Democrats fear fighting pro-Hamas socialists for their party’s soul!
A certain former mayor of Madison once endorsed Blaska for Madison school board. Despite such apostasy, Democrat(ic) aspirants continue to seek His Former Honor’s blessing. Well, at least one of them. Mayor Dave is going with Sarah Rodriquez, the current lieutenant governor, in the August 11 gubernatorial primary election. He issues this less-than-ringing endorsement:
Rodriguez is not exciting, but she’s the safest choice. … I’ve also seen her on the stump and she does a workmanlike job. She’s competent.
If that praise was any less faint, it would be invisible. (Apparently, education reform is not all that important to Dave Cieslewicz, after all.) Give him credit: he’s trying to stave off the debacle of nominating a cop hating, anti-Israel extremist who makes the Proud Boys look like Rotarians, thereby handing the election to Tom Tiffany, a known Republican. Without going on the attack. And that is the problem.
Say this for Francesca Hong: the downtown Madison socialist has the courage of her convictions — which is more than her five competitors can say. This blog was the first to report that Hong would appear with the far-left, hate-mongering Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who raised $57,000 for her campaign this week. By Any Means Necessary, comrade!
This is Hasan Piker in April 2026: “I’m a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.” For good measure: America deserved 9/11.
Hong is on record saying “ ‘Defund the Police’ isn’t just a slogan. … Police exist to uphold white supremacy. … Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”
Rep. Hong is a member of the same “democratic” socialist party as New York’s Avila Chevalier, who won last week’s Democrat(ic) nomination for Congress with the support of fellow travelers Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders. Chevalier demands “seizing the means of production,” wants to abolish police, prisons, and borders. She would legalize prostitution. Francesca’s doppelgänger!
Chevalier attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel that featured speeches and rhetoric praising the attack.
The worry, of course, is that Wisconsin’s Little Suamico’s and Potosi’s don’t vote New York City. What we’re not seeing from Madison’s former mayor, from candidate Rodriguez, from Mark Pocan (D-Hamas), or from any Democrat here in Wisconsin is a full-throated denunciation of her absurdities. Or are their differences only a matter of degree?
Anyone willing to lead?
They are lacking spine — some moxie! Is the soul of the Democrat(ic) party not worth the fight?
“If the other Democrat candidates for governor refuse to condemn these statements,” Republican party nominee Tom Tiffany told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “they’re making one thing clear: this is the extremism today’s Democrat Party fully embraces.” Can you argue that?
→ Who is Wisconsin’s James Carville?
→ In Denver CO, “virulently anti-Israel” socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated incumbent Democrat(ic) Representative Diana DeGette, who has held the seat for nearly three decades.
Capital Times publisher Paul Fanlund, wearing a hazmat suit and a Covid 19 mask, approaches the elephant in the room with a 10-foot pole. “No, this isn’t another moderate attack on the party’s far left,” the publisher swears to Gawd, nervously looking over his shoulder at Bernie bro John Nichols.
Fanlund grouses, “This tribe, incidentally, controls public policy in Madison, seldom compromising.” (But your newspaper endorses them just the same, Paul.) Girding his loins with extra-strength Depends, Fanlund proclaims at the very end of his thesis:
It will be a shame if intra-party politics prevents Democrats from being able to fully exploit Trump’s abysmal record and uplift ordinary Americans as they all claim to want. But it sure could happen.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Hardly Damn the Torpedoes, that whimper.
Mayor Dave, if it came down to it:
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