Category: Satya Rhodes-Conway
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Take the bus, Gus; Don’t need to discuss much
Progressive Dane runs this city The late, great satirical magazine National Lampoon published an issue with one or the classic covers of all time. An endearing dog — a beagle, we think — looks worriedly to the side at a handgun pointed at its head. “Buy this magazine,” the headline read, “or the dog gets…
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Something is wrong with Madison police — they must be MONITORED!
Freedom Inc. et al wouldn’t be satisfied if police were all Zen Buddhists Seemingly sacrosanct: $130 million for bus rapid transit over several years; $3.5 million annually to operate Council meets 4:30 today on $40 wheel tax The social justice warriors were at it again Monday night (10-28-19), haranguing the Madison Board of Education for…
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Southwest side neighborhood pleads for more police
‘City leaders are not hearing our voices’ Calls Satya’s rapid bus transit a ‘want’ not a need “Our neighbors’ priorities run strikingly counter to those embodied in the 2020 city budget you are currently working on.” — Orchard Ridge neighborhood association One neighborhood association is speaking out forcefully against Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s police-bashing budget. “The vast…
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Hope for more cops? 3 is greater than 0
November 3 will tell the tale Late last night (10-21-19) the city Finance Committee voted down additional police officers by a 3-2 vote, with Ald. Donna Moreland abstaining. (Dammit, people, you are paid to vote; it’s ones and zeroes, a binary system. Absent a conflict of interest, it’s yes or no.) But the Common Council…
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Public safety relief is on the way
The WI State Journal nailed it: “If bus rapid transit is the biggest winner in Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s budget, public safety may be the biggest loser.” Two Madison alders have introduced amendments to Mayor Rhodes-Conway’s budget to add more police officers — 12, in fact, at $1.07 million annually ($607,000 for the 2020 budget year).…
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Madison has been triggered!
Cop bashing remains official city policy But the needle is moving our way! Every cause needs a martyr and for many of us, Mike Koval will do nicely. He saw the P.C. gang graffiti on city hall before retiring his badge. His resignation Sunday (09-29-19) was a siren in the night alerting others to take up…