Tag: Brian Schimming
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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…
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Republicans are battling for their soul
at next weekend’s WI GOP convention. Part 1 of 3. In our Boomer-addled imagination, the Wisconsin Republican convention opens May 16-17 outside of Wausau with a full screen, close-up of Bette Davis. As Margo Channing, she advises, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy weekend.” The long knives are out. Names are being…
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WI Republican minority stuck in reverse
… still fighting (and losing) yesterday’s battles! The Republican Party of Wisconsin is cracking down on anti-Vos election deniers and took a sideways slap at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, which is seen as attempting a hostile takeover. RPW announced an emergency change in bylaws Monday, coming after the fractious 8th Congressional District caucus in…
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Her partisanship posts no mortem
State Rep. Snodgrass compiles a ‘fraught legacy’ Political essayist Michael Kinsley observed that a gaffe is when a politician unintentionally utters what s/he really thinks. We give you State Rep. Lee Snodgrass, Democrat out of Appleton WI. At the death 12-01-24 of David Prosser, retired WI Supreme Court justice and former WI Assembly Speaker, rather…