DCDSA Pac Endorsements

The Dane County Deputy Sheriff’s Association is pleased to re-affirm its endorsement of Tom Barrett for Governor.  The DCDSA is also endorsing these candidates for State Assembly: 47th Assembly District: Robb Kahl 48th Assembly District: Melissa Agard Sargent 79th Assembly District: Dianne Hesselbein All three assembly candidates have demonstrated a true commitment to issues affecting [...]

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Help this Sunday May 20th

To all  DCDSA members, current and retired: We have been asked to give a few hours of our time this Sunday, May 20th to help in the final stretch of the recall effort. Sunday will be Cops for Labor/Deputies for Democracy day at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. We will be gathering [...]

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Donations to Cops for Kids

Recently there was an article in the Wisconsin State Journal that suggested that not all donations solicited make it to the local police and fire departments.  While the Dane County Deputy Sheriff’s Association encourages caution in all telephone solicitations, its important to point out that the telephone fundraising contracted by the DCDSA through a private [...]

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2012 National Police Week

2012 National Police Week

Remembering Those Who Have Given Their Lives To Protect Yours  -  In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. Currently, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from around the world converge on Washington, [...]

In Remembrance – John Finch

In Remembrance – John Finch

Retired Deputy John Finch, former DCDSA President, passed away on Sunday March 11, 2012.   John L. Finch, age 68, was born in Elgin, Illinois on December 10, 1943, the son of Jesse and Josephine (Bagdon) Finch. He was united in marriage to Alice Watzke. John worked as a Deputy Sheriff in Dane County for 25 [...]

Public Safety Workers Recall Event

The Madison Professional Police Officers Association, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 311, and the Dane County Deputy Sheriffs Association today announce a public safety workers recall event on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011, from 2:00PM to 6:00PM at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street called “Returning to Wisconsin Values.” On that date, police [...]

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Favorite Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are; reputation is merely what you are perceived to be.
John Wooden
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
William Adama
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
We'd all vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Will Rogers
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action – what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Its not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.
Rachel Dawes in Batman
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action – what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are; reputation is merely what you are perceived to be.
John Wooden
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
The Bible
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan