Elsewhere in Wisconsin, silly!
In nearby Lodi, the two conservatives — Heather Baron and Scott Bilse, turned out two status quo school board incumbents. “City of Lodi staff described the turnout as unlike anything they had seen before outside of a national election,” a community newspaper reported.“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education,” Democratic Wisconsin Representative Lee Snodgrass sneeringly tweeted in February, “they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their own budget.”
It turns out there was a third option: Take over the school board.
All across the state Tuesday night, conservative parents won decisive victories in school board elections, ousting liberal incumbents and sending a clear message that their communities will no longer stand for mask mandates and radical curricula.Snodgrass’ quickly deleted tweet served as something of a rallying cry for communities fed up with arrogant, incompetent liberalism. In Menomonee Falls, three conservative candidates who dubbed themselves the “moms on a mission” swept all three of the school board seats that were up for grabs. In the more liberal-leaning City of Waukesha, the slate of three conservatives completed a similar sweep, taking out two liberal board members and cementing a solid conservative majority. Two liberal incumbents went down in Pewaukee, too, where conservatives swept the three seats. So did conservatives in New Berlin. And the Whitnall School District.
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This is likely a preview of the fall midterms. Outside of the crazy liberal bubbles of Madison and Milwaukee, which are paying the price of free everything, criminality, and crappy schools, the rest of this state is going to send a loud message this this year.
Evers probably knows his goose is cooked, I’m predicting the La Crosse area will elect a Republican to Congress for the first time in a long time, and RoJo who was written off last year should not be counted out.
The liberal party drones and their media spokesbots and other echo chamber dwellers should stock up on Kleenex, eyedrops when they run out of tears, and prepare their outraged statements of condemnation of the rest of Wisconsin as hateful racists who “voted to attack democracy”.
It’s coming, hard, and no amount of Democrat gerrymandering can stop a likely GOP governor, assembly and state senate.
If and when that happens, there better be immediate movement to (1) institute Statewide school choice, (2) toughen up election standard procedures with no exceptions, (3) rein in public health bureaucrats and codify strict legal limitations on their unelected orders so we never have 3-year state of emergency declarations ever again, (4) fix the broken state bureaucracy by cutting it, (5) ban CRT in government schools and state universities and state governments, and (6) make work requirements for any public benefit programs the primary expectation.
(BTW, thanks Dave for running as a write-in. Not exactly a sweeping vote of confidence for the school board president to have several thousand voters all write in the same name against her. I know you decided to run as a write-in very recently, just a couple months ago I believe.)
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You know the Dems are grasping at straws when Obama gets invited to speak at the WH where he and Brandon pretended for a few minutes not to hate one another’s guts. Hope everyone saw the priceless video clip of Biden wandering aimlessly around the East Room while everyone else was crowding around BHO desperately attempting to touch the hem of his garment.
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I think Vos will not go along with some of your suggestions. Cut the state bureaucracy? It’s now a full time bunch of grifters. Gableman will still be at his $11,000/yr job till 2030. More extensions please; just one more.
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My theory as to how the liberals / Democrats / Marxists got control of school boards in conservative areas is that years ago they identified these types of elections as low hanging fruit and since the elections are non-partisan, ran stealth candidates backed with some money who kept their election platform as generic as possible so as not to raise any red flags. They then got control of the boards and then started implementing CRT curricula or something very similar. That way, they could start the indoctrination of future voters of liberal political candidates for all local offices, not just school boards, at the grass roots level. This could be an explanation as to why parents were horrified that their little Jacks and Jills were in the forefront of the mass protests the last couple of years when they thought that their kids had been raised on traditional values. But then the pandemic happened and parents were able to look over their kids’ shoulders to see what was being taught online and it wasn’t necessarily reading, writing, and arithmetic. No, it was CRT and CRT-like curricula and sex ed classes where the kids are taught to question their sex and gender preferences and why they need to use the proper “pronouns”. Before the pandemic, parents trusted their schools to be properly educating their kids to prepare the kids for adulthood. What they found out is that their trust was betrayed starting with the people they elected to school boards. When they figured out the people that they elected to school boards were not people who shared their community’s values, they worked to oust the liberal school board members yesterday.
Dave, you need to get together with some of the few conservatives left in Madison, figure out a slate of conservative candidates (who are unknown for their conservative values) for the next school board, city council, and county board elections, and run them as stealth candidates with generic platforms and who speak the liberals “buzzwords”. Take back your community using the liberals’ own tactics against them!
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“Take back your community using the liberals’ own tactics against them!” (bolds mine)
Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals #4: “Make The Enemy Live Up To Its Own Book Of Rules.”
The Gotch
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It’s obvious you have never been involved in education. Everything about education you have written here you have parroted from some righty website, like MacIver, who get funding from the same folks who want to destroy public education. What you say above has nothing to do with what is taught in a public school classroom.
Your “theory” about school board elections is rather strained, to say the least. Most people who run for school board are interested in public education, and in making it better. There can be reasonable disagreements about how to do that, of course, but people who are endorsed by a person running for Governor are running on a political agenda and not running to improve education.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And progressives are reading from AOC’s website. You don’t think Woke social justice warriors aren’t destroying public education?
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I’ve never seen AOC’s website, and I doubt most progressives read it. Progressives tend to think for themselves, rather than follow the mis-leader. I think some progressive people are mistaken about some things, like not having adequate security in schools and endorsing behavior plans that don’t work, but CRT is not taught in schools, and neither are courses where “children are taught to question their sex and gender preferences….,” as Montgomery Scott puts it. I realize you and many conservatives like to use hyperbole, but getting the vapors about things that aren’t actually part of classroom education seems rather juvenile.
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Donald Pay wrote, “CRT is not taught in schools, and neither are courses where ‘children are taught to question their sex and gender preferences….,’ as Montgomery Scott puts it. I realize you and many conservatives like to use hyperbole, but getting the vapors about things that aren’t actually part of classroom education seems rather juvenile.”
From what you wrote it appears to me that you’re thinking the only thing taught in schools is what is in a formal curriculum like Math, English, Spanish, Science, Writing, Physician Education, etc. and if there isn’t a course that is specifically identified as Critical Race Theory then it’s your opinion that the core principles of CRT are not taught in the classroom.
Is my perception of what you wrote correct?
If my perception is incorrect then you need to explain yourself better.
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“Progressives tend to think for themselves, rather than follow the mis-leader.”
You should submit that to the Babylon Bee or The Onion; no body, and The Gotch means N_O_B_O_D_Y, is more laughably hive-minded, more easily led by the nostrils, than your garden variety Proglibocrat.
To wit: Arianna Huffington came to the good ol’ U.S. of A. as a dyed-n-in-the-wool Conservative. The former wife of Republican congressman Michael Huffington was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s. Wiki: (She was) “a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich’s ‘Republican Revolution’ and Bob Dole’s 1996 candidacy for president. She teamed up with liberal comedian Al Franken as the conservative half of ‘Strange Bedfellows.’ ”
Did she “See The Light?”
Not exactly.
She presciently realized Lefties were FAR more easily herded, and decided that being able to hire slobberingly imbecilic Lefty bloggers to work for free (HuffPo) was an enviable business model.
Switching teams made economic sense. It worked out, she cashed out to AOL for $300 million; she saw ’em coming, am I right…?
