How much more progressivism can you stand?

Can Dane County tolerate 8 dissenters out of 37?

It was his greatest achievement as chairman of the Dane County Democrat(ic) Party, Wayne Bigelow boasted back then: defeating David Blaska for re-election to the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Must have been a slow year.

In the 18 years since, Madison progressives have extirpated all but two holdouts. One of them is Dave Ripp, who is retiring after 40 years representing his Springfield Town district west of Middleton. The other is Jeff Weigand, representing the Marshall-Sun Prairie area. Jeff is running for a third term and the party apparatus has unsheathed its long knives. 

Democrats have opened their checkbooks for his opponent, Andrea Andrews. Their candidate jabbers like a Freedom Inc. social justice warrior about public safety:

“Allocate resources … mandatory training for law enforcement on cultural sensitivity, de-escalation … end implicit bias to reduce racial profiling … systemic … bail reform, diversion … disproportionate impacts …” — Andrea Andrews.

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That kind of Woke talk earned Ms. Andrews the endorsement of Madison’s Defund the Police-advocate, The Capital Times, “for a progressive Dane County Board.” But county government has been progressive lo these 20 years!

Progressivism gave Dane County two decades of dithering that bid up the cost of an overdue jail expansion to $207 million from the originally bid $148 million. Progressives are spending $1.16 million a year on something called an “Office of Justice Reform.” That’s on top of an Office of Equity & Inclusion! They showered county employees with two more paid holidays. Threw a million dollars at Madison’s “food market” boondoggle. Bid up property taxes by 14 percent. Criminally prosecutes a lawman trying to bring down a career fentanyl-dealing criminal.

“Weigand’s conservative perspective is a useful counterpoint on a County Board that is now dominated by the far left and that too often spends its time and energy on fringe issues, such as attempting to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from the County Board agenda.” — Tim Kiefer, county board member, Waunakee.

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Vote absentee now or in person on Tuesday, April 2

Here is the Blaska Policy Werkes antidote to progressivism:

District 4 Richard Brown 
District 9 John Wollaeger
District 20  Jeff Weigand
District 22  Rebecca Witherspoon
District 25 Mark Foster
District 28  Bill Brosius
District 29 Shaun Sabol (write in)
District 36 Andrew McKinney (write in)

→ Find conservative county, school, and municipal candidates throughout Wisconsin here.

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Blaska’s Bottom Line: Don’t call them “inmates.” They are “residents” of the Dane County jail. Which suggests that maybe we should call supervisors “residents of county government.”

Or is diversity and inclusion only skin deep?