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McGivern takes final turn in the role of Tony in ‘Shear Madness.’ page 26 October 16, 2014 | Vol. 5 No. 24 What makes Mary run?page 4 6 Married again 10 Third party candidates 17 Spooky brews 21 Masters of disguise 24 Stitching the past Supreme Court maneuver National polls show a Nothing says Halloween Madison makeup artists Jewish Museum extends marriage rights to growing interest among like a horror-themed beer create monsters, zombies Milwaukee brings life to majority of U.S., including American voters in third with a vampire on the label and beautiful body art for fashion sketches by a Wisconsin. parties. and a high ABV. Halloween and beyond. Holocaust victim. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 16, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff, Matthew Reddin, Louis Weisberg J-POP OR JPEG? Nelson’s bus.” murderer and enemy of the state.” and “I can say that I am in my After tabulating Facebook likes for David Letterman has Giuliani said he took the case own country.” Twitter cautions its college football programs across hosted many musical T’OKRA because he doesn’t want Noriega users, “Remember, once you post the country, the authors revealed guests in his tenure as A helicopter crew with the to get royalties and profit from his something online, it’s out there for the entire state of Wisconsin is the host of the Late Governor’s Task Force on crimes. others to see.” a solid red, reflecting that more Show, but Hatsune Drug Suppression in Geor- than 87 percent of fans in some Miku, his guest gia spotted something ISIS AS ALIBI MISDIAGNOSING THE state ZIP codes support the Bad- on Oct. 8, was suspiciously green and When law enforcement recent- PROBLEM gers, a level unseen anywhere else. unlike any per- leafy and sent a heav- ly arrested Lisa Carol Roche for Let’s hope whatever disease The story also claims that Min- son he’d ever ily armed unit to raid allegedly burglarizing cars in the radio host Rush Limbaugh has nesota’s lack of sustained success put onstage the garden of a retired parking lot of her kids’ school, the affecting his brain isn’t contagious. in football in the last half-century — because Atlanta man. They Mississippi mom said she was He recently suggested President or so has led their fans to start she wasn’t found okra bushes, “looking for ISIS terrorists.” Police, Barack Obama is refusing to divert supporting Wisconsin, as that red technically which an officer with however, didn’t buy her claim that flights from Ebola-infected coun- line creeps over the border. Then a person the Georgia state members of the Islamic State of tries and close America’s borders again, it could just be a side effect at all. She’s patrol said had “quite a Iraq and Syria were hiding out in because he believes that the nation of tuition reciprocity. instead a number of characteristics the school parking lot. She faces “deserves” to be infected with the humanoid that were similar to a can- a charge of commercial burglary virus due to slavery. Responding HAIR TODAY… pop star persona, nabis plant.” for swiping sunglasses and other to a caller on his syndicated radio This week in personal grooming voiced by a syn- items. show, Limbaugh launched into a conundrums, Apple iPhone 6 and thesizer application and projected CALL OF DUTY: RUDY V. soliloquy about so-called “politi- iPhone 6 Plus owners are claiming as a pseudo-hologram to appear MANNY ERRANT TWEET cally correct liberals” who believe the high-tech gadget is literally like a young Japanese teenager Rudy Giuliani and his firm are Ever post to Twitter or Face- America is responsible for the pulling their hair out. They claim with thigh-high boots and long representing Activision Blizzard, book your geolocation when you spread of Ebola in Liberia because hairs from the top of their heads turquoise hair. She’s been per- defending the maker of Call of didn’t want to advertise your that nation was established by — and in the case of male own- forming live since 2009, singing Duty: Black Ops II against a legal whereabouts? Zabihullah Muja- freed American slaves. ers, their beards — are getting tunes written by composers from complaint from Manuel Noriega. hid, the Taliban’s spokesman in snagged in the gap between the around the world and opening for The disgraced Panamanian dicta- Afghanistan recently sent out a RED TO THE BONE glass screen and aluminum cas- acts as big as Lady Gaga, but the tor is suing the video game maker, tweet, claiming responsibility for Give yourselves a pat on the ing when making calls. In typically Letterman performance marked alleging that it used his likeness an attack that included his geolo- back, Badgers fans. You’re the