Every newspaper and obsequious reporter has gone goo-goo and ga-ga over Tom Vilsack's latest Presidential campaign speech, also known as the Condition Of The State speech.
You won't hear any criticism of Vilsack with regard to some of his legacies. I'm just pulling these out of my memory:
- Appointing Michael Gartner to state boards.
- Corporate welfare (Vision Iowa).
- Touchplay
- Ongoing polluting of Iowa's rivers and streams by factory farmers.
- An out of control deer population that is killing people and ruining livelihoods.
- The draining of the Senior Living Trust.
- Allowing the fraudulent spending of the tobacco shakedown money.
- Expansion of gambling.
- ISU tuition has gone up 87% from 2001 to 2006.
- CIETC
- Appointing Jonathan "I'm Gay" Wilson to legally whitewash the CIETC scandal.
- Trashing Wal-Mart after helping them out for so many years when it was politically expedient for him to do so.
- Teacher pay fell from 35th to 40th.
- Proposing budgets that went up nearly twice the rate of tax revenue.
- Appointing a bunch of rich and catty bitches to the Iowa Board of Parole who gave a rich female killer a break while trashing a poor and abused woman who killed her husband.
- Giving tax breaks to the rich for questionable projects.
- Believing that government should have the power take away your private property through eminent domain and give it to some out-of-state developer so they can build another strip mall.
Update #1:
How could I have possibly forgotten the following:
- Gave sex offenders and other felons blanket citizenship rights, including the right to walk into an elementary school on election day and vote after rejecting 24% of applications between 1999 and 2005.
- Wanting to import 300,000 illegals to Iowa for slave labor and votes.
- Wanting to give illegals a driver's license (and a Motor Voter card, wink wink...)
- He destroyed public records by being supposedly ignorant about how to use email in the year 2003.
- But he can operate two Blackberry devices.
- Blamed the theft of his son's automobile at Terrace Hill on security staff rather than the fact that junior left the keys in the car.
- Offered a $95 million taxpayer-financed bribe to Whirlpool in order to keep Maytag in Newton.
- Signed the "English-only" bill in Iowa, but later publicly regretted it despite 81% of Iowans supporting it.
- Wants Iowan taxpayers to spend $180 million in corporate welfare in order to entice gas station owners to sell E85, a fuel that has so far been a complete failure.
- After a prison break at Fort Madison, Vilsack recommended tearing the place down and building a new one. Vilsack was way off on what a replacement prison would cost.
- Appointed a judge who was soft on drunk/drugged drivers who kill and appointed a Iowa Supreme Court justice who basically paid for his seat.
- Vilsack appointed three of the five State Board of Education members who thought that a student-athlete with four D-minuses and two F grades in classes should be able to continue to participate in sports.
- Despite no military experience whatsoever, Vilsack was theorizing how to conduct the war in Iraq in 2005.
- Vetoed legislation that would have raised fines for polluters.
- He is sort of in favor of bringing back the draft, or at least some kind of forced conscription.
Update #2:
- On the murder of 5 year old Evelyn Miller, Vilsack said (via Radio Iowa):
"...Vilsack reviewed five-years-worth of files kept by Department of Human Services social workers who investigated complaints about the child's welfare. On Monday, Vilsack said the complaints came from family members who had 'an ax to grind' and whose 'credibility' was 'a bit suspect.'"
I can't believe I forgot Vilsack's totally callous reaction to the complaints about Iowa DHS following Evelyn's death. With Vilsack, everything is political. What a slimy piece of shit.
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