“The city of Madison itself and the Madison area: I’ve lived in a number of places, and this is the most intolerant place I have ever lived — without question.”
We're told, with a hushing motion, that bar codes on the Madison absentee ballots will of course prevent double counting.
OK. We're told this by the officials who bungled the doubled ballots in the first place.
Wisconsinites are owed more transparency than just, "Trust us."
“Madison… has a bit of a checkered history. They had ballots in the park. They had a county clerk who said go ahead vote indefinitely confined…when he did not have that authority, plus ballot harvesting central for Dems.” Rep Tom Tiffany
First, these leftists groups paid to put Janet Protasiewicz on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Then they hired the lawyers to bring the case about which Protasiewicz already made up her mind.
It’s not justice. It’s a transaction.
via
@dcexaminer
Why you should vote yes:
Because
@GovEvers
blew emergency pandemic funding on a convention center in Janesville, a soccer stadium in Milwaukee, a rail museum in Green Bay. Shiny, but not an emergency.
That and 12 other reasons, with shareable info, here:
“The spice store is a great example. It was kind of a cringe-inducing thing. She also couldn't get her messaging right. She goes to a store known for bigotry and says we wants to move past divisiveness..."
@MZHemingway
breaks down Kamala's fake campaign
This man is a junior at UW and walked up in front of hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors giving the thumbs down sign.
He asked to not be identified in our interview but told me he feels this protest isn’t about Israel or Palestine, he feels it’s an anti-American demonstration.
“99.9% of all faculty donations went to Democrats. … We wouldn’t tolerate that kind of exclusion if we were looking at race or sex. But for some reason, when it comes to political ideology, so many people on the left just accept it.”
By this, the Journal Sentinel means -- but does not say -- that the Assembly passed a bill to preserve girls' sports for actual girls and to keep out boys who pretend to be girls.
So much for diversity:
The odds of a UW-Madison pre-tenure professor’s political donation going to Republican are 1 in 490, reckons a UW political science scientist. In the humanities, it’s 1 in 530.
So your kids can get a free college education at UW-Madison -- if they're the right ethnicity.
Notably, "students do not need to demonstrate financial need to qualify." All they have to do is have the favored genes.
Minocqua beer marketer Kirk Bangstad wants to throw 55,000 Wisconsin children out of the schools their parents chose.
About 69% of those kids are racial or ethnic minorities, and two-thirds are economically disadvantaged.
#SchoolChoice
WisDOT says that a train from Green Bay to Milwaukee would take about two hours and 50 minutes, or a little more than an hour longer than the time it takes to drive.
Astonishing:
"Our conservative estimate is that the average EV accrues $48,698 in subsidies and $4,569 in extra charging and electricity costs over a 10-year period, for a total cost of $53,267, or $16.12 per equivalent gallon of gasoline."
This is what a gerrymander looks like when the party doing it relies on a hyperconcentrated base of voters who huddle into a few cities, terrified at the thought of the vast swaths of Wisconsin where people drive pickup trucks.
4 of 10
Their fracturing of Dane County was predicted. Many predicted Dane would look like a “pizza” but, as multiple briefs filed with the court point out, their maps look more like a pinwheel.
In one map, there are 5 senate districts that converge on the Madison isthmus!
In Madison’s school district, only 41% of students can read at grade level or better. Meanwhile, Madison’s largest
#SchoolChoice
option got 73% of kids to grade level or better in reading.
Why would a state senator claim that choice is “failing”?
Destitute foreigners equal to 10% of its population had an effect on Whitewater:
"Responding to the influx of migrants has put the town in a $400,000 budget hole, a town official speaking on condition of anonymity told the Free Beacon."
@SenChrisLarson
If you don't like school choice, don't choose one.
If you don't like billionaires, don't be one.
If you don't like cars, don't drive one.
If you don't like suburbs, don't live in one.
But don't tell others how to live their lives.
Just over half of Wisconsin’s school districts no longer have teachers unions certified to bargain a contract. That is entirely because, in those districts, a union couldn’t get enough teachers to say yes. And unions claim this is “anti-democratic.”
Democrats know exactly what they want: grow government while plundering our kids’ future, open borders, destroy our fossil fuel industry, and divide America for political advantage.
Elected Republicans need leadership that will effectively counter the left’s destructive policies
If a leftist beer baron succeeds in suing
#SchoolChoice
out of existence, not only would Milwaukee Public Schools need to find 17 more buildings to accommodate the displaced kids, those kids would have to cope with a system that teaches only 16% of students to read.
