Tag: Brian Schimming
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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…
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Act 10 has been in court more often than Perry Mason!
Another progressive judge rewrites statute! You are not a Dane County judge in good standing if you have not ruled against Act 10, the statutory limitations on government employee collective bargaining. Bonus points if you supported the recall of Act 10’s author, Gov. Scott Walker. The latest judge to make his progressive bones here in…
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We’re good
It’s 2016 all over again! We’re not disappointed Donald Trump won — and very impressed that he did so with so many Republican defectors. RINOs like us. We voted Libertarian. Wisconsin put him over. How DO we do it? We’re pleased as spiked punch that Kamala Harris lost. Once again, The Donald benefited from a…