Category: Voting Rights

I have posted a number of long form campaign finance reform blogs in the past. Here’s an oldie from 2015 and an update from 2019. But as we roll into the 2022 mid-terms, here’s the short form. The only people who can contribute to a campaign are those who are…

The report that former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman released about the 2020 Presidential election in Wisconsin just reiterates his original fairy tales and fantasies without any substantiation. Absentee voting is still bad. Drop boxes are still bad. Early voting is still bad. Voting machines are still bad. Private…

Well, no, no I wasn’t. I expected a perfectly sane and common sense reason and just went on with life as expected. But apparently not everyone wanted to take no for an answer. LOL! So PolitiFact took it on and: The false claim that 100,000 Wisconsin voters registered more than…

And no, this post isn’t a rant against gerrymandering or other bias in district distribution. This is more an observation on how ass backwards the system seems to be. This all comes from a newspaper article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stating that the City of Milwaukee had to wait…

The cranially overheated chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, GOP Rep. Janel ” Bamboo ” Brandtjen, issued subpoenas Friday to election officials in Brown and Milwaukee counties in an apparent attempt to move forward with an Arizona style, so-called “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election, the same day she…

Yes, I realize that on the face of it the basic filibuster isn’t unconstitutional…but I am using it in its generic sense just as the media and politicians do. It should be changed a bit…if the pompous buffoons like Sen. Lindsay Graham or Sen. Ted Cruz want to bloviate on…

Besides the shenanigans being discussed already about challenging electoral college votes and Representative Louis Gohmert’s lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence for same…I was just wondering what will happen with the Georgia Senate seats on January 6th during the vote counting. The Georgia run off elections are January 5th. Given…

This keeps getting more interesting as we watch the elected Republicans fight over the dunce’s hat and trend on sinking to the bottom. Right now state Rep. Ron Tusler is giving US Senator Ron Johnson a run for his money as the dumbest Wisconsin elected Republican. Rep. Tusler is holding…

This has gotten ridiculous. We have Americans dying because of the neglect of our federal government. We have Americans losing their homes because of the neglect of our federal government. We have Americans losing their businesses because of the neglect of our federal government. It’s time that Speaker of the…