Tag: Janel Brandtjen
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Making sense of Tuesday’s elections
We can’t, can you? Blaska’s attempt to get back in line to cast a second ballot at Madison’s Toki middle school was foiled by alert poll workers. The result: we voted early but not often. We’re still trying to understand Tuesday’s 08-13-24 primary election results. Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, could make no more…
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Sell crazy someplace else
‘We’re all stocked up here’ Jack Nicholson’s advice is ‘As Good As It Gets’ Our guess is that a few in the progressive caucus this morning — maybe Madison’s own Mark Pocan — are wishing they had taken Jamaal Bowman aside and told him (both wearing kefiyas over a snack of of knafeh and sobia)…
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Gableman wing of party can’t get rid of Vos
Speaker’s sin? Not overturning 2020 election! Donald Trump would endorse a Big Mac if it ran against Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The cult-like wing of his party (for, let’s face it, Blaska — it IS his party) keeps trying to unseat Vos by hook or (sometimes, it seems) by crook. The Republican leader may…