🔔 New Data: Public schools are not performing well.
📄 New Lawsuit: Let's end school choice in Wisconsin and force these same schools to educate another 60,000 students!
What can go wrong?! Read more here:
“When intelligent adult humans say that they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them, I propose that they mean they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them.”
I remind readers that leftists regularly say worse things about whites (and Black conservatives, GC women, rich people, just etc) than they do about Jews...and we should take that stuff seriously too.......
“99.9% of all faculty donations went to Democrats. … We wouldn’t tolerate that kind of exclusion if we were looking at race or sex. But for some reason, when it comes to political ideology, so many people on the left just accept it.”
Is there some extenuating circumstance to excuse this?
I don't know.
But I do know it makes me a little less likely to walk somewhere alone at lunch in the Milwaukee neighborhood I work in -- the neighborhood in the video.
Milwaukee carjacking victim:
"What exactly has to happen before it hits a level of 'Well, this is worth talking about?' Because apparently, I wasn't it."
She's selling her house and leaving the city.
The whole world is watching:
"Justice Protasiewicz’s statements on the legislative maps mean she has clearly prejudged the case under Wisconsin’s judicial code."
Helpful reminder: Robin Vos had nothing to do with the Milwaukee municipal government's panicked decision to shut down nearly all of its polling places (something that didn't happen in, say, Madison or other cities in metro Milwaukee).
Wisconsin, 4 years ago today
Mere weeks into the pandemic, Robin Vos forces thousands of Milwaukeeans — many without access to any PPE — to decide between skipping an election and voting in person at the *five* polling stations available for hundreds of thousands of voters
"They’re coming to the state, hat in hand, saying we can’t pave our streets," Donovan said. "We can’t hire cops and firefighters. … Yet they, somehow, are committed to expanding the streetcar. Just doesn’t make sense to me."
Vote yes to restore checks and balances, Wisconsin, and people hit by tornadoes will still get help just as quickly as they always have. Anyone saying the amendments will slow down such aid is spouting nonsense.
Facts here:
Very useful, in that the maps easily let you see that the "solution" to supposed gerrymandering is ... harder gerrymandering in the opposite direction.
See Racine and Kenosha sliced up five ways to maximally dilute suburban conservatives.
I hadn't seen any easy place to view the proposed WI legislative maps in 1 place. Here's a link to download a very large (80mb) html file w/interactive maps of each. Open it with a web browser.
In the latest federal numbers, Milwaukee’s streetcar, The Hop, cost $15.03 per ride in operating expenses, never mind the cost of rails and wires. What a foolhardy way of providing transit.
“There were 450 people who were carjacked in Milwaukee in 2023, a 16% increase from the previous year.
The upward trend is continuing, with carjackings up another 12% compared to 2023, as of June 19.”
6 teens carjack at least one vehicle, lead the police on a chase into a freeway construction zone and then ram a squad car - leading an officer to fire his weapon. The freeway is closed for hours. Any guesses why the Police Chief wants out of Milwaukee?
Apparently, Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde is so clean, we've already reached the "he once said binders full of women" stage of the contest. And it's not yet March.
The Silver Dollar bar poured its last pitchers of beer just weeks before the head of the company that led a relentless, multi-decade campaign to buy and demolish the bar announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate.
Story:
The endorphin kick that academia gets from treating whole classes of people worse than others because of the color of their skin — that is, from DEI — must be unbelievably powerful.
When government-worker unions in Wisconsin talk of overturning Act 10 to restore their “ability to bargain,” what they mean is to regain the power to dictate terms.
To you.
UW-Madison will “realign” about a third of its DEI administrators. It’s too bad they can’t realign all of them, writes Mike Nichols: As
@BadgerInstitute
has pointed out, there’s no evidence the extensive DEI program actually works.
Wisconsin's government accumulated $7 billion in tax revenue in excess of its expectations and needs -- a $7 billion surplus.
Instead of returning half to the taxpayers who were thus overcharged, Evers is returning 2.5%.
And he's excluding anyone making more than $38k a year.
The progressive who is the leading candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court -- a job that requires the utmost in temperance and considered judgment -- is credibly accused of having regularly slapped around the frail widower she married, at least when she was on the sauce.
And in shocking other news in the "I Told You So" section:
"No evidence face masks protected vulnerable from Covid, health officials admit"
"A rapid review report published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) investigated if high-quality masks, such as the N95, KN95 and FFP2
@the_transit_guy
No one disputes that such crowded conditions are possible.
