Category: election challenges
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The WI GOP is fighting off a coup
from Charlie Kirk‘s Turning Point USA. Second of three parts. We’re expecting an old-fashioned donnybrook at the Wisconsin Republican state convention this weekend outside Wausau, hopefully without gallows or the QAnon shaman. But you never know. The spectrometer at Blaska Policy Werkes shows three groups jostling for power in a deeply divided party. We examined…
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Conservatism ain’t dumb
It’s smart and wants respect! Always thought David Brooks was the kind of pundit that only the New York Times would think conservative. The kind of squish allowed on PBS, which Trump wants to defund for its rampant partisan bias. In any event, Our Mr. Brooks is up with an essay — in Mike Waltz’s…
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Resistance takes many forms
Many of them, counter-productive! Encountered an anti-Trump demonstration massing at James Madison Park on the shores of Lake Mendota, Saturday 04-19-25. Likely headed for Wisconsin’s beautiful state capitol a few blocks away. We kept driving. Good on the city’s daily newspaper for devoting not one pica of soybean-based ink to the rally, protest demonstrations being more…
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It’s the law! (We think)
Never has election law been so unpredictable! As we age, we let go of some of our ambitions, realizing they will never materialize. The Head Groundskeeper has come to accept that he’ll never be put on paid leave, like Madison’s city clerk. Who among us has not stumbled across an overdue library book once thought…
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Are Democrats THAT desperate?
Would more fees and taxes help? Conservatives know they’re winning when the Left, desperate for that winning message, runs ever-nuttier ideas up the proverbial flag pole. Democrats’ latest can’t miss vote-getter is a scheme to charge a $9 admission fee — excuse us, “congestion pricing” — for drivers to enter lower Manhattan. “The Future of…
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Sorry, Dave, I can’t do that
Is A-I censoring my blogge? Maybe we are naive (shut up!), but the Werkes is not given to conspiracy mongering. Our limited interest in grassy knolls extends to how they are mowed, nothing else. Those contrails in the sky are not sapping our precious bodily fluids. And, for gawd’s sakes, leave Ray Epps in peace!…