These Journal Times videos of Speaker Robin Vos in WI defending holding an election today are pretty remarkable. "You are incredibly safe to go out," he says.https://t.co/sbmEcW6AL1 pic.twitter.com/xdOYP40BPe — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 7, 2020
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Congress, Coronavirus, Legislation, Public Health, Sen. Ron Johnson, WISGOP
The WISGOP Follows a Fool, and Fails Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
No state delegation in America has been less receptive to a federal coronavirus relief package than the WISGOP delegation to Washington. Allison Stevens reports Congress clears 2nd major coronavirus package; 3rd in the works: A second major coronavirus package cleared the U.S. Senate Wednesday and is now headed to President Donald Trump for his signature.…
Bad Ideas, Politics, Wisconsin, WISGOP
In Wisconsin, Gerrymandering Has Brought Out the Crackpots
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
One reads – and it’s true – that in Wisconsin gerrymandering has disproportionately favored WISGOP candidates. It’s done more, it seems: gerrymandering has produced a decade’s worth of crackpot Republicans: Walker’s crony economics, Ryan’s trickle-down tax bill, Priebus’s sycophancy to Trump, Fitzgerald’s literal serenades for Trump, etc. Occasionally, these men spoke in libertarian language, but…
City, Congress, Fifth Congressional District, Never Trump, Politics, Scott Fitzgerald, WISGOP
Her Constituents Can Be Proud
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Here in Whitewater, part of the gerrymandered Fifth Congressional District, we have for a congressman a septuagenarian multi-millionaire (Sensenbrenner) who votes with Trump, and his most-likely successor is a state senator (Fitzgerald) who sings a Trump train song. Men who tried all day to be embarrassments wouldn’t be able to match Sensenbrenner’s and Fitzgerald’s natural tendencies…
Congress, Fifth Congressional District, Scott Fitzgerald, WISGOP
Coming Soon to the Gerrymandered Fifth Congressional District…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Think the WISGOP couldn’t find someone worse for the Fifth Congressional District than F. James Sensenbrenner has been? Think again. Molly Beck reports Longtime state Senate leader Scott Fitzgerald announces bid for Congress: Scott Fitzgerald, a fixture of the Wisconsin state Senate for the last 25 years, announced Tuesday he would seek a higher office…