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Flush with cash, Madison schools hand out more free stuff
courtesy of us taxpayers. Blaska is back in kvetch mode today. Madison public schools will do it every time. The district is giving away more free stuff to its employees: 12 weeks — 60 days worth — of taxpayer paid parental leave for every teacher, custodian, lunch lady, and bureaucrat. Price tag: $1.2 million/year. No…
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But not like school girls
Notes from the WI Republican convention. If we had to summarize the mood coming out of the state Republican convention at the Kalahari Resorts last weekend (we must! we must!) in one word it would be: giddy! Thank the luck of the draw. Donald Trump would never have been President had it not been for…
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Independent police monitor blames police
For arresting Maia Pearson, their board chairman! Surprise, surprise! Did anyone expect different? Independent Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass says Maia Pearson never should have been arrested for resistance after employees of a downtown Madison venue called police on 12-19-25. Pearson, of course, chairs the Police Civilian Oversight Board that hired Miss Glass, who even acknowledges…
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Reach out and touch someone
… who might not otherwise vote Republican! (The Head Groundskeeper broke into two blogges what we posted Sunday because the original was too long. But we added some stuff so it’s still too long. We can do that, you know.) Seeing Tommy Thompson is always a treat. Remember the governor asking us on our first…
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Tom Tiffany says ‘You betcha’
… that WI doesn’t want to become Minnesota! After the opening prayer, pledge of allegiance, and Star Spangled Banner sung at Spinal Tap’s volume 11, the Wisconsin Republican convention was ready to launch Saturday 5-16-26 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. (Would love to hear someone like Tom Waits or Leon Redbone perform the…
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The check is NOT in the mail
Could Republicans be so lucky? Poor Tony Evers. Democrats kicked their own governor one last time on his way out the door. The lame duck governor cobbled together a bi-partisan deal for $600 million more dollars for schools! Big fat check in the mail for taxpayers — $600 for joint filers. No tax on tips…
Blaska Policy Werkes
"There's a reason why Trump endorsed (Ken Paxton in Texas], even if I don't know what it is." Republican voter in Dripping Springs TX, as quoted by Wall Street Journal.
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When the news broke that the married Graham Platner was sexting with various women, feminist writer Jill Filipovic declared:
“The Graham Platner story is landing because it confirms a bunch of his critics’ prior concerns: unvetted, history of poor decision-making, the kind of light misogyny that tends to go along with male bad decision-making. Those are all problems! But it’s worth asking if they’re problems that should be disqualifying for a senate seat and I think the answer to that is no.” …
So, Platner’s “light misogyny” and “history of poor decision-making” have little bearing on his ability to do the job of being a senator. I don’t exactly know how to define the job of a senator, but I kind of feel like “decision-making” is part of it. — Jonah Goldberg, the Dispatch
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will America survive the murder of “60 Minutes”? … If they can eliminate in plain sight an institution as central to the survival of the republic as Mr. Pelley and his carefully chewed spectacles, surely no one is safe. …
First they came for the preening, powdered popinjays of television news, but I did not speak out because I am not a popinjay. — Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal