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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in complimenting Phyllis for her work in encouraging bidders in the upcoming Wisconsin Nov. 8 “auction.”
Phyllis and friends at Vista West signed, stamped and sent several hundred cards urging people to participate on Nov. 8 by voting.
The keeper did not get involved, unable to be even slightly nonpartisan when one of the highest bidders in the Wisconsin auction is a Connecticut billionaire who is apparently bored in his $17 million east coast mansion.
The billionaire, one of his neighbors says, is the butt of jokes among his fellow Connecticut residents, who are asking each other “Why does he want to be the governor of state that is so far away?”
The keeper, having attended many rural auctions, sees the Nov. 8 event in Wisconsin as comparable to auctioning off a cow too sick to stand up by claiming she is simply tired. High bid is from an out-of-state rendering works.
The keeper would have helped Phyllis and her friends with the get-out-the-vote project if they had allowed him to write on the cards: “Wisconsin’s gerrymandered, narcissistic, minority representative Repub legislature has made Wisconsin a very sick cow and she needs the continuation of preventive local help in the form of Tony Evers.”
