Jo Egelhoff’s Full Library of Blogs Finally Revealed
OWN Video: Say It Ain't So, JoWatch the new OWN video "Say It Ain't So, Jo" that highlights the extreme and controversial postitions that Jo Egelhoff has removed from her website. Check out the Full Library of Blogs page for a full listing of the blogs Jo Egelhoff tried to hide. Visit the OWN page on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/use/OneWisconsinNow
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For the last several years, Jo Egelhoff was a prominent conservative blogger, running her own site, FoxPolitics.net. Once she became an Assembly candidate, though, almost all of her past posts as a blogger were removed.
One Wisconsin Now is a strong first Amendment advocate and believes Jo Egelhoff has a right to post these blogs and allow the public to see her views – no matter how extreme, out-of-touch or controversial.
To serve that mission, we have managed to dig up nearly all of her now-hidden blogs and provide them as a public service. Some of the best are excerpted below. You can also visit the "Full Library of Blogs" page to see the rest of the blogs from Jo Egelhoff that otherwise might have been lost.
Jo Egelhoff - SeniorCare, Social Security, and Medicare are 'giveaways' and 'charity'
"Of course, SeniorCare is an entitlement. A charity program, operated with your tax dollars and mine. Just like Social Security and Medicare – government programs that were/are sold as insurance programs, but indeed, always were very apparent giveaway programs." [Jo Egelhoff, 'Deeper And Deeper Into The Entitlement Web,' FoxPolitics.net, 4/11/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - Argues oil company profits aren't that high and there is no price gouging, criticizes 'gas price whiners'
"Prices are NOT rising because the huge oil companies are running away with barrels and barrels of extra money...One thing I am pretty sure about is that nobody’s gouging anybody – and it’s about time we stop blaming ‘big oil,”" [Jo Egelhoff, 'Boycott Gas Stations - That's Stupid,' FoxPolitics.net, 5/9/2007]
"Are gas price whiners forgetting WI's huge gas tax?" [Jo Egelhoff, 'Are Gas Price Whiners Forgetting WI's Huge Gas Tax?' FoxPolitics.net, 6/5/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - No more funding for family planning
"The State of Wisconsin must not squander any more tax dollars on “family planning” services...Programs, like “family planning”, which make social problems worse, should be discontinued, and certainly, the taxpayers of Wisconsin must not be made to finance bogus schemes which spread disease among young women or leave them facing illegitimacy or abortion as their only alternatives." [Jo Egelhoff, 'Pro-life Looking for Victories,' FoxPolitics.net, 9/19/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - State Budget can't be everything to everyone, especially veterans
"Of course, in papers – and minds – throughout the state, it’s tuition benefits for veterans. Yes, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to our vets. But even that commitment cannot be allowed to break the bank." [Jo Egelhoff, 'Wisconsin Earmark-itis,' FoxPolitics.net, 6/15/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - Wealthy people like herself pay too much in taxes
Increase taxes you say? The top 1% of filers pay almost 40% of the nation’s federal income taxes. I ask you, how much higher would you like that to go? How many more health care programs, education fixes, retirement funds, police departments, must I fund for the benefit of my neighbor...[Jo Egelhoff, 'Time to Get Our Heads out of the Sand. The Bush Budget,' FoxPolitics.net, 2/7/2008]
Jo Egelhoff - Favors eliminating SAGE small class program
"In a piece last week, I suggested we begin by eliminating 4-year-old kindergarten...As long as we’re talking about schools and being controversial, how about the SAGE program that provides for classes with no more than 15 students? Or simply allow a district not to have to offer SAGE everywhere – wouldn’t that make sense?" [Jo Egelhoff, 'Getting Serious: What Programs Can We Cut,' FoxPolitics.net, 3/21/2008]
Jo Egelhoff - Vetoing S-CHIP is right for American families
"One more guy that’s sticking to his guns. David Brooks’ article this week does a great job explaining President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Doing exactly the right thing for America and for America’s children." [Jo Egelhoff, 'Ron Paul & Jeff Flake - They Pass the Test,' FoxPolitics.net, 10/5/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - Proposes cutting shared revenue aid to local govenments by 50%
But reducing the tax burden also means we must also decrease spending, i.e., decrease the services provided by our governments. …So here’s my list. Easy for me to go on record – I don’t have to get re-elected! Depending on whom you talk to, only about ½ of Shared Revenue dollars are actually used to do what they were intended to do, that is to equalize spending for basic municipal services. So eliminate the other half. [Jo Egelhoff, 'It's Not as Easy as a "No Tax Increase" Pledge,' FoxPolitics.net, 5/25/2007]
Jo Egelhoff - Suggests we have too many police and prosecutors
Many will argue we need all those police to keep us safe. (I won’t, but won’t debate that now.) [Jo Egelhoff, 'Do We Need 117 New Prosecutors?' FoxPolitics.net, 8/7/2007]
Jo Egelhoff- Removal of the Ten Commandments and school prayer has led to violence and immorality
It’s a sadder, more immoral, more violent world, thanks in part to the removal of religions-based morality in our schools [like] removing the Ten Commandments...and halt[ing] prayer at public institutions...Take God’s love and moral plumb line out of our schools. And substitute for them… what? [Jo Egelhoff, 'Why is a Moral Message Anathema to Athiests?'' FoxPolitics.net, 12/21/2007]
