“They shudda stopped them at Munich; they was just askin’ for trouble.” — Clemenza
The .20 gauge pump-action shotgun lay on my office desk, fully loaded. Freedom Inc. and kindred social justice warriors were F-bombing the personal homes of the school board president, the head of the P&FC, and even the sheriff in their bid to defund school police. They did it again this summer to Mayor Satya after she reclaimed city streets from the mob.
Told the police officer summoned to the Stately Manor that night that if the mob attacked our residence (where my wife sleeps and my children play with their toys!) that the Head Groundskeeper would pump the first round into the sky while the Lovely Lisa dialed 911.
Blaska was being doxxed that Spring of 2019 because he dared run for Madison school board. Dancing on our iMac were social media GIFs of Blaska being guillotined, red blood effusing. Was played the race card for supporting discipline in our under-performing high schools. Became a candidate after the Missus said she did not feel safe attending school board meetings. Not State Street after dark. Not the East high school cafeteria. School Board meetings!
The mob actually shut down the previous annual budget meeting. Despite my entreaties, face to face, District Attorney Ozanne would not prosecute the instigators. (“A choreographed and orchestrated show of force. It is daunting, it is meant to intimidate, it is meant to marginalize,” Police Chief Koval said then.)
”How can any Mayor be effective when a difference of opinion is cast as unforgivable betrayal that justifies threats of violence?”— Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway 10-23-26
I have seen large and passionate crowds in the council chambers before, but nothing like what we saw [10-20/21-26]. The anger in that room was palpable and frankly frightening. There were chants throughout the night calling me and other alders racist and evil. There were completely baseless accusations of corruption … The few in the room who spoke in favor of the resolution were not allowed to speak and made to feel unsafe …. Some protesters, egged on by a jeering crowd, made statements that were hard not to read as personal threats … [Some alders] had to be escorted out by police for their own safety. — Ald. Noah Lieberman
Madison took a knee
So we don’t blame Satya Rhodes Conway for calling it quits. Well, actually, we do! Instead of confronting intolerance head on, the mayor, the Common Council, and Madison civic leaders have bended their collective knee to the bullhorn bullies for too long. Now they had come for their due.
When did it start? The rot was well underway when Dean Loumos, chairing a school resource police officer study committee, apologized to the mob for letting Blaska speak on a government issue seven years ago. It continued when the current sheriff referred to inmates of the county jail as “residents.” When the city arts department paid for murals depicting police as blood-thirsty pigs. When Satya herself demanded the immediate release of a downtown shakedown artist who weaponized race in demanding restaurateurs “Venmo Me the Money.” (“Free Yeshua!”)
It continued when the mayor and council did not give Chief Mike Koval and his officers their full support. When Madison shrugged at the removal of a 42-ton glacial boulder from the university campus after the inanimate object was accused of racism. When council progressives railroaded Ald. Paul Skidmore despite forensic evidence proving that the police supporter never uttered the C-word. When Satya herself thanked police for enduring the long hours, the verbal and physical abuse at which the statue of a Civil War abolitionist was decapitated and city hall itself was fire-bombed. Then, mau maued by the mob — she took it down! When city leaders created a superfluous and powerless police monitor as a ransom payment to the very mob that drove her off the ballot.
No sergeant at arms?
The mayor at the last council meeting 10-20/21-26 yielded the floor — literally — to a woman Mike Koval aptly described as “a raging lunatic” to prowl the Common Council floor, in session, and stick her contorted face inches from that of Ald. Verveer and City Attorney Haas. You get more of what you subsidize. There is no negotiating with social justice warriors — many of whom are subsidized by the taxpayer.
Fret all you want about Trump’s Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, this is the kind of pro-Hamas, Defund-the-Police, Woke progressivism that burned Kenosha, sprayed swastikas on the Goodman Brothers jewelry store, and torches France this day.
Too much of Madison, especially in what passes for “leadership,” cowers in fear of the Race Card. Ald. Sabrina Madison’s call to retire the promiscuous use of the race card should be required reading. Excusing Corey Ruiz’s criminal resistance to arrest is the worst form of racism.
It ain’t me, Babe
A few years back, a neighbor here in Orchard Ridge was convinced that Antifa was out to get him. Eventually, he realized that Blaska spoke out at public meetings, published a blog, fulminated on AM radio, and ran for government office. Aren’t you afraid? he asked.
When we sued the teachers union for not complying with Act 10, Blaska announced on radio that the union boss knows where I live and I know where he lives and I have friends.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Vigilant? Yes. Afraid? NO!
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