Wife tells Wisconsin protestors that senator has run off with mistress
After the Republican victory over unions in the Wisconsin state house last week, Democrats need every victory they can get – even the weird ones. From the Raw Story:
Protesters who marched at the home of Wisconsin state senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) were met with something of a surprise on Saturday. Mrs. Hopper appeared at the door and informed them that Sen. Hopper was no longer in residence at this address, but now lives in Madison, WI with his 25-year-old mistress….
Sen. Hopper has worked closely with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to implement the state’s new anti-labor laws and enact policies favorable to the interests of big business. Like Walker, Hopper is one of the Republican politicians named in a massive recall effort spearheaded by Wisconsin Democrats.
Hopper’s wife indicated she is willing to sign the recall petition. The family maid apparently has already done so.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
5:39 pm
Country Bumpkin:
“There is always 2 sides to the story.”
. . . and sometimes three sides!
right to work resident
March 14th, 2011
5:40 pm
sandra ..you are so in the dark about this issue,do youself a favor and go watch entertainment tonight.
Happy n Montana
March 14th, 2011
5:45 pm
Great report—read the ajc from time to time —-left the south years ago & live in the beautiful West—amazing when I see how southern attitudes & making excuses for all the wrong people still exist—some things never change—love to be able to carry on open minded conversations and discuss opposing opinions without coming under attack—it is so refreshing—keep up the good articles.
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Truth
March 14th, 2011
6:03 pm
How does this affect the issue?
No one seemed to care when Bill Clinton had an affair while in office as the President.
Minus Clous
March 14th, 2011
6:07 pm
Typical Democrat BS and hogwash. How about the fools that left the state and how about unions that abuse the tax payers with their unsustainable demands. Pay my full pension, my full healthcare, my full cost, my, my, my, I, I, I, me, me, me, Da*n the kid or taxpayers. I want my lolly pop……………….
OedipusTax
March 14th, 2011
6:10 pm
@Truth – thank you for the clarity. Yes, it was only about sex. I already noted that if the sex was between men, that Galloway would only be called homophobic for reporting on this story without any validation – only a single witness. Even if this was NAMBLA sex, liberals tend to sweep such stories under the rug.
@Brian – here’s a question. What did Scott Walker do that was unconstitutional? What article? Now, I realize, this is an intelligent question, which will put you over your head. But you’re the one that ranted that his actions were unconstitutional. So, support your assertion, please.
makin'more
March 14th, 2011
6:14 pm
i was in a union once…got fed up with the fact that lazy larry made just as much as i did, did half the work, and ostracized, slandered and mocked me because my work ethic was stornger than his. people would try to ’stick it to the man” cause it was the “union way brother”…..well if the man gets stuck enough and closes up, where you gonna work? i detest the “i’ll take my toys and go home if i don’t get my way” attitude……..the best thing i ever did was walk…..wonder why everything is moving to mexico anyway……????
Martin Williams
March 14th, 2011
6:15 pm
It is an international thing about being a politician, the right to have more than one woman. ALL political leaders have more than one woman and call them chiefs in Africa.
bart
March 14th, 2011
6:17 pm
He’s gone.
Z
March 14th, 2011
6:33 pm
The 14 Democrats who left Wisconsin are hero’s.. By their actions, they brought attention to the Dictatorship of Walker, he is bought and paid for by the Koch Corporation. Corporations care nothing for the people, their goal is the bottom line, their profits! The Supreme Court did such an injustice to this country by letting Corporations into our political system. We the people will pay for this down the road, in lower salaries, poor education, rich and poor no middle class..it has started, keep this in mind when voting. The conservatives have shown the people how they care nothing about the people only their corporate brethren..
@Z
March 14th, 2011
6:39 pm
if the founding fathers had run away from instead of run INTO the fight, wonder what would have happened? Hero’s? by running away? oh yeah right…..
