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Category: Tony Evers

  • Normal human decency was Tony Evers’ secret weapon

    Trump’s nastiness doomed Tim Michelswho rode Tim Ramthun’s dirty trick. One of America’s great legal minds, Jim Troupis (who retired as a Dane County circuit judge), would tell his clients that civil court juries have to like them first. The law and the facts can follow, but his litigants have to be liked to win.…

  • We’re going to blame some of the people in this room

    Like Vito Corleone at the Commission! Got to say it: Becky Kleefisch would have beaten Tony Evers. But she got snowed under in the Republican primary by Tim Michels’ millions and by Trump’s endorsement of Michels. As late as this summer Trump’s benediction moved mountains — but only among GOP hard-liners. That endorsement — it…

  • Democrats are avoiding the issues

    For good reason! “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” — Samuel Johnson, 1775.“The race card is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” — David Blaska, 2022. The cover of Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features a young woman named Leah Spicer. She’s running as a Democrat for State Assembly in the rural district…

  • Police told Tony Evers & Mandela Barnes to cool it

    Their rush to judgment in Kenosha cost lives! Law enforcement pleaded with Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes not to rush to judgment in condemning Kenosha police for arresting the criminal Jacob Blake two years ago. To no avail. Their letter: “Previous statements made by each of you are premature, judgmental, inflammatory, and only add to…

  • Crime is on the ballot

    ‘Where’s Nancy?‘ We are guessing that even Chesa Boudin, the soft-on-crime district attorney that San Francisco voters recalled from office — would have prosecuted the Election Denying nutcase who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband. In his home! In the middle of the night! (How quiet the defenders of the January 6 insurrection are today!) If any…

  • To hell with unity!

    Madison schools shake Democrats’ voter tree. Why in hell (our favorite rhetorical flourish) is the Madison public school district promoting a Get Out the Vote rally? For a partisan election! No school board candidate, no school referendum is on the ballot. But Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are! Why is the rally, scheduled for Monday…