Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes!
Back when Ali Muldrow was still speaking to us, shortly after defeating Blaska for Madison school board, she invited her vanquished opponent to dine with her at an isthmus boîte frequented by other socialists like John Nichols and Mayor Satya’s chief of staff.
Ali, a young black woman, seemed genuinely intrigued by the real live, unapologetic conservative seated across from her — as if farm-grown Blaska were an exotic specimen netted in Margaret Meade’s anthropologic butterfly net.
“Are you carrying?” she asked at a subsequent invite to her program on counter-culture radio station WORT-FM. Blaska did not object to the stereotyping: he is, after all, a Madison outlier: white, Republican (albeit a dues-paying RINO), and of the male preference. The Woke angel expressed alarm at Blaska’s response: “You don’t want to find out.”
Ali had defeated candidate Blaska on the issue of defunding school resource police officers — which she accomplished — and restoring discipline in the classroom. (She’s still opposed.) To this day, the personable progressive accuses public school teachers of racism most foul. Race-guilt is the get-out-of-jail-free card for explaining away progressive failure to diminish “disproportionate” academic achievement. The powerful teachers union (aka: Zuul, the Gatekeeper) luxuriates in white guilt; they keep endorsing the straight DEI UniParty ticket.
Which is why we were intrigued by a polemic in one of the many Left-of-Left publications hereabouts (which has the field to itself) called Tone Madison. It argues that there is no such animal as “the UniParty,” as alleged by one of its practitioners, The Capital Times. (We addressed it here.)
Disproving his own thesis
… author Scott Gordon, a co-founder of his publication, plays face up that frayed talisman of the Far Left; the race card. Capital Times publisher Paul Fanlund and former mayor Paul Soglin — both “increasingly reactionary” apostles of the UniParty theory — are “just old and racist,” Gordon condemns. (The double whammy!)
Fanlund claims that in Madison politics, “nearly all power [is] held by elected officials on the far left,” that these elected officials constitute a “controlling UniParty,” that this bloc responds to its critics primarily through ridicule and shunning, and that “moderate” voices are drowned out. None of these things are true. …
What you won’t find in any of The Cap Times‘ three January “UniParty” pieces is one single specific and verifiable example cited of a specific person doing a specific thing at a specific time that constitutes censorious behavior or shuts down debate or forces opposing voices out of public life.
Get ready for specifics, Scott! Are you forgetting the bullhorn-toting cadres of Freedom Inc. — shutting down an annual school board budget meeting? Never prosecuted. F-bombing school board president Gloria Reyes at her home, at night, where her children sleep? Brandi Grayson shutting down rush hour traffic on John Nolen Drive in the cause of racial grievance? BLM decapitating the statue of abolitionist Colonel Heg, who gave his life fighting slavery? Firebombing the city county building? Pummeling a state legislator taking pictures?
How about asking “Would bullets work?” in an attempt to stop Blaska from speaking?!
Let us count the ways
What Republican, what moderate:
• Spent taxpayer money to paint the cop as thug on the plywood covering busted windows after a Leftist riot on State Street?
• Accused a 42-ton glacial boulder of racism and demanded it be banished from campus (which, of course, it was)?
• Invited to Martin Luther King Jr. Day a keynote speaker exhorting “From the River to the Sea”? (Someday, perhaps a black job creator will be asked to speak.)
Stand and deliver:
• Name the Republican alders or school board members in Madison. There are none. Of 37 county supervisors: exactly one.
• Name the business executives, merchants, real estate agents, or HVAC installers serving in local government. The school board is a DEI directorate.
• Former mayor Dave Cieslewicz wanted to form a moderate local political party. Name the similarly minded Democrats who signed up to join him. They exist but they’ve been mau-maued!
Shades of gray (or pink)
The Democrat(ic) party, the teachers union, the enviros, the bicycle lobby, Progressive Dane, the government employees union, Working Families, etc. endorse the same candidates. When socialist Francesca Hong twice runs unopposed as the downtown rep for state Assembly, that’s UniParty Soviet style.
Mr. Gordon proves once again that a fish doesn’t know it is wet:
It’s beyond me why Fanlund and Soglin would fixate on this when a fascist federal regime is actually trying to crush dissent by sending throngs of ICE agents to terrorize and murder people in communities across the United States.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: You lost us at “fascist,” Scott.
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