I Am Endorsing Mandela Barnes In The Democratic Primary for US Senate!

There are a number of Democrats that I can get behind in 2022 for US Senate. But now that he’s officially in, I am officially committed to Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes to replace Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in the Senate in 2022.

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Milwaukee-area COVID-19 vaccine appointments available through Walgreens

If you live in the Milwaukee area and you have not yet received your COVID-19 vaccination, there are COVID-19 vaccination appointments available as soon as tomorrow through Walgreens. If you haven’t yet gotten your vaccine, please consider doing your part to help put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sign…

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Will Pompeo Be Resigning In Time For Christmas?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has clearly stated that the cyberattacks on US Government agency computer systems and others belonging to American businesses clearly came from Russia! “I can’t say much more as we’re still unpacking precisely what it is, and I’m sure some of it will remain classified,” Pompeo…

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Eleven Months Into The Pandemic, Andrea Palm, is still only the secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

And it’s not like she isn’t qualified or hasn’t been on the job that long…because she was after all, nominated by Governor Tony Evers in January 2019. But the do nothing Republican legislature (which hasn’t met since April of 2020), simply out of spite against the governor, hasn’t confirmed her…

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Publisher Changes Coming To Blogging Blue

As I posted earlier this year when I celebrated my 10th Anniversary with Blogging Blue, I announced that I was retiring at the end of the year. This was certainly the right opportunity at the right time. Zach offered me an outlet to write about politics just when I was…

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John Nygren Set To Return To Madison As A Lobbyist: This Shouldn’t Even Be Legal!

Two weeks ago I wrote that John Nygren, elected just a month before, had announced that he was retiring essentially effective immediately from the Wisconsin Assembly. Well now it’s been announced that he will become a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans. The maintenance staff in the Capitol…

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Trump Lawsuit Makes It To Wisconsin Supreme Court:

After getting trashed in yet another circuit ruling, the Trump campaign’s effort to negate hundreds of thousands of absentee and early votes in Wisconsin’s Dane and Milwaukee counties, the Wisconsin Supreme Court took on the challenge. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday accepted President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to throw…

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Things That I Am Thankful For Today:

Nurses, doctors, and medical support staff who continue to risk their lives to save the lives of COVID-19 victims. The medical personnel and the various National Guard units who spent time away from their daily routine to administer mass tests for COVID-19 over the past 11 months. The various election…

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Watching The GA Runoff Elections To See How Rule Changes Work

This morning the Georgia State Election Board passed two new rules that will be in effect for the two January 5th Senate run off elections. I can’t seem to get a clean link from CNN but here is the gist of the matter. The first rule extends the use of…

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COVID COVID COVID…we’ll stop hearing about it on November 4th. Except for THIS:

Or so exclaimed our president in the run up to the election as ‘we were turning the corner’ on the pandemic hoax…it will just go away on November 4th and we won’t hear about it again. Well except Wisconsin broke three records today to maintain its top five rating as…

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