Category: Madison aldermanic elections 2021
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Are moderates safe in Madison any more?
Wanted: political courage Former mayor Dave Cieslewicz has a brand new blog (wasn’t that a James Brown song?): Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos. (Those being the only things found in the middle of the road, it is said.) His blog’s subhead says it all: “a safe place for moderates in a polarized world.” Says something about…
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Hoist the white flag over Madison schools
Did you screw up? Blame the pandemic! It’s the all-purpose scapegoat. Some blame coronavirus for the insurrection at the nation’s Capitol 01-06-21. Madison’s school board president blames the Wuhan woo woo for the “dearth of candidates” running in this spring’s school board election. (Story here.) Blaska Policy Werkes blames the school board president, Gloria Reyes.…
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Sorry, no good news today, either
We have a few theories We remain intrigued by the Far Left’s challenge against incumbent Ald. Sheri Carter in District 14 on the city’s south side. They’re putting up Brandi Grayson, the cop-hater with a bullhorn. Madison progressives define “insurrection” depending on who is doing the insurrection-ing. Fire bombing the city-county building isn’t sedition? Wrecking…
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Brandi Grayson challenging Council President Sheri Carter
Progressive Dane is flooding the zone with candidates Its official. Brandi Grayson is running against Common Council President Sheri Carter on Madison’s South side District 14. She has filed as Brandi Grayson-Tuck but it’s the same woman with the bullying bullhorn who halts rush hour traffic on thoroughfares from John Nolen Drive to East Washington…
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Madison’s board of chaos convenes
The progressive board of police inquisition. We learn, from an incisive news story in today’s (12-01-20) Wisconsin State Journal, that the 13-member Police Civilian Oversight Board is one expensive clusterf*k. In three hours, 13 minutes of hair twisting, this gaggle of special interests could struggle through only four of 12 items on the agenda of…
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Minority residents aren’t woke enough for Madison alders
Peace & safety loses out to virtue signaling Angela Jackson is president of Allied/Dunn’s Marsh neighborhood association. She and her board of directors asked for a ban on alcohol consumption at 1.2-acre Allied Park after several shootings. “I support the ban because when the [90-day temporary] ban was there it was decent and we have…