Category: Dane County Board
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Will Wisconsin embarrass Trump?
In today’s primary election? Pulled the tarp off our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer and fed its biomass digester with crusty, year-old Peeps and gaily painted hard-boiled egg shells. Ol’ Sparky coughed acrid blue smoke before spitting out today’s Wisconsin primary election predix: Donald Trump will garner less than three-fourths of the Republican vote, a huge embarrassment…
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How much more progressivism can you stand?
Can Dane County tolerate 8 dissenters out of 37? It was his greatest achievement as chairman of the Dane County Democrat(ic) Party, Wayne Bigelow boasted back then: defeating David Blaska for re-election to the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Must have been a slow year. In the 18 years since, Madison progressives have extirpated all…
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Vote for safe neighborhoods
For all races! We are guessing that more of us read the small-print waivers on those on-line software updates than peruse the Candidate Q&As in our favorite Madison WI morning newspaper. Drop down, maggot, and give me 20! We got an election coming up on April 2! In their own words, candidates answer three questions,…
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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…
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New jail may leave penguins in the cold
Public safety or pool tables for teenagers? Does this make more sense than anything you’ve heard from an elected official since Dan Quayle said a mind is a terrible thing to waste? The Dane County Board is voting tonight on borrowing another $21.7 million (and spend another accumulated $6 million) to cover the latest cost overrun…
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Is Dane County ready for stoned progressivism?
Someone who won’t blow smoke up our …? If she were a Republican, John Nichols would call her a career politician. Melissa Agard served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors from 2010 to 2014, won election to the state Assembly in 2012, and to the state Senate in 2020. Now the ambitious lady is…