{"id":26106,"date":"2010-07-27T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wisconsin-legislator-quits-democrat-party\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:08:26","slug":"wisconsin-legislator-quits-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/wisconsin-legislator-quits-democrat-party.php","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Legislator quits Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TEu6WZKpwsI\/AAAAAAAAMY0\/TZWQvOzhCsI\/s1600\/BobZieglebauerWIRep..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fca84_BobZieglebauerWIRep..jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Refuses to \"go along with tax increases and expansion of power\"<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Bob Ziegelbauer, a State Representative from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has decided to leave the Democrat Party and run for reelection as an Independent.  <\/p><p>From the Wisconsin political blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themaritimesentry.com\/2010\/06\/not-so-surprising-announcement-from-bob.html\">Maritime Sentry<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Bob Ziegelbauer will be running as an independent this fall for state assembly, leaving the Democrat Party. I think anyone who follows politics in Wisconsin saw this coming the moment the Democrats in their arrogance stripped him of his chairmanship in 2009...<\/p><p>This virtually assures that the assembly will be back in Republican hands after November.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><strong>Republican on ballot against Ziegelbauer put up by Democrats?<\/strong><\/p><p>Ziegelbauer has had a more conservative record. He was quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htrnews.com\/article\/20100621\/MAN0101\/100621057\/Ziegelbauer-to-run-as-independent-for-state-rep\">htrnews<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;I have always been a staunchly independent voice, working hard to do the right thing to represent the people of this community, but now the party machinery has made it clear that they want another &lsquo;yes man,&rsquo; someone who will blindly go along with every tax increase or expansion of their power without the backbone to stand up for the people. That won&rsquo;t work for me&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Ironically, despite his switch, Ziegelbauer still faces a Republican challenger in the Fall. However, there is some controversy.  The local Republican Party is accusing Ziegelbauer's opponent Andrew Wisniewski of being a Democrat plant, and does not support his candidacy.  (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox11online.com\/dpp\/elections\/state\/assembly-candidate-andrew-wisniewskis-name-to-appear-on-ballot-after-all\">Fox11<\/a>) <\/p><p>(H\/t Ballot Access News &amp; IPR)<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7c8c9_7828681836623105417-2918595265879995399?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refuses to \"go along with tax increases and expansion of power\"From Eric Dondero:Bob Ziegelbauer, a State Representative from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has decided to leave the Democrat Party and run for reelection as an Independent. From the Wisconsin political blog Maritime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/wisconsin-legislator-quits-democrat-party.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}