… and funded with your tax dollars!
Maybe you don’t do politics. You vote for the person, not the party — when you do vote. You can’t understand why you’re being taxed out of your home; why you don’t go on State Street after dark any more, why your kids report the day’s chaos in the classroom when they get home from school.
Here’s why: these guys on this flier. They’re not just elected to the city council or the school board. They’re taxpayer-paid, full-time employees with access to resources like the city’s website. They’re funded by tax-funded contracts and grants. They can call on employees, supporters, and hangers-on to flood the public comment section of government meetings, to picket non-compliant businesses, vandalize our public spaces, and f-bomb resisters’ homes via late-night bullhorns.
Mobilizing the cadres
Like Brenda Konkel’s Madison Street Medicine, one of the sponsors of the dog and pony show scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday 09-17-26 at the Goodman community center, 214 Waubesa St. Funded by City of Madison taxpayers to the tune of $228,986, not counting federal grants. Housed in the Social Justice Center at 1202 Williamson Street, which the City of Madison for 15 months now has put on its public nuisance watch list.
One of MSM’s employees was cited getting into a fight there; another Madison Street Medicine employee peed on a neighbor’s property. Among Thursday’s star witnesses: Aeiramique Glass, the $149,000/year city employee who threatens to F-ing burn down this city during the illegal Corey Ruiz occupation on the same street.
Or Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores, the oft-arrested former head of the Police Civilian Oversight Board. Then again, one of the prerequisites for PCOB membership is a criminal record (see page 7). Republicans need not apply.
Community Forum facilitator Ananda Mirilli is a former MMSD school board member where Freedom Inc. bullied dissenters to defund school resource police officers. (Freedom Inc. is one of the sponsors of the so-called “Community Forum.” City of Madison gave them $149,000 this year — a portion of more than $5 million in municipal, state, and federal grants to Freedom Inc. since 2020.) Like Mirilli, Willy Street Ald. Davy Meyer was endorsed by Brenda Konkel’s Progressive Dane political party.
And what is their cause? Defunding the police by other means. If “177 changes to the Madison Police Department” isn’t exsanguination from a thousand paper cuts, they’ll conjure more. MMSD parent Ray Mendez encapsulates the phenomenon this-a-way:
“Madison has police, a monitor to watch the police, an oversight board to watch the monitor, a council to oversee the oversight, an ad hoc committee to review the council, a task force to study the committee, and a commission to recommend another committee. Connect the last one back to the police and we’ve invented a perpetual oversight machine.” — Ray Mendez
→ Speaking of throwing money at a problem, former mayor Paul Soglin blames “An out of control community service budget, with no accountability, no oversight, and no measurable successes in the largest area, reducing homelessness.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: How do they do it? They’re better organized and better funded. With OUR money.
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Regarding your call-out to the ordinance language specifying that a member of the PCOB had to have an arrest or conviction record, I am reminded of when the Dane County Board passed 2022 Ordinance Amendment 28, which renamed the long-standing Criminal Justice Council to the “Community Justice Council.” Added to the voting roster was to be “two persons from a diverse background who (have) lived experiences of incarceration or (have) been directly impacted by the criminal justice system.” As then-Chair of that body, it fell to me to make those new appointments, and for one of them, I focused on the latter phrase and named an individual with experience as a crime victim. No one actually SAID anything to me about this… but this was likely an unexpected outcome. So it’s interesting that Madison’s legislative language doesn’t provide any loophole. They want a perpetrator of crime (or maybe just accused of crimes, I suppose?), gosh darn it!
Keep it up Madison. If you work hard enough you can be the Social Justice, Wokest, Socialist capital of the upper midwest. You’ll have to work hard though to outpace Minneapolis.
What you subsidize you get more of.
Racialist grifters for example.
“You can’t understand why….you don’t go on State Street after dark anymore…”
State St. is scary enough by day; I could swear the weirdness has intensified. My advice to those who are planning a walk down State is to wear a cross or carry some garlic cloves. Sad but true.
Forty two Black Lives didn’t matter over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago. Forty two. And Madison focusses on a dirt bag like Corey Ruiz.
If you can be cowed by any fool who calls you a racist then you are weak and deserve to be denied your money, State Street and anything else the black feral youth and the black industrial grifters desire.
Don’t get me wrong, expat. I’ve been called “racist” a few times. So what? Doesn’t bother me.
I’ll give you an example of the “weirdness” referred to in my post: a tattooed naked guy strolling along without so much as a jewel in his navel. Seen by yours truly, but the cops on patrol do nothing. Just like the Naked Bike Riders every summer.
Then there’s the druggies who hang out on the 200 block hurling insults at passersby. Street crews hose that area down each morning.
A few businesses still survive.
What fun.
Too bad about the latest Chicago carnage. I’m shocked…..
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