The Gotch
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I live in a community that votes overwhelmingly Republican in partisan elections. Yet somehow, hardcore liberals got control of our city council and school board in the past 5 years and are now in control of these institutions with their agenda. When I looked at the question and answer sessions as put forth by our local Gannett owned newspaper prior to this last election, the liberals running for these 2 institutions gave generic answers that said NOTHING about their political philosophy / positions as well as the issues that concern our community such as rising crime and more and more student disruptions and fighting at our public schools where the administration is making excuses and giving no or minimal punishment for minority students who are involved in the disruptions and fights. We are not to where Madison is currently at for ignoring crime and school malfeasance, but if we don’t get rid of the hardcore liberals and their policies on both boards, we WILL BE Madison in 5 years and our nice town will not be a place where I care to live.
As for not being involved in education in my city, you have no idea what you are talking about. I had to fight for my autistic son for his 13 years attending our public schools. I had many personal meetings with the administrators at his various public schools over the years to make sure he didn’t become just another statistic. The teachers for the schools were for the most part really good but the bureaucrats were a problem. The exception for a teacher was his Freshman math teacher, who was terrible in his teaching methods and his interactions with th students (the teacher was let go halfway through the school year, which is not easy to do). His IEP case worker his freshman year met with me in September to introduce himself. A week later he left. My son started failing classes. I tried to get a hold of this IEP person, but he didn’t return emails or phone calls. I then found out this IEP had left but no one told me. We should have been notified immediately (and under the law they were required to with his IEP). I then tried contacting the Assistant Principal assigned to my son and he never returned my calls. I finally had to take time off of work, went to the school and demand to meet with the Asst. Principal. Yes, it took me 2 months to get a fire lit under these educrat TO DO THEIR LEGALLY REQUIRED DUTIES. I had to constantly stay on their case and remind them to do their JOB until my son graduated 3 1/2 years later. For you to accuse me of not knowing how our educational system works, I was neck deep into this system to fight for my son for 13 years.
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“Progressives tend to think for themselves, rather than follow the mis-leader.”
I’ve lived here all my life and can safely say that’s not true. My many experiences with progressives have shown them to be closed-minded, nearsighted, arrogant ideologues that look down their nose and care little about anyone who isn’t firmly planted in their same belief system. If you think your ideas are so great, split from the Democrat party, start your own with AOC, Warren, Pocan, Omar, Sanders, and all the rest, and see just how many votes you get. Maybe then you’ll see just how real the well-earned resentment towards progressives is.
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Montgomery Scott wrote…
I disagree.
The tactic you are promoting is unethical. Standing up for the rational truth is the right way, the ethical way. The people that Blaska wrote about in this blog post are standing up for the rational truth and against the irrational totalitarian horde and they won!
I’ve been saying for a while now, and I finally wrote about it last year, that strong leaders are needed to inspire nationwide grass roots movements to support the constitution & confront totalitarianism.
The people that Blaska wrote about are exactly the kind of grass roots leaders we need to turn the tide. Blaska not winning in the irrational “progressive” bubble of Madison is not too surprising considering the voters in Madison seem to choose obvious “progressives” over obvious conservatives damn near every time.
Blaska is also a grass roots leader.
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Totally agree with Witherspoon.
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2 responsible elected in Eagle River, too!!
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Articles like this (Kenosha County Ravaged By bLM Riots FLIPS RED After Decades Of dem (lack of) Leadership) and the one below are the LAST game of fetch before you’re taken to the vet.
democrat(ic) Insiders Warn The Party Will Get ‘ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED‘ In The Midterms Without A Strong Economic Message.
That message?
*Ukraine…um…Minor Incursion
*Hyperinflation
*NASDAQ/in bear territory/DOW/S & P in correction
*Supply Chain in shambles
*Soaring gas prices
Advise? Update your résumés and references, and prepare to clear the Dream Catchers, Birkenstocks, Hempen Homespun, patchouli oil, and copies of CRT For Dummies, the 1619 Project, Mao’s Quotations, and Rules for Radicals outta yer offices.
The Gotch
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Will the USA survive the 21st century cultural shift or are there signs, like the ones Blaska wrote about in this blog post, that can give us hope that the cultural shift towards totalitarianism can be effectively turned away at the grass roots level?
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