Author: folkbum
If I Did It: Confessions of an Election Rigger
This week, we found the absentee ballot fraud in Wisconsin, and wouldn’t you know it, it was Republicans doing it. Admitted felon Harry Wait of Racine County fraudulently requested ballots for 10 or so people who were not him using Wisconsin’s amazing and helpful elections website, MyVote.wi.gov. This violated state…
Instead of breaking up MPS, let’s merge!
Dear Senator Alberta Darling, It’s good to hear from you. I was getting worried; it’s been a couple of election cycles since you’ve popped up with any anti-Milwaukee nonsense (I don’t think I have written you since 2016!), but here you are, just in time to distract the GOP base…
Some Questions for Robin Vos’ Spokespeople
Good afternoon. I write with a Wisconsin-based press follow-up to the interview Speaker Vos gave to the One America News Network, aired on October 6. (I realize I am late to this, but I don’t watch OAN. Also, I searched and did not find any local news source with answers…
I have opinions about busing
Hello, America. Bullock here with my annual-ish post to BB (Happy Birthday!) because the news cycle, for once, happens to align with something actually in my wheelhouse. In this case, busing and school desegregation. I teach high school in the Milwaukee Public Schools. Milwaukee has the distinction–no, not that, shame–of…
Polifact Fails to Adjust for Inflation, Gets Evers Rating WRONG
In its most recent column, PolitiFact Wisconsin checked the claim by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers that Scott Walker took a billion dollars from public schools. Here’s how they came down on it: In Walker’s first year as governor, he cut school aid by $426.5 million from the previous year,…
Thursday Music: your humble folkbum
I ain’t been round these parts in a while, but I hope you don’t mind my swinging by to invite y’all out to my last free concert of the year. If you’re near Milwaukee on Saturday, find your way to 6th and Howard, in the shadow of the water tower…
An open letter to Alberta Darling
Note: I sent this to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but they seem to have declined to run it. I’m not one of those THEY ARE TOO SCARED TO PRINT MY GENIUS WORK people–this was probably just too long and the recent OSPP news no doubt changed the calculus about what…
Thursday Music: Jon Svetkey and Heather Quay
This is my old friend, singer-songwriter Jon Svetkey, singing with his wife Heather Quay. In the latter part of the last millennium, Jon used to tour pretty often, but now he mostly just hangs around the Boston area playing duo shows with Heather or shows with his band The Loomers…
For Sanders Supporters: I Have Been There
This is a good night. It may not feel that great for you now. I know. I was there once. In 2004, I penned what has to be, in retrospect, one of my worst rambles ever, and epically embarrassing 3000 or so words on what it felt like to be…
Thursday Music–Mark Erelli for Wear Orange Day
It’s Wear Orange Day. I personally own no orange, but I’ll do my part here by posting Mark Erelli‘s “By Degrees.” It’s a free download from him if you would like your own copy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hidsb29UUP4 My own anti-gun violence song is also a free download today. If you pay anything–a…
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