May 31, 2012 Quirk of WI recall could lead to unusual outcome By Dinesh Ramde executive branch is hard- testers swarmed the Hampshire, Rhode Island tion is largely ceremoni- ly contact other state offi- Associated Press ly unprecedented consid- Capitol for three weeks and Vermont. But some al. About the only cials. The opinion noted Milwaukee, WI – ering 18 states elect the of raucous demonstra- political experts say the responsibility is to that in a modern era of Wisconsin traditionally offices separately, the tions. arrangement in assume the governorship telephones and air travel elects its governor and unusual arrangement Walker’s Democratic Wisconsin could be more if the incumbent dies, is a governor could perform lieutenant governor as a could to lead to some opponent is Milwaukee reminiscent of California incapacitated or is his duties from out of pair, but a quirk in next ugly politics in Mayor Tom Barrett, who in the 1980s, where impeached. Most state state. week’s recall elections Wisconsin, already con- lost to Walker in 2010. things got so out of hand constitutions also put the And in 2012, a gover- will give voters the sidered one of the most Kleefisch is opposed by that the state Supreme lieutenant governor in nor can be almost any- chance to elect a polarized states. Mahlon Mitchell, presi- Court was asked to inter- charge if the governor is where in the world and Democrat for one office The recall efforts dent of the statewide fire- vene. “absent” from the state, still reach his staff. and a Republican for the against Republican Gov. fighters’ union. Both “I think it means the but there’s debate about Still, Wisconsin’s con- other – a scenario that Scott Walker and Lt. Democrats were squarely governor would never exactly what that means stitutional language has- could spark a power Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch on the other side of the leave the state,” said in Wisconsin. n’t been challenged in struggle whenever the stemmed largely from union issue. University of Wisconsin- Wisconsin’s attorney court, meaning a lieu- top executive leaves the Walker’s successful push Governors have man- Milwaukee political sci- general’s office noted in tenant governor could state. to strip most public-sec- aged to coexist with lieu- entist Mordecai Lee. a 1979 opinion that the While a bipartisan declare himself in charge tor workers of nearly all tenant governors of dif- “Just think of all the legal state constitution was every time the governor What’s Inside… their collective bargain- ferent parties elsewhere, complications.” drawn up in the mid-19th crosses the state border. ing rights, which threw as is currently the situa- In Wisconsin and most century, a time when a the state into an uproar as tion in Arkansas, other states, the lieu- governor who left the • See 5A, tens of thousands of pro- Missouri, Montana, New tenant governor’s posi- state couldn’t immediate- Quirk of Wisconsin Memorial Day in Oneida Older Americans Profile – 2A Hugh Danforth focuses on the hidden blessings in his life. Environmental – 2B Unusual spring weather in Wisconsin causes issues for local wildlife. Sports – 10B Bryce Elm runs the mile in the WIAA Division I Sectionals. Section A 2–5A/Local 6A/OBC Forum 7A/Minutes 8A/Government 9A/State 10A/National Section B Kali photos/Travis Cottrell 1B/Lifestyles The Oneida Warriors of Foreign Wars honored their fallen 2B/Environment comrades on Memorial Day. The Veterans visited cemeteries 3B/Education located on the Oneida Reservation and concluded with a cer- 4B/Classifieds 5B/Good News emony at the Veterans Memorial Wall. 6-7B/LOC Above: Robert “Little Man” Webster was honored at the Oneida 8B/Health Veterans Memorial Wall. His family ties an eagle feather onto a 9B/OFF 10B/Sports staff to recognize the veteran who recently passed. Opening eyes to gangs, drugs in Oneida The Oneida Police Department (OPD) gave a presentation on gang activity and drugs to community members at the Elderly Meal Site on Tuesday, May 29. Officer Matt Ninham, (standing, upper left), and Gang Task Force Coordinator Antonio Doxtator, (seat- ed far right), were on hand for the question and answer session follow- ing the presentation. Ninham led the talk with a video featuring photos of graffiti, drugs and weapons from Oneida and surrounding areas mixed with pictures area gang members have taken of themselves. According to Ninham, the gangs often adopt Native American sym- bols and subvert cultural ideas about family and traditions for their own ends. Ninham stated that community members need to be aware of the signs of gangs and drug use because the two go hand in hand. 2A (T#ken) • May 31, 2012 Local www.kalihwisaks.com Older American’s Month