And In This Corner… Quick Snapshop of Upcoming Events, Recap of Recent Events, and  a Moment to Remember one of our own 7/18/23

“And In This Corner...”

Quick Snapshop of Upcoming Events, Recap of Recent Events, and  a Moment to Remember one of our own

Russ Otten, RPSC Chair

7/18/23

Fellow RPSC Members and Patriots,

This is a quick snapshot of upcoming events, a recap of recent events, and a moment to remember one of our own.

Mark Your Calendars:

  • Due to the protest/rally at City Hall, HOWSE Round 4 will be Monday, July 24, at Braveheart Pub! Doors open at 5:30PM with the meeting starting at 6:30PM.
  • 2nd Annual Freedom Fest will be Saturday, August 26, at City Park in Plymouth. There will be great food with games and fun for all ages! If you would like to assist us that day, please contact Haley Stuckmann at [email protected]. More details to come!
  • Night of Inspiration will be Saturday, August 19, at Campus Life Family Center. A number of people will share their how their faith affects every piece of their lives, including how they approach politics and their activism!
  • We will have a booth at the Sheboygan County Fair on Labor Day weekend. Due to popular demand, we increased our space and are looking for you and your friends to volunteer for a few hours on any of those 5 days. Please email Haley Stuckmann at [email protected] and get a time that fits your schedule. Thanks.

Recent Events:

  • State GOP Convention was held June 17 in LaCrosse. With many fewer Patriot attendees, the RPW unfortunately pushed through an endorsement process for future conventions that will NOT include an "no endorsement option". This will apply to ALL statewide primaries. Also, the RPW recognized the RPSC as one of the top 5 county parties in Wisconsin in 2022. Thanks to all members and to some who have given so much to make us a powerhouse in our community!
  • Dozens of Patriots made a wonderful and lasting impression on the thousands that attended the 4th of July Parade. The upbeat music, great vehicles, and marchers all created an incredible vibe! 1,000 small American flags (with a small RPSC blurb attached) were given to children along the parade route. We even ran out of candy! It was a warm and successful event for our Patriot movement! Check out the attached pics.
  • A July 4th late afternoon text led to an impromptu but stealthy reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of the Sheboygan County Courthouse by Paul Werth and Russ Otten. See attached pic. We plan to make this an annual 4th of July event!

Moment of Remembrance

Mike Ensley

Sadly, we lost a great Conservative voice on July 13. Former State Representative Mike Endsley reached his final victory after a nearly decade-long battle with Alzheimer's. See Obituary. We extend our deepest condolences to Mike's family and wish them peace that can only come from God our Father!

God bless you all!

Russ
RPSC Chair
(920)207-389

Honoring Our Very Thin Blue Line

Honoring Our Very Thin Blue Line


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Honoring Our Very Thin Blue Line

Art DeJong

A passing neighbor recently spotted a blue line police flag flying from our porch and shouted to my wife, “You don’t really believe that do you??”

When she answered, “I certainly do,” the neighbor looked away and marched on. She didn’t stop for a neighborly chat about how the “thin blue line” of local law enforcement is as vital to our city and county as referees and umpires are to sport.

There was no talk about the fact that no game can survive without the courage and integrity of referees and umpires who refuse to be intimidated or bribed, and no recognition of the fact that without them there can be no game at all—no super star athletes, no celebrity coaches, no stadiums packed with fired up fans.

When the blue line breaks or is corrupted, our great cities, our stadiums of commerce, collapse, leaving empty office towers, bankrupt banks, looted stores, and streets--homes for addicts, mentally ill vagrants, and violent felons. The same is true for countries.

Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable chaos, our homecourt officials go on duty each day to maintain order and to keep the ball in play. We honor the routine heroism of those who make up our very thin blue line.

Art DeJong, Sheboygan, WI


Speak Out – A Spanish Lesson for America

A Spanish Lesson for America


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A Spanish Lesson for America

Art DeJong

A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, A Spanish Lesson for Europe, commended Spanish voters for rebelling against their dictatorial Covid era government. The “Spanish lesson” is one that the United States has been teaching the world for hundreds of years but failed to practice itself during the “Covid-era”.

Our founders, no strangers to pandemics, wars, disunity, and the struggle for survival, developed a resilient, decentralized constitutional system that, by releasing the ingenuity, ambition, and altruism of every free citizen, created a nation so peaceful and successful that it challenged the “old world” to follow its lead.

However, when faced by the Covid ”emergency,” we abandoned this system and reverted to the worst possible system, the arbitrary orders by panicked or self-serving politicians, bureaucrats, and their corporate cronies.

We all paid the price--suffering incalculable damage from draconian lockdowns, one size fits all mandates, and politically formulated treatment protocols. Now, rather than learning from the painful lessons, the chaos continues as we turn the old, authoritarian sledge hammers loose on our energy and transportation sectors.

The failure of the Covid era policies illustrate that just like we cannot have liberty without law, we cannot have unity and prosperity without our decentralized, constitutional system. As Spain appears to be coming to its senses, I suggest a more appropriate headline for the lesson to be, A Spanish Lesson for America.

Art DeJong, Sheboygan


Speak Out! – Bastiat – The Law

Bastiat - The Law


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Bastiat - The Law

Art DeJong

During the French Revolution, as the Jacobins, were busily guillotining their political enemies in the name of equity, Frederic Bastiat observed that the heart of their problem was an “odious perversion of the law.”

He writes, “As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose (that of protecting life, liberty, and property) —that it may violate property instead of protecting it—then everyone will want to participate in making the law either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominate, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, the struggle within will be no less furious. . . . “

He turns to the United States of his day for inspiration, “There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain, the protection of every person’s liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer foundation.”

Today, however, Bastiat’s “odious perversion of the law ” has struck America. The more we see the law being used to protect political friends and to attack political enemies, and the more we see it used to extort massive settlements from any person or corporation with deep pockets, the less we respect the law. The lawlessness we’re experiencing on our streets and in our institutions is a direct result of that disrespect.

One may fear, but never respect law that is little more than an exercise of power. But without respect for law, however, there can be no liberty, no prosperity, and certainly be no “social justice.”

The French citizens of Bastiat’s day required a “reign of terror” before they came to their senses. It appears that we too shall require the same—an American tragedy.

Art DeJong, Sheboygan


Speak Out! – We are the Lifeguards

Speak Out! - We are the Lifeguards


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We are the Lifeguards

Art DeJong

The teenaged mobs that ravage downtown Chicago demonstrate what Illinois taxpayers get for the $30,000 per student that they spend every year on public education. But then education is just another cash cow to the Democratic Party machine that “elected” a new Chicago mayor with “ties to education.” Its product, undisciplined, illiterate kids, fully equipped for lives of welfare dependency, benefits a party dedicated to maintaining this dependency.

Things were no better hundred miles north of Chicago. The same Democrat machine put a soft-on-crime Milwaukee judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court although the schools and the crime in Milwaukee are no better than Chicago’s. Fifty miles north of that in Sheboygan, Democrat voters also came out to defeat every new local reform candidate although Wisconsin’s own DPI statistics rate Sheboygan public schools not much higher than Milwaukee’s, and its Common Council is just as infatuated with DEI drag queens and high-rise, low-income ghettoes as is Milwaukee’s common council.

The party that wants teachers not to discipline or teach; police not to arrest; prosecutors and judges not to prosecute or incarcerate anyone, except political enemies, clearly wants to destroy the key to our prosperity, our system of liberty through law.

This new “Democratic” party, a coalition of big tech, big media, big pharma, and federally empowered bureaucrats, has spent billions to take down the old America with its patriotism, its “inefficient” families, and its unrestrained free markets and replace them all with an “efficient” party oligarchy like one practiced by their partners in the CCP.

