Blaska’s policy agenda for the new year!
The faceless bureaucrats at the Werkes put these proposals up last year as ’23 for ’23. We will keep doing so until the poobahs get the message. As we encounter another year we had to add a 24th. (No extra charge for you Platinum subscribers!) These are modest proposals in the tradition of Jonathan Swift, who urged that the Irish race be consumed at the dinner table. Preferably with potatoes and dark beer. We actually made some progress on some of these.
1) Amend the Wisconsin Constitution to place the Department of Public Instruction in the governor’s appointive cabinet rather than as an elected office. Education should sit at the same table with the governor as transportation, natural resources, prisons, public health, and revenue. Removing education from politics leaves your schools to the tender mercies of the diversity, equity, and inclusion commissars.
2) Revise the criminal code to automatically charge custodial parents or guardians with a crime equivalent to the offense for which their minor child is being adjudicated.
3) Ease legal requirements for the state to seize chronic juvenile delinquents (remember that term?) and commit them to a secure residential educational facility. Build out the old Oscar Mayer plant on Madison’s NE side for that purpose. Include agriculture, food preparation, and the trades with access to nearby MATC.
4) Abolish the Police Civilian Oversight Board and furlough its overpaid director.
5) Deep six the Madison “food market. ”The Dane County Board actually shoveled $1 million toward this boondoggle this year.
6) Stop collecting data by racial category — starting with the U.S. Census.
7) Enforce the prohibition of panhandling on street intersections.
8) Deny bail for any defendant previously convicted or presently charged with jumping bail.
9) Create a local, moderate political party that would coordinate candidate recruitment for Madison Common Council, school board and county supervisor. Could share messaging and raise unlimited campaign funds. To counter far-Left Progressive Dane.
10) Return the Chamberlin Rock to its rightful place on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus and restore the good name of alumnus Fredric March.
11) Shut down university grievance studies. (Thank you Robin Vos! Now go the rest of the way!)
12) Elect Madison school board members at large from one pool of candidates, rather than by — uniquely in the state — numbered seats.
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Top notch DB!
My prescription is this; We rig up a harness and attach several drones. Next we recruit our pal Rudi from the Southwest bike path to pilot the thing.
Ah the magnificent vision of Rudi soaring over the city!
Once this is accomplished all your prescriptions will fall in line.
Squire’s policy agenda is indeed top notch. It is also too progressive for progressives. Visionaries are usually misunderstood.
Blaska for school board? In a minute. 👍👍
to control teen crime, can a parent hit the child? lock in room? Withhold food? what power does a parent have now to change the child’s behavior?
The power of responsible parenthood.
Assuming we can get Rudi up in the air, my 2nd prescription is a statewide ban on alcohol. Yes, prohibition.
Waiting for the next dozen. I don’t see any of the first dozen actually happening.
Amen, brother. Amen! Especially #9. Asking Madison liberals to dilute–never mind give up–a modicum of their power is like asking Joe Biden to give up his Depends.
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