Tag: Tommy Thompson

  • Reach out and touch someone

    … who might not otherwise vote Republican! (The Head Groundskeeper broke into two blogges what we posted Sunday because the original was too long. But we added some stuff so it’s still too long. We can do that, you know.) Seeing Tommy Thompson is always a treat. Remember the governor asking us on our first…

  • Tom Tiffany says ‘You betcha’

    … that WI doesn’t want to become Minnesota! After the opening prayer, pledge of allegiance, and Star Spangled Banner sung at Spinal Tap’s volume 11, the Wisconsin Republican convention was ready to launch Saturday 5-16-26 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. (Would love to hear someone like Tom Waits or Leon Redbone perform the…

  • Hong & Bangstad for governor!

    Extremes win primary elections. Your irascible Head Groundskeeper is steepling his fingers like Mr. Burns in The Simpsons over the prospect that Kirk Bangstad, the deranged microbrewer from Minocqua, might enter the Democrat primary for Wisconsin governor. Bangstad is the nut case offering free beer for anyone who finishes the job started at the White…

  • Is it great to be a Republican?

    Tommy Thompson thinks so! Buzz went through the room at Republican pints & politics, held at the Dorf Haus in rural Roxbury WI Wednesday night 01-7-26, ably emceed by WiscoRolf. Tommy Thompson was in the house! No one works a room like Tommy. The living legend hugs and chortles his way from diner to diner —…

  • Blaska’s book report

    Words are worth fighting over! Blaska did like old people are supposed to do and joined a book club. Composed of some very accomplished people, they let me in anyway. We count former mayors, state legislators, a county executive, a college dean and president, and state agency secretaries. We got a book author, various attorneys,…

  • Have a heart for Luke Fickell

    Ever have to face the music in public? Probably ought not to expend our thimbleful of empathy for a football coach. We switch channels when encountering those appeals to rescue shivering dogs. Still, we feel the discomfort of taking the hot seat at the post-game press conference after being humbled 44 to 25 by a…