Wi Dem Candidate Mahlon Mitchell for Lieut Gov had NEVER voted in ANY election until 2010

By Rob Janicki
Mahlon Mitchell, little known and better forgotten as quickly as possible, especially by the voters in Wisconsin on Tuesday, June 5.

Who is Mahlon Mitchell and why should voters forget him, let alone even vote for him?  Well,  Mr. Mitchell is president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin.  Sounds impressive, but is there more?  Of course there is or I wouldn't be writing this article.  Mr. Mitchell is running for the position of Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, a mostly ceremonial position, but technically still a position of power should the governor die, become incapacitated or leave the state temporarily for any reason.

The current Lt. Governor is Rebecca Kleefisch, elected on the same ticket as Governor Scott Walker in November 2010.  In Wisconsin the governor and the lieutenant governor are elected on the same ticket as are the president and vice president of the United States.

In the current Wisconsin recall election the liberal wing nuts of the Democrat party chose to try and pick off at least one of the two Republican candidates running to fill out the remainder of their lawful terms as governor and lieutenant governor.  It was the old divide and conquer strategy, but unheard of in American political history at the state level.

So who is Mahlon Mitchell, really?  Is he another long time "community organizer" laboring to improve the plight of the poor?  Is he a Democrat political activist in Wisconsin politics?  The answer is "no" to both these questions.  The truth is Mr. Mitchell didn't even think enough of politics in Wisconsin to ever vote until 2010.  That's right, 2010, which means he didn't even bother to vote for one of the 'Brothers', proclaimed to be the smartest man ever to run for president.

Mitchell ...  [...] recently told Jeremy Segal of the blog Rebel Pundit that he was not engaged in politics before 2008. Mitchell did not vote until 2010, records show.  [...]

So why is Mitchell running?  The answer lies in his presidency of the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin, a public sector union enjoying the fruits of very lucrative contracts with the state and local communities, which governor Walker has been trying to rein in to bring the state budget back into balance and has, so far, succeeded in doing.

Mr. Mitchell, then, isn't worried so much about all the citizens of Wisconsin as he is about himself, his fellow firefighters and public sector union members who have been living high off the hog, so to speak, ever since Wisconsin granted public sector employees the unheard of privilege of organizing into public sector unions with all the trappings and more, that are commonly seen in private sector unions bargaining at arms length with private sector businesses.  Whew!  That was a long sentence, but it did cover the territory I intended.

It's no secret that public sector unions in general support Democrats across the country in almost all states having allowed collective bargaining privileges with these same public sector unions.  And why is that?  The answer is just as simple, because the Democrats long ago figured out they could get into bed with the public sector unions by passing legislation favorable to those unions and in return get their political and financial support come every election.  It's worked like a charm for each and every state that enacted public sector union collective bargaining privileges, and they are privileges and NOT rights.  What the state giveth, the state can taketh away and this should not be forgotten.  Remember, most of those states granting collective bargaining privileges were controlled by Democrat legislatures.  Pretty convenient set up, I would say, or as the legal beagles would say, "Quid Pro Quo", something for something else.

[...]  The conservative non-profit watchdog group Media Trackers reported Friday that Mitchell did not vote until the fall of 2010, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.  [...]

Apparently Mr. Mitchell didn't become engaged in politics until it became a personal financial and career imperative for him to do so.

[...]  I was just … I’m not really engaged in politics,” Mitchell said in a video posted Friday. “I’m not really engaged in statewide politics at all. But once, what happened last year, and before that when Barack Obama came on the scene, that got me really, really engaged in politics. And I’ve been engaged ever since.”  [...]
Contrast Mr. Mitchell's non participation in the electoral process as a citizen with Rebecca Kleefisch.

[...]  Media Trackers reports Kleefisch has voted in at least 15 separate elections since 2006 and seven times since 2010, according to the GAB.  [...]
Tuesday's recall election, contrary to what Democrats have said, does have far reaching effects going forward for all states that have embraced into legislation, collective bargaining privileges for public employees.  Liberals are in mortal fear that a Walker victory on Tuesday could become an infectious virus that could become a political game changer in America.