The Wisconsin anti-war referenda on the April 4, 2006 ballot has made national news, as the AP story was picked up by the San Jose Mercury News:
Wisconsin Cities to Sound Off on Bringing Troops Home
Judy Hale says President Bush wrecked her son's life.
Her boy, 25-year-old Brian Musser Jr., spent a year in Iraq in the Army. He's been back home for nine months, but he's jittery and prone to flashbacks of finding his buddy dead at the hands of a sniper.
"There's times he'll call me and just cry," said Hale, a waitress at the Village Square Family Restaurant in this town of about 4,000 people 20 miles southeast of Madison.
But Debbie Bair, 51, a part-time bartender at Pete's Inn just down the street, says she has a nephew in the Navy ready to volunteer for a second stint in Iraq. The president is doing the right thing, she says. After all, better to fight terrorists over there than in Wisconsin.*
Oh my.
*Obviously Bair never got the memo. There are no terrorists in Iraq.
CUUE is reporting interest from across the US and Canada as well as the BBC in the forum Wednesday night at the library in Evansville.
The competing resolutions put Evansville in a unique position among all the communities which will be casting ballots for the resolutions next week.
If we can do something in Evansville to give Jess Bucher heartburn my day is complete.
Posted by: grumps | March 28, 2006 at 03:46 PM