In Rep. Robin Vos’s latest video to his constituents (he never seems to be available for a Town Hall meeting), he claims to want to work “together” with Democrats. Vos knows that is what Wisconsin voters want. But talk is cheap. Vos is on the record as saying working together is fine, “as long as we don’t sacrifice our principles.” Vos said he has never believed bipartisanship should be his goal, “I want to score, not be on the 50-yard line,” he said.
Rep. Vos is ONLY willing to compromise on issues that HE feels can be bipartisan. That is, on all the small, insignificant issues. On important topics such as taxes, education, social issues…it’s his way or the highway. So, yes, he is STILL partisan to the core of his very being. As he says, he’ll listen to you until the cows come home, but he admits it will go in one ear and out the other because he WILL. NOT. COMPROMISE. In a nutshell, Rep. Robin Vos is a radical, extremist Tea Party guy who wants to shove his beliefs, his agenda and his goals down your throat, no matter what you might believe. Rep. Vos, listening but discounting the beliefs and values of half of your constituents is NOT an example of working together.
As Co-Chair of the Joint Finance Committee, Vos had a duty…an OBLIGATION…to listen to all the voters in Wisconsin. In the following video, he refuses to listen to a voter who requested a meeting. We think that three weeks is plenty of time to return a phone call, have your staff respond with a letter to your question, and, to schedule a meeting in his busy BUSY schedule (remembering that the legislature is ONLY meeting ONE time this September.) But, NO. Vos can’t be bothered to even listen. It’s beneath him. Watch Vos avoid eye contact. Watch Vos walk away. Watch Vos tune out. And, so you get the full effect of Vos’s scorn for half the voters in Wisconsin, watch his buddy Republican Scott Suder of Abbotsford SMIRK. (Suder, BTW, ought to be a bit more conciliatory – he’s from a blue area of the state and his seat is in jeopardy – this video is NOT flattering for either man:)
Let’s hear from voters actually residing in Vos’s district. Tell us your unsuccessful efforts to get Rep. Vos to listen to you…and your unsuccessful efforts to get Vos to act in a bi-partisan manner. We'll even post your videos!!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Does Rep. Vos Want to Regulate Your Womb?
Catholic Rep. Robin Vos has an “agenda”. As co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, he voted against funding for Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that 97% of the services provided have nothing at all to do with abortion. VoteSmart gave Vos a rating of “0” (on a scale of 100 points) on supporting issues of importance to Planned Parenthood and the women they serve. In contrast, VoteSmart gave Vos a perfect rating for his strong support of the Wisconsin Right to Life organization.
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Rep. Vos’s agenda is to control healthcare decisions between women and their doctors. He wants to impose his religious beliefs on all women. He’d like to ban all abortions, but since that is a protected constitutional right, Vos has demonstrated that he will act to remove access to healthcare services for women.
So, what will Vos do next? He’s hinted at it. Vos has introduced SJR 28 – AJR 28, the so-called “Healthcare Freedom Amendment”, which is just a renamed version of the corporate American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act”. We know that Vos is Wisconsin’s A.L.E.C. front man. Vos’s action seeks to undermine “Affordable Health Care” for all, passed by Congress into law in 2010.
Women, beware of Rep. Robin Vos. His actions to restrict healthcare and his devotion to the religious right-wing Wisconsin Right to Life group are examples of his continued work to deny Wisconsin women the right to choose and make their own healthcare decisions. Rep. Vos is one of those old, white guys who -- to feel powerful and ‘manly’ -- must control the lives of other people. Tell Rep. Vos to stay out of your healthcare decisions, to stay out of your bedroom, to stay out of private conversations between you and your doctor. Tell him to keep HIS religious beliefs to himself. And, when the election rolls around, vote for a PRO-CHOICE candidate. Do NOT vote for Robin Vos, or he may express an unnatural interest in your ovulation and try to “regulate your womb”.
HOORAY FOR CAPTAINSPAULDING VOSSY
From the film "Animal Crackers" (1936)
(Bert Kalmar / Harry Ruby)
Apologizes to: Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont & Chorus
(All)
At last we are to meet him,
The famous Captain Vossy.
From climates hot and mossy,
The Captain has arrived.
Most heartily we'll greet him,
With plain and fancy cheering.
Until he's hard of hearing.
Or, has a “Town Hall” meeting.
The Captain has arrived.
At last - The Captain has arrived.
(Hives)
Kit K. Beyer, Field Secretary to Captain Spaulding.
(Beyer)
I represent the Captain who insists on my informing you of these conditions under
which he camps here.
In one thing he is very strict, he wants his women young and picked* and as for men,
he won't have any tramps here.
*On Match.com
(All)
As for men he won't have any tramps here,
There must be no tramps.
(Beyer)
The men must all be very old and white,
The women warm, the champagne bright.
It's under these conditions that he camps here.
(Voice off Screen)
I'm announcing Captain Robin Vossy.
(All)
He's announcing Captain Robin Vossy,
Oh dear, he is coming,
At last he's here.
(Vossy)
Hello, I must be going,
I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going.
La La.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
For my sake you must stay.
If you should go away,
You'd spoil this party I am throwing.
(Vossy)
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer thru,
But I am telling you,
I must be going.
Off to my A.L.E.C. meetings
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
(All)
Before you go,
Will you oblige us,
And tell us of your deeds so glowing?
(Vossy)
I'll do anything you say,
In fact I'll even stay!
Tell tales of popcorn lordship.
Dreams of re-spect-a-bil-i-ty!!!
(All)
Good!
(Vossy)
But I must be going.
Off to my A.L.E.C. meetings
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
(Beyer)
There's something that I'd like to say,
That he's too modest to relay.
The Captain is a moral man.
Sometimes he finds it trying.
(Vossy)
This fact I emphasize with stress,
I never take a drink unless - Somebody's buying.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
(Beyer)
If he hears anything obscene,
He'll naturally go Twitter.
Some inane useless tidbit.
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray
(Vossy)
I hate a dirty joke I do,
Unless it's told by someone who -
Knows how to tell it.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
Hooray for Captain Vossy, Koch Industries Promoter.
(Vossy)
Did someone call me Whorer?
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Vossy)
Hey, hey.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
You are the only white man to cover every acre.
(Spaulding)
I think I'll try and make her.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Vossy)
Hey, hey.
(All)
Hooray for Captain Vossy
He wants deregulation.
But if you are a woman,
He’d regulate your womb.
(Vossy attempts to speak)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
(All)
Hooray for Captain Vossy
He’s “into” ovulation.
And, if he gets his way, dear,
He’d regulate your womb.
(Vossy)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
Hooray for Captain Vossy, the unsung popcorn hero.....
Well, somebody's got to do it!
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Rep. Vos’s agenda is to control healthcare decisions between women and their doctors. He wants to impose his religious beliefs on all women. He’d like to ban all abortions, but since that is a protected constitutional right, Vos has demonstrated that he will act to remove access to healthcare services for women.
So, what will Vos do next? He’s hinted at it. Vos has introduced SJR 28 – AJR 28, the so-called “Healthcare Freedom Amendment”, which is just a renamed version of the corporate American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act”. We know that Vos is Wisconsin’s A.L.E.C. front man. Vos’s action seeks to undermine “Affordable Health Care” for all, passed by Congress into law in 2010.
Women, beware of Rep. Robin Vos. His actions to restrict healthcare and his devotion to the religious right-wing Wisconsin Right to Life group are examples of his continued work to deny Wisconsin women the right to choose and make their own healthcare decisions. Rep. Vos is one of those old, white guys who -- to feel powerful and ‘manly’ -- must control the lives of other people. Tell Rep. Vos to stay out of your healthcare decisions, to stay out of your bedroom, to stay out of private conversations between you and your doctor. Tell him to keep HIS religious beliefs to himself. And, when the election rolls around, vote for a PRO-CHOICE candidate. Do NOT vote for Robin Vos, or he may express an unnatural interest in your ovulation and try to “regulate your womb”.
HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN
From the film "Animal Crackers" (1936)
(Bert Kalmar / Harry Ruby)
Apologizes to: Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont & Chorus
(All)
At last we are to meet him,
The famous Captain Vossy.
From climates hot and mossy,
The Captain has arrived.
Most heartily we'll greet him,
With plain and fancy cheering.
Until he's hard of hearing.
Or, has a “Town Hall” meeting.
The Captain has arrived.
At last - The Captain has arrived.
(Hives)
Kit K. Beyer, Field Secretary to Captain Spaulding.
(Beyer)
I represent the Captain who insists on my informing you of these conditions under
which he camps here.
In one thing he is very strict, he wants his women young and picked* and as for men,
he won't have any tramps here.
*On Match.com
(All)
As for men he won't have any tramps here,
There must be no tramps.
(Beyer)
The men must all be very old and white,
The women warm, the champagne bright.
It's under these conditions that he camps here.
(Voice off Screen)
I'm announcing Captain Robin Vossy.
(All)
He's announcing Captain Robin Vossy,
Oh dear, he is coming,
At last he's here.
(Vossy)
Hello, I must be going,
I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going.
La La.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
For my sake you must stay.
If you should go away,
You'd spoil this party I am throwing.
(Vossy)
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer thru,
But I am telling you,
I must be going.
Off to my A.L.E.C. meetings
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
(All)
Before you go,
Will you oblige us,
And tell us of your deeds so glowing?
(Vossy)
I'll do anything you say,
In fact I'll even stay!
Tell tales of popcorn lordship.
Dreams of re-spect-a-bil-i-ty!!!
(All)
Good!
(Vossy)
But I must be going.
Off to my A.L.E.C. meetings
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
(Beyer)
There's something that I'd like to say,
That he's too modest to relay.
The Captain is a moral man.
Sometimes he finds it trying.
(Vossy)
This fact I emphasize with stress,
I never take a drink unless - Somebody's buying.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
(Beyer)
If he hears anything obscene,
He'll naturally go Twitter.
Some inane useless tidbit.
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray
(Vossy)
I hate a dirty joke I do,
Unless it's told by someone who -
Knows how to tell it.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
Hooray for Captain Vossy, Koch Industries Promoter.
(Vossy)
Did someone call me Whorer?
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Vossy)
Hey, hey.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
You are the only white man to cover every acre.
(Spaulding)
I think I'll try and make her.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Vossy)
Hey, hey.
(All)
Hooray for Captain Vossy
He wants deregulation.
But if you are a woman,
He’d regulate your womb.
(Vossy attempts to speak)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
(All)
Hooray for Captain Vossy
He’s “into” ovulation.
And, if he gets his way, dear,
He’d regulate your womb.
(Vossy)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
Hooray for Captain Vossy, the unsung popcorn hero.....
Well, somebody's got to do it!
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