Several generations ago European partisan groups fought the dictatorial tide that was drowning Europe and Asia. Free Americans came to their rescue. Now that this tide is drowning America, all of us, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike, must return to our churches, rebuild our own families and schools, and join the partisan lifeguards gathering at our county GOP life-guard stations. No one else will be coming to our rescue.

Art DeJong, Sheboygan


“And In This Corner….” Election Thoughts

And In This Corner.... Election Thoughts 4/10/23

“And In This Corner...”

Election Thoughts

Russ Otten, RPSC Chair

4/10/23

Fellow Patriots and RPSC Members, it's taken a few days to wrap my head around the election results of Tuesday! Beyond Trey's re-election, not one of our candidates for SASD Board or Common Council won! That is truly mind-boggling and difficult to accept. We will discuss that more at our RPSC Board meeting tonight and certainly in detail at our HOWSE meeting next Monday at Braveheart.

I want to express my gratitude to each of you in our movement who worked so hard over the last weeks, months, and year! What you did is nothing short of incredible! You have laid the foundation and format for Spring elections for many years to come. And to our wonderful candidates, thank you for sacrificing your time and talent in your quest to serve. I can only imagine the spectrum of emotions that you experienced before and on last Tuesday. Our deep gratitude to each of you!

What happened last Tuesday is a direct result of several actions and inactions by people in key positions. I will touch on them now and elaborate on each in the near future. First, abortion is a LIFE and DEATH issue that will forever divide our nation, our state, and our community. When our own Republican legislators in March introduced a bill that did not defend LIFE from conception, it undercut and doomed Justice Dan Kelly! It doomed our down-ballot candidates for School Board and Common Council. It doomed all of us! Last time I checked, LIFE from conception was one of the pillars of our GOP platform.

Second, HOWSE (How to Win Spring Elections) was an overwhelming success. Over 40 people were engaged on this team. Key issues were identified. Phenomenal candidates came forward that stood for and expressed Godly values. The Dems finally admitted that local elections are partisan and spent thousands of dollars to counter our efforts. Many generous donors emerged due to our involvement in local elections. The voters who heard our message (many via radio ads) responded positively. (We will need to get the word out before early voting next Spring.) The liberals have developed a network over the last 40 years. In just one year, HOWSE emerged as a powerhouse that landed many blows this April; just not enough to win. That will change!

Third, our Christian churches once again chose to stay silent on un-Biblical actions taken by our civic and school leaders. We live in a Mayberry RFD- like community, yet have Sodom and Gomorrah-like leaders bent on destroying our way of life and polluting the minds of our children.

We have many Bible-believing, evangelical, Lutheran, and Catholic churches in our county. It is incumbent on us to influence these churches and their pastors to address what is happening right in front of us.

Finally, it is not coincidental that Holy Week was the same week as elections. Nothing is coincidental with God. Our true victory is when we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior. He died so we might be with Him forever. Yes, we chase victories in this life. And if we do that to honor Him, He will bless us. But I pray that each of you will seize His gift and claim the ultimate victory.

God bless you all!

Russ

(920)207-3894

The April 4 Election is Quite Simply a Referendum on Sanity


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The April 4 Election is Quite Simply a Referendum on Sanity

Art DeJong

We should all vote “yes” on the three referendums on the April 4 ballot.  The first two are based on the sensible idea that a judge consider the danger to the public before setting bail and releasing a violent offender to prey on the community.  The third simply requires able bodied people to be looking for work in order to receive welfare benefits. It makes little sense to pay people not to work when we desperately need workers and when workers themselves desperately need to work. It is a terrible thing to treat human beings like pets, or worse, like useless eaters to be fed and watered.

 

But national Democrat are not flooding the state with millions of campaign dollars because they care about law and the plight of Wisconsin citizens  The letter of the law longer matters much in a country where Democrat federal prosecutors and judges get away with holding citizens for years without trial for misdemeanors like “parading” or “trespassing” while their equally lawless local counterparts can simply release violent offenders to finish the job on their victims in major cities like Milwaukee.