People differ markedly on whether they are, for their own families, desirable.
It's beautiful that free markets offer people the best odds of being able to choose what they prefer.
"Sustainable building is one of the key solutions to the climate problem," said the guy who insisted on flying an insulation-spraying truck and its crew in from France so his $7.2 million cottage could be insulated with hemp.
Emissions testing has cost Wisconsin taxpayers $270 million and untold hours of time. Does continuing it do any good at all? Even regulators say they can’t tell.
Just finished a meeting with the team leads of “Project Move the Needle”. We will be knocking on your door or a door near in the inner city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Block an entrance to a college library out of hatred for Israel, and the college president will negotiate with you.
Pray outside an abortuary, and the judge will mock your likely death in prison.
A DC judge just sentenced 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, who is in poor health, to 2 years in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic. Her husband fears she might die there.
An OBGYN student at the Medical College of Wisconsin says she and many of her classmates will not stay in Wisconsin to practice if they cannot conduct abortions.
Why you should vote yes:
The amendments are bipartisan, binding on every governor and every Legislature. Someday, someone you don’t trust will be in power.
That and 12 other reasons, with shareable info, here:
The City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County got permission to raise sales taxes as part of a deal that included putting 25 police officers back in crime-ridden schools. Eight months later, there are still no cops.
Why not?
Remember that whenever you read the words "fake electors" in connection with Wisconsin, you're reading a lie that someone's peddling to you.
Because you'll be hearing a lot more of it.
Never forget that government unions want to resume seizing unwilling members’ dues, making you normies pay dearly to fund outsize benefits, and in general get back to owning the state.
If you're a tiny Rusk County township of 711 people and you try making your elections transparently clean and fair with the one-voter-one-vote paper ballot method, the Biden regime will threaten to come down on your like a ton of rage.
An armed carjacking, you say?
Well, we can be assured it was a first-time offender, and not at all someone
#underincarcerated
in any prior offenses.
No?
The City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County got permission to raise sales taxes as part of a deal that included putting 25 police officers back in crime-ridden schools. Eight months later, there are still no cops.
Why not?
Perhaps one of the best arguments for a single-rate "flat" income tax:
It prevents leftists with a sticky-fingered mentality from singling out the class enemies they want to rob.
While, as you see below, having many brackets permits exactly such divide-and-rob tactics.
Note to WI Republicans who are mad about the tax cut veto: give us more tax brackets and Dems will gladly create targeted tax relief for people that need it.
There’s no reason a household making $34k and $374k should pay the same tax rate.
Sure, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers about $16.8 billion, but unions’ war against the labor reforms isn’t first about the money.
It’s about power (and the much more money going forward).
"As they began to shower, a male student, who is 18 years old according to multiple sources, approached them, entered the shower area and announced, ‘I’m trans, by the way.’ The male student then fully undressed and exposed his male genitalia to the four girls in the shower."
How much would Wisconsinites benefit from a single-rate tax reform?
A prominent economist calculates it: Cutting our top rate to 5.1% would mean at least 24,000 more job opportunities in five years.
Read the study here:
Decision Desk HQ projects Wisconsin Ballot Question 1 passes.
#DecisionMade
: 9:32pm EST
@WI_Elections
: Question 1 would “prohibit the state or local governments from applying for, accepting, expending, or using” non-government funds or equipment “to assist with carrying out any
Chronic absenteeism before the Covid lockdown was bad enough. Now it’s at 23% across Wisconsin. In Milwaukee Public Schools, it’s at 58%.
As one observer put it, this is catastrophic.
A year after Wisconsin was supposed to “unwind” the pandemic-era surge of people on Medicaid, the program still is 163,000 people above pre-pandemic levels, costing taxpayers at least $50 million a year.
The Walker era labor reforms didn’t ban unions, didn’t even make them harder to join. They just made it easier for Wisconsinites to say no.
It's that you have a choice that unions cannot abide.
Sure, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers about $16.8 billion, but unions’ war against the labor reforms isn’t first about the money.
It’s about power (and the much more money going forward).
A reminder, grimly, that Milwaukee's fatal crash problem isn't so much about driving generally but rather about young men with "lengthy" criminal histories who, underincarcerated nonetheless, choose to flee from police and blow through red lights.
When government-worker unions in Wisconsin talk of overturning Act 10 to restore their “ability to bargain,” what they mean is to regain the power to dictate terms.
To you.
