Meet Wisconsin's Ron Johnson Wealthy Businessman, Anti-Science Freak and Friend to Child Molesters
If Johnson is the conservative movement's idea of change what is so different between Johnson's bizarre beliefs and behavior and those of other extreme right-wing Republicans. Johnson says he has values and stands up for child molesters. Johnson says is will bring fresh air to Washington, but it is just as corrupt as the Republicans from the Bush era K-Street project - they pedaled special favors for legislation in exchange for campaign contributions. Johnson is anti-science which means he is opposed to rational thinking and is not open to new information on which to make rational decisions.
So if Johnson defeats Feingold, let's look at some of the issue pronouncements of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI):
• He has opposed government intervention in business -- and built his companies partly with the help of government-facilitated loans.
• Just several months before his entry into politics, Johnson testified before a state legislative committee against a bill, intended to crack down on the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals, which would have made it easier for past sex abuse victims to sue organizations that were responsible for their care. (Johnson is not Catholic, but a Lutheran, though he sat on the financial council of the Catholic Church's Green Bay diocese.)
• He has denied that man contributes to global warming, blaming it on sunspots. (In fact, overall solar activity has gone down slightly over the past decade, while global temperatures have gone up.)
• He has said that carbon emissions are good for trees.
• In further service of denying anthropogenic global warming, he claimed that Greenland used to be green. (Not exactly.)
• In July, he said he would sell his BP stock -- when the market was better, so he could use the money to finance his campaign. Being new to politics, he clearly didn't understand the whole concept of selling stock in a company that has run into political controversy.
• And just on Friday, the AP published an investigation of Johnson's business records, showing that the candidate, who has campaigned against government subsidies for businesses, receives government subsidies for nine prison inmates he employs.
