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Tag: Tommy Thompson

  • 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…

  • Blaska missed Woodstock so …

    … he went to a Trump rally! But did not do “The Weave” Ventured into Milwaukee Friday night 11-01-24 — just four days before Election Day — at the instigation of former Dane County Exec Jonathan Barry. For the bucket list experience, like sky diving (which we are not) or binge-watching The Sopranos (which we are).…

  • We RINOs have a fall back position!

    It’s called the U.S. Senate! It’s good to have a fall back position. A political parachute, if you will. Not naming any names but for members of that lost tribe of Republicans sitting out this year’s presidential contest, hope rests entirely on electing a Republican Senate. Anything to keep Laurence Tribe off the Supreme Court…