If the resignation was a surprise, as your first sentence says, how is it that
@GovEvers
had a replacement chosen, named in the same press release announcing the surprise resignation, and ready to start that very same day?
BREAKING: Former State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski returns to the Capitol, appointed by
@GovEvers
to succeed Secretary of State Doug La Follette, who retired abruptly on Friday.
Remarkable how the
@JournalSentinel
can hardly bring itself to say
@SenRonJohnson
is right without adding parenthetical snippiness in the fourth paragraph about how election integrity oughtn't be anyone's worry anyhow.
via
@journalsentinel
If you grasp anything about
#SchoolChoice
in Wisconsin, grasp that it is the premier opportunity for children from any background or neighborhood to get a better education than the government’s schools offer.
Act 10 raised pay for high-quality teachers, increased the quality of teaching and improved student achievement. This is what was predicted at the time in the face of furious opposition, and now the reforms are vindicated by a Yale economist’s findings.
Why is the governor still doling out pandemic money years after the pandemic is over? And why is he the only person in the state of Wisconsin who gets to decide how to spend it?
Why was the City of Milwaukee so ready to chip in for its NBA arena while it is so reluctant to chip in for its MLB stadium?
Here's a hint: Payola for the union. The city power structure's base must be appeased, apparently.
🚨: Chaos breaks out at the University of Memphis after BLM protesters chased down
@TPUSA
people who were leaving the Kyle Rittenhouse event. Police had to prevent the hostile crowd from physically attacking them.
@FrontlinesTPUSA
"If the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns Act 10, Wisconsin taxpayers will have to pay billions more for state and local government moving forward. Were that to occur, it could embolden activist justices on other state supreme courts."
Not only did Evers exclude the highest earning Wisconsinites from tax relief, he also vetoed relief for the second-highest rate -- one that covers people earning more than about $37,000 a year.
IOW, Evers told about 69% of households that pay income taxes to go get bent.
"Seize" being a key word here, since these new maps wouldn't be passed by the ordinary, constitutionally specified lawmaking process but on the whim of four Supreme Court justices.
Democrats would seize control of the
#wisconsin
Legislature under almost all maps submitted to the liberal court, yet the media are misleading readers to think otherwise. The reporting has been disgraceful.
Whether voters chose her, for whatever their individual reason were, makes no difference in a justice's duty not to prejudge cases before she hears them. Protasiewicz made clear she already had done that.
I'm 100% certain that, while running, she made it clear she already has her mind made up on specific cases and now she should show some personal and judicial integrity and recuse herself in those cases
Odd how no one defending her thinks she should simply have some integrity.
Vote yes to restore checks and balances, Wisconsin, and people hit by tornadoes will still get help just as quickly as they always have. Anyone saying the amendments will slow down such aid is spouting nonsense.
Facts here:
So: Guy owns a bank, and after a borrower doesn't repay, the bank ends up with a share of a company owning a nursing home that operated by someone else, and a patient's relatives sue the operator.
This is all the scandal that Democrat mouthpieces can find against Hovde.
“The UW has become so distant, I think, from the population of Wisconsin and so self-righteous that it’s forgotten that it can err, that it can ignore things that are important to people.”
EXCLUSIVE: Dane County judge Jacob Frost, who today heard a challenge to Act 10, signed a petition to recall Governor Scott Walker for passing Act 10 back in 2011.
Jay is correct that numbers are available. Wisconsin DOT says it's 91,000 cars a day using 794 just east of the Marquette, 77,000 a day across Water Street.
Author Charlie Rosenberg is correct that ripping out the freeway will clog surface streets, making driving miserable.
complete dereliction of editorial responsibility,
@GregJBorowski
& all who let this through. this graf alone is a giant red flag disqualifying the author. "hard numbers" have been available for over a year--this author could not be bothered to do the minimum research?
Remarkable how strenuously the Democrat apparatus is trotting out every amplifier they can think of when Hovde clearly was referring to a particularly flagrant episode of voting chicanery uncovered by law enforcement.
Mind you,
@UWMadison
is demanding $4,200 to cover "security costs" because unhinged leftists might violently attack people listening to a conservative speaker. It's charging not the would-be attackers but the could-be victims.
Conservative group
@yaf
is hosting
@michaeljknowles
on Wednesday, 3/13. But now,
@UWMadison
is demanding $4,271.17 in "security costs." They don't charge liberal groups & they didn't even charge for
@benshapiro
or
@MattWalshBlog
.
Why is UW trying to shut down this event?