Tag: Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway
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No chin wags with Republicans?
They hold the purse strings! Paul Soglin’s bill of particulars: (In the 17-2 vote in August 2024 to approve the referendum, only current alders Isadore Knox Jr. and Barbara Harrington-McKinney voted no.) Blaska’s Bottom Line: Another former mayor, Dave Cieslewicz, opposes both school referenda! Who else thinks all three are going down?!
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City of Madison did not lobby Republicans
for more state revenue! After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator for financial assistance during the last 18 months even as its $22 million budget hole became apparent. That’s important because Republicans control the purse strings in state…
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Madison mayor wants to gut Police Monitor/Oversight Board
Is this the Rapture? Even atheists get religion in a foxhole. The corollary is that nothing induces good government like an empty cash register. Her backside pressed up against the fiscal wall, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway proposes to eliminate the Police Monitor/Civilian Oversight Board if her $22 million spending referendum crashes and burns. The…
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Only 2 Madison alders had the courage to vote NO
against the $22 million City spending referendum! We don’t play identity politics here at the Werkes, although we suspect that the Lovely Lisa may be of Polish extraction. Her last name has the letter Z in it, among a claymation army of consonants. Pronounced properly, as a Warsaw telephone operator once corrected us, her name…