than a LIAR like Joe Knilans.

But humor me. How do you explain that he is somehow bought and paid for, if you please?

totellthetruth - I find it so interesting that you take the biggest problem we currently face with the far right-winged tea baggers and attach them to Yuri, claiming he is somehow bought and paid for. Pot and the kettle, if you ask me.

Now that will be tough... choosing between Rashkin and Murray. Dang.

tjncj fair enough, I am simply trying to point oout that while waiting for a perfect person charecter wise to run for office, you may just die first. Please can you tell me one political figure that carries no baggage? Good LUCK!
Good to see that you see all of these folks to be equally imperfect. Which is why I try to lend my vote to the people that generally will support policyand people that are good for the community. Not based on the conditions of their marriage , or the mortage of their home. I am NO ONES judge. I would vote for Mr Rashkin because I believe that despite his shortcomings he would at very least be transparent, something I feel is very lacking in society. To each his own, I guess.

Besides Mr. Drucker.

By the way, did everyone understand the oblique significance of the title "Petticoat Junction"?

And weren't they related to the Clampetts?

Well GFAN, besides the voices in her head she had Uncle Joe, Billy Jo, Betty Jo, Bobbie Joe and probably Mr. Drucker n her party.

Can one person be a party? Maybe, if you count the voices that he or she may be listening to.

Yes, I try to vote for the character of a person. You assume I am some right wing Limbaugh and O'Reilly follower but I detest all of the politicians who are dividing our state and country, Walker included. The vast majority of people can live with the middle ground but the Walkers, Knilans and Rashkins only wanted to pull people to one extreme. I won't vote for any of them.

Look at it this way, Briarmoon was the Tea Party before it was taken over by confederate kooks, ideological dingbats and racists. Now that's a scary thought. LOL

Briarmoon's show was replaced by reruns of Petticoat Junction.

On her show, Briarmoon said that the guy who tried to hire a hitman to kill Raskin was framed.

A career politician, oh you mean like Scott Walker? Funny that some folks are willing to be judge and jury of another person's life and make all the assumptions in the world based on the little things they may have read in a newspaper or they may have heard through the grapevine.
Partisan politics is what defines people nowadays, not their so-called values. You would have me believe that you wouldn't vote for someone based on their personal life? Do you follow the same set of morals and values when you are getting your information fed to you by such hypocritical ideologues like bill Oreilly and Rush Limbaugh? So please spare me the push against immoral people, unless you are perfect. In that case then you should run for office. What a joke.
You can find REAL reasons to bash MR Raskin based on public decisions. Even the tiff he had with Frank Perotto. You talk about this guy like he is Bill Clinton and he has a Monica Lewinsky out there. Jeez, all of you perfect people just make me laugh when you judge others and qualify them for public service based on your OPINION of their private life.

I think what most of us look for in a candidate for political office is character, integrity and common sense. What I see of Mr. Rashkin is that he IS a character who doesn't mind having his dirty laundry hung in his front yard. I think he could have a brilliant career in politics; he's simply looking for the wrong job. What he should do is head to a major metropolitan area where he could offer his services as a political "spin doctor." With his advanced education and experience, he'd surely make a lot more money! In today's world, there seem to be plenty of high profile politicians who could use a guy with Mr. Rashkin's considerable talents.

Sorry but the foreclosure, bankruptcy, living with someone else's wife while still married (hows that for parenting
?) and self promoting arrogance may make him a prototypical career politician but I am looking for someone with common sense and a strong financial background who has never been the target of a murder for hire plot.

hope he has a I pass just sayin

Rashkin=Briarmoon? I've been to two outdoor political events with Rashkin in attendence and did not see Briarmoon anywhere. I've been to two outdoor political events with Joe Knilans in attendence. Briarmoon was also there. Just an observation. It's not meant to bash anyone.

tjncj...good for your friends. But, the reality is that it happens, and it happens a lot. When couples are married, and the mortgage is paid from a two-income budget, it's easy to keep up. But when a divorce happens and one of the parties is forced to make a two-income mortgage payment on a one-income budget...it doesn't always work. I, too, have lots of friends that have gotten divorces, and several of them had to let their homes go into foreclosure.

