WI GOP Sen. Randy Hopper’s Wife Tells Protesters Hopper Living with 25-year-old mistress in Madison

[FLAprogressive]

http://folkbum.blogspot.com/2011/03/sen-randy-hoppers-wife-tells-protesters.html

Update: Two sources in Fond du Lac close to the recall effort say the Hopper maid has signed the legal-sized recall sheet. The maid reportedly said it's likely Hopper's soon-to-be-ex wife will also sign the recall petition.

Recall target, Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac), talks a good game about family values.

But protesters outside the Hopper house this week in Fond du Lac were met by his wife who reportedly came out and told them: Hopper no longer lives there, but with his 25-year-old mistress in Madison.

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Typical Rethug Family Values Politician! LOL! Go Mrs. Hopper!

[Reader Rabbit]

1. Oh, man. Mrs. Hopper has gotta be diggin' the karmic payback.

Suck it, Randy! :rofl:

[iwishiwas]

7. Beautiful

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. hee

[Poboy]

3. Spill the beans!

[Poboy]

124. More ammunition-

The Wisconsin Recall & Protecting Child Predators
Frederick Clarkson
Sat Mar 12, 2011 at 07:53:53 PM EST

Wisconsin Republican State Senator Randy Hopper is a top target of the recall campaign being waged by Democrats and unions over Republican efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees. The backlash has already resulted in the surfacing of details of how his family values Republicanism may not be all that he would like it to appear to be. Not only did he file for divorce from his wife last year, but she recently told protesters that he is living with his mistress in Madison, an ex-Senate staffer and current lobbyist. While his sexual peccadilloes may become a feature of the current recall campaign, darker issues may surface as well.

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It was State Senator Hopper who arranged for the controversial testimony of businessman and Catholic Right ally, now U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), opposing the Child Victims Act.
The bill, which would have extended the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse to file lawsuits against their attackers, was vigorously opposed by the Catholic Church and the insurance industry. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Daniel Bice fingered Hopper as the recruiter who persuaded Johnson to help kill the bill:

Late last year <2009>, Johnson attended a briefing on the legislation for various Catholic officials held by state Sen. Randy Hopper, a Republican from Fond du Lac.
Frank Cocozzelli wrote at Talk to Action that Johnson

... seems more interested in protecting the Church and the insurance industry than the victims of pedophile clergy -- placing the interests of powerful institutions before the well-being of children. These institutions and their advocates, like Johnson, apparently believe that even child rape is okay as long as you can get away with it until the statute of limitations runs out. Indeed, they not only seek exemption from the rules that apply to everyone else, but to ensure that they have friends in high places so that continues to be the so.
Apparently the same could be said about Hopper.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/3/12/195353/897/Front_Page/The_Wisconsin_Recall_amp_Protecting_Child_Predators

[senseandsensibility]

4. You can't write this stuff.

No one would believe it. I will say this:repugs never disappoint.

[Scuba]

5. thanks for the post. I just forwarded to the head of the Fond du Lac Dem party. n/t

[Scuba]

6. He must love his state soooo much it made him weak. n/t

[crim son]

110. !!

Thank you Newt for the gift that keeps on giving!

[PA Democrat]

8. That is because he is driven by how passionately he feels about

Wisconsin! Union busting is hard work. Things happen. :rofl:

[Solly Mack]

9. Snicker

[somone]

10. A patriot from Wisconsin

[myrna minx]

11. He must feel as passionately about his country as Newt.

:D

[FLAprogressive]

14. LOL

[yardwork]

20. Good one!

I always wanted to know - who are the people in the photo?

[myrna minx]

26. Welcome back yardwork!

:hi: It's great to see you.

The fellow on the left in filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law, Night on Earth) and the fellow on the right on songwriter/musician/actor Tom Waits. They're a couple of my faves.

[yardwork]

28. I always figured it was Tom Waits but didn't recognize Jim Jarmusch!

Thanks!

[myrna minx]

32. LOL -I know - they look like such young kids! n/t

[yardwork]

33. It's a great photo. Brings back memories...

[yardwork]

30. Oh, and thanks for the welcome back. Missed you.

[myrna minx]

39. Missed you too. I'm so happy to see you and our other missed friends.

This place hasn't been the same without you all.

[glinda]

52. Down By Law totally under-rated as a film. Ripped off by the Cohens.

[Duck]

84. Tom & Jim

I tried to send you a pm yesterday about how much I liked the picture but I'm too new. Tom is my all time favorite, what a genius.

"There's nothing wrong with her a hundred dolllars wouldn't fix."

"just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
lie swindled from them on the way to burma shave."

Sounds like what is happening to us all.

[myrna minx]

123. I was fortunate to see Tom perform in 1999 for his Mule Variation tour

at the State Theater on 9th and Hennepin of all places. Welcome to DU. :hi:

[calimary]

21. Is he now living outside his jurisdiction then?

Another reason for a recall. He can't claim he's "representing his constituents from afar" if he bellyached about the Wisconsin 14 leaving the state to continue representing theirs. Door swings both ways, pal.

[glinda]

53. Is that even legal? Maybe he needs to be given a pink slip now.

[calimary]

111. Precisely why the question's being asked.

Is that kosher what he's doing? Does he vote that way too? If so, then how can he complain that the Dems continued serving their consituents even while out of state? I realize logic and annoying things like facts don't mean a flat fart to him - none of these guys likes following ANY rules period, regardless if some of those rules are actually laws. But they're okay dictating to everybody else (just so long as they're the dictator).

[Faygo Kid]

70. You can't make this stuff up: On his Facebook page, he likes and has a pic of Newt.

The good people of his district have GOT to recall the scumbag:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Randy-Hopper/18786586381?sk=wall

[roguevalley]

115. he does. he just fucked it over. send him some smokes.

[LawnKorn]

116. Hopper and Gingrich drink from the same well of hypocrisy

Regulate them to the trash bin of history and be done with it.

[kohodog]

12. Hopper and Newt, sittin' in a tree

This is great. Amazing what patriotism will make a republican do!

[AllyCat]

15. +1

[Hannah Bell]

13. kr. hope the wife signs. they're all fraudulent grifters & grafters.

[Viking12]

16. More...

http://bloggingblue.com/2011/03/11/randy-hopper-family-man/

[yardwork]

24. "Is newt the bar or shall we set it higher?"

Best comment there.

[glinda]

54. I know! lol! I think she is a prostitute for the Kochs. Wonder how many young things were

given out as trinkets to get votes behind Walker.

[SpiralHawk]

74. No wonder Americans think Republicons are kinky hypocrites

they are

[malaise]

31. Even more from your link

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tqEA7hk-MZcJ:www.persuasionpartners.com/valerie.html+valerie+cass+persuasion+partners&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

[Poboy]

37. Photo-

Mighty young.

[rbixby]

65. Her bio isn't on the page anymore

Guess she must have been getting trolled awfully hard after this news came out. I don't condone that kind of thing, but I definitely get a kick out of it when it happens.

[Poboy]

69. This?

[SpiralHawk]

75. "Persuasion Partners?" WTF? This must be ALL HER FAULT.

No doubt she seduced HIM into this...
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Darth_Kitten]

66. Does she drink?

:shrug:

[Name removed]

71. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Divernan]

92. Bristol Palin's doppleganger, but with a college degree.

[SemperEadem]

98. ah, the little tart

your parents totally failed. You might as well be dancing on a pole.

[unapatriciated]

108. Omg she looks like my sister, too bad she doesn't share her values

My sis is beautiful inside and out and wouldn't give the repig the time of day. (sis is in the white gloves)

[d_r]

119. i can't cut and paste it

because its a picture, but I read that "persuasion partners" website that is pictured here, and it has to be the most poorly written thing I've ever read.

[Initech]

17. $10 says he's anti-gay marriage and supports DOMA.

:popcorn:

[demigoddess]

113. DOMA needs to be renamed. Could it be

that DOMA is really Defense Of My Adultery???

[Initech]

114. I like it!

[FLAprogressive]

18. LOL, wonder why this is getting unrecced, I think we have freepers in our midst.

[Enthusiast]

72. Duh

Only about 20% of DUers are Freepers and Baggers.

[Shiver]

19. Oh, this is perfect...

And Hopper won his last election by only 163 votes. xD

[Viking12]

22. Recall Randy Hopper

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Recall-Randy-Hopper/105154496229868

[malaise]

23. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha

I'm lovin' it :rofl:

[EFerrari]

27. Karma.

LOL

[malaise]

34. LOL

This is too good :hi:

[Fuzz]

25. That's some funny shit right there. Is that out of his district?

[jefferson_dem]

29. Now lookie here at this lameass deflection - "Citing Threats, Senator Hopper Backs Out of Parade"

Citing Threats, Senator Hopper Backs Out of Parade
Updated: Mar 11, 2011 6:26 PM EST

Citing recent threats during the budget repair bill battle, Republican Senator Randy Hopper says he will not participate in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Fond du Lac.

In a written statement, Senator Hopper said, "I had looked forward to walking the parade route and sharing this celebration with my family, friends, neighbors, and constituents, but I, in no way, want to put the citizens of Fond du Lac in harm's way."