most derivative fashion, the crisis has her American TV debut. Said the without permission. Noriega, who cation — in Sindh, Pakistan. Muja- loyal supporters in the country, been dubbed “Hairgate.” soon-to-retire host after her per- is in prison, said he doesn’t like hid later tweeted that the loca- according to The New York Times’ formance, “It’s like being on Willie being depicted as a “kidnapper, tion post was an “enemy plot” data analysis blog “The Upshot.” WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 16, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 16, 2014 Uncommon candidate Burke defies easy categorization By Louis Weisberg Staff writer rallying crowds with fiery speeches. On the Republicans and Democrats alike have stump, she advocates raising the minimum struggled for months to brand gubernatorial wage and expanding health care, but she nominee Mary Burke with sound bites and never fails to remind listeners that she views labels. But Burke has proven too complex government as a tool to help people who are for the sloganeering that dominates today’s willing “to do the hard work” to lift them- political process. selves up, not to foster dependency. In the early days of the campaign, right- If Burke were conservative, she’d be a wing talk radio tried to label Burke “Mil- dream candidate for the GOP ticket. For the lionaire Mary.” But that epithet came off better part of the past generation, Republi- as laughably hypocritical in the mouths of cans have sought out candidates they can politicos who pander to wealthy interests. position as government outsiders and busi- Lefties initially perceived Burke as icy ness leaders with real-world experience. and removed. But as they became familiar They’ve spent billions of dollars demonizing with her broad smile, the countless hours career politicians while building up the need she’s given to helping disadvantaged youth for leaders with successful entrepreneurial and her penchant for hugging over shaking and private sector management experience. hands, that mirage soon evaporated. In this race, that candidate is Burke. Walk- Burke is an original, both politically and er is the career politician who’s never even personally. A third-generation Wisconsin- held a substantial job outside of politics. ite, she exudes the bedrock Midwestern values of hard work and fairness. The most ‘A CAN-DO BUNCH’ damning criticism the GOP’s opposition Burke says she wanted to be an entre- research could find about Burke is that she preneur ever since she was a small child, PHOTO: COURTESY BURKE FOR GOVERNOR Democratic candidate Mary Burke, left, and Michael Johnson, CEO of Boys and Girls took time off between jobs 20 years ago to inspired largely by her father Dick Burke. Clubs of Dane County. Burke has volunteered with the group since the late 1990s. travel. She even went snowboarding. He was already a successful businessman Burke says she’s alternately bemused and when he founded Trek Bicycle Corp. in 1976. frustrated by the way politics is dominated Family friend Dick Gallun remembers remembers her as a very smart child and from the ground up by Mary Burke. In fact, by marketing that distracts voters from the how surprised he was when the elder Burke the Burke clan as impressively ambitious, she had a large hand in growing the com- real issues and offers voters no solutions. went to him in the 1970s and said that he hard-working and highly competitive. One pany’s European sales from $3 million to She says she’s eager to solve problems, not was starting a bicycle company. of Burke’s brothers mentored Gallun’s son $50 million annually. Her business success sling mud. “I said, ‘You’re crazy. Who wants to com- at competitive tennis. brought her to the attention of former Gov. “I knew what I was getting into,” she says. pete with Schwinn?’” Gallun says, laughing. “They were a can-do bunch,” Gallun says. Jim Doyle, who asked her to serve as his “The silliness is part of this. I ignore it. I Gallun, 79, is a former Republican Trek started in the famous “red barn,” commerce secretary. focus on what needs to be done, and what fundraiser who turned Democrat after Pres- actually a former carpet warehouse. Burke, 55, spent her earliest years in needs to be done is letting people get to ident George W. Bush went to war in Iraq. But it grew rapidly. In 1980, Trek built a Wauwatosa before the family moved to know me and what kind of governor I’d be.” Now he’s a strong Mary Burke supporter. 26,000-square-foot facility in Waterloo. Hartland, a village in Waukesha County, Disgusted with the partisanship and politi- The company was a trailblazer in the devel- when she was in the fourth grade.

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