Category: Gerrymandering
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When you say ‘taxpayer funds,’ you’ve said it all!
(No taxpayer dollars went into the manufacture of this blog) It’s right there in the headline: “Wisconsin Republicans commit more than $1.8 million in taxpayer funds to defend GOP-drawn legislative maps.” (EXTRA EXTRA, read allaboudit!) We admit, the sensitivity of our journalism bias detector is turned up to 11. But the State Journal repeats the word…
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It’s payback time on Wisconsin’s high court
Do elections have consequences? At some point, America will politicize its school crossing guards, subject them to multi-million dollar campaigns, social media vituperation, and grand juries. Our legal system is more politicized than the days of “Impeach Earl Warren” 60 years ago. Today, Democrats in Congress are baying for the heads of Justices Clarence Thomas…
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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…
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Getting politics off the court
… would require sequestering every voter! Like Captain Louis Reynault, the usual good government goo-goos are appalled — APPALLED! — that politics is going on in Wisconsin’s high-stakes supreme court campaign. Cutting to the chase, a certain former mayor pragmatically calls the Spring election, “a choice between two partisan hacks. Janet Protasiewicz is the Democrat…
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Trump takes more lumps in Wisconsin nice
In Tuesday’s primary election. The Blaska Policy Werkes decision desk was right on the money predicting Tr•mp-endorsed election denier Janel Brandtjen would lose big to Speaker Robin Vos’s man for state senate in suburban Milwaukee. We had it at Dan Knodl 60%, Brandtjen 30%, Van Mobley 10%. Final score was 57% to 28% to 15%. Must…
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Gerry Manders
as The Beaver! Our Democrat(ic) friends and acquaintances are pinning their dreams on April’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, which they hope will reverse the state legislature’s “solid GOP majority [which] owes its status, in large part, to what some have described as the most effectively gerrymandered district maps in the nation.” So says one Madison…