Being a typical thin skinned bureaucrat she was immediately offended. Being a politician she was even more unable to handle a mere private citizen saying anything about her which was not written by spin doctor.

Rather than trying to with Dennis Payne, the sites webmaster, the public servant got a lawyer and sued. For having what is described as untrue sexually explicit references to inappropriate relations which implie lewd, lascivious, or adulterous sexual conduct written about her. Ms Fremgen feels that she is entitled to $600,000. $100,000 in monetary damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.

Payne does monitor the Full of Bologna board and his rules do not allow such material, however he can't monitor it 24 hours a day.

With all the public relations and negotiating skills of a bureaucrat Ms Fremgen could not talk to Payne about removing the material about her. She found the only way she was capable of handling things was to have her attorney, Andy Phillips, go to a Fon Du Lac County Judge to have the entire site shut down.

Payne is accepting more responsibility for this anonymous post than he should. He can not track who made the post. For all anyone knows Ms Fremgen made the post herself. Neither Ms Fremgen or her lawyer have offered any alibi proving that she could not have planted the material she is suing over. Considering her knee-jerk reaction to grab money and silence the voice of private citizens it isn't far fetched.

Payne is optomistic that Full of Bologna will be back up in a shortly.

Green Bay Press Gazette reporter Andy Behrendt wrote "Don’t be surprised to see a city inspector peering around outside your home sometime in the coming months." in his article Inspections aim to clean up Green Bay Yes citizens of Green Bay should just allow city inspectors onto their property to peer around.

It's not like their is anything in our constitution prohibiting the government from making unreasonable searches.

City inspector Jeanne Angell sees nothing wrong with her doings. She allowed reporters to follow her around as she made notes of which homes had weeds and litter in their lawns, left tags on unregistered and unlicensed cars walked and peered into whatever sections of peoples property she could. She showed no regards for privacy, inspecting steps, foundation, basements and no news agency questioned the morality, ethics, or constitutionality of Jeanne's actions. It seems they truly believe that getting out a tape measure to check specks on a property which had no complaints by a city inspector with no warrant is reasonable. They seem to think everyone expects their neighbors to come around and check to see how level their sidewalks actually are.

Jeanne Angell, Neighborhood Development Supervisor Cheryl Renier-Wigg and others in favor of this say that all the homeowners who keep to themselves drive down property values for everyone else and that everyone wants a nosey neighbor like Jeanne telling them how to maintain their own home. And again it's not like government are restricted from searching a persons property or possessions without the owners consent or a they have a legal search warrant that states why they are searching, describes the place exact place to be searched and tells exactly what they looking for.

If you do disagree with this blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment call the city of Green Bay’s neighborhood division at (920) 448-3400.

John Q Cheesehead

McCormick proposes a term limit of no more than 12 years in Congress. She cites Newt Gingrich's Citizen Legislature Act from his 1994 Contract with America which suggests limiting Senators to two terms and members of the House to six terms.

"The need for term limits is becoming more and more evident amid the recent corruption and indictments of Republican and Democrat leaders on both the state and national levels. Term limits would prevent them from becoming seduced by the culture of corruption."

She also strongly agrees with the gubernatorial candidate's suggestion that fund raising be banned while legislators work on the state budget.

McCormick takes it a step further with a three-prong proposal:
1. Fund raising should be limited to the candidate's district.
2. We need to abolish all fund raising in our national and state capitol.
3. All lobbying should be posted on the Internet weekly so lobbying reports and legislative reports can be compared.

The school board voted to increase the school tax by 40.7% which will increase our taxes by $300 per $100,000 of its assessed value. This is not a reasonable increase and the process is not fair for the following reasons:
1. Less than 1% of the land in the school district is taxable.
2. The people in District 5, represent 95% of the taxable land and we only have one representative on the school board and that person is not a taxpayer. This is taxation without representation.
3. The staffing per student ratio is 4.94:1 compared to 8:31:1 for the state and the cost per student is over $19,000 and the truancy rate is above 45%.
4. Per the Menominee Indian School District Superintendent, 99.9% of the students are Native American.

Serious consideration should be given to making this a Bureau of Indian Affairs school and we should be in either the Shawano or Gillett School districts.

Please help us. If taxes can be raised by 40.7% in one year, there is no hope for the future to keep our home. With this system of taxation without fair representation, we stand to loose not only our dream to retire on Legend Lake, but who will buy our homes with this unfair tax structure in place.

Taxation Hostages Jon and Pamala DeBoer

Is crying like a three year old being dragged out of the toy dept what city officials see as good negotiating skills. They went from turning down a $3 million dollar load to approving one for $3.5 million to help give the financing necessary to get a location in a newer development. If they would have walked away would they city have went up to $5 million and called it a better deal yet?

Why is APAC seen as so great that the mayor was insistent at bringing them downtown no matter how much it cost the taxpayers. Green Bay city officials say that relocating the APAC Customer service Center will bring 1,000 jobs to Green Bay.

It seems there will were no employees to transfer as APAC relocates from its former location at 3200 Riverside Drive in Allouez. Just as the Mayor noticed no one from Green Bay was working in the Allouez location, every job will now go to those living downtown.

We also should not forget that whoever else would have been interested in renting property downtown would have been unlikely to hire employees to work at their office. Based on the Mayors negotiating tactics one would believe believing that telemarketing jobs he feels best fit those who work downtown.

The Mayor is also pounding his chest because the $3.5 million dollar loan given to purchase space valued at under $700,000 will be secured by a second-position mortgage. Why if loaning all the finances being used to purchase the office space are they not in the first position? It's also not like other people who loan out money secure loans with a marker worth more than the amount they are loaning.

The loan is not being made to APAC but to their president Scott Smet's real estate company. Smet will buy the land with one company he owns and lease it back to another he manages. What are the chances that one will go under when the other fails to pay it leaving the property to is handed over to the first position mortgage holder?

Why is the city making the loan for APAC to move into the property owned by Baylake Bank. Why isn't Baylake willing to make the loan. Could it be that those working a Baylake lack experience the city has in dealing with commercial mortgages? No one should have better expectations that this is profitable location than it's current owners. And this is seen as such a great location that the business the Mayor begs to move in is one which never deals with it's customers face to face, one which is often outsourced overseas, one in an industry which shows little stability or growth.

Green Bay city aldermen overwhelming approved having government dictating which businesses can operate, where they can locate, having government operate as realtors, mortgage lenders ( it should be added that all the aldermen say they are pro business it's just their actions very rarely favor a free market economy). The only area of contention was over how to charge for the 600 parking places they are planning to supply for the 1,000 new APAC workers.

As for the owners of Downtown Development they are getting used to disappointment. After having been seen as saviors of downtown by the Jadin administration they have been seeing little of the cooperation they were expecting to turn things around when they bought the former Port Plaza ghost town.

As for Tom Skogg, owner of the building APAC is planning to leave. He doesn't have the Alloez city government meddling in the management of his property. Yet, he says he has received a number of inquiries and is confident that he will have something worked out. One has to wonder how what Mayor Schmitt considers to be a rare, great catch for the Green Bay city government is being seen as easy to replace by an independent businessman.

John Q Cheesehead

Five Rivers good deal for developers bad deal for taxpayers

The city of Oshkosh’s proposed agreement with the Five Rivers developers is simple. The developers build their hotel/convention center, while the city builds a new seawall and walkway along the river. Then for the next 20 years, the city takes all the property taxes the developers would ordinarily pay to the city, the county and the school district, keeps enough to cover its own seawall and walkway building costs -- about one-fifth -- and hands the rest back to the developers.

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