OedipusTax
March 14th, 2011
6:42 pm
Z is just one of those ranting stercoraceous liberals, maybe a college student, who believes corporations are evil and only government is good. Duh! Corporations built the country in which this fool lives, so that he can shoot off his mouth, and show just how ignorant he is. Corporations are just voluntary associations of people working together to make a living and a way to decentralize power. It is called freedom. Without corporations, we’re left with socialism or communism, which by their very track record, have proven to be tyrannies. That’s what this fool wants, whether he knows it or not. Duh! Just another public school, NEA brainwashed idiot. How sad. Our country deserves better.
dave
March 14th, 2011
6:43 pm
The senator did it for love of country. Adultry – the Republicans new expression of patriotism.
gm
March 14th, 2011
6:45 pm
Thanks Obama, no scandals love his wife and kids, what a example of morale values.
Newt goes around telling conservatives christians Obama is not one of them, thank God he is not, oh I forgot, you can not be black with family values.
GaBlue
March 14th, 2011
6:49 pm
What the WI legislature did last week violated their own law. This wasn’t about balancing the budget. If it were, then Walker would have accepted the Unions’ offer of EVERY financial concession he asked for. He and his cronies refused because they cared more about busting unions than balancing the budget. Why? Koch Industries knows why. They have plans for the state, and they want the rabble knocked down and pushed in line before they invest.
Unions are far from perfect, as are state governments. Overreach, and there will be consequences. This is true for unions, and it’s true for billionaire butt boys like Walker and legislatures who vote illegally to strip Americans of their rights.
Keep pushing, rightie oppressors. Keep it up and see what real backlash looks like.
Atlanta1
March 14th, 2011
6:51 pm
Who cares… If your going to measure a President by ’sleeping around’ – then JFK’S name should be taken off of every building and highway around the nation. Johnson was rumored to be an outright ‘freak’. We all know about Bill Clinton and don’t forget about FDR – and most remember that Eisenhower had a ‘blonde’ friend who escorted him everywhere he went during WWII.
These are much more powerful people than this clown in Wisconsin. The Governor up there is doing the right thing for the majority of the people of Wisconsin. The unions are taking a shot in the mouth – they have it coming. These are the same clowns who’s leadership pushed hard for national health care and then got their buddy the President to allow them to ‘opt out’ of the 40% tax for “Cadillac” (I love the irony in the name) health benefits.
Who cares about a 25 year old bimbo…
flagger
March 14th, 2011
6:53 pm
Dear Wil ….. you are one of those stupid moronic Georgians… you are even more stupid because you moved here from somewhere else. You probably hate America and your home state too.. kinda
makes u feel superior to berate ure fellow citizens doesn’t it????
dagnabit
March 14th, 2011
6:57 pm
87 per cent of us taxpayers not in unions are poor as hell.
captguitarman
March 14th, 2011
6:59 pm
Z. Wow! What a fresh and brilliant and new point of view. Gosh, it brings back such memories — from college days — in the late 60’s and early 70’s. That was back when spoiled liberal college kids (not public labor unions like today), who were totally financed by their rich liberal parents, used to march around campus and have loud and disruptive and illegal protests and rallies, etc. and spout the same type of nonsense — except that unlike you, they never forgot to sign off with “power to the people.” All that BS wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now. You might have noticed that there was a big election in November – which is what democracy actually looks like – not a mob of spoiled brats screaming and stomping and leaving their jobs for fake excuses, and shouting and disrupting everyone and everything in sight — while their “heroes” abandon ship and head for cheap hotels in Ilinois because the voting in the newly elected legislature is not going their way any more. In the election in Wisconsin, and in elections all over the country, Republicans, conservatives, and tea partyers were voted in by a huge majority because the American people are up to here with unbridled government growth and expense, and the never satisfied moocher class demanding more and more from the government and out of other people’s pockets. As Maggie Thatcher once said — “the trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Well, that has finally happened. Funny how you Dems/libs/socialists call those Democrat Senate cowards “heroes.” Well they are not, and they will never live it down. Can you imagine the Republican House running to cheap hotels in Canada just before the health care vote – one of the worst pieces of legislation in our history, if not the worst – disfavored by 65% to 70% of Americans? Would Republicans call them “heroes” for running away. NO. Republicans/conservatives wouldn’t re-elect them dog catcher after a cowardly stunt like that. They lost, but they respected the democratic process and stood and fought, and lost. But, that battle isn’t over yet, not by a long shot.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
7:18 pm
I believe that this sums it up nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4PwZCWUdg
Fast Times
March 14th, 2011
7:24 pm
Nothing like a hot 25 year old to “re-energize” an old senator. It works every time.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
7:24 pm
gm:
“Newt goes around telling conservatives christians Obama is not one of them”
Newt is only telling the truth: Obama isn’t a Christian. He’s a muslim.
