Category: Act 10
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Madison’s anti-Trump rally may well be …
what Democracy looks like. Just returned from the “No Kings” march down State Street to the Capitol in Madison WI today. Found a (bum-proof) city bench outside the Overture performing arts center. The fellow across the street had a better idea, observing the festivities from the open window wall of a whisky bar. (Madison really…
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Stop the bleeding
That’s Schimel’s task in Dane County! The faceless bureaucrats, masked to elude Musk’s Musketeers, took the tarp off Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, to crunch a few numbers pending the outcome of today’s Wisconsin spring election, which is non-partisan. Yeah, and Susan Crawford is tuff on crime. And dishwasher safe! A helluva lot is…
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Act 10 has been in court more often than Perry Mason!
Another progressive judge rewrites statute! You are not a Dane County judge in good standing if you have not ruled against Act 10, the statutory limitations on government employee collective bargaining. Bonus points if you supported the recall of Act 10’s author, Gov. Scott Walker. The latest judge to make his progressive bones here in…
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The leader of the free world needs more sleep!
Since when is that a winning message? THIS JUST IN: The Protasiewicz state supreme court reverses ban on ballot drop boxes! Now they’re allowed! Read & weep! Can any court do more to undermine voter confidence? Why give Election Deniers more ammunition? We’re old enough to remember how JFK pronounced the word “vigor” as “vig-ah,”…
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Are our politics becoming a for-real blood sport?
Can we keep a civil tongue? Did it begin with the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin State Capitol over Act 10? Or the Antifa-inspired trashing of Madison’s State Street, the burning of Kenosha and Portland in the Summer 2020? Was the seditious routing of Congress on January 6 the following year an escalation or just…
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The war vs. Woke continues in WI
on land stolen from the Ho-Chunk! Jeff Weigand, the only conservative on the 37-member Dane County Board issues this alert: We have a jam-packed agenda for our meeting this Thursday February 1. Here are some of the highlights. Anti-semitism Resolution — a Madison Imam recently called for the murder of all Jews. In response, I authored 2023 Res 314 which will be voted…