Tag: Paul Soglin

  • A most delightful pissing match

    Between the two previous Madison mayors In this corner, Dave Cieslewicz, who defeated Paul Soglin, who was mayor in 2003. In the other corner, Paul Soglin, who returned the favor by defeating Dave Cieslewicz, then mayor, in 2011. Dave supports the $22 million bailout of city government on the fall ballot; Paul urges a NO…

  • Did we win? Has progressivism been cured?

    Is God still performing miracles? A jury of 12 men and women true just found the Verona WI high school security officer Not Guilty of roughing up a chronic troublemaker who progressives accord victim status. In liberal Dane County with a jury pool probably half Madison, that’s a miracle! Two former mayors, Paul Soglin and…

  • 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?!

  • Why is Brandi Grayson getting paid more than the governor of Wisconsin?

    Are there no city audits? None dare call it reparations! Paul Soglin, mayor of Madison for 22 years over three non-consecutive terms, has become the face of opposition to the City of Madison’s referendum seeking to blow past state-mandated revenue limits by $22 million. Soglin exposes the lavish executive pay the City awards its so-called…

  • Slip sliding away

    Are we living in an A&E reality show? The b&w Philco here at the Stately Manor flickers with a cable TV series out of Canada showing tow truckers pulling big rigs out of the ditch, set to narration appropriate to D-Day. Seriously, that’s the show. Another has semi-truck drivers negotiating icy roads somewhere north of…

  • Lawsuit seeks return of Confederate Rest monument

    Did not glorify the South’s Lost Cause.  A Madison attorney is contesting the City of Madison’s removal of the memorial stone at Confederate Rest cemetery on 04-10-2018 (and reaffirmed on 05-11-2018) as a “desecration.” It was one of the city’s first me-too cancel culture victories, taken in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally…