Tag: Robin Vos
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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…
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Why are Democrats afraid of auditing DEI?
Hooray for Wisconsin Republicans! Oh this is rich! Led by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature are auditing the state’s massive investment in the progressive eugenics of our times: diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI. Democrats are lined up at the schoolhouse door in defense of what amounts to the progressive version…
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Robin Vos just made the UW less racist
Progressivism causes low achievement. Paul Fanlund hates Republicans more than he loves the Universities (plural!) of Wisconsin. The publisher of The Capital Times will be the last to understand this, but Republican legislative leaders did the Universities of Wisconsin a favor and system president Jay Rothman knows it. That’s why the Board of Regents Wednesday…
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Has Mayor Satya taken a position on police body cameras?
After four years of dithering? Bonnie Roe of Madison Area Safety Connection says so. She quotes Satya Rhodes Conway at Monday’s 02-27-23 candidate forum: “What can we as a community, as a city, as a police department do to prevent police misconduct and prevent police violence in our community, and make sure that never happens…
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Stabbed in the back!
Trump didn’t lose! He was betrayed! “We have seen the enemy and he is us,” Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously said. A good many of my political tribe regard their fellow Republicans as enemies. They are convinced that a species they call “RINOs” stabbed Donald Trump in the back — much as certain…