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=14236761

[TBF]

35. lol - Fondy is a working class town. I'm thinking he doesn't want his ass boo'ed. nt

[Caretha]

47. Yeah right....

In a written statement, Senator Hopper said, "I had looked forward to walking the parade route and sharing this celebration with my family, friends, neighbors, and constituents

Newsflash for Randy.....your wife says to blow it out your rear end. She says the "family" is kaput.

[glinda]

55. "his family?" Bwahhahahahahahahaha!

[malaise]

61. Freaking hilarious

One more reTHUG hypocrite.

[sabrina 1]

60. What a little creep. 'Put the citizens of Fond du Lac in harm's way'

And otoh, he's claiming those same citizens are going to attack him.

'I had looked forward to walking the parade route and sharing this celebration with my family!!

His FAMILY? He's not living with his family anymore. Hilarious, use the 'family' when you want to get sympathy at the same time you're cheating on them. Disgusting, typical rightwing hypocrite.

[SemperEadem]

93. sharing with your family? Like your mistresses bodily fluids all over you?

YOU put anything that was of worth in harms way, you buffoon.

Seems to me you like sharing too much as it is--sharing things that you swore to god that you'd never share with another woman. Liar, deceiver, whoremonger.

[louis-t]

109. Isn't it marvelous how puggies always put citizens first?

OK, now I gotta go wash my mouth out with soap.

[bobbyb]

36. Who is this mystery mistress?

Word on the streets is that she "used to be" the intern in his office before she was promoted to her current position as mistress to the man who will be the easiest to recall in Wisconsin. Feel for his wife and kids though

[Viking12]

38. See post 37, above.

Welcome to DU:hi:

[Ghost in the Machine]

50. Her page is already missing from persuasion partners lol..

I had to view it through the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.persuasionpartners.com/valerie.html

[intheflow]

57. Interesting!

I wonder if that indicates a sudden change in her employment status?

[SemperEadem]

94. once posted, nothing is every gone from the internet

silly rabbit. Someone has snagged it in the moment you put it out there. Now, it will be circulated to her eternal and everlasting shame.

[SpiralHawk]

40. Republicon Family Cesspool Values

Republicons moralists are such lowlife scum...

[tsuki]

44. No, he was just working so hard and passionately for his district

that he forgot his way home and had to stay with this young girl who took him in out of the kindness of her heart.

[Ilsa]

41. I bet he's Wisconsin's GOP 's Family Values Leader. nt

[Generic Other]

42. that made me positively cackle

Oh Lord, payback is a bitch.

[mascarax]

43. How is he representing Fond du Lac if he doesn't live there?

Good for the soon-to-be-ex Mrs. Hopper for telling the protesters the truth.

[FLAprogressive]

45. Hmmmmm sounds like fraud to me.

[Snoutport]

59. me too

and voting in the legislature might have made it even bigger

[SemperEadem]

97. me three

[Hannah Bell]

51. +100

[glinda]

56. Well she could get the last laugh in all of this. Go Mrs. Hopper!

[SemperEadem]

96. yeah!!!! He should be recalled for not living in his own district.

then he should be recalled for being a liar, deceiver and a whore monger.

Good on Mrs. Hopper to slinging truth at him. Never let up, madame. You didn't deserve this.

[underpants]

100. I was about to ask the same question

probably as long as his legal residence is there he can serve, probably through the term.... who knows

[TheOther95Percent]

46. Family Values Strikes Again

Why am I not surprised.

[Lifelong Protester]

48. Holy crap, I know I'm late to the thread, and just read through it all

Jeez-0-pete

Hopper, no wonder you can't find the time to answer my many emails to you these last few weeks...


talk about a COOKED GOOSE!!

[FLAprogressive]

49. hey, it's no picnic screwing around on your wife, just ask all the other GOPers who did it

[FLAprogressive]

58. Let Sen. Hopper know how you feel on his FB page!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Randy-Hopper/18786586381?sk=wall

[KG]

63. noted that he hasn't updated his page in three weeks...

[Ikonoklast]

103. Well, the hot sex with his mistress was keeping him busy, yanno.

Priorities and all that.

[B Calm]

62. LOL

[tosh]

64. This is the most amusing thing I've read all week!

These guys never fail in that regard.:rofl:

You go, Ms. Hopper!!

[nevergiveup]

67. Perfect!

[Faygo Kid]

68. The kind of "family values" that assure he will destroy Wisconsin families for the Kochs.

It's no surprise that these amoral thugs are more than happy to do their masters' bidding - and that their hypocrisy extends to their personal lives.

[Gold Metal Flake]

73. PERSUASION PARTNERS!!! OMG, What a perfect name!

Now we know how persuasive she is. I'm sure Hopper did not take long to be "persuaded".

Republican scum.

[JJW]

76. She sounds persuasive to me

Any sex act videos on line, yet?