Say Cheese!
March 14th, 2011
7:26 pm
“Mrs. Hopper appeared at the door and informed them that Sen. Hopper was no longer in residence at this address, but now lives in Madison, WI with his 25-year-old mistress….”
Well at least he ran off with a female. Had he been a Democrat he probably woulda eloped with his boyfriend.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
7:31 pm
Z:
“The 14 Democrats who left Wisconsin are hero’s”
You have quite a low expectation for your heros! To my way of thinking, they were cowards. They dared not stay because they knew that by open;y supporting the union goons, they would lose a great many votes and possibly face defeat in their next election. If you believe the sentiments of the people of Wisconsin are with the unions, you are sadly mistaken.
tea for two
March 14th, 2011
7:47 pm
OedipusTax
March 14th, 2011
4:37 pm
“But if the lawmaker had been gay, and had the protestors been teaparty members….”
Wow you really have a fascination with the gays.
Alabama Communist
March 14th, 2011
7:53 pm
No doubt the Senator was a Newt HOlock in training!
5th GenerationAtlantan
March 14th, 2011
7:55 pm
Hey Norman and Shadoz,
Why not ask Rahm Emanuel’s about residency. HaHa …. how would he be able to win that argument….
aj102
March 14th, 2011
8:01 pm
The Wisconsin papers don’t seem to have this story and who cares anyway.
And if you think that “public employees” are responsible for everything, think again. It was the private sector banks and mortgage industry that sank this ship after some politician in Washington decided that anyone who could breathe should be allowed to own a home.
SugarHillDawg
March 14th, 2011
8:05 pm
See, something like this would NEVER derail a democrats career because it is understood by EVERYONE that they are LOW LIFES and things like running around on your wife is just another day in the life for them. Just like Liberals though, can’t beat the Reps on ideas so you dig up something on them. BTW, what’s this got to do with Scott Walker? Oh I know, guilt by association.What was I thinking??
aj102
March 14th, 2011
8:09 pm
Last man standing. Are you serious with that youtube video? Apparently the resonableness and bias of things doesn’t mean much to you. And thanks for polling each and everyone in the State of Wisconsin to get their views on unions.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
8:21 pm
aj102:
Exactly what part of the video do you take issue with and why?
Civics
March 14th, 2011
8:23 pm
I’m not sure what the penalty for high treason is against the Wisconsin state constitution is; but I’m sure Brian knows since he is ready to convict a group of properly elected officials of doing it. Or maybe he thinks this is a U.S. Constitution issue. I’m also not sure how anyone in Wisonsin did anything against me or any other U.S. citizen who is not also a citizen of Wisconsin. Come on Brian, lets don’t stop at U.S., let’s make it sound really cool and say the World Constitution or the Universe Constitution. I’m sure the citizens of some undiscovered world are glad that you and the vacationing democrats are standing up for their rights.
It would also seem that high treason would be more appropriate for someone who left their post and did not fill the job they were elected too. That is, if it was in play here.
Who is funding these vacations? I think our state democrats should come up with some issue like this so they can go on trips that only makes the slightly whacko supporters support them more.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
8:24 pm
aj102:
” It was the private sector banks and mortgage industry that sank this ship after some politician in Washington decided that anyone who could breathe should be allowed to own a home.”
