Category: Madison aldermanic elections 2021

  • At some point, just vote no

    against the tax & spenders! Newspaper editorial pages are disappearing faster than fishing boats in the Caribbean. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel quit opinionating after being absorbed into the maw of the sprawling 280-newspaper Gannett chain. Here in Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal mostly runs shrink-wrapped opinions Lee Enterprises distributes to its 77 outlets. So it…

  • Madison alder races shaping up wet and wild

    A comeback for Marsha Rummel and Nino Amato? If The Werkes were conspiratorially minded, we would wonder why two of the Madison Common Council’s few moderate (not conservative!) alders were being moved into new districts. If our tinfoil hat didn’t already pinch, we’d also note that both Sheri Carter and Barbara Harrington McKinney face hard-left…

  • Madison black leaders support our police

    Not that you would know it from the noise makers! The dirty little secret that Brandi Grayson, Freedom Inc., the Socialists Workers, and Progressive Dane don’t want you to know is that Madison’s black community — the actual people who live in the neighborhoods and pursue the American dream — overwhelmingly support the police. That…

  • ‘It is time to try something else’

    Ald. Nikki Conklin to neighbors demanding more police protection Add Tamarack Trails as another neighborhood demanding more public safety.The far westside neighborhood association on 11 October 21 told Mayor Satya and their alder that residents are “extremely concerned about the escalation and increased frequency of violent crimes in our community. Over the course of this…

  • Ald. Benford under-thinks policing

     More from ‘Madison’s token conservative’ (Does that make Blaska a protected class?) Madison is over-policing certain populations, according to the official progressive party line. You’ll have to take it on faith because that theorem has never been challenged — much less empirically proven. Apologists for this dogma fall back on the lazy supposition that if X…

  • A new local political party is gestating

    Madison’s ‘hard left’ is not progressive! Is Madison WI ready for another local political party to counter Progressive Dane? The gray labcoats here at the Werekes say yes, not that anyone talking about such a party would want Blaska for a member. (We’re like Groucho Marx that way, but in reverse.) Blaska confesses to being…