Business as usual isn’t working!
Let’s make this simple, O.K.? Election day is tomorrow, Tuesday April 7 — a day that will LIVE in infamy. Some of you may not have voted yet; many of you never vote in a Spring election. That’s what the UniParty is counting on. They have their lists, they know their voters — a relative handful, really. They’re counting on you staying home so that they can continue dreaming up new programs to satisfy still “unmet needs” for the downtrodden victims of market capitalism.
More grandiose homeless shelters, new names for old schools, unaudited giveaways for well connected players of identity politics, more bureaucrats in the central office, more guilt, more taxes.
→ “Fiscal conservatives? In Madison? !!!”
We say Vote Them Out, Vote Them All Out.
Eleven of the 37 incumbents on the Dane County Board seek re-election; vote them out — except for Jeff Weigand in Marshall’s 20th District, the lone conservative. Vote FOR their opponents!
→ Find your county supervisory district
For Madison school board, both incumbents are seeking re-election. Vote them out. They gave us the $607 million spending referenda. Vote IN their challengers: Daniella Molle and Dana Colussi-Lynde. They may not be any better, but the incumbents need their come-uppance.
For alder, Madison is so screwed! The City is putting the even-numbered districts on the ballot this year to stagger elections for the 20 members but only three are contested. In the student 8th, both kids are socialists. In the 14th, both back illegal immigration. In the 20th, Ald. Barbara Harrington McKinney is a real trouper; opposes the independent police monitor and backs body-worn cameras. She is only the second incumbent we endorse.
→ “Police monitor chasing wrong suspect”
Ignore the local judge race; both are endorsed by Francesca Hong. (We are so-ooo screwed!)
That leaves the state supreme court race. Dane County, no doubt, will go heavy to elect yet another Democrat(ic) legislator to the bench — she being Chris Taylor. We do hold out small hope for a real jurist who will rule on the law, much does as the seven-member court’s lone male, Brian Hagedorn, who calls strikes on both teams. That would be Judge Maria Lazar.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Proving Marc Eisen’s theory of the hegemonic “UniParty,” Madison’s two news print outlets endorsed the same candidates in 11 of the 13 contested supervisor races! Along with the Democrat(ic) party and the government employees labor union, AFSCME. We said it before: “More Gruff, less UniParty, please.”
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