POST HERE: SE-WI businesses with Walker and Johnson signs on display...

[ClassWarrior]

I'm astounded by the number of businesses that feel emboldened this election season to post huge, dinosaur-sized signs for Walker, Johnson and assorted minor Rape-Publicans at their establishments. So, given that these doom merchants believe in the free market system, let the market speak!

• Call, email or write them and let them know you'll never do business with them.

• Visit their establishments with a large group of folks in Barrett and Feingold apparel.

• Find your own creative - but safe and legal - ways to protest these bozos.

Here's my starter list. Be sure to add any new ones you spot to this thread:

Boulder Junction Restaurant - Brookfield
12550 W. Burleigh Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
Phone: [phone]

Boulder Junction Restaurant - Greenfield
4395 S. 76th Street
Greenfield, WI 53220
Phone: [phone]

BP Corner Market
15565 W Bluemound Rd
Brookfield, WI 53005
[phone]

Walsh Harness & Saddlery
2735 North Calhoun Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
800.558.5515
Fax:[phone]

O'Sullivan's Public House
12525 W. North Ave.
Brookfield, WI 53005
ph: 262.784.1656
fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

NGU.

[midnight]

1. Thanks for the list..... Live near some of these places, but thankfully never

use them.....

[ClassWarrior]

2. Contact 'em anyway. Let 'em know you'll...

...not patronize them in the future, and you'll pass the word to your many progressive friends in the area.

NGU.

[Scuba]

3. Thanks for the list. I'll try to do the same for East-Central Wis.

[Sabien]

4. signs

I don't recall seeing so many business owners take sides in an election before.

Another thing, take note of how many vacant lots or pieces of real estate that are up for sale that have Walker and Johnson signs.

It seems that the Wisconsin Realtors Association (big backers of all things Republican) is encouraging brokers to place them there.

[ClassWarrior]

5. Please jot down the names of the real estate companies and post them here.

:thumbsup:

NGU.

[dragonlady]

6. That may be illegal

In my jurisdiction at least, the owner of the property is the only one who can authorize placement of a sign. You can't just put them up anywhere. Not sure about other places. (I don't understand at all why a business would turn off half of its potential customers by putting up political signs. At the owner's personal home maybe, but not at the business location.)

[Sabien]

8. more thoughts on signs

I suppose it could be coincidental…but it's a theory based on my anecdotal observations from my car window as I travel around the state.

It reminds me of things I saw during the presidential campaign of 2008. I recall seeing many dirt piles, berms on the side of the interstates, and seemingly empty lots that were endorsing McCain-Palin - and Mark Green for Governor before that.

Another thing I have noticed is the size of the signs is going up. Many of those things are huge! Not to mention the many anti-Obama and anti-Feingold billboards along HWY 41. I heard on the radio that they were paid for by an anonymous Oshkosh Businessman or a group of Oshkosh Businessmen. I wonder who paid for them? Has it ever been made public?

Things that make you go hmmm.

[ClassWarrior]

9. Check out this video from One Wisconsin Now, which includes ominous...

..."voter fraud" billboards that have been popping up around Milwaukee County:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpCm92ud4SU

NGU.

[Scuba]

16. The signs on that stretch of road are terrible....

...not knowing who paid for them is worse. Johnson has countless HUGE signs here; guess he can afford them.

As for the most respected man in my community: Russ.

[devereaux]

25. Huge Ron Johnson signs everywhere

It's like a plague of big green Johnson signs along Highway 100, particularly as you get into Hales Corners and south into Franklin.

Also, the corridor of I-43 northbound in the area of the Marquette Interchange and just south have been plastered with giant anonymous and "private Wisconsin individual" conservative billboards. Some of them are just sickening.