 

We all know that the failure of prosecutors and judges to stop shoplifting leads to looting, their failure to prosecute joyriding leads to carjacking, that their failure to prosecute gun laws leads to children gunning one another down on our streets and in our schools.  The “Pax Giuliani” when New York became a safe tourist destination simply by enforcing the little “broken window” laws told us that cities like Milwaukee don’t need to become lawless jungles.

 

Running a liberal judge like Janet Protasiewicz, who is complicit in the destruction of law and order in Milwaukee, for a seat on Wisconsin’s highest court is not a cruel joke.  It is not about law at all.  It is about whether four Democrats on the state Supreme Court and one Democrat governor can take the control of this state away from 132 elected lawmakers.  This is a big deal.  New York Times reporters are roaming Sheboygan to cover a coup, not a routine election in a swing state.

 

If Democrats can pull this off, it doesn’t matter what representatives of the Walmart shopping, loud mouthed deplorables think about anything—about schools or cars, free speech or guns, borders or pipelines--about law, liberty, and religion.  Five flawed people will have the power to declare, “We are the law. Shut Up and Obey.”  Only with Daniel Kelly will any of our opinions matter at all.

 

Art DeJong, Sheboygan

 

920-452 3578


“And In This Corner….” Final Stretch Edition

And In This Corner.... Final Stretch Edition

“And In This Corner...”

Final Stretch Edition

Russ Otten, RPSC Chair

3/13/23

Fellow Patriots and RPSC Members, we are in the final stretch of our march to victory on April 4. So, this edition will be longer but worth your time with just a couple of housekeeping items to start.

First, please check out our RPSC website calendar for key upcoming events. It would be great to see you at one or more of them soon! Here is the link to our calendar: https://www.sheboygancountygop.com/events/month/.

Second, I hope you had an opportunity to see our impressive candidates for SASD Board and Sheboygan Common Council during their forums this past week. If not, I encourage you to watch these forums: https://www.wscssheboygan.com/video-on-demand/. Just scroll down to find the ones you want to watch.

Third, April 4 will be one of the most important days in the history of our community that will affect generations to come! Citizens have seen our Common Council and School Boards reject the values that made this a great place to live and raise a family. Instead, they now bow to the wishes of a small left-wing activist group called Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), which uses race, religion, and sexual orientation to determine a person's value. Last time I checked, that was called discrimination and deemed unConstitutional. Yet, this is what the majority of our Common Council and School Board members use as their playbook when hiring administration, vetting committee members, and establishing rules and regulations.

The results are predictable and unacceptable.

City Hall has become a cesspool, culminating in the unethical firing of the City Administrator "without cause" by the Common Council. Actors in this nightmare are "The 8" conniving alders, a lost mayor, a complicit city attorney, and the leader of DEIB. The environment at City Hall is toxic for its employees. Just ask them, unless a gag order is in place.

Likewise, the School Board has created a district plagued by academic failure, pathetic teacher retention, chaotic classrooms, and libraries laced with pornography. They point to the "Gay Pride" rainbow flags displayed in the libraries as part of their "progressive" victory. But this is not a win for our kids and grandkids. They deserve better; much, much better!

You can change this craziness on April 4!

We have 5 great candidates for Common Council, including incumbent Trey Mitchell from District 9. Check them out on our website and on the forum videos. Each candidate is uniquely gifted to be an asset to this body that so badly needs a moral compass and a decisive spirit. This is the leadership we need at this crucial point!

The Kelly-Ross-Stuckmann team is a wonderful mix of people ready to transform the School Board into a representative body that has one goal - to provide our kids with a safe learning environment where academic excellence is the centerpiece of preparing them to be great contributors to our community, state, and nation. These 3 candidates are poised to lead!

Here are several ways you can help them to win on April 4:

  • Pray for them daily! Their path is difficult.
  • Offer your time to take a walk and drop literature. (Let me know!)
  • Influence your friends and family to vote for these candidates. Just forward this email with the link to their profiles: https://www.sheboygancountygop.com/
  • Vote early or on April 4!

