Category: The Numbers Game

Wisconsin State Representative Janel Brandtjen is a cancer on state politics and has become a pariah on both sides of the aisle. But given her greed and ambition and the support of a former president it wasn’t surprising that she ran for state senate to replace a retiring GOP stalwart….

and no, I haven’t vetted this. The one thing I’ve taken away from the MAGA crowd is, facts ain’t worth shit. And it confirms my world view, so it must be fact! [sarcasm]

Blogging Blue: now with Pumpkin Spice! Pumpkin Spice has so totally saturated the fall market place that I even saw ads for products flavored with pumpkin spice in France. And it’s become such a parody item that we now see dozens of posts or ads touting products that have no…

A new research report from Wall Street titan Morgan Stanley suggests that a phased in $15 minimum wage would have minimal negative or positive effects on employment but would lift millions of Americans out of poverty. Republicans, and even some democrats, have suggested that the job losses associated with a…

In a a press release this morning, Governor Evers announced that he would like to legalize marijuana in Wisconsin and funnel a portion of the expected $165 million annual tax revenues into a Community Reinvestment Fund. This will obviously be a tough sell with republicans in the legislature, so democrats…

After you decide to run for public office and put together your initial campaign staff, the first two public events of your campaign are likely your announcement as a candidate and then collecting signatures on your nomination papers. This seems like a simple task and in most ways it is….

these are just some of the 200+ bills passed by the House that are languishing in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is apparently has ‘Garlanded’ these bills.

I am not going to go into great detail on who in Wisconsin supports Donald Trump…I’ll let the article speak for itself. It gets into breakdowns of college/non-college, rural/urban, gender, religious/not, etc. So if you are a policy wonk, you’ll love it. Here’s the intro though so you can get…

Given the “one person, one vote” principle is intrinsic to the US Constitution, it is inexplicable that the US Supreme Court would bow out of the partisan gerrymandering issue as not their job. But last week that is exactly what they did: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal judges…

I had been watching the Colorado vote on using the national popular vote in a presidential election to assign their electoral college votes. Essentially whoever wins the popular vote would be assigned Colorado’s electoral vote. The legislation was passed in March and signed by the governor on March 15th. This…