Blaska Policy Werkes

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  • Smile when you say that

    helps the tough medicine go down. Smile when you say that, some cowboy tough guy said back when Hopalong Cassidy was making movies. Might have taken the edge off calling the cow puncher at the other end of the saloon a horn-swoggling, lily-livered, yellow-bellied son of a one-eyed prairie dog. Don’t recall it ever being tried. We’re smiling when we call Zohran Mamdani a privileged, over-educated idiot. Could that hard socialist have sold Marxism without that toothy smile?  Not buying that “affordability” — Mamdami’s issue in NYC — drove Democrats to victory in Virginia and New Jersey this week.…

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  • Yeah, Dane County Board defunded police

    What else would you call at $2,388,000 reduction? Who are you going to believe, the Democratic-endorsed Dane County supervisors claiming they’re not defunding the police or your lying eyes?  Incredibly — as in: you gotta be kidding! — the chairman of the committee overseeing the Sheriff’s Office, Richelle Andrae, denied the county board majority was defunding the sheriff’s department! Why, it’s just a “freeze” of 20 previously funded deputies that you cannot hire next year, she claimed. That “freeze,” sponsored by board chair Patrick Miles, passed 32 to 5 last night 11-05-25. Except it doesn’t save $2,388,000 for a…

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  • Learning all the wrong lessons

    in all the wrong places. Let’s not get carried away. Democrats won three Democrat strongholds Tuesday night 11-4-25: New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City. Let the church bells ring! The current Real Clear average of national polling still shows the party 26 percentage points under water — double the unfavorability of Republicans. Thanks to Zohran Mamdani in New York City, the Bernie Sanders/John Nichols wing has its Finland Station moment. Mamdani has the potential to transform not just a city but the politics of a nation. — John Nichols and Katrina Vanden Heuvel in The Nation Already, The…

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  • Can public safety advocates find their voice

    to speak up for the sheriff’s budget? Dane County supervisors will entertain public comment tonight beginning at 6 p.m. on next year’s annual budget, which would cut 28 positions from the sheriff’s department. An amendment would freeze 20 positions for one year. (Here’s the agenda.) Final vote scheduled for Wednesday November 5. Attend in person at 210 Martin Luther King Blvd or via Zoom at this address. A crusader for public safety, Bonnie Roe, who lives in the Westmoreland neighborhood in near Westside Madison makes the point that from 2010 to 2025, Dane County’s population increased 20.7% while sheriff’s…

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  • ‘I’m finding more victims every day’

    a cry of conscience from a parent addressed to Madison’s public schools. We devote this blog to Mr. Ray Mendez, parent of a Madison public school student to Superintendent Joe Gothard and the school board:  The head-stomping at Madison West was not a “fight.” It was a near-fatal attack. Madison Police arrested three teens; two are accused of first-degree reckless injury and battery, and a third faces battery and disorderly-conduct charges. Police said the victim required hospitalization. This was predictable. I and others warned you for years that your policies, culture, and cowardice would end in blood. Weapons are confiscated…

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  • Republicans helping our kids learn

    by banning smartphones in the classroom! No thanks to Assembly Democrats Gee Wally, even Tony Evers signed it. Just today! A bill to ban smartphones during school hours. Something Madison’s public schools could not bring themselves to do. Something Democrats here in Dane County and statewide could not bring themselves to support. Nineteen states already ban or restrict smartphones. Even  Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for classroom cellphone restrictions. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul did it. (They’re both Democrats, BTW.) In Wisconsin, not a single Democrat voted for the legislation when it came before the State Assembly. All 53…

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