Over at Dave Cieslewicz’ place, voter Dennis Maki writes:
As long time Madison residents with 3 children who obtained superb K-12 education in Madison in the 1970s and 1980s, we are deeply saddened by the inexorable decline and current dismal state of the MMSD which has become an emperor’s clothes syndrome. I too will vote for Blaska and encourage my friends and colleagues to do likewise.
Erick-Woods Erickson thinks so:
“Here’s the dirty little secret: The right has slowly been moving on from Trump. Every few months, polling shows more Republicans view themselves as Republicans, not Trump voters. Every few months, polling shows Republicans are eyeing Ron DeSantis. Every few months, Republicans feel less and less like they have to defend Trump or pay attention to Trump. Every few months, polls show a declining number of Republicans who want Trump to run again. Well, every few months until August 8, 2022, when FBI agents walked into Mar-a-Lago. Now, Republicans are back to circling the wagons.
“A cynical person just might think the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was designed to do that and bring Trump to the forefront of the 2022 election cycle.”
Judge Remington unintentionally confirms the latest con from Republicans deranged by the Trump syndrome: that Speaker Robin Vos purposefully appointed a low-IQ incompetent so to fumble proving the Stolen Election myth.
“What you’re trying to do is superimpose a level of professionalism on an entity and individual that just doesn’t exist and, if the latter is the case, then all the answers that you ask, even if I send it back to them for a supplemental response again and again and again, we’ll never get to the end of the question because you’re expecting more than what this individual and the organization was prepared — and able — to deliver.”
— Circuit Judge Frank Remington to plaintiffs seeking public records from fired Stolen Election investigator Mike Gableman. (Source here.)
Elisjsha Dicken, hero of Greenwood shopping mall
Volodymyr Zelensky
People of Ukraine
Cassidy Hutchinson
Patrick Cipollone
Finland and Sweden
President Andrzej Duda of Poland
Mike Pence “An American Hero”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
Bill Maher
Rusty Bowers
Joe Manchin
Eric Herschmann
Liz Cheney
Elon Musk
Poland and the Czechs
Mike Koval
Speaker Robin Vos
Tommy Thompson
Dave Cieslewicz
Boris Johnson
FdL Co. GOP chair Rohn Bishop
Mitch McConnell
Dave Chappelle
Ricky Gervais
Mitt Romney
Kaleem Caire
William Barr
Adam Kinzinger
Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Who we missing?
City of Madison, Wisconsin Police Incident Reports
Babylon Bee
Manhattan Institute
MacIver Institute
Wisconsin Politics
Education School Information System
Blaska Policy Werkes 
In today’s State Urinal, small bus rider and ASSociate editor John Nichols opines: “For Seat 4, board president Ali Janae Muldrow faces only a token write-in challenge from conservative gadfly David Blaska. Muldrow beat him by a landslide two years ago. She’ll do so by an even bigger margin this year. That’s as it should be. Muldrow is a terrific leader on the board and in the community and deserves reelection.”
If Ms.Muldrow is a terrific leader (considering the pathetic proficiency scores achieved by District students on standardized tests), one wonders what Mr. Nichols considers a marginal leader.
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Abject derision where abject derision is due; John Nichols is ASSociate editor of the Crap Times. Every time he…um…infrequently walks out of Woodman’s Liquor Store, The Gotch chuckles as he observes the stacks of that “marginal” weekly insert they can’t even give away.
Anywho, “Muldrow is a terrific leader on the board and in the community and deserves reelection”?
By what objective standard, rendered by ANYONE with an above-their-shoe-size I.Q., has she proven herself capable of a spot on MMSD?
Were she in the private sector, where Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters) accurately notes THEY EXPECT RESULTS, she’d have been bounced out so fast it’d make her head swim.
The Gotch
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FWIW she does a good job controlling the meetings and don’t discount her leadership qualities. Problem is the last thing you want is a good leader if she’s marching everyone deeper into the shithole.
Warren Buffett had similar observation:
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
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“she does a good job controlling the meetings”
The local grifts (FreeDUMB Inc, YG-n-B, Urban Triage, Derail The Jail, et al) have been uncharacteristically quiet, lately.
You’ve accurately observed that’s due in part to the panDEMic, as opposed to the fast-approaching DEMpanic come November.
With lackeys in place, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the loudest voices have been encouraged to stand down, or at least assume a lower profile.
Leadership qualities are deeply discounted when those you oversee are certifiably bespawling addlepates.
The Gotch
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So; yo spend a lot of time at Woodmans booze dept?
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“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job!”
It’s deja vu all over again.
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Anytime you see an article with John Nichols as an author, it’s time to stop reading (unless you’re just looking to be entertained or induce vomiting). Nichols would write puff pieces about Pol Pot if he ran as a progressive.
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Nice looking hedge you have there Dave.
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Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQjiNfxV1o
An excellent presentation by Dr. Jordan Peterson on the fundamental difference between those on the left and conservatives when it comes to the education of our children and the education establishment.
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Free speech is a wonderful thing. But it requires us to defend it even when the speech is abhorrent. I saw Eldridge Cleaver shouted down on the UW Madison campus close to 40 years ago so it’s nothing new. Now there are cameras everywhere so it’s more obvious.
Elon Musk is now the largest shareholder of Twitter … this bodes well for free speech.
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For an unfunded write-in in liberal Madison, Dave’s 12% of the vote is pretty darn good. Congratulations.
Dave’s achievement partially mends my broken heart for not winning the Grand Prize in the prediction contest How about a prize for the Joyner/Simkin vote?
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