Dystopian Madison: Gov. Evers Edition

Yesterday evening, the daily email from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel arrived to provide links to the new stories of the day on their website, JSOnline. The lead story was one about Governor Tony Evers secretly recording a closed door meeting with GOP leadership, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority…

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Rep. Van Wanggaard, Please Sit Down And Shut Up!

As part of Wisconsin’s efforts to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19, Governor Tony Evers announced a program to help renters who are at risk. The initial commitment is $25 million. Gov. Tony Evers announced a $25 million Wisconsin Rental Assistance Program for those who have experienced income loss as…

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Wisconsin As A Failed State?

This seems a little harsh even for this lefty but as I watch President Donald Trump push the United States toward Third World status…and given the intractability of Wisconsin Republicans…it gets easier and easier to view Wisconsin as a failed state. article shared by a regular reader. A failed state…

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Governor Evers Is Set To Announce…3…2…1.

and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald will whoop and holler that Governor Tony Evers is doing it all wrong! Sorry that this is behind a paywall but the gist of what I need is the first paragraph anyway (shown below): Gov. Evers to soon announce…

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It’s up to us. Editorial from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This editorial appeared on the front page of this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I am reprinting here in total. I agree with it. I will have comments on it later in another post. It’s up to us.  We can’t count on our elected representatives to work together for the public…

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These Gentlemen Owe YOU $25,000,000 Because They Diddled Around

As Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald continue to do their best Mitch McConnell impersonations and obstruct everything Governor Tony Evers…they diddled around too long and lost out on $25 million in federal coronavirus unemployment funds. There is absolutely no way that these two two gentlemen…

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I Didn’t Realize The Goal Was To Fill The Hospitals

A lot of discussion in Wisconsin lately about opening the state and ending Governor Tony Evers safer at home order. The Wisconsin State Supreme Court is juggling cases brought by the GOP legislators and a number of other Wisconsinites. The GOP leadership has finally gotten around to meeting with the…

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Vos And Fitzgerald Want To Talk With Governor Evers?

Then why are we talking about it in meetings with business leaders or in the press instead of just walking across the Capitol and getting it done? I am sure that somewhere in the governor’s suite of offices is a conference room large enough to meet in while socially distancing….

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No Workman’s Comp For First Responders Either.

Just over a week ago, I wrote about the Wisconsin bill to support the state’s residents and businesses during the pandemic. I was pissed because the bill purposely provided workman’s compensation to first responders who got sick with COVID-19 but not medical personnel or other hospital staff. But I totally…

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Wisconsin Senate Is Out Of Control

and they have absolutely no idea what they are doing… Now before I go on let me remind you that this is the same GOP controlled Senate who in the dead of night voted to restrict the authority of the incoming Democratic governor and later fired his agriculture secretary after…

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