Category: Governor’s race
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No country for pompous blowhards
Do WI Democrats have a middle ground? Admitting that we admire former governor Scott Walker triggers indignant glossolalia among Madison’s progressive elect, which is why we sing his hosannas every chance we get. The former governor and author of Act 10, which reined in government employee unions (but not enough), has this to say about biased…
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Does Trump help or hurt Tiffany?
In November, when it counts! Wisconsin Republicans don’t have many friends in the news media aside from Jessica McBride at Wisconsin Right Now. The obstreperous journalist is no shill. She dares ask whether Tom Tiffany should share a stage with the President Friday 06-05-26 for June Dairy Month in beautiful Chippewa County. Like all good…
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Democrats suffer progressive derangement syndrome
How much progressivism is too much? We’ve always said Trump Derangement System works both ways. Trump is permitted to alienate otherwise persuadable voters because MAGA loyalists, suffering from reverse TDS, won’t call him to account. Did Senate Democrats threaten the President with reprisals if he backed the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton, who could well lose Texas?…
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All 9 Dem governor candidates are Hong lite
They just don’t curse as much. Despite the best efforts of John Nichols to mainstream and Main Street his fellow/sister socialist Francesca Hong, voters in rural Lafayette County — “about as far as you can get from the urban centers and college campuses” — are not fretting over “the fate of Palestinians in Gaza,” as…
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But not like school girls
Notes from the WI Republican convention. If we had to summarize the mood coming out of the state Republican convention at the Kalahari Resorts last weekend (we must! we must!) in one word it would be: giddy! Thank the luck of the draw. Donald Trump would never have been President had it not been for…