Category: Governor’s race
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‘Obama was just too good for us’
We were not worthy; so we replaced him with a rascal Is the worm turning? • Talks with North Korea are back on. • The job market is the best in 18 years. Wages are up. • Even some Democratic strategists think Republicans could actually pick up seats in the U.S. Senate. • Trump’s approval…
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When political hate substitutes for principled reason
The Capital Times advises: Take the money and run Any day now, the nicest guy in the world, Capital Times emeritus editor Dave Zweifel, will write a paean to a kinder and gentler politics, civil discourse, and the Chicago Cubs. Until then, his newspaper is talking more trash than Donald Trump on a tweet storm.…
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Blaska spills his guts
Doing Ms. Vicki McKenna’s show at 4 p.m. Do tune in. “A lot of people don’t have their needs met.” Could serve as the motto of all cop haters, as spoken by Garrett Lee at Tuesday’s Madison Common Council meeting. Note that the phrase is rendered, tellingly, in the passive voice. Meet My Needs or…
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Election-year Democrats say Wisconsin is a XXXX-hole
Even though U.S. News & World Report ranks Wisconsin in top third of states Joe Btfsplk, meet Dave Zweifel. Like Democrats statewide, the emeritus editor of Madison’s voice of progressivism is hell bent on defeating Scott Walker at all costs, even at the price of truth. Give Dave Zweifel brownie points for creativity. Wisconsin has…
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I’m Paul Soglin, if you know what’s good for you
I like Paul Soglin, not that he would care. He is irascible — and that’s if you are his friend! Brother Mike-boy, at the time chairman of the Dane County Board, recounts the administrator of the county health and social needs department running after the mayor as he stalked away in anger. “Wait, Paul, we’ve…