Be sure to thank a democrat for that as it was their doing.
Civics
March 14th, 2011
8:37 pm
Ah, another expert in Wisconsin law. Way to go GaBlue. Not only is he/she an expert in Wisconsin law, he/she also prosecutes, is a jury and a judge. Makes me afraid that he/she will also want to carry out the sentence. Or maybe, just maybe, he/she read that from a liberal website. Wow, surfing the net sure beats educating yourself any day.
rod
March 14th, 2011
8:44 pm
jim arent you applauding since he is acting like bubba clinton
Brainiac
March 14th, 2011
8:45 pm
I’m reserving judgement until I get a close up look at the 25 yr. old mistress.
Plain Stupid
March 14th, 2011
8:45 pm
If you’re tired of working long hours just to get by maybe you should join a union. And maybe you shouldn’t have bought that house out in Sprawlville. The fact that you have to break your back to earn your day of leisure is a byproduct of the conservative power structure shifting the tax burden from themselves to you. How ironic that you blame the very people who fight those who put you in the situation that you’re complaining about.
Last Man Standing
March 14th, 2011
8:45 pm
One fact is certain: everyone who is upset here about the treatment of the poor public sector unions can and should travel to Wisconsin. You will like it for you will have PLENTY of cheese to go with your whine!
cpw
March 14th, 2011
8:48 pm
What you would call “Coward” is called “filibuster”. They did exactly what they needed to.
But your fighting the wrong fight. There was no deficit in our state until the idiot governor de-funded the state by tax breaks for his business cronies and now blames it on what’s left of the diminishing middle class.
Bargaining rights = Democratic rights
Wake up!
Brainiac
March 14th, 2011
8:50 pm
Say Cheez: Now you leave BARNEY out of this.
Jefferson
March 14th, 2011
9:02 pm
This is just a typical republican. Look at Gingrich and the others.
Fat Lip
March 14th, 2011
9:03 pm
And this is supposed to be “news”. Pathetic.
Wife tells Wisconsin protestors that senator has run off with mistress
March 14th, 2011
9:04 pm
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BRW
March 14th, 2011
9:12 pm
@LAST MAN $HITTING, You are a total moron. No one is reading your crap. You rate right down there with RB “USED TO BE” FROM GWINNETT.
Brainiac
March 14th, 2011
9:17 pm
@ Z: All that BS to show the world that your age is higher than your IQ? Who the hell do you suppose elected Walker? It was the taxpayers of Wisconsin who are tired of you and your ilk freeloading off their tax dollars while making much higher salaries than the private sector for comparable jobs. Write this down. At least 10 of the 13 “Runaway” dumbocrats will not be re-elected and some will be recalled so enjoy what little of our tax money you already have because the rest of your lazy a$$ career you will have to earn it. You and your ilk are nothing but leeches/hogs at the public trough.
Brainiac
March 14th, 2011
9:19 pm
@Cheese: That is Barney Frank in case you need to know. Damn good post.
Hollis
March 14th, 2011
9:20 pm
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gatorman770
March 14th, 2011
9:30 pm
It was fine with the unions and other liberals when Slick Willy Clinton was getting BJs and cigar humdification from Monica in the oval office of ill repute, and he wasn’t even separated from Hillary during his sexual escapades and we won’t even go into the Kennedy’s escapades, especially the abortion Mary Jo was given!
CA
March 14th, 2011
9:33 pm
-It absolutely intrigues me. So many republicans think that it is okay to cheat on a spouse, as long as it means knocking a Democrat. Oh mighty ones, oh righteousness, when is ever okay to cheat on a spouse. Georgia on My Mind: Did you ever think that he may not live at home because his wife won’t put up with cheating? KDAWG: You’re kidding right? Do you really believe that cheating is okay, but maintaining integrity with your constituents is not? You may actually have a place in politics.