Xoff's Blog

Commentary on state politics by Bill Christofferson, who often uses Xofferson or Xoff to shorten his 14-letter last name.

Christofferson, a recovered journalist and ex-political reporter, has been a Democratic strategist and consultant for 20 years and is now retired. He lives in Milwaukee.
He is the author of a political biography, "The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson," published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

All I know is what I read in the papers...

Bo Black’s daughter has big breasts.

How do we know? The Journal Sentinel’s Jim Stingl wrote a whole column about her, just so the paper could run her photo with them hanging out.  Bo, who people used to call Milwaukee’s only celebrity, is still trying to maintain the title long-distance from Arizona. Stingl, interviewed on WTMJ-TV news (!) about it, said the story was pitched to him (and a lot of others) via email by Bo herself. Get a life, everybody.

So much for the secret ballot.

A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

"Hey, do you think Fred skipped Communion because he's committing adultery with his secretary, or because he voted for Obama?"

Keep looking, find that voter fraud

Only a handful of votes cast in Milwaukee County on Nov. 4 are under investigation, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf said Wednesday.

However, he expects more referrals to his office once municipalities complete voter data entry in the statewide voter registration system.

"We have not closed the book," Landgraf said.

The irregularities uncovered are "incidents that are not connected, that are isolated," Landgraf said.

Good thing we had an army of prosecutors and criminal investigators all over, huh? Do you think that’s why there was almost no fraud, or that there never really was any “fraud” to speak of?

 Palinisms replace Bushisms.

“But not me personally were those cheers for,” Matt Lauer she tells. And furthermore: “I would have loved more opportunities to speak to the American people about what I’d like to see of — happen there with our country.” Ya, hey!

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On secret ballot

Way past the time to have a secret ballot on lifting tax exempt status for churches.

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