Category: Campaign finance
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What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it for the attack ad we live? At some point, the law of diminishing returns kicks in, we tell the good gummint goo goos who want to limit campaign spending, especially after the hundred million dollars spent on the recent and lamentable WI Supreme Court race. How many prematurely released pedophiles — beyond the…
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Nothing wrong with big money in politics!
For all the good it does! We don’t know if too much money was spent on Tuesday’s WI Supreme Court race — but it was a lot. Karl Rove says Elon Musk and Republicans spent $53 million on Brad Schimel to the $45.2 million Democrats and their billionaires spent on Susan Crawford. She won anyway. …
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Blaska strikes again!
Donald Segretti would be proud! Blaska is such a scamp! We left behind a Brad Schimel campaign flyer at a coffee shop on Madison’s near-westside this morning. HA! What a merry prankster are we! We revel in imagining the existential horror registered by the proper Madison progressive who happened upon this piece of contraband. The…
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Franz Kafka v Donald Trump
“He admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.” ― Franz Kafka, ‘The Trial‘ As a general rule, when Blaska commits a crime, he likes to know its name. From what we can gather, neither Trump nor his Manhattan trial jury were ever very certain, except that the likely Republican nominee is…