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Daily Bread for 8.5.24: Baldwin Outraises Hovde 7-1

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Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:52, and sunset is 8:09, for 14h 17m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.0 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

The Whitewater School Board goes into closed session shortly after 6 PM and returns to open session at 7 PM.

On this day in 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.

If Eric Hovde weren’t spending millions of his own money, he’d already be out of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race. Few others are ponying up. Baylor Spears reports Baldwin outraises Hovde nearly seven times over last month:

Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, who is  running for her third term, outraised her opponent, Republican businessman Eric Hovde nearly 7-1 last month, according to recent Federal Election Commission reports. 

Baldwin reported more than $2.5 million in receipts from July 1-24, according to the FEC pre-primary reports. Almost $2.1 million of that came from individual contributions, and according to WisPolitics, of that, $773, 270 came from individuals who contributed less than $200.

Baldwin reported spending about $3.4 million, and ended the period with $6.3 million on hand.

Meanwhile, Hovde trailed the incumbent significantly, reporting $374,000 in contributions in the same time period. He spent nearly $2.7 million, and ended the period with $3.1 million on hand. He has kept up with Baldwin in part because of the $13 million in personal loans he has put into his campaign since February.

Hovde’s lack of appeal isn’t surprising. It’s what happens when Mitch McConnell creates a carpetbagger in a mad scientist’s laboratory.

Previously at FREE WHITEWATER: Hovde’s Evident, Ignorant Racism, Eric Hovde Treats Wisconsin as a Side Hustle,  It’s Not Going So Well for Hovde, Eric Hovde Should Fire His Political Consultants and Hire a Therapist, Tim Michels 2.0 Eric Hovde Announces U.S. Senate Run, and Another Vanity Candidate.

Missing boaters rescued without injuries amid incoming hurricane:

The rescue happened amid unusually strong winds as Hurricane Debby passed by the area.

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Daily Bread for 8.2.24: Hovde’s Evident, Ignorant Racism

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Good morning.

Friday in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:48, and sunset is 8:13, for 14h 24m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1932,  the positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

At Urban Milwaukee, Bruce Murphy has telling finds about Eric Hovde’s views of Black men and welfare policy. Murphy writes Hovde Blasted for ‘Bigoted’ Comments on Black Men (GOP US Senate candidate says Black men have lived on ‘handouts’ and ‘welfare checks’):

On the Jay Weber show on WISN on April 5, Hovde declared that “a lot of people in the minority communities, particularly young black men… are moving in the conservative direction” and “no longer want to just live on just getting welfare checks. They want to be part of the American entrepreneurial dream.”

Hovde repeated these kind of statements on other programs, including on Fox News on April 4, where he said that “Young Black men… want to get off of welfare, they don’t want to be stuck with handouts.”

Murphy reminds, as anyone who understands welfare policy would know, that

The old AFDC system of welfare was eliminated in 1996, in favor of the TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] program, and is used by states to provide non-welfare services, including educational services, job training and pregnancy prevention services.

As for the idea that welfare increased the percentage of out-of-wedlock births in the Black community, research has shown “welfare benefits could not have played a major role… because benefits rose sharply in the 1960s and then fell in the 1970s and 1980s, when out-of-wedlock births rose most,” as the Brookings Institution noted. The causes are far more complex and one key factor was the devastating post-1970s decline of manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

Hovde has a bigot’s view of Black men as check-collecting layabouts, when that’s false because they’re not, and no one of any race or ethnicity could be. TANF and W2 (Wisconsin Works) — as part of TANF do not operate the way out-of-touch Hovde must think they do.

The first rule for a U.S. Senate candidate from Wisconsin (other than living here full-time) should be to understand the federal and state policies that affect this state. Hovde evidently doesn’t.

One would almost think that it’s Hovde who’s a dividend-check-collecting layabout looking for a free ride to the U.S. Senate.

Previously at FREE WHITEWATER: Eric Hovde Treats Wisconsin as a Side Hustle,  It’s Not Going So Well for Hovde, Eric Hovde Should Fire His Political Consultants and Hire a Therapist, Tim Michels 2.0 Eric Hovde Announces U.S. Senate Run, and Another Vanity Candidate.

One year since wildfires ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui:

In August of 2023, the deadliest U.S. wildfires in over a century killed more than 100 people and left the town of Lahaina in Maui in ruin.

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Daily Bread for 7.29.24: Eric Hovde Treats Wisconsin as a Side Hustle

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Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will see scattered thundershowers with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:44, and sunset is 8:17, for 14h 33m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 33.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1958, President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

U.S. Senate candidate for Wisconsin, Eric Hovde, is down by eleven points in the latest Fox News poll.

And so, and so, following in the tradition of failed carpetbagger Tim Michels, Hovde spent the weekend emphasizing that Wisconsin is, for him, only a side hustle:

Nothing says Wisconsin like a California banker attending a Nashville Bitcoin conference.

See also It’s Not Going So Well for Hovde, Eric Hovde Should Fire His Political Consultants and Hire a Therapist, Tim Michels 2.0 Eric Hovde Announces U.S. Senate Run, and Another Vanity Candidate.

Sunbathers scatter as thousands of dragonflies descend on beach: