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Not Sweet: Candy Store Owner Fights Mayor to Keep Bars on Her Shop Windows

A Wisconsin business owner is fighting for the right to keep bars on her shop windows.

Pamela Bogen is set to open her new candy store, The Mini Sweet Shop, in the city of Racine, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee. Right now, the street level-store has bars on the windows — and that‘s where she’s run afoul of Racine Mayor John Dickert.

Dickert said having bars up sends the wrong message about the city, and he wants them removed.

“It‘s about where we’re going in Racine and if we’re going to go back to bars on window, I think we’re going in the wrong direction,” he told WITI Fox 6.

Other stores in the area have bars on their windows, but zoning rules prohibit new businesses from putting them up. The shop already had the bars before Bogen arrived, and for cost reasons the building’s owner convinced city authorities to keep them up as an exception.

And the mayor is not happy about that.

“It‘s a very inconsistent message and we’re all about consistency,” he said.

Bogen said it’s not about rules, it’s about safety.

“Just let me keep the bars up,” she said.

But Dickert said the city is turning around, and bars on the windows will suggest otherwise.

“We just put a community policing station in that area,” he said.

One resident disagreed with the mayor’s estimation of the city.

“This is crackhead city, this is drug-infested,” she said.

Bogen also wondered if the fact that she’s a black business owner had something to do with the mayor fighting her, a claim Dickert said was “absolutely ridiculous.”

The city council is due to make the final call Tuesday on whether Bogen can keep the bars.

For now, Bogen said she just wants to open her shop.

“Let me run my business and try to be successful,” she said.

Comments (181)

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  • smokegray
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:31pm

    Dear Mrs.Bogen.Tell the so called Mayor that you will gladly remove the bars as soon as he signs a contract agreement stating the He takes full personal responsibility for any loss or damage someone might cause to the store and that he personally will be liable for any robbery’s or injuries due to a crime being committed in her store after the said bars are removed. if not then he has No say in how you protect your business.just remember election time who NOT to vote for!!!!!!!

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:37pm

      Town’s ripe for flash mobs.

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    • woodyb
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:38pm

      GOOD ONE, Smokey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • spirited
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:04pm

      Have other ‘new’ businesses had to remove their already existing security bars?
      If not, “the shop already had the bars before Bogen arrived”. If they want the bars removed, perhaps the new ordinance should mandate that they be removed when there is a transfer of business (new renter) or done when a building is sold.

      >Better yet, the bars should remain until they rust.

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    • Edct
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Absolutely right, when the mayor takes responsibility for any theft or break ins, then you can remove the bars.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:27pm

      I have found that when a citizenry has plenty of guns there is little need for bars on windows.

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    • Ethereal
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:29pm

      This is happening so often now its almost common place. Why cant government officials/authority PLEASE just let us live our lives without intruding into EVERYTHING we choose to do? Bars on the windows are a choice the business owner makes to protect their business, they dont hurt anyone else, break any laws, or cost anything to anyone else. Im getting sick and tired of government intrusion! They obvioulsy cant get their act together so what makes them authorities on everyone elses business?

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    • Crazy Harry
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:48pm

      The chances of a Sweet Shop being successful in that neighborhood are slim, don’t you think? Perhaps she should try a Pawn Shop, Gun Shop or Check Cashing establishment…..

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:58pm

      How bout packing a gun in the store, and on the streets to protect yourself.
      To hell with the mayor

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    • ramblinred
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:18pm

      I couldn’t have said it better Smokegray!

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    • Stegall TX
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:37pm

      “I have found that when a citizenry has plenty of guns there is little need for bars on windows.”

      @Ookspay, nothing personal, but you’re absolutely wrong about that. Every state that has decided to allow concealed carry experienced an almost immediate decrease in person-on-person crime and an //increase// in impersonal crime. I.e, robbery decreased because the bad guys don’t know whether the person they are robbing might be packing. But burglary //increased// because the bad guys remain bad guys … they just decide to break into places rather than confront potentially armed victims face-to-face.

      Consequently, a high-crime area that starts allowing citizens to carry weapons will just remain a high-crime area with somewhat lower person-on-person crime rates and somewhat higher impersonal crime rates. Maybe it will make a difference long term, but that requires a change in the type of people who live in the area.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:47pm

      @ Smokegray
      My thoughts exactly (well, actually I was only thinking about the city providing the guaranty — I like your idea a lot better).

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    • USAMama
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:16pm

      @ CrazyHarry

      I don’t know, drugs do give people the munchies :) Of course they may not want to spend their drug money on candy, therefore she better keep the bars up!!

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:28pm

      Stegal TX- also one can’t shoot to protect property, only persons. Accurately assessing your life in danger or just your cash register is tricky especially if you only work for the owner.
      Candy stores do close.
      it’s a good idea to keep it difficult to get in the store in the first place.

      Remember that article awhile back where a woman commanded the burglar to leave “in the name of Jesus”? ….and he did.
      I’d try that but still pack some serious heat!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:53pm

      Check out this link. I watched it this morning and the new rules in Racine, Mi. sounds like part of, “How your community is implementing AGENDA 21 and ICELI”. Can you say, “Smart Green?”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEHWsdimVO4

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    • beans bullets and bandaids
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:40pm

      LibertyLuvnMomma, you can use deadly force to protect property in Texas. Texas Penal Code 9:42 spells it out, though I would not shoot over a television.

      “TEXAS PENAL CODE Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY.

      A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
      (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
      (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
      —(A) to prevent the other’s imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or…” {you can google for the rest}

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:52pm

      … Wisconsin is ate up by Liberal Marxist’s. One has to beat Liberal‘s there with a baseball bat before they ’get it.’ Politicians in America have become the enemies of the people of America. What are we going to do about it?

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    • Anadara
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:01pm

      Put the Mayor behind bars. Problem solved.

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    • ihveit
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:41am

      excellent idea…. these nut cases are getting so rediculous.. i think i would get a gun and dare the mayor to come take them down himself.. its time we take our courntry back ..one business, one school, one oil well.. one farm at a time

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:40am

      Why have bars on windows, just “pay you protection” like any good minority business owner should and you’ll be fine! In Chicago it’s called “Insurance”!

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    • darkrage000
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:47am

      @beans bullets and bandaids

      I would definitely shoot over a television.. I would shoot over my iPad. I would even shoot over my Dr. Pepper!

      Why?

      Because a criminal does not learn.
      Once he has your property and has gotten away with it, he becomes emboldened. Next you will have to not shoot over your wife or daughter getting raped, your car getting stolen, etc etc.

      They get worse, not better.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:12am

      Is this still America? Now We The People don’t have the right to open a business the way WE choose without a politician interjecting his will and telling the proprietor how she can run her business? One step closer to socialism, in my opinion! Hey mayor, BUTT OUT! If other businesses can have bars on their windows, then she should be able to also! With crime the way it is, I don’t blame her a bit for wanting some added protection.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:29am

      dis is crack head city, dis is a drug affested.. lmao … By me bein a first time business owner and I‘m black I think it’s playin a roll.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Always with the race card when they don't get their way, AMAZING !!! I didn't think she could fit it in this story but amazingly she did, somehow…Let me be sussessfuew and handew my bidness..Guaranteed, She got the money for the business through drug selling profits… <<< I know I'll be called racist for that statement..

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    • loadingmyclips
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:09am

      You right Smoke. Screw the deluded politician. He is living in his fantasy. When the town finally DOES turn around, fine no bars until then bars it is!

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:21pm

      Right on, Smokegray.

      The mayor is an administrative twit. He clearly doesn’t have a clue as to the real-world, day-to-day issues the shop owners face, yet he wants them to “look a certain way”, because it fits his ideal of his city.

      Unreal.

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    • scjeff
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Also ask him to grant you a weapons free permit so that you shoot anybody trying to enter the un-barred doors and windows before they get in.

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    • bruce_baker
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Right you are!
      [“It‘s a very inconsistent message and we’re all about consistency,” he said.]

      That’s funny. I’d have thought that the mayor of a city would be “all about” serving his constituient’s needs. Oh. He must be a Liberal. Right.

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    • good ole boy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:10pm

      EXACTLY !!! If he wants the bars off; then let him be responsible for the loss in thee event of robbery!!!!! That won’t happen, the ‘wrong sign, well the bars are there, and others are around the other business;

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    • team1blazer
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:16pm

      amen! smoke….Mayor, you are out of bounds. And next election, you will be out of a job!

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    • Question with BOLDness
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:47pm

      You took the words right out of my mouth!

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    • ScottG-CO
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:44pm

      A ‘smokin’ good reply to the mayor!

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  • Bluzie
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:29pm

    Here, you can send the Mayor an e-mail telling him what a clown he is.

    http://www.cityofracine.org/CityGov/mayor/ follow the link.

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    • GoodnCool
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:06pm

      Thanks for the link – I sent the mayor an email. He would be compromised as a dog catcher in Racine. If they vote to not let her or anyone else keep the bars on their windows then the pols should not be allowed to have alarms for their homes, cars or businesses either “Cause it would send the wrong message” Can anyone really be that stupid

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    • Giveitrevolution
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:06pm

      Thank you for the link Bluzie im on it!

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    • USLibertyNow
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Bluzie,

      I sent the mayor an e-mail as well, but i would caution anyone who feels like sharing their views to be respectable and not resort to throwing any “clown” references around. It is a little disconcerting to hear the race-card reference thrown in there. There’s WAY too much of that and for no good reason, most times. Nonetheless, how could a legitimate new business be a negative influence on any Main Street USA?

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    • ihveit
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:44am

      just sent him a not so nice email… the guy is an idiot and i just informed him of that
      will

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:00am

      @stegall texas,
      listen Genius the citys in this country arent supposed to have to ALLOW us to carry WEAPONS! Its a constitutional RIGHT! look it up some time.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:36am

      Thanks for the email link I just sent him an email and told him he was racist.. I mean after all isn’t that what she thinks ?

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:29pm

    The Mayor can’t control crime. So he wants to create the appearance of a safe city. He is a dick.

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:34pm

      The mayor’s office (and residence if it is provided by the city) should be moved to this neighborhood and not allowed bars on the windows.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:40pm

      BonnieBlueFlag
      That was thoughtful of you to point that out. I love it.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:08am

      Maybe it‘s because it’s a candy store. We have to save the children from obesity, make them make healthy choices.

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:08am

      ignoramus’s like this guy are like a plague. gee he wants to ignore the reality of crime in his own area and isnt doing anything to solve that, but wants to take away peoples ability to protect thier business for the sake off appearance? this jerk is a CLOWN vote his a z z out in the next election. that will give the Mayors Office a better APPEARANCE.
      Later, S. O. F.

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  • IMAWAKENOW
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:24pm

    It sounds like they should be greatfull to have someone opening a business at all if there is a need for bars in windows. BACK OFF with all the rules. Let the person taking the risk decide what is appropriate for their business. Hell, if she wants to keep a pit bull I’m OK with that too.

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:24pm

    The bars were on the storefront – already – before the lady decided to open a candy store – at that location.

    The bars would be grandfathered-in – by every other city.

    The Mayor is an idiot making a mockery of himself – and his office.

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  • libertytreecaretaker
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:23pm

    close up shop and cut the Mayors salary by the loss of tax income from this business. The Mayor should worry about the non tax paying parasites in the city causing trouble and leave the ones keeping the city a float alone!

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    • RA0725
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:37pm

      She could estimate her lost income and the lost tax revenue the same way the government estimated jobs saved. It could be millions.

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  • christos
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:18pm

    ……Boiling point and it’s not candy syrup Ms. Pamela Bogen is sending a message to would be robbers there going to have to work a little harder to break in,so what’s wrong with that Insurance company like the extra barriers sometimes even giving discounts,why should they expect her to cover any of the expense of removal,it’s her business if she wants the bars the meddlers knead to back off it is not wise to get the candy cook hot under the collar,quit bothering her,TOFFEE to you,Alas

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    • christos
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:22pm

      Edit :insurance companies like extra barriers

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    • Kneale
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:41pm

      I bet the city offices have barriers and metal detectors. Protect the drones and let the productive citizens be hung out to dry. I am sick of taking off my shoes and letting a drooling dropout clutch my crotch before I can board an airplane and playing all the games I have to play just to pay my taxes. Bars on the windows…let her have an AK47 if she feels she needs it.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:50am

      @christos
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:22pm
      Edit :insurance companies like extra barriers
      ***
      Unless their insurance is the “Protection Racket” then they wouldn’t want smoke detectors either. Has anyone checked to see who the mayor collects campaign cash from?

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  • nptden
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:16pm

    She is being consistent. When other stores realized the consistency of crime, they consistently put bars on their windows. This mayor should be ‘consistently’ reminded he works for the people, not against the people. Didn‘t colonials ’consistently’ tar feather and run politicians like him out of town? What an A-hole.

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  • Rogue
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:15pm

    Crackheads have the right to break into any store they please when they run out of dope money. It is against thier civil rights to limit thier choices to stores that are not allowed to protect themselves.

    I may be mistaken, but I looked up a photo of Racine City Hall. It looks as if they have protective coverings on the ground level windows. Sending the wrong message, are we mayor?

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  • toto
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:13pm

    Keep the bars unless Bogen agrees to cover all losses due to breakins.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:59am

      @toto
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:13pm
      Keep the bars unless Bogen agrees to cover all losses due to breakins.
      ***
      Probably just a slip-up, but the Mayors name is Dickert, the shop-owner is Pamela Bogen.

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  • randy
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:13pm

    Here’s his email address. I juist sent him my thoughts…
    mayor@cityofracine.org

    And yes, he is a Democrat
    Would you have guessed any different?

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  • toto
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:12pm

    Unless Bogen is willing to personally indemnify the store owners that take down the bars, he should not have a say.

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    • Oddness
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:15pm

      i was just thinking that. he accepts any and all possible liability :)

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  • GodsPuppet
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pm

    She needs to be sweet as the candy she sells, talk to the city council and tell them how if she is broken into, she will be forced to sue the city for targeting her business to be one of the unprotected vulnerable targets for theives. If it’s no bars, it’s no bars for everyone. She should have the right to protect her business, and her livelihood and if that means bars, then bars it is. I think she should go on record to the city council and make it clear that not only the city will be sued but each of them individually if they decide to single her out and have her remove the bars and there is a break in.

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  • PensacolaSailor
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pm

    It really is time for government at all levels to recognize the rights of the people. Freedom, should be more than a slogan. It’s not up to government to decide what is acceptable risk and what is not. It’s not up to government to protect us from life. Laws should be simple and just protect society from those who willfully try to injure another person. Having bars on her shop injures no one. Government needs to let her run her own business. Government over-regulation is destroying the freedoms we once enjoyed, not to mention our jobs and our economic future.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:48am

      Funny , I bet she is a democrat ,voted for obama and is complaining about the very things she is for, politically wise.. She is acting like a Republican, but she doesn’t even know it.. If someone would point that out to her, she maybe just might wake up and realizes what these damn demoncraps are all about, and change her views …. Nah, I’m asking too much ,huh ?

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  • Oddness
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pm

    All businesses up… or all down. Grandfathering has seen its day… and furthermore whats up with the community policing station? Id want to know more about that. I dont see it as a race issue cause this is happening to whites too and Asians…. etc…

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    • DaytonConserve
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:44am

      Wisconsin…. Police….. Unions….

      My guess is that Governor Walker did not go far enough. Just because there is a police office down the street does not prevent a break-in at her shop. Until city hall and ALL of the other businesses remove their bars and hardened security, she should be allowed equal protection under the law! Or, is this the Mayor’s way of spreading the wealth around.

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  • the68
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pm

    NO ONE should be prohibited from barring up their businesses in any way they please, especially in crime-prone areas. We put hinged steel plates over our small businesses windows and door to prevent them from being shot out or vandalized. It’s been very effective as no one has even bothered to try anything. At a glance, you instantly know that you’d be hard-pressed to put a pistol or carbine caliber bullet through the plates.

