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Somebody has to reject the tribalism that has come to define our politics and start trying again to define a common, unifying vision for what it means to be an American or a Wisconsinite. Ironically, rebuilding the center is the only way for progressives to make progress.
After years of enjoying a solid advantage over the Democrats’ finance and field operations, Republicans are now at a point where we need to reconnoiter and retool.
WMC’s current CEO, former banking lobbyist Kurt Bauer, is probably right that his organization and Gov. Scott Walker did damage the state’s long history of progressiveness. Where Bob La Follette and his crew drove out the special interests and removed their chokehold on lawmakers and judges, WMC and its allies have bought and bullied their way back into control. Perhaps he shouldn’t forget what happened when they began abusing their power and insisting everything go their way. Those progressives are far from dead.
27 women Democrats running for Assembly lost, women leaders point to gerrymandering.
Many in the state’s business community are skeptical that Gov. Scott Walker’s replacement, state schools superintendent Tony Evers, can do a better job for the Wisconsin economy.
Increasing the tax assessment on a property based on occupancy or based on financing does not reflect economic reality.
The proposal by Wisconsin’s top Republican officials to change the date of the presidential primary is another manipulative move to undermine the will of Wisconsin voters.
Rowen share insights from six experts on how to improve the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
If one goes back and takes a look at which administrations actually added to the enormous national debt, they will find the claims that the GOP was fiscally prudent is an out-and-out myth.
It seems clear from his early post-election remarks that Evers will proceed carefully as governor and continue to try to collaborate with a hostile Republican Legislature, one whose margins are guaranteed more by absurd gerrymandering than the public’s will. Those GOP leaders, predictably, want to change some rules in the Capitol to diminish Evers’ powers even before he takes office.
Somewhere out there in academia there’s a master’s or Ph.D thesis in the works to explain how Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker could go from featured speaker at his party’s 2016 national convention to defeated incumbent just two years later. Here’s a workable framework: He did it by his own clumsy hand.
Any effort to reform or rearrange state government must respect the will of the voters as framed by the 2018 campaign and its results. There was no serious debate about disempowering the governor. But there was a robust debate about empowering the treasurer.
The Capital Time’s Jessie Opoien joins WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg to discuss the organization’s growth and future.
As the turkey waits its turn at the table, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, pause to give thanks for an interesting political landscape! Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Perhaps this month’s elections are reason to give thanks, signaling that like in other times, the world’s greatest experiment in democracy will regain its footing and, indeed, put a brake on the craziness.
On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes talks with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, to discuss Gallagher’s article in the Atlantic on his proposals to reform the House of Representatives and the legacy of outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan.
For almost two decades there has been a cloud over the festivities: chronic wasting disease. And for the last eight years, the government has done nothing to keep it from spreading.
That’s what the citizens get for daring to vote against him.
The photo of the smiling students from Baraboo High School, in which many of them appear to be giving the Nazi salute, is a prime example of how forgetting the horrors of the past can cheapen the memory of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
Basking in the mammoth November election victory and preparing for a festive holiday season, the Wisconsin public is little in the mood to think of politics or the degree of mischief the Republicans are contemplating in the 40 odd days before Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are sworn in as Democratic leaders January 7. This is just the sort of lull the GOP loves to pounce in.
Somebody has to reject the tribalism that has come to define our politics and start trying again to define a common, unifying vision for what it means to be an American or a Wisconsinite. Ironically, rebuilding the center is the only way for progressives to make progress.
After years of enjoying a solid advantage over the Democrats’ finance and field operations, Republicans are now at a point where we need to reconnoiter and retool.
WMC’s current CEO, former banking lobbyist Kurt Bauer, is probably right that his organization and Gov. Scott Walker did damage the state’s long history of progressiveness. Where Bob La Follette and his crew drove out the special interests and removed their chokehold on lawmakers and judges, WMC and its allies have bought and bullied their way back into control. Perhaps he shouldn’t forget what happened when they began abusing their power and insisting everything go their way. Those progressives are far from dead.
27 women Democrats running for Assembly lost, women leaders point to gerrymandering.
Many in the state’s business community are skeptical that Gov. Scott Walker’s replacement, state schools superintendent Tony Evers, can do a better job for the Wisconsin economy.
Increasing the tax assessment on a property based on occupancy or based on financing does not reflect economic reality.
The proposal by Wisconsin’s top Republican officials to change the date of the presidential primary is another manipulative move to undermine the will of Wisconsin voters.
Rowen share insights from six experts on how to improve the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
If one goes back and takes a look at which administrations actually added to the enormous national debt, they will find the claims that the GOP was fiscally prudent is an out-and-out myth.
It seems clear from his early post-election remarks that Evers will proceed carefully as governor and continue to try to collaborate with a hostile Republican Legislature, one whose margins are guaranteed more by absurd gerrymandering than the public’s will. Those GOP leaders, predictably, want to change some rules in the Capitol to diminish Evers’ powers even before he takes office.
Somewhere out there in academia there’s a master’s or Ph.D thesis in the works to explain how Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker could go from featured speaker at his party’s 2016 national convention to defeated incumbent just two years later. Here’s a workable framework: He did it by his own clumsy hand.
Any effort to reform or rearrange state government must respect the will of the voters as framed by the 2018 campaign and its results. There was no serious debate about disempowering the governor. But there was a robust debate about empowering the treasurer.
The Capital Time’s Jessie Opoien joins WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg to discuss the organization’s growth and future.
As the turkey waits its turn at the table, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, pause to give thanks for an interesting political landscape! Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Perhaps this month’s elections are reason to give thanks, signaling that like in other times, the world’s greatest experiment in democracy will regain its footing and, indeed, put a brake on the craziness.
On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes talks with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, to discuss Gallagher’s article in the Atlantic on his proposals to reform the House of Representatives and the legacy of outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan.
For almost two decades there has been a cloud over the festivities: chronic wasting disease. And for the last eight years, the government has done nothing to keep it from spreading.
That’s what the citizens get for daring to vote against him.
The photo of the smiling students from Baraboo High School, in which many of them appear to be giving the Nazi salute, is a prime example of how forgetting the horrors of the past can cheapen the memory of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
Basking in the mammoth November election victory and preparing for a festive holiday season, the Wisconsin public is little in the mood to think of politics or the degree of mischief the Republicans are contemplating in the 40 odd days before Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are sworn in as Democratic leaders January 7. This is just the sort of lull the GOP loves to pounce in.
