Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy and cloudy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 5:21 and sunset is 8:23, for 15 hours, 03 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the…
Tony Evers
Daily Bread, Legislature, State Government, Tony Evers, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 10.15.24: Another WISGOP Holdover Appointee
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 51. Sunrise is 7:09, and sunset is 6:11, for 11 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous, with 94.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM and the Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1815, Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The cold, rigid hand of the WISGOP yet grips Wisconsin. Erik Gunn reports Scott Walker holdover’s labor review board term expired in 2023, but she’s still on panel (‘Evers’ commission nominees haven’t gotten state Senate hearings, confirmation votes’):
Six years after Gov. Scott Walker left office, an official he appointed continues to interpret state laws covering jobless pay, workplace injuries and civil rights.
Georgia Maxwell’s term as one of three members of the Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission (LIRC) expired March 1, 2023, more than 18 months ago. Nevertheless she remains in the seat even though Gov. Tony Evers has appointed her replacement.
Maxwell is following the example of another Walker appointee, Fred Prehn, a Wausau dentist who refused to step down from the Natural Resources Board at the end of his term in May 2021.
As the Wisconsin Examiner reported, Republican leaders in the Legislature held off formally confirming Evers’ appointed successor to Prehn and encouraged the Walker appointee to hang on to his seat. A legal battle led to a landmark state Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 declaring Prehn could remain in the post until the Wisconsin Senate approved his successor.
In response to an interview request Monday, Maxwell said she would not answer questions about her decision and instead referred to the letter she sent Evers the day before her term expired.
In that Feb. 28, 2023 letter, Maxwell cited the Supreme Court ruling in the Prehn case and asserted her belief “in the continuity of work that we do” at the commission.
Consider, from 2018, the will of Wisconsin’s voters:
How ’bout 2022? Here are those results:
And yet, and yet, Walker appointees are still holding over.
No one should be shocked. In 1968, George Romero made a full-length documentary1 about creatures that just won’t go away:
NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Launches From Kennedy Space Center (Highlights):
- From that film, one of the finest exchanges in cinema history:
Field Reporter: Are they slow-moving, chief?
Sheriff McClelland: Yeah, they’re dead. They’re all messed up. ↩︎
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Daily Bread for 7.5.24: Wisconsin Supreme Court Restores Absentee Ballot Boxes
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a chance of scattered afternoon showers and a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:23 and sunset 8:35 for 15h 12m 21s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops entered the area known by the Native Americans as “trembling land” in their pursuit of Black Hawk:
The area was some 10 square miles and contained a large bog. Although the land appeared safe, it would undulate or tremble for yards when pressure was applied. Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.”On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops entered the area known by the Native Americans as “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk. The area was some 10 square miles and contained a large bog. Although the land appeared safe, it would undulate or tremble for yards when pressure was applied. Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.
Whitewater’s Independence Holiday celebration continues today at the Cravath Lakefront:
Christman Family Amusements Wrist Band Session: 5 PM to 9 PM
Civic Organization Food Vendors: 4 PM to 11 PM
Live Music at Frawley Ampitheater:
Cactus Brothers 5 to 7 PM sponsored by TDS
Titan Fun Key (Whitewater band playing ‘70s rock, funk, and blues) 8 PM to 10:30 PM
Family Day Powered by Generac: Free petting zoo, pony rides, camel rides 4 to 8 PM
This morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued rulings restoring absentee ballot boxes (Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission), holding unconstitutional specific statutes that placed the power of the executive branch to carry out the law in a committee of the legislature (Tony Evers v. Howard Marklein), and reversing a lower-court decision that allowed recommitment and involuntary medication without actual hearing notice to the subject individual (Waukesha County v. M.A.C.).
All three decisions appear below.
Italy’s Mount Etna erupting at night:
Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2022, Michels, Politics, Tony Evers
Daily Bread for 9.14.22: Only One Gubernatorial Debate Serves the Candidates, Not the Public
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread, Gableman, Gubernatorial Race 2022, Michels, Poll, Tony Evers, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 8.20.22: Trumpist Michels Quickly Starts Whining About Polls
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:07 AM and sunset 7:48 PM for 13h 40m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 36.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1968, Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Tony Evers, Wisconsin
Midwestern Governors, Including Wisconsin’s Governor, Form Coalition on Economy During Pandemic
by JOHN ADAMS •
Babbittry, Bad Ideas, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Economy, Foxconn, Government Spending, Scott Walker, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, Tony Evers, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn Confirms Gov. Evers’s Claim of a Renegotiation Discussion
by JOHN ADAMS •
Yesterday, Gov. Evers was proved right on a key contention about Foxconn. Earlier this week, Evers released a letter to Foxconn executive Dr. Louis Woo in which Evers mentioned that Foxconn had sought to “suggest several changes to the existing agreement.” Gov. Evers also stated that Woo had also met with Vos and Fitzgerald and…
Babbittry, Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Government Spending, Local Government, Scott Walker, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, Tony Evers, WEDC, Wisconsin
WISGOP Assembly Speaker Vos Hopes You’re Stupid
by JOHN ADAMS •
With the news that Foxconn plans to drop manufacturing at a plant that was supposed to hire thousands of workers, for which people lost their homes, and that was the centerpiece of Scott Walker’s corporate welfare and crony capitalism, Speaker Robin Vos blames…newly-elected Gov. Tony Evers. Oh, brother: Vos must hope that Wisconsinites are stupid enough to believe…
State Government, Tony Evers
Gov. Evers’s State of the State Address
by JOHN ADAMS •
State Government, Tony Evers, Wisconsin
Gov. Evers’s Inaugural Address
by JOHN ADAMS •
Laws/Regulations, Litigation, Politics, State Government, Tony Evers, Wisconsin
Evers Turns the Board Around
by JOHN ADAMS •
Tony Evers, by his nature, avoids initiating a confrontation. He seems to have found a political and legal strategy to match his natural disposition. Patrick Marley reports Tony Evers says it will take a lawsuit to get him to go along with lame-duck legislation: Incoming Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday he would not go along…
Elections, Gov. Walker, Politics, Tony Evers, Wisconsin
Beyond Milwaukee and Madison: Walker’s ‘erosion of support in diverse set of cities and suburbs’
by JOHN ADAMS •
The WISGOP, under Speaker Vos and Majority Leader Fitzgerald, falsely contends that Scott Walker lost only because of the Dane County & City of Milwaukee vote. A claim like this is myopic, of course: the close election turned as much on where Walker underperformed as where Evers performed well. Craig Gilbert looks at the election data…