[ClassWarrior]

10. I saw one with a First Weber sign on…

…Bluemound at Sunnyslope.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

7. Here's another batch...

Checks Evergreens
3050 N. Morgan Rd.
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Phone: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]
Brian Check: 262-443-0436
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Hotsy Cleaning Systems, Inc
3558 Hillside Drive
Delafield, WI 53018
Toll-Free: [phone]
Fax Number: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Buck Rub Archery
N13 W28400 Silvernail Rd
Pewaukee, WI 53072-5162
[phone]

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

11. More doom merchants...

Days Inn Wauwatosa/Milwaukee
11811 West Blue Mound Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226 US
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Bluemound Gardens Restaurant
11703 W. Bluemound Rd.
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
General eMail: [e-mail]
Banquets eMail: [e-mail]

Landry's BP (gas station)
11507 W Bluemound Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53226
[phone]

What's with the BP stations?...

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

12. This place is encrusted in Pubbie signs...

There must be something like 30 or 40 signs sticking out of this place:

Moline Jewelry
7530 West Lincoln Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53219
[phone]

Here are a few other offenders:

Midwest Rail & Dismantling Inc
4777 W Lincoln Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53219-1696
[phone]

Hockey Locker
2002 W Howard Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53221-1932
[phone]

Jen's Beverage Center
4312 W Howard Ave
Greenfield, WI 53220-2104
[phone]
(Surprisingly, this place only has signs for Sebring and other down-ticket Rape-Publicans. No J & W.)

NGU.

[PeaceNikki]

14. another

Mama's Italian Cuisine
7718 W Burleigh
Milwaukee

Interestingly, we've had DU meetups here. No more of that.

[dragonlady]

17. It might be worth going in and talking to the owner

if you have been happy with the place in the past. Ask if they are actually endorsing the Republican. I have known of businesses that seemed to think other people were allowed to put signs outside their premises. Some campaigns tend to stick them in various places seemingly at will.

[PeaceNikki]

18. At Mama's, the Ron Johnson endorsement is INside

And there are several other Republican state candidates outside.

Sadly, it's them which makes me very very sad because their pizza and garlic bread are AMAZING. :(

[dragonlady]

19. Whoa, all right then! n/t

[Scuba]

22. I endorse your comments about the pizza. Signs don't vote. Major...

...turnout for Russ in Fond du Lac today.

thanks for you support.

[ClassWarrior]

26. That isn't Mama Mia's. It's the original location, but, from what I understand...

...these are rogue relatives that aren't affiliated with the original restaurant (now in West Allis, I believe).

NGU.

[PeaceNikki]

27. It used to be Mama Mia's

They had this location, Glendale and Brookfield. Now I believe each is independent. Oh right, 84th and Greenfield is the West Allis one. Oh, and Wales has one, too.

[PeaceNikki]

13. one more

Pistol Pete's
16755 W Lisbon Rd
Brookfield, WI

[Jimbo S]

15. Ugh!

I like going there for Packer games. Where can I find another place? :(

[Lefta Dissenter]

20. I'd like to add that

just because a company advertises on the Mic or other liberal station doesn't mean the company owners are liberals, or even nice people.

PM me if you want specifics - Madison area contractor.

(note that Ron Johnson has ads running on the Mic, too)

[ClassWarrior]

21. Really? I've been listening to the Mic a bit...

...and I haven't heard any Johnson ads.

NGU.

[Lefta Dissenter]

23. ugh

they were running pretty frequently for a while - for two or three weeks, I think. Then last week I noticed that Russ had ads running - presumably in response. Too bad for him to spend the money preaching to the choir, but he couldn't just leave Johnson's ads unanswered on his home turf. I will be glad to have this election over, with Russ still in his Senate seat!

[EC]

24. Snap-on Tools

had Johnson and Walker signs up...

[Jimbo S]

28. Some Fox Valley businesses unabaashed in campaign support

APPLETON — National corporations have come under fire for concealing contributions to political groups this year, but some Fox Valley business owners are proudly aligning their companies with political campaigns.

And they have the oversized yard signs to prove it.

Yeatman said he is ready for complaints about the signs.

"My comment to that is, 'Well, you can go somewhere else,'" he said. "I don't have a problem with their views. Why should they have a problem with mine?"

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20101025/APC0101/10250412/Some-Valley-businesses-unabashed-in-campaign-support

Jimbo: Well buddy, I will take my money and go somewhere else.