Category: Dane County Board
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No response?
Political candidacy is not ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ One becomes a candidate for political office because a) you want to be somebody or b) you want do DO some thing. Either way, you got to sing for your supper. It’s like when they hooked up the wires on Cliffie on Cheers: “Dance, mailman!” You got…
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Democrats are canceling themselves
Madison is making Wisconsin turn red Progressive Dane’s proposed ban on the Pledge of Allegiance and opening prayer at Dane County Board meetings is a bigger story than the sum of its parts. Here’s why. Voters from Wausau to Walworth will cluck cluck over their morning coffee at the Leftist nut cases in the Peoples’ Republic…
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You want ‘divisive’? I got yer divisive right here!
To each ‘their‘ own ‘talking points’! Progressives must strategize at caffeine-fueled meetings for new ways to piss off the public. “I’ve got it!” exclaims county supervisor Heidi Wegleitner. “We’ll ban the Pledge of Allegiance and the opening prayer at the start of meetings!” Huzzah! cried fellow members of Progressive Dane — your one-stop shop for…
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The ever disappearing Dane County jail
The George Floyd thing, again. Two weeks ago, the feckless overseers of the Dane County jail called for a time out. They didn’t have the votes for an additional $24 million to decommission the outdated two floors of Sing Sing-era cells atop the City County Building to build a more humane facility adjacent to the Public…
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Better jail doesn’t have the votes
Virtue signalers may derail the jail! Legislators like to say: the minority talks, the majority votes. Proponents of improving the Dane County jail are the majority but lack the super-majority (28 votes on a 37-member county board) needed to tack on another $24 million to the $148 million already authorized for the project, due to…
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Will Dane County show jail project ‘some radical, progressive love’?
April 5 elections won’t bring much relief. We just don’t have a good read on whether the Dane County Board of Supervisors will vote yes tonight 02-17-22 to improve the county jail. Our crystal ball awaits parts from our North Korean supplier. (It’s a supply chain thing.) At issue, whether to authorize another $24 million atop…