State Senator Tim Carpenter Proposes Blue Ribbon Task Force To Review WI Election Practices.

As the Republicans in Wisconsin follow President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani down the rabbit hole…Wisconsin State Senator Tim Carpenter proposes that the Republican controlled legislature appoint a bipartisan Blue Ribbon Task Force to review current Wisconsin election procedures and develop methods to improve and streamline them. Also on Friday,…

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Absentee Ballots: Unattended Drop Boxes Are Bad and Attended Drop Off Events Are Bad Too?

In the various lawsuits around the November election and absentee ballots, the Republicans have complained that absentee drop off boxes are bad and rife with fraud…but at the same time…those scheduled in person ballot drop off events in Madison parks where actual poll workers accepted your ballots are rife with…

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The GOP’s Strange Relationship With Candidate’s Tax Returns

It’s been five years since candidate Donald Trump started his campaign. He couldn’t release his tax returns because they were being audited. I call bullshit but lets just accept that premise. NO one’s tax returns are so complicated that an audit for 2014 or 2015 or even 2016 wouldn’t have…

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A Little Damn Late: Evers Calls For Legislature To Halt In Person Voting For April 7

Governor Evers called the legislature into session tomorrow to take up changing the April 7th Presidential Primary and State/Local General Elections to an entirely mail in election. Election changes should have been part of his emergency declaration bundle three weeks ago. And he should have called the legislature into session…

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Wisconsin GOP Doesn’t Trust Anyone To Vote

I was reading an article about how the chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin was stepping down after eight years at the helm. Newsworthy to us political nerds but as I got into reading it further…I got a bit of a cold vibe from the article. Halfway through the…

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Would Walker Want To Be Governor Under The New Rules

Governor Scott Walker is the only person standing between the current balance of power between the state branches of government in Madison…and the new power grabs undertaken by the Republican majority in both the Assembly and Senate. Walker said before lawmakers voted on the legislation that he was largely open…

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GOP Holds Rally With Twelve Candidates But Only 75 Attendees In Reddest of Red Waukesha?

This is just a quick hit…but apparently the Wisconsin Republicans held a rally in Waukesha that featured speeches by twelve candidates including US Senatorial candidate Leah Vukmir plus US Senator Ron Johnson. But they only garnered 75 attendees? Led by Sen. Ron Johnson and Senate hopeful Leah Vukmir, a group…

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Citizen Action Wisconsin Has No F*cking Excuse!

In this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Molly Beck reports that Citizen Action Wisconsin depicted Governor Scott Walker (who is running for re-election) and State Senator Leah Vukmir (who is running for the US Senate) behind a target graphic. What the fuck was Citizen Action Wisconsin thinking? There is absolutely no…

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4th Congressional district GOP: vote for Democrat Gary George

Apparently the Republican Party of the 4th Congressional district really thinks Democratic Congressional candidate Gary George, who’s challenging incmbent Rep. Gwen Moore, is their kind of Democrat: No doubt the Republican Party of the 4th Congressional district’s support for Gary George is based on their understanding that Dan Sebring, their…

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WI Republicans to consider measure to secede from U.S. at their yearly convention (UPDATED)

Boy, Republicans in Wisconsin sure aren’t afraid to bring the crazy… To secede or not to secede. That will be the question for Wisconsin Republicans at next month’s convention. Earlier this month, the party’s Resolutions Committee voted in favor of a proposal that says the state party “supports legislation that…

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