Category: Republicans
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The adults must enter the room
Dane County is the sick man of the Wisconsin GOP! This little game the chairman of the Dane County Republicans is playing (do you think it could fool a Corleone?) will be put to end — one way or another — on or before July 25, we are told. Brandon Maly announced 12 weeks ago…
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None dare call RoJo a RINO
Says his loyalty is to the nation’s future, not Donald Trump! Good news, Madison WI progressives. You can recharge your Teslas without being hectored by the Raging Grannies. Elon Musk has crossed swords with Donald Trump. Says his Big Beautiful (Budget) Bill is “a disgusting abomination.” Not a lot of nuance there. Bad News, MAGA cultists.…
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No black smoke at Republican convention
Pax vobiscum et spiritu tuo! After a brief sanity break, returned to the convention floor south of Wausau to witness a miraculous sight: 500 Republicans shaking each others’ hands! Like in church! Doubt that this apparition qualifies as a miracle because we cannot attest whether election-denying Cultists shook hands with establishment Loyalists or whether Turning…
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Blaska took out a booth at the Republican convention
and lived to tell about it! So far, so good. A certain delegate took out a vendor booth at the Republican state convention here in Rothschild WI, which is just south of Wausau, apparently. You can see Rib Mountain from here, the second highest point in our lovely state. The booth at Central Wisconsin Convention…
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WI GOP looking for someone to make the peace
‘How did things ever get this far?’ Third of three — at last! We’ve been monitoring the rumblings among the deepening factions of the Wisconsin Republican party with morbid fascination. Yes, it is a party in transition — reinvigorated by the Tea Party 15 years ago, broadened by Trump 10 years ago. Republicans snatched working…
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The WI GOP is fighting off a coup
from Charlie Kirk‘s Turning Point USA. Second of three parts. We’re expecting an old-fashioned donnybrook at the Wisconsin Republican state convention this weekend outside Wausau, hopefully without gallows or the QAnon shaman. But you never know. The spectrometer at Blaska Policy Werkes shows three groups jostling for power in a deeply divided party. We examined…