Category: Election 2023
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Crime and schools are on the city ballot
More so in Chicago than in Madison, unfortunately. Election central is up and running here at the Policy Werkes. A bottomless pot of Maxwell House percolates on the Monarch kitchen range, rabbit ears on the b&w Philco are perked up for the latest update, the wall-sized blackboard is charted into rows and columns like a…
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State Journal endorses critical race theorist
Blair Feltham says Madison schools are racist. The Squire of Stately Blaska Manor did the Danny Thomas coffee spray Sunday morning. In that long-ago sitcom, originally called Make Room for Daddy, his missus would relate some catastrophe and the comedian, mid-sip at breakfast, would spray Maxwell House into the atmosphere. The Wisconsin State Journal, the…
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Dane County will decide
‘the most important election of the year’ That’s what the New York Times calls it. For once, it’s not fake news. On the Spring ballot are right to life, the Second Amendment, ballot integrity, redistricting, school choice, right to work, welfare reform, criminal bail, Act 10. All gone if the current 4-3 conservative majority turns…
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‘Satya doesn’t support body cameras’
Video of Nashville police response makes her look foolish! After police stopped the shooter at that Nashville Christian school Monday 03-27-23, we asked if Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway looked prehistoric by slow-walking the use of police body cameras for the last four years here in Madison WI?! (We answered: like a stegosaurus slow.) Nashville Police quickly…
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‘Coming to school high’
‘and riding skateboards down the halls’ The most important local election here in the Emerald City is not the mayoral or aldermanic, but Madison Board of Education. Can you even name the candidates? Even the Werkes had to look them up. They are social justice educrat Blair Mosner Feltham (her website) and DNR computer specialist…
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Referenda to rear-end ya
On our Spring 2023 ballot Voted early this time (and only once, so far). They call it absentee in person, which makes a kind of only-in-Madison sense. Bottom of the ballot listed what looked like college essay questions. Either that or the disclaimers you click through without reading, alerting that the software you just downloaded…