Only if Gloria Reyes fires her cruise missiles!
Gloria Reyes should permit herself a sip of Prosecco today (preferably after 4 p.m.) before vowing to go all Bakhmut on Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway.
Because Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election as mayor of Chicago Tuesday 02-28-23 BIG-TIME with only 17% of the vote. That tells the Madison mayoral challenger she’s still got a chance. Gloria (G.L.O.R.I.A. GLORIA!) badly trailed Mayor Satya in Madison’s own 02-21-23 primary, 28% to 60%. But she’s still got an F-16 fighter jet waiting in the hangar, if she chooses to deploy it. That being: CRIME! Public Safety! Safe neighborhoods! The ultimate Equity and Equality issue!
Crime is the issue that nuked Lori Lightfoot in Chi-town. It’s got to be a better issue than Satya’s Indy 500 buses.
Reyes is a former cop and school board president. One of the victors in Chicago is Paul Vallas, who ran its public schools. He ran on a pro-police, tough-on-crime message. But he must overcome the other primary election survivor, Brandon Johnson, on April 4. Johnson is backed by the disruptive Chicago Teachers Union. Vallas took 35% of the vote; Johnson 20%.
Vallas “has called for adding hundreds of police officers to patrol the city, saying crime is out of control and morale among officers sunk to a new low during Lightfoot’s tenure.”
It’s a trend, albeit one that Madison WI could well buck. Eric Adams won by emphasizing public safety in New York City. San Francisco recalled soft-on-crime district attorney Chesa Boudin (but failed in Los Angeles).
Reyes is endorsed by Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, former Madison police chiefs Noble Wray and David Couper, and former UW top cop Sue Riseling. Add to that moderate alders Sheri Carter, Barbara Harrington McKinney, and candidate Ike Knox, who are endorsed by the Madison Area Safety Connection.
Reyes should publicly endorse police body cameras — an issue that seems to frighten Satya into muteness.
Reyes also gets the nod from Nino Amato, who is trying to unseat cop-hater Nikki Conklin in aldermanic district #9. (District Nine, District Nine, District Nine …)
Conklin votes against all things police, even body cameras and federal grant money to help police. At election time, Conklin pretends to be policing’s best friend. But who do we see on this “Defund the Police” campaign mailer from a third-party advocacy group two years ago: That’s right! Nikki Conklin!
Who does Nikki Conklin endorse? That’s right! Satya Rhodes Conway. So do Cop Defunders Jael Currie and Juliana Bennett!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: If Gloria Reyes is smarter than the average bear, she will form a coalition of like-minded candidates for a unified message and outreach.
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Ha ha not a chance. Madison liberals only concern is making themselves feel better…not in improving the lives of deplorables. To paraphrase Matt Hooper they will ignore the crime problem until it swims up and bites them on the ass.
Perhaps Reyes best strategy is to somehow divert crime to Monroe Street.
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Considering their mutual, er, proclivities, I’m certain they each go down similarly.
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Knew that was coming!
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“Knew that was coming!
It’d have come a lot sooner had The Gotch had not been out on a run…
The Gotch
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Will Gloria Reyes have the backbone to go after the Mayor for all she has done and not done in her four year term? If she isn’t willing to bring up defund the police , police cameras, riots, protests blocking rush hour traffic and the beltline, crime. and the city budget including bus rapid transit. The mayor always talks about more state gun control laws but never talks about the DA’s office never prosecuting gun law violations. She talks about the City’s budget and whines she needs more state aid as she gets a wheel tax and a recycle tax. She talks about helping low income and homeless while raising taxes on everyone else. I wonder where the money to pay people’s water/sewer bills will come from?
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Reyes could use the nuclear option: promise to rescind the “bullshit” taxes and at same time eliminate city employee “bullshit” jobs. Probably still wouldn’t work but money talks.
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I’m sure the Mayor would like the State to give her a 1/4% to 1/2% sales tax like they gave the counties but just like the counties in a few years that wouldn’t be enough
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Epic arrogance on steroids, Lightfoot richly deserved being summarily-n-ignominiously TKOd in the 1st Round!
Glass half full.
She’s ideally suited for scaring little children at Halloween Haunted Houses and starring in The Munsters or The Addams Family reboots sans make-up—
The Gotch
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Amazing how fast you get to the lowest possible level.
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Unequivocally, the lowest possible level here is the Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot.
Now run along, the adults are talking!
