Joel Kleefisch, like his wife Rebecca, was a T.V. personality.

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Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's 830-acre (340 ha) campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu,[2][3] is the location for Seaver College, the School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, the Graziadio School of Business and Management, and the School of Public Policy. Courses are taught in Malibu, at six graduate campuses in southern California, and at international campuses in Germany, England, Italy, China, Switzerland, and Argentina.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperdine_University


Joel Kleefisch (June 8, 1971) is a Wisconsin politician and former television reporter.[2] His wife, Rebecca Kleefisch, is also in state politics as the current Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.
Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Kleefisch graduated from Waukesha North High School in 1989 before attending Pepperdine University. He received a B.A. from that institution in 1993.[3]
While in school, Kleefisch worked as a news researcher for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. Upon graduation, he worked as a reporter for WREX-TV in Rockford, Illinois.[4] Kleefisch then was hired by WISN-TV as an assignment desk person and part-time reporter in 1994 before becoming a full-time general assignment reporter, where he worked until entering politics. As a reporter at WISN-TV, he CNN to discuss the trial of Mark Chmura.[5] He won an award for "Best investigative report or series" from the Milwaukee Press Club in 1999 for a piece about date rape drugs.[6] Rebecca was also a reporter and anchor for WISN and the two would marry in 1999, shortly after she moved to that station from Rockford, Illinois.[7]
Kleefisch was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006 and 2008.[4] He represents Oconomowoc and surrounding areas. In 2009, he co-sponsored legislation to increase the penalties in Wisconsin for driving under the influence.[8]
On 21 February, 2012 video was posted showing Rep. Kleefisch voting for absent members of the Assembly.[9] Though representatives claim that this practice is commonplace, and indeed legal as long as unseated members are actually inside the chamber itself,[10] claims by the person who captured the video that absent members had been absent for hours before vote have spurred allegations of voter fraud.[11]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kleefisch
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Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ are autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another through common beliefs and practices. They seek to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and seek to be New Testament congregations as originally established by the authority of Christ. Historically, Churches of Christ in the United States were recognized as a distinct movement by the U.S. Religious Census of 1906. Prior to that they had been reported in the religious census as part of the movement that had its roots in the several independent movements that occurred through the leadership of people such as Thomas and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and Barton W. Stone. They were active in American frontier settlements and cities. Those leaders had declared their independence from various denominations, seeking a fresh start to restore the New Testament church, and abandoning creeds. The names "Church of Christ," "Christian Church" and "Disciples of Christ" were adopted by the movement because they believed these terms to be biblical.
Branches developed within the church between those who used musical instruments in worship (now usually known as Christian churches and churches of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)) and those who chose to sing a cappella because the use of instruments in church worship is not mentioned in the New Testament. It is this latter branch which is the subject of this article. Though officially recognized as distinct movements since 1906, the actual separation between the Churches of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) had already been taking place gradually for decades. Yet, many within both traditions consider both to still be part of the same fellowship, although they have the different worship practices regarding church music.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_of_Christ

[Scuba]

1. Makes sense. They're basically actors working for ALEC.

[mojowork_n]

2. Speaking of personalities...

...and studies of same, this was kind of an interesting essay,
from former Watergate figure and reformed Republican, John Dean:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/23/is-scott-walker-a-conservative-without-a-conscience/

...my focus here is on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who strikes some who have written to me as a distinctively prototypical authoritarian politician; what social science has labeled as a “double high” authoritarian; and the type of person which I described in my book as a conservative without conscience....

...Most of the early empirical testing of authoritarian personalities explored why large numbers of people could (and still can) be taken in by likes of a Hitler or Mussolini, and why people submit to, and often willingly follow, such authoritarian leaders. More recently, however, social scientists and political psychologists had been examining not merely those who follow authoritarian leaders, but also the types of people who seek to become leaders, with personalities that testing shows have a “social domination orientation.”

This testing reveals, in varying degrees, that social dominators (authoritarian leaders) have the following recurring traits: They’re typically men; they are dominating; they oppose equality; they are desirous of personal power; they are amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, and dishonest; they will cheat to win; they are highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, and/or homophobic), mean-spirited, militant, and nationalistic; they tell others what they want to hear, take advantage of “suckers,” and specialize in creating false images to sell themselves.

Clear, to the point, well-researched and well-written.

[dragonlady]

3. Interesting thing I found

From an article in the Badger Herald on a new candidate for lieutenant governor: "The campaign for Gov. Scott Walker, which handles inquiries for Kleefisch’s campaign, did not return comment." So, they don't trust her to make any statements.

(The subject of the article is a conservative union guy who will run as a Democrat. This may get very interesting.
http://badgerherald.com/news/2012/03/26/conservative_enters_.php)

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4. The two kleefisch are trained to read cue cards and not much else.