Profiles Danforth is now health focused as he ages Danforth moved to Currently, Danforth is in this case. She says I’ve been doing it ever Oneida in 1995, and got training for the 10 kilo- you’re either pregnant or since. into acting receiving a meter Bellin Run being you’re not,” he said. “I’m feeling better, I’m scholarship for the Lee held Saturday, June 9 in Danforth ignored the sleeping better, I’m more Strasberg Theater Green Bay. The training is results of the test for a alert, I’ve got more ener- Institute in New York the result of another hid- while, but as he learned gy, and so … I really had City. den blessing. more about the condition, to think about this really He also involved him- “When I learned that I he realized he had to work deeply because it’s atti- self in boards in Oneida had sugar diabetes I was at becoming healthier. tude, what’s my diabetes. such as the Land Claims devastated, because how “I found out very quick- Well, sugar diabetes for Commission as well as could I have sugar dia- ly about sugar diabetes me right now is a blessing state and national boards. betes. I thought I was I and how devastating it is, in disguise. Without sugar “I don’t know how I get was in pretty good and I didn’t realize for diabetes I wouldn’t be on these boards,” he said shape,” he said. Danforth Indian people it’s really eating good, I wouldn’t be as he listed them off. tried to argue his test bad, epidemic,” he said. exercising, and come Danforth has been results with his doctor as “Then I realized what June 9 in the Bellin Run, I involved on the they were just over the would happen if you did- will be running for the Wisconsin Council on indication for diabetes. n’t take care of this. I first time 6 miles,” he Kali photo/Dawn Walschinski Long Term Care in part “I come from a science started little by little, I said. Hugh Danforth finds the hidden blessings in because of his experience background, we have plus started eating better, and I his life. taking care of his elderly and minus … she says not started exercising, and By Dawn Walschinski didn’t know it at the time, mother who died at age Kalihwisaks but I was dyslexic, so I 97. Hugh Danforth is a was slow, so they held me “My mom started work- To Subscribe… Mail to… glass-is-half-full kind of back a couple years, I ing when she was 50 guy. Where some people even flunked kinder- years old … She was Mailing address: would curse the stum- garten,” he said. good cook, a fantastic Name: Kalihwisaks bling blocks in their lives, With the military draft cook,” he said. “The thing Danforth sees the occa- going on, he and some that they really liked was ATTN: sional left turns as bless- friends decided to join the her chili; they couldn’t Address: Yvonne Kaquatosh ings in disguise starting Air Force together. get enough of her chili.” P.O. Box 365 Zip with his poor health as a “I went to induction Nancy worked until she Oneida, WI 54155 child. center … I was there, but was 74 years old and later “When I was born, I those guys weren’t there. moved in with Danforth. Enrollment #: Ph. needed an operation right It must have been about “She just wanted to get (Applicable to enrolled members ONLY) away. I had an appendix four years after that I away from Milwaukee, FREE Address update forms are also available for Oneida to enrolled go when I was a baby, but finally got a hold of them. because the place that she enrolled members at the following website: they couldn’t do anything ‘What happened to you was staying at was just http://www.oneidanation.org/enrollment/svcaddchange.aspx Oneida too dangerous, couldn’t because I was a preemie. I guys?’ … so they had the • Non-Tribal members & Organizations: Members was supposed to be born party, and at the party walk down the street any- (18 years & older) in March, I was born in they said no way are we more,” said Danforth. “It $50 Annually: $38 Academic Year: February. Up until I was going to go into the air was just great to have her $25 Half Year nine years old, I was sick force for four years, better here.” every day of my life. … I to go into the army for 18 had some good days, and months,” said Danforth. I had some bad days, but I “As it turned out, it was a would throw up maybe blessing in disguise, every other day,” he said. because when I was (apti- “I remember those days tude) tested they said because it seemed like I ‘your background is was able … to maybe strong in math and sci- think differently.” ence.’ Oh-ho, is that At age nine Danforth’s right? … I really like appendix was taken out, math and I liked physics, and suddenly he could so that got me into the keep up with his younger electronics end of it, and I brother Art and his was working on aircraft friends.