The Gotch
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Amazing Rich has no clue about the 9 autos stolen in just 12 days in our emerald city, cuzzzz you will not see that stat on our lily white media
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Not really, Mtfs, the Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot has/is/will continue to painfully demonstrate not being in possession of any clue whatsoever!
The Gotch
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what does that have to do with insulting the mayor of Chicago? I bet there are 5 or more cars left unlocked in a 4 block radius of your house right now. Oh; and be sure to leave your gun in the unlocked car please. Stupid, clueless hillbilly tRump suckers.
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The staggering level of imbecility necessary for someone to slobber that unlocked vehicles deserve to be stolen is troubling…TROUBLING!
And an illiterate, indigent, HS dropout, unemployed doughNUT maker referring to others as “stupid”?
Priceless!
The Gotch
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I didn’t say those unlocked cars “deserve” to be stolen you moron. Privileged people like you and all your online friends are quick to shoot your mouths of over something never said. Better double check your car tonight crotch.
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The Gotch’s vehicle is always locked and secured in the spacious garage of a home he owns.
FAR safer than a Wisconsin Dulls Section VIII apartment building parking lot….
The Gotch
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IYO, Richie. Again, nothing of substance.
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as I said above.
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The biggest crime issue in this town has always been drunk driving. Drunken driving crashes — including at least 11 fatalities — rose sharply during the first half of 2022 in Dane County.
There were 80 automobile crashes between January and June 2022 involving alcohol, 41% more than the five-year average, according to the Dane County Traffic Safety Commission.
Especially since they paid for his Tuscany wedding (I think that was his third wife but I’m having trouble keeping count), Robin Vos and the Republican Party have been in bed with the Tavern League. He could change the statutes tomorrow, but he refuses to do it.
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So I guess that means we should ignore the sharp rise in teenagers (mostly black) stealing cars and crashing them after driving for miles at high speeds and endangering the lives of other drivers and pedestrians while being chased by the cops? Then being released the next day into the arms of “restorative justice” (aka no serious consequences for you because of your skin color)?
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Go through lots of milk and cookies for these underage thugs learning ho to drive.
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Beetlejuice is the 1st Chicago Mayor to get b!tchslapped for reelection in 40 years!
Her excuse? She’s a bLack X-Chromosomal Unit.
Which begs the question: Why didn’t that thwart her being elected to begin with?
Anywho, her whopping 16% of the vote lies perilously close to the 15% that “a 2021 survey concluded was the proportion of Americans who believe that the government and other entities are controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a child sex trafficking ring.”
Chicago’s pitiably pathetic, these days; bLack incumbent Mayor unceremoniously kicked to the curb and the WORST NFL team (the Bi-Polar bares!) in the known Universe.
It’s almost too much to take……almost…..
The Gotch
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People get what they vote for. Satya & most of the alders don’t care what their constituents want but their mostly progressive constituents still vote for them over & over. They are the personification of insanity.
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Funny how we hear nothing from Mayor Satya for months and months. Nothing absolutely nothing ever! That is until this week right before an election she makes the big announcement of a new pilot program to cover utility bills for low income households. Seriously. Someone in Gloria’s camp needs to light a fire under her. Poor Gloria comes across as so meek and softspoken as if she’d jump a mile high if someone said “BOO” in her face. The debate was hard to watch. Partly because Satya sat there looking and acting so entitled and annoyed as if it was an inconvenience to be there.
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If Satya wins, she will be gone for a national position within two years!
The “23” budget is done and fully funded, “24” gets tight but remains workable because the Federal funds are still in place. The bottom falls out in “25 with at least a $100 Million hole in it that she created… There is no way she plans on being here when that hits! If Gloria can get elected or a majority of Council members suddenly realize the load of crap she has fed them (OK they will also need to get spine implants) and stop the Bus not so Rapid System before we start taking delivery of those magical 60′ long electric buses. there is a chance we could prevent the budget disaster looming but that is a longer shot than a stubborn ass who refused to spend money getting elected.
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SRC specifically, and Lefty generally, have already decimated Madison Public Schools, juvenile justice, and State Street with its significantly minority-owned businesses.
Goals achieved no longer motivates, what’s their next target; neighborhoods with the misfortune to be located on or near the epic Boondoggle_In_The_Making, the BRT?
Is there anything despicable Lefty hasn’t FUBARed while trying to make it better?
The Gotch
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