    Mr. Mayor, no matter what you do in your city, YOU CANNOT totally eliminate crime. If you force this entrepreneur to take her bars down, you should be forced to pay her restitution from your own wallet if she is broken into.

    Crap like this is why small businesses like ours are failing in America.

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  • BKing15
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:05pm

    ehh i agreed with the shop owner until she pulled the race card

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  • metalurgy
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:05pm

    Heh, perfect name for him.

    Mayor Dickert.

    And may it hurt real bad.

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:06pm

      OMG, his first name is “John”.

      You just can’t make this stuff up…

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:30pm

      In the phonebook he’s listed as Dickert John

      LOL!

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:15pm

      metalurgy

      Damn a male whore eh!!!
      Guess the mayor likes whorin’ around.

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  • ares338
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:04pm

    It’s her business and she should be able to have cars if she wishes.

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  • Charley1
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:04pm

    Good luck to her in her fight, she will need it. The mayor is incorrect, it isn’t about consistency, it is about control…period. Leave her alone to start her business. I hope she is extremely successful.

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    • debkk9
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:51pm

      I agree. Little by little they are trying to control every aspect of our lives. if they continue (little by little) pretty soon it will be too late to do anything…we will have NO say in anything. I hope people do the right thing in 2012

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:56am

      @DEBKK9.. Yes, Try to buy a light bulb after the first of the year.. You will only get ( by law) the curly 15 dollar one. The 89 cent light bulb is being pushed out and I still can get a reason why… If THAT isn‘t control then i don’t know what is.. The good ole EPA for ya… With this law it won’t be long before they tell us what kind of car we can buy…

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  • andyingle08
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:03pm

    Of course race had to be brought up. I believe she should have the right to do what she pleases for her business. There are too many rules and regulations preventing success. Congrats to her for opening her own business, govt, stay out of our lives.
    http://www.andysrantroom.blogspot.com

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    • BKing15
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:16pm

      people that pull the race card are racist… they are segregating themselves

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:01pm

    But it is mean and racist not to let the nice people break in easily this woman is acting stupidly

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:01pm

    this mayor is an idiot…the bars are there because crime is rampant,,,,and since other buisnesses have bars on the windows,you have the same right…tell that idiot to go pound sand…he sounds like a useless progressive anyway…they dont count anymore..lol

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  • AmericanLass
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:59pm

    Leave this woman alone ! She is starting a new business and if successful she could create jobs.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:08am

      @AmericanLass
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:59pm
      Leave this woman alone ! She is starting a new business and if successful she could create jobs
      ***
      But remember what we’re learning from this Administration lately.Unemployment checks and Food Stamps spur the economy! If she creates jobs, she lowers the need for unemployment checks and Food Stamps, so she’s harming the economy. He’s just being a good {whatever} democrat, and looking out for the economy of Racine. After all, look how that kind of thinking has helped Detroit!!!

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  • Jamestownrd
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:51pm

    That certainly is not a mayors jurisdiction!

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:07pm

      I would like to have one made as a Bible marker.

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Agreed, sounds like another common politico trying to project their agenda at the expense of someone else’s rights.
      Good luck to her.

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:08pm

      The flag pin.

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    • vehoae
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:23pm

      What city are you from Jamestownrd? The thousands of cities who work hand-in-glove with agencies of the U.S. government, and with ICLEI and Agenda 21 function on the ideology that everything on your property and inside your house and your body is their business. Most citizens would probably be shocked to read all the requirements posted on their cities’ websites dictating all these requirements. They‘ll even find their cities’ dictates for mulching whether the property owners want to mulch, or not. And even requiring rental property owners to reduce the amount of parking spaces to force people to have to walk to work or school or store. Isn’t it wonderful to have people like Al Gore dictating our lives, and making speeches at schools telling students not to ask their parents environmental questions because adults (except for him and George Soros) are stupid. And now, he’s preaching about “Mother Earth” and her “civil rights.”

      Lord, come quickly.

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