God gave us this community! We love and respect everyone because we are all created by God in His image. On April 4, let's elect people who do the same!

God bless you all!

Russ

(920)207-3894

Coming to a City Near You

Coming to a City Near You


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Coming to a City Near You

Art DeJong

East and West met at our house. My wife grew up very near Provincetown, Cape Cod, on the Atlantic coast and I in Seattle on the Pacific coast. Provincetown was then a quaint fishing village, complete with crusty fishermen and an annual blessing of the fleet, Seattle a sensible western city run by Boeing engineers who watched hydroplane races and went hiking and skiing in the Cascades on the weekend.

Provincetown was an inclusive place where fishermen worked, raised their families, and tolerated a diversity drag scene in the summer, long before anyone heard of DEI. Then, however, the affluent summer crowd just bought the place, making it an exclusive inclusive enclave with a nautical décor but not much room for fishing families.

Something similar took place in Seattle on a larger scale. First it got hit with waves of California migrants who joined Seattle’s home-grown Microsoft trust fund babies who bought the city to make their own DEI upgrades. They got rid of the ablest engineers, defunded the racist police, and funded the downtrodden criminals, addicts, and other unemployed fellow travelers—all with predictable results. Don’t bring the family to Seattle’s Pioneer Square after dark, if at all.

We watched the fun from a blessed distance. Although Sheboygan too had been a hardworking, hard drinking port town, it was also a city of churches and remained a pretty good place to raise a family. But the end of that may be near, I fear. Last week I watched the Sheboygan common council railroad its city manager for “No Cause,“ except for what most suspect was his reluctance to get with the DEI program.

Unlike Provincetown and Seattle, however, family friendly Wisconsin may not roll over so easily. Each ”alder” who voted to oust Sheboygan’s sensible city manager now faces a challenger in the upcoming spring election. As my wife says, “We’ll see, won’t we.”

Art DeJong, Sheboygan

(TheSounder 1/19/2023)


“And In This Corner….” Transforming Sheboygan County

And In This Corner....

“And In This Corner...”

Transforming Sheboygan County

Russ Otten, RPSC Chair

1/19/23

Fellow Patriots and RPSC Members, something amazing is happening!

Amidst the corruption at City Hall, the push by the Sheboygan Area School District (SASD) Board for a transsexual curriculum, and the stench of the upcoming Drag Queen event at The Black Pig (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drag-dinner-the-great-pigsby-tickets-484010296827), our fight to bring back the values of faith, family, and freedom is taking center stage for all of our community to see!

Today, I am thrilled to announce that every Common Council and every SASD Board race has one of our candidates in it to win! Here they are: (https://www.sheboygancountygop.com/).

This transformation started a year ago. As we all know, elections have consequences. For too long, many of us viewed local elections as non-partisan. True, one does not run as a Republican or Democrat. But there is no doubt that each elected official uses a personal set of values when voting on issues. A case in point would be the current makeup of our Common Council. Just 2 of the 10 members are Conservatives with the other 8 members supporting the views of the ultra-Left Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) group. (They are anything but diverse or inclusive when it comes to differing opinions.)

To counter this, about 30-40 fellow Patriots created a plan last April to transform Sheboygan County via the ballot box. The HOWSE (How to Win Spring Elections) team systematically identified key issues in our community and then recruited strong Conservative candidates who share our values and are willing to fight for them. The result is our incredible slate of candidates!

This transformation of Sheboygan County will only take place if you personally activate and forward this to your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others in your sphere of influence. Many of them have no clue about the corruption, the transsexual curriculum on the horizon, or the Drag Queen event on January 29 at the Black Pig. In fact, most would be shocked to know that this is going on right here! More importantly, your friends need to know that they now have candidates worth electing!

Over the last year, many of you have expressed frustration in not knowing what to do to fight all of this filth. Can you really make a difference? Yes!!!!! When you read this message, immediately think of several who love Sheboygan County and would want to know what is going on. Be the one who shares this with them. No more frustration! Let's get this done!

God bless you all!

Russ

(920)207-3894