This is my last post to THE Right Side of Wisconsin. What started out as a simple chairman’s blog for the Republican Party of Kewaunee County took on a life of its own and became a new career…

I’ve said before that blogging is a special kind of sickness and I had it bad. Each morning I’d get up at 4:30, make a pot of coffee and for the next two hours, flip through news articles saving the best for the blog. Although my content is not always the best — there are so many in Wisconsin who do a better job than me — my technology is second to none. I now have a full slate of clients that rely on me for their websites and social media campaigns…

I plan to take the time I spent on political blogging and pour it into my relationship with my wife, CJ [seen left on a pub crawl in Moate, County Westmeath, Ireland] who is a much better spouse than I deserve. So while Jo Egelhoff is frantically souring [lol -- I meant to say scouring, Jo!] the web every morning to bring you FoxPolitics.net, I’ll be sleeping in until 6 and spending an hour with her before our hectic lives as the parents of 6 boys begins. After all, “what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul”? I’d rather be #1 in her heart than to ever be ranked #1 again by BNN — her love and trust and pride in me means more to me than being ranked #1 by the whole world…

Along the way I met a lot of great people. Jo, Cindy, Steve, Eric, Chris, Jesse, Mary, Jessica, Charlie, Vicki, Reince, Kevin, Berry Laker [sorry if I missed anyone -- you know who you are] — mostly passionate conservatives with the same disease! It has been a fun ride and I wish you all the best…

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…my thoughts and prayers are with my son Keegan who started his Air Force ROTC basic training yesterday at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama where the temperature today will be a crisp, cool 99 degrees - ouch - that’s tough for a boy from ‘Penguin City’ Algoma — it hit 92 here yesterday and we almost declared a city-wide emergency…

I’ve written before about Keegan, although the best post — the one I wrote for his bday this year — was accidentally deleted in the transition to the MU site. Still, no father could ever be prouder of a son than I am of this boy…

He’s in a communication blackout for the next 4 weeks, but if you want to drop a note of encouragement to one of America’s newest warriors, here’s his address:

Cadet Shannon-Lohenry, Keegan M.
Maxwell 3
501 Lemay Place North
Maxwell AFB, AL 36112

Tell him ‘hi’ from THE Right Side of Wisconsin…

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