[Kingofalldems]

77. K and R all threads freepers will hate

[Overseas]

78. GOP is very confident in their party's propaganda power. It has been very strong.

The advertising and media dominance the corporate cash can buy managed to distract people from the great hypocrisies of the GOP for a very long time -- look how long Ensign served and there's the arrogant adulterer Newt on his revival tour -- look how the number of Republicans who believe their President wasn't born in the USA has grown over the years -- look how many people actually think we have a Budget Crisis and don't link it with extending the Bush Tax Cuts.

So the Crush Obama 2010 GOP Governor Team all rush in and give massive tax breaks to corporations while crying Budget Crisis! Budget Crisis! -- and even our supposedly mainstream media like broadcast news and CNN aren't crying foul. They're instead saying-- "gotta be sensible. all must sacrifice." even though Wall Street got bonuses and the very rich got tax cuts extended and giant profitable corporations paid zero in taxes and sheltered their profits in overseas tax havens.

"Sensible" media pundits actually keep talking All Must Sacrifice even though All Are Not Sacrificing and they know corporations are hoarding and hiding cash.

[ArcticFox]

79. Is he now living outside his district?

And if so, does that create a quicker way to get rid of him?

[DesertDiamond]

80. Woot!!!!

[WillyT]

81. Hee, Hee...

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

:kick: & Rec !!!

[floriduck]

82. On his website

there is absolutely no mention of his wife in his bio or any pictures of her. If you try to e-mail from the link on the site, you get an error. I think HE is the error.

[Divernan]

105. No mention of his kids either.

[NBachers]

83. Sounds like the Randy's been Hop-toading from bed to bed

Isn't he the Randy little Hopper.

Now the demonstrators can figure out which house to appear at.

Ahhh, the perverted rapture of these republicking toadies . . .

[alp227]

99. I was about to call him Bed Hopper too n/t

[notadmblnd]

85. there's one down. Now we need to dig the dirt up on Grothman

[3waygeek]

86. C'mon, the guy's name is Randy Hopper...

such behavior is practically required when you have a name like that.

But seriously, Sen. Hopper values families greatly -- so much, in fact, that he has two of them.

[blondeatlast]

87. Mrs. Hopper, may I offer a few suggestions as to EXCELLENT divorce attorneys?

You settlement is worth a major bankroll, IMHO!

[fascisthunter]

88. "talks a good game about family values"... republicans=frauds

their whole agenda and ideology is amoral, dishonorable and intellectually bankrupt

[Gman]

89. Ummm... that's not good for a political career

[JawJaw]

90. Yet Another Randy GOPPER! n/t

[radhika]

91. We Need a Good Cable TV Series....on Sex Lives of Lobbyists

Seriously, there are lots of stories of sex-drugs-money intrigues of the comely lasses and lads of the profession. Whatever it takes to get the public official under one's FIRM control.

The downside, I admit, is elected officials are rarely folks you'd want to see in the buff. Maybe lobbyists of ancient Rome, seeking to influence gladiators? Ah, better.

[juajen]

95. K & R

[idrahaje]

101. You know I can't read that right without laughing n/t

[ChiciB1]

102. Amazing Huh?? Bet She Must Be Feeling "All Goose-Bumpy" And Thrilled!

Shout it from the ROOF TOPS!! Go Mrs. Hopper!

[suffragette]

104. K&R

[bengalherder]

106. I'd love to take Mrs. Hopper out for a drink and let her dish.

She's probably a hoot.

Mr. Hopper, on the other hand, screwed the pooch on THAT one. I don't remember any of Newt's ladies being so strong and forthcoming.

[quakerboy]

107. They say

timing is everything. Hmm.

[madmax]

112. K& heartily Rec

[LawnKorn]

117. K&R

[colsohlibgal]

118. Wingnuts = Hypocrites R Us

It's laughable - but amazingly Fox News will igmore this as opposed to how interested they are about liberal politician's dalliances.

[Plucketeer]

120. Hard work & Family values....

Obviously make oil and water look amourous! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[rzemanfl]

121. This guy runs radio stations for a living. Advertiser boycott?

I bet his 25 year-old nookie comes to a halt if he's recalled and broke....

[Corruption Winz]

122. Looks like he's been "hoppin" on the wrong woman.

Bazing! But on a serious note, why is that the guys who talk about these types of things the most, usually go against their own words?

If you want to be a big "religious" person, fine. But, you would think that you'd hide the bits you simply couldn't live up to.

[senseandsensibility]

125. kick for those that haven't seen it

It's not only comedy gold, but actually significant. May make it easier to recall him, although his vote with Walker is probably enough on its own.

[Snoutport]

126. any more news on this? nt