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Daily Bread for 9.14.22: Only One Gubernatorial Debate Serves the Candidates, Not the Public

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 76. Sunrise is 6:34 AM and sunset 7:05 PM for 12h 31m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81.5% of its visible disk illuminated.   On this day in 1984, Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon…

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Daily Bread for 8.20.22: Trumpist Michels Quickly Starts Whining About Polls

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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…

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Midwestern Governors, Including Wisconsin’s Governor, Form Coalition on Economy During Pandemic

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So, there's now a West Coast group of states, a Northeast group of states, and a Midwestern group of states coordinating on COVID-19 response. Here's what that looks like on a map: https://t.co/bmbTimJbps pic.twitter.com/9XKWEQhJUk— Mark Miller (@markdmiller2) April 16, 2020                      

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Foxconn Confirms Gov. Evers’s Claim of a Renegotiation Discussion

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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…

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WISGOP Assembly Speaker Vos Hopes You’re Stupid

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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…

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Beyond Milwaukee and Madison: Walker’s ‘erosion of support in diverse set of cities and suburbs’

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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…

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Once a Gerrymanderer…

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Wisconsin, with a gerrymandered legislature and a crony capitalist, lame-duck governor, was never going to have an easy transition back to a tradition of democratically representative government and sound economic policy.  The men who engineered years of the wrong approach were never going to go gently to the political outer darkness that, deservedly, awaits them.…

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The Walker Cabinet Officers’ Open Letter

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Four cabinet secretaries of the Walker Administration have come forward to criticize the governor, and three of them have co-written an open letter against Walker’s relentless emphasis on political gain over sound policies. One of the signatories of the letter is Paul Jadin, who was Walker’s first Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation leader. It says all…