Rashkin said he would work to restore education funding and bring jobs to the district if elected.

Just keep throwin money at it. Has to make it better. Obama/Rashkin 2012

BTW i actually know two separate couples that the EXACT same thing has happened to in divorce. The market for homes is so pathetic, no one can sell a home, and usually when you get married you buy a home.

Really so when you need to sell that house and cannot thanks to the wonderful market, what happens? Please , I am curious what would you do? You won't live with your ex, you cannot afford the moratge payment by yourself, so what do you do? Again, make your arguments ideological, like most love to do anyways, why can't you just stand uyp based on germaine subjects?

I know a lot of people who have gotten divorced and none of them has lost there house over it.

Again Noleft why not just pound on the politics that you disagree on? Instead you choose a home foreclosure that had more to do with a failed marriage? Just a low blow IMO, I have issues with Yuri (ice rink) and am willing to engage him on them. His personal finances when relating to his past marriage should be left alone, but some who have nothing will do anything to destroy a man's life, to make some kind of political point. Best thing about Mr Rashkin is that he doesn't try to hide anything. Unlike our current representative, so please disagree with him on relavant issues, the whole mortage thing is a silly misnomer.

POPPINS - Forgot to say - GOOD comment and I agree with you. I knew from the start that Joe would follow Walker. Hope Joe is enjoyng all of those getting IMMUNITY in the Walker JOHN DOE campaign probe. It would be great fun to see the Gov. Eagle scout be the John Doe.

Such a BIG shovel that TO(not)TELLTHETRUTH brings to the forum. - Time for Joe K. to make an exit from politics. Joe is a Walker clone. Yuri will represent the people and do a much better job. Also, regarding Yuri responding to YOUR EMAIL -Best if he does not because you sound a bit off the wall.

His facebook page for state assembly is a hoot -- complaining that us "trollers" are trying to "slam his musical skills" and not bashing Walker or Knilans! Apparently, he has done some selective reading, because it's not just about the music. Oh, and after this there is a link to where you can donate to the campaign....

I wonder if he considers this bantering "fun?" Such a polarizing and buffoonish figure is one of the reasons Janesville is in the shape it's in. We deserve better than this. And, yes, Murray is better than this.

The only thing he left out was a mention of the Koch brothers. A hack who can't even make his own mortgage payments, let alone decide how the state needs to make up the hole Doyle left us.

This is a democratic district historically and we will elect Yuri, the man of the people and for the people so just cringe in your tears all you rightie poster's. Ya got lucky with Knilans in an off year election but now people realize what they lost and what t-bag party is all about. Because of Knilans and the rest of the t-bag party there is more money for the top 1 % and nothing for the 99% (the rest of us). Yuri will help rearrange that way of thinking

He cannot hold a job or a house, so being an assemblyman with good wages and all of the perks will be right up his (grandstanding) alley. Lord, help us.

The good news from this is that he won't be running for City Council!
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Must be nice to have the free publicity that pretends to be news.

To alll bashin Mr Rashkin on his own finances, if you don't know why his home was foreclosed on, why in the heck do you pass judgement? He went through a divorce, and from what I understand that is the problem, but whatever makes you feel good to make some kind of non-sequitor political point.
The fact of the matter is that there are flaws to every candidate, and you will all vote your partisan ideology as always. As is evidenced by all of the ranting whiners on this board. Of course you have the same problem with your republican rep (unemployed before he was elected) Joe Knilans whom didn't even live in the district at the time of his election? Renting a closet in his brother's basement might count legally and be enough for some, but again lets hold all these guys to the same set of standards, okay?
BTW to the ignoramuses that somehow state that the teachers "gave i=us all the finger" how ridiculous are you people? They have a negotaited contract in place. Because they won't voluntarily give up 10% of their pay at the screaming and whining at the whim of a few loudmouthed idiots in this community you make insane comments like that? Just shows how dumbed down some folks are. Maybe you should hold your hero Scott Walker accountable. He cuts state aid to schools and in response property taxes will be rising state wide. Hmmm I thought that there would be no tax raises in Wisconsin? I also thought that there would be this huge influx of jobs? Seems to me that our unemployment rate keeps rising, even despite the claims of this administration of thousands of new jobs. No businesses are relocating here(very few) Many more keep leaving and what? Government spending is up, taxes are up, unemployment is up, yet this baffoon claims that his policies are working? Now ith pending FBI investigations looming, these people have pulled the wool over your eyes.
I would also like to point out that Janesville is a very Blue area, Kniulans reign will be short lived, whether Yuri or Murray wins, either would be a million times better than this clown. Time to re-locate to your moms basement Joe.

Yuri, can you explain how you will represent the district when your old house was taken over by the bank? You will be a rubber stamp for the unions (money laundered from the union dues, into your coffers) and the anti-business crowds.

Doc a beaten person come next election I think that was stated in the last one and he did quite well as the people KNOW who will fight for them And seabeee The unions and public WORKERS are the backbone of this country Unions made the work place a safe and equal enviorment and unlike the GOP and their forcing their Dictation on the REAL PEOPLE OF THIS STATE. 2012 Walker goes home

I applaud Yuri for this as he is a man that will stand with the working class and stand up to the bullies that are trying to dictate Wisconsin. He has my vote. The dinner of Forward Janesville showed me the man he was to walk out and stand with us against the RATH OF THE GOP LEADER WALKER.....

Joe's still got my vote! Yuri Rashkin is only nodding out of the city council position he has right now because he knows that he would be a beaten man come next April, by doing this he probably feels that he is leaving that position on his own, meanwhile we all know the truth. Yuri has no chance of even getting the nomination running against Murray, all he is going to do is waste everybody's time and Murray's money to have to campaign against him, Yuri Rashkin is a fool for even getting into this level of politics, doesn't he realize that now all of his skeletons will be getting brought up the ones we already know about will be rehashed and I'm almost sure there are ones we don't even know about yet, this should be interesting at the very least.
Joe Knilans has my vote already and whoever ends up going against him will have his work cut out for sure. I know that there are a lot of leftest comments on here regularly, but rest assured there are plenty of us with common sense to realize what this community needs and one thing is for sure, it's not more Yuri Rashkin! Yuri Rashkin stands two chances of pulling this off, slim and none.......

It seems like a lot of out work people are running/getting elected to office these days. I'll have to remember this when I become unemployed. There’s nothing like passing along the bad decision making skills of one person and forcing them upon an entire group.

Yuri will bankrupt the county as he has bankrupted himself and Murray is a total joke. After seeing these two clowns in action there is no way in hell they should be able to be elected in the 44th! God help us!!!

"Vilifying teachers and public employees while passing legislation that seeks to destroy collective bargaining and public education hurts our local businesses and leaves Wisconsin at the mercy of out-of-state interests."
Hey Yuri, they weren't vilified until they stood up and gave the rest of us the finger. Wisconsin has been at the mercy of the public unions and their willing accomplices in the Democrat party for a long time. Oh, and the last time I checked local businesses have been hurting for awhile, just like local non public sector workers. As far as being at the mercy of out of state interests... could you be refering to all the rabble rousers bussed in from neighboring states that made asses out of themselves at the capitol along with the rest of the public servant ingrates?

"...restore respect for the working men and women of Wisconsin..."

"...nothing but a rubberstamp for Scott Walker..."

"...even for the basic right to vote..." [really?]

"...villifying teachers and public employees..."

I thinks it's fair to believe we'll be hearing more and more dramatic, demagoguery from Yuri as the world turns.

So far none of the candidates have me interested enough to vote for them. I would suggest they come up with some common sense strategies should they be elected.

Che, do have any idea why the unemployed Joe Knilans ran for a government job in a district he did live in or was not eligible to vote in? Please explain.

Hoorah! Two better options than Joe Knilans! This is going to be fun.

If you wish to see the video of the announcement, please check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ql8l2pr1...
Thank you.